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howbeit hee saith the said monsieur de la Rosse and company slighting and neglecting such their notice and admonition, (and yet acknowledging that they had notice of the said Peace before their comming from ffrance which that comming thence they confessed was about the end of November 1655) went out to make the said seizure, and by force and in a hostile manner tooke and seized the said shipp, tackle, apparell, furniture and guns, with her said lading of copper barrs and other goods, and her provisions and necessaries, turning the said ffishbell and company (after they had beate and very ill intreated them) ashore, and having soe possessed themselves of the said shipp and lading and dispoiled the said ffishbell and company thereof, they tooke out her lading of copper barrs shott, mastes, sailes, rigging, provisions and other appurtenances into their owne shipps, and then at a high water marke set her hull on fire and burnt the same, to the greate losse and dammage of the said owners, all which hee knoweth being sailemaker of the said shipp ''Justice'', and present and seeing the premisses soe done. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the sixth hee saith the said shipp ''Justice'' was of the burthen of an hundred and fourtie tunnes or thereabouts, and late built, and newly (before shee went hence) sheated and rigged, and was at the time of the said seizure and spoile, with her gunns, sailes, shrowds powder, ammunition tackle, apparrell and furniture well worth in his estimation the summe of thirteene hundred pounds sterling, and that her lading of copper barrs, and other goods necessaries and provisions, were alsoe then worth in his estimation the like summe of thirteene hundred pounds, And otherwise cannot depose. To the seventh hee saith the said shipp at the time of the said spoile was in pay of the said [?Mayler] and company at ffiftie pounds stereling per moneth for seaven or eight monethes, and saith shee would have made for freight from the Barbadoes to London 400 ''li'' sterling cleare of all expenses and victualls, and soe much other shipps of like burthen doe ordinarily make which hee knoweth having used that voyage. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said shipp if shee had come to the Barbadoes the said voyage (as shee was designed) was there to have bin delivered up to the said owners or their use. Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin. [MARK] The marke of Lewis Maddock [MARKE, RH SIDE] ******************************************* The third of December 1656. [CENTRE HEADING] De haze and others against Mr.} ffernandez and Mr kilvert.} Exámined upon the fore said allegation on the behalfe of de haze and other. '''Rp. ?X ?X priori''' '''2.''' '''John Rumbout''' of Middleborowe Skipper aged 46 yeeres or thereabouts. sworne and exámined. To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the producents Michael de haze and ffoppe Wessells and soe hath donne for eighteene yeeres last past, and saith
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