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468 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675. Liber P C said George ffulford for his advice and assistance for the payment of the money that should be due for the repayring of the Shipp aforesaid and there upon he the said Edward Leach forbadd the Camp :1t to medle with the Sale of any the said ifulfords Goods, but promised that in case the Comp :1t would Signe & Affirme two bills of Lading he then had ready drawne the one to the said George ffulford & the other to the said Edward Leach for the Goods in the same Shipp to be delivered to the said Edward att the Port in Mary- land he would lay out & disburse soe much as the said Shipp should cost repayring as aforesaid Where-upon the Camp :1t was constrained by necessity not withstanding he knew not of any Interest the said Leach had in the said Goods in his owne proper right not being soe much as named in the said Charter party, but all the Goods in the said Shipp were bound to the Camp :1t as security as aforesaid was perswaded & drawne by the said Leach to Signe & Affirme two Bills of Lading as aforesaid And the said Shipp being repayred & refitted to Sea as aforesaid did in short tyme afterwards to witt the third day of May One Thousand six hundred Seaventy six Arrive in the Port of Maryland & imediatly upon her Arrivall he the said Camp :lt att the request of the said Edward Leach caused most part of the said fuilfords Goods to be landed and putt a Shoare att the said Leach his Store & was ready to have putt the residue on Shoare & to have used all the Endeavours possibly f or relading her with Tobacco for England according to the said Charter party But the Comp :It & John Westcoate chiefe Mate of the said Shipp & severall other of the Seamen of the said Shipp haveing received certaine Intelligence from London by Letters trat the said George ffulford was broken and gone aside and that a comission of Bankrupt was taken out against him or threatened to be taken out, & that Caution was thereby given to the Camp :1t & Seamen to Secure the hire of the said Shipp & Seamens Wages & the Charge for the Victualls & Port dutyes either by the Said Goods Imported or by the Tobacco the produce thereof Exported or else they might Expect to receive nothing att the Port of discharge att London from the said fullford And thereupon the said Mate & Seamen came to the Camp :1t to have Satisfaction made p. 83 them for their Wages till which paid they refused To Assist in the Navigating the said Shipp or to suffer the said Master to deliver the Remainder of the said Goods to Leach being bound as aforesaid The Comp :1t thereupon applyed himself e to the said Leach, who (as the Comp :1t verily believed) was acquainted with his Imployers Condicon, combining with the said ffulford how to defraud the Camp :1t of the hire of the said Shipp & the Seamens Wages Victualls & Port dutyes aforesaid which the Camp :It desired him to pay or secure he the said Edward Leach not only refused soe to doe pre- tending the same was not yet due or payable but did demand the |
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