HCA 13/68 f.603r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/68 |
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Folio | 603 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2016/11/14 |
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The tenth day of ffebruary 1653.
On behalfe of his Highnes the Lord}
Protector of the Commonwealth of England}
Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions
thereunto belonging against John}
Pibus. Budd}
Examined upon Articles given and admitted
on behalfe of the Lord Protector.
Rowe dt.
1
Adam Butler of Wapping in the County
of Middlesex Blacksmith and Citizen of London
late one of the Company of the shipp Martha
whereof John Pibus was Master
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne
and examined deposeth and saith as followeth
videlicet
To the .1. article This deponent saith that it is notorious that for
theis sixteenth monethes last past and upwards there was and is open
and publique warr and hostility att sea betweene this Commonwealth
and the States of the United Provinces and their respective subiects; and
that there have bene mutuall seizures of shipps and goods at sea on both
parts and that there are rightfull and universall reprisalls granted
by the authority of this Commonwealth for the seizng of the shipps and
goods of the sayd States abd their subiects for reparation of dammages
susteyned by the English Nation through the violences done against
them by the sayd States and their subiects And somuch the sayd John
Pibus did and doth knowe and hath acknowledged and declared
somuch or to the like effect in the hearing of this deponent. And further
he saith he cannot depose.
To the 2. 3. and 4th articles he refrreth himselfe to the Law and
Customes of this Commonwealth and otherwise cannot depose
To