HCA 13/73 f.542r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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Folio | 542 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2014/06/10 |
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at Sea, this Deponent and the said Captaine Bun
acquainted the said Captaine Whetstone therewith and delivered
to him what papers they had then found; and saith that
the next day the said Winter went onboard the said
Prize and turned this Deponents and the said Captaine Buns
Men out of her, and they coming onboard (acquainting
this Deponent and the said Captaine Bun therewith
this Deponent and the said Bun
went on board the said Prize to knowe wherefore hee
Turned their men out, (it being contrary to the Custome of
the sea) and at their comming onboard hee saith they
found the said Winter. together with the Company which hee
brought onboard, breakeing open the hold of the said Ship
and taking out, and sending severall bales of goods aboard
the ffairfax, and the said Winter abused severall of the Dutchmen that were on board the said Prize and tooke away the Cloathes
belonging to a Genoes merchant who was taken in the said Ship,
which were very good, and rich and were worth as this Deponent verily
beleeveth two hundred pounds Sterling at the least, and
never restored them to him againe, and the said Merchant
declared to this Deponent that the said Winter tooke out of
his truncke three hundred Spanish peeces of Eight
and this Deponent and the said Captain Bun seeing the said
Winter and Company breaking open the hold plundering and
taking away the Goods onto the said Prize, and cating
soe Contrary to the foresaid Lawes and Customes of the
sea. went on board their ffrigotts. and saith
that when the said Winter turned this Deponents and the said
Captaine Buns men out of the said Prize, her Bulke was
not broken, nor any goods whatsoever taken out of her neither
from betwixt Decks or out of hould,
And further saith
that the said Prize was caried by the said Winter and
the Company hee carried on board her, to the Road of
Marsellis, the ffairefax and the other ffrigotts goeing alsoe thither
where the said Prize was wholly unloaden, and some of
the lading was sold at Marsellis, and some sent in the Little
Lewis (which then lay there) for Genoa, and this Deponent being
there on shore was credibly informed by two English merchants
namely mr Land and mr Wallis, that the Company of the said
Prize