HCA 13/73 f.423r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 423 |
| Side | Recto |
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| Karen Gunnell | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2014/07/25 | |
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| Edited on 03/08/2014 by Jill Wilcox | |
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BBB [LH MARGIN]
27th October 1659
A busines of examination of witnesses on the}
behalf of Edmond Lemmon and company}
owners of the shipp the Redd Rose whereof the sayd}
Lemmon was Master and her tackle apparrell}
and furniture against Wygart Wigarts and}
John drewes in particular and all others in}
general which take upon them to justifie the}
siezure and surpriz all of the sayd shipp the Redd}
Rose and her ladeing Smith}
Examined on an allegation given in on the
behalfe of Edmond Lemmon and Company
William Hone of the parish of
ffanchurch London Mariner aged twenty
fower yeares or thereabouts a witnesse
sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the allegation he saith that in the monethes
of April and May last past one thousand,sixe hundred and fifty nyne
the arlate Edmond lemmon and Company nowe Commonly reputed
to be the lawfull Owners and proprietors of the arlate shipp the Redd
Rose and of her tackle and furniture And hee this depondent being
then a passenger in the sayd shipp knoweth that the sayd Lemmon was
the Master of the sayd shipp and had commande of her as Master of her
and hee the sayd Lemmon and Company all English Merchants subjects of the Commonwealth of England were as hee verily beleeveth
Owners of her and her tackle apparell and furniture and knoweth they were for commonly
reputed and further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2 and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
being a passenger on board the sayd Redd Rose and bound in her to goe
to the English Fleete at Elsenore in denmark, knoweth that in the moneth
of May 1659 the sayd shipp Redd Rose did remayne in a peaceable
condition in the River Eames arlate, about a league distant from
Embdem where the sayd Lemmon and Company were taking aboard the
sayd shipp a ladeing of salt which (as he believeth and hath Credibly
heard from the sayd Lemmon and other of the sayd shipps Company) was
soe laden aboard her for Accompt of English Merchants subiects of this Commonwealth
to be carried in her to Stockholme a place in the East sea in the dominions
of the King of Sweden, and in amity with this Commonwealth, And hee
saith that hee this deponent and some others who were of the shipps Company
of the Redd Rose aforesayd, being aboard her thereby knoweth that while the
sayd shipp soe rode peaceably in a free stream neere Embden as aforesayd taking in her
sayd ladeing of salt the arlate Wigart Wygarts and John drewes (who were reputed
subiects of the State of the United provinces, did (whilst the sayd
Edmond Lemmon and severall of his sayd shipps Company were on
shoare at Embden about provideing and
getting provisions or victuals and other necessaries for the
sayd shipp) came on board the sayd shipp the Redd Rose in the sayd moneth
of May last in a warlike manner, and brought with them in a smack
or small vessell above thirty seamen and souldiers and therewith in a
hostile manner siezed the sayd shipp the Redd Rose and soe many of her
company as were on board her, and her ladeing of salt and having
in a warlike manner placed their sayd souldiers and seamen on
board her, the said Wigards and drewes commanded the keys of the
trunks
