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Transcription

knowing what other ladeing shee had aboard And further hee cannot [?depose GUTTER]

To the last hee saith hee cannot depose having not heard any one speake and thing [to GUTTER]
the effect Interrogate/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Stephen Sikes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 6th day of Aprill 1658

A busines of examination of wittnesses on the behalfe of}
Zachary Browne late Commander of the shipp the hercules}
against Robert Spanton William Miller William Stone}
William Johnson Richard Swallowe William Chayre Peter}
Smithing William Burt Robert Everard Martin}
Copeman Paule Bayley Thomas Bumpstead}
Thomas Mercer, John Price, Mathew Kilman Edward}
Claire Symon Greene Allen Staples Peter}
Thomas Edward Kitchin, Samuell Maior, John}
Rowland Peter Jordaine Richard Andrews}
John Barker, Stephen Binckfeild Jeremy}
head Thomas Abs Richard Greene Thomas}
Knatt Thomas Peate John Browne John}
Modler Phillipp Tracy Robert Catlyn}
Robert Marburrowe William Wilson John}
Sage Robert Picke Edward Throgood Michaell}
Lawson George Breame Stephen Earle}
William Stokes, Michaell hall Ralph}
Coller John dickson William Stallwood}
William Spratlin Edward darker and}
Thomas Arrington late Mariners of}
the Shipp the hercules: Smith: Suckley}

Examined on an allegation given in the
31th of March 1658 on the behalfe of the
sayd Zachary Browne./

Rp. jus

Mathew Sherley of Poplar in the parish
of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner
aged forty yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet./

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith
that in the moneths of September October November and december 1652
the shipp hercules was imployed as a mann of warr in the imediate service
of this Commonwealth and the arlate Zachary Browne was then Captaine
and Commander in cheife of her and that by appointment of some of the Officers
of this State having power soe to doe And for such the sayd Browne was
then commonly reputed And hee saith that the sayd Browne being with the
sayd shipp at Portsmouth did in the moneth of November aforesayd new victuall
and wash and Careene his sayd shipp there which being done the sayd Browne
receaved orders from the Generall or other Officers of State to conduct the sayd
shipp from Portsmouth to the downes where (as it was sayd and reputed) the Generall
of the English ffleete then was, And in pursuance of say[d] order and
obedience thereto the sayd Browne sett sayle from Portsmouth with his sayd
shipp bound for the downes upon the thirtith of November aforesayd And upon
the

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Mathew Sherley

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PROB

PROB 11/295/231 Will of Mathew Sherley, Mariner of Poplar, Middlesex 13 September 1659