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armes and therewith by force clapped the s … armes and therewith by force clapped the shipp ''hadarene'' aboard, and forcibly<br />
entred and seized her and her ladeing, to the hazard and endangering of the<br />
lives of the sayd Lieutenant and his boates Crue, whereupon and not before<br />
the sayd ''haderenes'' Company submitted, the premisses hee deposeth being<br />
one of the Company of the ''Middleborough ffrigott'' and seeing the premisses soe<br />
done And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 3 hee referreth him selfe to the ordinance or Act of Parliament in<br />
this article mentioned and further cannot depose/
To the 4th article and the schedule therin mentioned and thereto annexed and now read<br />
to him at his examination hee saith, that at the tyme of the seizure of<br />
the ''hadarene'', there were stowed betwixt her decks divers hogsheads of vinegar<br />
and pipes of Brandy wine, but how many, or their markes, hee remembreth<br />
not, and in her great Cabin severall bales, which this deponent (hee opening<br />
the side of them) found to bee paper, but the number of bales hee remembreth not,<br />
nor their markes, this hee deposeth for that hee this deponent came aboard the<br />
''hadarene'' presently after her seizure, And hee saith hee knoweth the sayd Vinegar<br />
Brandie wyne and paper continued in the same places they were in at her seizure<br />
untill the sayd shipps arrivall in to Plymouth and the putting them<br />
into the hands of the officers of this Commonwealth for prize goods, this hee<br />
the better knoweth for that hee helped to unlade and deliver them in to lighters<br />
provided by the officers aforesayd to receave them, And further hee cannot depose
To the 5th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the lawe and the Registry<br />
of this Court and to his foregoeing deposition and saving the same hee cannot<br />
further depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
Ffra: Dickinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation/
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'''Richard Keate''' of the parish of Saint Mary Overy<br />
in Southwarke Mariner aged twenty one yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the ''Middleburrow''<br />
''ffrigott'' within the tyme arlate was imployed as a shipp of warr in the<br />
imediate service of this Commonwealth against the dutch ffrench and other enymyes<br />
thereof, and the arlate William Godfrey was Commander of her and hee and<br />
his company did serve the sayd Commonwealth in the sayd shipp and by that meanes<br />
within the tyme arlate having soe espied her chase to the arlate shipp the ''hadarene''<br />
and comming neere her haled her and commanded her Company to strike sayle<br />
and submitt which they refused, and held on their course without strikeing sayle<br />
which the sayd Godfrey observing caused some gunnes to bee fyred at her to cause<br />
her to come by the Lee, but her company not regarding it held in their course without<br />
any way submitting or strikeing sayle whereupon Bennett ffluite the sayd Godfreys<br />
Lieutenant by Command and order of the sayd Godfrey manned a boate with divers<br />
of thened a boate with divers<br />
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