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|Person=ffrances Meed
|First name=ffrances
|Last name=Meed
|Occupation=Mariner
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Francis Meade
|Has signoff text=ffrances Meed
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Horsey downe
|Res town=Southwark
|Res county=Surrey
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1626
|First deposition age=33
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.173r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jun 27 1659
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
ffrancis Meed (b. ca. 1626; d. ?). Mariner.

Resident in 1659 in Horsey downe in Surrey.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-three year old ffrancis Meed deposed on June 27th 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.173r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.173r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Henry Colquite in the case of "Wood Bradley and Company against Colquite".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.172r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.172r]]</ref>

ffrancis Meed stated that the ship the ''Desire'' (Master: Henry Colquite) did not come within three quarters of a mile of the ship the ''Alexander'' at the Canaries. Moreover, the ''Desire'' caused no ropes to be cut or damage to be caused to the other ship. At the time ffrancis Meed was himself in the ship the ''Island ffrigot'', which was rising at Oratavo close to the ''Desire''.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.173r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.173r]]</ref>

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