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The nineteenth of december 1655. [CENTRE H … The nineteenth of december 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Samuel Wilson of}<br />
London Merchant and company touching<br />
the seizure of the shipp the ''Sivell Societie''}<br />
of London (Thomas [?hamet] master)}<br />
and lading, by the ffrench.}
'''Henry Watkins''' of London Merchant<br />
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right Worshipfull John Godolphin<br />
doctor of lawes, one of the Judges of the<br />
high Court of the Admiraltie saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath as followeth, videlicet.
That the said shipp the ''Civill Societie'' with her lading of West<br />
India hides, Spanish tobaccoe, and other merchandizes, riding in the<br />
port of [?Guaina] in the West Indies in the dominion of the<br />
king of Spaine, on or about the nine and twentieth of June<br />
1651, there arived in the said port five saile of ffrenchmen of warr<br />
under the commannd of [?Marshall] Baron de Patissier, which assailed<br />
and sett upon the said shipp the ''Sivill Societie'' and shott severall shotts<br />
both greate and small at her, and forced her said master and company<br />
to surrender her to them, which said master and company<br />
having made what resistance they couldm, and not being longer able<br />
to withstand such a force, yeelded upon quarter for life, and upon<br />
the promise of the said Generall Baron de Patissier not to<br />
take the shipp being English nor any goods aboard her that really<br />
ertained to any English; the said Generall declaring that hee<br />
would only seize and take such goods aboard her as were belonging<br />
to Spaniards; and soe some of his company came aboard the<br />
''Sivill Societie''; And saith that notwithstanding such promise<br />
of the said Generall to free the said shipp and goods of the<br />
English, hee tooke and kept the said Thomas [?haXXX] the master<br />
and severall of his company prisoners, and carried them prisoners<br />
for ffrance, and turned this deponent the merchant of the said shipp<br />
and the rest of the company ashore upon the maineland in the<br />
West Indies, and seized the said shipp and all the goods of the English<br />
that were aboard and carried them away, utterly depriving and<br />
dispoiling the said English thereof. All which hee knoweth being<br />
marchant of her as aforesaid and on board her and seeing the premisses<br />
soe donne. And saith that the hull tackel and furniture of the said<br />
shipp together with the freight due to the said Mr Wilson and company<br />
of such Spanish goods as were aboard her namely about tenn thousand<br />
cararra hides at eighteene riales per hide Spanish plate for freight<br />
of some part thereof, and the rest at sixteene rialls per hide of the like<br />
plate for fraight; more 500 potacco's of varinas's tobacco at tenn<br />
peecesrinas's tobacco at tenn<br />
peeces +
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