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Transcription

The 29th of June 1658/

Pitt and company against Mayor}
Cheeke ffrancklin}

Examined on an allegation on behalfe of
the sayd Pitt and Company

Cheeke dt.

3

Samuell Sainthill of London Merchant aged
twenty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne
and examined saith as followeth./

To the first and second articles of the sayd alleagtion hee saith
that at the tyme of the seizure and confiscation of the guift of
Topsham arlate hee this deponent was a factor at Bilboa for James Marshall arlate one
of the parties in this cause and thereby knoweth that before such
her seizure hee this deponent had there laden aboard the sayd shipp
for Accompts of the sayd Marshall two hundred kintalls of Iron
or thereabouts and that there was divers kintalls more of Iron laden
aboard the sayd shipp by one Gregory Westcome factor there to the
arlate Thomas Pitt, for Accompt of the sayd Thomas Pitt and Company
of mariners sufficient to navigate and conduct her in her sayd homewards
voyage, and had receaved her disptaches for the sayd voyage but by
reason that there was certayne silver videlicet peeces of eight in a considearble value which
(as it was at Bilboa reported) did properly belonge to [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Ma[?re]
the Master of the sayd shipp the sayd shipp was there seized on with
the sayd ladeing of forty tonne of Iron aboard her to the preiudice
of the sayd Pitt Marshall and Company the Owners and Proprietors
thereof, and the sayd shipp and the sayd forty tonnes of Iron by reason
of such seizure were in the Custody of the King of Spaines Officerss
for the space of two or three moneths or thereabouts by which meanes
much of the victualls and provisions of the sayd shipp was spent consumed
and taken out of her by the sayd Kings officers and some of the sayd
shipps tackle taken out of her and imbeazelled by the sayd Officers to the
preiudice of the Owners of the sayd shipp And further to those articles
hee cannot depose/

To the 4th article of the sayd alleagtion hee saith that upon seizure of
the sayd forty tonnes of Iron hee this deponent as factor for the sayd
Marshall and the sayd Gregory Westcomb as ffactor for the sayd Pitt did
on behalfe of the sayd Pitt Marshall and company inyeressed in
the sayd forty tonnes of Iron clayme the same on thir behalfes and
after a suite in lawe did by decree of Court recover the sayd Iron
in which suite there was necessarily expended fifteene pounds sterling
or