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Transcription

shee then
alsoe belonged to the sayd Somers as Owner of her, this hee heard the
sayd Beach say aboard the sayd shipp the Change after
her seizure by the Preston ffrigott (and many tymes before) hee being aboard the Change
only as a passenger goeing from the Groyne to a port called
Passage in Biscay and soe taken in the sayd shipp Change by the
Preston frigott, the Change being then made a shipp of warr and
under Command of the sayd Captaine Beach, who as hee acknowledged
was Comissioned by the duke of Yorke for the seizeing the goods and
shipps of the subiects of the Commonwealth of England, And
further to those articles hee cannot depose for that hee knew not the shipp
Change (otherwise than as aforesayd) at the tyme of such her
seizure of her and her ladeing in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred
fifty sixe; and saving hee saith hee alsoe heard the sayd Captaine Beach
saye that at the tyme when the sayd shipp now called the Change was
seized in the yeare 1656 shee was then called the Cane Marchant
and upon such her takeing and being made a shipp of warr her name
was altered and shee called the Change. and that shee had
when shee was soe first seized in the yeare 1656 tenn gunnes, and
saving hee saith hee knoweth and did observe when hee was taken aboard
her by the Preston frigott that the sayd shipp was and is a ffrench
built shipp, and had then thirteene gunnes aboard her and is as
hee beleeveth a vessell of about fowerscore tonne And further
hee cannot depose/

To the 5th article hee saith hee being aboard knoweth that the sayd
shipp formerly called the Cane Merchant and now the Change
was about the one or two and twentith of Aprill 1658 retaken
(shee being then a man of warr under Comand of the sayd Captaine
Beach) by the Preston ffrigott (whereof the arlate Robert
Robinson was Captaine) in the imediate service of the Common
wealth of England which Captaine Robinson as hee hath heard and beleeveth brought her into
Plymouth where shee now remayneth./

To the 6th hee saith for that hee hath many tymes heard the sayd Captaine
Beach saye that the sayd shipp the Change was formerly called the
Cane Merchant and is the same shipp whereof the sayd Somers was Owner,
hee verily beleeveth that the sayd shipp the Change taken by the Preston
ffrigott and the shipp Cane Merchant whereof the sayd Somers was
Owner are one and the same shipp, And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was noe witntnes to any bill of sayle
nor sawe any money paid for the shipp Interrogate nor can answere more
particularly to the contents of this Interrogatorie than in his foregoeing deposition is
declared.

To the 2 and third hee saith hee cannot more fully answere to any particulars of these
Interrogatories than in his foregoeing deposition hee hath declared