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Transcription

The first of Novembere 16?6

The Lord Protector against the shipp named the}
Golden Parret (whereof John danielson was master}
and goods in the same, seized by the Selby frigot}
Captaine John Clarke commander in the immediate}
service of this Commonwealth}

Examined upon an
allegation given in on
his highnesses behalfe.

.j.

John Warner of the Isle of Wight
Merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined.

To the first article he saith and deposeth that the shipp the Golden
Parrat arlate was at the time of he seizure a foreigne shipp, belonging
to fflushing and not to any of the people of this Nation, and the
master and company were all dutch, and for such they confessed themselves,
and for such as aforesaid the said ship and company were commonly accounted
and reputed yeelding a reason as followeth./

To the second he refereth himself to the Act of Parliament arlate

To the third fourth fifth and sixth articles he saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth
of february 1654 the Selby frigot in the immediate service
of the Commonwealth being at an anchor on Mount Serrat (one of
the Caribbe Islands) her company espied a sloop
off at sea about a legue or two distant from there, which being the
espied, Captaine John Clarke commander of the said frigot
commanded this deponent (who was a Midshippman belonging
to the said frigot) to goe with the shipps boate manned and speake with
the said sloop, which this deponent accordingly did, and comming
aboard her, demanded of their company were that were on board her
whome they were and whether bound, to which they answered that they
were belonging to the shipp the Golden Parret of fflushing which was
then at Saint Christopher, and was coming up and intended the next
day to be on Mountserrat and that they were going before to
get their ship laden with tobaccoes and sugars and
of a storehouse which they had there, against the shipp come up, and
that these tobaccoes and sugars were the procede of goods which they
had sold and bartered away to the English planters there, whereupon
this deponent carried her to the said frigot; and the next day or
next day but one (or thereabouts the time) they ordered the said shipp
the Golden Parrat carried up towards Mountserrat and thereupon
the said frigot weighed and went off to sea to her and haled her
and demanding wheure they were, they answered of fflushing, and
being alsoe demanded where they were bound, they answered to
Mountserrat upon which and finding the shipps company to be
all dutch and to have dutch colours, and the master (named to his
remembrance) John danielson) to be alsoe a dutchman, they seized
and carried her to an anchor before Mountserrat, and the next
morning they went for Saint Christopher and carried the said shipp
the Parrat (called in Dutch the Poppagay) and the sloop along
with them, and coming to her, an English planter there
resident made it appeare that he had goods aboard the said shipp
which were brought from fflushing and were consigned unto and to be
delivered to him at Saint Christopher in the English Plantation and
the said master acknowledging soe much, the said goods were delivered