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Transcription

and there informed, but did not understand the same being made in french

To the 8th hee saith, That hee this deponent was present when the Master
and Companie of the said Zealand Merchants man who tooke the Charity
were judicially examined there at a publique Court in Bayonne concerning
the seizure of the said shipp Charity and her lading, and whether they had
any Commission soe to doe, but saith upon such their examination they
did not nor could produce any Commission for their soe doeing. And
further cannot depose.

Robert harrigat [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day examined upon the said Allegation:- [CENTRE HEADING]

4us:-

George Toblin of Newcastle upon Tyne Shipwright
aged 45 yeares or thereabouts, a Wittnesse sworne
and examined saith as followeth videlicet:-

To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee
this deponent well knew the shipp the Charity in Controversie in the yeares
1651. and 1652. being about a yeares time before her seizure hereafter
deposed, and saith hee sailed in and served aboard her the Voiage in question
and in a former voiage to ffrance and thereby knoweth, That Richard Rice and James Cole and Company
were then generally esteemed the true and Lawfull Owners and Proprietors
of the said shioo and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, this deponents
precontest Robert harrigate then being Master and part Owner of the
same: And further cannot depose:

To the second hee saith, That the said shipp the Charity was in or about
the moneth of September 1652 lett to freight in Ireland upon a trading
voiage for Saint Sebastians in Spaine or other free Port or Ports according
to the said harveys direction, and saith the said shipp having performed her
Voiage to Saint Sebastians aforesaid was thence ordered to saile for Bordeaux
in ffrance, and in her Course thitherwards was in or about the moneth
of March 1652, met with neare the french coast, and violently and illegally surprized
and taken by a dutch Merchant man and brought up to Bayonne in
france, and the said harrigate and Companie dispossed thereof, notwith
standing that the said dutch merchant man had not nor did produce
any Commission or authority for such the said seizure so farr as this deponent
ever saw, heard or understood. The premisses hee knoweth being Shipps
Carpenter of and aboard the said shipp the Voiage in Controversie, and
seized in her and brought up to Bayonne with her by the said dutch
Merchant man. And further cannot depose:-

To the third hee saith, That hee this deponent never saw the shipp the Charity
in Controversie since shee was seized and brought up to Bayonne as
aforesaid, and therefore to this article hee cannot depose:-

To the fourth hee referreth himselfe to the Acts and proceedings of
this Court, And further cannot depose:-/