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To the 5/th and 6th hee cannot depose./.
… To the 5/th and 6th hee cannot depose./.
To the 7.th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories now brought in [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that he favours the partyes<br />
in this Cause alike, and if were in his power hee wpuld<br />
give the Victory to the party that hath right thereunto, and<br />
saith that hee is not of kin to the said wheeler nor<br />
any way related to him, and saith that hee cometh to testify<br />
therein at the requuest of the said ffrancis wheeler the<br />
younger without Compulsion. and otherwise negatively
The 2.d concerneth him not./:
To the 3.d hee saith that the said ffrancis wheeler the elder<br />
had imediately before his death goods and merchanizes<br />
in Verginia, besides the foresaid Tobaccoe, and hee had<br />
alsoe goods and estate here in England, and saith that hee<br />
knoweth not who had the ordering or disposall of the<br />
said Goods and Merchandizes in Verginia, butt his son (the producent)<br />
had the ordering of the goods and Estate here/.
To the 4th hee cannot Answer not knowing the Custome<br />
of Virginia touching the matter interrate./:
To the 5th hee saith that Elinor Wheeler wife of the<br />
foresaid ffrancis Wheeler deceased was at Virginia when the<br />
said ffrancis dyed And further cannot depose/:
To the 6.th hee cannot Answer: saving his foregoing<br />
deposition.
To the 7.th hee cannot answer as hee saith./:
Repeated before Doctor Masters Surrogate
Signed [?deli] Richard<br />
'''RE''' Evans [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 26.th of July 1660/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid Allegation.
'''Rp. 3us.'''
'''Robert Cleines''' of Wapping mariner Master<br />
of the ship ''Honour'' aged 37 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and Examined.
To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith<br />
and deposeth that in or about the moneth of December last<br />
the arlate ffrancis Wheeler the elder Deceased did bring and<br />
send onboard the foresid ship ''Honour'' (whereof this deponent was then<br />
Master) shee then lying in Yorke River in Virginia thirty<br />
three hogsheads of Tobaccoe and alsoe five or seaven smaller<br />
Caskes of Tobaccoe (but whether five or seaven hee doth not now<br />
remember,) and the same were brought in the said ship to this Port and<br />
([?hee GUTTER]o this Port and<br />
([?hee GUTTER] +
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