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1. To the fourth árticle ˹Interrogatorie˺ hee saith and deposeth that hee did
2. not speake with the said Goulding at Sandwich, hee being as this
3. deponent understood, gonne thense foXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX ˹with her the said shipp from the downes for fflushing˺
4. the tuesday next before such them comming downe to Sandwich,
5. And saith this deponent th demanded only his charges ˹for going after the said XXXX˺ but
6. the said Graene and XXXXXXX not wishing thereto, hee there was
7. noe mention of any sume for his voyage after him, And
8. otherwise hee cannot answer.
9. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
10. William Hammond SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
11.
12. The 27th of Aprill 1657.
13. <margin value="Left">On behalfe of his highnesse}
14. the Lord Protector touching}
15. the XXX Virgin Mary prize}</margin>
16. <margin value="Left">dt. Rowe</margin>
17. Alexander ffrathey master of late master of the yarmouth
18. frigot whereof Captaine Marke was or is commander
19. aged 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right
20. Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the
21. Judges of the high Court of the Admiralty saith
22. as followeth.
23. That on or about the eleaventh day of this instant Aprill last
24. the said yarmouth frigot met with and tooke a Spanish prize (whereof
25. don diego la BatXX was commander) ˹called the Virgin Mary˺ about fourteene leagues
26. off the North Cape ˹of Galicia˺ as shee was comming from the West Indies
27. bound for the coast of Spaine, and afterwards brought her
28. for the downes, And saith that on the said day of her said
29. seizure, the said Captaine MarkeX tooke out of her
30. and brought aboard the yarmouth frigot tenn chests, the
31. contents whereof hee knoweth not, saving one of them hee
32. sawe opened and to containe bundles of white rawe silke,
33. or silke XXXXght, which tenn chests after they had remained
34. an howere or two on the deck of the said frigot, the said
35. Captaine tooke them into his cabbin. And saith that the next
36. day after the said Captaine went againe in the afternoone
37. aboard the said prize accompanied by with James English
38. XXX shipp man of the said frigot, and as the said James the same
39. night or the next day informed this deponent tooke ˹one of them˺ out of
40. ˹before the maine mast˺ their eleaven chests more into his disposall, and presently
41. aboard the prize before their bringing thence stowed the chests or GUTTER
42. five of them and disposed of the contents of them, (amongst which
43. contents the said English said there was plate) and soe left the
44. emptie chests there, and that hee gave another chest with what
45. was therein to his lieutenant and brought the other five aboard
46. the frigot and put them into his store roome, and tooke them or a GUTTER
47. canister of tobaccoe out of the hold of the prize and gave to his
48. XXXXX. And saith that two or three dayes after the said seizure
49. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">the GUTTER</margin>
50.
51. <margin value="Left">[TEXT AT 90 DEGREES IN LH MARGIN]
52. the Spanish captaine of the said Prize being in this deponents ˹cabbin˺ aboard the said frigot
53. and this deponent asking and discoursing with him about her lading, teh said Captaine
54. in the presence of the Charles Aston Gunner of the said frigot said XXXXX
55. six rich chests downe downe in the hold about her main mast and two truncks,
56. and that in one of the said truncks there were thirty two pounds of gold
57. Alexander ffraXX SIGNATURE, IN LH MARGIN</margin>

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