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nº 17.3000 p
5 7/8 2500.

Hipped by the Grace of God in good order and well conditioned, by Francis Salvador,
in and upon the good Ship called the Defence.

Voyage Captain William Heath...
and by God's grace bound for Fort St. George in India,
to say two courses containing two thousand two hundred
pieces of freight, to be delivered to the Hon. Daniel Chardin, the
Honourable East India Company in Fort St. George, in his absence to the
President in being, for him to deliver the same, to the Honourable
Rodriguez & Cet concentrations.

being marked and numbred as in the Margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well con-
ditioned at the aforesaid Port of Fort St. George in India, (the danger of the Seas only excepted) unto
the aforesaid named Persons -
or to their Afligns, he or they paying Fraight for the said Goods nothing being paid hereto
with Primage and Avarage accustomed. In witneſs whereof the Maſter or Purſer of the said Ship hath aſſirmed
to the Bills of Lading all of this tenor and date; the one of which three Bills being accomplished, the other
two to stand void. And so God ſend the good Ship to her deſired Port in Safety. Amen. Dated in London.

TEC. 13th of February 1687/8