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22th of December 1655. [CENTRE HEADING] A busines of examination of wittnesse} on the behalfe of Edward ffranke, Charles} Butler and Company Owners of the} shipp the ''George and Thomas'' and} of her tackle apparrell and furniture} and of her [?XXXXs] and lading seized by the} King of ffrance or his subiects and more} particularly by Jaquis [?Lasses] and frenchmen} and his Company. Clements} '''1)''' '''Thomas Ratcliffe''' of the parish of Saint Btolph without Allgate London late Master of the sayd shipp the ''George'' ''and Thomas'', aged 46 yeares, a wittnes produced and sworne and being examined deposeth as followeth. To the first, second, third and fourth articles of the allegation given in and admitted on the behalfe of the sayd Edward ffranke CharlesButler and Company he deposeth and saith That he the deponent was Master of the arlate shipp the ''George and'' ''Thomas'' in her voyage from this Port of London, being first bound to Jersey, and there to take in her lading, and there to receive orders, and that by his being Master of her in the voyage arlate he well knoweth that the arlate Edward ffranke Chaarles Butler and Company were in the monthes arlate the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp, for that they did putt in and appointe him the deponent Master of her for the sayd voyage, and that the sayd shipp was in her course to Jersy on the third day of July 1655 sett upon by a french man of warr (wherof the arlate Jaques Lasses was Captaine) and by her seized and taken, and both shipp, and this deponent and his Company all carryed away by the sayd french man of warre into haverdegrace in ffrance, where they putt him the deponent and all his Company on shoare within a mile or two of haverdegrace the frenchmen or company of the sayd man of warre having first pillaged this deponent and all the Company of their goods and clothes to about the value of three hundred pounds sterling, And that the producents were and are altogether dispoyled and robbd of their said shipp, which (as he well knoweth by the moneys he saw the said producents pay for the said shipp, her tackle and furniture and by their accompts) did cost them about 900 ''li'' at least, And that by the 900 ''li'' [LH MARGIN] said french man of warre his seizing the said shipp the ''George and Thomas'' the Owners of her have sustayned great damage, as alsoe he the deponent and the Company have done besides the losse of the shipp to the Owners and the losse of clothes, moneys and goods unto this deponent and Company The premisses by him predeposed hee well knoweth being Master of her when she went from this Port of London, in the voyage arlate, and aboard when she was seized and takem by the said fremnchman of warre, and pillaged and plundred of all he had by them, And further he cannot depose. To the last he saith his former deposition is true. Thomas Ratcliffe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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