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The same day The Clayme of Wilde and other for the ''Phenix'' Budd ffrancklin Examined upon the allegation given in on the behalfe of the sayd Wilde and others the Claymers./ '''2''' '''Thomas Wilde''' of Yarmouth Esquire aged forty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth./ To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth that the arlate shipp the ''Phenix'' was built originally at Yarmouth in the yeares one thousand six hundred fifty sixe by the order and direction and for Accompt of the arlate William Scapes Richard huntington James Cheyney Christopher Greene and him this deponent (being the arlate Thomas Wilde) who have of this deponents knowledge ever since her building bin and still are the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of her her tackle apparrell and furniture, and which shipp hee saith hath ever since her building severall tymes sett out to sea upon severall voyages for the Accompte of this deponent and the other Owners aforesayd and at their proper cost and charges And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the 2 hee saith that hee this deponent and the rest of the Owners afore named did at their owne Cost sett out the sayd shipp ''Phenix'' from Yarmouth for Sunderland in the moneth of July one thousand sixe hundred fifty seaven there to lade Coles for Accompt of this deponent and the sayd other Owners aforesayd And hee further saith that hee this deponent is by letters of advice which hee receaved from Christopher Greene (who went Master of her from Yarmouth for Sunderland by order of this deponent and her other owners) informed, that the sayd shipp safely arrived at Sunderland in the sayd moneth of July 1657 and there tooke in Coales for Accompt of this deponent and her sayd other Owners, and that while shee lay in the Roade of Sunderland shee and the Coales shee had taken in were togeather with a hoye called the ''Indurance'' and her lading seized by a Spanish man of Warr belonging to Dunkirke Ostend or some other of the King of Spaines Ports, and were both of them and their ladeing about nyne or tenn howers after such their seizure by the Spanish man of warr retaken by a shipp in imediate service of this Commonwealth of England called the ''Pearle ffrigott'' and by her brought into the Port of Scarborough arlate, And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the 3 article hee saith the arlate shipp the ''Phenix'' is of this deponents knowledge of the burthen of three score tonne or thereabouts./ To the 4th hee saith that hee this deponent and the rest of the parties arlate are all English men borne, and subiects of this Common= wealth of England and Inhabitants of Yarmouth, where the arlate William Scapes hath lived for those five or sixe yeares and this deponent and the rest of the parties arlate for thise fifteene yeares last past, And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./ To the Interrogatorie/ [CENTRE HEADING] To
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