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HCA 13/72 f.259r Annotate
First transcribed 17 September 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 259  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 17/09/2013  +
Transcription either by Turkish men of warr or Spanish either by Turkish men of warr or Spanish men of warr that passe that<br /> way the place being open and void of any defence save what the shipps<br /> can make them selves for securing them selves and their shipps and<br /> ladeing And saith that of his this deponents knowledge the ''East Land Merchant''<br /> and a ffrench shipp in her company were in June last taken neere the Island<br /> of Bickeere by Spanish men of warr and the ffrench shipp was burnt<br /> and the ''Eastland Merchant'' and her ladeing taken by the sayd men (the Turkes<br /> of the same place of Bickeere affording them noe helpe or assistance<br /> and the Company of the ''Eastland Merchant'' to save them selves gott into<br /> their boate and soe escaped and gott passage home for England as passengers<br /> in and upon the sayd shipp the ''defence'' whereof this deponent was then mate<br /> and this happened about the moneth of June last past and the sayd<br /> place of Bickeere is commonly accompted to bee a very unsafe place<br /> for shipps to ride in And further to this allegation hee cannot<br /> depose/ Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin/ William ffeater [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *************************** The 19th day of March 1657 English style The Lord Protector against Lemon and Tuffnell)<br /> Budd Smith,) Examined on an allegation given in on the behalfe of his<br /> highnesse the Lord Protector/ '''dt. Row. 2.us''' '''Godfrey Reader''' of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner<br /> aged twenty seaven yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne<br /> and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/ To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was Commander<br /> of the ''Eagle Ketch'' (a vessell in the imediae service of this Commonwealth)<br /> at such tyme as the arlate shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cathagena was sent<br /> from the downes for London and came thence in Company with her and thereby did take<br /> notice that there was one aboard the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' who was<br /> imployed by the Commissioners for prize goods to take care of the sayd shipp and her<br /> ladeing and after hee this deponent came in Company of the sayd shipp to Blackwall<br /> hee understood and was informed that the sayd persons name soe imployed was Edward<br /> Lemon And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the 2 third and 4th articles hee saith hee cannot depose knowing nothing touching the contents thereof./ To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee coming in company as Commanded<br /> of the ''Eagle Ketch'' with the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena knoweth<br /> that the ''Eagle Ketch'' and the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena came<br /> both to Anchor neere a place called the Geare And saith that in the night tyme<br /> while this deponent was asleepe in his Cabbin in the ''Eagle Ketch'' one of his<br /> company came into his Cabin and awakened this deponent and told him that<br /> there was a boate coming aboard the ''Eagle Ketch'' and this deponent thereupon<br /> gave command that noe boate should be suffered to come aboard and to turne<br /> her away, and thereupon imediately arose out of bedd and sawe a boate about<br /> halfe a Cables length from the ''Eagle Ketch'' rowing away from her with some<br /> goods in it but what goods they were or what quantitie hee knoweth not And hath<br /> heard since that the sayd boate came from the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena<br /> and had bin at the side of the ''Eagle'', while this deponent was getting out of bedd<br /> but whether any goods were put aboard the ''Eagle Ketch'' out of the sayd boate hee<br /> knoweth not shee being gone from the side before this deponent could gett up And<br /> [?to XXX GUTTER]d gett up And<br /> [?to XXX GUTTER]  +
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