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To the first hee saith hee hath knowne the … To the first hee saith hee hath knowne the said Dennis Bovret<br />
for about six Yeeeres last, and beleebth hee was borne in fflanders<br />
and is (as this Deponent alsoe beleeveth) a Subject of the King of<br />
Spaine:/:
To the second hee saith hee was not present when the said ketch<br />
was Condemned at Ostend or ordered to be sold, but did as aforesaid<br />
take out and exactly compare the schedule Interrate with<br />
the Originall thereof remaining in the registry of the Admiralty<br />
Court at Ostend./.
To the 3d hee saith hee was not present when the said ketch was<br />
sold to the said Dennis Bovrell, or when hee sold her to the producent<br />
neither was hee a witnes to the Bill of sale, but Saw the said<br />
LaBatt as aforesaid pay 800 Livers to the said Bovrell in or about<br />
June or July last 1659: which was for the said ketch as this deponent<br />
verily beleeveth./.
L francis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 22th of March 1659: [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the ''Peahen''.}
Examined upon the foresaid Interrogatories.
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'''Pero Michel''' of Marseilla in ffrance Mariner, aged 32 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
Tio the first Interrogatorie hee answereth and deposeth That hee<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''Pava'' or ''Peahen'' Interrogated and hath<br />
soe donne for theise three yeares last during which space hee hath bin<br />
boatswaine of her, and saith that shee belongeth to Saint Lucars in Spaine<br />
and is built of the Timber of Campecha in the West Indies, and that<br />
don ffrancis da Morales her Captaine was and is her sole owner<br />
and is a Spaniard native and Inhabitant of Saint Lucars and a<br />
subiect of the king of Spaine, in whose dominion Saint Lucars is situat.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said<br />
shipp began her outwards voyage from Saint Lucars and Cadiz, and<br />
tooke in at Saint Lucars about a thousand arobes of wine, foure hundred<br />
measures (not knowing the quantitie of each measure) of aqua vitae,<br />
and three hundred arobes of oile, and thence falling downe to Cadiz, and<br />
shee there tooke in ffrench linnens and English cloth stuffs and other<br />
English commodities, all to be transported to the west Indies to be<br />
there landed at such port and places as they could finde the best market at,<br />
and saith shee departed from Cadiz about a yeere since, and because the<br />
ffrench and English commodities were contrabanda in the<br />
Spanish West Indies, upon the arivall of the said vessell neere Cartagena<br />
shee there dischardged part of the said English and ffrench<br />
commodities privately, unknowne to the Magistrate, and with the rest<br />
of her lading shee (touching by the way at Porto velo where shee did dischardge [?XXXX] proceeded to havanna and there dischardged the same, and<br />
saith the whole cargo was (as hee understood) committed to the disposall of<br />
her said Captaine, but to whom it was delivered this deponent did<br />
not as hee saith take notice.
To the third hee saith that last before her seizure the said shipp came<br />
from the said port of havanna, where hee saith shee tooke in all her<br />
lading which was aboard at the time of her seizure, which seizure happened<br />
about three monethes since neare the Canarie Ilands [?where] shee was<br />
seizedlands [?where] shee was<br />
seized +
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