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Ad 2: respondet that hee knoweth not who l … Ad 2: respondet that hee knoweth not who laid the said Chaines<br />
and saith that hee hath heard such various reports concerning<br />
who laid the said Chaines, that hee cannot tell what to beleeve<br />
herein, and further cannnot Answer/.
Ad 3.um respondet that the foresaid Chaine. and halfe Chaine were<br />
taken up and Carried away by the foresayd partyes before any<br />
Inhibition of this Court, but saith that this deponent and others<br />
did before warne them in the name of his said Highnes the Duke<br />
of Yorke not to meddle therewith/.
Ad 4.um dicit that hee doth not prosecute this busines further then<br />
hee is Comanded by his said Highnes, and this deponent hath<br />
by order of the foresaid Mr Porter delivered a ffee to Dr Hyde<br />
and paid for Monition a copy of the Allegation, and the<br />
fee for this Examination, which his said highnesse is to<br />
allowe this deponent againe. And saith that this busines is<br />
prosecuted by the order of his said highnes the Duke<br />
of Yorke./.
Repeated before Doctor Zouch/.
Phill Bayliffe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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13.o Novembris 1660 [CENTRE HEADING]
Thompson et cetera con Lucy}<br />
[GUTTER XXX] prd ''Loyalty''.}
['''?Pd''']
'''Rp. EA.'''
'''3.'''
'''Henricus Russell''' de Lymehouse in Comitatu Middlesex<br />
Cheese-monger annos natus 19. aut da<br />
circiter testis in hac [eaa] productus juratus<br />
et [?sup] Libello predicto examinatus dicit et<br />
deponit prout sequitur videlicet.
Ad primam positioniem dicti Libelli deponit et dicit that this<br />
deponent very well knoweth that for all the moneths and tyme<br />
Lilate, the Libellate Henry Collins was Master or Commander<br />
of the ship ''Loyalty'', and tooke the Care and charge of her<br />
as master or Commander of her, and for and as such he sayth the<br />
said Collins was then generally accounted and reputed to be, which<br />
this deponent knoweth for that he was during all the said tyme a<br />
neare neighbour to, and well acquainted with the said Collins./
Ad 2.dam positionem et 2.um schedulam annex et nunc ei lectam dicit<br />
that during the tyme aforesaid the said Nicholas Pierce was the true<br />
and lawfull owner and Proprietor of all and singular the<br />
goods mentioned in the said schedule, and that the said schedule<br />
was and is true and reall; which he knoweth for that he was there<br />
and still is servant to the said Pearse, and writ the said schedule with<br />
his owne hand. Et alr nescit deponere./
Ad 3.am dict that during the time aforesaid, and more particularly at<br />
the severall tymes mentioned in the foresaid schedule; the said Nicholas<br />
Pierce and this deponent (by his order) did deliver out all and singular<br />
the goods and provisions schedulate, according to the order and directions of the<br />
said Henry Collins, to severall of his Company who came with their<br />
ship's boat to fetch the same away, all which goods he sayth were<br />
carried on board the said ship ''Loyalty'', then lying neare Lymehouse or neare<br />
Greenwich, and were for her use and occasions, and sayth that the<br />
same did amount in the whole to ten pound seven shillings and eight<br />
penceeven shillings and eight<br />
pence +
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