HCA 13/73 f.522r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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Folio | 522 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2014/06/05 |
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The samd Day: [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the syd Interrogatories./.
Rp. .3us.
Laurence Tyrer of Liverpool in Lancashire
Mariner aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts
sworne and Examined./:
To the first Interrogatorie hee sauith hee well knoweth the ffrigot
the Henrietta maria, and soe hath done for about
Eleven monethes since, And saith that shee is of about
Thirty tonns burthen, And saith that Captaine George Dowdall
was her Captaine and Commander.
To the second and thir Interrogatories hee saith that in or about
the moneth of July last past His Royall Highnes James
Duke of Yorke Lord high Admirall of England did grant
a Commission to the said Captaine Dowdall to take with the
said ffrigot the ships and goods belonging to any Person in
actuall Rebellion against his Sacred Majesty Charles the
Second, our Soveraigne Lord and King which Commission this Deponent
hath often seene and read part thereof, and doth beleeve
the schedule Interrate annexed to the said Interrogatories and
by him read, to be a Copy thereof. And the Originall Commission
hee saith came to the hands of Captaine Barker. And
further cannot Depose/:
To the 4th. and 5th. hee saith that the said Captaine Dowdall
and Company whereof this Deponent was one came with the
said ffrigot Henrietta Maria in the Road of Mumbles in the
beginning of May last past, and saith that about Seaven or Eight
dayes after, His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second by the Grace
of God, King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland, was
Proclaimed at Swansey and alsoe on board the said ffrigot
by Colonel ffreeman, Governour of Cardiffe Castle, And the
said Captaine Dowdall and Company were very Joyfull
thereof, and fired all their Gunns, and uttered many expressions
of Joy and hung up the Kings Colours and from that time
desisted from any hostile actions against the English or
any of his said Majestyes Subjects of this Deponents knowledge
and although they could have seized severall English vessells
and ships after the said Proclamation yet they would not nor
did soe much as stop them, but submitted. And further deposeth
not.
To the 6th. 7th and 8th hee saith that as the said ffrigot was riding
at Anchor in the roade of Mumbles, and about foure dayes after
the said Proclamation a certaine ffrigott came to the Roade with
the States Colours and this Deponent and Company which were in the
Henriteea Maria not knowing what shee was cut the Cable, and
sailed up to the Key, and there dropt an Anchor, And the said ffrigot
(still