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To the .15.th he saith there was spent about the shipp Hopewell after
she went from Barbadoes to Antego three Chests of pitch or thereabouts,
and saith she was in such want of Pitch that her Company waa forced
to boyle their tarr into Pitch for her necessary supply. And saith there
was noe pitch to be had att Antego, the premisses he knoweth being present
att Antego and seeing and knoweing the premisses. And otherwise cannot
depose.

To the 16th he saith he spent two dayes in the Cutting of wood for the
use of the ship as aforesayd and was never a fishing or
hawling of Turtles, And beleiveth that there were abouy 12 turtles
eaten aboard the Hopewell by the Company thereof and that every
Turtle yeilded provision sufficient for two meales for the shipps Company
or thereabouts. And saith he knoweth the premisses, and his sayd foregoeing
depositions to be true being one of the shipps Company the voyage
in question, and present and seeing and observing the passages predeposed
and for the reasons exprest for his knowledge in the particulars
whereto he referreth himselfe, and otherwise cannot depose./

To the .17. he saith he beleeveth that Captaine Powell was att the Barbooda
Islands att the tyme of the sayd seizure and his four men as aforesayd with
him, and he was aboard her the [?28th] day of October 1652 and not
afterwards, and beleiveth he had noe order to Plunder att the Barboodas
and saith Captaine Swift and four of his men went also to the Barboodas,
and the sayd Swifts men were bound to worke in the Lading of the Hopewell
as he beleiveth; and beleiveth there was none of the Mariners of the
Hopewell aboard her att thye tyme of seizure. and further cannot depose.

To the .18.th he saith he spent two dayes in the Cutting of wood for the
use of the shipp Hopewell as aforesayd and was never a fishing or
hawling or Turtles, And beleiveth that there were about 12 turtles
eaten aboard the Hopewell by the Company thereof and that every
Turtle yeilded provision sufficient for two meales for the shipps Company
or thereabouts. And saith he knoweth the premisses, and his sayd foregoeing
depositions to be true being one of the shipsp Company the voyage
in question, and present and seeing and observing the passages predeposed
and for the reasons exprest for his knowledge in the particulars
whereto he referreth himselfe, and otherwise cannot depose.

John Lacey [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before the}
three Judges.

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The thirteenth day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

2.

Edward Best of Lymehouse in the County of Middlesex mariner
late Boatswayne of the shipp Hopewell whereof Henry
Powell was master aged four and thirty yeares or thereabouts
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith as
followeth videlicet.

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the
arlate Henry Powell being a partowner of the sayd shipp the Hopewell was
by and with the Consent of the rest of the Owners appoynted Captaine master
or Commannder of her the voyage in question, and had and lost in her when
she was taken by Prince Rupert, over and besides one eighth part of the sayd [?shipp]
and one eighth part of the Proceed of Negroes brought from Guinnet, a [?great]
and considerable Adventure upon his owne private accompt, the value of
which sayd losses this deponent knoweth not and otherwise cannot depose ([?of]
he knoweth the premisses being boatswayne of the sayd shipp the voyage in question