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31th Aug:tis 66. [CENTRE HEADING]
Super a … 31th Aug:tis 66. [CENTRE HEADING]
Super allone predict Examinat
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'''Carolus Standish''' de Rye in Com Sussex inhihitavit<br />
per biennium aut circiter annos agens 24 aut circiter testis product et Jurat
Ad 5. 7. 14. et 17 arlos dicta allonis super quibus solemodo<br />
Examinatur ex directiono Mri Exton procuris deponit et dicit that<br />
hee welll knoweth the ship the ''Suprizall'' arlate and was one of her<br />
company namely Lieutenant of her, And saith that about three<br />
monthes since the said vessell having taken in men<br />
at Rye aforesaid went from Rye in the Evening of a day, and the next<br />
morning about six of the Clock seized and tooke the arlate shipp<br />
The ''Jesus, Joseph, Mary and Saint Andrew'' of the burthen<br />
of about 150 tonnes laded with wine and fruite and brought the<br />
said shipp with her said lading into Rye harbour, And she was<br />
soe seized and tooke by the ''Suprizall'' and her Company about foure leagues<br />
off the West ward of Rye (to the best of this deponents Judgment) in the English<br />
Channell, And saith that upon the boarding the said vessel<br />
by this deponent, his precontests George Blanch, Richard Tue,<br />
Edward Standish this depots brother and one of the ''Surprizall'', owners<br />
and ffrancis Spooner, all of the ''Surprizalls'' Company they found<br />
onboard the said vessell two pilotts one of which he saith affirmed himselfe<br />
to bee a Hamburger, both spake dutch as alsoe poor English,<br />
and they being asked by this deponent and others then on board from whence<br />
they came, and whether they were bound, one of the pilotts a Clubfoated<br />
person,) answered that they came from Genoa, and were bound<br />
for Amsterdam, Which the other pilott hearing said, Noe.<br />
for Hamborow, and then the said Clubfoated fellow also said<br />
for Hamborow but not before although hee well understood what was asked him speaking so good English Et alr nescit deponere. Saving this deponent when<br />
hee and the others soe went on board ffound them in a ffighting posture, their Petererers<br />
or peeces called Murderers being Eight in number laded, and their baggs<br />
of shott by them, and some which were on board with this deponent told this<br />
deponent that they saw severall matches lighted, and most of their<br />
musquets charged, The peterers were discharged at Rye harbour<br />
and the musquetts carried aboard the ''Surprizall'', and in one musquett<br />
he saith there were five bulletts one or two whereof were chewed<br />
this deponent seing the same drawne, And the said ''Jesus Joseph Mary Saint Andrew'' had fought them as hee beleeveth<br />
had not the ''Drake ffrigott'' and another Catch bin neere them.
Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad primum rendet that hee cometh at the request of Mr Steele on of the<br />
owners of the ''Surprizall'' who came to know what this deponent could say<br />
herein because he knew or understood that this deponent was one<br />
of her Company as aforesaid. And saith that before he was sworne as a<br />
witnesse Mr Exton asked this deponent what hee could say in this<br />
busienes, and this deponent then told him to the effect aforesaid. And<br />
Expects to have his Charges borne by the owners of the<br />
said Man of warr, ffor his paines in comming to bee Examined<br />
herein, And saith hee was an apprentice to one Mr ffield ah hee was an apprentice to one Mr ffield a +
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