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Transcription

morning and seized this deponents said shipp and lading, and carried
them to the roade of Saint Christofers, and there the captaine
of the said shipp (named or called Captaine Blacke) and company
tooke this deponent and company and turned them ashore at Saint Christofers,
and tooke and carried away the said shipp with the said fleete
for hispaniola, to carry souldiers, and made away and
disposed her lading, soe that the said shipp and lading (which hee
saith were then well worth the summe of foure hundred pounds sterling)
were and are taken away from and quite lost to her said owners
And saith that neither the said shipp the Seahorse her boate nor this
deponent nor any of his company had bin ashore at Mountserrat
before or at the time of the said seizure, nor had the said shipp then
bin in any English plantation, nor sold any goods to or received any from
any of them. All which hee deposeth and knoweth being master of
the said shipp and going all the said voyage in her to the time of his
being soe taken and turned out of her, upon which turning out this
deponent and company were put to shift for them selves, and
to get passage home aswell as they could, and [?then] this deponent
got passafe from Saint Christofers to Saint Eust[?athies]. and thence
home./

Jacob pris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 8th of September 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]

The claime of the said Goldsmith in}
the hare in the ffield}

Examined on the foresaid allegation an
schedule.

dt

2

Gifford Bale of the parish of Great Saint
hellens London Marchant, aged 46 yeares or
thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the fourth article of the said allegation and the schedule therein
mentioned nowe showne unto him, hee saith and deposeth that in the
moneth of May last past the arlate Mr John Tivell merchant
of this citie caused and procured the summe of two thousand pounds
sterling to be assured upon a parcell of linnen namely seaven
and fourtie bales, laden aboard the shipp the hare in the field of
Middleborowe (John kein master) in the assurance office London
from haver de Grace in ffrance to Cadiz and Saint Lucar and any
parts and places thereabouts, which hee knoweth because hee this
deponent was and is one of the assurers thereof, and hath
for two hundred pounds of the said moneys, subscribed the pollicie
of Assurance in that behalfe made and passed, and was privie to
the subscription of the rest of the Assurers, and saith the said schedue
nowe showed unto him, was and is the same pollicie soe by him
and the rest of the said assurers subscribed, and that the contents thereof
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contained.
And further that before such subscription by this deponent as an assurer
the said Mr Tivell produced and showed him a letter, purporting that
the said goods were laden for the accompt of Mr Goldsmith of Antwerp
and