HCA 13/70 f.264v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 264 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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England. This deponent as then being at Cyprus in the Condition aforesaid
seeing and observing the premisses:-
To the second hee saith, The said shipp the Thomas Bonadventure was
not fully laden at and discharged from Cyprus till the eighth day
of June 1652. and saith that a Considerable quantitie of Cotton woolls was
by Mr. Richard Chewnes direction laden and putt aboard the said
shipp between the 15th day of May and the 8th of June 1652.
aforesaid, but what quantitie of Tunns hee saith hee knoweth not,
nor can hee depose. And further (referring himselfe to the reasons of his
knowledge predeposed) hee saith hee cannot depose/
To the third, fourth and fifth, That during the aboade as aforesaid
of the said shipp at Cyprus, there was amongst Masters and mariners
there a publique report that there were five saile of Tripoly men of
warr of great force then hovering between that place and the passage
for England readie to surprize English shipps and goods, And that
upon the arrivall of the English Convoy at Cyprus upon or about the 16th
of May 1652 there was a report brought by them that there was a
grat likelihood of a sudden eruption of warr betwixt the dutch and
English, And that diverse ffrench men of warr Enemiesd to the shipps
of this Commonwealth were then also in and about the straights in the
passage from Cyprus for England, Which the premisses hee knoweth
for the reasons before expressed. And further cannot depose./
To the 6th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and
saith the English Convoy under Captaine Bodiloe arlate came
to Cyprus expressely for the Conduct and securitie of English
shipps then in their parts, as was then and there generally knowne
and publiquely reported./
To the 7th hee saith, That the arlate Roger ffowke English Consull
at Cyprus and the said Richard Chewne being in Companie aboard
the said shipp Thomas Bonadventure after the arrivall of the said
Convoy, and discourse happening whether it would be more expedient
for the said shipp to depart thence alone or in Companie with the
said Convoy, this deponent heard both the said ffowke and Chewne say
to Captaine hughes the said shipps Commannder That by all meanes hee should
keep Company, or it was best and safest to keepe Company with
the said Convoy or words to that or the like effect, And so much this
deponent beleeveth was then the generall sense and opinion of Merchants
and factors there concerned in the disposall of shipps and lading to goe
from thence, so farr as tghis deponent then and there did observe./ And further cannot
depose./
To the 12th article and schedule thereunto mentioned to be annexed, and nowe
seene and read over to this examinate, hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his
deposition to the 8th article of the precedent Allegation, And further cannot depose
To the 13th
