HCA 13/71 f.667v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 667 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2013/03/15 | |
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| Edited on 08/08/2014 and 23/08/2018 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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The 23th of August 1654 [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Thomas Collins and}
others touching the Carvell the Lady of}
Nazareth aforesaid.}
3
George Chappell of London Mariner
aged 54 yeeres or thereabouts sworne XXX
before the said Commissioners, saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well
knew the shipp or Carvell called our Lady of Nazareth arlate whereof
Richard Chappell (this deponents sonne) was commander; and saith
that shee belonged in proprietie to Thomas Collins, henry Bouford
and company English merchants, who were alsoe commonly accompted and
reputed the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of her and of
her tackle and furniture, and this deponent heard Ambrose Chappell
(commander of the John and Mary unto which the said Carvall
belonged and was alsoe a part of her) say that shee belonged
unto them.
To the second hee saith that in the yeere 1650 the said Carvall
being out ward bound on a voyage from Lisbone for the Brazeele
was by the command of Generall Blake (who then lay with
the Parliaments fleete before the barr of Lisbone) ordered to attend
the said fleete, and further that in or about the beginning of June
1650 old stile the said Carvell was by Generall Blake sent into
Lisbone with a message from him, and on the day of her
said going in on the said message being in or neere the about the second
day of June 1650, shee was seized at Lisbone with all
that belonged unto her by the kinge of Portugalls officers, and her
master and all her English mariners turned out of her and imprisoned
by the said kings order, and kept some five monethes, some foure
and some a lesse time in the said imprisonment, and the said
owners were and are deprived of the said Carvell by the said
seizure made as aforesaid by the order of the king of Portugall,
from whom Prince Rupert had her, all which hee knoweth to
be true being present at Lisbone and seeing and observing the
premisses to be soe donne, and being imprisoned with the said
master and company.
To the third hee saith the said Carvell was of the burthen of
betwixt 25 and 30 tuns or thereabouts, And (as this deponent
heard the said Ambrose Chappell who bought her and others
diverse times say) shee cost and stood the owners in XX 600 mill
Reis or thereabouts, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth árticle hee saith and deposeth that there were pilchards
and other goods aboard the said shipp or Carvell the lady of Nazareth
at the time of her said seizure for the accompt of the master and other
English, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee saith hee estimateth the said owners to be
damnified by the said seizure and their deprivation of the said
vessell thereby in the said summe of six hundre mill Res; and
hee estimateth the said Richard Chappell her master
in losse of his time, goods, clothes, bookes Instruments and
[?chages] to be damnified by the said seizure and imprisonment
the summe of one hundred pounds sterling at the least, And otherwise hee
cannot depose.
George Chappell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
