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as alsoe ginger, and the said shipp, goods … as alsoe ginger, and the said shipp, goods and sloop being by the said frigot<br />
carried to Saint Christopher and there confiscated by the Engish Commissioners for<br />
trading in America contrary to the foresaid act of Parliament, the said<br />
boatswaine told this deponent that hee had two or three cases of brandiewine<br />
aboard for his owne account, and requested this deponent to be a meanes to<br />
help him to them againe, and confessed the rest of the said shipps lading<br />
to be prize to the English, the premisses hee knoweth and<br />
deposeth being then a Midshipp man of the said frigot and being and<br />
hearing the same soe donne and spoken, and otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated with his precontest before Doctor Godolphin
Andrew Hemerson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fourth of November 1656
Examined upon the said allegation
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'''Roland Bevans''' of the parish of Saint Dunstans in the<br />
West London Mariner, aged 31 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
the shipp the ''Golden Parrat'' (otherwise called the ''Golden Poppegay'')<br />
arlate, and saith shee was a forraigne shipp, and belonging to<br />
united Provinces at the time of her seizure hereafter mentioned, and<br />
not to any of the sujecte of this Commonwealth, and her master<br />
and company were alsoe forainers, and as such the said<br />
shipp, master and company were commonly accounted and reputed<br />
yielding a reason of his knowledge as followeth.
To the second he referreth himselfe to the Act of Parliament<br />
arlate, and otherwise cannot depose.
To the third, 4th, 5th and 6th articles hee saith and deposeth<br />
that on or about the twelveth day of ffebruary in the yeere 1654<br />
(according to the English computation) Captaine John Clarke commander<br />
of the ''Selby frigat'' and company in the immediate service of this<br />
Commonwealth riding with the said frigot at anchor with at<br />
Mountserrat and espying a sloop at sea in the offing, the said Captaine<br />
sent out his precontest John Warner and others in the shipp said<br />
frigots boate or pinnace to speake with the said sloope and see what<br />
she was, when finding her to be dutch brought her in to the<br />
frigot, and there brought her to an anchor some of the sloops<br />
company being brought aboard the frigot this deponent master<br />
of her said frigot and upon their examination heard them say and<br />
acknowledge, that they were belonging to the shipp the ''Golden''<br />
''Parrot'' with arlate, and then they were going to the English<br />
plantation in Mountserrat to receive some goods which one of their<br />
merchant had there bought for goods which they had there sold, and<br />
with them next day, the said frigot company espying a shipp<br />
in the offing, weighed and stood off to her, and calling her and<br />
demanding where shee was and whither bound answered made<br />
from on board her, that shee was of fflushing and was then bound<br />
for Mountserrat, where upon the said Captaine Clarke commanded<br />
the Captaine Clarke commanded<br />
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