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Transcription

for that he is a Rope maker by trade and knoweth well
that in the yeare 1652. the best sort of hempe was here
sold in London at 36 s per hundred and the worser sort att [?3X]
per hundred. And saith the foresayd hempe allegat was a very good
sort of hempe. And he further saith that the foresayd
Cargazon of goods being so laden the sayd shipp Elizabeth
and Mary departed therewith from Riga and in August
1652 arrived safely therewith att Copenhagen in Denmarke
And that in September 1652 teh foresayd shipp was by
authority of the King of denmarke stayd att Copenhagen
by an Embargo, and deteyned under the same till the
7th day of ffebruary 1652. upon or about which day the
Ministers of the sayd King did by force seize the sayd shippe
and Cargazon of goods and the foresayd bundles of hempe
under the markes aforesayd amongst the rest by meanes
of which seizure the sayd Wooland and Company were diposses
of the sayd shipp and her ladung, and the sayd Cargazon of goods
and the hempe marked as aforesayd amongest the restand
became lost to the English merchants the true owners
thereof which sayd owners over and besides the losse of the sayd goods
have suffered other great dammage in the want of improvement
of their stockes by meanes of the seizure aforesayd. And
otherwise he saith he cannot depose.

Thomas Bemaster. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The tenth day of March 1653

Examined upon the sayd allegation

2)

Anthony Woolward of Harwich in the County of
Essex Mariner Master of the sayd shipp
Elizabeth and Mary aged 54 yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet.

To the 1 article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the arlate shipp
the Elizabeth and Mary being ymployed in a voyage into the East
Countrey to returne from thence with a lading of East Countrey [?goods]
sett sayle from this Port of London about the month of Aprill [?last]
under Command of this deponent as Master of her and in pursuite
of that designe arrived safely att Riga in or about the moneth of ffebruary
1652. and there and in and about the moneth of July [?165X] tooke in her lading and [?having]
so done departed with the same and came therewith to Copenhagen
in Denmarke in or about the moneth of August .1652 (sic) of the
certayne knowledge of this deponent under whose Command [?she]
arrived there. And otherwise he cannot depose.

To the 2. article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that after the arrivall
of the sayd shipp att Riga and about the 19th day of July 1652.