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that accordingly hee this deponent did send the said twelve hogsheads of Copperas aboard the said shipp the said next tyde (after such them speaking together) in a lighter, putting them into the said lighter at Saint Saviours dock, near unto which the said shipp then lay And otherwise saving his former examination in this Cause hee cannot depose. Repeated before the two Judges in Court. P Tho: Hall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ************************* The 2 of January 1656. Lord Protector against the goods in the shipp the ''harderinne''} by the ''Middleburowe frigot'', and Godfrey} and others against the same. Budd. Cheeke.} Exámined upon an allegation [?XXXX GUTTER] given in 22 december last, on the behalfe of the said Godfrey and others. '''Cheeke dt.''' '''notice sent to Mr. Budd by Tom. and John told mee his Master. could give none.''' '''.j.''' '''Bennett Flute''' of Ratcliffe Mariner aged 27 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that within the time arlate the shipp the ''Middleburowe'' ''frigot'' arlate was in the immediate service of this Commonwealth and imployed in the service thereof as a man of warr against the dutch ffrench and other the then Enemies of this said Commonwealth, and the arlate William Godfrey was then Commander of the said frigot, and was with his company in the immediate service of this Commonwealth therein, and being soe in the said service they with the said frigot in or about the moneth of May [?16XX] gave chase off the Lizard to a certaine shipp called the [?hXXX] (being the ''harderinne'' arlate) and comming up with and haling her commanded her to strike and submit, which not withstanding, her master and company refused, and did not strike their topsaile and submit, whereupon the said Godfrey and company fired severall gunns at her from the ''Middleborowe frigot'', and still [?persisted] in her obstinacie and rufusing to strike, some of the company of the said frigot by their said Captaines command clapt her aboard in their boate, and forcibly entred and seized her and her lading and possessed themselves thereof, running therein greate hazard of their lives, the said shipp the ''harderinne'' not having before submitted, All which hee knoweth for that hee this examinate was then [?Lieutennant] of the said frigot, and went in the said boate, and commanded the company that soe went and clapt the said shipp aboard and [?seized] her, being all well armed for that purpose. And further hee cannot depose. To the third hee referreth him selfe the act or ordinance of [?Parliament] arlate. To the fourth article and the schedule annexed now showne and read [?unto] him hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said seizure there
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