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The 4th day of March <u&g … '''B 20:/'''
The 4th day of March <u>1656:-</u>/ [CENTRE HEADING]
A business of Examination of Wittnesses on the behalf}<br />
of John Jeffreys. Thomas Colclough and Company}<br />
Owners and imployers of the shipp the ''Rappahannack''}<br />
whereof Thomas Clarke was Master and her tackle}<br />
furniture and lading, And of Humfrey Beane and}<br />
Companie Owners of the shipp the ''Sarah'', whereof}<br />
Lewellin and Companie Owners of the goods in the same}<br />
against John Scroall Captaine and Commander}<br />
of the shipp the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and the}<br />
''Unicorne'' of Middleburgh and against. [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT]}<br />
Vandergoose and [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Coymans and all others}<br />
Owners of the said shipps in particular and all others}<br />
in generall et cetera Smith}
Examined upon an Allega=<br />
tion on the behalf of the said<br />
John Jeffreys, Colclough<br />
Beane, Lewellin and others
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Thomas Clarke''' of<br />
Rederhithe or Redriffe in the<br />
County of Surrey late<br />
Master and Commander of<br />
the said shipp the ''Rappahannack''<br />
aged 42. yeares of thereabouts<br />
sworne in Court and examined<br />
saith as followeth-
'''Rp. 1'''
To the first Article of the said Allogation hee saith that in the moneths<br />
of Aprill May June July august and September last past in the<br />
yeare 1656. arlate, the arlate John Jefferies, Thomas Colclough<br />
and Companie Merchants of this Citie of London were and at this<br />
present ought to bee the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors<br />
of the shipp the ''Rappahannacke'' arlate, and of her Tackle apparrell<br />
and furniture, and for and as such they the said Jeffereys Colclough<br />
and Companie were and are generally accompted reputed and taken<br />
the premisses hee this deponent saith, hee well knoweth, for that hee was<br />
for all the time predeposed and for severall moneths preceding the<br />
same, and till the time of the seizure hereafter deduced, Master and<br />
Commander of the said shipp, and was soe constituted appointed and<br />
made by the said John Jeffereys Thomas Colclough and Companie<br />
in the quality of the Lawfull Proprietors thereof as aforesaid<br />
hee further saith, that the arlate humphrey Beane and<br />
Companie also Merchants of this Citie were the true and Lawfull<br />
Owners of the arlate shipp the ''Sarah'' whereof Arthur Perkins was<br />
Master, as this deponent hath received from common and credible report<br />
touching the said proprietie; And saith this deponent hath alsoe credibly<br />
heard by and from the said Arthur Perkins that the arlate Robert<br />
Lewellin alsoe Merchant of London had freighted the said shipp<br />
''Sarah'' for or upon a voyage from London to Guiney and from thence<br />
to Barbadoes and Virginia and from thence to London, in which voyage<br />
the said shipp was surprized and seized as hereafter shall bee<br />
deduced. And further to this Article hee cannot depose:
To the second Article hee saith; that in or about the moneth of<br />
december, which was in the yeare <u>1655.</u> the said John Jeffreys>1655.</u> the said John Jeffreys +
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