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The 18th of July. 1660 [CENTRE HEADING]
O … The 18th of July. 1660 [CENTRE HEADING]
On behalfe of Peter de [?Tosse]}<br />
and Company
Examined upon Interrogatories given in by Mr ffrancklin<br />
on behalfe of the said [XXX] and Company Owners of the ship}<br />
[GUTTER ?the ''Saint Lewis''] Collaert Budaert Master.}<br />
and her Lading}
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Collaert Budaert'''<br />
of Calice in ffrance mariner late<br />
Master of the ship the ''Saint Lewis'' aged 50 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and Examined./.
To the first Interrogatorie hee hath knowne the said ship ''Saint''<br />
''Lewis'' whereof hee was Master ever since January last, and saith that<br />
shee belongs to Calice in ffrance, And saith that Monsieur Peter de<br />
[?Tosse] of Calice, and this Deponent (who alsoe lives there)<br />
and Company were and are her owners./.
To the second hee saith that about a month or five weekes since the<br />
said ship was at [XXXense] in ffrance freighted by George Rosey<br />
merchant of Nants. by Charter party, and the said ship was there fully<br />
Leaden, and the said Lading was to be carried to Calice in ffrance<br />
upon the account as hee beleeveth of the said De [?Tosse] or the said<br />
George Rosey, or by one of them, referring him selfe therein to the Charter party seized by Captaine [XXXX] the Premisses hee deposeth being<br />
the Master of the said ship the said time./:
To the 3d and 4th hee saith that the said Lading soe taken in at Berneu[XX]<br />
the said time for the account of the said [XXX and Company] consisted in about 98 ch[XXX] of salt referring himself to the said charterpartie and there were three tunns of wine<br />
or thereabouts alsoe there ladeb on board her upon the private Account of this Deponent<br />
and Company And the said ship having received the said Lading<br />
onboard her departed from the Bay of Bernen[?se] on the 22th<br />
of June last (new stile) intending to saile to Callice aforesai. And<br />
saith the said ship was and is of the burthen of about two hundred<br />
Tonnes which hee knoweth for that hee was Master of the said ship<br />
from January last untill the said ship was seized as hereafter<br />
is mentioned./.
To the 5th. 6th. 7th and 9th Interrogatories hee saith that as the said ship ''Saint Lewis''<br />
was in her Course for Callice with the said Lading on board her<br />
on the 28th. of June last (new stile) met with by certaine rude persons<br />
in a ffrigot, whereof the said Captaine Bellicourt was Comander and many of<br />
the said Rude Persons did in a Piraticall manner<br />
and by force and violence enter. upon, and seize and surprize the<br />
said ship ''Saint Lewis'' and her said lading, and out this deponent and<br />
all his Company downe in hold, and set a Guard over them<br />
and stripped them and tooke away their Cloathes money and necessaryes that were in their chests, and put matches betwixt the ffingers<br />
two of this deponents Company (as they told him) to make them Confess,<br />
and the said seizor[?s] tooke the foresaid Tonns of wine out of the said<br />
ship onboard their ffrigot, and turned this Deponent and all his Company saving one and a passenger<br />
on shore upon the Coast of ffrance at la Havre and carried away the said ship<br />
and lading, and so despossessed this Deponent and Company thereof<br />
and saith that the Company of the said ffrigot, were of severall nations<br />
namely some Officers some English, some Dutch, some Portugalls and some Irish, and saith<br />
that they were Pyratts and Sea Rovers as this Deponent verily<br />
beleeveth and is perswaded in his Conscience they shewing noe Commission at all soence they shewing noe Commission at all soe +
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