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ánchor, peece of cable, buoy and buoy rope … ánchor, peece of cable, buoy and buoy rope from which the said<br />
shipp was soe broken, but after much sweeping and searching<br />
the said master and company were by a fisherman of Barking<br />
informed that another fisherman of Barking named Valentine<br />
hudson had taken them up; whereupon the said master and company<br />
(whereof this deponent was one and present at all the premisses)<br />
proceeded on their voyage to Newcastle, and after their retourne<br />
to this port the said master and this deponent went to the<br />
said hudsons to Barking and there found the same, very well<br />
knowing them to be the same anchor, buoy, buoy rope and<br />
peece of cable that were soe lost to their said shipp, and this deponent<br />
in particular sawe the same at the said hudsons on monday morning<br />
last.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./.
Richard Stevens [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 29th day of March 1656:./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Ashurst Sheafe and Companie}<br />
against hubbart. Smith. Clements}
Examined upon an Allegation on the behalfe<br />
of the said Sheafe Ashurst and Companie.
'''Rp. jus/'''
'''Thomas Jenner''' of Charles Towne in New England<br />
Mariner aged 28. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the 7th Article of the said Allegation, hee saith and deposeth<br />
That the shipp the ''Johns Adventure'' allate under the Command<br />
of John Cutting her Master did in the moneth of December last<br />
past sett saile and come away from the River of Boston in New<br />
England bound for this Port of London, this deponent: and the arlate Robert hubbart<br />
being both in and aboard her in and dureing her said voyage to the Coast in England And saith<br />
that in ths said shipps Course ˹thither˺ for London this deponent heard the said<br />
Robert hubbart then passenger in and aboard the same consult and complott<br />
with the arlate Gabriel Price Boatswaine of the said shipp about<br />
the getting of a bill of ladeing signed unto him the said hubbart by the<br />
said John Cutting for a barrill of beaver receaved on board the said shipp at or<br />
neare Boston by Richard Browne Masters mate of the said<br />
shipp marked as in the margent and in that one case hee the said Hubbart could pretende his the<br />
bill for the said barrill of beaver to be signed as aforesaid<br />
they would gett twenty shillings or some such matter towards a breake
[COMPLEX MARKE IN LH MARGIN]
[?first] of the said Richard Browne, before they would discover or<br />
discharge the said barrill of beaver, or words to that or the like effect.<br />
whereunto the said Boateswaine replyed, that for his part hee cared not<br />
for that hee had given no receipt for the said barrill of beaver; And<br />
further to the article hee cannot depose./.
To the 8th and 9th Articles of the said Allegation hee saith That about three<br />
weekes or a moneth after the said shipp the ''Johns adventure'' arrived<br />
at this Port of London hee this deponent being in discourse with the said<br />
Mariner John Cutting, the said Cutting asked him this deponent whether<br />
hee knew anything of á barrill of beaver marked as aforesaid and<br />
transported in the said shipp from New England, which hee the said Master<br />
said hee missed, whereupon this deponent told him the discourse predeposed<br />
which hee had during the said shipps Voiage heard but passe betweene<br />
the said Robert hubbart ánd the said Gabriel Price, and shortly<br />
after this deponent being in Companie with the said hubbart and Price<br />
(thehe said hubbart and Price<br />
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