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and saith the sayd Contract on or about th … and saith the sayd Contract on or about the second day of the<br />
sayd moneth of Aprill was signed sealed and delivered by this deponent<br />
and the forementioned parties respectively to each others use./
To the 3 article hee saith that the tyme arlate the arlate<br />
Edmund halley was Owner of three eighth parts of the sayd<br />
Shipps the ''John'' of Barkeshire and the ''Sarah'' of London this<br />
deponent of one quarter part of them the arlate William Thomas<br />
of one eighth part of them the arlate John Torloten of one sixteenth<br />
part of them the arlate Symon Messinger of one two and thirtith<br />
part of them and the arlate Robert Browning of one eighth and<br />
one two and thirtith part of the sayd shipps, and soe commonly<br />
reputed. And hee saith that according to the sayd Contract<br />
soe sealed the arlate William Thomas did<br />
(as by his accompt appeareth which Accompt this<br />
deponent beleeveth to be true) at his owne cost and charges pay<br />
and discharge his eighth part of all charges of victualing<br />
manning and setting forth of the sayd shipps with provisions<br />
Caske and other necessaries for the sayd voyage and of carrying and<br />
conducting and returning the sayd shipps home saving<br />
his part of the Coopers tonnage money and for boyleing of<br />
certayne blubber brought home that voyage, which by the Accompt<br />
doth not appeare to have bin paid by him And further hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the sixth article hee saith that after the premisses namely about Aprill<br />
aforesaid 1656 the shipps the ''John'' of Barkshire and the ''Sara'' of London arlate<br />
proceeded from this port for Greeneland, and that the ''John'' of Barkeshire (as<br />
hee was informed by her master) arived there, and her company killed<br />
severall whales there on the high seas, and thereof made and had fiftie tonnes<br />
and upwards of oile and brought the same to this port,<br />
and that the ''Sara'', not having made the harbour, had met only with one wha;e<br />
that was dead, and brought the same home in blubber<br />
as<br />
this deponent understood upon the said shipps retourne, and saith the said oile<br />
soe brought home and that that was to be made here of the blubber that<br />
was brought home, was and ought to have bin devided amongst the owners of<br />
the said shipps according to the agreement made amongst them, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the seaventh article hee saith that the said oile soe brought home in the ''John''<br />
and afterwards that that was made of the blubber that was brought home in the ''Sara'',<br />
amounting in all to fiftie seaven tonnes of oile or thereabouts, were landed at<br />
the Still yard key, where this deponent (who was one of the proprietors thereof)<br />
saw the same in caskes, and saith that shortly after the ladning thereof and before<br />
any devision made and before this deponent had any notion or warning given<br />
him to meete or come about the devision the arlate Edmund halley sold a tonne<br />
of the said oile as hee confessed or acknowledged to this deponent and<br />
saith that afterwards the whole parcell being devided, it was dispersed of,<br />
the said halley receiving this deponents share, with this deponents consent,<br />
only hee was informed that there were seaven tonnes left and undisposed of<br />
which (as was said) the Cooper tooke into his custody, and saith the oiles<br />
soe brought home and dispersed or devided were worth eighteene pound per tonne<br />
one tonne with another, and for soe much some of them were sold as this<br />
deponent was informed. And further hee cannot depose.
Toformed. And further hee cannot depose.
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