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him that if I should bee for him I should contradict the order
of the said Court which did not condemne the goods that were
bona fide taken in in England, and that if the goods in the
George and putt on board the Liverpoole Merchant had coc-
quetts this deponent did not condemne them or to that or
the like effect and this deponent did perswade the said
M^r Rousby not to stand suite with them. But the said
M^r Rousby seemed very angry and sayed that the goods
taken out of the George were condemned and as for the other
goods mentioned in the Liverpoole Cocquetts or so many of
them as hee had taken into his possession and seizure hee
seemed willing to restore. But the said Christofer Rousby
finding a defect in the said declaration by miscasting of the
same in the pticular account of the goods to the said declara-
tion annexed mentioned hee pleaded in abatem^t of the said
action and his plea was allowed and the plaintiffs were forced
to suffer a nonsuite with costs. And this Deponent further
sayeth That in all probabillity the plaintiffs would have beene
otherwise nonsuited by reason they could not procure the
Cocquetts aforesaid either from the said Christofer Rousby
or the said other officer appointed for entry of shipps here,
and soe could not make out their charge against the said
Christopher Rousby but the said Cocquetts were still deteyned
from them. But the said Mark Cordea goeinge for England
to Liverpoole aforesaid promised to procure duplicates of the
said Cocquetts of the Liverpoole Merchant and George to
cleere the matters aforesaid In expectacon whereof the said
Robert Ridgeley, did, the three and twentyeth day of Novem-
ber in the year of our Lord 1680 file a new Bill against the
said Christopher Rousby and amended the former mistake.
And the said Christofer Rousby appeared thereunto and im-
pled till the next Court and pleaded not guilty and the cause
standing afores^d ready for a tryall and the said Christofer
Rousby pressing on for a tryall the plaintiffs wanting their
Cocquetts were forced to suffer another nonsuite with costs as
by the said proceedings may more at large appeare. And
this deponent further sayeth that he this deponent did receive
a Letter from the said Mark Cordea dated at Liverpoole the
tenth day of February 1680/1 wherein he mentiones that he had
by his last dated the 20^th of October by the way of London
sent enclosed the Cocquetts of the Liverpoole Merchant and
the George and to that effect he wrote to his Wife and to the
said Robert Ridgeley but the said letters never came to any
our hands to this Deponents knowledge. And this deponent
sayeth that since the said nonsuits there have beene severall
overtures of an agreement betweene the said M^r Rousby and
the said Cordea and Addison about the said goods but no end

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