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To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
' … To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp.'''
To the first hee saith the said Tobaccoe and Oranges in question were taken<br />
on board the said ship the ''Sumer Islands Merchant'' at the<br />
request of the said Lois Taylor which said Lois came home<br />
a passenger in the said ship the said voyage, and saith that at the<br />
time of the Lading the said Tobaccoes and Oranges, the said<br />
ship was allmost fully Laden, and saith the said Jenkins<br />
for Convenient stowage of the said Chests broke up eight of<br />
the said Cedar Chests, (but whether they were all broken up<br />
by and with the Consent of the said Lois Taylor hee knoweth not<br />
and further cannot answer:/
To the 2d hee saith that there was a quantity of Tobaccoe<br />
(being about seaven of the said Chests) delivered out of the said<br />
ship at Plymouth by the Order of the said Loes Taylor, which was<br />
soe delivered in a reasonable good Condition, and soe was<br />
alsoe the rest of the said Tobaccoes. which were delivered<br />
and further cannot answer:/:
To the third hee saith hee beleeveth the tobaccoes and oranges were well stowed<br />
by the shipps company, but hee cannot affirme it because hee kept aloft<br />
to see the comming of the goods, and was not in hold, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving<br />
as aforeasid, and saving a greate many of the oranges that were brought<br />
home in the shipp were perished by long lying, and rotting and casualtie<br />
of the passage.
To the 4 hee saith that all the tobaccoes interrate were delivered out of<br />
the shipp, in this port and Plimouth, and further hee cannot answer
Repeated before Collonel Cock.
Robart humphrey [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 10th of ffebruary 1658
Cooke and company against the)<br />
''Mayflower'' alias the ''ffrancis'', and)<br />
against Williamson.)
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Gerbrand Johnson''' of fflushing Mariner aged<br />
45 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the first article hee saith that the time arlate there was and is at<br />
present open hostilitie betweene the Commonwealth of England and<br />
the king of Spaine and their respective subiects, soe that the shipps and<br />
goods taken by either side from the other have bin and are commonly<br />
accounted good prize.
To the second and third articles and schedules annexed hee saith that this deponent<br />
being thereunto requested went about five weekes<br />
since from fflushing to Ostend accompanyed with his contest Jacob<br />
Tartman to compare a copie which was delivered unto him touching the<br />
said shipp the ''Mayflower'' alias the ''ffrancis'', and to take ?out other exXXXX<br />
there concerning the said shipp, and to compare them with their original?s<br />
remaining at Ostend, and about two dayes after being at Ostend this<br />
deponent in presence of his said contest compared the said copie (which hee nowe<br />
leaveth, beginning Copia vera, W?y da Rochters etcetera with its originall<br />
remaining in the Registrie at Ostend in the custodie of the Registrar or<br />
Greffier there and found it to agree with the said originall, and this deponent<br />
asking for and desiring to have a copie of<br />
theesiring to have a copie of<br />
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