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− | ''' HCA 13/73''' 1659-?
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− | '''Editorial history'''
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− | See Admiralty court cases"]
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− | See [[MRP: Synthesis|Synthesis]]
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− | See [[MRP: Transcription|Transcription]]
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− | ===Front Cover===
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− | P1110298 recto front cover
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− | January 1658
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− | March 1660//
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− | P1110848 f. 1 recto
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− | ===Case: Luke Wood x:r ag:t the Peace and ag:t Thomas Grove: Examination: 3. Peter Bartlet, of Ratcliff, Shipwright, aged 30: Date: January 12th, 1658===
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− | The 12:th day of January 1658
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− | Examined on the libell./
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− | Luke Wood x:r ag:t the ''Pearce'')
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− | and ag:t Thomas Grove)
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− | Cheeke; Suckley:/:)
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− | J:ius PETER BARTLET of Ratcliff Shipwright aged
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− | thirty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne
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− | & examined saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t./
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− | Rp.
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− | To the first arle hee saith that hee this deponent goeing Carpenter
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− | of the shipp the ''Peace'' arlate the whole voyage in question
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− | knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove druing all the moneths and
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− | tyme arlate in the yeares: 1657 and 1658 arlate was Master
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− | and Commander of the sayd shipp the ''Peace'' and had the charge and
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− | governmenz of her as Master of her during the sayd voyage on which
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− | voyage shee sett sayle from Gravesend the tewnty eight day of March
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− | 1657 English style and as hee beleeveth went soe Master of her with the consent
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− | of the arlate Vincent delabarre Thomas delavale, And for Master
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− | of her the sayd Voyage the sayd Grove was Commonly reputed And,
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− | further to this arle hee cannot depose./
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− | To the second article of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd shipp
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− | ''Peace'' was in the Moneth of March 1657 bound from this Port of
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− | London to ffrance and thence to Newfound Land and hence to the
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− | Barbados and thence back againe to London And saith tha the
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− | sayd Thomas Grove did in or about the sixteenth day of the moneth
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− | of March 1656 lett to freight by Charterparty three eigth parts
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− | of the sayd shipp the ''Pearce'' belonging to the arlate Vincent dela Barr
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− | & Thomas de La Vall to the arlate Luke Wood during the voyage in
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− | question for a valuable consideration, as the sayd Luke Wood did
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− | affirme to this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company
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− | And further hee cannot depose but for more certaynty therein referreth
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− | him selfe to the sayd Charterparty./
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− | To the 3 arle hee saith that hee well knoweth goeing Carpenter of the
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− | sayd shipp that the arlate John Brewer and Edward Crispe were
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− | commonly reputed the lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the other
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− | five eighth parts of the sayd shipp ''Pearce'' & her tackle & furniture
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− | And knoweth that they did freight and imploy their sayd five eighth
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− | parts upon their owne charge and Adventure as Owners & freighters
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− | of them And (as the sayd Luke Wood did affirme to this deponent) hee
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− | was by the sayd Brewer & Crispe intrusted to goe supracargo upon
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− | the sayd shipp & voyage ?as well for the management of their sayd
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− | five eighth parts as for him selfe and the manageing of the
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− | sayd three eighth parts of the sayd shipp ?soe ?lett to him the sayd
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− | Wood by the sayd Grove And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 4:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp laye in the River
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− | of Thames takeing in her provisions for the voyage in question this
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− | deponent heard the arlate Edward Crispe aboard the sayd shipp
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− | saye & declare that hee and the sayd Bower were to pay and beare
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− | the voyage of their five eighth parts of the shipp ''Peace'' and of her victualls
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− | //and mens wages and that the arleat Like Wood was to doe the XXX
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− | for the other five eight parts of the sayd shipp & of her victualing and XX
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− | XXX wages and that the arlate Grove the Master and the Mariners
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− | of the sayd shipp were to obey the orders of the sayd Luke Woods & to sayle
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− | her to such places as the sayd Wood should order & direct & to follow ?&
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− | order in the ladeing unladeing and reladeing of the sayd shipp & to go
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− | with their boate from tyme to tyme as the sayd Wood should appointe
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− | and confesse And further hee cannot depose but referreth him selfe
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− | to the schedule in this article mentioned./
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− | To the 5:th and 6:th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that after
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− | the sayd shipp ''Peace'' her departure upon the voyage in question hee XX
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− | in her coarse towards ffrance shee was forced by Contrary winde to
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− | put into ffalmouth where she lay winde bound neere about thirteene
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− | dayes And that about the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came
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− | fayre whereupon the arlate Luke Wood did make all speede to sett
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− | sayle in regard soe much tyme had bin lost & the season of the gXXXXX
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− | was & that the sayd shipp was to stay in ffrance to take in her
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− | ladeing of salt there And saith that the sayd Luke Woods did call
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− | upon the sayd Thomas Grove to goe aboard & speedily sett sayle that
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− | the shipp might ?preserate her intended voyage and the sayd Grove
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− | & Woods did about two oclock in the afternoone of the sayd day goe
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− | aboard togeather, this deponent goeing aboard with them at the same
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− | tyme, and soe soone as the sayd Grove & Woods came aboard they
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− | sent the boate a shoare to Cleere at the Castle (this deponent and the
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− | sayd Groves Mate goeing a shoare in it) XX XXXXX XXX brought the sayd shipp to sayle & the sayd mate p:rsentley ?gott
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− | the sayd shipp cleared, And having cleered the sayd Mate and this
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− | deponent returned to the sayd shipp in the shipps boate, And after
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− | they were come aboard the sayd Grove ordered to sayle the sayd shipp
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− | over the barr and there to bring her againe to Anchor and haveing
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− | given such order, & there being a Country boate lyeing by the shipp
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− | side, the sayd Thomas Grove would needes goe on shoare againe
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− | and did goe on shoare in the sayd Country boate, notwithstanding
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− | the sayd Woods did earnestly persuade & entreate him not to goe
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− | on shoare & told him it would be a great hinderance to the voyage
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− | the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the winde being ?the
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− | fayre for her departure as in deede it was And the sayd Grove
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− | being soe gone on shoare some of the shipps company after they
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− | had sayled the shipp over the barr & then brought her to an Anchor
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− | went on shoare with the shipps boate to fetch the sayd Grove on board
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− | which notwithstanding the sayd Grove continewed ashoare most part
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− | of that night and came not againe on board the sayd shipp till
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− | about two of the Clock in the morning next after and was when hee soe came
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− | (in this deponents Judgment) much distempered with drink and began
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− | //to curse and sweare and amongst other words sayd that there
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− | were some on board thought much of his being on shoare but
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− | hee cared not for that, and sayd that the sayd shipp should ride
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− | longer there and accordingly did keepe her there at anchor about
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− | an hower after such his comming on board & then gave order to
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− | weigh Anchor, and did sett sayl, this hee deposeth of
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− | certayne knowledge & alsoe heareing the sayd words or others to
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− | that effect spoken, as alsoe did most of the sayd shipps company
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− | And further to these arle hee deposeth not./
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− | To the 7:th arle hee saith hee knoweth that after the arrivall
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− | of the shipp ''Peace'' at Le?serne in ffrance & whilst the arlate
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− | Luke Wood was on shoare provideing the sayd shipps ladeing of
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− | salt and sending boates aboard her therewith the sayd Thomas
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− | Grve did the moneth of May 1657 the certayne day hee remembe-
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− | reth not) refuse to receave aboard the sayd shipp two boates
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− | loaded of salt which the sayd Wood had sent to be taken
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− | aboard her ?and ?turned the sayd boates w:th their ladeings of
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− | salt back againe without takeing the same aboard although
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− | this deponent & the rest of the shipps company were willing to
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− | take it aboard and could well have taken the same aboard &
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− | carried the same which the sayd Grove did without acquainting
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− | the sayd Wood thereiwth but what XXXXX dammage the sayd Woods was
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− | thereby forced to pay hee knoweth not, but knoweth hee was dama-
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− | ged thereby And further cannot depose./
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− | To the 8:th arle hee saith that whilst the sayd shipp remayned
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− | at Leserue aforesayd & when shee was ready to depart thence the
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− | arlate Luke Woods did goe ashoare with some of the shipps company
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− | to make even his Accompts that hee might be in a readinesse to
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− | depart and saith that the sayd Grove would needes goe on shoare
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− | with him & did goe on shoare with the sayd Woods but as to what
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− | words the sayd Grove spake on shoare hee cannot depose for that hee
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− | went not on shoare with them but saith hee heard the sayd
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− | Grove before his goeing on shoare sayd before most of the sayd
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− | shipps Company that whosoever of them did ask any thing
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− | for Crispe (meaning the arlate Edward Crispe one of the
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− | Owners & Adventuers in the sayd shipp the voyage in question) hee
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− | would ?mallise or ?hate them during the voyage, or words to that
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− | effect & rayled against the sayd Crispe & sayd hee was a roague
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− | and a dogg & other the like expresonsfull towards ?him further
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− | to this arle hee cannot depose./
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− | To the 9:th hee cannot depose.///
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− | //To the 10:th and ?11:th arle hee saith that in the beginning of the Moneth
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− | of August 1657 the weather had bin somewhat fowle & foggie
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− | that certayne fish to the quantitie of five hundred kintalls or thereabouts
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− | which the sayd Wood had bought & provided a shoare could not be shipped
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− | untill a fayer day happened And saith that a fayer day happening in the sayd
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− | moneth (the certayne day of the moneth it soe happened to be fayer he remem
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− | breth not) the arlate Luke Woods and the arlate William Tizard (who was
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− | Masters Mate of the ''Peace'') called early in the morning for the Mariners of
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− | the sayd shipp to goe a shoare with their boates to assiste in carrying
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− | aboard & ladeing the sayd shipp with the sayd ffish And saith that thereupon the
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− | sayd Grove the Master sent sixe men on shoare & not more to helpe to lade
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− | the sayd ffish (whereas there were seaven & twenty men & boyes belonging
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− | to the sayd shipp beside the Master, five & twenty whereof were under
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− | pay off the sayd ?Merch & other the Owners above mentioned) and kept the
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− | rest of the Mariners on board the sayd shipp & imployed them to pick OXX
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− | and imployed this deponent being Carpenter to worke in the ?Okum
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− | soe picked with severall plXXXX in the shipp where it would ?Okum ?W:ch
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− | the sayd Wood would hande on shoare the weather being then fayre & XX
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− | to lade the sayd ffish by which meanes the sayd Wood with those from thXX
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− | the sayd Grove sent to helpe him could and did lade aboard the sayd
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− | shipp only one hundred and twenty kintalls of the sayd three hundred
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− | Kintalls of ffish whereas if the sayd Wood had had more helpe
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− | on shoare to assiste in ladeing the sayd ffish aboard & that the rest of y:e
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− | shipps Company had not bin hindred from goeing a shoare to assiste
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− | therein by the sayd Groves employing them to pick Okum the whole three
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− | hundred kintalls of ffish might easily have bin that day laden & put
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− | all aboard the sayd shipp And further hee cannot depose saving hee
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− | saith that while the sayd Woods was soe ladeing of the sayd one hundred
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− | and twenty kintalls of ffish the sayd Grove did with three or fowre
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− | more of the shipps Company take the shipps boate and turne to and
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− | froe to the winde warde in the harbour for his pleasure noe way
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− | offereing any assistance in the ladeing the sayd ffish, but what ?discourse
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− | then passed betweene the sayd Wood & Grove as hee sayled to and froe
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− | hee knoweth not.
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− | To the 12:th arle hee saith that in the moneth of August 1657 (the certeyne
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− | day hee remembreth not) the arlate Luke Wood having on shoare
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− | sold a quantitie of salt came aboard the ''Peace'' to have it delivered
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− | out of the said shipp and asked the Boatswaine for the sayd Grove the
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− | Master & the Boatswaine made answere that hee was in his Cabbin
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− | and the sayd Wood goeing into the Cabbin to desyre him (or by the sayd
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− | Groves words afterwards appeared) to give order to his Company to ?deliver
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− | out the sayd boates ladeings of salt the sayd Grove came out of
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− | his Cabbin and rann upon the deck of the sayd shipp ''Peace'' and swore
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− | that he would sinke the boate that should come for any salt there & the
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− | sayd Wood seeing the sayd Grove rage in such a furious manner did
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− | in a milde manner desyre and entreate the sayed Grove not doe as hee
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− | //had threatned but to suffer the sayd boate to be laden with salt and
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− | told him what a great disparagement it would be to him the sayd
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− | Wood in his treade there if the sayd boate of ?hoymen aboard her
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− | should be wronged whereupon the sayd Grove in an outragious manner
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− | reviled the sayd Wood and called him old Roague and old Pedler
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− | and old Pimpe and other the like disgracefull names and told him
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− | the sayd Wood that if hee were not an old roague hee would drubb
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− | him And alsoe sayd (speaking to the sayd Woods) yo:u old roague yo:u
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− | were in the hold the other day but if ever I see yo:u in hold againe
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− | I will ?trice yo:u up with a tackle or hee spake other menaceing speeches
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− | to the same effect all which opporobious language & threates and
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− | other passages were soe done & spoken on the open deck in p:rsence
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− | & heareing of this deponent & the Boatswaine & most of the sayd
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− | shipps company And further hee deposeth not./
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− | To the 13:th arle hee saith that imediately after the sayd Grove
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− | had soe threatned and reviled the sayd Wood, hee the sayd
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− | Woods did in a civill & mylde manner demand of the sayd
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− | Grove why he would not lett him have any salt from on board
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− | and the sayd Grove replyed & sayd that the shipp wanted
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− | stiffneing or ballast whereto the sayd Wood answered and sayd
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− | to the sayd Grove why then did yo:w not a day agoe send for
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− | more stones whereto the sayd Grove replyed and sayd hee had forgott
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− | it & the sayd Woods then asked the sayd Grove what hee would doe
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− | when he had more stones aboard whereto the sayd Grove replyed
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− | and sayd that then hee would carry them on shoare againe And
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− | these speeches passed betwixt the sayd Grove & Woods publiquely
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− | upon the deck in p:rsence & hearing of this deponent and most of
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− | the shipps Company the sayd Wood speakeing soe loude and with
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− | such rage & fury that people who stood on shoare stood gazeing
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− | and wondering to see & heare such words & behaviour proceede
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− | from a Master of a shipp to his Supracargoe./
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− | To the 14:th arle hee saith that the ayd Woods being discontented
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− | with the forementioned words & actions of the sayd Grove went on
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− | shoare leaving the arlate William Tizard one of the Mates of the
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− | shipp aboard with the sayd Grove the master, and this deponent
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− | went a shoare with the sayd Woods & therefore knoweth not what
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− | words passed aboard then betwixt the sayd Tizard & Grove, but hath
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− | heard the sayd Grove at severall other tymes (speakeing of the sayd
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− | Tizard & this deponent & most of the Officers of the shipp who were
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− | all ?hyred by the sayd Woods) in an anXXX manner sayd that there was a knott of them
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− | but hee would breake them And hee saith that while this deponent
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− | was soe on shoare with the sayd Woods the sayd Tizard came on
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− | shoare and brought a noate from the sayd Grove & delivered the
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− | same to the sayd Woods which noate the sayd Woods was before this
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− | deponent & the sayd Tizard & divers other persons wherein (as the sayd
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− | Woods read the same) is appeared that the sayd Grove had written that
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− | //what salt hee wanted or would send for out of the sayd shipp
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− | be delivered unto him And further hee cannot depose.
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− | To the 15:th arle of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd M:r Woods haveing receaved the
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− | sayd noate soe XXXX to be very glad thereof and sent this deponent to M:r Ellot
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− | & M:r Pardon & Robert Rogers & Captaine Reynolds and others Who were by contract
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− | to have salt from aboard the sayd shipp and desyred them to send
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− | their boates aboard the sayd shipp for the salt which the sayd Woods had
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− | sould unto them whereto the sayd people replyed that the dievell should have
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− | him before they would goe againe to receave salt from aboard ?him yet
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− | notwithstanding the fishing tyme being almost spent and they being in great
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− | want of salt they sent their boates againe aboard the sayd shipp for
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− | salt and demanded the same but the sayd Grove would not permitt
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− | them to receave any salt from aboard the sayd shipp by which meanes
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− | the sayd Wood began to loose his reputation in the
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− | sale of his salt abd was discharged amongst those to wheome hee
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− | had sold it whereas hgee neede not soe to have bin for that there was
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− | of this deponents knowledge then aboard the sayd shipp about thirty
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− | tonnes of ffish and about sixty tonnes of salt abd about sixty tonnes
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− | of stones besides great store of provisions of beefe ?pocks pease and
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− | other provisions and the ship then rideing in the harbour of S:t ?Jones
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− | which is the safest and best or at least as good and
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− | safe a harbour as any is in the Newfound land soe that in ?this the
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− | deponents Judgment the sayd Grove by such two refractory and
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− | discontented Carriage and words & actions did intend
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− | to overthrow the sayd shipps voyage And further hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 16:th hee cannot depose./
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− | To the 17:th hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 18:th hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 19:th hee saith that in the moneth of September 1657 (the certayne
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− | day hee remembreth not) the ''Pease'' being come out some few dayes before
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− | from Newfound Land the shipp the ''Pease'' & her company of espied XXXX
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− | shipps at Sea which they thought to be some of her consorts
| + | |
− | bound for the Barbados And the ''Pease'' bearing up to them the Master
| + | |
− | & Company of the ''Pease'' know the shipp they came up with all to be one
| + | |
− | that came out in Company of the ''Pease'' from Nants and thereupon
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− | the sayd Grove the Master persuaded the sayd Woods to goe aboard the sayd shipp
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− | which at his request hee did (though hee being accompayed with Robert ?Grove one of the sayd Masters Mates so sayd Woods were XXX unwilling soe to do
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− | and ?hee sent the ''Pease'' her boate aboard her againe, And this being done
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− | and the sayd Grove the Master still continewing aboard his sayd
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− | shipp the ''Pease'' the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' by order of the sayd Grove the
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− | Master stood off about halfe a league from the sayd other shipp that came
| + | |
− | in her company from Nants and then stood to the winde of her and by ?this
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− | meanes came her aboard in the quarter to the great endangereing
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− | of the sayd shipps insoemuch that the ffrench men aboard the sayd shipp
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− | seeing the great danger their says shipp was in gott out of her into XX XXX
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− | leaving//
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− | | + | |
− | //leaving the arlate Luke Wards in the sayd ffrench shipp who with
| + | |
− | much danger of his life by getting hold of the ?ragles of the heads of
| + | |
− | the ''Pease'' when they came fowle one of an other with much difficulty
| + | |
− | came aboard the ''Pease'' with the assistance of one James Jenkins one of the ''Pease'' her company who tooke hold of RXXXX & helpeth him All which this deponent well knoweth was
| + | |
− | soe done by the command and order of the sayd Grove the Master
| + | |
− | notwithstanding that the Mates of the ''Pease'' & others of the
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− | Company advised the sayd Grove the Master before hee
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− | came within a quarter of a myle of the sayd shipp to leave up
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− | to ne Lee ward of her or to the winde wards of her which hee might
| + | |
− | easily have done & have avoided falling fowle of her And saith the sayd Grove was soe displeased with the sayd Jenkings for helping the sayd Woods aboard hath XX beate & abused
| + | |
− | the sayd Jenkins afterwards during the ?whole XXXXX And further he cannot depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 20:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth and heard the sayd
| + | |
− | Luke Woods upon the departure of the shipp ''Pease'' from the New found
| + | |
− | land give order to the arlate Thomas Grove to sayle the sayd shipp
| + | |
− | directly for the Barabados And hee this deponent heard the
| + | |
− | Mates of the sayd Shipp sayd that the sayd Thomas Grove did not
| + | |
− | cause the sayd shipp to bee steerd a course sufficient towards the
| + | |
− | Southwards to gaine the Barbados And knoweth that the sayd
| + | |
− | Thomas by his steering on his owne course contrary to the advise
| + | |
− | of his sayd Mates did misse the Island of Barbados and
| + | |
− | came to the Island of S:t Lusea in the moneth of November 1657
| + | |
− | And further hee cannot depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 21:th hee cannot depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 22:th hee saith hee knoweth that about the beginning of the moneth
| + | |
− | of March 1657 there came in a KelXX into NXXXX (where the ''Pease''
| + | |
− | then lay) laden with ffish & other provisions whereof the arlate
| + | |
− | Holloway was accompted Merchant & Owner And further to
| + | |
− | this arle hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 23:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp stayed at MXXX
| + | |
− | hee heard divers of the Planters there saye that they would
| + | |
− | have laded goods aboard the sayd ship the ''Pease'' but that they
| + | |
− | sawe that the arlate Thomas Grove was a man of lewde
| + | |
− | and debauched behaviour and therefore they dearst not trust
| + | |
− | him with their goods or words to that effect for which reason
| + | |
− | hee beleeveth that the sayd Woods was much damnified by the
| + | |
− | sayd Groves debauched behaviour and lost much ladeing there
| + | |
− | which otherwise hee might have had And further hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 24:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate
| + | |
− | Thomas Grove did at New found land ?stowe aboard the Gunne
| + | |
− | deck of the ''Pease'' five casks of Oyle when as there was roome sufficient in the hold for the sayd, & XXX XXX the sayd Woods ?& to stowe it in hold, and refused soe to doe XXXX oyle of ?her
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− | ?this//
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− | //this deponents knowledge did leake out and came downe
| + | |
− | amongst the Merchants fish and much damnified the same
| + | |
− | in soe much that when the same came to be sold at ?Mevis where
| + | |
− | other ffish was there sold for a pound of sugar for every pound of
| + | |
− | fish the sayd Woods was faine to sell the sayd fish soe damnified
| + | |
− | some of it at halfe that price and some at lesse than halfe that
| + | |
− | price, to the great dammage of the sayd Luke Woods.
| + | |
− | This hee deposeth of certayne knowledge And farther hee cannot depose,
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− | | + | |
− | To the 25:th arle hee cannot depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 26:th hee saith that the arlate Luke Woods was during the ?sayd
| + | |
− | voyage (of this deponents sight & observation) very industrious and
| + | |
− | carefull in mannageing of the affayres of the sayd shipp the ''Pease''
| + | |
− | committed to his charge and in the sale & disposall of er goods and
| + | |
− | Merchandizes & in buying & reladeing her with ithers And hee this
| + | |
− | deponent is verily persuaded in his conscience that if the sayd
| + | |
− | Thomas Groves had used the like diligence in performance of his
| + | |
− | duty as Master & not behaved him selfe in such refractory and disXXXX
| + | |
− | manner as is afore declared the sayd shipp might have dischraged
| + | |
− | her voyage fower or five moneths sooner than shee did And further
| + | |
− | hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 27:th arle hee saith that in case the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' had
| + | |
− | arrived at the Barbados whether shee was bound with her ladeing
| + | |
− | from Newfound land the sayd Woods might in this deponents Judg
| + | |
− | ment and as hee verily beleeveth) In all probability habe sold
| + | |
− | & disposed there of the sayd ffish & other goods whilst the same was sounde marketX
| + | |
− | & well conditioned, & at good valew, & made quick returne thence
| + | |
− | to London abd quicker by at least five or sixe monethes than hee
| + | |
− | did whereas the sayd ffish & other goods (whereof
| + | |
− | the sayd Luke Woods had three eighth parts upon his Accompt) were
| + | |
− | much damnified the fish growing rotten & divers Caskes of oyle
| + | |
− | which the sayd Woods had aboard growing very leakie in soe much that many of them leaked cleare out by reason of
| + | |
− | their lying soe long undisposed of And further hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 28:th hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the sayd Luke XXX
| + | |
− | did susteyne losse & dammage in the sale of ?the three eighth parts of the
| + | |
− | sayd shipp the ''Pease'' her ladeing of ffish & other goods more than whXXXX
| + | |
− | hee might have made of them at the Barbados if the sayd shipp
| + | |
− | had not missed her course thither the summe of three hundred pounds
| + | |
− | sterling or neere thereabouts besides the losse of about fower or five
| + | |
− | moneths tyme for which the sayd Woods payed or was to pay freight
| + | |
− | And further hee cannot depose/
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− | To//
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− | //To the 29:th saving his forefoing deposiccon hee canot depose
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− | | + | |
− | To the 30:th hee saith that the shipp ''Peace'' was of the burthen of ?two [this figure appears to have been blotted out]
| + | |
− | hundred tonnes or neere thereabouts and that of his this deponents
| + | |
− | knowledge shee came home about halfe dead freighted for that
| + | |
− | the arlate Luke Woods beside the dammage hee susteyned in the sale
| + | |
− | of his three eighth parts of the sayd shipps ladeing of ffish & other
| + | |
− | Merchandizes did suffer losse and dammage in the sayd shipps want
| + | |
− | of ladeing home the simme of two hundred pounds sterling or
| + | |
− | neere thereabouts in this deponents Judgement & estimate And further
| + | |
− | hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 31:th arle hee saith that the monethly wages of the Master
| + | |
− | & Mariners of the shipp ''Peace'' & the victualls & provisions by them
| + | |
− | monethly spent during the voyage in question did amount to a great
| + | |
− | & considerable summe of money but what to estimate the same
| + | |
− | as hee knoweth not And further cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 32:th arle hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the
| + | |
− | shipp the ''Peace'' her voyage was overthrowne and spoiled by the
| + | |
− | evell (sic) behaviour of the sayd Thomas Grove therein the sayd Grove behaving
| + | |
− | him selfe in that rude and uncivill manner wheresoever hee came
| + | |
− | during the sayd voyage that such persons as had heard of or sawe his
| + | |
− | behaviour did not care to have anything to doe with him the sayd
| + | |
− | Grave or the arlate Luke Woods for his sake and therefore diverse of them
| + | |
− | did forbeare the ladeing of their goods aboard the sayd shipp of this
| + | |
− | deponents sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge and such the sayd Groves rude
| + | |
− | and uncivill behaviour was generall observed and taken notice of
| + | |
− | by the whole shipps Company and by divers who had occasion to
| + | |
− | lade goods aboard the sayd shipp and have dealings with the sayd
| + | |
− | Luke Woods And further hee deposeth not./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 33:th and 34:th arles hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Grove did
| + | |
− | not only in remote parts beyond the seas behave him selfe in such
| + | |
− | rude and disobedient manner as is before declared but alsoe after
| + | |
− | the sayd shipp was returned to Plymouth from the voyage in question
| + | |
− | the sayd Grove by his stubborne & refractory carriage there
| + | |
− | and his refuseing to obey the orders of the sayd Luke Woods
| + | |
− | was an occasion of the sayd shipps stay there a much longer tyme
| + | |
− | than shee needed to have done by reason that seavrll Merchants who
| + | |
− | had goods aboard the sayd shipp and which were there to be delivered
| + | |
− | came aboard to demand their goods, and brought their bills of ladeing
| + | |
− | and severall tymes demanded them andthe sayd Grove refused to
| + | |
− | deliver them, and stayed there about tenn dayes whereas hee might
| + | |
− | have there discharged all the goods hee was there to unlade in three dayes
| + | |
− | tyme at the most & then might have had the oportunity of a fayer
| + | |
− | winde to sayle for London which oportunitie the sayd Grove by his sayd
| + | |
− | refractory carriage lost & the winde by his long stay there coming
| + | |
− | contrary//
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− | //the sayd shipp could not get there and arrive at London soe soone
| + | |
− | as otherwise shee might have done if the sayd Grove had behaved
| + | |
− | him selfe civilly and bin obedient to order as hee ought to have
| + | |
− | done by a moneths tyme or thereabouts And these p:rmisses hee saith
| + | |
− | were and are well knowne bot only to this deponent but also to the
| + | |
− | whole shipps company & alsoe to the Merchants who soe came to demand
| + | |
− | their goods And further hee cannot depose knowing nothing touching the
| + | |
− | makeing of the Protests arlate./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 35:th arle hee saith hee well remembreth that at Mevis this deponent
| + | |
− | & Robert Grove Cheife Mate of the ''Peace'' & William Tizard another mate of
| + | |
− | the sayd shipp & one Robert Chipp the Gunner of her were produced as
| + | |
− | witnesses before Captaine Morton Captaine Russell Captaine Smith
| + | |
− | & other officers under the Governour at Mevis upon Interrogatories given
| + | |
− | in before them against the sayd Thomas Grove the Master who was
| + | |
− | ?convened & appeared before them) touching his evell & disobedient carriage
| + | |
− | in the sayd voyage at Newfound landX, which notwithstanding the sayd
| + | |
− | Grove still continued his obstinate & refractory carriage and did upon
| + | |
− | all occasions endeavour the overthrowe of the voyage in question in
| + | |
− | manner as is before described And further hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 36:th and 37:th arles hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the
| + | |
− | Registery of this Court to the lawe, and to his foregoeing deposition &
| + | |
− | further cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 38:th arle hee saith hee beleevth and is verily perswaded in
| + | |
− | his conscience that the arlate Luke Woods by reason of the sayd Thomas
| + | |
− | Grove his sayd obstinate and refractory behaviour hath suffered losse and
| + | |
− | dammage beside the dammage in his foregoeing deposition
| + | |
− | mentioned, to a considerable value, but what to estimate
| + | |
− | the same at hee knoweth not And further hee cannot depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 39:th arle hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his
| + | |
− | foregoeing deposition and to the lawe and further cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 40:th hee saith the arlate Thomas Grove was & is an
| + | |
− | Englishman & an Inhabitant of the parish of Stepney and subiect
| + | |
− | to the Jurisdiction of this Court./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | The marke of the sayd
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− | | + | |
− | PETER XXXXX BARTLET
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− | ===Case: Luke Wood x:r ag:t the Peace and ag:t Thomas Grove:: Examination: 2. Richard Blake, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 30: Date: January 14th 1658===
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− | | + | |
− | The 14:th of January 1658
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Examined on the sayd Libell./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Rp.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 2:us RICHARD CLAKE of Ratcliff in the pish of Stepney
| + | |
− | and County of Midd Mariner aged thirty yeares of
| + | |
− | therabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith and
| + | |
− | deposeth as followeth vizt
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first arle of the sayd allegation [allegation has been crossed out] libell hee saith by reason hee
| + | |
− | this deponent went Boat swaine of the shipp ''Pease'' the voyage in question
| + | |
− | and was hired to serve as Boatswaine about the seaventh of March 1656 he
| + | |
− | knoweth//
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− | P1110859 f. 6 recto
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− | //knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove then and alsoe during
| + | |
− | all the tyme arlate in the yeares 1657 and 1658 was Master and
| + | |
− | Commander of the sayd shipp ''Pease'' and had the charge and government
| + | |
− | of her as Master during the voyage in question And hee beleeveth
| + | |
− | the sayd Thomas Grove went soe master of her the sayd voyage by the
| + | |
− | Consent & approbation of the arlate Vincent de la barre & Thomas delavall
| + | |
− | and the rest of the Owners of the sayd shipp And for Master of her the
| + | |
− | sayd voyage the sayd Thomas Grove was commonly reputed And further
| + | |
− | to this arle hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 2 arle of the libell hee saith that the sayd shipp having at
| + | |
− | London taken in her provisions & other necessaries did in the moneth
| + | |
− | of March 1656 sett sayle from London to Gravesend and having cleered
| + | |
− | ?their sett sayle thence about the seaven or eight and twentieth of March
| + | |
− | 1657 English Style bound forth on a voyage from London to
| + | |
− | ffrance and thence to Newfound land and thence to the Barbadoes
| + | |
− | and further to this arle hee cannot depose being not privie to the
| + | |
− | bargaine made by the sayd Grove with the arlate Luke Woods touching any parte of the sayd shipp hyred by the sayd Woods but for
| + | |
− | more certaynety therein referreth him selfe to the Charterparty made
| + | |
− | between them thereabout./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the third arle hee saith hee well knoweth being Boatswaine as
| + | |
− | aforesayd that the arlate John Brewer and Edward Crispe were
| + | |
− | commonly reputed the lawfull Owners and Proprietors of five
| + | |
− | eighth parts of the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' & her tackle and furniture
| + | |
− | And knoweth that they did upon their owne charge & Adventure as
| + | |
− | Owners & freighters freight and imploy the sayd five eighth parts
| + | |
− | of her for their owne use And saith that hee well knoweth that
| + | |
− | the arlate Luke Woods did goe the voyage in question absolute and
| + | |
− | sole Supracargo & manager of the sayd shipp ''Pease'' as well for the parts that XXXXXXX
| + | |
− | hee the sayd Woods had hyred as for the other five eighths which
| + | |
− | was soe freighted by and belonged to the sayde Brewer and Crispe
| + | |
− | And was soe impowered to goe Supracargo and sole manager of the sayd Brewer
| + | |
− | & Crispe their five eighth parts by the sayde Brewer and Crispe (as
| + | |
− | the sayd Luke Wood did affirme to this deponent & other of the sayd
| + | |
− | shipps Company and as this deponent verily beleeveth And further
| + | |
− | hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th arle of the sayd libell hee saith that soone after this
| + | |
− | deponent was first shipped aboard the sayd shipp ''Pease'' as Boatswaine
| + | |
− | the sayd Thomas Grove the Master told this deponent that although hee
| + | |
− | the sayd Grove had hyred this deponent yet Luke Woods (meaning the
| + | |
− | arlate Luke Woods) was to be his this deponents paymaster for
| + | |
− | that (as the sayd Grove acknowledged & sayd) the sayd Woods was sole
| + | |
− | supracargo of the sayd shipp as well for the sayd Brewer & Crispe
| + | |
− | their five eighth parts of the shipp as for the other three eighth parts
| + | |
− | of the sayd shipp, and was to pay & beare in behalfe of him selfe &
| + | |
− | the said Brewer & Crispe all charges of victualls and
| + | |
− | provisions and wages for the Master and Mariners of the sayd shipp
| + | |
− | and//
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− | //and hee this deponent verily beleeveth that the sayd Woods being
| + | |
− | sole supracargo of the sayed shipp for the voyage in question both
| + | |
− | the Master and Mariners ought to obey and observe the orders
| + | |
− | of the sayd Luke Woods as Supracargo as touching the lading unlading
| + | |
− | and reladeing of the sayd shipp & to goe with the shipps boate, & with the
| + | |
− | sayd shipp from place to place according as the sayd Woods should
| + | |
− | for his best advantage of tradeing in the sayd voyage direct and
| + | |
− | appoint And further to this arle hee cannot depose not being p:rsent
| + | |
− | at the writeing or signeing of the Schedule arlate
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd
| + | |
− | shipp the ''Pease'' after her departure from Gravesend being in her course
| + | |
− | towards ffrance she was by Contrary winds put into ffalmouth where
| + | |
− | she lay winde bound for neere about thirteene dayes And on or about
| + | |
− | the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came fayer & the sayd Luke
| + | |
− | Woods & the sayd Thomas Grove being then on shoare & hee this deponent
| + | |
− | aboard, hee knoweth not what words passed on shoare betweene them but
| + | |
− | well knoweth that they came both aboard the sayd shipp togeather about
| + | |
− | two of the Clock in the afternoone that day and that as soone as they
| + | |
− | came aboard they sent Thomas Yeomans one of the Mates of the XX
| + | |
− | with the shipps boate to cleere at the Castle, and in the meane
| + | |
− | tyme while the sayd Mate was goeing to cleere the sayd Grove com-
| + | |
− | manded the sayd shipp to be brought to sayle and before the
| + | |
− | Anchors could be gott aboard & the shipp fitted to sayle, there being
| + | |
− | a Country boate lyeing by the shipps side the sayd Thomas Grove the
| + | |
− | master would needes goe on shoare againe in that Country boate
| + | |
− | and did goe ashoare in it notwithstanding that the sayd Luke
| + | |
− | Woods seeing him about soe to doe did in p:rsence of this deponent &
| + | |
− | divers of the shipps company earnestly perswade and entreate
| + | |
− | the sayd Thomas Grove not to goe on shoare againe and told him XX
| + | |
− | XXX his goeing a shoare would be a great hinderance to the voyage
| + | |
− | the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the season somewhat spent
| + | |
− | allready by the shipps lying soe long winde bound as she had done
| + | |
− | & the winde then ?seerveing gfayre for her departure (as in deede it did)
| + | |
− | but the sayd Grove notwithstanding such perswasions went ashoare and
| + | |
− | there stayed most part of that night ashoare and came againe
| + | |
− | aboard the sayd shipp about two a clock in the morning, in the
| + | |
− | shipps boate which was sent after him to attend him and bring
| + | |
− | him aboard And hee saith the sayd Thomas grove being come againe
| + | |
− | aboard the sayd shipp did publiquely upon the deck in p:rsence of
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− | this deponent & divers others of the shipps company, speake in an?gry
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− | manner and sayd thus or the like in effect there are some on board
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− | that thinke much of my being on shoare but I care not, and
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− | further sayd that shee (meaning the sayd shipp ''Pease'') should ride
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− | //there longer yet, and soe the sayd Grove kept the sayd shipp at Anchor about an
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− | howers space after hee soe came aboard and then after his anger
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− | was over gave order to weigh Anchor, and soe sett sayle the
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− | p:rmisses hee deposeth off sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge And further hee
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− | cannot depose./.
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− | To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the arrivall of the shipp ''Pease''
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− | at S:t leforne in ffrance the sayd Luke Woods being gone on shoare
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− | to provide salt to lade the sayd shipp and having
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− | ?sent severall boates with salt, which were receaved on board.
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− | the sayd Woods did about the fifth or sixth of May 1657 send
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− | fower or five boates (more than what had formerly bin taken aboard)
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− | with salt, and they being come to the shipp side the sayd Grove the
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− | Master being aboard turnedd two of the sayd boate loades of salt
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− | back againe & would not receave them aboard, saying his shipp
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− | was at her load marke with what good jee had allready receaved
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− | aboard her, and therefore hee would take noe more salt aboard,
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− | and thereupon tooke this deponents penn & Xuke & writt a noate
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− | and delivered the same to one of the boatmen whose boate loads
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− | of salt were not receaved aboard & willed him in this deponents
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− | sight & hearing to give that noate to M:r Woods (XXXXing the foursayd
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− | Luke Woods) the contents of the sayd noate this deponent knoweth not
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− | but as the sayd Grove told him this deponent the contenxt thereof
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− | was to ?Call the sayd M:r Woods knowe tha the sayd shipp was fully
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− | laden with the goods ?she had on board & that therefore hee could noz
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− | take those two boates of salt more aboard And darther to this arle
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− | he cannot depose knowinhg nothing touching what dammage the sayd
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− | Woods suffered by the sayd Groves XXXXing back the sayd salt.
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− | To the 3:th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp ''Pearce'' being at
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− | Leforns aforesayd and ready to sett sayle thence the arlate Luke
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− | Woods did with fower of the shipps company goe on shoare to make
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− | XXXX (as hee sayd) his Accomptes that soe hee might
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− | //in the beginning of the moneth of August 1657 the weather for ?some
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− | dayes continued fowle and foggie soe that ?certyne fish which the arle
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− | Luke Woods at Newfound land provided to be laden aboard the ''Pease'' by way
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− | of the fowle & foggie weather, (it being very preXXXXX to lade fish
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− | aboard a shipp the unlesse in fayere & cleare weather) could not be laden And saith that upon
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− | the fifteenth day of August 1657 the weather proveing fayre & very fitt
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− | & convenient to lade fish aboard in, the arlate Luke Wood & M:r Tizard
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− | called early in the morning for the marriners of the ''Pearse'' who were
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− | aboarde (there being then ashoare only about tenn or twelve Mariners of her company
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− | who constantly continewed a shoare there to helpe to prepare fish om a
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− | readinesse to be laden aboard) to come on shoare with their ?boats
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− | and assiste in ladeing the fish which was prepared in a readinesse
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− | aboard the sayd shipp while the weather was fayer, (bit how many kintalls
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− | wer then p:rpared hee knoweth not hee being seldome on shoare by reason
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− | of his office of Boat swaine) And saith that the arlate Thomas Grove
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− | did upon such the sayd Woods & Tizards calling for men to assiste them
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− | send some men ashoare (beside those which used to XXXXXX take on shoare),
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− | but how many hee remembreth not) And kept the ?part of the Company
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− | aboard & imployed them to pick Okum for
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− | the Carpenter to use about the sayd shipp And saith hee remembreth not
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− | how many kintalls of fish were laden aboard the sayd shipp that day
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− | but beleeveth that if more men had bin sent a shoare more fish might have bin laden aboard the sayd shipp that day than was
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− | laden aboard her And further to these arles hee cannot depose./
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− | To the 12:th and 13:th arles hee saith that about the one & twentieth day of August
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− | 1657 arlate the sayd Luke Woods having bin on shoare came aboard the ''Pearse'' &
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− | brought with him two boates to fetch salt from aboard the sayd shipp
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− | for ?foure persons who had bought the same of him and being
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− | //in Company togeather at the sayd Wood house in Newfound Land
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− | To the 18:th hee saith hee cannot depose not being p:rsent at the tyme
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− | and place arlate./
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− | To the 19:th arle hee saith that about the twenty eighth day of 7:ber
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− | 1657 in the morning the Master & Company of the ''Pease'' espied three shipps
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− | which at a distance they thought to be some shipps bound for the Barbados
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− | as the ''Pease'' was, & bearing up to them the Master & Company of the ''Pease''
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− | ?knew the shipp they came up with to bee a ?banXer that came out in company
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− | with the ''Pease'' from Nants And saith that what perswasion the sayd Thomas
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− | Grove the Master used to the effect arlate hee knoweth not but knoweth that
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− | Luke Woods did in Company of Robert Grave one of the sayd Thomas
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− | Groves Mates goe aboard the sayd ffrench shipp which soe came from Nants
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− | in Company of the ''Pease'', and then sent the boate they went in back againe
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− | aboard the ''Pease'', & the sayd boate being come the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' stood
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− | away from the sayd aXXX shipp about halfe a league & then steered
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− | and stood to the windewards of the sayd other shipp and by that meanes
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− | came her aboard in the quarter & thereby much endangered the losse
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− | of both the sayd shipps in soe much that the ffrench men aboard the
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− | sayd ffrench ship sseing the sanger their shipp was in rann all (save
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− | one that was sick aboard her) aboard the ''Pease'' to secure their lives
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− | leaving the arlate Luke Woods aboard the sayd ffrench shipp who with
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− | much difficulty and the helpe of one of the Company of the ''Pease''
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− | who caught hold of the sayd Wood (as hee hung by the head of
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− | the ''Pease'') to p:rserve him from falling into the Sea) gott at length
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− | on board the ''Pearse'' All which hee saith was done by order and
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− | Command of the sayd Thomas Grove the Master of the ''Pearse''
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− | although this deponent seeing him order such a coarse to be
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− | steered XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx told the sayd Grove the Master when hee came XXXX at
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− | neere the sayd ffrench shipp that hee soe by the Course that
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− | was steered that hee the sayd Grove would come fowle in ?deede
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− | could not goe cleere of the sayd ffrench shipp And further to this
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− | arle hee cannot depose
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− | To the 20:th hee saith that the sayd Shipp ''Pease'' was from the Newfound
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− | land bound for the Barbados and saith that of ?his this
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− | deponents observation and knowledge the sayd Grove never brought
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− | the sayd shipp into her due XXXXX to sayle for the Barbadoes, but
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− | by the coarse hee kept did misse the Barbados
| + | |
− | and made S:t Lusea arlate and about the eighth
| + | |
− | of November 1657 arrived with the shipp ''Pease'' at Mevis arlate
| + | |
− | And further to this arle hee cannot depose not knowing what p:rticular
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− | order the sayd Wood gave the sayd Grove the Master touching her goeing
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− | to the Barbadoes or what discourse passed betwixt the sayd Woods and
| + | |
− | the sayd Thomas Grove the Master & her mates touching the steering of
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− | the Course for y:e sd Barbadoes or what answeare the sayd Groves made
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− | them about the same./://
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− | //To the 21:th hee saith hee heard the sayd Luke Woods saye openly upon
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− | the deck to the sayd Thomas Grove (while the ''Pease'' lay ar Mevis the
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− | tyme more certaynely hee doth not remember) that the sayd Grove hath
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− | broken his Charterpty And the sayd Grovein an angrie manner
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− | p:rsently imployed and syd if I have broken my Charterpty then I
| + | |
− | will ruine all & ?XXX words passed betwixt them on the deck in XXXX
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− | of this deponent & divers others of the shipps company And further to
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− | rhis XXX arle hee cannot depose
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− | To the 20:th hee saith that the ''Pease'' by XXXXX missed the
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− | Barbados as aforesayd did lye at Mevis in disposeing of her
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− | fish & other Co?jmmodities from the eighth of November till about
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− | the middle of June next following And hee alsoe saith that hee
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− | well knoweth that aboaut the beginning of March 1657 there came
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− | a ?KotXy to Mevis with fish whereof the arlate Holloway (whome
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− | this deponent well knoweth) was Merchant, And hee saith that
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− | the said Holloway did at Mevis tell this deponent that the sayd
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− | Thomas Grove & hee the sayd Hollway hath there had conference
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− | together & that the sayd Grove told him the sayd Holloway, that he
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− | the sayd Grove would take such a course that the old roague Luke
| + | |
− | Woods should sell noe fish there for as the sayd Holloway
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− | sayd the sayd Grove told him that hee the sayd Grove had sold all
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− | his owne fish, and that one pound of the sayd Hollowaies fish were
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− | worth sixe pounds of the fish avoard the ''Pease'' And that hee the
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− | sayd Grove XXXX helpe the sayd Holloway to sell all his fish
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− | And further to this arle hee cannot depose./
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: 3 Thomas Capell, of S:t Mary Matsellon, als Whitechappell, Cooper, aged 22: Date; January 16th (English Style), 1658===
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− | ===Case: Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson et al., freighters of the Maydenhead vs. the VOC: Deposition: 5. William Reading, of Redriff wall, St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, Surrey, Mariner, aged 35: Date: January 19th 1658===
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− | //The 19:th day of January 1658 English style
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− | Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson)
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− | & other freighters of the shipp the ''Maydenhead'')
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− | agt the Dutch East India Company in pticular and)
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− | all other x:r X XXXXXX)
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− | Examined on the allegation given in
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− | XX XXX of November 1658 on behalfe of
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− | the sayd ffreighters
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− | 5 WILLIAM READING of Rederiff wall
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− | in the parish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermond-
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− | sey in the County of Surrey mariner aged
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− | thirty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
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− | sworne & examined saith and deposeth
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− | as followeth viz:t
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− | To the 10:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
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− | this deponent was purser of the shipp the ''Olive Branch'' an
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− | English shipp which went upon a tradeing voyage from London bound
| + | |
− | for Bantam but at her comeing thither the sayd shipp ''Olive
| + | |
− | Branch'' was hindred by certayne dutch shipps of warr belonging
| + | |
− | to and being in the implyment of the dutch East India Company
| + | |
− | by which meanes ?they wwas forced to goe to an Island in XXX
| + | |
− | PaXXogando upon the Coast of Sumatra and there pXXXX her lading
| + | |
− | of pepper to be brought
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− | secretly unknowne to the dutch in XXXX or boates from
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− | Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the
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− | ''Olive Branch'' ridd And saith that hee being XXXX a foresayd Puerser
| + | |
− | of the sayd shipp and on XXXX at Bantam during the moneths
| + | |
− | of January ffebruary and part of March in the yeare of our
| + | |
− | Lord 1656 while the lading of pepper which was shipped aboard
| + | |
− | the ''Olive Branch'' was proXXXing at Bantam to be sent to
| + | |
− | Pollegaade and takeing the weight there of and imployed in
| + | |
− | sending the same away thaereby knoweth that in the yeare and
| + | |
− | moneth aforesayd pepper might then have bin hard at Bantam bought
| + | |
− | of the Chinese (sic) & was by the Chinese offered XXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | there to be sold to ?sayth as would buy the same at the rate of five
| + | |
− | and a halfe pence alright or XXXX for the parcell every parcell
| + | |
− | being comonly accompted one hundred sixty two pounds English weight
| + | |
− | And saith that the ''Olive Branch'' having taken in her ladeing
| + | |
− | of pepper at ?Pulligaade XXXXX XXXXX and brought the same
| + | |
− | to Ligorno which was according to Charterpty the Port whither
| + | |
− | she was designed to carry the same And hee this deponent goeing
| + | |
− | Purser in her to Ligorno knoweth that in the Moneths of ffebruary
| + | |
− | and March 1657 in which moneths the sayd shipp ''Olive Branch''
| + | |
− | was & remayned in the Port of Ligorno XXXX pepper was brought in XXXX was there frequently
| + | |
− | and commonly sold at the rate of twenty peeces of eight
| + | |
− | per hundred English weight, and hee this deponent having some
| + | |
− | pepper pf his owne which was brought hither in the sayd shipp
| + | |
− | did there sell the same at som what a bove
| + | |
− | that rate of twenty peeces of eight per hundred English weight
| + | |
− | And further to this arle hee cannot depose.
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− | To the rest of the articles hee is not examinat, by ?direction
| + | |
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− | WILLIAM READING [His signature]
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− | Repetit before Dor Godolphin//
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− | //seized by the Commanders & Companyes of the sayd dutch
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− | shipps soe in service of the dutch East India Company and the
| + | |
− | sayd DEthick utterly deprived of them this hee knoweth being
| + | |
− | on board & seeing the seizure thereof And further hee cannot depose/
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− | JAMES BERBLOCK [His signature]
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− | Repeated before dro. Godolphin
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− | ===Case: ffrancis and John: Examination: 1. James Berblok, of Poplar, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 51: Date:February 26th 1658===
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− | The 20:th of January 1658
| + | |
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− | //''ffrancis and John:'')
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 1.:us JAMES BERBLOCK of Poplar in the parish of
| + | |
− | Stepney and County of Midd mariner aged
| + | |
− | fifty one yeares or therabouts sworne before
| + | |
− | the right Wor:ll John Godolphin doctor of Lawes
| + | |
− | one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
| + | |
− | and examined for perpetuall remembrance of
| + | |
− | the matter upon certayne Interries ministred
| + | |
− | on the parte & behalfe of Thomas Rummings
| + | |
− | and Anthony Beale two of y:e Company (vizt the
| + | |
− | sayd Rummingsy:e XX Steward and the sayd Beale the
| + | |
− | Carpenter) of the shipp the ''ffrancis & John''
| + | |
− | whereof Lawrence Bro?Xunding was Comander)
| + | |
− | touching their clayme for their goods in the sayd
| + | |
− | shipp saith and deposeth as followeth vizt
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− | | + | |
− | To the first Interr hee saith hee hath well knowne the Interr
| + | |
− | Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale during the whole tyme
| + | |
− | of the voyage in question this deponent goeing Pylott of the
| + | |
− | ''ffrancis & John'' and the sayd Rimming steward & the sayd
| + | |
− | Beale Carpenter off her the sayd voyage and knoweth ?they were of her company
| + | |
− | in the qualities aforesayd at such tyme as the ''ffrancis & John''
| + | |
− | and her ladeing were taken & surprised by certaine shipps in the
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− | service of the dutch East India Company./
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− | To the second Interr hee saith hee well kniweth that the Interrogate
| + | |
− | Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them conside
| + | |
− | rable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar
| + | |
− | Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie
| + | |
− | hee canntot declare, but ?reall beleeveth and is persuaded in
| + | |
− | his conscience that the same was worth sold in England in all five hundred
| + | |
− | pounds sterling vizt the sayd Thomas Rummings his sayd goods worth
| + | |
− | three hundred pounds sterling and the sayd Anthony Beales sayd goods
| + | |
− | worth two hundred pounds of like money All which goods hee saith
| + | |
− | were on board the sayd shipp ''ffrancis & John'' for Accompt of the sayd
| + | |
− | Rumming and Beale at ?say tyme as the sayd shipp & her ladeing were seized
| + | |
− | & surprized by the sayd dutch shipps in service of the dutch East India
| + | |
− | Company and were seized by the Commanders and Companies
| + | |
− | of the sayd dutch shipps and the sayd Rummings & Beale thereby
| + | |
− | depXXXd of all or at least of a great part thereof XXXXX knoweth being Pylott and aboard at the seizure And further
| + | |
− | to this Interr hee cannot depose./
| + | |
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− | JAMES BEEBLOK [His signature]
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− | Repeated before doc:r Godolphin///
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− | ===Case: Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampioan and John Turner Merchants of London part owners of the ffrancis & John: Examination: Captaine Laurence Browning, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, master or Comander of the ffrancis & John, aged 52===
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− | The 21.;th day of January 1658./.
| + | |
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− | On the behalfe of Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and)
| + | |
− | John Turner Merchants of London)
| + | |
− | ptiwners of the ship ffrancis
| + | |
− | and John Laurence Browning Comand:r)
| + | |
− | ffrancklin:/
| + | |
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− | Rp.
| + | |
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− | CAPTAINE LAURENCE BROWNING
| + | |
− | of Ratcliffe in the parish of Stepney
| + | |
− | and County of Midds Mariner M:r or
| + | |
− | Comander of the Ship the ''ffrancis and
| + | |
− | John'': aged 52 yeeres of thereabouts, sworne
| + | |
− | before the right wor:ll John Godolphin D:r
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− | of Lawes. one of the Judges of the High Vourt
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− | of the Admiralty of England and Examined upon
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− | certaine Interrie given in by M:r ffrancklin
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− | on the behalfe of the Said Samuell Wilson, Thomas ?Plampian and
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− | John Turner: saith and deposeth as followeth viz:t.
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− | To the said Interrie hee saith and deposeth that this
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− | depo:t very well knoweth the said Samuel Wilson, Thomas
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− | Plampian and John Turner, who were as hee saith own:rs
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− | of the greatest part of the said shipp the ''ffrancis and John''
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− | and saith that at the time of the seizure of the said ship
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− | and her Lading, by some of the ships belonging to the
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− | Dutch East India Company of the United Netherlands
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− | there were aboard the said Ship ''ffrancis and John''
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− | two and thirty Musketts w:ch were taken by this depot for the sayd
| + | |
− | ships use after her coming into Bantam Roade, he not daring to dispose thereof at Bantam and saith the same really and truely belonged
| + | |
− | to the said Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and
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− | John Turn?rer; and ?full the said two and thirty Musektts
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− | (as hee saith) were seized in y:e said ship ''ffrancis and
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− | John''
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− | ===Case: XXXX ag:t Church: Examination: 4. Adam Veale, of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Shipwight, aged 48: Date: January 21st 1658===
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− | //and saith hee last sawe the ?Consent lyeing on shoare at Redriff
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− | about two or three moneths since & saith the last tyme hee sawe the
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− | ?shipp was to the best of his now rememberance about a yeares &
| + | |
− | a halfe since XXXXX neere Wapping And further to ?this Interest hee XXXX
| + | |
− | answereth not seeing the ''Consent'' at her first mooreing nor
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− | knowing when she came ?first to moore in the River of
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− | Thames./
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− | about
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− | XXX
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− | a halfe
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− | answere
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− | knowing
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− | XXXX
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− | To the 3 hee saith hee
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− | WHAT FOLIO NO IS THIS?
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− | ===Case: S:r John Dethicke John Bancks Hugh fforth, and Company: Deposition: George Dethick, of London, Merchant, aged 30: Date: January 24th 1658===
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− | //The 24:th of January 1658 English Style
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− | | + | |
− | A business of Examination of witnesses upon
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− | XXXXX Interries XXXXXX XXX the part and
| + | |
− | behalfe of S:r John Dethicke John Bancks
| + | |
− | Hugh fforth, and Company XXXX certain
| + | |
− | XXXXX aboard the shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' (Cap:t
| + | |
− | XX XXXX Commander) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | of XXXXX the XXXXXXXX of the Dutch East India
| + | |
− | Company.
| + | |
− | ffrancklin
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− | Rp
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | GEORGE DETHICK of London Merchant
| + | |
− | aged thirty yeares or thereabouts, a
| + | |
− | wittnesse sworne before the right Wor:ll
| + | |
− | John Godolphin doctor of Lawes one of
| + | |
− | the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
| + | |
− | of England saith and deposeth viz:t.
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− | | + | |
− | To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee well knoweth that the
| + | |
− | Interrogate Hugh fforth
| + | |
− | did in the moneth of ffebruary 1656 cause to be laden and put on board
| + | |
− | the Interrogate shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' whereof the Interrogate
| + | |
− | Lawrence MXXXing was Master, then lyeing in the River of Thames
| + | |
− | and bound for Bantam Interrogate two Chests conteyning sixe and
| + | |
− | twenty Barres and sixteene XXXX
| + | |
− | marked & numbered as in the Margent
| + | |
− | to be transported in her for Bantam & their disposed of for his
| + | |
− | Accompt & the proceeds thereof to be thence returned in her for his
| + | |
− | Account XXXXXXXXX knoweth say that hee went Supracargo of the
| + | |
− | sayd shipp the voyage in question XXXXXXXXXXXXXX And further to this Interrorie saving his
| + | |
− | subsequent deposition hee cannot depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the Interrorie hee saith that hee being XXXXXX as a foresayd
| + | |
− | knoweth that upon the ladeing of the two chests and the XXXX XXXXX XXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXXXXX XXXXX the sayd shipp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | XXXX//
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− | P1110306 f. 52 recto
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− | //To the 9:th hee saith that sometimes ffacto:es at y:e
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− | Canaryes doe marke all the wines and goods which thez
| + | |
− | send to one Merch:t for y:e said Merchants account
| + | |
− | with one marke: and sometimes with severall marks
| + | |
− | to distinguish of what Vinyard they are of, and further
| + | |
− | Cannot answer.
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− | RICHARD CASBY [His signature]
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− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin./
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− | y:e 2:d of March 1668./
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: David Lloyd, Citizen & Cloatheworker, of London, aged 56: Date: March 8th 1658 (59)===
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− | The ?8:th of March 1658:/.
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− | Examined on y:e said Allon./.
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− | R:X
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− | | + | |
− | 3:us DAVID LLOYD Citizen and Cloathworker
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− | of London, aged 56 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
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− | and Examined:/:
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− | To the first articles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath knowne
| + | |
− | y:e arlate John Casby for about fourteene yeeres last during
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− | all w:ch space the said Casby hath bin a Merchant of great dealing
| + | |
− | and quality, and in y:e moneth of July 1658. and ever since, and
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− | for many moneth before y:esaid Casby hath and doth trade
| + | |
− | from hence to the Canary Islands and from thence to this port of
| + | |
− | London for wines and other goods: and doth send many Goods
| + | |
− | and Merchandizes from hence on ?their ?owne account to y:e Canaryes and doth receive many pipes
| + | |
− | of wines yeerely from y:e Canaryes on his owne acco:t and this Depo:t verily
| + | |
− | beleeveth hee hath a ffactor at the said Islands: The premisses hee deposeth
| + | |
− | being y:e sd producents packer, and hathe as hee beleeveth packed goods at severall times for
| + | |
− | y:e sd producent to the vallue of above twenty Thousand pounds And further
| + | |
− | cannot depose:/:
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− | To the ?2:d hee saith hee Cannot depose:/.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee Cannot depose, saving hee saith that English merchants
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− | doe, (and have done since y:e warre betwixt England and Spaine)
| + | |
− | trade at y:e Canaryes under fained and fictitious Dutch names
| + | |
− | the better to Colo:r their goods, and p:eserved them from Spanish
| + | |
− | Capture./.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th hee saith that in January & March, 1657: there were laden on
| + | |
− | board y:e arlate ship y:e ''Susan ffrigot'', whereof Abraham Philliter
| + | |
− | was M:r sixty one bales , and XXXXX of Severall goods and
| + | |
− | Merchandizes w:ch were all for y:e account of the said M:r Casby
| + | |
− | and Company and of this depo:ts knowledge there were three
| + | |
− | bales or Truncks Laden aboard y:e sd ship at y:e same time, for y:e said
| + | |
− | M:r Casbyes sole account, all w:ch were to be Carried and Transported
| + | |
− | in y:e sd ship from hence to the Canaryes And saith hee beleeveth
| + | |
− | that y:e said 3 bales or Trunckes, and y:e part and share w:ch the
| + | |
− | said M:r Casby had in y:e said sixty one Bales about foure or five Thousand
| + | |
− | CXXXXXXX, XXXX said Trade being most XX them XXX XXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXX Cloath And further hee cannot depose.
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− | To the 5:th and 6:th hee Cannot depose:/.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 7:th and 8:th hee saith thatabout y:e XXXX moneth of March Last there
| + | |
− | were laden aboard y:e arlate ship the same XXXXXXX here in y:e
| + | |
− | River of Thames anout XXXXXXXXXX Bales or Truncks pf Severall goods
| + | |
− | of the first marke in y:e margent XXXXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | //Account of the said M:r Cosby, as this depo:t verily beleeveth for that he this
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− | depo:t packt the said goods. and was & ?should be paid bz z:e said M:r Cosbz for y:e
| + | |
− | same; And saith the said Goods amounted to a great vallue XX
| + | |
− | they being XX Bayes. ?With plaine Cottons XXXX
| + | |
− | Million ffustians. Norwich Goods. Stockings, and Kersyes, and
| + | |
− | such like Comodityes. but the Vallue thereof hee cannot declare
| + | |
− | and further deposeth not:/:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th 10:th 11:th 12:th 13:th 14:th & 15:th hee cannot depose:/:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 16:th hee Cannot depose saving hee hath heard the said
| + | |
− | ship y:e ''S:t Laurance'', in her Course from y:e Canaryes to this
| + | |
− | Port of London was taken and seized by an English mann
| + | |
− | of Warr:/:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 17:th hee saith that the said M:r John Caseby is an English
| + | |
− | man borne: and a subiect of this Comonwealth, and hath lied
| + | |
− | about three yeeres last in this City, and before that hee did use
| + | |
− | to live sometimes at the Canaryes, and sometimes in this City
| + | |
− | And y:e ffathr of y:e said producent (whom this depo:t did well knowe)
| + | |
− | was in his life time an Englishman, and subiect of this Comon
| + | |
− | wealth; And further hee cannot depose:/.
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− | ===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 1. Peter Vandeput, of London, merchant, aged 47: Date: January 29th, 1658===
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | The 27:th of January 1658
| + | |
− | Examined upon the allon and
| + | |
− | XXX on the behalfe of the said claime
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //The claime of Stephen ?Pallavicio
| + | |
− | of Genoa for sixe barrs of silver
| + | |
− | in the ''S:t Laurence'' Peter BoughXXXXX
| + | |
− | M:r taken by the ''Coventry frigot''
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 1. PETER VANDEPUT of London Merchant
| + | |
− | aged 47 yeares of therabouts sworne and
| + | |
− | examined
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first and second arles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath
| + | |
− | corresponded with the producent Stephen Pallavicino in y:e wayes of
| + | |
− | Merchandize, and saith hee was and is comonly reputed a native
| + | |
− | subject, & Inhabitant of the State of Genoa, and saith hee beleeveth
| + | |
− | him to bee, having bin credibly informed that hee is a ?patrician
| + | |
− | of the City and State of Genoa, and this depo:t hath often
| + | |
− | received Letters from y:e said pducent dated at Genoa, as the
| + | |
− | place of his Dwelling, and hath accordingly directed his Letters to
| + | |
− | him there, and further hee doth not depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee saith that by the Dealings and Correspondence
| + | |
− | w:ch this Dep:t hath for ?diverse yeeres had, and hath with the said producent XX XXXX XXX of XXXXX hee
| + | |
− | verily beleeveth him to be a merch:t of great dealing worth
| + | |
− | and Quality and saith hee hath and doth drive a trade &
| + | |
− | Commerce from y:e Canaryes and y:e dominions of the King of
| + | |
− | Spaine in, and with silver by his ffactors there resident, and
| + | |
− | that before y:e bringing of the silver in question to this port
| + | |
− | this depo:t hath received to the vallue of betwixt twelve and
| + | |
− | thirteene hundred pounds for the sd products account from y:e Canaryes, the
| + | |
− | same being Consigned unto him this depo:t & further hee deposeth
| + | |
− | not:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th arle hee saith that before y:e lading of the silver
| + | |
− | in question namely about two yeeres since and severall other times
| + | |
− | this Depo:t received letters from severall Genoeses, and alsoe from
| + | |
− | the said Palavacino himselfe, whereby they desired this Depo:t to
| + | |
− | advise them whether they might not safely send silver or Bullion
| + | |
− | to London. and without danger Consigne the same to this
| + | |
− | depo:t or to the same effect. And this depo:t thinking. (besides
| + | |
− | the furtherance of Trade & Comerce) that hee should doe good
| + | |
− | service to this Comonwealth, did thereupon write to, and
| + | |
− | encourage them to send silver thither, And for further incouragement
| + | |
− | of the sd prodc:t this dep:t caused the Act of Parliam:t made for
| + | |
− | importacon of Bullion, to be Translated into Spanish and ?sent
| + | |
− | the same to him and them, and hee referreth himselfe to y:e said Act of
| + | |
− | Parliam:t for Importaccon of silver. And further hee doth not depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 5:th 6:th & 7:th arles and the Letter of Advise, and Invoice XXX
| + | |
− | y:e sd 6:th arle mentioned, Nowe shewed unto him, hee saith & XXXX
| + | |
− | deposeth that in or about the monethes of July or August last ?past
| + | |
− | this depo:t received advise from the said producents ffactor
| + | |
− | Don Luis Perez de Vittoria that hee had laded at S:ta Cruz del OzXXXXX
| + | |
− | (being a port in y:e Island of Tenereife on of the Canary Islands) ?about
| + | |
− | the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' whereof Petr Bonningysent is M:r for y:e
| + | |
− | Account of the said Stephen Palavasino, two barrs of silver, and
| + | |
− | ?consigned//
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− | //Consigned the same to be delivered to this depo:t herein XXX XXX
| + | |
− | for the said Account of the said ''Provident'': and afterwards this
| + | |
− | depot received the Letter of advise and Invoice annexed from him
| + | |
− | the said ffacto:r by the said ship ''S:t Laurence'' XXXX XXX seizure together
| + | |
− | with the bill of Lading arlate w:ch hee hath nowe alsoe seene, And
| + | |
− | this depo:t hath heard that the said ship belonged to the arlate M:r
| + | |
− | fford, And further hee deposeth not, saving that the said Letter
| + | |
− | Invoice and Bill of Lading Exhibited were and are the same
| + | |
− | soe by him received:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th hee saith that after the XX XXXX hee this depo:t was
| + | |
− | advised by letters from Plymouth of the seizure of the said ship
| + | |
− | and Lading by Captaine Aylett, and of her bringing in thither
| + | |
− | where shee was brought (as hee saith) to this port for this depo:t
| + | |
− | here received the said silver in question out of her, and further
| + | |
− | deposeth not.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th hee saith hee is well assured and verily beleeveth
| + | |
− | that the said two barrs of silver were really and truely pvided
| + | |
− | and laded for y:e prop and sole account of y:e sad producent and
| + | |
− | upon his adventure, and that hee runneth the sole hazard thereof
| + | |
− | and that noe Spaniard or other subject of the King of Spaine
| + | |
− | had at the time of the said Lading and seizure any interest
| + | |
− | therein w:ch hee is ?induced the more assuredly to beleeve for
| + | |
− | y:t this depo:t by theproducents order hath and ?must make good the proceeds
| + | |
− | thereof unto them and that amounted with him for y:e same as
| + | |
− | will noe other, And further deposeth not
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th hee saith hee beleeveth there was peace, and Amity
| + | |
− | betweene the Comonwealth and the State of Genoa. and their
| + | |
− | subjects the time arlate, and further doth not depose:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 11:th hee saith that his foregoeing depon is true.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the Interrogatoryes
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first hee saith hee cometh required by M:r ffrancklin to be
| + | |
− | pduced in this Cause, and otherwise negatively :
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the second hee saith hee was never at Genoa nor ever
| + | |
− | sawe the pducent that hee knoweth of norknowe his ffather
| + | |
− | or mother. and otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing
| + | |
− | depons:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee saith that hee this depo:t hath had severall Letters, and
| + | |
− | orders from y:e said producent Stephen Pallavacine touching y:e
| + | |
− | silver now in question, and hee doth not knowe any other
| + | |
− | person besides him XX XXXX. And further hee cannot answer, saving his
| + | |
− | forgoeing depon to w:ch hee referreth himselfe.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th hee saith that this depo:t hath received pt of the foresd
| + | |
− | silver by him deposed of (not sent in y:e ''S:t Laurence'' ) in the
| + | |
− | ''King David'' in or about XXX last, part in y:e ''Hope'', about the
| + | |
− | same time, and hee is sure that y:e said Pallavacino (the now
| + | |
− | XXXXX) is the same pson for whose account the foresd pXXX
| + | |
− | silver in question was laded and consigned to this Depo:t for y:t
| + | |
− | this depo:t hath XX XXX made the same goods with them as aforesaid
| + | |
− | To//
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− | //To the 5:th hee saith hee doth not knowe the said Don Luis
| + | |
− | Peroz de Vittoria the said pducents said ffactor personally. and
| + | |
− | saith hee knoweth not that the said de Vittoria is ffactor to any
| + | |
− | Spaniard or subject of the King of Spaine, nor hath this
| + | |
− | Depo:t received order from any pson to claime the said silber
| + | |
− | in Question other than the said pducent from whom hee
| + | |
− | saith hee hath received Expresse order therein, and hath had
| + | |
− | ?procuzaccon from him alone in that be halafe, and other
| + | |
− | wise negatively saving as aforesd, saying y:e said Don
| + | |
− | Luis Perez de Vittoria is soe farr from having given any
| + | |
− | order for Claiming y:e silver in question that hee Doth not as
| + | |
− | this depot beleeveth yet knowe of the seizure tehreof
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 6:th hee saith that upon the bringing in of the said
| + | |
− | ship to Plymouth the bill of lading interrogated together w:th
| + | |
− | the Letter & ffactory were amongst other paps sent there
| + | |
− | in a packet to this depo:t as coming out of the said ship.
| + | |
− | and this depo:t brought them into this Court.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 7:th hee saith hee knoweth not ought if any other bill
| + | |
− | of Lading touching y:e said silver in Question than the said
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− | bill soe brought into Court, and here remaining, nor of
| + | |
− | any other Invoice than that annexed to the Allon whereupon
| + | |
− | hee is now Examined, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his
| + | |
− | foregoing depon:
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− | PETER VANDEPUT [His signature]
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− | Repeated before the two Judges in Court
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− | <nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
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− | ===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 2. Abraham Cabeljan, of London, merchant, aged 53: Date: January 27th, 1658===
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− | The same day
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− | Examined upon y:e said Allon:
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− | 2:nd ABRAHAM CABELJAN of London merchant aged 53
| + | |
− | yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and Examined:
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− | | + | |
− | To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that the
| + | |
− | pducent Steven Pallavacino, was and is commonly reputed a native
| + | |
− | of Genoa. and Inhabitant Subject of that Comonwealth, and saith
| + | |
− | that hee this depo:t livimng with and being Book Keep. of. and for the
| + | |
− | p:rcontests M:r Peter Vandeput merchant hath seene severall Letters
| + | |
− | from the said product Living at Genoa sent to and received by the said M:r Vandeputt XXX Correspondent
| + | |
− | here, and severall Letters of his directed to y:e said producent, and there
| + | |
− | resident, And further hee deposeth not
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d arle hee saith that before y:e silver in question came & arrived
| + | |
− | here in England, the ffactor of the said producent called don Luis
| + | |
− | Perez de Vittoria, sent from the Iland of Teneriffe to the XXXX
| + | |
− | M:r Vandepur, for his the said producents Accompt to the Vallue
| + | |
− | of betwixt telve and thirteene hundred pounds sterling in silver w:ch XXX
| + | |
− | received by the said M:r Vandeput for the account of y:e said pducent
| + | |
− | and was soe received by the said M:r vandeput herein this XXXX
| + | |
− | before y:e arrivall of y:e silver in question of this depo:ts sihht, who XXX
| + | |
− | XXX receipt thereof and y:e Letters and dispacthes concerninge y:e
| + | |
− | XXXX//
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− | //Hath placed the same to the said producent's Accompt, hee being as
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− | aforesd & booke XXX of the said M:r Vandeput and thereby hee well knoweth
| + | |
− | that the said Stephen Pallavacine hath and doth drive a greate trade in
| + | |
− | silver, from the Canaryes, And further thee doth not depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th arle hee saith that before the Lading the silver in question
| + | |
− | aboard the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' severall Genoese merchants
| + | |
− | wrote ?unto the said M:r Vandeput to London, whereby they desired him
| + | |
− | to certifye or advise them, whether or noe they might safely send
| + | |
− | silver and bullion to London, and consigne the same to him the said
| + | |
− | M:r Vandeput, without danger of seizing or confiscacion of y:e same
| + | |
− | And saith the said M:r Vandeput wrote to them that they might
| + | |
− | doe it safely, and XXXX XXX them in such sending and sent a
| + | |
− | Translacon in XXXXX of the Act of parliam:t in that behalfe
| + | |
− | made for the security of such Importacons w:ch hee knoweth
| + | |
− | having seene y:e said Letters soe received and the answeres thereof
| + | |
− | being privy to the said M:r Vandeputs dispatches in such matters
| + | |
− | (hee being his booke keep as aforesaid) in his affaires of moment
| + | |
− | touching his ?Commerce.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 5:th 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that before any newes of y:e
| + | |
− | seizure of y:e ship ''S:t Laurence'' in question the said M:r Peter vandeput
| + | |
− | receaved Letters by other?s shipping from the said Don Luiz Peroz
| + | |
− | de Vittoria, advising him of the Lading of the two barrs of silver
| + | |
− | (w:ch are nowe claimed) aboard the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' and
| + | |
− | of the Consignment thereof to him the said M:r Vandeput for y:e
| + | |
− | said producents account to be heere delivered in this Port
| + | |
− | And that afterwards the said M:r Vandeput received advise from
| + | |
− | Plimouth of the bringing in of the said ship thither and received
| + | |
− | a packet of Letters, and dispatched thence as brought thither in y:e
| + | |
− | said ship''S:t Laurence'', and XXXXXX them the Letter and Invoice and XXX
| + | |
− | to the ?allon (now shewed unto him this depo:t) and alsoe y:e bill of
| + | |
− | Lading inder y:e hand of Peter BXXXXXX M:r of the said ship
| + | |
− | now alsoe shewed unto him remaining in this Court, ?which he
| + | |
− | knoweth having seene the said first Letters of advise and alsoe
| + | |
− | these and y:e Invoice and Bill of Lading soe brought in y:e
| + | |
− | ''S:t Laurence'' upon their first bringing to the said M:r Vandeput
| + | |
− | and havinge now XXXX XXXX Exhibited and remaining in the
| + | |
− | Court hee well knoweth them to be the same that were soe received
| + | |
− | by M:r Vandeput, and pticularly by a note or marke made upon
| + | |
− | the letter by him this depo:t, And further hee cannot depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th arle hee saith that the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' being on
| + | |
− | her
| + | |
− | course from y:e Canaryes, seized and brought unto Plymouth was
| + | |
− | afterwards brought thence to this port of London, together with the
| + | |
− | said silver in question, ?which silver y:e said M:r Vandeput here
| + | |
− | received
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that by the Letters and transactions that XXXXX
| + | |
− | the said producent XXX y:e said M:r Vandeput touching y:e said XXXXX
| + | |
− | w:ch hee hath seene hee verily beleeveth the same to be for y:e ?sole account
| + | |
− | of/
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− | //of the said producent, and to be ?provided and laden for his Account
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− | without that any Spaniard of subject of y:e King of Spaine XXXX
| + | |
− | time of Lading or seizing or since ?may XXX therein whereXXXXX
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th hee saith there was the time arlate by ?Comon XXXXX
| + | |
− | peace and Amity betwixt the Comonwealth and that if Spaine and XXX
| + | |
− | y:e respective subjects of the said XXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing ?deponent XXXX is true
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the Interres
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first hee saith hee cometh to Testify in this Cause XX the
| + | |
− | order of the producents proctor & otherwise negatively
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 2:nd hee saith hee was never at Genoa nor XXXXX y:e XXXX
| + | |
− | nor knoweth his father or mother and other wise hee cannoz ?answere
| + | |
− | saving as aforesaid
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee saith hee doth not knowe any of y:e name of Stephen
| + | |
− | Palladacino other XXXX the said producent, XXXXXX hee referreth him
| + | |
− | to his foregoeing Depn and saving y:e same cannot further answer
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th, hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing depon &
| + | |
− | cannot further answer saving hee knoweth that the said XXXX
| + | |
− | XX XXXX pson for whose account the said other parcells of silver XX
| + | |
− | XXXX & this ?inquisition) was sent to the said M:r Vandeput XXX
| + | |
− | they XXXXfrom y:e same factor and in y:e same XXX & XXXXX
| + | |
− | in y:e same XXXXX.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 5:th arle hee saith that hee doth not psonally knowe the sayd
| + | |
− | Don Luis Perez de Vittoria the ffactor of y:e said ?Pallavacino, XXXX
| + | |
− | what countryman nor whose subject hee is nor knoweth hee XX
| + | |
− | beleeveth that the said Don Luiz in any of XX XXX that this XXX
| + | |
− | hath?dwelt with the said M:r Vandeput XXX hath bin a ?Gent XXXX
| + | |
− | yeeres last) XXXX sent aor consigned any silver to the said M:r
| + | |
− | Vandeput for the said Don Luis his XXXX account, nor any for y:e
| + | |
− | account of any Spaniards. And further hee cannot answer
| + | |
− | saving as aforesaid.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 6:th he referreth himselfe to his foregoing depon and
| + | |
− | further cannot answer saving negatively for his part
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last negatively for his pt saving as aforesaid
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | ABRAHAM ?CABDELJAN ?Jun:r [His signature]
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− | | + | |
− | Deposed XXXXX two Judges in Court
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− | <nowiki>****************************************************</nowiki>
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− | ===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 3. John Lewis: Date: January 29th, 1658===
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− | | + | |
− | //The 29:th of January 1660.
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− | | + | |
− | Examinat ?ex parte for XXX XXXXX.
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− | | + | |
− | JOHN LEWIS of the parish of S:t Dunstans XXXX East ?India
| + | |
− | Merchant aged 47 yeeres or therabouts sworne and XXXXX
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first second and third articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and
| + | |
− | deposeth that hee may knoweth the producent Stephen PaXXXXXX
| + | |
− | and hath XX XXX for a ?dozen or fourteene yeeres last or thereabouts
| + | |
− | and XXXX XXX to XXXX XXXX by meanes of the XXXXXXX dwelling in the
| + | |
− | citie of Genoa (the ?place of the said producents ?birth
| + | |
− | and XXXX) and keeping house there and trading ther as a merchant
| + | |
− | from the yeere 1644 to the yeere 1656, during w:ch tyme hee was
| + | |
− | well acquianted w;th the said producent Stephen Pallavacino and
| + | |
− | XXX his the said Stephens father living in the said citie. And for a
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− | XXXX//
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− | //Genoese by birth and extraction and a subect of the stat eof XXXX XX
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− | the said Stephen Pallavacino was and is XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | And saith that for all the said time of this deponents said dwelling in Genoa
| + | |
− | the said producent of this deponents XXXX XXX knolwedge dwellt and ?kept
| + | |
− | house and familie there and that hee was and is XXX of the XXXXX of XXXXX
| + | |
− | soe commonly accompted: And saith that the said producent was and is
| + | |
− | a merchant of very greate account and dealing and estste and of ?such
| + | |
− | wealth that hee is estimated to be worth one ?hundred thousand pounds sterling,
| + | |
− | and saith that the said producent was XXXXX this deoinet XX XXX XXX
| + | |
− | because very greate quantities XXXX XXX XXX (of this deponents XXX XXXX
| + | |
− | knowledge) for the XXXX account of the sais producen XXXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXX of greate account and dealing in XXX, XXXXX hath XXXX
| + | |
− | pXXXXX XXX and is commonly accompted and reputed and further
| + | |
− | hee deposeth not
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− | | + | |
− | Ro XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | To the Interries
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− | To the first hee saith hee was XXXX unto by M:r XXXX the XXXX
| + | |
− | and deposed to come and XXXX what he knowes as XX XXXX, and
| + | |
− | to the rest hee answreth XXXX XXX XX, and otherwise ?cannot answer,
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− | | + | |
− | To trhe second hee saith and deposeth and XXXX XXX from XXXXX XXX
| + | |
− | December 1656, and there XXX XXXX XStephen Pallavacino XXXX before
| + | |
− | this deponent had XXX XXXX, and this deponent did XXX XXX that
| + | |
− | said producents XXXX. And otherwise referreth himselfe to XXX XXX
| + | |
− | before deposed.
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− | | + | |
− | To the third hee saith hee knoweth and XXXXX XXX in XXXX arlate
| + | |
− | name is alsoe Stephen Pallavacino, who alsoe was XX XXXX of XXXXX
| + | |
− | XXXX of this deponents said dwelling there, and a XXXXXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
− | XXXXX, and was
| + | |
− | XXXX the XXX of the oredeposed Stephen
| + | |
− | XXXX producent
| + | |
− | this deponent doth not knowezj
| + | |
− | ?before
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− | did
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− | the Merchants of that XXX
| + | |
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− | To the 4:th XXX
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− | To the 5:th XXXX
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− | To the last XXXX
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− | JO LEWIS [His signature]
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− | Repeated before
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− | XXXXX
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− | <nowiki>*******************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
− | ===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Domingo de a Seida, of London, Merchant, aged 25: Date: January 31st, 1658===
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− | The 31:th day of January 1660
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− | Examined upon an Allon given in on the
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− | behalfe of the said XXXX
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− | | + | |
− | The Claime of XXX XXXXX)
| + | |
− | XXXX Merchant of London for)
| + | |
− | 94 pipes of Canary Wines)
| + | |
− | & other hoods taken in y:e ship y:e)
| + | |
− | ''S:t Laurence'' XXX XXXXX)
| + | |
− | M:r XXX XXXXXX)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | D:r XXXX
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 1. DOMINGO DE LA SEIDA of London Merch:t
| + | |
− | aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
| + | |
− | and Examined
| + | |
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− | To the first arle hee saith and deposeth that the arlate Anthony
| + | |
− | Rodriguez ?RivXXXes is Comonly and generally reputed a XXXX
| + | |
− | of ffinident in the Kingdome of Portugall, and soe his XXX
| + | |
− | deponent beleeveth him to bee and XXXX hee XXXXX
| + | |
− | ?To//
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− | //To the: 2:d hee saith hee hath well knowne the said Antonio
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− | Rodriguez Robles for theise thirteene fourteene yeeres
| + | |
− | last past or thereabouts. and knowe him first Living att
| + | |
− | Civill in Spaine namely for y:e first yeires of the said time
| + | |
− | XXXX and thence hee went to the Canaryes, and soe for London
| + | |
− | and saith that this depot hath lived in London about six yeeres
| + | |
− | last past, during w:ch space hee hath knowne the sayd
| + | |
− | Robles to be an Inhabitant, and to be a house keeper
| + | |
− | in Dukes place London with his ffamily, and that this depo:t
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− | lying in y:e same house, and beeing his booke keep
| + | |
− | is well acquainted w:th his affaires & Transactions
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− | ===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 1. Henry Dacres, of London, Merchant, aged 34: Date: January 31st, 1658===
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− | //E:E:
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− | A business of examining of witnesses on the)
| + | |
− | XXXX of Maurice Thompson, Thomas CanXXXX)
| + | |
− | Christofer Willoughby John Page and others,)
| + | |
− | Merchants of London, freighters of the shipp
| + | |
− | the ''Jonathan'', ag:t the Dutch East India)
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− | Company in pticular and all others in genall)
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− | Smith
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− | Ro.
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− | The 11:th of ffeburary 1658
| + | |
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− | Examinands upon an allon given in on the
| + | |
− | behalf of the said M:r Thompson and others
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 1. HENRY DACRES of London Marchant aged
| + | |
− | 34 yeeres or thereabouts sworne in the said
| + | |
− | Court of the Admiraltie of England, saith and
| + | |
− | deposeth as followth vizt.
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− | To the fifth article of the said allon XXXX and deposeth that hee well
| + | |
− | knoweth all the producents vizt Maurcie Thompson THomas
| + | |
− | CaXtian, Cristofer Willoughby, John Page and company arlate and saith
| + | |
− | they were the XXXX arlate of the yeere 1656 XXX others and Imployers
| + | |
− | of the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' and XXX hee can from this XXX on a
| + | |
− | trading voyage for sevrall parts and places of the East Indias, and
| + | |
− | there to retourne for England on and for their proper account
| + | |
− | w:ch hee knoweth for that hee was acquainted with and XXX XXXX at
| + | |
− | such XXXXX XXXX and were supra cargo in thesaid shipp the said voyage
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the second article hee saith that within the foresaid time namely in
| + | |
− | and about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp the ''Jonathan''
| + | |
− | being in the parts of the East Indies and quietly trading there had aboard her
| + | |
− | greate quantities of goods and merchandizes for the use and account of the
| + | |
− | said Maurice Thompson and company aforesaid w:ch XXXXhad taken in
| + | |
− | on the coast of Coromandel and w:ch they were carrying to Bantam,
| + | |
− | for w:ch place of BantamXXX the said XXX were proper and not for
| + | |
− | any other part or place thereabouts to be bartered away, and eben
| + | |
− | XXXXX XXXX and provided for Bantam, where they were to be sold
| + | |
− | and bartered away for such XXXX as were then to be head and ?procured
| + | |
− | for the most advantage of the said producents, w:ch hee knowes for that
| + | |
− | hee was supra cargo aforesaid and the person there ?carryed the said goods to
| + | |
− | be taken in and was in person XXX with them in the said shipp for
| + | |
− | Bantam.
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− | | + | |
− | To the third and 4 articles hee saith that in or about the said moneth of January
| + | |
− | 1656 (old stile) the said shipp in her course of prceeding from the
| + | |
− | said coast for Bantam, coming neere the Island of Pulliayanjan within
| + | |
− | five leagues or lesse distance of the Road of Bantam, was met wizj
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− | and set upon by five XXX of dutch shipps, in the XXX XX neare of the
| + | |
− | East India company of the United Netherlands, and that upon their haling
| + | |
− | and demanding XXXX that shipp (Speaking of the ''Jonathan'') over and
| + | |
− | XXXX bound, and XXXX XXXX XXX sewall of England, came from
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− | Cormandel bound wth XXX for Bantam, thet of the dutch shipps
| + | |
− | XXXX and told the master and company of the ''Jonathan'' that they must
| + | |
− | not nos could run into Bantam, and that they lay there on purpose to
| + | |
− | oppose them or any other shipps of England that should endeavour to run into
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− | Bantam, for w:ch (as they XXX) they had order from the Generall of the sd dutch East India
| + | |
− | company XXXX was XXX and heard the XXX
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− | To the fifth and sixth 7. 8 and 9:th articles hee saith that the master and company of the
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− | ''Jonathan'' finding this XXXXX of the dutch, fairly and earnestly instructed
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− | XXXXXX of the dutch commanders to goe in, and desired them to XXXX or
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− | send aboard the ''Jonathan'' and XXX her assuring them XXXX XX
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− | //aboard, XX XXXX of XXX the sd dutch XXXXX ?Daniell
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− | this deponent ?fell to intreate them XXXXX to order
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− | XXX in, telling them (as XXX truly was) that thay ?durst seek XXX
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− | XXXX persons aboard, and XXXX greate necessitie of their ?going
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− | XX the XXX In XXX victuakks and reXXX under for their part
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− | and to XXX their trading XXXXX, and the dutch still suspitious
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− | within XXXX, the ''Jonathan'' endeavoured to put in, XXXXX they of
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− | ?othr dutch shipps sett on her, and XXX XXXX the
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− | master of the ''Jonathan'' and this deponent XX XXXX to XXX XXXX
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− | thereXXXX to search them if they came XXX XXXXX to such XXXX
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− | XXX this deponent (the master XXX sick) went aboard to their
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− | Admirall and told him and ?modestly expostulated with him the XXXX
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− | ===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 2. William Stephen, of Limehouse, Marriner, formerly masters Mate of the Jonathan: Date: January 31st, 1658===
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− | 2. WILLIAM STEPHEN of Limehouse Marriner late
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− | masters mate of the shipp the ''Jonathan'' (Robert
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− | Graves com:der) aged 28 yeares or therabouts
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− | sworne and examined
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− | To the first article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
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− | hee well knoweth the producents Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham
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− | and Christofer Willoughbie and saith that they and XXX XX were the
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− | shipp the ''Jonathan'', and imployed and sent her out on a merchandizing
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− | voyage from this port for the East Indies and places thereabouts for
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− | their proper account, and they upon their account XXX XXX XX XXXXX
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− | by her said Merchandizing imployment to this XXX, w:ch hee knoweth
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− | being Master Mate of her the said voyage, and going the voyage
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− | To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said XXXX
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− | moneths in or about the moneth of January 1656 XX XXX XXX XXXXXX
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− | trading in the parts of East India, and had aboard her XX XXXXXX
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− | quantitie of goods and merchandizes w:ch were for the said account
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− | XX XXXXX in the coast of Coromandell, and were to be transported
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− | XXX, as were proper for Bantam trade and what ?Returne, and
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− | XXXX to XXX ptended and XXXX with XXXXX to be XXXX to
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− | Bantam and there delivered, and the said commander & company
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− | XXX carrying her said goods in the said shipp for Bantam where thee
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− | XXX were to be traded and bartered for the ?traffic an accompt
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− | of the said Imployers of the said shipp, w:ch hee knoweth for the reason
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− | aforesaid
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− | To the third and fourth fifth and 6:th articles hee saith that XX that the said XXX
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− | //the ''Jonathan'' as aforesaid that ?then was bound for Bantam ?told
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− | them plainly that they might XX XX should for in thither XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And XXXX
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− | to come to an anchor XXX the Admirall , his precontest being XXXX
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− | wXXX aboard the dutch Admirall, and upon his retourme aboard the
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− | ''Jonathan'' declared the XXX Admirall, and expressly forbidden and
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− | ?prohibited their going in to Bantam, and had declared that if they and XXXXXX to goe in
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− | hee would sink them in ?that effort, and thereupon the said M:r Dacres being
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− | supra cargo or merchant of the ''Jonathan'' under a protest against such their
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− | hinderance by the dutch. All w:ch hee knoweth being present aboard
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− | the ''Jonathan''. And further deposeth not.
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− | ?9:th article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
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− | the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' being XX prohinited and hindered by the dutch
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− | from going into Bantam to w:ch hee was XX XXXX with her said XXXX
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− | was XXX and to depose and goe to other places for w:ch ?ther goods
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− | were not proper and to w:ch they were not designed, and there to barter
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− | and XXXX them away, to the great losse and damage of the said
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− | imployers in respect of what the ?prisses would have bin if thesaid goods
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− | hath nin XXX to an delivered at Bantam accordinge as they were designed
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− | To the tenth hee saith that by the said hinarance and prohibition of the
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− | dutch the said Imployers have suffered greate losse and dammagem, but
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− | the valew thereof hee cannot as hee saith estimate
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− | W:M STEPHENS [His signature]
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− | Repeated with his ?precontest before
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− | ===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 3. Alexander Prescott, of London, Merchant, aged 27: Date: ffebruary 17th, 1658===
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− | //The 17th of ffebruray 1658
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− | Examined upon the fore said allegaccon
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− | 3. ALEXANDER PRESCOTT of London Marchant aged 27 yeeres or
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− | thereabouts sworne and examined.
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− | To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth That hee very well
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− | knoweth the procudents Maurice Thompsom, Thomas Canham, Christofer
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− | Willoughby, John Page and company aclate and saith they were in and for
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− | all the monthes arlate of the yeere 1656 XXXXX and Imployers of the
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− | shipp the ''Jonathan'' arlate (Robert GXXXXX commander) as a trading or merchandizing voyage from England to the parts of East India in XXXXX was XX retourne for England for their use and accompt, and saith that in
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− | January XXX was ?two ?yeers the said shipp being quietly trading in the said
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− | parts, and having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX
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− | cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast
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− | of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for w:ch place the said goods were
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− | XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX and XXXXXXX
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− | and not for XXXXX to be disbursed XX XXX XXXXXX nir XXX XXXX XX
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− | XXX XX XXXX soe XXXXX to her said ?merchants as XX Bantam, w:ch hee
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− | knoweth being burser of the said shipp and goeing the said voyage from place to
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− | place in her, being alsoe XXXX X XXX XXX XXX XXXX of the, XX XXX
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− | To the third and fourth articles hee saidth and deposeth that the said shipp XXXXX
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− | XX XX her course from the said coast for Bantam and XX XXXXX Island
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− | of Pulliaayanjan about XXX XX XXX leagues distance from Bantam XXX
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− | XXXX XXX XXXX of dutch shipps (w:ch wer in the service and Imployment
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− | of the dutch East India company) XXX, saving that one of them XX
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− | them XXXX, and XXX XXXX XXX along with XXX XXXXX, and saith XXXX
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− | //the ''Jonathan'' XXXXing a XXXX XXXXX under the said XXXXX XXXX XXX to goe into
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− | Bantam the next day, the said dutch shipp XXXX XXXXX the said
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− | other foure dutch shipps riding also neere, and the next morning the ''Jonathan''
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− | XXX XXXX to goe into Bantam the said dutch shipps boat ?came aboard XXXX
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− | Bantam, for the dutch had ?warrs with the Bantamers and the said
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− | sutch shipps lay there XXX XXXX to hinder all shipps from going in,
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− | having order from their Generall ?intendeant, and being authorised that they
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− | of the XXXXXX were bound to XXX in them their merchandizing designe, and therewith all
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− | XXXX to XXX in, the skipper of the said dutch shipp aboard the ''Jonathan''
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− | called out to those aboard the said dutch shipp to fire at the ''?Jonathan'', and
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− | they thereupon XXXX a XXX XX the ''Jonathan'', and then the ''Jonathan'' being commanded
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− | ===Case: Lord Protector ag:t the Hope: Deposition: 5. Peter Aylward, of London, Merchant, aged 40: Date: February 21st 1658 (59)===
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− | //The 21:th of ffebruary 1658
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− | Lord Protector ag:t. the ''Hope''.)
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− | aforesaid.)
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− | 5 PETER AYLWARD of London Merchant, aged 40 yeeres or
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− | thereabouts sworne and examined as aforesaid
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− | To the first second and third Interries hee saith and deposeth that in or about June
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− | last was a twelve moneth M:r John Page one of the Merchants concerned in
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− | this busines, having with his associates a designe in hand to send a shipp from
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− | Amsterdam for the West Indies to trade for their account upon the coasts of
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− | the Spaniards, and understanding that this deponent understood both the Spanish
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− | and dutch tongues (besides English) and could speake them, and alsoe
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− | understood the busines of traffique and XXXXX as a marchant treated and
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− | agred with this deponent to goe the said voyage for five pounds per
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− | moneth wages and XXXX for XXX goods for his owne account, wherein hee
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− | this deponent was to give assistajce to John Lo?pes his ?precontest who was alsoe then XXX
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− | and being XX hired this deponent was XX XXX XXXXX in a dutch shipp called the
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− | ?''Mackerell'' bound for Amsterdam and concerned with him in the said shipp XXXXX,
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− | perpetuanas, ?hatts, and many other particulars of goods w:ch were here ?provided by the
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− | said M:r Page and XXXX ffernandez, M:r ?Robles, M:r Jenkin and M:r ?Painter
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− | Merchants of this citie, to be at Amsterdam put aboard such a shipp
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− | as could be provided for that XXXX and voyage. And YYYing to Amsterdam
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− | the shipp the ?''HoyX'' interrogate was by order of their said Imployers and by
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− | their partners at Amsterdam John Tilly and John ?XXnterwell and XXX
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− | of XXXXX (as hee tooke them to be) who XXX XXX was but XXXX XXXXXX
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− | ?expresslly reputed at Amsterdam about w:ch buying this deponent ?eyther
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− | with the said John ?Hoyer and Patrick ?Betts (who were alsoe come over from
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− | England in the ?same designe) were ?employed, and saith XX ?cost ?answere
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− | XXXXXX fourXXX hundred gilders or thereabouts. And saith
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− | //the said shipp being so bought and procured for the said voyage, the said goods
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− | ?be carried from England were laded aboard her, together with XXXXX
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− | Wines and other goods and XXXXX provided in Holland, and this lading
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− | being XXXXX, the said shipp departed from Amsterdam therewith in September
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− | last was a twelve moneth bound for the West Indies, not being limited
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− | to any particular XXX, but left to the discretion of the said John ?Lopez
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− | with the advise of this ?deponent to manage the voyage in XXXX parte to the
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− | best advantage of her said Imployers, of w:ch hee saith M:r Page, M:r PXXXXX
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− | and M:r Dunkin are English men and ?Inhabitating XXXXXX of this ?citie
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− | M:r ?Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, and M:r Antonio Rodriguez Robles alsoe
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− | merchants of this citie and reputed Portugueses, XXX M:r ffernandez is XXX
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− | ?indenizened, John Tilly an Irishman borne but living in Amsterdam
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− | where alsoe liveth the said John ?CXXXXXXnet, who hath formerly lived
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− | long in London, but whose countrey man he is this deponent knoweth not-
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− | And saith the said shipp from Amsterdam went directly to the Island of
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− | Trinidad, and was there ?Registred and entred as a Spanish shipp, and
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− | thereby and by presents to the Gouvernor and others (XXX w:ch XXXX goods
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− | were there sold) XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX lived and XXXXXX for prattique XX
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− | the Spanish XXXX in those parts, and being therewith furnished she departed
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− | in or about November 1657 to ?Comana a coast on the terra firma and
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− | there sold to the valew XXX XXXX of a XXX XXXX peeces of XXXX of her goods
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− | and received the money for the XXXX and then went to ?TranXille, and
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− | there sold ?of her said outwards cargo for about XXXXX XXX and ?peeces of
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− | eight, and leaveing the money ?ther, XXXXXX further into the
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− | Gulfe of Honduras and there sold and ?tucked away all the rest of
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− | said goods, and there tooke in three hundred eightie three XXXX or thereabouts
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− | of Indico (saving that XXX or XXXX of those XXXXXX XXXX XXXX druggs) and
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− | eleaven XXXX of ?Indico and a XXX XXXX or XXXXXccos and two barreles of druggs
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− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX eleaven hundred and twelve XXXXX or thereabouts of SafsayXXXlla, and fowre
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− | hundred seaventie six XXXes, or therabouts, w:th safXXXXXlla and hides
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− | were the pcured of the said moneys so left ashore at TurXXXlle at the
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− | said time of the said shipps first XXXX there, All w:ch goods she received
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− | in a XXX InXXXX were the goods of and laded for the XXX account of
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− | the aforenamed Imployers Antonio ffernandes Caravajall, Antonio Rodriques
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− | Rubles, M:r Pain?ter, M:r Page, M:r Dunkin, M:r Tilly and ;:r ChamberXXXX
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− | and provided wuth their effects, saving that of her said lading ?soe taken in
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− | at the West Indies, twelve chests and twro thirds of a chest of the said Indico were provided by and
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− | laded for this deponents owne account, and that hee hath ?two of his owne shipp
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− | ?chests w:ch are full of druggs for his owne account, and that of the said
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− | SasaXXXlla sixteene XXXXX were provided by and laded by his precontest
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− | ?Toribia ffernandez for his owne account, and that this deponent ?bought ?them
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− | afterwards of him, and that the said ?Betts hath twenty chests and a third of a chest of the fore said
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− | Indico for his account, and his owne chest full of druggs, And
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− | saith that this deponent is a subiect of this Commonwealth and hath
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− | lived tenn yeares and bin married and a XXX ?lodger XXXX yeares in this
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− | ?nation, five yeeres whereof hee lived in three tunne alley neere ?Moregate
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− | and now liveth in Leadenhall streete over againstXXXXXX, and hath
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− | loved XXXXXXX XXXX, but is an Irish man borne, and soe
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− | is the said Betts, who hath lived in London for all the said time of this
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− | deponents dwelling there, and (as hee hath heard) for tenn yeered before ?and
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− | XXXX an Apprenticeshipp here to a Mariner. And further that the said
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− | shipp departed from TXXXille aforesaid with ?intent to come and stop at
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− | Dover or Deale wh?ence this deponent or the said ?Loyas were XXXX XXXX to
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− | their said Imployers in this reXXX to receive orders aXXXX diXXXXXX, But
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− | //by XXX XXXX was
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− | In ?Milford
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− | To the fourth fifth and sixth hee saith that the said Bets XXXyed the
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− | XXXX XXX and was by the said Imployers XXX master of the said vessell
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− | and was so to appeare untill her comming to the West Indies, XXXX
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− | shee met with any ffrenchmen ?outwards XX XXX, in w:ch case Jerome XXXX
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− | a dutch man (put in purposely therefore) was to appeare master of her
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− | but in the West Indies John Lopes was to appeare Commander and XXXX
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− | XXXX, and XXXX to doe all for his owne account, and saith their Instructions
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− | were verball and not in writing, saving that M:r Tilly gave them a paper
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− | belonging to the dutch) and that she belonged to the dutch West India
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− | Company, w:ch paper the said Jerome was to show in case of meeting
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− | with Spaniards, and in his custody XX was and was as XXXXX written in dutch. ?And
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− | saith they had Invoices XXX of their outwards and XXXXwards goods XX
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− | XXbills of lading or charterpartie, w:ch Invoices were in the XXXXXX
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− | of here said M:r XXXXX, who (as hee supposeth) brought them to London. And
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− | saith that while shee rode in Milford havem, being an XXXX harboure, and
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− | a shipp appearing (whome they suspected to be an Ostender) but proved
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− | a Dutch?man ?of ?warre) this deponent desired that the English Invoices might
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− | be hidd, w:ch was accordingly XXXXXX, but after when appeared to
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− | be a Rotterdammer, they were taken in and were brought XXXXX,
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− | and XXXXX thatm hee knoweth not of any ?hat
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− | were hided, nor knowe there any truXXX XXXXX, throwne over board or
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− | othewise made away hat hee knoweth or beleeveth. And otherwise
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− | negatively, saving hee XXX know the said shipp before hee mett her and
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− | thXX EXXXXXXX he bought as aforesaid at Amsterdam.
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− | To the 7:th hee saith there were twenty men and a boy belonging to the
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− | said shipp when shee XX XXXXX Milford, whereof seaven were Spaniards
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− | the said John Lopez being one of the said Spaniards, and saith three of the
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− | said Spaniards are in London, and the rest were left abroad And
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− | further cannot depose.
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− | To the 8:th hee saith there were tenn guns in the said shipp shee XX
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− | came to Milford Haven, and that shee is of about ?seaven or ?eighty ?two tonnes
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− | burthen, and that she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one
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− | XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box
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− | and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore
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− | at Milford. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
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− | To the last, negatively.
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− | PETER AYLWARD [His signature] [Five pointed star immediately to right of signature, in same black ink]
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− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin.
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: 3. James Retallick, of Wapping, Mariner, aged 35: Date: March 5th 1658 English Style===
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− | See also [[MRP: HCA 13/129#head-f9862f0d2831c9d6fe7f38464104365120d78fac|HCA 13/129:Personal answers of Thomas Ewens: Allegation: Humfrey ffosse, John Tucker & Charles Howgate: Date: 2nd June 1659]]
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− | See also [[MRP: HCA 13/129#head-2187c17fbe54015abbe3f7fced1c8d59ab105c17|HCA 13/129: Personal answers of Humfey ffosse John Tucker Christofer Mills: Allegation: Captain Thomas Ewens: Date: XXXX]]
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− | The 5:th day of March 1658 English style/
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− | Examined on the sayd allegaccon/
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− | 3 JAMES RETALLICK of Wapping Mariner aged thirty
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− | five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith
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− | and deposeth as followeth vizt./ //
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− | P1120005 f. 79 verso
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− | //To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of January ffebruary
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− | and March 1648 and in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeare 1649 and
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− | 1650 and untill Aprill 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was Master
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− | & Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'' and had the care & charge of
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− | her as Master Committed to him by her Owners & for Master of her ?and
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− | Com only reputed this hee so better knoweth being hired by the sayd XXXX
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− | & goeing a foremast man of the sayd ship the voyage in question./
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− | To the 2 arle hee saith that in the moneth of January 1648 the sayd ship
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− | ''Scipio'' was bound from this port of London upon a tradeing voyage to
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− | the Streights & other parts neere adioyning and soe to returne to this port
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− | of London & saith in persuance of such voyage the sayd shipp about the latter
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− | end of the sayd moneth of January 1648 fell downe to the Hope And
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− | the sayd shipp at here goeing out had noe designe of goeing to Brazeele
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− | or any other parts of the West Indies as this deponent beleeveth for that
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− | the sayd Ewens hyred this deponent only to goe from London upon a tradeing
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− | voyage to the Streights & back thence to this port of London, and made ?then
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− | noe mention of her goeing to the Brazeele or any other pts of the West Indies
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− | And further hee cannot depose not being privie to the hyreing of any
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− | other of the shipps company nor knowing at what rates or upon what XX
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− | conditions they were hyred/
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− | To the 3: 4:th & 5:th arles of the allegation hee saith that before the goeing
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− | forth off the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
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− | ffosse was hyred to foe & did goe Boatswaine & the arlate John TurkXX
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− | Quartermaster & the arlate Charles ?Howgate a foremast man of
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− | the ''Scipio'' the voyage in question but at what rates or what conditions
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− | they were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee this deponent was hyred
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− | at the usuall rate of a voyage from London to the straights which was
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− | twenty three shillings p month or twenty two & XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And saith hee knoweth the sayd ffosse Turkes and
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− | Howgate as alsoe this deponent & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
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− | proceeded upon her voyage from London to Genoa in the Straights &
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− | there discharged her outwards ladeing / there tooke in some goods & ?went
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− | with them to Ligorne where fayling of their designe they there landed
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− | the goods brought from Genoa, & went from Ligorne to Allecant and
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− | there tooke in goods & went therewith to Lisbon & there unladed them
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− | And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that after the ''Scipio'' had at Lisbon
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− | discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant the sayd Thomas Ewans
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− | the Master did take upon him a new voyage to be made from Lisbon to
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− | Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having contracted with the
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− | freighters for that new voyage acquainted his shipps Company
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− | therewith, who not being hyred for any such voyage were most off ?them
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− | unwilling to goe the same & refused to goe the same as being as ?they
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− | ?conceived an unlawfull voyage for that thereby they should XXXX the
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− | hazard of being taken by the hollanders w:ch were then at ?differences
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− | with the Portugueses in whose behalfe that voyage was to be made and
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− | also be reason of the unhealthfullnesse of the voyage it being beyond ?the
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− | lyne & to the south latitude about fifteene degrees, whereupon the sayd
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− | Ewans seeing the unwillingnesse of the company to goe the sayd voyage
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− | to Brazeele did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsuance of
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− | this deponent & his p:rcontsts XXXXXhurst & XXgant & divers others of the
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− | sayd shipps company to encourage them the more readily to undergoe the
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− | sayd voyage voluntarily promised to advance his XXXXX Companyes wages
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− | five shillings in the pound per month from that tyme during the sayd XXXX
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− | over & above the wages hee had agreed with ?there for when ?hee shipped
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− | at London, and to pay every of them their wages then due till
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− | XXXX//
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− | P1120007 f. 80 recto
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− | //tyme according to the value agreed upon with ?them at London, which offer
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− | the sayd shipps Company did accept & the sayd Ewens in persuance
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− | of such his offere & promises did pay unto his sayd Company eight
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− | moneths pay according to the first agreement made at London & did promise
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− | & agree to pay them an addition of five shillings in the pound p moneth
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− | for the future over & above the rates formerly agreed on which promise
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− | of addition the Company did agree to & promised to provide on the sayd
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− | Brazeele voyage and the sayd ffosse Tucker Howgate this deponent &
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− | the rest of the shipps Company did thereupon proceede upon the sayd voyage
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− | after the sayd new contract & went to Brazeele & there delivered their
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− | outwards ladeing abd rekaded other goods & came back therewith
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− | to Lisbon & alsoe discharged a good part thereof there in which service they continued after the sayd new agreement
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− | abut twenty moneths, only hee saith that while they were at the Brazeele
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− | the Portugeses in whose service the ''Scipio'' and other English shipps
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− | were, did reXXXXX out of the ''Scipio'' the sayd Ewens the Master & the sayd
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− | ffosse Tucker & Howgate & this deponent & divers others of the ''Scipio'' her
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− | Company & put them aboard Portuguese shipps to serve in the homeward
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− | Voyage & put Portugeses aboard the ''Scipio'' to serve in their ?roome, as
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− | they did also to other English shipps that went the sayd voyage, which
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− | they did as this deponent beleeveth to secure their goods laden aboard
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− | the English shipps that the English might be thereby prevented of
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− | running away with them And farther hee cannot depose./
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− | To the 8:th and 9:th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry
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− | of this Court & to the lawe And further cannot depose./
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− | To the 10:th hee saith the arlate Ewens was & is a subiect of this Common
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− | Wealth & Subiect as hee beleeveth to the authority of this Court./
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposiccon is true./
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− | To the Interries./
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− | To the first Inter hee saith hee cannot answere not being p:rsent
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− | when the persons Interr were hyred nor knoweth at what rates or upon
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− | what conditions they were hyred/
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− | To the 2 Interr hee saith hee was a foremast man of the ''Scipio'' the
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− | voyage in question & saith hee was hyred as aforesayd only to goe
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− | upon a tradeing voyage from London to the Straights & pts neere
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− | therabouts & then back to Lodnon & not to such parts or places as
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− | the sayd Ewens should get imployment for And farther hee
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− | cannot answere./
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− | To the 3 hee saith that at the tyme Interr there were five other
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− | English shipps neside the ''Scipio'' all which as well as the ''Scipio''
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− | were offered & Did take imployment for Brazeele and goe thither
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− | & returne in Company of the ''Scipio'' And saith hee beleeveth if the
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− | sayd Ewens had not promised an Augmentation of wages the Company
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− | of the Ship?swould not have gone the voyage to Brazeele, but saith
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− | as afore sayd the sayd Ewans made the sayd promise voluntarily
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− | to encourage his company to goe the sayd voyage. And farther saving
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− | his foegoeing deposiccon hee cannot answeare/
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− | To the 4:th hee saith hee was one of the ''Scipio'' her company when
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− | ?refused to proceed on the viyage to Brazeele unlesse his wages
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− | first agreed upon were augmented And saith in regard hee know hee
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− | was not at first hyred for any such voyage hee would have refused to goe
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− | the same if the sayd Ewen had not promised an augmentation as aforesayd/ //
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− | //To the 5:th hee saith that dollers did the tyme Interr & doe goe at Lisbon at the rate of
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− | sixe shillings portuguese money but are usually paid to mariners
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− | at the rate only of fower & sixe pence (OR, pounds) sterling and saith at that value
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− | of fower shillings sixe pence (OR, pounds) the doller hee reced of the say Ewens
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− | at Lisbon eight moneths pay but how many dollers that amounted to hee
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− | remembreth not And what others recevd hee knoweth not but between
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− | they recvd eight months pay at the like rates of fower shillings XX
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− | pence a dollar And further hee cannot answere./
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− | To the 6:th hee saith hee hath recvd his whd his whole pay for the voyage
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− | in question only according to the first agreement, without any
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− | augmentation because hee was unwilling to goe to lawe for the ?same
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− | though it were due, & hath given a discharge of all wages soe that
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− | hee intended noe suite thereabout whoseever doth prevaile in the
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− | cause And to the rest negatively./
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− | To the 7 hee saith hee cannot answere knowing nothing thereof
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− | To the last hee saith hee cannot answere having not heare any
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− | thing touching the matter Interrogate./
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− | JAMES RETALLICK [His signature]
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− | Repeated before doc:r Godolphin/ //
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: 4. ffrancis Mould, of Poplar, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 64: Date: March 7:th 1658 English Style===
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− | //The 7:th day of March 1658 English Style
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− | Examined on the sayd allegation./
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− | Rp.
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− | 4 FFRANCIS MOULD of Poplar in the pish of Stepney and
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− | County of Midd Mariner aged thirty foower yeares
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− | or thereabouts a wittnesse swornne & examined
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− | saith & deposeth as followeth vizt./
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− | To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of december Januaary
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− | ffebruary & March 1648 & in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeares
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− | 1649 and 1650 and untill August 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was
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− | Master & Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'', & had the care and
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− | charge of her as Master & Commander Committed to him (as hee beleeveth)
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− | by her Owners, and for Master & Commander of her
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− | during the sayd tyme was Commonly reputed this hee the better knoweth being
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− | hyred by the sayd Ewens & goeing a foresmast man of the sayd shipp thereXXX
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− | voyage in question And further hee deposeth not./
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− | To the second arle hee saith that withinn the tyme aforesayd and more
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− | especially in the yeare 1648 the shipp ''Scipio'' was bound forth from the
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− | Port of London upon a tradeing voyage to the Streights or other parts neere
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− | ?thereunto adioyning & soe to returne thence for London & in order thereto did
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− | in the moneth of January 1648 sett sayle from London & fell downe as XX
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− | as the Hope And the sayd shipp at such her departure from London had
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− | noe designe of goeing to Brazeele or any other part of the West
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− | Indies this hee deposeth for that hee knoweth that hee this deponent and
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− | John Mi?ater a foremast man alsoe of the ''Scipio'' who was hyred XXX
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− | only to goe upon a trading voyage from London to the Streights and parts neere
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− | adiacent & soe back to London & were not hyred to XXX in her to Brazeele ?or
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− | any other parts of the West Indies And further hee cannot depose not being
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− | privie to the signeing off any other of the sayd shipps company nor knowing XXX
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− | rates or upon what conditions they were hyred./ //
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− | P1120009 f. 81 recto
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− | //To the 3 4:th and 5:th arles of the sayd allegacon hee saith that before
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− | the goeing forth of the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
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− | ffosse was hyred to goe & did goe Boatswain & the arlate John Tucker
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− | Quarter Master & the arlate Charles Howgate a foremast man of the ''Scipio''
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− | the voyage in question but at what rates or upon Conditions they
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− | were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee ?hee this deponent and the sayd
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− | M?iater were hyred at the usuall rates of foremast men for a voyage to the
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− | streights And saith hee knoweth that the sayd ffosse Tucker & Howgate
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− | as alsoe this deponent & the sayd Minter & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
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− | did proceed on her voyage from London to Genoa in the Streights and
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− | there discharged her outward ladeing & then tooke in some goods and
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− | went with them to Ligorno where fayling of their designe they then landed
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− | the goods brought from Genoa & went from Ligorne to Allecant and there
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− | tooke in goods, and went therewith to Lisbon and there unladed them
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− | And further saving his subsequent deposition heecannot depose/
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− | To the 6:th and 7:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the
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− | ''Scipio'' had at Lisbon discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant
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− | the sayd Thomas Ewans did take upon him a new voyage to be made
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− | from Lisbon to Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having bargaine
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− | with his freighters for that voyage hee acquainted his shipps company
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− | therewith who were most of them unwilling to goe the same they not
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− | being hyred as they sayd to goe any such voyage when they came from London as
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− | alsoe because the voyage was to an unhealthyfull Country lyeing
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− | beyond the Lyne about fourteene or fifteene degrees to the South latitude and
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− | in service of a foreigne Nation whereupon the Whereupon the sayd Ewens seeing
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− | the unwillingnesse of his Company to goe the sayd voyage to Brazeele
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− | did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsence of this deponent
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− | & his p:recontests Pinshurst Bryant Rolallique & most of the sayd
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− | Shipps company to encourage them with alacrity to goe the sayd
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− | voyage voluntarily oromise to advance every of the shipps company
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− | their wages five shillings in the pound per moneth from that tyme
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− | during the sayd voyage over & above the wages hee had agreed with
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− | them for when hee shipped hence (OR, ?Then) at London, and to pay them their wages
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− | then due till that tyme according to the rates agreed upon with them
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− | at London which offere hee saith the Company accepted And the sayd
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− | Ewens in persuance of such his offere & promise did pay unto his
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− | sayd Company eight pounds pay according to the first agreement
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− | made at London & did promise and agree for the future to pay them
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− | an addition or augmentation of wages after the rate of five shillings
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− | in the pounds over & above the valew formerly agreed upon at London
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− | which promise the Company accepted & thereupon proceeded upon the
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− | sayd voyage to Brazeele & the sayd ffosse Tucker ?Gourgate & this dep:t
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− | & the rest of the Shipps company did thereupon proceed upon the sayd
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− | voyage after the sayd new agreement & went & served in the sayd shipp to
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− | Brazeele and came back to Lisbon which they soe performed in
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− | the space of about twenty moneths after XXX their ?new agreement
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− | & made in that tyme discharge of their ladeing at Brazeele and alsoe
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− | at Lisbone after their returne thither, only hee saith that while the sayd shipp
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− | was at Brazeele the Portugueses in whose service shee was did for the
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− | better//
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− | P11200011 f. 82 recto
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− | ===Case: Swire con Church: Examination: 7. James Dixson, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 30: Date: March 21st 1658===
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− | NOTES:
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− | The ''Phoenix''
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− | P1120012 f. 82 verso
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− | P1120013 f. 82 verso (duplicate of P1120012 f. 82 verso)
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− | P1120014 f. 83 recto
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− | P1120015 f. 83 verso
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− | P1120016 f. 83 verso (duplicate of P1120015 f. 83 verso)
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− | ===Case: M:r Alsonso Gomez Dias for goods in the Morning Starr: Examination: 1. Claes Willems, of Middleborough, Mariner, late Master of the ''Morninf Starr'': Date: Aprill 22:nd 1659===
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− | The 22:th of Aprill 1659:/.
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− | The Claime of X Alfondso Gomez Dias)
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− | for Goods in y:e ''Mornîng Starr'')
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− | Claes Willemson M:r=
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− | Budd, ffrancklin)
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− | Examined upon an Allon given in
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− | by M:r ffrancklin on behalfe of
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− | the said Alfonso Gomez Dias:
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− | 1. CLAES WILLEMS of Middleborough
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− | Mariner, late M:r of the ship the ''Morning
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− | Starr'' aged 38 yeeres or thereabouts
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− | sworne and Examined:/:-
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− | ADD TEXT
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− | ===Case: The Claime of Cowell, Canham & others for the Thomas: Examination: 2. Thomas Yoakeley, of St Catherines neere the Tower of London, Mariner, aged 31: Date: Aprill 27th, 1659===
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− | NOTES:
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− | Voyage from London to Roan
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− | The ship the ''Thomas''
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− | P1120019 f. 85 recto
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− | ===Case: Christopher Malyn, Thomas Carret, Bethnel Tynck, George Southerne, George Rogers, Thomas West, ffrancis Rosse, and John Robeck, late Mariners of the Ship the Anne: Examination: 1. John Atkins, Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 32: Date: February 26th 1658===
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− | London to Yarmouth to Marsellis and other ports within the Streights
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− | P1120020 f. 85 verso
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− | //on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from
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− | that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole
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− | pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to
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− | Yarmouthand there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and
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− | from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered
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− | the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus
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− | and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in
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− | a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of
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− | Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX
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− | and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another
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− | Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and
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− | there delivered y:e same, andthe
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− | last of y:e said Salt was
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− | delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of
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− | June 1658./. During all w:ch time (namely from y:e said
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− | ships Departure from Gravesend, untill her Delivery of
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− | her last goods at Scanderoone:/ all the Mariners XXX
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− | did serve in y:e said ship ''Anne''; and y:e foresaid Mariners
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− | did doe their best Indeavour in y:e Service and Imployment
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− | of the said ship, in their severall offices & places: w:ch hee
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− | knoweth for y:e reasons aforesaid goeing from place to XXX
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− | in y:e said ship, And further cannot Depose:/.
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− | To the 6:th and 7:th hee saith that soe soone as y:e said ship
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− | Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, y:e said William
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− | Malymy:e M:r and Company of the said ship. did take
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− | aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces
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− | to be Transfported in her to this port of London, and
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− | came from thence with y:e same on board her on or about
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− | the 11:th. day of July. 1658. and in her Course XXXXX
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− | the said Ship, and her Lading met with Extraordinary
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− | soule, windy , and Tempestuous weather by w:ch shee was driven upon
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− | y:e sand, neere S:t Vallazyes in ffrance; and
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− | by meanes thereof split, and broken in peeces.
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− | and utterly lost together with her lading, and saith y:e XXXX
| + | |
− | came not, nor happened by any fault or negligence
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− | of or in this depo:t or any of y:e Marine:rs in the said XXX
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− | ADD DATA
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− | P1120021 f. 86 recto
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− | '''High quality digital image'''
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− | | + | |
− | //shhe bilging upon the said Sands. this Depo:t was forced
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− | to leape into y:e sea, and by Gods providence did swim XX to the Boate
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− | w:ch belonged to y:e said ship, w:ch her Company had lost
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− | upon y:e sands, And further cannot depose: saving all y:e mariners
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− | schedulate did serve in her untill y:e time of the said
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− | Bilging w:ch was on or about the thirteenth day of December
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− | last. and further Cannot depose:/:
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− | To the 8:th hee saith that from y:e time of the said ships departure
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− | from Gravesend upon y:e said Voyage unto the time of
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− | the Delivery of her last goods at Scanderoone was the space of seaven monethes & 3 weekes or thereabouts
| + | |
− | and for soe long time the foresd mariners ought to be paid: their wages
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− | And further Cannot depose; Saving his
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− | foregoeing Depon to w:ch hee referreth./.
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− | To the 9:th hee saith hee Cannot depose otherwise than as aforesaid
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− | To the 10:th hee referreth him selfe to the registry of this Court
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− | To the Last hee saith his foregoeing Depon is true:/:
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− | | + | |
− | See his answer to y:e Interries
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− | 2 Leaves sil?o
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− | XXXXX ATKINS [His signature]
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− | <nowiki>***********************************************</nowiki>
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− | | + | |
− | ===Case: Christopher Malyn, Thomas Carret, Bethnel Tynck, George Southerne, George Rogers, Thomas West, ffrancis Rosse, and John Robeck, late Mariners of the Ship the Anne:: Examination: 2. Joseph Bond: Date: February 26th 1658===
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− | //The same day :/.
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− | Examined on y:e said AlloXs:/:
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− | Rp.
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− | 2. JOSEPH BOND of Redriffe Mariner aged 26
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− | yeeres or thereabouts sworne; and Examined:/:
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− | To the first and second arles of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth
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− | that from y:e time of the Arlate ship the ''Anne'' her departure
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− | from the port of London on y:e voyage in question untill the
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− | time of her Bilging hereafter mentioned the arlate
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− | ffrancis ffowke (Merch:t of this City (whom this deponent knoweth commonly accounted
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− | owne:r of pt of her, and soe hee verily beleeveth hee was
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− | for that y:e said ffrancis fowke Now named y:e saod
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− | ship y:e ''Anne'' shee being before called y:e ''Rainbowe''; and alsoe
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− | paid severall bills, for sailes, and Blocks, w:ch were delivered
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− | on board y:e said Ship y:e ''Anne'', a little before her goeing
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− | out on y:e said voyage; And saith that one M:r ffowke
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− | at Cyprus Correspond:t of the said ffrancis ffowje; told
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− | this depot. that the said ship did wholly belong to him and
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− | his brother ffrancis ffouke merchant of London, or to that
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− | effect. and saith further that the arlate W:m Malim who was M:r of
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− | the said ship y:e greatest pt of y:e voyage in Question, was
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− | made M:r of y:e said ship (as hee told this depo;ts) by the
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− | said M:r ffrancis ffouke; and further hee saith hee Cannot
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− | Depose;
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− | To//
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− | P1120022 f. 86 verso
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− | //To the 3.:d hee saith that in or about November 1657: ?y:e
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− | said W:m Malim did hyre all the Marine:rs severall
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− | mentioned in the schedule annexed to y:e said Allon nowe
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− | showed unto him, to goe & serve in y:e said ship ''Anne''
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− | from this port. to Yarmouth, and from thence to
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− | the streights. and to returne againe to this port. And
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− | saith that y:e schedulate Christopher Malym Mate; and
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− | Carpenter of y:e said Ship, was hyred at 3:li p moneth to goe y:e sd
| + | |
− | Voyage; Thomas Garret Carpenter of the said ship at 1:XXX
| + | |
− | p moneth to go y:e sd voayage Bethel Tinke (OR, Finke) A Common marriner of the said
| + | |
− | Ship at 1:li. viij:s p moneth to goe the said voyage,
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− | George Sotherne a Comon man of the said ship at 1:li ix:s
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− | p moneth to goe y:e said voyage., George. Rogers a Comon
| + | |
− | man of y:e said Ship at 1;li. viij:s p moneth, to goe y:e sd voyage, Thomas West
| + | |
− | Coop at j:li. xiiij:s p moneth , to goe y:e sd voyage, & ffrancis RoXXX
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− | at 1:li. 10:s p moneth to goe y:e said Voyage; And soe ?much
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− | the foresaid Mariners well deserved, and soe much
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− | is usually given to Marine:rs that serve in the quality
| + | |
− | aforesaid. in such voyages. and oftentimes, greater
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− | summes, And saith hee save y:e foresaid Marine:rs recvd
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− | their halfe pay at Yarmouth and thereby knoweth y:e
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− | premisses, but saith hee knoweth not for how much
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− | John Roberts y:e Chirurghion of y:e sd ship was shipt
| + | |
− | at, but saith hee well knoweth y:t hee well deserved
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− | 2:li. 2:s. p moneth, and saith hee this depo:t never ?knewe
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− | lesse given, to a Chirurgion for y:e same; or y:e like Voyage
| + | |
− | And further Cannot depose:/.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th ad 5:th hee saith that after y:e said W:m Malym
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− | had hyred the foresd marine:rs at the rates aforesaid to
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− | goe the said Voyage; the said ship y:e ''Anne'' Departed
| + | |
− | from Gravesend on y:e 13:th of November. 1657: and
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− | sailed to Yarmouth, and there y:e said William Malym
| + | |
− | paid all his officers & Mariners, their halfe pay; and
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− | this depo:t (as hee saith) beleeveth that y:e said Malim
| + | |
− | did Charge the same downe to the account of the ?said
| + | |
− | Francis Fowke; and saith y:t notwithsatnding y:e said XX
| + | |
− | halfe pay was paid to them at Yarmouth, they entred
| + | |
− | whole pay from y:e day of the said ships depture from XXX
| + | |
− | And further saith that at Yarmouth there was a Lading
| + | |
− | of Herrings put on board her, w:th w:ch she sailed ?to
| + | |
− | ?Marsellis//
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− | P1120023 f. 87 recto
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− | '''High quality digital image'''
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− | //Marsellis and there delivered her said Lading, and take
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− | in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus, and there (after her
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− | ballast was heaved out,) shee tooke in a Cargo of Salt &
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− | Carried the same to a place called Sattalia, and there
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− | delivered y:e same, and having taken in Ballasts
| + | |
− | sailed back to Cyprus againe, and after her hold was
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− | Cleared of y:e ballast, shee tooke ?on another Lading of
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− | salt, and Caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there
| + | |
− | Delivered the same And saith the last of y:e said Salt
| + | |
− | was there delivered in or about the 6:th Day of July
| + | |
− | Last. duringa all w:ch time the said Christopher Mallin
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− | Thomas Garrat Bethel ?Finck Georhe Sotherne George
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− | Rogert Thomas West ffrancis Rosse & John Roberte did
| + | |
− | serve in the said ship in the places &offices aforesaid
| + | |
− | Honestly, and did pforme their dutyes belonging to
| + | |
− | their severall offices & Imploym:ts wherein they were
| + | |
− | put. The p:rmisses hee deposeth goeing all the said voayage
| + | |
− | in y:e said ship namely from her departure from Gravesend
| + | |
− | untill the time of her bilging, And further hee cannot
| + | |
− | depose;/:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 6:th hee saith after y:e foresaid salt brought from Xyprus
| + | |
− | to Scanderoone was unladen as aforesaid at Scanderoone
| + | |
− | there were there laden aboard her about One hundred
| + | |
− | Baggs of Galls, about one hundred Bales of Cotton
| + | |
− | Yarne, and other goods w:ch she sett sayle for this
| + | |
− | port, touching at Cyprus, and in her Course hether wards shee was by
| + | |
− | Extraordinary great winds, forced upon y:e sands. upon y:e Coast of ffrance
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− | , and there bilged, and shee and her Lading
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− | lost. And saith that neither her M:r nor any of her Company
| + | |
− | were in any fault. but the same came and happened
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− | meerely by y:e said Extraordinary winds and y:e will of
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− | God. The premisses hee deposeth by sad Experience
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− | being on board her, when y:e said Disaster happened,
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− | And further hee cannot depose:/.
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− | To the 7:th hee saith that the said Malim, Garrat, Tinke(?r)
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− | Southerne, Rigers, West, Rosse &, Roberts, served in
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− | the said Ship. from her said Departure from Gravesend
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− | untill y:e said Disaster happened w:ch was on or about
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− | the 13:th of December last, And further he Cannot
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− | depose:/. //
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− | P1120024 f. 87 verso
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− | '''Poor quality digital image: REIMAGE THIS PAGE'''
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− | //To the 8:th hee saith that from y:e time of y:e Departure of
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− | y:e said Ship ''Anne'' from Gravesend & Untill the say of
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− | her discharging of her last goods at Scanderoone ?was
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− | about seaven monethes and three weekes and soe
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− | long time all the foresaid mariners ought to be paid
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− | their severall wages for w:ch they were hyred. and
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− | further hee cannot depose/.
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− | To the 9:th hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./.
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− | To the 10:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this
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− | Court./.
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− | To the 11:th hee saith his foregoeing deponn is true.¨
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− | ?Repe:X (OR, ?Depo:d) before D:r Godolphin:/:
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− | JOSEPH BOND [His signature]
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− | To the Interries./.
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− | To y:e 1:th hee saith that hee was Boatswaine of the said Shop XX
| + | |
− | thie voyage in question and saith that at Ciprus
| + | |
− | hee receaved Twenty Dolla:rs ?impot for his ?servicing
| + | |
− | the said Ship, namely fourteene Dollars of ?money Roger ffowke at the XXXX of
| + | |
− | said Ships being there, and y:e other six of his ?Precontest XXX at her
| + | |
− | there ?touching in her XXX XXXXX as aforesd. And further hee cannot answer./
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− | To y:e 2:d hee hath not Deposed to y:e arles Interrate. further than
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− | by report./:
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− | To the 3:d hee saith that hee well knoweth all the ptyes mentioned
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− | in the schedule Interrate and saith that Christopher MXXim
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− | John Roberts. George Southerne, XXXX TXXXXX, are in and
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− | about London, and the other as beleeveth are gone in y,e States
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− | Service: And saith they are all able And sufficient Marine:rs
| + | |
− | and Seamen and fit for such places as they were put into
| + | |
− | the said shipp./
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− | To the 4:th hee saith that hee doth not account those Seamen able
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− | and honest-men w:ch suffer a ship and Lading to be lost
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− | before a faire winde, through their ignorance or Carlessnes
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− | But saith that the winde was very high when y:e ''Anne''
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− | was driven upon y:e sd sands, and the Seas were ?mighty
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− | boysterous. Insomuch that they beate over y:e Deck of the
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− | sd ship with such a fforce that y:e Company on y:e Deck could
| + | |
− | Scarce Stand upon their Leggs, and saith there were XXXXX
| + | |
− | saved, and brought out of the said ship, just before her
| + | |
− | breaching in peeces, and saith y:e bookes of Accounts belonging
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− | to y:e ship, was not brought out. but left in her, when her
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− | Company left her. And saith that, after the sd ship ?Struck upon
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− | y:e Sands, her Company had noe time to Take any of their
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− | owne goods (save what they had about them) were all
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− | busied about hoysting out their boate (OR, boats): and further doth not
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− | answer;/:
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− | To the fifth hee saith y:e said Ship ''Anne'' came from ffalmouth ?next
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− | before//
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− | P1120025 f. 87 verso (duplicate of P1120034 f. 87 verso)
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− | P1120026 f. 88 recto
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− | '''High quality digital image'''
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− | //before shee was Cast away. in Company of about five saile
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− | of English ships and saith that y:e Xday when they came from thence y:e winde
| + | |
− | was faire, and y:e next day y:e weather Changed, and was very
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− | Boisterous, and y:e said other Ships which were bigger, and
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− | better sailers than the ''Anne''; left her behinde them, and y:e sd
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− | ship ''Anne'' by y:e said High winds, foule weather, and greate
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− | Tides (and by ?noe other meanes) was forced and driven upon
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− | y:e Coast of ffrance, about tenne Leagues to the Westward
| + | |
− | of ?Bullen, where shee as aforesd: was broken in peeces and utterly lost. And further cannot Answer/
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− | To the last hee saith that all the said ptyes mentioned and
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− | severally set downe in the said schedule; had receaved
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− | at Cyprus some moneyes in pt of their Wages for their
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− | service in y:e said Ship y:e voyage in question but how much hee knoweth not and further
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− | Cannot answer;/:
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− | JOSEPH BOND [His signature]
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− | <nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>
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− | ===Case: Sorrell con Hall: Examination: 4. William Sandwell, of Shadwell, Stepney, Mariner, aged 26: Date: March 4:th 1658===
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− | The 4:th of March 1658:/.
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− | Sorrell con Hall: aforesd
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− | | + | |
− | Examined on y:e said Allon:
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− | Rp.
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− | 4 WILLIAM SANDWELL of Shadwell in y:e parish
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− | of Stepney mariner aged 26 yeeres or thereabt
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− | Sworne and Examined
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− | To the said Allon: hee saith that in the
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− | moneth of November last, as this depo:t was goeing to y:e
| + | |
− | Waterside; neere Colestaires, hee sawe one John Tyler, &
| + | |
− | some others talking and discoursing in a Carpenters yard with one Mordecay Yonge:
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− | (who (as this depo:t was informed) was one of the
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− | Company of the arlate ship the ''Abigail'';) and as this
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− | depo:t was passing by them. hee heard the said Tylor, Yonge
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− | and others talking about the s:d ship ''Abigail'', and y:e ship y:e ''Agreem:t.''
| + | |
− | whereof John Hall was M:r and this depo:t having formerly heard
| + | |
− | of that busines. hee stood a little way of to heare what the
| + | |
− | said Yonge would say and relate about the said Busines;
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− | And the said Yonge in the hearing of this depo:t told
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− | them to this or the very same effect: THat the ships
| + | |
− | being in Company together, and they being neere M:r
| + | |
− | Hall, they called one to one another, to take more
| + | |
− | roome; and one of y:e ''Abigails'' Company being at the
| + | |
− | Lead said that there was shore?s water,
| + | |
− | And some of the Abigails Company hearing him called to the
| + | |
− | man of the ''Abigails'' Helme, and bid him Starboard, Starboard
| + | |
− | and hee at y:e Helme replied that, if yow will have it Starboard
| + | |
− | I will Starboard it enough, Put the
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− | Helme//
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− | P1120027 f. 88 verso
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− | '''Reasonable quality digital image'''
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //Helme hard a Starboard, and Went from y:e same, and
| + | |
− | by that meanes. before wee could recover our ship, we
| + | |
− | fell foule of M:r Halls; And this depo:t having heard y.e
| + | |
− | said word or words to the same effect. hee was called
| + | |
− | away upon other occasions, ad left the said Tyler XXXX
| + | |
− | and others, ffarther discoursing about the said busines:
| + | |
− | And further deposeth that on Tuesday, last hee this
| + | |
− | depo:t went to M:r Hall y:e producents house, to discourse
| + | |
− | with him. (hee this depot. being his neighbo:r & using alsoe y:e XXXX
| + | |
− | Trade;) and there found one whose name (as this depo:t
| + | |
− | now remembreth ) was John Bath?o?e, who told M:r Hall,
| + | |
− | in this depo:ts or:rsence ; and hearing, that y:e ship ''Abigail'' bore
| + | |
− | up from . y:e South East to the North East. And said alsoe
| + | |
− | that had hee the said Bathoe found any thing in
| + | |
− | his way hee would have taken it up andXXXXed the
| + | |
− | man from the Head that was att y:eHelme: for being
| + | |
− | soe Crosse in putting y:e Helme soe much ?on Starboard, and leaving
| + | |
− | it soe; or to that effect, and saith hee beleeveth the said
| + | |
− | Hall, and ?Bathoe, had had discourse before this depo:ts
| + | |
− | coming into y:e sd M:r Halls house about the said Business
| + | |
− | The premisses hee deposeth hearing y:e same as aforesd and
| + | |
− | further hee cannot depose/:
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− | To the Interries:/.
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− | To the first hee saith that M:r Hall y:e producent required
| + | |
− | him to come and Testify in this Cause; and to y:e rest hee
| + | |
− | referrs himselfe to his forefgoeing deponn: And further
| + | |
− | cannot answer:/:
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− | | + | |
− | To the second hee saith hee hath used the sea for about
| + | |
− | Eighteene yeeres last, & about six yeeres last hath bin
| + | |
− | a Master of a ship; And saith hee knoweth not what he
| + | |
− | is worth, and further cannot answer/.
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− | To the last hee cannot Answer:/:
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− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin:/:
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− | WILLIAM SANDWELL [His signature]
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Answer: John Atkins: Date: XXXX====
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− | The answer of the foresd John Atkins To the ?Interries
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− | To the first hee saith as aforesd that hee went from Gravesend
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− | in y:e sd Ship y:e voyage in question, and Continued onboard
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− | till shee was breaking and splitting on y:e said sands. And
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− | saith that upon y:e Death of the foresaid W:m Malim (w:ho
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− | was M:r of the said ship) this depo:t became M:r of her, hee
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− | being before: y:e said W:m Malims Cheife mate; And for
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− | that hee received at Satalia, of the sayd William Malim ?twenty
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− | Eight ryalls of Eight, and at Scanderoone hee received of y:e sd Malim either Eight
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− | or tenne Ryalls more (but, whether eight or Tenne he
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− | //doth not nowe remember having lost most of his Accounts.) nd
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− | saith that those summes were all that hee receaved the said voyage
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− | in pt of his wages for his Service in y:e sd Shipp, And further
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− | cannot Answer.
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− | To the 2:d hee hath not soe deposed.
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− | To the 3:d hee saith hee well knoweth all y:e partyes schedulate.
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− | and saith that Christopher Malym is here in London;
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− | or neere London, and soe is the foresd John Roberts, but
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− | knowes not where the rest are; And saith that all the
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− | marine:rs schedule were able Seamen, and were all Able
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− | (for ought this depo:t knoweth to the Contrary) to performe
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− | their severall places which they were put into in y:e sd
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− | ship y:e sd voyage, And further doth bot answer:/.
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− | To the 4:th hee saith hee doth not approve those Seamen
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− | Sufficient Mariners that willfully suffer a ship and her Lading to be
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− | Cast away in afaire winde, And weather; when y:e Ship
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− | hath Liberty, and Searoome; And saith that y:e bookes
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− | of Accounts, and all other accounts touching the sd Ship & Lading; (w:ch were aboard
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− | the said Ship, at and upon y:e Death of the said William
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− | Malim,) were locked and Sealed up in a box, by one
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− | Captaine Hudson Comander of the''Smyrna ffactor'', and
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− | Miles Bro?cose Comander of the ''William'' (w:ch werein
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− | Company of y:e ''Anne'') the same daye that the said Will:m
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− | Malim Dyed; and after they were soe Locked and
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− | Seiled up, they were put into
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− | the M:rs Cabbin, where they remained untill the
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− | sd ship came to Cyprus, (after she came from Scanderoone;) where
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− | (by order of the Wor:ll Roger ffooke) the said box was opened
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− | in y:e presemce of the sd Captaine Miles Brouse, & Captaine PhXXX-
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− | .ton, Comander of the ''Comerce''; and y:e bookes or Accounts
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− | wherein the bills of Ladeig firmed at Scanderoone; for their
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− | homewards Voyage, were entred, was taken out and
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− | delivered to the said Wor:ll Roger ffooke, and then y:e said
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− | box was Locked and sealed up againe by the said BrouXX
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− | and Plumpton, and put into the Hold of the said
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− | Ship the ''Anne''; where they Continued and were when
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− | the said Ship was Cast away as aforesaid, And saith that
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− | after the ?said Ship came upon y:e said Sand?s
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− | her Company had noe time either to save any paps
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− | or any of their Cloathes or goods w:ch were in y:e sd Ship,
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− | but were most of them Imployed about Hoysting out
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− | their boate, and using other meanes for saving of their
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− | Lives. and while they were soe busied this depo:t gave, a small
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− | bagg//
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− | //of ?lettyrs to the foresd John Roberts, desiring him to have
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− | a speciall care of them, and p:rserve them if hee coul
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− | Possible; and all the Company of the said Ship, being gone
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− | a way in their boat?s, and this depo:t staying aboard
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− | as aforesaid, hee went into his Cabbin, and there tooke
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− | some Copyes of Accounts w:ch lay there ready Tyde
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− | up, and put them in his pocket, and there being other
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− | Originall papers, Letters, writings w:ch hee thought were of
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− | more Concernmen:t hee wrapt them up in a paire of ?Loinings
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− | & a Shirt, the better to keepe them dry, and by that time
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− | hee had soe done the ship was bilging, and hee
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− | perceiving y:e same Imediately ranne upp, upon y,e Deck
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− | of the ship, with y:e sd writings. and ?heaved off as aforesd.
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− | and after hee had Carried y.e sd writings w:ch were
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− | wrapt upp in his ?Loinings & Shirt, in his hand
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− | about a Stones through from y:e sd Ship, hee was forced
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− | for safeguard of his life; to let them goe, and with
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− | much difficulty and hazard of his life got to y:e sd Boate
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− | as aforesd. and soe by the Great Providence of God
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− | got to Shore, where the said papers w:ch hee had in his
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− | pocket were dryed, LARGE INSERTION TO BE TRANSCRIBED, and after, LARGE INSERTION TO BE TRANSCRIBED, ?before dryed they
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− | came to the hands of one John Walker who was Mate
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− | and Pilot of the said ship, who delivered the same to
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− | this depo:t herein London and this depo:t delivered them
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− | to the foresaid M:r ffrancis ffooke; and the
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− | said Bag of XXtters which were p:rserved by y:e said Roberts
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− | this depo:t Carryed to y:e said M:r ffookes Lodging
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− | but hee not being then in Towne; (as this depo:t was
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− | informed by one M:r Bridges. kinsman of the said
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− | ffrancis ffowke, and at whose house the said M:r ffowkes lay.)
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− | this depo:t acquainted y.e said Bridges. with his Busines
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− | and y:e said Bridges advised this depo:t XX delivered
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− | the said Letters to y:e merch:ts to whom they were directed
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− | and the said M:r Bridges to that End went along with
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− | this depot to the Exchange; where hee delivered the
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− | said Letters according to thir Superscriptions; And further
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− | hee cannot answer to this Interrie saving hee saith
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− | that neither hee this depo:t nor any of his Company durst
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− | venture into y:e ships hold to take out the said Boy
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− | of writings & Accounts:/.
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− | To the 5:th hee saith the said Ship ''Anne'' Came from ffalmouth
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− | next before her Casting away, in Company of about 6 or ?X
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− | saile, and y:e winde then was variable; and the weather thicj
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− | & ffoggy ad saith hee heard that afterXXX Vessell y:t came from
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− | ffalmouth y:e same day the ''Anne'' came thence was cast away y:e same night that the ''Anne'' was , and XX
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− | y.e same Coast And further cannot Answer.
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− | ===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al: Deposition: 1. Thomas Chevers, of Limehouse, Stepney, Mariner, Master of the Oporto Merchant, aged 28: Date: March 9th 1658===
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− | //The 9:th day of March 1658
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− | Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of)
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− | the ''Oporto Merchant''. Thomas Chevers M:r)
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− | ag:t S:r James Drax Knight Richard ?Huggins Tho:)
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− | ?Kendall, James ?Wyck and Robert Welding)
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− | Merchants in particular and all others in)
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− | Generall that have or p:rtend to have any
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− | rights, Titles, or interest in y:e goods wares and
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− | Merchandizes lately brought in y:e sayd ship)
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− | to this port from y:e Barbadoes in a Cause
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− | of Damage and average. Suckley.
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− | Rp
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− | 1. THOMAS CHEVERS
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− | of Limehouse in the
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− | parish of Stepney
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− | Mariner, M:r of the
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− | ship the ''Oporto Merchant''
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− | aged 28 yeeres or thereabouts
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− | sworne and Examined.
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− | To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith that hee hath well
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− | knowne y:e arlate y:e ship the ''Opoto Merchant'' whereof this depo:t
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− | is nowe M:r for about Twelve monethes last, and well
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− | knoweth that y:e arlate Rowland Hill John Hill, and XX
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− | Hopegood and Company for all y:e ?same time
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− | were the true and lawfull owners and proprieto:rs of the
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− | said ship and of her tackle Apparell, and furniture,
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− | and for such being XX accounted and reputed: And further
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− | hee cannot depose.
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− | To the second hee saith the said ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' in
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− | her course from Barbadoes to this port of London
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− | ?Laden with Sugars Cotton and Indico and other Comodityes
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− | for the account of y:e arlate S:r James Drax Richard XXXXX
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− | Thomas Kendall James Wyck Robt ?Weeking & others did meete
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− | with neere the fflowers and Calves, on or about the
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− | twentieth day of January last a greate and violente storme
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− | w:ch did soe continue for about sixteene houres, the
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− | winde being then at West, And y:e said ship running
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− | before the sea, under ?her foresaile, the said ships ?stern
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− | gave way, and this depo:t and Company were forced
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− | to ?haul the said foresaile of the said ship, and lye under
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− | a ?mizen, And saith that y:e seas being very high brake
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− | the said ships Tiller, w:ch did much endanger y:e ?keeper the
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− | said ships Rudder, and ?Sterne part; And at the XXXX
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− | part (OR, port) hee saith the said ship, shipped under water w:ch came
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− | into y:e hold of y:e sd ship, And y:e weather being very
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− | Tempestuous, and y:e violent winde continueing, y:e said
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− | ships ?Missen saile was blowne away, and lost, and by
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− | Meanes of looseing y:e Misen, y:e said ship lay broad XXX
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− | to the sea, and by reason thereof shipped a very violent sea
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− | w:ch washed overboard And ?Sheats Anchor, and the long boate
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− | and//
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− | //and skiffe: y:t were fastned to y:e sd ships Deck were XXXX
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− | to Leeward, and with the goeing oberboard of the said XXX
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− | w:ch hunge to the said ship by y:e Rope to w.ch it was fast was XXX
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− | and by y:e said ships Rowlings it bilged a hole in y:e XXXX
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− | of the said ship, through w:ch hole; and other places in y:e sd ships side w:ch were XX by violence of the XXXX
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− | Insoemuch that there was in a short time foure foote
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− | and a halfe of water in her hold, w:ch caused y:e said XXX
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− | to lye dead in y:e sea; And saith that the said ships lading XXX
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− | and Company onboard. by reason long XXXXXX of the said ?Extreme
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− | Stormy and windy weather, were all in greate danger
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− | of Sinking and perishing in the sea. And further ?deposeth
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− | that this depo:t and Company on board y:e said ship did
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− | upon good advice Consideraccon, and Consultaccon, for y:e
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− | prservaccon of the said ship and Lading, and their owne
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− | Lives. Cut downe y:e maine mast. by the board. and cut
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− | away. y:e Ropes and Tackling thereto belonging,
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− | and did stave and cast over board most
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− | of their caskes with fresh waterm And were for y:e preservaccon of their shipp XXXX XXXto cut their foresaid XXX Anchor, and main XXX
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− | and tackling thereto belonging, and all and singular
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− | the Tackle Apparrell funiture and things belonging
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− | to the said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'' . mentionedd and
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− | set downe in the Schedule annexed to y:e said Allon
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− | (now seene and read over by this depo:t) and y:e said Tackle
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− | and things therein set downe. were at the tome of
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− | their said Cutting and Casting away and loosing
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− | well worth the severall summes set downe in y:e said schedule
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− | for y:e same, amounting in y:e whole to the summe of One hundred
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− | fourty two pounds two shillings sterling. And saith. that by
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− | the violence of y:e said Storme y:e said mizen saile was blown
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− | away and Lost w:ch was then worth four pounds, and y:e stern
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− | poast Rudder and sterne of the said Shipp. were by y:e same
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− | meanes much damnifyed to the vallue of about twenty
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− | pounds: The premisses hee Deposeth being M:r of the said
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− | Ship, and on board her y:e foresaid time, and an Eye witness
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− | of the same And further hee cannot depose.
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− | To the 4:th and 5:th (sic) hee saith that during all the time the
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− | said Storme Continued, and after wards, this depo:t and
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− | All his Company did Constantly keepe both the
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− | pumpes goeing, and y:e water increasing they were CCCC
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− | to bring y;e said Ships starboard side to the sea, and then XXX
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− | said Ship being XXred, or turned, her spritsaile was XXX
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− | away, by y:e violence of the said Storme, and in y:e morning of
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− | the 21:th day of January last, y:e Said Storme abated And
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− | Depo:t//
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− | //Depo:t and Company did with much Carepaines & Dilligence
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− | stop the said hole made by the said ?sheat Anchor, and, freed
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− | her of the water, w:ch shee had received in at the the said Hold
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− | and at other places. as aforesaid. and saith that when the
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− | said ship departed from y:e Barbadoes, and untill y:e said
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− | storme came and happened the said ship was strong
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− | strong and Tight, and was well fitted with all manner
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− | of necessaryes and materialls for y:e said voyage, and was
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− | not over laden, but was able to beare the lLading w:ch was
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− | then on board her. and saith her ?sheath Anchor was well
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− | and sufficiently fastened to the side of the said ship; untill
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− | the same was washed from y:e same by the said storme,
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− | And saith that what dammage did happen to y:e said ship
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− | and Lading y:e said time, happened meerely by y:e said
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− | tormy and windy weather, and not by any insufficiency
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− | in y:e said ship, or any fault of or in this depo:t, or any of his
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− | Company. The premises hee Deposeth for the reasons
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− | aforesaid: And further cannot Depose.
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− | To the 6:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true.
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− | THO CHEVERS [His signature]
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− | ===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al: Examination: 2. Richard James, of Limehouse, Boatswaine of the Oporto Merchant, aged 3?8: Date: March 10th 1658===
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− | The Tenth day of March 1658
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− | Examined on the said Allon
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− | Rp
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− | 2:nd RICHARD JAMES of Limehouse. Boatswaine
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− | of the ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' aged 3?8 yeeres or
| + | |
− | thereabouts sworne and Examined:
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− | To the first Arle of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth that
| + | |
− | hee verily beleeveth that the arlate M:r Rowland Hill and Company
| + | |
− | fo:r theis twelve monethes last, have bin, and at p:rsent are
| + | |
− | the true & awfull own:rs of the arlate ship y:e ''Oporto
| + | |
− | Merchant'' (whereof Thomas Cheevers is M:r) and of her tackle &
| + | |
− | furniture & things belonging unto her, and soe they are Comonly
| + | |
− | accounted. The premises hee deposeth for that hee hath bin
| + | |
− | boatswaine of the said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'' for about thirteene
| + | |
− | monethes last, And otherwise cannot depose:
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− | To the second hee saith that y:e said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant''
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− | Coming from y:e Barbadoes Laden with Sugars, Cotton & some Indico
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− | for y:e account of S:r James Drax. M:r Wood?ward severall other M:rchants
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− | Bound for this Port of London; in her Course ?hether was neere y:e XXXXXXX
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− | on or about the twentieth day of January, last, there happened and
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− | rose a very great & violent storme; w:ch Continued very violent for
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− | about Eight or Tenn houres, the winde being then at West, and
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− | saith that for y:e p:rservaccon of the said ship, Lading and men on board
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− | her, her Company ranne her before y:e sea, under her ?foreCourse
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− | halfe mast high; and which they ranne her soe, her Sterne (OR, Stemme) gave way//
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− | //XXXX, And XXXXXX y:e ?Master and Company of the said
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− | ship were foreced to ?hand their foreCourse; or foresaile, and
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− | lye under a mizen. and whXXXX shee soe lay. y:e said shipps
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− | Tiller was broken by y.e violence of the said Storme, and did
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− | much endanger y:e looseing of the Rudder and sterne ?poast
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− | of the said ship, and saith that at y:e XXXX port wher
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− | her Tiller was broken the said ship receaved much water
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− | in her hold, And y:e said very Violent Storme; not abating
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− | y.e said ships missen sail, was by the Violence there of XX
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− | splitt & Torne; and blowne away, and after it was blowne
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− | away, the said ship was by
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− | the force and Violence of the said Storme, forced to lye
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− | broad off, to the sea, and by that meanes, shipped a greate
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− | sea, which washed her boate and skiffe. to Leeward
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− | and washed her sheat Anchor over board, and it, hanging
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− | to y:e Rope to which it was fastened, and y:e said ship Roling
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− | two and againe y:e said Anchor bilged a hole in y:e side of the
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− | said ship just by her Lough, through w:ch. And other places
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− | and ?Crozes: there came such Water in hold; soe that
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− | her hold, had & receaved in a short space some four and XXXX
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− | halfe water, w:ch caused y:e said ship to lye in y:e Sea,
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− | without motion; And saith that by reason of trhe Violence
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− | and duraccon of the said Storme; both the said ship Lading
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− | and all the Company on board her were in great
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− | danger of persihing in y:e Sea. This hee deposeth for that
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− | hee was Boatswaine of and on board the said ship at
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− | y:e time when y:e sayd Storme happened, and further hee
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− | doth not depose.
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− | To the 3:d hee saith that fore said Thomas Cheevers, and Company
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− | off and on board the said shipp; in y:e said Storme did XX
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− | upon a seious Consideraccon, for y:e safeguard of the said
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− | ship and Lading, and their owne Lives Cut the said ships
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− | Mainmast by the board, and Cut away the saile and
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− | Rigging, and Tackling thereto belonging, and Cut away
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− | her Sheat Anchor, and staved most of the Caskes of water
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− | y:t were aboard her, and therby did much Lighten the said
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− | Shipp: And having now seene & read y:e Schedule Exhibited hee
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− | saith that all and singular y:e Masts, sailes, tackle and
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− | funiture & Materialls. therein set downe & Expressed
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− | to the said Ship, were and are Uteerly lost by meanes of the said Storme and they were XX
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− | , the time of their said Cutting away, and loosing well worth
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− | the severall and respective summes of money, set downe in the
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− | said schedule for y:e same, in y:e whole amounting to y:e summe
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− | of One hundred fourty two pounds two shilllings sterl. XXX
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− | that, besides y:e foresaid Damages, there was alsoe (by meanes
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− | of the violence of the said Storme,) much hurt and damage//
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− | //done to the said ships Rudder Sternepost and XXXXXXX; the
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− | repaire whereof will oast the said ?Owner:es about twenty pounds
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− | sterlins, besides hee saith that y:e ?Masson saile of y:e sd ship,
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− | was worth about XXXX at y:e time of y;e blowing away of the same; The
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− | premisses hee deposeth for y:e Reasons aforesaid, and for that
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− | hee was one that helped to comprize y:e ssaid Materialle
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− | set downe in y:e said schedule; and further hee deposeth not:
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− | To the 4:th hee saith that for and during y:e Continuance of the
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− | said Storme,; her Company did (when they
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− | could stand upon the Deck) XX XXX her pumpes, and keepe
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− | them goeing XXX Storme Continunuaeing the Company
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− | of the said ship were forced to bring the said Ships Starboard
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− | Syde to the Sea and the shipp being turned her Spritsaile
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− | was blowne away, and y:e next morning about day light
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− | the said Storme Abating the M:r and Company of the said ship
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− | by their Great Labo:r, Care, & Dilligence, did Stop the said
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− | ships Leake, by her Lough, and freed her of the water w:ch
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− | shee had in her, This hee deposeth for that hee assisted
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− | therein, And further hee cannot depose.
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− | To the 5:th hee saith that the said Ship, at such time as shee
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− | came from y:e Barbadoes y:e sd voyage, and untill the said
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− | Storme and Tempest happened was a strongXXXX & Tight
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− | Vesselle, and had very good ?decke and very well fitted with all manner of materialle
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− | fit for such A ship, and Voyage, And was not ober Laden
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− | the said voyage, And saith that the said sheat Anchor w:ch
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− | was as aforesaid washed from y:e said ships side; was before
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− | it was washed off very well and sufficiently made fast to
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− | the said ships Sude; the stock being lashed to the Timber before
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− | and the ff?looks Checked out, and firmely muffled and
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− | made fast w:th the shanke painter, And saith that all such
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− | dammage w:ch happened to y:e said ship; and that which is
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− | happened to her Lading or any part thereof, came not nor
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− | was occasioned by any insufficiency in y:e said ship, or any
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− | fault, or negligence; of or in her M:r and Company, on board
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− | her. But neerely by y:e said violent weather yeilding a reason of his knowledge as before And otherwys (sic)
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− | Cannot depose./
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− | To the 6:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registrey of this Court.
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing ?Repon is true./:
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− | RICHARD JAMES [His signature]//
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− | ===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al:: Examination: 3. Phillip Harvey, of Limehouse, Mariner, Carpenter of the Oporto Merchant, aged 40: Date: March 11th, 1658===
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− | //The 11:th day of March 1658
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− | Examined upon y:e sayd Allon.
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− | Rp
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− | 3:?ne PHILLIP HARVEY of Limehouse Mariner, Carpenter
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− | of the ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'', aged 40 yeeres or
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− | thereabouts sworne and Examined:/
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− | To//
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− | //To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith hee hath knowne
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− | y:e arlate Ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' for about two yeeres
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− | Last, and saith y:e arlate M:r Hill, hath bin for all the said
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− | time Comonly accounted a pt owne:r of the said Ship
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− | and of her tackle and furniture, and further hee cannot
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− | depose/:
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− | To the second hee saith that the sayed Ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant''
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− | being laden at the Barbadoes, with Sugars & Cottons &
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− | some other merchandizes for the account of several merchants
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− | Departed from thence bound for this Port of London and
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− | in her Course hetherward (sic), neere y:e Islands fflowers
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− | and Calves, being two of the Westerene Islands on XX
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− | or about the 20:th day of January last, shee met with
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− | a great , and violent Storme; w:ch Continued about
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− | sixteene houres very violent, the Winde being then
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− | at West, and y:e sd. shipp tunning before y:e Sea, for
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− | her better preservaccon) under aforesaile, her sterne gave
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− | way, And thereupon, her Company were forced to
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− | hang their foresaile, and lye under a mizen, and
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− | y:e said Ships Tiller by Violence of the said Storme
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− | was broken, w:ch did much endanger her Rudder and
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− | sterne post, and by meanes of y:e breaking of her Tiller
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− | y:e said Ship, shee receaved much water in at her ?behind port ?w:ch
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− | came into y:e said Ships hold, and y:e said Ships mizen XXX
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− | by y:e violence & force of the said Storme was Torne in
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− | peeces. and y:e greatest part of it blowne away, and y:e
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− | said Ship lying broad off to y:e sea, shipped a great
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− | Sea, w:ch washed over board her sheath Anchor, w:ch
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− | was fastned by y:e said Ships side and washed her Boate
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− | and Skiffe, to Leewards, and y:e said Anchor, hanging
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− | by a Rope where with it was fastned to the said Ships
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− | side, and y:e said Ship, Turning or rowling too and
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− | fro, y:e said Anchor bilged a hole, neere y:e Lough of ?the
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− | Said Ship, and made a Leake in her, through w:ch ?there
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− | went some water, and their being as aforesaid much
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− | water receaved ar rge XXXX Port of the said Ship, y:e said
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− | Ship had about foure foote water in her hold, w:ch
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− | caused y:e said Ship to lye dead in y:e Sea. And saith that
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− | by the Violence and Duraccon of the said Storme & y:e pXXX
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− | aforesaid, the said Ship and her Lading and Company
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− | on board her were in Great Danger of Sinking and
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− | Perishing in y:e Sea The prmisses hee deposeth being on board
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− | y:e said Ship y:e said time, and Carpenter of her. And
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− | Otherwise cannot depose.///
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− | P1110355 f. 95 recto
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− | //To the 3:d arle & Schedule therein menconed hee saith that y:e M:r and Company of
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− | and on board y:e said Ship, did upon Good Consideraccon
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− | for y:e Safeguard of the said Shipp and Lading, and of
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− | their owne Lives. Cut downe y:e said Ships Maine
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− | Mast by y:e board and Cut away all the Tackling
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− | thereto belonging, and did Stave & Cast over board most
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− | of the Caske (OR, casks) of ffresh water, y:t y:e said Sjip might bee
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− | Lightened. And saith that y:e said Mainemast, sheat
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− | Anchor. and all and Singular y:e tackle Appell and
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− | furniture of or belonging to the said Ship the ''Oporto Merch:''
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− | severally mentioned & set downe in y:e Schedule, were
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− | Cast into, (and lost) in y:e sea, for y:e preservaccon of the said
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− | Ship, and at the time of such their loosing were well
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− | worth the severall summes mentioned, and set downe in
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− | y:, (now read over unto him). amounting in
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− | y:e whole to One hundred, fourty two pounds two shillings
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− | And beside y:e sd goods & materialls hee saith y:e Missen saile Blowne
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− | away as aforesaid, was worth about foure pounds XXXXX
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− | And much damage done to the said Ships Rudder
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− | sterne post, a nd sterne, the repaires whereof will Cost the
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− | said Owne:s about twenty pounds as he beleeveth The
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− | Premisses hee deposeth being Carpenter of the said Ship
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− | as aforesaid. And further cannot Depose./:
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− | To the 4:th and 5:th hee saith that During the Continuance
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− | of the said Storme . y:e M:r and Company of the said Ship
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− | did Constantly ply both the Pumpes of the said ship and
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− | kept them Goeing
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− | P1120038 f. 96 recto
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− | P1120039 f. 96 verso
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− | ===Case: Nuthall ag:t Potts: Examination: 3. John Carter, of Limehouse, parish of Stepney, Blockmaker, aged 61: Date: March 21:th 1658===
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− | The 21:th day of March 1650:.
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− | Examined on y.e said Allon:.
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− | Nuthall ag:t Potte.)
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− | aforesayd:)
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− | Rp.
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− | 3:xx JOHN CARTER of Limehouse in parish of
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− | Stepney Blockmaker aged 61 yeeres or thereabouts
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− | Sworne and Examined./.
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− | To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith that for and during
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− | all the time arkate, the arlate Henry Potts was M:r and Commander
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− | of the arlate Ship the ?Gilly flower'', now called (as hee remembreth
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− | y:e ''Hopefull'' , and for such was Comonly accounted; And
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− | further cannot depose
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− | To the second and third hee saith that in the moneth of November
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− | 1656: y:e said Ship y:e ?''Gilly flower'', was bound on a voyage
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− | to be made directly from this port of London to Newcastle
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− | and to returne from thence directly to this port againe where
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− | shee was to end her said voayage, And further saith that
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− | in the said moneth of November 1656, the said Ship did
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− | want and stand in need of severall provisions tackle
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− | furniture, Materialls and Stock: to Pceede and goe the said
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− | Voyage, The premisses hee Deposeth for that y:e said rime s hee well
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− | Knowe the said ship y:e ?Gilliflower'', and went then
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− | on board her, and Alsoe for the reasons following And further
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− | cannot depose:/:
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− | To the 4:th and fifth hee saith that hee verily beleeveth that in or
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− | about the moneth of November 1656: the arlate ?James
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− | Nuthall did send unto the foresaid Henry Potts
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− | , for buying of provisions & to provide a Stock for y:e said Ship
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− | to goe the foresaid Voyage; and saith that the said Potts hath
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− | acknowledged soe much to this depo:t And saith further ?that
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− | the said Potts hath told this depo:t that the said Nuthall lent
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− | the foresaid money upon Bottomry: and further ?cannot
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− | depose it being soe long since./.
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− | To the 6:th hee saith that in or, about y:e said moneth of November
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− | y:e said ship went from hence on y:e said voyage for Newcastle
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− | and arrived (from thence ) here in safety And further he
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− | canot depose.:/:
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− | To the 7:th hee saith that on or about the two and twenty
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− | day of November 1656: the foresayd henry Potts and
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− | this depo:t (who is the arlate John Carter,) did enter into & XXXXX BXXXX
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− | unto the foresaid James Nuthall, in the summe of Three
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− | Thousand pounds of Lawfull money of England for the pXXXX
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− | of a certaine writing, and having now seene and prsed y:e
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− | Bond Exhibited anexed to the said Allon hee saith the same
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− | was and is the said Bond, and was and is signed with
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− | the handwritings of the said Potts, and this Depo:t and XXX
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− | by them, and by them Delivered for and as their act and
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− | And further hee saith hee cannot depose./
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− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin:
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− | JOHN CARTER [His signature]//
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− | ===Case: The ffrancis and John: Examination: Edward Hannings, of Stepney, Mariner, aged 25: Date: March 21:th 1658===
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− | P1120042 f. 98 recto
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− | ===Case: XXXX: 2. Grace Hogsflesh, of Stepney, Widowe, aged 39: Date: Aprill 12:th 1659===
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− | To the first shee saith shee well knowe the arlate Thomas Midleton
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− | in his Life time, and saith he hath told this Depo:t that hee
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− | was for all y:e time arlate M:r and Comand:r of the arlate ship
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− | the ''Elizabeth and Mary'', and further shee saith shee cannot depose:/:
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− | To the second and third arles of the said Allon she saith that
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− | about two yeeres since (the time otherwise shee doth not now remember)
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− | the producent Anne Craford desired this depo:t to goe along with her
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− | to the signe of the Red Lyon at the Old Swan in Thames Streete
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− | there to Meete with the said Thomas Middleton, & to aske of him
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− | the wayges w:ch was due to the arlate Andrew Hill, And this
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− | depo:t at her request did goe with her to the said place; where this depo:t
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− | and y:e said M:r Craford found y:e said Thomas Middleton
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− | And this depo:t then and there asked y:e said Middlton whether
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− | hee had not one Andrew Hill Cooke of his ship, to w:ch the said
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− | Middleton Answered Yes; and this depo:t asking him howe
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− | long y:e sd Hill served in his ship; and at what what hee was
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− | shipped. at. The said Middleton replyed that hee served in his
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− | ship about foure yeere, and two Monethes: and was shipped
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− | at Thirty shillings p moneth, And then this depo:t asked him
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− | if hee had paid him any of his wages: To w:ch hee replied
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− | Noe, I Doe not use to pay men abroad. And the said M:rs Craford
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− | being then p:rsent in the same roome; this depo:t told the
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− | said Thomas Middleton that this woman (pointing to and
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− | meaning y:e said M:rs Crafford,) was Come to demand his wages
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− | And y:e said Middleton replyed in an angry manner, that hee would
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− | not give her any account of it, because shee had arrested
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− | him; and dis?charged him; for hee had a house to Comand and a Ship
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− | to Comand, and tenne thousand pound to Comand, and was able
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− | enough to pay her, but nowe hee would not, for shee should
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− | have Lawe enough for her money: or to the very same effect,
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− | To the 4:th shee referreth herselfe to the Registry of the Court for probate
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− | of Wills and Granting of Ad?conns:/.
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− | To the 5:th shee referreth herselfe to the Registry of this Court: And
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− | further deposeth not./.
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− | To the 6:th shee sauth her foregoeing depon is true./:
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− | To the Interries
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− | To the first shee saith that M:rs Craford y:e producent required
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− | this depo:t to come and testify the truth of her Knowledge in the busnies
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− | and saith shee did never belong to y:e said Ship; And saith that this depo:t liveth
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− | at the next house; to the house whereof y:e said M:rs Craford Liveth , and
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− | hath lived there about four yeeres, & the said Craford hath lived there
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− | in her said house a longer time, and this depo:t being y:e time aforesyd
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− | the sd M:rs Craford neighbo:r shee was by y:e sd M:rs Craford Caried
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− | to the foresd place, to the foresd purpose; And saith she hath not Received//
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− | //neither bin Promised anything for her Testimony herein nor
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− | doth shee as shee saith expect to receave any thing for y:e same, And saith shee
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− | is worth about two hundred pounds. in her Cleare Estate, and
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− | to the rest negatively:/:
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− | To the 2:d shee hath heard y:t y;e said M:rs Craford recovered of y:e
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− | said Thomas Middleton for the said Hills Cloathes and
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− | goods, and some small moneyes w:ch y:e said Hill had on board
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− | the said Ship at y:e time of his Death, about six and twenty
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− | pounds, and to the rest shee answereth negatively for her
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− | pt, saving as aforesaid:/:/
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− | To the 3:d she saith she favoureth both the partyes Litigant alike
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− | and if it were in her Power, shee would (as she saith) give the
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− | Victory to hat party , w:ch had most right to the same; /:
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− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin:/:
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− | The marke of the ?said
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− | Grace [The mark looks like an interlinked WW] Hogs?flesh
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− | ===Case: Wood ag:t Grove: Examination: 5. Thomas Yeomans of Wapping, Mariner, late Masters Mate of the Peace, aged 23: Date: March 11th 1658 English Style===
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− | cause by M:r Bray servant to M:r Browne and saith hee was
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− | Mate and Purser of the said ship y:e ''Pearce'' the yoyage in
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− | question; and hath received twelve monethes pay in full
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− | for his service in the said ship: y:e sd Voyage: and hath not receabed
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− | any thing for his Testimony in this Cause: but execteth
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− | that hee shall be satisfyed for his losse of time; according
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− | To the Second hee saith that hee hath heard the foresaid Luke
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− | Woods in the Voyage in question say that the said Ship was
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− | To the 7:th hee saith that for ought hee knoweth to the
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− | Contrary the said Thomas Grove did from Newfound
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− | arrive at the Barbadoes; according to the said Woods order,
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− | And saith that the said Ship in her passing from Newfound:d
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− | towards the Barbadoes did meet with many Hurricanoes
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− | Gal?wes , and Contrary winds, And saith that about three
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− | dayes before the said ship arrived at Sta Lasia. aforesyd
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− | the said Grove Asked this depo:t (who was one of his Mates
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− | about 130 Leagues to the windward of the Barbadoes
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− | and y:e said Grove alsoe asked y:e Interrate Roger Grove and
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− | y:e Interrate William Tizard to the effect aforesaid, and
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− | y:e sd Grove made answer that hee was by his account
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− | about 140 Leages to windward of the Barbadoes: and y:e said
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− | Tizard said y:t by his account hee was about 100 Leagues to
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− | Windward of the Barbadoes or to that effect, and y:e said
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− | Thomas Grove y:e M:r of the said Ship said y:t by his account heee was above 100 Leagued to Windward of the Barbadoes:
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− | Office or place; and had noe Instrum:ts on board y:e said
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− | ship to doe and performe his said place, but a fewe ?Staffs
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− | and saith that hee beleeveth the reason of the said Ships
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− | missing the Barbadoes y:e said Voyage was occasioned
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− | and came by the said Hurricanes; and XXXXX, and
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the 'Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 1. Laurence Burr, of St Catherines near the Tower, Cooper of the Lady ffrigott, aged 38: Date: June 3rd, 1659===
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− | //The 3. of June 1659
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− | A business of examination of witnesses for perpetauall)
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− | remembrance of the matter, on the part and behalfe of)
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− | John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company)
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− | Owners of the Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' whereof John)
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− | Hosier was Master, and her tackle furniture)
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− | apparell & freight, and of Andrew Riccard one)
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− | of the Aldermen of the Cittie of London and)
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− | Company, the Governor and Company of)
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− | English Merchants trading to the Mediterranian (sic))
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− | Seas, Owner of the goods in the sayd Shipp)
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− | against Hippolito Centurione of Genoa)
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− | in pticular and all others in generall which)
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− | will take upon them to ?iusifie the seizing or)
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− | takeing of the sayd shipp the ''lady ffrigott'')
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− | and her ladeing: SXXXXth)
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− | Examined on the allegation given in
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− | on the behalfe of the sayd Swift Parker
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− | Harris & Company and alsoe the sayd
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− | Ricard & Company.
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− | No. 1 LAURENCE BURR of the
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− | p:rish of S:t Catherine neere the
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− | Tower of London Cooper late Cooper
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− | of the ''Lady ffrigott'', aged thirty five
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− | yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
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− | sworne and examined saith and
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− | deposeth as followeth viz:t.
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− | To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the
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− | Monethe and tyme arlate 1658 (untill the fowerteenth day of
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− | November that yeare on which day shee was seized the arlate
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− | John Swift John Harris John Parker and Company all English
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− | men and subiects of the Commonwealth of England were, and
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− | soe still ought to be the lawfull Owner & Proprietors of the
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− | arlate Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle apparrell and
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− | furniture and for such commonly reputed this hee so better knoweth
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− | because hee was & went Cooper of the said shipp the voyage in
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− | question and was on board her at her seizure.
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− | To the 2 and 3 arles hee saith that in the yeares & monethes aforesaid the
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− | arlate Alderman Riccard & Company Marchants of London
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− | did hyre & take to freight and imploye the sayd shipp the ''Lady
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− | ffrigott'' upon a tradeing voyage to XXao ?Magaliga and other
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− | places beyond the Seas to lade Currans & other goods for their
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− | use and Accompt & transport them to & deliver them at London
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− | for their use this hee knoweth being Cooper aboard her the sayd
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− | voyage And hehreby also knoweth that in the monethe & tyme
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− | aforesayd and after the arrivall of the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott''
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− | at ?Potrao Roade arlate the ffactors or Agents of the sayd Alderman
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− | Ricard & Company put XXX cause to be laden a board the sayd
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− | shipp for Account of the sayd Ricard & Company one hundred
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− | and sixty tonne of Mahaligo Currans and also divers other
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− | goods and a great quantitie of money to be transported therein
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− | her for London and there delivered to them or their Agents This hee
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− | the better knoweth for that hee helped to lade the sayd Currans and
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− | other goods aboard her & brought some of the sayd moneye aboard &
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− | & ?saw the rest brought aboard her And farther to these arles he cannot
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− | depose.
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− | To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the
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− | sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' having receaved the sayd lading & money
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− | aboard her and being therewith rideing at Anchor in the Roade of
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− | Perrao in a peaceable condition, there came into the sayd Roade on the
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− | fourteenth day of November 1658 a certaine shipp of about
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− | a hundred & fifty tonnes gaving a white Antient in her pXXXX//
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− | //which shipp shipp (sic) (as this deponent was afterwards informed
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− | by XXXX XXXXX an ?Irishman & some others of her company who could speake English) was called
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− | the ''S:ta Cruse'' and her Masters name ffrancisco ?Stale and
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− | was a Genoa shipp and was there aXXXXdd and sett out
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− | by Hippolito Centurione a Genoese, and came ?hence (as this
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− | deponent was also by like men XX informed
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− | in Company of ?two other men of warr sett out thence
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− | also by the sayd Hippolito Centuriane, which Genoa shipp called
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− | the ''S:ta Cruse'' presently upon her comming into the Road of Petrao
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− | made as if she would have come to an Anchor neere the
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− | ''Lady ffrigott'', but when shee was come neere her the Captaine
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− | & Company of the sayd shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' did in a violent and
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− | hostile manner sett upon the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' with
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− | Swords & gunnes and other warlike Instruments and
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− | wounded the Captaine & six or seaven men of the Company pf the
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− | ''Lady ffrigott'' & by that meanes surprized her & her sayd ladeing
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− | of Currans and other goods & money & dispoiled their Owners
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− | of them & converted them to their owne use And hee farther saith
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− | that hee this deponent was alsoe informed by a dutch man who was
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− | gunner of the sayd shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' & an Irish man who was one of
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− | her Company who could both speake very good English that the Captaine
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− | of the ''S:ta Cruse'' had taken severall mariners & souldiers out
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− | of the sayd two other shipps of warr which came in Company
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− | of the ''Sta Cruse'' from Genoa, the better to enable them to surprise
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− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing, And saith that at the tyme of
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− | the sayd seizure hee did observe that most of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her
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− | Company who made the seizure were Italians & Genoeses And
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− | saith that after the says Genoeses preceived that the sayd dutch
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− | Gunner & the french man & others of their Company coulde speake
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− | English and had some conference with this deponent and
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− | others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company who were seized, they did
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− | forbid them to have any discourse with the English; and put the
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− | ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company in ?hold & kept them there in Irons And
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− | further to these arles hee cannot depose
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− | To the 7:th arle hee saith that hee this deponent and severall
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− | other of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company were after their surprizall
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− | ?told & informed by the sayd dutch Gunner & the sayd Irish man
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− | and some other of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her Company who could speake
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− | English that the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa by the
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− | sayd Hippolito Centurone upon a warlike designe against the
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− | Turkes, & has bin a great while abroad and could gett noe
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− | prize, and had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which
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− | was to last only for a tyme, which tyme or the says ?Gunner &
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− | Irishman & others of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her company acknowledged
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− | was expired two moneths before the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
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− | & her ladeing, but withall say thd that they were resolved to take
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− | any English shipp they could light on notwithstanding the expiration
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− | thereof, And this deponent well remembreth that the
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− | Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott'' told this deponent that hee did at the tyme
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− | of her seizure desyre the foresayd ffrancisco Stale Commander of
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− | the ''S:ta Cruse'' to show him his Commission by virtue whereof hee
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− | //but the says Stale refused to shew the same And further to this arle
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− | hee cannot depose.
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− | To the 3:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that the shipp
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− | ''lady ffrigott'' and her tackle furniture & freight and stock and
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− | provisions on board her at the tyme of her seizure aforesayd were
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− | then in this deponents Judgement worth five ?thousand pounds
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− | sterling or neere thereabouts and soe much hee beleeveth the arlate
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− | Swift Parker and Harris were damnified by the losse of them by
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− | reason of the surprizall aforesayd And further hee cannot depose
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− | To 4:th arle hee saith that in her this deponents Judgement XX
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− | hundred and fifty tonnes of Mathaligo Currans seized on board the
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− | ''Lady ffrigott'' & belonging to the arlate Alderman Ricard & Company
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− | were at their seizure worth two pounds tenn shillings sterling a hundred
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− | which a mounteth being computed to a very considerable summe
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− | but saith at p:rsent hee cannot compute the same, and saith hee is
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− | well assured that if the sayd Currans had not bin suprized but
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− | come safe to London they would here have yeilded the sayd Alderman
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− | Riccard & Company two pounds tenn shillings sterling a hundred
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− | that being the usuall market price there
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− | To the Tenth & 11:th alre hee saith that hee this deponent being Cooper
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− | & aborad at the seizure knoweth that the arlate Captaine Hoyser and
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− | his Company had a board the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' at the
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− | tyme of her seizure in moneys & goods and Cloathes and instruments
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− | to the value of twelve hundred pounds sterling at least all which
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− | hee saith hee well knoweth were taken from him and them by the Captaine
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− | and Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' aforesays & hee & they dispoiled and
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− | deprived of them by the sayd Captaine & Company of the sayd man of
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− | warr called the ''S:ta Cruse'' who upon the
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− | seizure of the sayd frigott plundered & tooke away all whatsoever
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− | the sayd Captaine Hosier & his Company had and kept them
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− | prisoners for some time in chaynes & afterwards turned them on XXXXX at the
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− | Island ?Zephania to shXXX for them XXXXX without allowing ?them
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− | either provisions or XXXXX this he knoweth being one of the Company
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− | as aforesayd & soe kept in chaynes & after ?turned on shoare in manner
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− | aforesayd. And further hee cannot depose
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− | & examined saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t
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− | To the first arle of the allegation hee saidth that during all the moneths
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− | & tyme arlate in the yeares 1658 happening before the fowerteenth day
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− | of November which was the day of her seizure, the arlate John Swift
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− | John Parker John Harris & Company All English men & subiects of
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− | the Commonwealth of England were & still ?aught to bee the lawfull Owners
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− | & Proprietors of the arlate shipp the ''lady ffrigott'' & her tackle apparell
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− | & furniture And for such comonly reputed This hee knoweth being one of the sayd
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− | //shipps Company the voyages in question & a board her at her
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− | seizure. And further hee deposeth not
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− | To the 2 and 3 arles of the allegation hee saith that by ?reason hee
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− | went the voyage in question hee knoweth the arlate Alderman Ricard
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− | & others English Merchants of the Turkey Company did take the sayd shipp
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− | the ''lady ffrigott'' to freight for a Merchandizing voyage to be made from
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− | London to ?Petrai & other pts beyond the seas to lade Currans & other
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− | goods for their Account & bring them for London & there deliver them to
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− | them or their Agents And saith the sayd shipp arrived safely at ?Polrao
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− | Roade where the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard and
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− | Company did lade & put aboard the sayd shipp for their Account
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− | one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans
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− | viz:t one hundred & thiry of M(OR, N)athaligo & thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans
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− | to be transported for London and there delivered to them or their Agents And
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− | further hee cannot depose not knowing what other goods or money were
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− | put aboard her for their sayd freighters Account, but knoweth there
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− | were other goods beside the sayd Currans XX some bales of silke & other goods
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− | laden aboard the sayd shipp
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− | To the 4:th arle hee saith that whilst the shipp the ''lady ffrigott'' ?remayned in peaceable manner
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− | at Pererao Roade with the sayd Currants & other her ladeing aboard her
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− | viz:t the fowerteenth day of November one Thousand six hundred fifty
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− | eight there came into the sayd Roade a shipp of warr of about one hundred
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− | and fifty tonns and named (as be the Gunner of her & one of the Mates of
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− | her who were both dutch men and could speake good English and by others of her
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− | Company Italians which language alsoe this deponent can speake & understand this
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− | deponent was informed) the ''S:ta Cruso'' ffrancisco Stale Captaine w:ch shipp hee saith had
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− | when she came in a white Ancient in her poope and made as if she would
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− | have Anchored neere the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' but coming neere
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− | the sayed ffrancisco Stale & his Company in a hostile manner with
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− | swords & gunnes & other Instruments of warr boarded the sayd shipp
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− | the ''lady ffrigott'' and wounded her Captaine Captaine John Hosier
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− | & this deponent and severall others of her Company to the number of
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− | five or sixe and surprised her and her ladeing of Currans and
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− | other goods and dispoiled her and her ladeing of Currants and
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− | other goods and dispoiled the Owners thereof of the same and
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− | converted it to the use of the sayd Stale & his Company And further
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− | saving his deposition to the subsequent arles hee cannot depose
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− | To the 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
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− | this deponent understanding Italian did after the sayd shipp of warr
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− | the ''S:te Cruse'' had surprized the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing in manner
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− | aforesayd ?heare severall of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her Company (Italians) sayd
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− | that and acknowledge that their sayd shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' belonged to
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− | Genoa and was XXXX & sett out thence by the arlate Hippolite Cen-
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− | turioni who alsoe XX XXged sett out two other shipps of warr ?thence who came
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− | thence in Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'', and that the Commander of the
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− | ''S:ta Cruse'' had before hee seized the ''lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing taken
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− | some XXXers and souldiers out of the sayd two other Genoa shipps
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− | the better to enable him to surprize the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing
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− | And saith the greatest part of the Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' who
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− | made the sayd seizure were Italians and as they acknowledged belonging
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− | to Genoa and further to these arles hee cannot depose
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− | To the 7:th hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her
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− | ladeing hee alsoe heard severall of the ''S:ta Cruses'' Company say and
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− | acknowledge that the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa by the said
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− | Hippolito Centuriani as a man of warr against the Turkes, and had
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− | bin//
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− | P1110365 f. 124 recto
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− | | + | |
− | //bin a great while abroad & could get no prizes, and therefore had taken
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− | a Spanish Commission which was to last for a certayne tyme, and that the sayd
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− | Commission was expired two moneths before the
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− | seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing which notwithstanding (as they also
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− | sayd & acknowledged) they were resolved to seize what English shipps and
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− | their ladeing they could meete with under colour of that Commission And
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− | further to this arle hee cannot depose.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle, ffurniture,
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− | freight, stick, and provisions aboard her at her seizure aforesayd were
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− | in this deponents Judgement worth fower thousand five hundred pounds
| + | |
− | sterling or neere thereabouts and soe much the arlate Swift Packer
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− | and Harris & Company Owners of her were by such her seizure XX damnified
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− | in this deponents Judgement and as hee verily beleeveth.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that in his this deponents Judgement the
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− | hundred & sixty tonnes of Mahaligo & Petrao Currans belonging
| + | |
− | to the arlate Alderman Ricard and Company and seized on board the
| + | |
− | ''Lady ffrigott'' were (?at the tyme of their seizure) worth fower thousand pounds sterling and
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− | soe much in this deponents Judgement & as hee verily beleeveth they would
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− | have yeilded the sayd Alderman Ricard & Company if he had not bin
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− | taken by the sayd Genoa shipp of warr in manner aforesayd. And
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− | further hee cannot depose.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th and 11:th hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer, and his
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− | Company at the tyme of the seizure of the shipp the ''lady
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− | ffrigott'' & her ladeing had on board the sayd shipp goods that were his
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− | & their adventures, and moneyes cloathes and instruments worth in
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− | this deponents Judgement fowerteene hundred pounds of lawfull English
| + | |
− | money All which hee saith hee well knoweth (being p:rsent at the seizure)
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− | were seized and taken from the sayd Captaine Hoyser & his company
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− | by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Genoa man of warr called
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− | the ''S:ta Cruse'', & the sayd Hoyser & his Company utterly dispoiled of them
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− | And saith that the Captaine & Company of the sayd Genoa man of
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− | warr haveing made the sayd seizure of the ''lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing
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− | plundered & taken away from her Captaine & her Company all that
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− | they had., kept the most of her Company prisoners in the hold, XXXXX
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− | for some tyme, and afterwards turned them on XXXX in the Ile of
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− | Cephalonia to ?shift for them XXXX without allowing them wither
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− | provisions or money And further to these arles he cannot depose
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
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− | RICHARD BAKER [His signature]
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− | Repeated in Court before both Judges
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 3. Gilbert Anckelly, of Debtford, Kent, Mariner, late Boatswaine of the Lady ffrigott, aged 30 : Date: June 3rd, 1659===
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− | The same day
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− | 3. GILBERT ANCKELLY of Debtford in Kent Mariner
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− | late Boatswaine of the ''lady ffrigott'' aged thirty yeares
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− | & upwards a wittnesse sworne & examined saith and
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− | deposeth as followeth viz:t
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− | To the first and second arles hee saith that during the months and tyme arlaze in
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− | the yeare 1658 happening next before the fowerteenth day of the Month
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− | of November the sayd yeare which was the day shee and her lading were
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− | seized in maner hereafter specified, the arlate John Swift John Parker
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− | John//
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− | P1110366 f. 124 verso & f. 125 recto
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− | P1110367 f. 124 verso
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− | //John Harris & Company all English men & subiects of this Common
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− | wealth of England were commonly reputed to be & soe still ought to be the
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− | true lawfulll Owners and proprietors of the arlate Shipp the ''Lady
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− | ffrigott'' & of her tackle apparell, & furniture And saith the sayd Shipp
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− | was taken to freight by the arlate Alderman Riccard & Company
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− | English Merchants on a trading voyage to be made from London
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− | to Ligorne Portrai (OR, Petrao) & other places beyond the seas to lade Currans & other goods
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− | ther for their Account & deliver them heere at London to them or their Agents
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− | To the 3 arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the moneths and tyme
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− | arlate the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigitt'' arriving safely at ?Polrao Road
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− | the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard & Company did there & XXX
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− | XXXXXXXXX cause to be laden and XXXX go ?nyne and sixty tonnes of Currans and divers other
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− | goods or bales of silke, and other merchandizes and moneys for Account
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− | of the saiyd Riccard & Company to be brought thence to London & there
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− | delivered to them or their Agents And further hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' haveing
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− | reced the sayd Currans & other goods & moneys aboard her lay therewitrh
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− | and with other her ladeing in a peaceable manner at Anchor in the
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− | Road of ?Poltrao in the moneth of November 1658 And saith that
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− | while shee soe lay there upon the fowerteenth day of the sayd moneth
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− | there came into the sayd Roade a shipp of warr of about a hundred and
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− | fifty tonnes called the XXXXX XXXXXX sayd XXX XXXXX belonging (as severall of her comoany afterwards con-
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− | fessed in this deponents heareing) to Genoa whence shee came
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− | as they alsoe sayd under command of XXX Captaine ffrancisco
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− | Hippolito Centurioni togeather with two other shipps which
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− | came thence in her Company sett out alsoe by the sayd Hippolito on a Warlike designe, which shipp the ''Sta Cruse'' at her first coming
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− | into Polrao Roade had a white flagg in her poope and made
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− | as if shee would have anchored neere the ''Lady ffrigott'' but when
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− | shee was gotten up neere to her the Captaine & Company of the sayd
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− | Genoa shipp called the ''Sta Cruse'' did in a warlike manner with
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− | swords & gunns & other instruments of warr board the ''Lady ffrigott''
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− | and wounded the Captaine of her & six more of her Company
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− | and violently seized her ladeing of Currans & other goods and
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− | money & dispoiled ?the XXXXX thereof of the same & ConXXXXed
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− | them to their the said Captaine Stale & his Companyes use And
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− | saith the Gunner & an other of her Company duXXXX ?boy who well
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− | speake good English told this deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company
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− | that the Captainne of the ''Sta Cruse'' the better to enable him to seize
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− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing had a little before the sizure
| + | |
− | taken some Mariners & souldiers out of the foresayd two other Genoa
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− | men of warr And hee saith most of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse''
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− | were Italians, and as they confessed belonged to Genoa And
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− | further to theser arles hee cannot depose./
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− | To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
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− | & her ladeing severall of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' did confesse
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− | that they were sett out from Genoa upon a warlike designe a:t the
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− | Turk?s & had bin a great while abroad and Could get noe prizes
| + | |
− | & therefore they had taken a Spanish Commission which was only
| + | |
− | to last a certayne tyme, which tyme )as they sayd & acknowledged
| + | |
− | was expired two monethes before they seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' and
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− | her ladeing, but sayd alsoe that they were resolved ?although
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− | it//
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− | P1110368 f. 125 recto
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− | //it were expired yet they would take any English shipps they ?would (OR, ?could)
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− | meete with This hee knoweth for that hee being Boatswaine of the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' & seized in her heard severall of the ''Sta Cruse'' her company
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− | speake the sayd words./
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− | To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle and
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− | furniture, & freight, and stock & provisions on board her at her seizure
| + | |
− | aforesayd by the sayd Gennoa (sic) man of warr called the''Sta Cruse'' was in
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− | his this deponents Judgment well worth five thousand pounds of lawfull
| + | |
− | English money and soe much hee beleeveth the says Swift XXXXX &
| + | |
− | XXXXXX & other her Owners were dammaged by her being surprized & taken
| + | |
− | as aforesayd And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
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− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred & sixty Tonne of
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− | Currants aforesayd on board the ''Lady ffrigott'' belonging to the foresayd
| + | |
− | Alderman Riccard & Company were at their surprizall worth in this
| + | |
− | deponents Judgement and estimate ?thirteene thousand pounds of lawfull
| + | |
− | English money and would as hee verily beleeveth have yeilded the sayd
| + | |
− | Riccard & Company soe much of they had not bin surprized in manner
| + | |
− | as aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosier and
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− | his Company had at the tyme of the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
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− | & her ladeing by the sayd Gen?uoa man of warr the ''Sta Cruse'' goods
| + | |
− | which were her & their adventures and money cloathes and Instru-
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− | ments aboard her to the value in this deponents Judgement of eight
| + | |
− | hundred pounds of lawfull English money All which were seized and
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− | taken from the sayd Hosier & his Company & they utterly deprXed of
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− | them by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Gennoa man of warr
| + | |
− | who plundered them of them and having soe done kept the Company of
| + | |
− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' prisoners for a tyme the most of them being cheyned, and after
| + | |
− | wards sett them on shoare in the Island of Cephalonia to shXXX
| + | |
− | for themselves without allowing them money or provisions And
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− | further hee cannot depose/
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 4. John Carrier, of Debtford, Kent, Shipwright, late Carpenters Mate of the Lady ffriggott, aged 22 : Date: June 3rd, 1659===
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− | XXXX ?verte Suckley.
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− | The same day
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− | Examined on the sayd allegation
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− | Rep
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− | 4:us JOHN CARRIER of Debtford in the County of
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− | Kent Shipwright late Carpenters Mate of the ''Lady
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− | ffrigott'' aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes
| + | |
− | sworne and examined saith & deposeth as followeth vizt
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− | To the first arles of the allegation hee saith that hee being Carpenters
| + | |
− | Mate of her the yoyage in question knoweth that the arlate John Swift
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− | John Parker John Harris & Company all Englishmen & subiects of
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− | this Commonwealth of England were during the moneths & tyme arlate in
| + | |
− | the yeare 1653 untill the fowerteenth day of November 1658 which was
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− | the//
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− | P1110369 f. 125 verso & f. 126 recto
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− | P1110370 f. 125 verso
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− | //the day when she & her lading were seized in manner hereafter
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− | expressed) were as hee beleeveth and still ought to be the true & lawfull Owners and
| + | |
− | Proprietors of the arlate Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle
| + | |
− | Apparell & furniture, and for such were XXX commonly Accounted And
| + | |
− | further hee cannot depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the second and third hee saith that the sayd shipp ?y:e ''Lady ffrigott'' was in the
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− | moneths & tyme arlate taken to freight by Alderman Andrew
| + | |
− | Riccard & Company for a tradeing voyage from London to ?Petrao
| + | |
− | and other pts beyond the Seas to lade Currans & other goods for their
| + | |
− | Account & bring the same for London & there deliver them to them or
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− | their Agents In order whereto the sayd shipp hee saith did in the
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− | moneths & tyme arlate safely arive in Petrao roade where and
| + | |
− | at Ma?thaligo the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard & Company
| + | |
− | laded one hundred & sixty tonnes of Currans of the growth of
| + | |
− | Mathalago:s and Petrao and divers other goods & money for their
| + | |
− | use and Accompt to be transported for London & there delivered
| + | |
− | to them or their Agents for their use And further hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after
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− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' had recvd the sayd Currans & other her lading
| + | |
− | & the sayd moneys on board her shee lay peaceably at Anchor
| + | |
− | therewith, in the Road of Petra?s, till the fowerteenth of November
| + | |
− | 1658 on which day hee saith hee well remembreth a certayne shipp
| + | |
− | of about one hundred & fifty tonnes burthen manned for the
| + | |
− | most part with Italians, and called (as this deponent heard a
| + | |
− | dutch man who was MXXXX of her & a dutch man who was gunner
| + | |
− | of her & an ?Irishman who was of her company & ?could XXX speake English saye after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigot''
| + | |
− | and her ladeing) the ''Sta Cruse'', whereof (as they sayd) one ffrancisco
| + | |
− | Stale was Captaine came into Petrao Road with a white flagg
| + | |
− | on her poope and made as if shee intended peaceably to have Ancho-
| + | |
− | red neere the ''Lady ffrigott'' but when shee came neere her the sayd
| + | |
− | Stale & his Company instead of coming to an Anchor did in a
| + | |
− | warlike manner with gunns swords & other Instruments of warr
| + | |
− | violently assault and board the ''Lady ffrigott'' and wounded
| + | |
− | the Captain of her and some of his Company (but how many
| + | |
− | hee remembreth not) and seized the sayd shipp & her ladeing
| + | |
− | of Currans and other goods & money & dispoile?th the Owners thereof
| + | |
− | of them, and ?conceveth it & them to the use of them the sayd Stale
| + | |
− | & Company And hee saith that hee this deponent heard the
| + | |
− | sayd dutch man & Irish man acknowledge & say before this deponent
| + | |
− | & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company that the sayd shipp ''Sta Cruse''
| + | |
− | belonged to Gennoa & was manned & sett out thence as alsoe
| + | |
− | were two other shipps of warr that came thence in her Company
| + | |
− | by the arlate Hippolito Centurioni a ?Gen?nose and that ?the
| + | |
− | sayd Captaine Stale did for the better enableing him to seize
| + | |
− | the ''Lady ffrigott'', a little before his seizure of her take about thirty
| + | |
− | mariners & souldiers out of the sayd two other Gennoa men of
| + | |
− | warr And hee this deponent saith that most of the ''Sta Cruse''
| + | |
− | her Company were Italians & XX the sayd dutchman and
| + | |
− | Irishman sayd most of them belonged to Gennoa And further
| + | |
− | to these arles hee cannot depose./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' & her sayd ladeing and money the sayd two dutch men
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− | and//
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− | P1110371 f. 126 recto
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− | //and Irish man who were of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' did before
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− | this deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' company acknowledge & saye
| + | |
− | that the ''Sta Cruse'' at her setting out from Gennoa went as a man of
| + | |
− | warr against the Turkes and hath bin long abroad & gott noe
| + | |
− | prizes, and had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which was
| + | |
− | lymitted for a certayne tyme which tyme as the sayd dutch man and
| + | |
− | Irish man affirmed was expired two moneths before the ''Sta Cruse''
| + | |
− | seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing which notwithstanding the Captaine
| + | |
− | & Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' (as the sayd dutch & Irish man sayd) were
| + | |
− | resolved to seize all English shipps & their ladeing which hee would (OR, could)
| + | |
− | light of And further to this arle hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith
| + | |
− | that in his this deponents Judgment the ''Lady ffrigott''
| + | |
− | and her tackle & furniture and freight & stock & provisions aboarde
| + | |
− | her at her seizure by the sayd Gennoa shipp of warr called the
| + | |
− | ''Ste Cruse'' was worth ?two thousand pounds of lawfull English
| + | |
− | money And soe much hee beleeveth the sayd Swift Packer Harris
| + | |
− | & other her Owners were damnified by her being surprized & taken as
| + | |
− | aforesayd And further to this arle he cannot depose/
| + | |
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− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that the Currans seized aboard the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' & belonginging to the arlate Alderman Riccard & Compamy
| + | |
− | were worth at their seizure fourteene thousand pounds of lawfull
| + | |
− | English money in this deponents Juddgment and estimate and soe
| + | |
− | much hee verily beleeveth they would have yeilded to the sayd Alder-
| + | |
− | man Riccard & Company if they had not bin seized in manner aforesayd
| + | |
− | And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that the arlate Captaine XXXX
| + | |
− | & his Company had on board the ''Lady ffrigott'' at her seizure by
| + | |
− | the fooresayd Gennoa man of warr in goods which were XXX XXXXXX
| + | |
− | their proper adventure & in money Cloathes & Instruments to the value
| + | |
− | in this deponents Judgment of a thousand pounds of lawfull English
| + | |
− | money all which hee well knoweth were taken from by the
| + | |
− | sayd Captaine & Company of the sayd Genuoa man of warr who
| + | |
− | plundered & deprived them of them and afterwards kept the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company XXXX some
| + | |
− | tyme prisoners in chaynes and after a while
| + | |
− | putt them on shoare in the Island of Chephalonia (sic) and put them
| + | |
− | XXX toXXXXX for them selves without allowing them either provisions
| + | |
− | or momey And further hee cannot depose/
| + | |
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− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
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− | | + | |
− | JOHN [HIS MARK] CARRIER
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− | His marke
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− | <nowiki>*********************************************************</nowiki>
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Examination: 5. John Gates, of Debtford, Kent, Ship Wright, one of the Carpenters of the Lady ffrigott, aged 18 : Date: June 4th, 1659===
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− | The 4:th day of June 1659
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− | | + | |
− | Examined on the sayd allegation/
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− | Rp
| + | |
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− | ?5:th JOHN GATES of Debtford in the County of Kent Shipps
| + | |
− | Wright one of the Carpenters of the ''Lady ffrigott''
| + | |
− | aged eighteene yeares or thereabouts a witnesse
| + | |
− | sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
| + | |
− | vizt
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− | | + | |
− | To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith hee goeing in the shipp the
| + | |
− | ''Lady''//
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− | P1110372 f. 126 verso & f. 127 recto
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− | P1110373 f. 126 verso
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− | //''Lady ffrigott'' the voyage in question and serving in her as
| + | |
− | one of the Carpenters XXXXXX knoweth that in the monethe and tyme
| + | |
− | arlate in the yeare 1658 happening next before the foureteenth day of
| + | |
− | November that yeare which was the day whereon the ''Lady ffirgott'' amd her
| + | |
− | ladeing were seized in manner hereafter declared the arlate John Swift
| + | |
− | John Parker John Harris and Company all English men & subiects of
| + | |
− | the Commonwealth of England were (and as hee beleeveth still ought
| + | |
− | to be the true & lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the sayd shipp the
| + | |
− | ''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle apparrell & furniture and for such
| + | |
− | comonéy reputed./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 2 and 3 arle hee saith that hee knoweth that in ?Examinate & tyme arlate the sayd shipp was
| + | |
− | ?hyred and taken to freight by some of the Turkey Company
| + | |
− | Merchants of London (but their names hee knoweth not in pticuler) to
| + | |
− | to goe upon a Merchandising imployment from London to Petr?ao arlate
| + | |
− | and ?Mahaligo & other places beyond the seas to lade Currans and
| + | |
− | other goods for their use & Account & bring them for London & there
| + | |
− | deliver them to them or their Agents and did accordingly within the
| + | |
− | sayd tyme arrived at the Roade of Potrea and there & at Mahalago
| + | |
− | tooke in Currans to the quantity of one hundred and threescore
| + | |
− | Tonnes which were laden by the Agents of the sayd ffreighters to
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− | & for the sayd ffreighters Account to be thence transported to London
| + | |
− | & there dekivered ti the sayd ffreighters or their Agents for their use
| + | |
− | this hee knoweth being one of the sayd shipps
| + | |
− | Company and helping to lade the sayd Currans And further hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th 5:th 6:th and 7:th ares hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' having taken aboard her the sayd hundred & sixty ?tonnes of
| + | |
− | Currans for the sayd ffreighters Account besides severall other quan-
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− | tities of Currans laden aboard her for Account of Captaine Hosyer
| + | |
− | the Captaine of her, & of his Company as their private Adventures
| + | |
− | and lyeing in peaceable manner therewith in the Roade of Potrai
| + | |
− | at Anchor, there came into the sayd Roade upon the fowerteenth of
| + | |
− | November 1658 a shipp of about a hundred & fifty tonnes burthen
| + | |
− | & having a white Ancient in her poope and made as if shee
| + | |
− | had intended to come to Anchor by the ''Lady ffrigott'' but being come
| + | |
− | neere her the Captaine & Company of the sayd shipp boarded the
| + | |
− | ''Lady ffrigott'' & in a warlike manner assaulted the Captaine &
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− | Company of the ''Lady ffrigott'' with swords & gunnes and other warlike
| + | |
− | instruments & wounded the Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott'', and this
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− | deponent and about fower more of the sayd frigotts company
| + | |
− | & surprized & tooke the sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing of
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− | Currants & dispoiled the Owners thereof the same & XXX XXXXX
| + | |
− | them to the use of them the sayd seizers, And hee saith that all or the greatest
| + | |
− | part of the sayd shipps company that made the sayd seizure were
| + | |
− | Italians, except one dutch man who was Master XXXXX & an other
| + | |
− | dutchman that was gunner of her, & an Irish man who was one of
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− | her Company, and hee further saith that after the sayd seizure the sayd
| + | |
− | two dutch men & Irish man (who could & did speake all XXXX of them good
| + | |
− | English) did acknowledge & confesse to this deponent & severall others
| + | |
− | of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company that the sayd shipp which made the
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− | sayd seizure was a shipp belonging to Gennoa and called the ''Sta
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− | Cruse'' and that her Captaines name was ffrancisco Stale, and that
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− | her Company (except thXXX three) were all or most of them GenoXses
| + | |
− | & that shee was sett out from Gennoa together with two other ships of
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− | warr that came thence in her Company by the arlate Hippolite Centurioni
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− | and//
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− | f. 127 recto only
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− | | + | |
− | //and that their Captaine ffrancisco Stale had a little before hee seized
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− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing taken mariners and souldiers out of
| + | |
− | the sayd other two shipps of warr to enable him the better to take the ''lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' or any English shipps they could meete with, And that the sayd shipp
| + | |
− | the ''Sta Cruse'' was sett out from Gennoa as a man of warr against the
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− | Turkes & hatd taken a Spanish Commission which was XXXX only for
| + | |
− | a tyme which tyme (as the sayd dutch men & Irish man acknowledged to this
| + | |
− | deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company) was expired some moneths
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− | before shee seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing, but as the sayd dutch
| + | |
− | men and Irish man dayd the Captaine & Company did saye and affirme
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− | that they were resolved though their sayd Spanish Commission were
| + | |
− | expired yet they would take & were resolved to take all English shipps
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− | & their ladeing they ?could meete with And further to these arles hee cannot
| + | |
− | depose/
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− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that in his this deponents
| + | |
− | Judgment the shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle & furniture and
| + | |
− | freight & stock & provisions on board her at her seizure aforesaid were well worth
| + | |
− | two thousand pounds of lawfull English money and soe much at the least
| + | |
− | in this deponents Judgment the arlate Swift Parker & Harris & other her Owners were damnified
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− | by her being surprized by the sayd Gennoa man of warr in XXXX the ''Sta
| + | |
− | Cruse'' And further hee cannot depose./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred and sixty tonne of Currans
| + | |
− | laden aboard the ''Lady ffrigott'' for Accompt of the Turkey
| + | |
− | Company freighters of the sayd shipp and seized in her as aforesayd
| + | |
− | were at their seizure worth in this deponents Judgement and estimate
| + | |
− | thirteene thousand pounds of lawfull English money, and would have yeilded
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− | the sayd ffreighters soe much if they had not bin seized in manner afore
| + | |
− | sayd And further hee cannot depose./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that hee wel knoweth
| + | |
− | being one of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' company as a foresayd & aboard at her seizure
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− | that the arlate Captaine Hosyer and his Company of mariners had on
| + | |
− | board the ''Lady ffrigott'' at the tyme of her seizure by the Gennoa man of
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− | warr called the ''Sta Cruse'' goods Cloathes and instruments worth
| + | |
− | in this deponents Judgement eighteene hundred pounds of lawfull English money all which the
| + | |
− | Captaine & Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' aforesayd plundered and tooke
| + | |
− | away from the sayd Hosyer Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott''
| + | |
− | and his Company, and having soe done kept the sayd Hosyer and ?his
| + | |
− | Company for some tyme prizoners in chaynes and afterwards turned
| + | |
− | them on shoare in the Island of Chepalonia to shiXX for them selves
| + | |
− | without allowing them either money or provisiones/
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− | | + | |
− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposiccon is true
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− | | + | |
− | JOHN GATES [His signature]
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− | | + | |
− | <nowiki>*********************************************************</nowiki>
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Examination: 6. John Cock, of Redriff, Surrey, Mariner, late Quartermaster of the Lady ffrigott, aged 40: Date: June 4th, 1659===
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− | The same day
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− | Examined on the sayd allegation./
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− | 6 JOHN COCK of Redriff in the County of Surrey
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− | Mariner late Quartermaster of the ''Lady ffrigott'' aged
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− | forty yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and
| + | |
− | examined saith and deposeth as followeth vizt./
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− | To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith hee goeing Quarter
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− | Master of the ''Lady ffrigott'' the voyage in question knoweth that the arlate John
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− | Swift//
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− | P1110374 f. 127 recto
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− | | + | |
− | Content same as recto side of P1110372
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− | P1110375 f. 127 verso & f. 128 recto
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− | P1110376 f. 127 verso
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− | //Swift John Parker & other their Company all Englishmen & subiects of
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− | this Commonwealth of England were in the moneths & tyme arlate in the
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− | yeare 1658 untill the tyme of her seizure which was in or about the XXX
| + | |
− | of November 1658, were commonly reputed lawfull Owners & Proprietors
| + | |
− | of the sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' & her tackle & furniture And further hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 2 and 3 arles hee saith that hee foeing Quarter Master the voyage in question knoweth that
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− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' was lett to freight in the moneths & tyme arlate to certayne
| + | |
− | English Merchants of the Maria (OR, Morea) Company tradeing for Turkey to goe from
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− | London to Polerao & other places beyond Seas & lade Currans & other goods
| + | |
− | for their Account & bring them for London & theire deliver them to them or their
| + | |
− | Agents and knoweth that the sayd Ship in order to her sayed voyage sett sayle
| + | |
− | from Gravesend in May 1658 and afterwards arrived safely at Polerao
| + | |
− | and XXXX and at Lathalago tooke in Currans which were laden aboard
| + | |
− | the ''Lady ffrigott'' by the Agents or ffactors of the sayd Maria Company and
| + | |
− | did account to a hundred and sixty tonnes of Currans, and also other
| + | |
− | goods & money for their Account but the quantitie hee knoweth not which
| + | |
− | Currans & other goods & money were to be transported from Polera to
| + | |
− | London for Account of the sayd Maria Company freighters of the sayd shipp &
| + | |
− | there delivered to them or their Agents for their use, but the names of the XXXX
| + | |
− | Company who XXXX the sayd ffreighters hee knoweth not And farther to
| + | |
− | these arles hee cannot depose./
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th 5:th 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' having taken the sayd Currans and other goods & money aboard
| + | |
− | her lay peaceably therewith at Anchor in the moneth of November
| + | |
− | 1658 in the road of Polarao And saith that while shee lay there
| + | |
− | there came a shipp of warr into the sayd Roade of about a hundred &
| + | |
− | fifty tonns burthen and having a white Ancient in her poope and
| + | |
− | made as if shee intended to come to an Anchor by the ''lady ffrigott''
| + | |
− | & came with her Anchor ?cockbills ready to dropp downe & with only her
| + | |
− | foresayle & mizzen abroad as if shee would have come only to Anchor
| + | |
− | but coming neere the ''lady ffrigott'', the Captaine & Company of the
| + | |
− | sayd shipp boarded the ''Lady ffrigott'' and in a warlike manner sett
| + | |
− | upion the Captaine & Company of her with swords gunnes pistills &
| + | |
− | other warlike Instruments and wounded the Captaine of her, and
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− | this deponent & his p:rcontest John Gales and others of the ''Lady ffrigotts''
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− | Company to the number in all of about eight besides the Captaine, and
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− | tooke & surprized the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her sayd ladeinge of
| + | |
− | Currans & other goods & money and dispoiled the Owners thereof of the
| + | |
− | same, and dispersed of it at the will & pleasure of them the sayd seizers
| + | |
− | And saith that most of the company of the shipp that made the sayd seizure
| + | |
− | were Italians saveing there were two dutch men the one the master &
| + | |
− | the other the Gunner of her, & an Irishman who were of her company &
| + | |
− | which dutch men & Irish man soake good English, and did to this deponent
| + | |
− | and other of the ''Lady ffrigott's'' Company after the seizure aforesayd
| + | |
− | confesse & declare that the name of the ssayd Shipp that made the seizure
| + | |
− | was called the ''S:ta Cruse'' and her Captaines name ffrancisco
| + | |
− | Stale, and that the sayd shipp ''S:t Cruse'' did belong to Gennoa, and
| + | |
− | that most of her Company were Genoese that shee & two other shipps
| + | |
− | of warr that came from Gennoa in her Company were sett out XXXX
| + | |
− | by Hippollito Centaerioni a Gennose, and that the sayed Cap
| + | |
− | taine Stale not long before hee seized this ''Lady ffrigott''& her ladeing
| + | |
− | had taken some mariners & souldiers out of the other two Gennia shipps
| + | |
− | of warr the bettwe to enable him to seize the ''Lady ffrigitt'' And XX
| + | |
− | the sayd shipp the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa as a man of
| + | |
− | warr against the Turcks & had bon a XXXXX while a broad & could get noe
| + | |
− | prizes & had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which was to be
| + | |
− | only for a tyme, which tyme as the sayd Irsihman & two dutch men XXX
| + | |
− | war expired two moneths before the ''S:ta Cruse'' seized the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' & her ladeing, but (as the sayed Irishman & dutchment alsoe say
| + | |
− | XXX//
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− | P1110377 f. 128 recto
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− | | + | |
− | //the Captaine & Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' did saye & declare that
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− | they were resolved that though their sayd Spanish Commission were
| + | |
− | expired yet they would take all English shipp & their ladeing which they
| + | |
− | could light of And further to these arles hee cannot depose,/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle and
| + | |
− | furniture & freight and XXXX & provisions which shee had on board
| + | |
− | her at the tyme when shee was seized by the sayd Gennoa man of warr
| + | |
− | named the ''S:ta Cruse'' was as this deponents Judgment worth five thiusand
| + | |
− | pounds of lawfull English money & soe much hee beleeveth the arlate
| + | |
− | Swifte & other her owners were damnified by reason of XXX surprizall./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred and sixty Tonnes of Currans
| + | |
− | laden aboard the ''Lady ffrigitt'' for Account of the Moria Company aforesayd
| + | |
− | her freighters, and aboard her at her seizure, were in hee this deponents
| + | |
− | Judgment worth fowerteene thousand pounds of lawfull English money And,
| + | |
− | soe much hee verily beleeveth they would have yeilded to the Owners of them
| + | |
− | if they had not bin seized in manner aforesayd./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th & 11:th arle hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer and
| + | |
− | his Company of Mariners had goods & cloathes & money aboard the ''Lady
| + | |
− | ffrigott'' at the tyme of her seizure by the foresayd Gennoa man of warr
| + | |
− | worth a very considerable value, and accounting in this deponents
| + | |
− | Judgment to eight hundred pounds at the least of lawfull English money
| + | |
− | all which hee saith hee well knoweth was plundered & taken away from
| + | |
− | them by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Gennoa man of warr wXX
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− | after they had taken the ame kept the Captaine & Company of the
| + | |
− | ''Lady ffrigott'' for some tyme prizoners in chaynes, & at length turned
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− | them a shoare in the Island of Chephalonia
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− | to shifte for them selves giving them only one smale basket of
| + | |
− | Rusks but noe money, And further hee cannot depose/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last hee sauth his foregoeing deposition is true./
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− | | + | |
− | <nowiki>*******************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
− | Case: XXXX ag:t Grove: Examination: 3 Captaine John Rand, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 40: Date: May 6th, 1659===
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− | | + | |
− | The 6:th of May 1659:
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− | Examined on y:e sd Allon
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− | | + | |
− | XXXX ag:t Grove)
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− | | + | |
− | Rp.
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− | | + | |
− | 3:us CAPTAINE JOHN RAND of Ratcliffe Marrine:r aged
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− | 40 yeares or thereabouts sworne and Examined.
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− | To the 9:th arle of the said Allon hee saith and Deposeth that
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− | for that hee hath used the sea for theise Eight and twenty yeered
| + | |
− | ast as a Master and Mariner; and used to saile to the Island
| + | |
− | of Barbadoes, for theise Nine yeeres last as M:r thereby well knoweth
| + | |
− | that it is a very Common, and Usuall thing for ships to miss
| + | |
− | the Island of Barbadoes, by reason of hurricanes, w:ch put them out
| + | |
− | of their Littitudes (sic), and saith that by reason of the said
| + | |
− | Hurricanes this Depo:t hath missed the Island twice, & one of those
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− | times was when y:e arlate ship y:e ?''Speare'' (Thomas Grove M:r)
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− | missed it, XXXXX y:e XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX as this Depo:t hath bin Credib,y Informed
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− | severall shipps did then misse y:e sd Island of Barbadoes, and went
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− | to y:e Leoward Islands. And further hee Cannot depose saving
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− | what followeth
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− | To//
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− | P1110378 f. 129 recto
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− | //him to be an able honest, and skilfull seaman and M:r and soe
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− | hee is Comonly accounted to be. And further, cannot
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− | depose:/:
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− | Upon y:e rest not Examined by direccon of the said Grove
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− | To the Interries
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− | To the 1:st hee saith y:e sd Grove requested this sd depo:t to come
| + | |
− | and testify in this Cause; and saith hee favoureth both the ptyes litigant
| + | |
− | a like, and if it were in his power. hee would give y:e Victory
| + | |
− | to M:r Grove; and saith hee never belonged to y:e said ship, and otherwise
| + | |
− | cannot answer./.
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− | The second concerneth him not.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee saith hee hath knowne y:e sd Luke Wood for
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− | about 14 or 15 yeeres next before his death, and for all that time hee had the
| + | |
− | repute of an honest and sober mann and further cannot
| + | |
− | Answer:/:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th hee saith that hee doth not knowe that y:e said Grove
| + | |
− | is accounted to be as is Interrate & Otherwise cannot answer
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | The 5:th Concerneth him not
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To y:e 6:th. 7:th. 8:th. 9:th. 10:th. 11:th. & 12:th hee cannot Answer thereunto:7.
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− | To the 13:th hee hath not soe deposed
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 14:th hee cannot Answer:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 15:th hee saith that hee went from Nevis many Dayes before y:e Day
| + | |
− | interrate. and therefore knoweth nothing of y:e matter Interrate
| + | |
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− | To the 16:th 17:th & 18:th he cannot answer:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 19:th he Cannot Answer.
| + | |
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− | To the last hee saith that hee is not allyed to y:e said Grove in any
| + | |
− | Degree of Kindred that he knoweth of & is nowayes related unto
| + | |
− | him: /./.
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− | JOHN RAND [His signature]
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− | <nowiki>***********************************************</nowiki>
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− | | + | |
− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 7. William Bowtell, of London, Merchant, aged 25 : Date: June 8th, 1659===
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− | The eighth of June 1659.
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− | Swifte and others against)
| + | |
− | CenturionX and others aforesd)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Examined upon the fore said allon given on the behalfe of
| + | |
− | the said Swifte and other.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Rp.
| + | |
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− | 7 WILLIAM BOWTELL of London Marchant, aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts
| + | |
− | sworne and examined.
| + | |
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− | To the nineth article of the said allegacon upon w:ch ?alon hee is by diXXXXX
| + | |
− | of the prudence examined, hee saith and deposeth that twenty hundred
| + | |
− | weight of Matyalago XXXX goe to and make a tonne of currans, And
| + | |
− | saith that in the moneth of ffebruary last past the shipp the ''Virgin frigot''
| + | |
− | (Andrew CraXXX master) came and arived in this port of London laded
| + | |
− | with XXXX Currans, for account of this deponent and John Trelgany merchant
| + | |
− | and that the said Currans weere all here sold for the sume of three pounds and two shillings XXXX
| + | |
− | per hundred weight one hundred w:ch XXXXX to this cont?est John Savage and company ?Citizens
| + | |
− | of this citie of London, Xating them the market price of that commoditie in
| + | |
− | this arle, that as this deponent heard and beleeveth good MahXXXX
| + | |
− | currans//
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− | P1110379 f. 129 verso
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− | //currans were then worth tenn shillings in the hundred XXXX XXX ?Zante
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− | currans were. And further ?that as hee was informed by lres of
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− | advise from Zante, and hath since bin informed by the said XXXXXX XXX
| + | |
− | the shipp the ''Lady frigot'' allegate and the said shipp the ''Virgin
| + | |
− | frigat'' were designed and intended to come together in company to this
| + | |
− | port, to w:ch purpose the ''Lady frigot'' was intended to come from
| + | |
− | Morea to Zante and thence to come along with the ''Virgin''
| + | |
− | w:ch if shee had done, and that the ''Virgin'', XXXX had not
| + | |
− | XXXXXX, the said shipp the ''Lady frigot'' with her lading allegate
| + | |
− | and in all probabilitie arrived here in ffebruary last as the ''XXX
| + | |
− | frigot'' did. And further deposeth not.
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− | W BOWTELL [His signature]//
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− | ===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Examination: 8. John Savage, of S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal Exchange, London, Merchant, aged 32 : Date: June 4th, 1659===
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− | //The same day.
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− | Examined upon the said allon
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 8: JOHN SAVAGE of the parish of S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal
| + | |
− | Exchange London Merchant, aged 32 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
| + | |
− | and examined.
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− | vidXX 9:us in XXX.XX:
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− | Rp.
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− | To the nineth arle of the said allon upon w:ch alone hee is by discretion
| + | |
− | of the producent examined, hee saith and deposeth that twenty hundred
| + | |
− | of ?Nathalago (OR, ?Mathalago) currans XXXX to and XXXke a XXXXX, and saith that
| + | |
− | in and during the monethes of November December January and
| + | |
− | ffebruary last ?Nathalago (OR, ?Mathalago) Currans were worth in this citie and
| + | |
− | would have yeilded three pounds and tenn shillings per hundred one
| + | |
− | hundred with another as the ordinary and XXXXX ?price for that XXXX
| + | |
− | w:ch hee knoweth ?being a ffreeman and a ?G:rocer of ?London
| + | |
− | and having XXXX used that trade, and thereby being well acquainted
| + | |
− | with the condition and price or valew of that commoditie, and
| + | |
− | further saith that in ffebruary last hee this deponent with
| + | |
− | William Savage and Thomas ?Atterton, brought the lading of
| + | |
− | currans of the shipp the ''Virgin frigot'' being Zante Currans of the producente William Bowtell ?as XX
| + | |
− | agreed and paid three pounds and two shillings per ?pound
| + | |
− | weight for the same and soe much hee saith they were worth XX
| + | |
− | and saith that Mathalago currants were XXXXX worth twenty XX
| + | |
− | per hundred more than Zante currants. and further ??he
| + | |
− | deposeth not.
| + | |
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− | JOHN: SAVAGE [His signature]
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| + | |
− | ===Case: Wood ag:t Grove: Examination: 4. Captain Thomas Thorne, of S:t Catherines XXXX, Mariner, aged 34: Date: June 18th, 1659===
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− | The 18:th of June 1659.
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− | Wood ag:t Grove)
| + | |
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− | Examined on Groves Allon
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | ?d:t Grove./
| + | |
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− | 4 CAPTAINE THOMAS THORNE of S:t Catherine XXX
| + | |
− | Mariner aged 24 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
| + | |
− | and Examined./.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 9:th arle hee saith that hee hath used y:e Barbadoes XXXXX
| + | |
− | of a ship for about six yeeres last. and thereby knoweth that
| + | |
− | Ships doe usually misse the Island of Barbadoes,
| + | |
− | by reason of Greate Currants. and foule and Thicke weather
| + | |
− | w:ch often times happens in these parts, and further cannot
| + | |
− | depose.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the ?13:th hee saith that hee this Depo:t on or about the first
| + | |
− | day of January 1657: arrived at Nevis where hee ?found
| + | |
− | that y:e Hurricanes had spoiled y:e plantaccons ?there
| + | |
− | XXXX//
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− | P1110380 f. 280 recto
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− | '''So-so quality digital image'''
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− | | + | |
− | //The 31:th of March 1659
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− | The Lord Protector against the shipp the ''Santa)
| + | |
− | Cruse'' don JoXXX XXXXX Commander XXX)
| + | |
− | in the River of Thames. BXXXX)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | JUAN FRANCESCO of MXXXX in ?Nova ?Hibernia
| + | |
− | mariner, aged 23 yeares or thereabouts, ?sworne
| + | |
− | and examined upon XXXX Interries
| + | |
− | in XXXXX XXXXX Highness behalfe XXXX
| + | |
− | prepXXXXX, deposeth as followeth.
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− | | + | |
− | To the first article hee saith that the said shipp the ''Santa Cruse'' belonged to the
| + | |
− | port of VXXX CXXX in ?Nova ?Hibernia in the Dominion of the king of
| + | |
− | Spaine, and belongeth as hee berily beleeveth to the said Captaine don JosXXXX
| + | |
− | or JoXXXXX XXXago, who XXX and is commonly esteemed the XX XXX XXXXX
| + | |
− | and that his dwelling (of this deponents knowledge) in XXX XXXXX aforesays
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the second hee saith that the said shipp in or about ffebruary last was a
| + | |
− | twelvemoneth departed from XXX XXXX aforesaid for S:ta Domingo, and
| + | |
− | arrived from VXXX CXXXXX XX two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar
| + | |
− | and tenn chests of perfume, and six sacks of Carra ?Nuts, and eight
| + | |
− | peeces of XXXXX, w:ch were to be carried to and delivered at Sta Domingo,
| + | |
− | XXXXXX her desigXXXX XX to take in Spanish bullion for Jamaica. And
| + | |
− | further hee cannot depose.
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− | | + | |
− | To the third hee saith that the said shipp departing from VXXX CXXXX
| + | |
− | put in the ?harbour to victuall, and after about foure or five monethes
| + | |
− | stay there, (occasioned by the Captaines falling sick) XXX departed to perXXXXX
| + | |
− | her voyage for Sta Domingo, and shortly after ?such her departure namely in
| + | |
− | or about August last XXXX, XXXX with and taken XXXX XX an English man of warr
| + | |
− | of foure XXX and fiftie men, and saith the said lading belonged to the
| + | |
− | said Captaine, a subiect of the king of Spaine, who laded them at
| + | |
− | Vera CXXXX aforesaid for his owne account. And further cannot depose.
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− | To the 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. and 13 hee saith hee was ine of the said ships company
| + | |
− | and is alsoe a subiect of the king of Spaine and
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− | ADD TEXT
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− | P1110381 f. XXXX verso
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− | '''High quality digital image'''
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− | //''Santa ?Cruse'' was built in CoXXXpeXye in the West Indies about foure
| + | |
− | yeeres since, where the said Captaine Joseppo Sinnego bought her
| + | |
− | and brought her to ?Vera Cruce wheare the said Captaine
| + | |
− | XXXed her with goods for Havana and there tooke in other goods
| + | |
− | and after ?some ?time of ?stay departed with her and her lading for
| + | |
− | Sta Domingo where hs designe was to deliver the said goods and there
| + | |
− | to embarque ?soldiers for Jamaica and XXXXX theem in the said XXX
| + | |
− | but?running at sea in her course from Havana on the coast of the said Havana
| + | |
− | was on or about the eight and twentieth of August last met with
| + | |
− | and taken by an English vessell of warr of ?fXXXX gunns /the name
| + | |
− | pf w:ch hee knoweth not, but saith her commander was called
| + | |
− | Captaine James) and the said shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' with her
| + | |
− | lading of two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar and two chests
| + | |
− | of ffranjinsense, six sacks of cacoa nuts & eight pecces of
| + | |
− | ?eigth, were upon the said seizure taken by the said Captaine
| + | |
− | James and XXXX XXX (in their said man of warr) and carried to
| + | |
− | Bermudas, and there the said man of warr and
| + | |
− | all her company being about 50 men saving the Captaine and one more) ?staid, and
| + | |
− | the said Captaine and ?that other persona nd such other as they ?got
| + | |
− | brought the said prize and lading directly for ladXXXX, XXXXX ?they
| + | |
− | now are their dXXXXX and his precontest being brought along
| + | |
− | in her saith the said goods were laded by and for seaparaterly
| + | |
− | account, all w:ch hee knoweth being embarked at Vera
| + | |
− | CXXXX to be a boy of the shipp to XXXX and doe reparires w:th
| + | |
− | and going from
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− | <nowiki>*********************************************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: Allen Allenson, of XXXXX in Holland, Mariner, aged 40: Date: April 2nd 1659===
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− | The second of Aprill 1659
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Examined upon an allon given ?in
| + | |
− | by Suckley the 30:th of March last
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | The Lord Protector against a parcell of)
| + | |
− | Virginia Tobaccoes and BarelXXXX)
| + | |
− | brought to Plimouth in the ''S:t Jacob'' of)
| + | |
− | Hamboro?w, and against TomXXXX and)
| + | |
− | others. Budd. Suckly. ffrancklin)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | ALLEN ALLENSON of EuXXXXX in
| + | |
− | Holland Mariner, aged fourtie yeeres
| + | |
− | or thereabouts sworne and examined
| + | |
− | XXXX and saith
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Rp
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− | | + | |
− | To the first and second third and fourth articles of the said allon hee saith and deposeth
| + | |
− | XXXX//
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− | END OF IMAGE OF THIS CASE: NEED TO DO FURTHER IMAGING
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− | ===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott: Examination: Catch Kyme, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, Mate of the Bantam ffrigot, aged 26 : Date: March 24th 1658===
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− | | + | |
− | P1110382 f. 266 recto
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− | '''High quality digital image'''
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //The 24:th of March 1658
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− | | + | |
− | A business of y:e Examinacon of Witnesses on the behalfe)
| + | |
− | of S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks)
| + | |
− | Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman, and)
| + | |
− | Company concerning the seizure, and for some time)
| + | |
− | detention and the hinderance of the trade in a Certaine)
| + | |
− | ship called the ''BANTAM FFRIGOT'' whereof Isaac Taylor)
| + | |
− | was M:r and Comand:r & such of the lading)
| + | |
− | as was aboard the said Ship in ffact but unduly made)
| + | |
− | by Antonie Van Voozst Captaine and Comander of
| + | |
− | the ship the ''Turtle Dove'' in the Imediate Service of)
| + | |
− | the Dutch East India Company and alsoe Concerning)
| + | |
− | all Damages happening thereupon and ag:t one John
| + | |
− | ?Mait ?Suijker y:e now, or late Generall of the said Company)
| + | |
− | at Battavia in y:e East Indias ag:t the said Van Voozst in pticular)
| + | |
− | and all others y:e will take upon them the Justificaccon of the said Busines)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | FRANCKLIN
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− | Examined upon
| + | |
− | and Allegacon given
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− | in by M:r ffrancklin
| + | |
− | on the part and
| + | |
− | Behalfe of the
| + | |
− | said S:r John Dethicke
| + | |
− | Knight Edward Bolle
| + | |
− | John Bancks Richard
| + | |
− | Foord, Edward Mico
| + | |
− | William Pretman
| + | |
− | and Company.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 1. ub: CATCH KYME of Ratcliffe in the
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− | parish of Stepney and County of Mid
| + | |
− | Mariner Mate of the ''Bantam ffrigot'' aged 26 yeeres or thereabouts
| + | |
− | Sworne and Examined
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth
| + | |
− | that during all the monethes of September
| + | |
− | October, November, December, January, ffebruary and March
| + | |
− | 1656: English Stil, and Continually since: the said S:r John
| + | |
− | Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard fford
| + | |
− | Edward Mico and William Pretman and Company
| + | |
− | have bin and are Comonly accounted and reputed the true
| + | |
− | and lawfull owne:rs and proprieto:rs of the said ship the
| + | |
− | ''BANTAM FRIGOT'' (whereof Isaac Taylor was & is M:r.) and
| + | |
− | of the tackle Apparrell, and furniture, And soe hee verils
| + | |
− | beleeveth they were, and at p:rsent are; And further hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the Second hee saith that y:e said S:r John Dethick, and
| + | |
− | Company aforesaid /who are all (as hee beleeveth) subjects of
| + | |
− | this Comonwealth of England.) did set out the said ship from
| + | |
− | this port of London in the sayd moneth of October 1656 (sic)
| + | |
− | upon their owne account (as hee beleeveth) to East India. there to
| + | |
− | Lade pepper. and other Merchandizes, and to bring the same
| + | |
− | for ?Europe, and saith the said Isaac Taylor, was and was
| + | |
− | M:r of the said ship y:e said voyage, and y.e arlate Thomas
| + | |
− | Newman Supra Cargoe; w:ch hee knoweth for that hee went M:rs Mate
| + | |
− | of y:e said ship (y:e said Voyage) and further cannot depose:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the third hee saith y:e said Taylo, Newman, and this depo:t
| + | |
− | the rest of the Marine:rs of the said Ship, set saile
| + | |
− | in her from this port to ?Indria ?Ponza in y:e island of Sumatra in y:e East Indias
| + | |
− | and there ?arriveth on or about y:e Nineth or tenth day of August 1657: w:ch hee knoweth being
| + | |
− | then on board her and further cannot depose//
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− | P1110383 f. 266 verso
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− | //To the 4:th. 5:th 6:th 7:th 8:th and 9:th hee saith that about a moneth after
| + | |
− | the Arrivall of the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigatt'' at Indra
| + | |
− | Ponza aforesaid the said Thomas Newman, and one ?ffrancis
| + | |
− | Griffith y:e then purser of the said ship (who is since deceased)
| + | |
− | did goe on shore, in the sd port of Indra Ponza, to buy pepper
| + | |
− | and did buy a great quantity of pepper there, w:ch was all
| + | |
− | to have bin transported in the said ship to Leghorne,
| + | |
− | for the Acco:t of Sr John Dethick and Company aforesaid
| + | |
− | And saith a Considerable Quantity of the said pepper
| + | |
− | was Laden on board her, w:ch did not Lade the said ship
| + | |
− | two Third pts of what shee could have well ?carryed
| + | |
− | and saith That while y:e Company of the said ship was lading
| + | |
− | in y:e rest of the sd pepper w:ch y:e said Thomas Newman and
| + | |
− | ffrancis Griffith had provided and whilest the said Newman
| + | |
− | and Griffith were on shore, providing More pepper to ?Complete Lading
| + | |
− | of the said ship, The arlate
| + | |
− | Comander of the ship the ''Turtle Dove'', whereof one Antonio van Voozt was Comander in the Service of the Dutch
| + | |
− | East India Company, and alsoe three pinnaces in y:e Company
| + | |
− | of the said ship ''Turtle Dove'', which were alsoe in the service of
| + | |
− | the Dutch East India Company, came all of them and
| + | |
− | Anchored by y:e said ''Bantam ffrigot'', and Imediately sent
| + | |
− | a Boate on board the ''Bantam ffrigot'', with a Dutch merchant
| + | |
− | therein & two others of y:e the ''Turtle Doves'' Company w:th hom w:ho Comanded y:e said Isaac Taylor, and the said
| + | |
− | Thomas Newman. (whereupon y:e comong of the said Dutch
| + | |
− | Merchant & the two others on board the said ship was sent came
| + | |
− | on board, to y:e said Dutch merchant) Not to take in any
| + | |
− | more pepper or other Goods onboard the said ''Bantam ffrigott''
| + | |
− | either at the said port of Indra Ponza, or any other port or
| + | |
− | place on that Coast, for if they did the said Captaine
| + | |
− | van Voozt who was y:e Admirall in those pts would seize and surprize them , or to that effect
| + | |
− | and thereupon y:e said M:r Newman went with the said Ducth
| + | |
− | Merchant onboad the said ship ''Turtle Dove'' to speake with the
| + | |
− | said Captaine Van Voozt and knowe of him why XXX
| + | |
− | would not permit him the said Newman to Trade XXXX
| + | |
− | his said ''Bantam ffrigot'' there, And saith that some XXXX
| + | |
− | after y:e said Newman had bin gone to the said XXXX
| + | |
− | Admirall the said Captaine Isaac Taylor sent this deponent
| + | |
− | in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate. to fetch the said M:r Newman
| + | |
− | from on board y:e said Dutch Admirall on board the ''Bantam ffrigot''
| + | |
− | And this depo:t being come on board the said Dutch Admirall
| + | |
− | hee heard the said Admirall Voozt, say and declare unto
| + | |
− | the said M:r newman that hee the said Voozt had order?s
| + | |
− | from the Generall of Battavia to hinder allEnglish Shipps
| + | |
− | from Commerce and Trade in these parts, and to seize y:e XXX
| + | |
− | if they did soe, or to that effect, and alsoe shewed the said XXX
| + | |
− | (in the p:rsence of this depo:t his orders in writing with a Great XXXXX Given him
| + | |
− | the said Generall, to the foresaid purpose & effect, and XXX//
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− | P1110384 f. 267 recto
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− | //Admirall Van Voozt Commander the said M:r Newman (in
| + | |
− | this Depo:ts hearing) not to take in any more pepper or other goods
| + | |
− | at Indra Ponza or any other ports or places on that Coast
| + | |
− | and told the said Newman that if hee did soe, or offered to doe soe; hee must and
| + | |
− | would seize and surprize his goods or to that effect, and
| + | |
− | thereupon the said M:r Newman went with this depo:t in
| + | |
− | the said ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate, (w:ch this depo:t had brought
| + | |
− | for him as aforesaid) and went on board the ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrigot'', and told the said Captaine Taylor what the said
| + | |
− | Dutch Admirall Voozt, had declared and said, and the
| + | |
− | next day the said Captaine Taylo:r went with this depo:t
| + | |
− | on board y:e said Dutch Admirall, and saith that upon
| + | |
− | the said Taylor coming on board; y:e said Taylor and
| + | |
− | Van Voozt had a great deale of Difference together in
| + | |
− | Dutch, (w:ch this depo:t cannot understand) and saith that
| + | |
− | the said Voozt did shewe y:e said Taylour and after this depo:t and the said Taylor had bin XX on board y:e said XXXX came alsoe unto XXXX XXXX Dutch in y:e p:rsence of this depo:t & y:e sd Newman his foresaid
| + | |
− | orders in writing. w:ch had a great seale affixed therto
| + | |
− | as aforesaid, and the said Voozt delivered the same to
| + | |
− | the said Taylo:r to read: w:ch the said Taylo:r (who well
| + | |
− | understandeth the Dutch Language, and can write and read the same.) accordingly did read y:e same over; and after
| + | |
− | hee had soe done hee & the said Newman went with this depo:t in the said
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate on board y:e ''Bantam ffrigot'', And
| + | |
− | y:e said Taylo:r ?there told the said Newman & this depo:t that y:e said writing that hee
| + | |
− | soe read was a Comission from y:e Generall of Battavia
| + | |
− | to hinder English Ships from Trade there and further hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose; saving that the said Captaine Van Voozt, did
| + | |
− | send one of ?his foresaid pinnaces about thirty
| + | |
− | men therein, to lye at the Rivers mouth at Indra Ponza to hinder
| + | |
− | and did hinder the goeing in and coming out of the Captaine
| + | |
− | and Company of the ''Bantam frigot'' (sic), to and from Indra Ponza
| + | |
− | and from bringing any goods from thence on board y:e said ship
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigot''.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th hee saith that a day or two after the said Tailo:r M:r Newman and
| + | |
− | this depo:t had bin on board y:e said Dutch Admirall. the said
| + | |
− | M:r Newman. (w:ch was then on shore) put a Quantity of pepper in y:e said
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigots'' Long Boate, and the said Newman himselfe
| + | |
− | went in y:e said Boate, and intended to have come directly
| + | |
− | to the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and to put y:e said pepper
| + | |
− | on board her, But the said Boate and pepper. and alsoe the
| + | |
− | said Thomas Newman was seized by order of the said Van
| + | |
− | Voozt and y:e said pepper y:e said Voozt caused to be tooke out of y;e Boate a& put into his owne and by him detained and further hee deposeth not
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 11:th hee saith hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid
| + | |
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− | To the 12:th hee cannot depose; hee being then dangerously sick in his
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− | Cabbin: saving y:e ''bantam ffrigot'' was carried by the said Van
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− | Voozt and his Company to Battavia. and there anchored under
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− | Comand of the said Van Voozt his said ship, and severall other Dutch//
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− | //To the 14:th hee saith that y:e said Thomas Newman
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− | and Isaac Taylor were Comanded at Battavia to appeare
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− | before John Ma?rt ?Sayler Generall of the Dutch East
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− | India Company at Battava (sic), and further cannot depose
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− | To the 15:th and 16:th hee cannot depose being then dangerously
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− | sick, and was carried out of the said ship ''Bantam ffrigot''
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− | to a house in Battavia where hee lay sick about
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− | five weekes.
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− | To the 17:th & 18:th hee saith that the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigot''
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− | was detained and hindered by y:e said Van Voost
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− | and the Generalll of Battavia, and their order, from
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− | the Eleventh of October 1657: or therabouts
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− | untill the tenth of December following, and then
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− | the said Ship set saile from Batavia for Rurope
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− | w:th such Pepper as shee had taken in before the said
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− | 11:th of October, shee not being pmitted to take in
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− | any goods whatsoever afterwards in those parts that
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− | this depo:t knoweth of, and further cannot depose
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− | saving as aforesaid
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− | To the 19:th hee cannot depose:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 20:th hee saith that the said Bantam ffrigot
| + | |
− | was when she was in the pts aforesaid of the
| + | |
− | Burthen of about Two hundred and tenne Tonns
| + | |
− | and as many Tonne of pepper hee beleeveth shee
| + | |
− | would have brought for Europe y:e said Voyage; had shee
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− | not bin hindred interrupted and detained as aforesd. and further
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− | cannot depose:
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− | To the 21:th hee saith y:e said ship y:e ''Bantam ffrigot''
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− | after her Departure from Battavia, sayled to Leghorne
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− | and there safely arrived on or about the 18:th day
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− | of August 1658: and there her said pepper taken in
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− | at Indra Ponza was delivered. but howe many
| + | |
− | Tonns y:e same amounted to hee knoweth not, and saith
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− | hee this depo:t was upon y:e departure of y:e said ship ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrigot'' brought from shore on board her, and Carried
| + | |
− | in her to Leghorne and further cannot depose:
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− | To the 22:th 23:th 24:th 25:th 26:th 27:th 28:th and 19:th hee saith hee
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− | cannot depose thereto saving as aforesaid, and saving
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− | that the said S:r John Dethick Knight, and y:e reste of
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− | the sd Owne:rs: and Imploy:rs of y:e said ship, have suffred
| + | |
− | great Losse and dammage by meanes of the premisses
| + | |
− | but saith hee cannot estimate the same,:
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− | To the 20:th hee saith that whilest the said Shipp y:e ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrigat'' was upon y:e sd Coast of Sumatra, y:e Voyage in question
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− | and during all the space the Dutch as aforesaid had her in XXX
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− | power//
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− | //Power, and under their Command neither the said Thomas
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− | Newman y:e Supra Cargoe of the said Ship ''Bantam ffrigot'' nor the
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− | said Isaac Taylor y:e captaine of the said ship ?or any of
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− | y:e Marine.rs of her did doe any Injury or Wrong in
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− | any Kinde to the said Dutch or any of them. ?that this
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− | depo:t knoweth if. but did XXXXX them selves Civily
| + | |
− | and peaceably towards them and this hee XXXXX
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− | being M:r Mate of y:e said ship y:e said Voyage And
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− | further cannot depose:
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− | To the 31:th hee Cannot depose
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− | To the 32:th he saith his foregoeing depon is true
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− | Repetit before D:r Godolphon
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− | CALIB XXXXX [His signature]
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− | ===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott: Deposition: 2. Lewis Walter, of Deptford, Mariner, aged 40 : Date: March 25th 1658===
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− | The 25:th day of March 1659
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− | Examined on the said Allon
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− | 2:us LEWIS WALTER of Deptford Mariner
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− | aged 40 yeeres or thereabouts: sworne and Examined:/:
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− | To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith that XX XXX monethes
| + | |
− | of September, October, November. Decembe:r January ffeb:ry
| + | |
− | and March 16?46. English Stile and Continually since the
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− | arlate S:r John Dethick Knight XXXXX John Banckks Richard fford
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− | Edward Mico & Willaim Prittman, and Company, or some
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− | of them, (being all subjects of this Commonwealth) were
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− | and at present are the true and lawfull owners and
| + | |
− | Imployers of the arlate ''BANTAM FFRIGO:T'' and of her tackle
| + | |
− | and furniture as hee verily beleeveth, and soe hee saith
| + | |
− | they were and are Commonly accounted: And This hee
| + | |
− | deposeth for that hee wenta ll the Voyage in question
| + | |
− | Steward of the said Bantam ffrigot. and further cannot depose
| + | |
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− | To the second hee saith that in the said moneth of October
| + | |
− | 1656: the foresaid S:r John Dethick, John Banks; Richard
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− | fford Edward Mico and William Prittman (who are all of
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− | them well knowne to this Depo:t) and alsoe y:e arlate Edward
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− | Bolle: did set out the said ship from this port of London
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− | upon their owne account to East India there to Lade XXXX
| + | |
− | and bring y:e same to Europe; for their Account, And
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− | saith that the said Setters forth of the said ship did Appoint
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− | y:e arlate Isaac Tailo:r to goe M:r of the said ship and the
| + | |
− | arlate Thomas Newman Supra Cargoe of her the said
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− | voyage, And the said Taylor & Newman did goe y:e said Voyage
| + | |
− | in y:e said ship. in their said Apointed Place. The premises
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− | he deposeth for the said S:r John Dethick and the rest of the XXX
| + | |
− | aforesd did from XXX come on board y:e sd Shipp, before and at XXX XXXX//
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− | //To the 3:d hee saith that the said ship ''Bantam ffrigat'' set
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− | saile from this port with y:e said Captaine Tayl:rs and M:r
| + | |
− | Newman on board her, and safely arrived in Indra ponza
| + | |
− | Road upon y:e Coast of Sumatra in or about the moneth
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− | of August 1657: w:ch hee knoweth for that hee sailed
| + | |
− | thither in her. And further cannot Answer./.
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− | To the 4:th 5:th
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− | ===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott: Deposition: 3. William Chamber, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, Gunner of the Bantam ffrigott, aged 48, Date: March 28th 1658===
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− | ===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott: Deposition: 4. Thomas Newman, of Mile End, Stepney, Merchant, late Supra cargo of the Bantam ffrigott, aged 43: Date: Aprill 16th 1658===
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− | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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− | To the 4:th hee saith that
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− | Indra Ponza Roade is and ought to be
| + | |
− | a place free for the English to trade in ober w:ch place y:e Queene of Achine
| + | |
− | (whom this depo:t well knoweth having lived with her about five yeeres)
| + | |
− | was and is the supreame Governournesse; who did about three yeeres
| + | |
− | since?there: and at all other of her Dominiones proclaime ffree
| + | |
− | Trade to the English Nation; And saith hee hath a Copy of the
| + | |
− | said Proclamacon now in his Custody. And saith that after the
| + | |
− | arrivall of the said Ship in y:e said Road this depo:t and one
| + | |
− | ffrancis Griffith (who is since deceased) went ashore to Indra
| + | |
− | Ponza to buy and provide pepp to lade the said ship, and did
| + | |
− | there buy & provide enough pepper XXX to Lade the said ship, and was
| + | |
− | all to have bin there put on board her. and to be Carried and
| + | |
− | Transported in her to leghorne for the Account of the said ffrancis
| + | |
− | who hee knoweth for y:e Reasons aforesd, And further deposeth not.
| + | |
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− | To the 5:th arles of the said Allon, hee saith that in y:e monethes
| + | |
− | of September, and October 1657, this Depo:t upon y:e Account aforesd
| + | |
− | did Lade aboard y:e said ship y:e ''Bantam'', shee then Lying in teh Roade
| + | |
− | of Indra Ponza aforesaid six hundred seaventy two BXXXX of pepp
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− | And//
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− | //And that the rest of the pepper sufficient fully to lade the said
| + | |
− | ship was then ready provided, and XXX, and was ready
| + | |
− | to have bin put on board, and would have bin Laden Aboard
| + | |
− | the said Ship within three or foure dayes next following, in
| + | |
− | case y:e arlate Antonio van Voozt and Company had not
| + | |
− | hindered them as hereafter is declared:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 6:th & 7:th arle of the sd Allon hee saith that on or about
| + | |
− | the Eleveth day of October 1657: English Stile namely p:rsently after hee
| + | |
− | this depo:t had sent out y:e foresaid 672 Bahaizes (sic) of Pepper on board the
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigot'', this depo:t was sent for to Come on board
| + | |
− | the ''Bantam'', And this depo:t accordingly went on board
| + | |
− | the ''Bantam'', and upon his comming to her found y:e Arlate
| + | |
− | Ship the ''Turtle Dove'' whereof y:e said Van Voozt was Comander
| + | |
− | and alsoe three vessells with about tenne or Twelve peeces
| + | |
− | of Ordinance a peece; Anchored neere y:e Bantam; And saith that
| + | |
− | there came a Dutch Merchant from onboard y:e said Van Voozts
| + | |
− | Ship. (w:ch was the Admirall in those pts.) who told this dep:t that
| + | |
− | hee and y:e sd Taylor must come aboard their Comanders, (meaning the ''Turtle
| + | |
− | Dove''; w:ch this Depo:t accordingly did. but the said Taylo:r
| + | |
− | refused soe to doe saying hee had order from his imploy:rs
| + | |
− | not to goe out of his Ship; or to that effect, And saith that upon
| + | |
− | this Depots Comong on board y.e said ''Turtle Dove'', hee
| + | |
− | Asked the said van Voozt where fore hee had sent for this
| + | |
− | depo:t and y:e said Captaine Taylo:r to Come on board his
| + | |
− | Ship, or to that effect whereunto the said Van Voozt made
| + | |
− | Answer, that it was in regard the said ship the ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrigot'' being an English Ship did trade there or to that effect,
| + | |
− | And the said Van Voozt then pemptorily (sic) Charged & Comanded
| + | |
− | this Depo:t that neither hee nor the said Isaac
| + | |
− | Taylor nor any of y:e ''Bantams'' Company should trade there
| + | |
− | or to that effect, And this Depo:t then told the said Van Voozt
| + | |
− | that the ships full Lading of pepper was there ashore by him
| + | |
− | bought, and some of it was allready Laden, and y:e rest
| + | |
− | was provided to be laden and would within three or foure dayes
| + | |
− | be all Laden aboard the said ship, and that hee had
| + | |
− | money and Goods on shore; bit that hee should Dispatch all within
| + | |
− | three or foure Dayes, and then be ready to depart with the ''Bantam''
| + | |
− | and her Lading on board her, or to that effect and desired
| + | |
− | the said Van Voozt not to give him any interruption therein
| + | |
− | But the said Antonio van Voozt then told this Depo;t that if hee
| + | |
− | did not dept from thence with the said ship without further
| + | |
− | trading ?There, hee would forthwith force this depo:t and y:e sd Ship
| + | |
− | and Company thereof to Dept thence; or to that effect, All w:ch
| + | |
− | words and XXXions passed betweene this Depo:t & y:e sd Van Voozt on
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− | board//
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− | //On board the sd ''Turtle Dove'' in the ?Molaine and English Language
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− | but w:th Languages the said Van Voozt, and alsoe this Depo:t well spake
| + | |
− | & understood and saith that one Kaleb ?Kime Mate of the ''Bantam''
| + | |
− | heard some of the said words, and further hee cannot depose,
| + | |
− | saving that both the said Van Voozt, and y:e ''Turtle Dove'', and
| + | |
− | alsoe the said ther three vessells were then in the Imediate
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− | Service of the Dutch East India Company:
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− | To the 6:th hee saith that y:e next day after this Depo:t had bin
| + | |
− | on board y:e ''Turtle Dove'' as aforesaid y:e said Captaine
| + | |
− | Taylo:r went on board y:e said ''Dove'', but what discourse or
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− | Words passed betweene him & y:e sd Van Voozt hee knoweth
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− | not in regard hee went not with him, And further cannot
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− | depose.
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− | To the 9:th 10:th 11:th & 12:th hee saith that on y:e day y:t y:e said Taylo:r Went onboard
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− | the said ''Turtle Dove'' as aforesd or y:e next day after this depo:t and
| + | |
− | y:e said Taylo:r did againe goe aboard y:e sd ''Turtle Dove'', together,
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− | And this depo:t & the said Taylor after their Coming on board her told the said
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− | Van Voozt that besides y:e pepp that was on board the said
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigot'' hee this depo:t had laid out at Indra Ponza three Thousand
| + | |
− | Dollars and had invested y:e same in pepper. And desired
| + | |
− | the said Van Voozt that hee would not hinder the lading
| + | |
− | of the same on board the said Ship y:e ''Bantam'' or to that
| + | |
− | effect, But the said Van Voozt in a Violent and Angry manner
| + | |
− | said that none of the said Pepper should be brought aboard
| + | |
− | the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and said ffurther that if any attempt
| + | |
− | was made to bring any pepp aboard y:e said ship the
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigot'' hee would seize, and take the same, And
| + | |
− | alsoe told this depo:t and the said Tailo:r that
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− | all the Trade for pepp on the West Coast of Sumatra in
| + | |
− | the Queene of ?Acheines Dominions, belonged to the Dutch
| + | |
− | East India Company: And then this Depo:t
| + | |
− | went on board y:e ''Bantam'' and from thence this Depo:t
| + | |
− | went in the ''bantam ffrigots'' Boate ashore, and there
| + | |
− | caused about a Bahaire of pepper to be put on board y:e
| + | |
− | said Boate; and having soe done, this depo:t went him
| + | |
− | selfe into the said Boate intending to goe directly onboard
| + | |
− | the''Bantam'' with the said pepper. but in his passage
| + | |
− | one of y:e said Dutch Vessells. w:ch came and Anchored
| + | |
− | at or neere y:e Barre of y:e River of Indra Ponza, sent her
| + | |
− | boate and alsoe another Boate well manned to seize this depo:t and y:e said ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrogotts'' boate & y:e Pepper therein w:ch they accordingly did
| + | |
− | and Carried this depo:t & y:e Said Boate and Pepper to the
| + | |
− | said Dutch Vessell and from thence they were sent to the
| + | |
− | said Dutch Admirall the ''Turtle Dove''; and there the said
| + | |
− | Pepper was by the said Van Voozt his order. taken out
| + | |
− | of the said Boate and putt aboard y:e said ''Turtle Dove''
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− | //And there detained the same, And thereupon this Depo:t
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− | and the said Isaac taylor and one ?Gotham Howard
| + | |
− | Cheife Mate of the said ship protested against the
| + | |
− | said Antonio van Voozt Comander of the said ship
| + | |
− | the ''Turtle Dove'' and all of his Imploye:rs and having
| + | |
− | nowe seene the first schedule annexed to the sd Allon
| + | |
− | beginning WHEREAS THE QUEENE OF ACHEIN
| + | |
− | &c: and Ending: Dated from on board y:e ''Bantam''
| + | |
− | October y:e 19:th 1657: and subscribed Thomas Newman
| + | |
− | Isaac Taylo:r Gotham Howard. hee saith the same
| + | |
− | was and is a true Copy of the said Originall protest
| + | |
− | made by this depo:t and y:e said Isaac Taylo:r and Howard
| + | |
− | ag:t y:e sd Van Voozt, and all his Imploye:rs And
| + | |
− | y:e said Originall protest was really and truely signed
| + | |
− | by this depo:t and the said Isaac taylo:r and Gotham
| + | |
− | Howard on or about, the said Nineteenth of October 1657
| + | |
− | and y:e Contents thereof were and are true; And
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− | further hee doth not depose.
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− | To the 13:th hee saith that the said Van Voozt on or about
| + | |
− | the said Nineteenth of Octob:r 1657: Caused the sd
| + | |
− | Captaine Taylo:r and Company to Depart from
| + | |
− | Indra Ponza, and sailed with the ''Bantam ffrigot''
| + | |
− | in her way to Bantam. neere w:ch place arriving
| + | |
− | the said Van Voozt, nor any other of the Dutch shipps
| + | |
− | Lying before Bantam, soe that y:e ''Bantam
| + | |
− | ffrigot'' was Constrained to goe to Battavia. And y:e said Van Voozt in
| + | |
− | his ship the ''Turtle Dove''; and alsoe the saidthree other
| + | |
− | Dutch Vessells. Sailed with her thither, and there hee
| + | |
− | saith the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' lay under Comand of
| + | |
− | the said ''Turtle Dove''; and y:e sd Three other dutch
| + | |
− | vessells, and alsoe Under y:e Comand of severall other
| + | |
− | Dutch ships there lying, alsoe in y:e Service of the said
| + | |
− | Dutch East India Company. W:ch hee knoweth for that
| + | |
− | hee was Carried in y:e said Ship ''Bantam'' from
| + | |
− | Indra Ponza to Battavia. And further cannot depose
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− | To the 14:th & 15:th hee saith that upon or about the ?7:th o October
| + | |
− | 1657: English Stile this Depo:t, and Captaine Isaac Taylo:r
| + | |
− | were Comanded to Appeare before the arlate John
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− | Martsuyker the Generall of and for the Dutch East
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− | India Company at Battavia w:ch they according (sic) did
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− | And the said Generall then told this Depo:t and y:e
| + | |
− | said Taylo:r that hee had order that neither
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− | they, nor any of the English should trade in any of the
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− | Dominions of the Queene of Acheine, or to that effect
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− | but//
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− | P1110400 f. 275 recto
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− | //But the said Generall said that hee would speake with
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− | his Counsell there that they might be XXXXXX with a Lading
| + | |
− | at Battavia, And promised soe to doe, But notwithstandinge
| + | |
− | hee put on board y:e ''Bantam ffrigot'' two or three XXXX
| + | |
− | w:ch Comtinued on board y:e said Ship ''Bantam'', untill her
| + | |
− | departure from Battavia, w:ch was
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− | P111401 f. 275 verso
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| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //or thereabouts, During all w:ch time they or some of
| + | |
− | them, would not suffer this Depo:t nor the said Captaine
| + | |
− | Taylo:r nor any of the ''Bantam ffrigots'' Company
| + | |
− | to take in any newe or other Lading on board her,
| + | |
− | And soe this Depot and the said
| + | |
− | Taylo:r and Company were forced to Depart with
| + | |
− | the ''Bantam ffrigot'' from Battavia, and out of the
| + | |
− | East Indias for Europe; with only the foresaid six hundred
| + | |
− | Seaventy two Balarzes of pepp, w:ch were as aforesd
| + | |
− | Laden on board the said ship, at Indra Ponza before
| + | |
− | the said Van Voozt came and Interrupted and
| + | |
− | hindred them as aforesaid: The premisses hee
| + | |
− | Deposeth Goeing all the said time Supra Cargo
| + | |
− | of the said ship as aforesaid, and further Cannot
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− | depose
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− | | + | |
− | To the 10:th hee saith that had not this depo:t and Company
| + | |
− | bin Interrupted and hindred by the said Van
| + | |
− | Voozt and Company and y:e Dutch?X as aforesaid, all the said
| + | |
− | pepp that this Depo:t had bought and provided
| + | |
− | at Indra Ponza as aforesaid would have bin Laden
| + | |
− | onboard the ''Bantam ffrigot'' for y:e account of the said ffreighto:rs and
| + | |
− | undoubtedly have bin brought safe for Europe for
| + | |
− | their said Account, And this depo:t further saith that
| + | |
− | hee heard the said Taylo:r say at Legorne that Command:XX
| + | |
− | of ships had there received her before any of her pepper
| + | |
− | was unladen, and had or would give an Attestaccon under
| + | |
− | their hands that the said ship Would have Carried
| + | |
− | Ninety five tonnes or thereabouts of pepper more than shee had on board her or to
| + | |
− | that effect, And further hee cannot depose:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 19:th hee saith hee Cannot depose:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 20:th hee saith that yt y:e time y:e said ship was in
| + | |
− | East India aforesaid shee was as hee beleeveth of the
| + | |
− | Burthen of 210 Tonnes or thereabouts, And further
| + | |
− | cannot depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 21:th hee saith that after y:e Departure of the said
| + | |
− | ''Bantam ffrigot'' from the East Indias as a foresaid shee
| + | |
− | set saile for Legorne and there arrived on or about
| + | |
− | the 18:th or 19:th day of August 1658: English Stile there the
| + | |
− | said six hundred seaventy two BXXXXXX of pepper
| + | |
− | were unladen and of the sd ship. And this
| + | |
− | hee deposeth arriving therein her and further hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose//
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− | //To the 22:th hee deposeth not:
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− | | + | |
− | To the 23:th hee can not depose.
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− | | + | |
− | To the 24:th hee cannot deose, saving that every hundred weight
| + | |
− | of the said Pepp at the time of the unlading thereof at Lighorne did
| + | |
− | make a quintall
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 25:th hee daith that at the said time of unlading
| + | |
− | the said shipp at Leghorne every Quintall was worth about
| + | |
− | fourteene peeces of Eight cleare of al Charges (sccounting
| + | |
− | every oeece of Eight at five shillings a pXXXX and XXXX
| + | |
− | and about that rfate a Quintall of Copper (sic) was then and
| + | |
− | there usually sold for. And further hee Cannot depose
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− | | + | |
− | To the 26:th hee saith that the said 672 Bahaizes of
| + | |
− | pepp soe laden on board the said ship as aforesaid at
| + | |
− | Andra (sic) Ponza, and Carried in the said ship XX XXXX did
| + | |
− | cost at Indra Ponza XXXX thousand seaven hundred &
| + | |
− | fifteene peeces of Eight or neere thereabouts accounting
| + | |
− | every peece of Eight at five shillings a peece at Indra
| + | |
− | Ponza, w:ch doth amount unto 2428:li 15:s sterl: And saith
| + | |
− | that the provision and ?scuturage of the same doth amount
| + | |
− | to about 375:li sterl. The p:rmisses hee deooseth being
| + | |
− | supra Cargoe of the said ship the said voyage; and
| + | |
− | Laid out the said peeces of Eight at Indra Ponza
| + | |
− | And further cannot depose:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 28:th hee saith that the said S:r John Dethick
| + | |
− | Knight, and the rest of the ffreighters aforesad, have abd
| + | |
− | must pay all y;e Dead ffreight, and for the Dammage
| + | |
− | of the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' by the Dutch aforesd
| + | |
− | And further hee cannot depose:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 29:th hee saith that the said S:r John Dethick and all
| + | |
− | the partyes in the suite; (w:ho are all Englishmen and
| + | |
− | subjects of this Comonwealth of England) besides the
| + | |
− | foresaid damages , have sustained great Loss; and
| + | |
− | Damages in forbearance of their principall money.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | And further cannot depose.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 30:th hee saith that during the time that the said
| + | |
− | ship the ''Bantam ffrigot'' was upon y:e Coast of Sumatra
| + | |
− | & in y:e East Indias y:e Voyage in question; this depo:t
| + | |
− | and the said Captaine Taylor and Company of the
| + | |
− | said Ship Did Carry and demaneane themselves very
| + | |
− | Civilly, and peacably, and did not doe any Injury or
| + | |
− | wrong to any of the ships, goods, or psons, of or belonging
| + | |
− | to the said Dutch East India Company, And that in
| + | |
− | ?Respect//
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− | //Respect of the Lading of the said Ship un the East Unias
| + | |
− | the Generall of Battavia, and y:e said Van Voozt and
| + | |
− | Company, Dif not Carry themselves Civilly towards
| + | |
− | this Depo:t and y:e sd Taylo:r and Company. W:ch hee
| + | |
− | knoweth, for y:e Reasons aforesd. And further
| + | |
− | cannpt depose
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 31:th hee saith that the said John Maetsuijker
| + | |
− | the Generall of the said Dutch East India Company
| + | |
− | at battavia Did (upon or about the 11:th
| + | |
− | day of December 1657) at Battavia
| + | |
− | give this Depo:t writing in the Dutch Language
| + | |
− | subscribed w:th his owne hand. signifying. the goode
| + | |
− | Carriage, and dilligence of this Depo:t And having
| + | |
− | now sene the third schedule annexed to the said Allon
| + | |
− | hee saith the same was and is the said Originall
| + | |
− | writing soe Given to this Depo:t and by the sd Generall & XXXXX this Deps saw
| + | |
− | the said ?Joan Mastsing subscribe the same
| + | |
− | And further cannot depose-
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | THOMAS NEWMAN [His signture]
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Here end proceedings in the protestors name
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | <nowiki>***********************************</nowiki>
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− | ADD TEXT
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− | P1110404 f. 277 recto
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− | ===Case: The Brazill Company of Portugall concerning the Jonathan and Abigaill: Deposition: Thomas Morley: Date: June 13th 1659===
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //The 13:th of June 1659
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | The Brazill Company of Portugall ag:t)
| + | |
− | 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood or)
| + | |
− | therabouts brought to this port)
| + | |
− | in the ''Jonathan and Abigail'')<ref>The ''Jonathan and Abigaill''. See a later case involving the same ship. ([[MRP: HCA 13/76 Part One#head-5cf0caba21d3cd72801297968068a55885f62c8c|HCA 13/76 Part One: f. 1 recto: Case: The Jonathan and Abigail vs. Daniel Edwards: Deposition: Thomas Andrews, of Wapping, in the parish of White Chappell: Date: 16:th August 1666]]</ref>
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | (Thomas Morley M:r) and ag:t)
| + | |
− | John Thacker)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Suckley Cheeker
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Rp
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Examined upon y:e Allon given
| + | |
− | in by M:r Suckley
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | THOMAS MORLEY master of
| + | |
− | the ship the ''Jonathan & Abigail''
| + | |
− | aged 48 yeeres or thereabouts
| + | |
− | sworne and Examined.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith and Deposeth
| + | |
− | that y:e parcell of Brazil wood arlate (being two Hundred Kintalls (sic), or therabouts
| + | |
− | was was (sic) brought to this Port in y:e said ship the ''Jonathan
| + | |
− | & Abigail'', as Delivered to this Depo:t out of a yard at
| + | |
− | Lisbone, w:ch yard did belong to the Portugall XXXX ?India Company as thisDepo:t
| + | |
− | was then and there Credibly Informed and ?soe hee verily beleeveth
| + | |
− | And saith that one John Roles, a Portugueze (sic) Broker, whom
| + | |
− | this Depo:t Imployed in procuring of goods to lade onboard y:e sd
| + | |
− | ship upon freight did ?procure all y:e said Brazill Wood, and y:e said Roles
| + | |
− | hath often times told this Depo:t, about the time of the Lading thereof that y:e said Wood was to be
| + | |
− | transported in y:e said Ship to London for y:e Account of the
| + | |
− | Portugall Brazil Company, and soe this Depo:te verily beleeveth it was,
| + | |
− | And saith that the said Roles did pcure other goods for this
| + | |
− | Depo:t y:e said time of this Depo:ts being there, and saith there
| + | |
− | was an Agreemt made amongst divers of the Merchants that
| + | |
− | laded goods in y:e sd Ship that there should be
| + | |
− | a Teston upon each Chest of Sugar, and tow Ryalls upon
| + | |
− | each pipe of Oyle, and after that proporcon, for other goods
| + | |
− | to be Given as a Gratuity to y:e Convoy that stayed there for
| + | |
− | the ''Jonathan & Abigail'', and other English ships then there
| + | |
− | And this Depo:t Demanded of the said Roles y:e like rates
| + | |
− | for y:e said Brazill Wood and y:e other goods y:t hee
| + | |
− | procured, and y:t were laden on board y:e said Ship, But for
| + | |
− | the said 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood y:e said Roles refused
| + | |
− | to allow any thing. telling this Depo:t that y:e same did belong
| + | |
− | to the Brazil Company, and they being a Joint Company
| + | |
− | would beare their owne Adventures or to that effect, But
| + | |
− | for the other goods that the sd Roles procured, y:e said Roles allowed y:e rates
| + | |
− | aforesaid, to this Depo:t for y:e said Convoy, And soe much this
| + | |
− | Depo:t beleeveth hee hath acknowledged to severall psons
| + | |
− | The foresd premises hee deposeth, being M:r of the said
| + | |
− | ship aforesaid And further Cannot depose./.
| + | |
− | To//
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− | ===Case: Mayflower vs. XXXX: Deposition: 2. John Stannian, of the City of London; Gentleman, aged 26: Date: September 23rd 1659===
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //The 23:th of September 1659
| + | |
− | Examined upon the fore said allegaccon
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | 2. JOHN STANNIAN of the vitie of London gent., aged 26
| + | |
− | yeeres or thereabouts sworne & examined
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first second and third of the articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and deposeth that hee well
| + | |
− | remembreth, and that in or about ffebruary or March last was
| + | |
− | XXXXXXth the Governour and Company of English Merchants trading
| + | |
− | to East India Imployed and XXX are the said shipp from this port of London
| + | |
− | on a trading voyage to goe and XXXX to XXXX on the coast of the Island
| + | |
− | of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, w;ch
| + | |
− | hee knoweth having XXXX the said Companies orders and XXXXXX XXX XXX
| + | |
− | with XX
| + | |
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| + | |
− | P1110405 f. 277 verso
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | //To the 2:d. hee saith that hee this Depo:t did in a former voyage
| + | |
− | carry about three hundred Quintalls of Brazeel wood, from Lisbone
| + | |
− | to Newhaven for y:e account as hee beleeveth of the said Brazil
| + | |
− | Companie, and y:t wood was procured Alsoe by the said Roles
| + | |
− | at the same BXXXXXX; And after, this Depo:te had receaved
| + | |
− | y:e said3000 Quintalls on board his Ship y;e sd Roles brought
| + | |
− | him bills of Lading, ready filled up; e:ch this Depo:t signed
| + | |
− | and ?those w:ch this Depo:t signed for y:e said 200 Quintalls
| + | |
− | of Wood now in Question; and alsoe for those other goods
| + | |
− | which hee then procured. he brought bills of Lading to this
| + | |
− | Depo:t, ready filled up in Portugueze, (w:ch this
| + | |
− | Depo:t doth not well understand) and this Depo:t signed y:e same
| + | |
− | And further cannot depose: /:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the third hee saith that y:e arlate ffrancis Pardini is
| + | |
− | (as this Depo:t hath heard) failed) ?in Estate, and y:e arlate
| + | |
− | John Thacker (as this Depo:t hath also heard) is Employed
| + | |
− | to make y:e said Pardinies Composicon with his Credito:es
| + | |
− | And y:e said Pardini had never y:e possession of the
| + | |
− | said wood. And further deposeth not saving hee referreth
| + | |
− | himselfe to the sd bill of Lading.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true:/:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the Interries.:/.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the first he saith that y:e Bill of Lading Interrate nowe
| + | |
− | showed unto him, is really signed by him this depot for
| + | |
− | y:e said 200 Quintalls of Brazill, Wood and this Depo:t signed
| + | |
− | onely two or three bills of Lading more for y:e said wood, w:ch this
| + | |
− | DEpo:t verily beleeveth wweere of the same teno:r. and saith
| + | |
− | hee as aforesaid beleeveth that the said goods were so laded for the account
| + | |
− | of the Portugale Brazile company for the reasons before deposed, and
| + | |
− | hee knoweth not XXXX did ?sen Marcos Valez da Silvera mentioned
| + | |
− | to be the lader in the said bill, nor knoweth him to be the lader, ?more
| + | |
− | than that that hee is so said to be in the said bill, the said XXXX being
| + | |
− | the only person that procured and ordered the said lading, and saith the
| + | |
− | said lading was so made at Lisbone, and upon the seizure of her
| + | |
− | XXXXXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX, and that the said bill was signed on or
| + | |
− | about the day of the date thereof, And otherwise ?saving as aforesaid hee
| + | |
− | cannot depose.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the second hee saith that sometimes there are Colourable bills of
| + | |
− | Lading made& signed for goods, and noe reall bills, but in such
| + | |
− | Cases, the M:r of the ship hath Instrctions where and to wheom
| + | |
− | to Deliver the goods mentioned in y:e Colourable bills./:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 3:d hee saith that the said three hundred Quintalls w:ch this
| + | |
− | Depo:t Carried in his ship from Lisbone to Newhaven and w:ch as hee
| + | |
− | beleeveth, were for y:e account of the said Portugall Brazil Companye
| + | |
− | were mentioned in the bill of lading to be for the said
| + | |
− | companies account or not, & further cannot answer saving as aforesd
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th hee saith, that hee doth not knowe that hee had any goods
| + | |
− | on board y:e XXXXX ''Jonathan and Abigail'' in this her last homeward
| + | |
− | Voyage for XXXXX of y:e sad Brazil Compa but beleeveth as aforesd, that y:e said 200 Quintalls were for their account
| + | |
− | And further cannot Answer saving as aforesd/.
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− | To//
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− | P1110406 f. 278 recto
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− | //To the 5:th hee saith that hee was in y:e said yard (out of w:ch y:e said
| + | |
− | Logwood was taken & sent on board y:e said ship) whilest, some of the sd
| + | |
− | wood was weighing, and sawe most of it sent, and brought aboard
| + | |
− | y:e said ship, y:e said yard being neere y:e waterside & neere unto
| + | |
− | y:e place: where his ship lay & further Cannot Answer referring
| + | |
− | himselfe to his foregoeing Depn./
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 6:th hee saith that y:e said John Roles is of this Depo:ts
| + | |
− | knowledge a Comon Broker, betwixt Merchts and M:r of ships
| + | |
− | and other Trade:?s and hath noe pticular relaccon to the said
| + | |
− | Brazil Companz that this Depo:t knoweth of/:
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 7:th hee saith that y:e acknowledgements & Confessions that this
| + | |
− | Depo:t hath made touching y:e Lading of y:e said goods on board y:e
| + | |
− | sd. shipp, were made before hee had prsed his booke
| + | |
− | wherin he tooke Not of such things:/
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | To the 8:th hee saith that had there not bin a arrest laid
| + | |
− | upon y:e said two hundred Quintalls of Brazill Wood, this depo:t
| + | |
− | intended to have deivered, and would have delivered y:e same
| + | |
− | to the said ffrancis Pardini, or his order. in regard they are
| + | |
− | Consigned to him by the said Bill of Lading: And saith that
| + | |
− | hee was & is bound by the said Bill of Lading to deliver y:e same to the
| + | |
− | said Pardini or his order, And saith that the said Interrate Colonell hath
| + | |
− | not showed this DEpo:t any order or power to Demand or receive
| + | |
− | the said Goods either from the said Company or any other. pson
| + | |
− | whatsoever, and othewise Cannot Answer/.
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | THOMAS MORLEY [His signature]
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | Repeated before D:r Godolphin.
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− | <nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
− | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: Thomas Morley, Master of the Jonathan and Abigail, aged 48: Date: June 12th 1659===
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− | //The 13.:th day of June 1659./:
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− | | + | |
− | Examibed upon an Allon given in on behalfe
| + | |
− | of the said Thacker:/.
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− | | + | |
− | The Brazil Companz of Portugall)
| + | |
− | against 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood)
| + | |
− | brought to this Port Laded bz them)
| + | |
− | (as is pretended) in Lisbone on board)
| + | |
− | y:e ''Jonathan & Abigail'', Thomas Morley)
| + | |
− | M:r arrested by authority of this Court, &)
| + | |
− | ag:t John Thacker coming in for his interest)
| + | |
− | therein Suckley: Cheeke)
| + | |
− | | + | |
− | THOMAS MORLEY M:r of the ship the
| + | |
− | ''Jonathan and Abigail'': aged 48 yeeres or
| + | |
− | thereabouts sworne and Examined:/:
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− | R?p
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− | To the first & second arle hee cannot Depose:/:
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− | To the 3.:d. hee cannot depose; saving hee referreth himselfe to his answer
| + | |
− | to the fisrt Interrie, on y:e other part,
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− | | + | |
− | To the 4:th y:e Bill of Lading arlate now shewed unto him
| + | |
− | & by him prsed hee saith and deposeth that y:e same was & is really
| + | |
− | & truely signed by him this Depo:t. & is one of the Originall bills
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− | of Lading for y:e 200 Quintalls of Brazill wood, and to y:e rest hee
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− | referreth himselfe to his answer made to the first Interrie on y:e
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− | other part,
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− | To the 5:th. 6:th 7:th 8:th 9:th 10:th. 11:th & 12:th hee Cannot Depose:
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− | THOMAS MORLEY [His signature]
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− | ===Case: Touching the Mayflower: Examination: 2. John Stannian, of the City of London, aged 26: Date: September 23rd 1659===
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− | //The 23:th of September 1659.
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− | Examined upon the foresaid allegaccon
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− | Touching the ''Mayflower'')
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− | aforesaid)
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− | 2 JOHN STANNIAN of the citie of London gent, aged 26
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− | yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.
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− | To the first second and ?rest of the articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and deposeth that hee very
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− | well knoweth the shipp the ''Mayflower'' arlate whereof William Curtis was
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− | commander, and that in XXXXX ffeburary or March last was a
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− | twelve moneth the ?Governour and Company of English Marchants trading
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− | to East India Imployed and XX XX the said shipp from this port of London
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− | on a trading voyage to goe and ?saile to Achean on the coast of the Island
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− | of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, w:ch
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− | hee knoweth having seane the said Companies orders and dispatches tXXX XXXX
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− | they XXXX. And further
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− | saith that hee hath seane Letters sent from the said master and factors of the said shipp
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− | imployed in India about the said shipps trade,
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− | purporting them upon the said shipps arrival before Acheen they XXXX
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− | XXXXXX and had from admittance and ?license from her 9 XXXXX of Acheen
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− | to lade her there with pepper, and in the said lre was alsoe sent the
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− | said QuachXXX license in writing with aXXXXXXX thereof
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− | to XXXXX and manifest to the said company her said leave to lade
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− | pepper there, and further perporting that having got the said leave the
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− | said factors and agents of the Company fell to ?procuring of pepper there
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− | for her lading, and had XXXX or XXXXXX lading of pepper thXXXXX XXXX to be
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− | laded aboard her for the said Companies use and account, containing fiftie
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− | foure baggs of pepper w:ch weighed 3896 pounds net English weight
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− | and then there lay there three dutch shipps belonging to the dutch
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− | East India company whereof Balthazar ?Bert was commander and
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− | that the said boate with the said pepper therein was by the ?men and
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− | order of the said Balthazar Barts seized and taken away
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− | from the ''Mayflowers'' ?helm and carried aboard the XXXXordia and
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− | of the said dutch shipps, and that thXXX being donne, the dutch tooke ?all
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− | the pepper and turned off the ''Mayflowers'' long boat aXXXXXX,
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− | and would not suffer her to receive any more pepper or other goods from EXXXX but
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− | wholly prohibited and ?dysppointed her therein, and he XXXX XXXXX the
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− | voyage, to the greate dammage of the said English companye, and saith
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− | that the said Captain Curtis XXXXXX said ?first XXXX and
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− | seizure of her pepper were aboard the said XXX XXX, Balthazar Bart (as
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− | the said XXXX XXXXX) and?expostulated the matter with him and
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− | demanded the pepper XXXXX, but was denied and sent away without
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− | any XXXXX, and that XXXXX hee and William Smith and John
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− | ?Shedd two of the companies factors made a protest against the XXXXX action
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− | of the dutch and XXXX XXX XXX XX thereof to London under a ?notaries
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− | hand and with their names thereto, w:ch XXXX this depot
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− | ===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 3. Samuell Sambrooke, of London, Merchant, aged 44: Date: September 24th 1659===
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− | ===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 5. Samuell Sambrooke, of London, Merchant, aged 44: Date: September ?14th 1659===
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− | ===Case: The Brazeele ffrigot ag:t XXXXX: Deposition: John Cocke: Date: September 8th 1659===
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− | //The X:th day of September 1659
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− | The ''Brazille ffrigot'' aforesd
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− | XXXXXX XX
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− | JOHN COOKE a witnes formerly rexamined
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− | and now againe Examined in this Cause
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− | XXX
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− | //Many other othings belonging to the said ''Brazil ffrigot''
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− | and made her much like a XXXack - And this the
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− | said Quares told the said ?Heath before this Depo:t.
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− | and many others of the said ''Brazil ffrigotts'' Company $that hee would be as good as his words and give
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− | the said ?Heath his ship againe or to that purpose
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− | But the said Heath (seeing (sic) the said Ship
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− | in such a Condition) refused to take her, doublesse
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− | hee might have her in the Condition shee was
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− | in, when Shee was taken [Possibly taken is crossed out], from him together with
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− | the other things agreed upon, And the said Heath
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− | having an Oportunity (sic) to goe in an English Boate
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− | from ?Ensechecape to Surrenam, Got leave
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− | for passage therein, w:ch the Governo:r of ?Ensecherape
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− | hearing of, told the said Heath that if
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− | hee would not stay and take his Ship againe in
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− | that Condition hee would lay ?him in Irons
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− | or to that effect, and soe the said Heath was
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− | forced, to receave the said ffrigot in the foresd
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− | Condition ?much the XXX a XXXXX;
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− | All w:ch hee Deposeth being at ?Euchecheape the foresaid
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− | time & seeing hearing & taking notice of the
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− | premisses. And further cannot depose./.
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− | To the 3:d hee saith y:t ?every ?MillXX Portugall money
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− | at ?ffarnambuck in Brazil was and is worth
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− | 12:s. 6:d. Sterl. money:/
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− | JOHN COOKE [His signature]
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− | ===Case: XXXX: Depostion: 11. Thomas Wyat: Date: September 8th 1659===
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− | The same day:
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− | D:?t Bushell
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− | 11 THOMAS WYAT a witnes formerly
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− | Ex:d and ?now againe Examined in this
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− | Cause, upon the foresd Allon. deposeth
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− | as followeth by Vertue of his Oath
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− | To the first arle of the said Allon. hee saith and deposeth
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− | that after y:e ''Brazil ffrigot'' was carryed to EXXXXX
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− | [the M:r of CROSSED OUT IN MANUSCRIPT] The ''BrazIl ffrigot'' and his Company did
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− | their utmost endeavo:r to get the said Ship ffreight, and
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− | //of this Commonwealth, And for such commonly accorded
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− | reputed and taken. And further cannot answer./
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− | To the 27.:th he saith he hath knowne M:r Blackborow
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− | for these two yeares last or thereabouts, and saith he
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− | liveth within the Burrough of Siuthwarke near London.
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− | And beleeveth hom to be (according to common report)
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− | an Englishman and subiect of this Commonwealth.
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− | And this dep.:t knoweth that he the s:d Blackborowe
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− | and one M:r Shirly doe use the trade of Timber, Balkes
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− | masts and other commodities in Norway, and
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− | hath credibly heard that they keep ffactors and
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− | Agents in some parts of Norway for the trans-
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− | porting, the goods aforementioned to this port of
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− | London, And further cannot answere./
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− | To the last he referreth himselfe to his foregoing
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− | deposition./
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− | HENRY LOBERY [His signature]
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− | Repeated before D:r. Godolphin//
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− | ===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 13. William Bird, of Little St Hellens, London, Merchant, aged 31: Date: September 21st 1659===
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− | //The ''Brazeele frigot'' aforesaid
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− | The 21:th day of September
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− | 1659:
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− | Examined upon the first Allon
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− | given in on behalfe of Edward
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− | and John Bushell of London
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− | M:rchants, containing 21 articles.
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− | 13: WILLIAM BIRD of Little S:t Ellens London
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− | M:chant. aged 31 yeares or therr
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− | abouts a witnes sworne and examined saith
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− | and deposeth by vertue of his oath
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− | as followeth viz:t
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− | To the third article of the said Allon upon w:ch
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− | alone he is (by dirrection from the producents Proctor)
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− | examined, he saith that at Lisbone in or about
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− | the moneth of May 1657 before the said ships
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− | departure thence for the parts of Brazeele it was
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− | by Charter partie covenanted and agreed on betwixt
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− | Thomas Heath (Comand:r of y:e sd ship) on behalfe of M:r
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− | Edward & M:r John Bushell; and one Man?oel AbXXX
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− | e Mosia freighter of her the voyage in question, that
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− | ==Notes==
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