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Exhibited hee saith hee verily beleeveth the same to be the reall bill of sale made by the said Mr Dela villette and Mr Williamson to the said Robert Blackleech and to be really and truely subscribed by the said dela Villette and of the said 3d part of the said ship the said Blackleech at Middleborowe. and did there heare the said Dela Villette and Williamson severall times acknowledge and affirme that they were satisfyed for the same; And saith that by meanes of the foresaid seizure the said Robert Blackleech was and is utterly deprived of his said third part of the said ship ''willinge minde'', and it is utterly lost unto him without any manner of Satisfaction or recompence for the same, and further cannot depose./: Robert Blackleech [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ************************************** The 17th of March 1658:/.[CENTRE HEADING] On the behalfe of Mr} Edward lewes of London} Merchant touching the} ship the ''Gray hound''} (John hubbard Master)} [XX] '''jus''' '''George Palmer''' of London Mariner aged 39 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull John Godolphin Doctor of Lawes and one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty of England saith and Deposeth by Vertue of his Oath./. That hee this deponent well knoweth the ship the ''Grayhound'' of London (whereof one John Hubbard ws Master) and saith in the moneth of December last past as the said ship was coming from Pharu (sic) in Portugall bound for this Port of London, shee was met with off Scilly by two Ostend men of warr, and by them taken and seized, together with her Lading onboard her Consisting in figgs Oranges and Lemans and [?GaXXes], and saith. that hee this deponent (who was Mate of the said Ship ''Grayhound'' at the time of her seizure.) was taken out of the said ship, by the said Seizors and Put into one of the said Ostend men of warr; and upon his Paroll was afterwards by the said Seizors put aboard a Dutch ship at sea, and Caried in her to Bourdeaux, and afterwards came thence to England, and saith that the said two Ostend men of warr sent the said ship ''Grayhound'' for Ostend and as shee was ryding at an Anchor in Ostend Road, shee was by Storme, driven and forced from her Anchor (as hee hath bin Credibly Informed) and was forced and driven (as hee hath bin likewise informed) to Dunborowe neere Middleborowe and at the time of such her forcing from her said Anchor , there were onely two men and a boy. of her owne Company on board her, namely Charles Andrewes Boatswaine, John ffisher Carpenter, of the said ship, and Joseph Hart the Cabbin boy of the said ship: And further deposeth not
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