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This enabled Famia to economise, or to put it another way, he was defrauding his faction of the full ship-hire costs for the journey out.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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That they were not signing-parties to this contract, in particular, is made very certain by the suggestion of Cushman's letter of Sunday, June 11, to the effect that he hoped that "our friends there [at Leyden] if they be quitted of the ship-hire [as then seemed certain, as the Adventurers would hire on general account] will be induced to venture [invest] the more."
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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