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trunks Chests Boxes and Cupboards on board … trunks Chests Boxes and Cupboards on board the sayd shipp the ''Redd''<br />
''Rose'' to be brought unto them and such chests Boxes trunks or Cupboards<br />
whereof the keys could not be found by reason the sayd Lemmon and<br />
severall of his Compnay were on shoare the sayd Wigarts and drewes<br />
caused them to be broken open and did out of them and the trunks<br />
boxes and Cupboards in the sayd shipp whereof the keys were found on board<br />
her take away all bills of ladeing and letters and other papers<br />
writings that they found on board her, amongst which were [XX GUTTER]<br />
this deponents knowledge many letters and packetts sent from England<br />
to be carried to the English Fleete then in the Sound, and put them<br />
on board the sayd smack together with a bond for payment<br />
of a considerable summe of money which bond they tooke out of the<br />
Cost of one of the Carpenters of the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'', and took<br />
away Cloathes and strong waters and other things belonging to the<br />
sayd shipps Company and utterly deprived them of them this hee deposeth<br />
of sight and certayne knowledge being aboard and seeing the [XXXGUTTER]<br />
soe acted and done and well knowing that they tooke about two<br />
hundred letters, and seven or eight packetts out of this deponents<br />
trunck which was sent from England to be by this deponent<br />
delivered to severall persons on board the English ffleete then in<br />
the Sound And further to these articles he cannot depose/
To the 4th and 5th articles hee saith that the sayd Wiggarts and drewes and their [XXX GUTTER]<br />
mariners who came in the sayd Smack having soe seIzed the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Redd Rose'' and her ladeing and papers bills of ladeing and other<br />
writings as aforesayd put the sayd papers bills of ladeing and other writings aboard the sayd Smack, Commanding<br />
the Company of the ''Redd Rose'' who were on board her to weight her<br />
Anchors which they refusing to do, and demanding of the sayd Wygarts<br />
and drewes and their associates for what reason they did what they had done<br />
and askeing them whether there were any warrs betwixt England and<br />
holland, the sayd Wygarts and drewers threatened the Company of the<br />
''Redd Rose'' that if they would not assist in weighing her Anchor<br />
and carrying her and her ladeing away they would doe them a mischief<br />
and punish them, And the sayd Wygarts and drewes thereupon by [?GUTTER]<br />
tooke the Masters Mate of the ''Redd Rose'' and put him on board the<br />
Smack and carried him therein to delfe Island arlate, where [they? GUTTER]<br />
kept him on shoare in their custody not suffering him to come aboard<br />
the ''Redd Rose'', and caused the Anchor of the ''Redd Rose'' to be weighed<br />
and the sayd shipp to be carried to the sayd delfes Island where they [XXX GUTTER]<br />
Anchor with her and her ladeing neere the sconce there, And hee [XX GUTTER]<br />
saith that the sayd Wygarts and drewers and their Complices did [bind? GUTTER]<br />
the sayd shipp to an Anchor soe that either through their unskillfulness<br />
or wilfullness they did bring her on ground and seated her upon her<br />
own Anchor in such sort that shee hoisted and wrung the shank<br />
thereof and alsoe wrung her upon the ground in a strong tyde by [which<br />
meanes hee well knoweth the sayd ship ''Redd Rose'' proved very<br />
leakie and tooke in such water soe that her ladeing being<br />
salt [BOTTOM RH SIDE]ng being<br />
salt [BOTTOM RH SIDE] +
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