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To the third hee saith that the said Valentine Austin (whom hee saith hee
well knoweth) was as this deponent hath heard aboard the said shipp when shee was seized and was
thence taken into the man of warr, And carried to Port
Lewes in her company, and there set at libertie and otherwise hee
cannot depose.

To the fourth hee cannot depose.

To the 5th hee cannot depose.

WW [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The 7th day of May 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Arnold and Elias Beake and thrs Owners of}
the Saint John Baptist and the goods lately seized}
in the same by Captaine Robert Sedgwick}
Captaine John Leverett and others against the sayd}
Captaine Sedgwick et cetera Suckley Budd}

Suckley} dt.
[?BXXX]}

See the 2d. in [?B 14]./.

Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe
of the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake./

Thomas Wood of Rederiff in the County of
Surrey Mariner aged thirty yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee referreth himselfe to
the Registrie of the high Court of Admiralty arlate wherein it will appeare
what summons issued out from thence touching the arlate shipp Saint John Baptist
and what certificate was made of the execution thereof upon the exchange arlate
and what witnesses were in the sayd Court produced for proveing the propriety
of the arlate Arnold and Elias Beake and Company in the sayd shipp Saint John
Baptist and her ladeing, and to the Oathes of the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and
Company made touching their propriety in the sayd shipp and her ladeing before
a Master of the Chauncerie which depositions of witnesses examined in the
Admiralty Court aforesayd and affidavits made in Chauncery as aforesayd
this deponent beleeveth to be true and everything soe had and done as in them is
expressed And further saith that the sayd
Arnold and Elias Beake and Company did send One Thomas Smith a speciall
messenger from the Port of London to goe to New England to looke after
and recover the sayd shipp and her ladeing and authorized and appointed him this deponent
to goe a longe with the sayd Thomas Smith as an assistant to him for the better
recovery of the sayd shipp Saint John Baptist and her ladeing And accordingly the
sayd Thomas Smith and this deponent sett sayle from the downes in the shipp the hopewell of which one
James Garrett was Commander the 5th day of May 1654 or thereabouts to goe for New England to recover the sayd shipp
Saint John Baptist and goods in her in behalfe of her sayd owners and for the better
cleereing the busines, and makeing their tytle appeare the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company,
did then send by the sayd Thomas Smith Coppyes of the examinations of witnesses
taken as aforesayd in the high Court of Admiralty attested with the subscriptions (as by
them did appeare to this deponent and as this deponent beleeveth) of the arlate Edmond
Arbold and other Notaries for confirmation of the truth of them, and alsoe Coppies
of the affidavits of the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company made in Channcery
touching the sayd shipp and goods
by which depositions and affidavits which this deponent hath seene and reade over it did to this deponent appeare that the sayd
shipp Saint John Baptist and her ladeing seized in her by the arlate Maior
Robert Sedgwick and others did belonge to the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company
and hee this deponent doth verily beleeve them to be the true Owners thereof And further
saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./