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Transported in the sayd shipp towards Mars … Transported in the sayd shipp towards Marseille aforesayd; and<br />
to be sould and disposed of for their Respective accompts by<br />
Thomas Moody. who went Sopra Cargo of and in the sayd shipp<br />
All which hee knoweth to be true because hee this deponent had alsoe a<br />
like proportion and share in Pilchards Stockings and other things<br />
and moneys on board the said shipp to the vallue of three hundred<br />
pounds sterling or thereabouts for his accompt laden at Bristoll<br />
and to be disposed of by the sayd Sopra Cargo. besides hee had his<br />
third part in the sayd shipp as aforesayd./.
To the 4th hee saith that the sayd shipp, departed from Bristoll on<br />
the said voyage with the said goods and moneys aboard her, and that<br />
shee and the said goods and moneys were afterwards in Mallaga Roade<br />
seized by the Spaniards, as this deponent hath bin informed both by<br />
the Sopra Cargo who went in her and by a certificate under the hands<br />
of severall English Merchants there resident, and so were and are<br />
Utterly lost to the producents.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin with his precontests.
Hen: Gough [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th of May 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Affidavit touching the ''Lilly''}<br />
of Bristoll seized by the}<br />
Spaniards.}
'''Thomas Moody''' of Bristoll Merchant aged 28 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts sworne 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 by<br />
vertue of his oath,
'''Rp.'''
That hee this deponent was Sopra-Cargo of the good shipp the<br />
''Lilly'' of Bristoll (Thomas [?Parson] master) in her last voyage, wherein hee<br />
saith that the said voyage shee was bound from Bristoll for Grand<br />
Malaga and Vales and that while hee was and remained<br />
at Bristoll preparing for the said voyage, there was a cargo of<br />
goods laden aboard her (consisting of Pilchards, Stockings, linen and<br />
moneys) by severall merchants of Bristoll, amongst who were<br />
John Stephens and John Woodward of Bristoll merchants, who had<br />
ioyntly a sixteenth part of and in the said cargo, which past was to<br />
be disposed and sold for their account by this deponent Sopra cargo<br />
of the said shipp, And that the said goods and moneys<br />
laden in december last. And further that the said shipp<br />
with her said cargo of goods aboard her proceeded from<br />
Bristoll on the said voyage on or about the three and twentieth of<br />
the said moneth of december, and went directly without any<br />
stopp or deviation to Malaga Roade where shee came to an anchor<br />
and that the next day after such her comming to an anchor namely<br />
on the thirtieth of January last there came a Saty, a [?Vergantine]<br />
and severall boates from shore manned with Spanish souldiers who<br />
seizedh Spanish souldiers who<br />
seized +
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