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The 12th day of September 1656./ [CENTRE H … The 12th day of September 1656./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Marriott against William Bowtill and}<br />
Thomas Jagoe}
Examined upon a libell given in and admitted on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Marriott./.
'''dt. Mariot.'''
'''3'''
'''John Dracut''' of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County<br />
of Middlesex Mariner aged eighteene yeares or thereabouts a<br />
wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee hath well knowne the<br />
arlate shipp the ''Aprill shower'' for all most those two yeares last past, and served<br />
in her as one of her company during that tyme, and thereby knoweth that the arlate<br />
Nathaniell Marriott during all the tyme arlate and longer was commonly<br />
Accompted and reputed the true and sole owner and Proprietor of the sayd shipp<br />
''Aprill Shower'' her tackle apparrell and furniture, and soe still ought to bee<br />
and saith hee hath credibly heard and beleeveth that the sayd Marriott about<br />
two yeares since bought the sayd ship at dublin in Ireland of the Commissioners<br />
for prize goods there, shee being a shipp taken formerly as a prize by the ''Primrose''<br />
''ffrigott'' in service of this Commonwealth And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 2 article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee this deponent within the<br />
tyme arlate in the yeare 1655 was present on board the ''Aprill Shower'' in<br />
the River of Thames and (but the certaine Moneth hee now remembreth not) and<br />
heard the arlate William Bowtill contracte and agree with the sayd Nathaniell<br />
Marriott on board the sayd shipp to hyre and take to freight and they did then hyre<br />
and take to freight the sayd shipp the ''Aprill Shower'' for a voyage to bee made<br />
from thense to dartmouth arlate and thense to other certaine ports and<br />
places beyond the seas as Allicant (if at her arrivall there there were free<br />
trade there to bee had betwixt the Spaniards and this Commonwealth) or else to<br />
Civitavechia and the Island of Lypory and thense to retourne to dartmouth with<br />
such goods as should bee there laden a board her,<br />
, and if a good markett could not bee had at dartmouth for<br />
the sayd goods then to carrie the same thense to London where her voyage in such<br />
case was to end, And saith that hee alsoe well knoweth that in regard the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Aprill shower'' had then a ladeing of goods on board her wherewith<br />
shee was bound for Limrick in Ireland, it was to covenanted and agreed betweene<br />
the sayd Bowtill Jagoe and Marriott, that the sayd shipp should first goe with<br />
her lading then on board her to Limrick and there discharge the same, and<br />
returne to darmouth in the Moneth of August 1655 there to take in such<br />
ladeing as should bee put on board her by the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe or<br />
their Agents, And further to this article and the Charterparty therein mentioned<br />
and now shewed to him at his examination hee cannot depose for that hee<br />
was not present at the signeing or sealeing of the sayd Charterparty
To the third fowerth and fifth articles of the sayd libell hee saith<br />
that those things being thus transacted betwixt the sayd Bowtill Jagoe<br />
and Marriott the sayd shipp the ''Aprill Shower'' sett sayle with the sayd goods<br />
shee had on board her for Limrick in Ireland where shee safely arrived<br />
and discharged there her sayd ladeing and thense returned to dartmouth<br />
about the two and twentith day of August 1655 with intente there to<br />
take in such goods as should bee laden aboard her by the sayd Bowtill and<br />
Jagoe and transport them according to agreement formerly made, and<br />
was there then ready prepared to have undertaken and gone the sayd<br />
voyage soe agreed upon, And saith that upon the sayd shipp the ''Aprill''<br />
''Shower'' her arrivall at dartmouth Thomas Marriott the father of the sayd<br />
Nathaniell Marriott went on shoare and (as hee declared<br />
after his returne on board before this deponent and others of the sayd shipps company)<br />
acquaintedayd shipps company)<br />
acquainted +
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