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'''A.1.'''
The eleaventh of ffebruary 165 … '''A.1.'''
The eleaventh of ffebruary 1655.
Williams and Company against Rowse}<br />
and others}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation
'''Smith dt.'''
'''2.'''
'''Aron Estes''' of Deale in kent Mariner aged<br />
24 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the producents mr william williams and others<br />
the producents, and alsoe well knoweth the shipp the ''Elizabeth and Anne''<br />
and of which shipp hee saith the said Mr williams and Company and<br />
were owners or at least freighters the time arlate, at which time<br />
the arlate humphrey hardwick was sopra Cargo or factor of and for<br />
the said producents mr williams and company, and for such as aforesaid<br />
they were respectively commonly accounted and reputed, which hee knoweth<br />
going Masters Mate of and in the said shipp the voyage in question,<br />
on which shee was sett out by the said Mr Williams and company as<br />
owners or freighters aforesaid. And
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in or about the<br />
moneth of September last the said shipp the ''Elizabeth and Anne''<br />
and alsoe the arlate shipp the ''Caesar'' whereof one Clement harby<br />
was Sopra Cargo or factor were and remained in the Roade of<br />
Nathalago, whense hee saith they were both bound to Petras to Petras<br />
to buy and lade curranse, and the said humphrey hardwick hee saith<br />
was aboard the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' in the said Roade as factor<br />
aforesaid, which hee deposeth being present in her and seeing the<br />
premisses.
To the third 4. and 5th and 6 hee saith that the said humphrey hardwick and Clement<br />
harby having in the said Roade of Nathalago agreed to the effect arlate<br />
namely that the ''Ceser'' alone should goe to Petras, and that the<br />
Curranse there to be laden should be shared betwixt and before the<br />
account of both their principalls, this deponent was by agreement<br />
betweene the said two factors put aboard the ''Caser'' to goe in her<br />
to Petras to the end (as both the said hardwick and harby declared upon<br />
this deponents going out of the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' into the ''Cesar'',<br />
that hee this deponent should take an account at Petras of what<br />
Currance should be there laden aboard the ''Caser'', and marke the<br />
one halfe of them for the accompt of the said mr williams and<br />
Company, to be thense brought in the ''Caeser'' to Argastall<br />
where the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' was to meete and receive the<br />
halfe of the on board her; and saith that in persuance and for<br />
the better effecting the said matter of taking the said currance aboard<br />
the ''Caser'' that were to be laden aboard her at Petras for the account<br />
of the said william williams and company, the said humphrey Hardwick<br />
out of the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' put aboard the ''Caser'' the summe<br />
of three thousand dollers into the custodie of the said Clement<br />
harbyodie of the said Clement<br />
harby +
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