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The samd Day: [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined o … The samd Day: [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the syd Interrogatories./.
'''Rp. .3us.'''
'''Laurence Tyrer''' of Liverpool in Lancashire<br />
Mariner aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and Examined./:
To the first Interrogatorie hee sauith hee well knoweth the ffrigot<br />
the ''Henrietta maria'', and soe hath done for about<br />
Eleven monethes since, And saith that shee is of about<br />
Thirty tonns burthen, And saith that Captaine George Dowdall<br />
was her Captaine and Commander.
To the second and thir Interrogatories hee saith that in or about<br />
the moneth of July last past His Royall Highnes James<br />
Duke of Yorke Lord high Admirall of England did grant<br />
a Commission to the said Captaine Dowdall to take with the<br />
said ffrigot the ships and goods belonging to any Person in<br />
actuall Rebellion against his Sacred Majesty Charles the<br />
Second, our Soveraigne Lord and King which Commission this Deponent<br />
hath often seene and read part thereof, and doth beleeve<br />
the schedule Interrate annexed to the said Interrogatories and<br />
by him read, to be a Copy thereof. And the Originall Commission<br />
hee saith came to the hands of Captaine Barker. And<br />
further cannot Depose/:
To the 4th. and 5th. hee saith that the said Captaine Dowdall<br />
and Company whereof this Deponent was one came with the<br />
said ffrigot ''Henrietta Maria'' in the Road of Mumbles in the<br />
beginning of May last past, and saith that about Seaven or Eight<br />
dayes after, His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second by the Grace<br />
of God, King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland, was<br />
Proclaimed at Swansey and alsoe on board the said ffrigot<br />
by Colonel ffreeman, Governour of Cardiffe Castle, And the<br />
said Captaine Dowdall and Company were very Joyfull<br />
thereof, and fired all their Gunns, and uttered many expressions<br />
of Joy and hung up the Kings Colours and from that time<br />
desisted from any hostile actions against the English or<br />
any of his said Majestyes Subjects of this Deponents knowledge<br />
and although they could have seized severall English vessells<br />
and ships after the said Proclamation yet they would not nor<br />
did soe much as stop them, but submitted. And further deposeth<br />
not.
To the 6th. 7th and 8th hee saith that as the said ffrigot was riding<br />
at Anchor in the roade of Mumbles, and about foure dayes after<br />
the said Proclamation a certaine ffrigott came to the Roade with<br />
the States Colours and this Deponent and Company which were in the<br />
''Henriteea Maria'' not knowing what shee was cut the Cable, and<br />
sailed up to the Key, and there dropt an Anchor, And the said ffrigot<br />
(stillr, And the said ffrigot<br />
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