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1. To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp Scout departed
2. from Zant aforesayd with her sayd ladeing on board her upon or about the two or
3. three and twentieth day of december last bound for London the port of her discharge
4. and in her course homewards was on the third day of ffebruary last about
5. fifty leagues off of Cilley togeather with her sayd ladeing surprized and
6. taken by two Brest men of warr and carried to Saint Sebastians in Biscay
7. where the sayd men of warr sold the ˹sayd˺ ladeing of the Scout and disposed of
8. her according to their will and pleasure whereby the sayd shipp and her ladeing
9. are wholly lost to the sayd Dighton and Wilkins and the rest of the owners and
10. freighters of the sayd shipp and noe satisfaction given to any of them
11. for the same that this deponent knoweth of And further to this Interrogatorie
12. hee cannot depose./

Edward Turnor/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated with his contest in both causes before
Doctor Godolphin

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The fifth of Aprill 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

A businesse of exámination of witnesses}
in the behalfe of William Beck Master and}
owner of the shipp the Hopefull William and}
seized by the subiects of the King of Spaine}
Clements

Examined upon an allegation given in on
the behalfe of the said Beck
the third of this instant.

Rp. .J.

George Streete of Exmouth in the County of
Devon Mariner, aged 55 yeares
or thereabouts sworne and examined.

30. To the first and second Articles of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee
31. well knoweth the shipp the Hopefull William ˹whereof W:m˺ Beck ˹allate˺ was Master, and wh
32. generally reputed the sole Owner and Proprietor thereof, And saith, That in or
33. about the the moneth of October 1654. this deponent being heere at London spake
34. with the said William Beck who then declared to this deponent that hee would
35. saile his said shipp then being in the River of Thames to Saint Sebastians in Spaine
36. and in or about the moneth of July next ensueing this deponent saw the said
37. shipp att or neere Shoreham in Sussex, about which time shee sett sayle and
38. Departed hence under the Command of the said William Beck for Saint Sebastians
39. Spaine, and that this deponent in the shipp the Buckingham of Shoreham,
40. William ˹Thomas˺ Soldnig Master) sett sayle and departed from Shoreham aforesaid upon
41. the 11th day of July 1655. as Pylott of the said shipp, and comeing into the
42. bay of Biscay, they there mett with the said shipp the Hopefull William
43. under the Conduct of the said W:m Beck, and that both the said shipps upon the
44. 17th day of July aforesaid arrived together at Saint Sebastians, where after they had
45. remained till the thirtieth day of August next ensueing, the Officers or Ministers
46. of the King of Spayne did in a hostile manner seize upon stopp and detaine
47. the said shipp the Hopefull William with all her tackle apparell furniture and
48. goods aboard her, whereby the said William Beck became utterly deprived of
49. the same, Which this deponent well knoweth, being present and aboard the said shipp
50. Buckingham, when both shee and the said shipp Hopefull William were
51. seized upon, they then lyeing neere together ashoare at Saint Sebastians
52. aforesaid, And further cannot depose./

53. To the third and fowerth arles of the said Allegation hee saith That the said shipp
54. the Hopefull William her tackle apparrell furniture and provisions belonging
55. to her and aboard her at the time of her said seizure were to the best of this
(Deponents

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