furniture and of most part of the said ladings and went him selfe in the said shipp to dispose thereof and to invest there in wines for this port, and saith that on or about the 4th of October last the said shipp with the said lading arived at the said Iland of Teneriff, and came to an anchor in the valley da Gasti, and the next day a frigot of the kinge of Spaine came aboard and forcibly seized the said shipp and lading, and tooke out the master and company (whereof this deponent was one) and carried them ashoare and imprisoned them, and alsoe imprisoned the said Coxeter and wholly deprived him of the said shipp and lading by which and by his being defeated of the said voyage, and other losses sustained by the said seizure, this deponent [?came] with him to be damnified and to have sustained losse to the valew of five and twenty hundred pounds at the least, And otherwise hee cannt depose. Repeated with his precontest before Doctor Godolphin:/:- The marke of Peter [MARKE] Chadwick. [MARKE, RH SIDE] ************************************ The 12th of June 1656. horne and others against} Mills and Richards.} Examined upon the libell. '''Rp. .jus.''' '''William Tomkins''' of Fleet neare Southampton Mariner, aged 52 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined. To the first and second articles of the said libell hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth and was pilot of the shipp the ''Prosperous'' arlate (George Garneham master) in her late voyage outwards bound from Southampton for Bourdeaux and thense returned for Southampton againe, on which voyage hee saith hee proceeded from Southampton in or about January last was a twelvemoneth, being ffreighted by william horne Thomas Cornelius and Robert Richbell, who hired her of Thomas Mills and Paul Richard who were then her owners and for such commonly accounted and otherwise hee cannot depose saving what followeth, referring himselfe to the Chaterpartie annexed. To the third árticle hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said shipps said proceeding from Southampton on the said voyage it was notorious to and taken notice of by the generalitie of Merchants owners Masters and Mariners frequenting the port of Southampton and dwelling there and thereabouts, and commonly found that diverse Brest men of warr were and used to be out at sea, and used to fight and take such English shipps as they could meete with and master with their lading, and hee beleaveth the said Mills and Richards had notice thereof it being a matter notorious. To the fourth fifth 6. and 7th árticles hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said shipps departure on the said voyage from Southampton shee carried with and onboard her two Peeces of ordnance and seaven muskets for her owne use, and noe more and had not above foure or five shot serviceable for the said ordnance, and but one small bagg of gunpowder containing in his estimation about thirtie pounds weight of powder, only that said shipp stopping at ffalmouth there were there foure great shott more delivered to the said master, and (as the gunner related) a small parcell of musket shott, with which hee saith shee proceeded to Bourdeaux, without spending any of the powder by the way, unlesse {INK BLOT}e upon occasion of a health or salutation, and saith that {having} delivered the outward lading of wheate
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