HCA 13/76 f.88r Annotate

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Edem dia./

Super Allone pred Examinat.

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Johannes Janson de Insula Vertis, Nauta natui in Ostend annos
agens 28 aut circiter det deponit prout sequitur.

Ad dram Allegationem deponit et dicit
That after the seizure of the arlate ship ffortune this deponent came onboard
the frigot Royall att the Isle of Wight sto see his brother then a prisoner onboard
her being taken in the Godlife whereof hee ws master ad coming onboard
the sayd frigot hee met alsoe with the [?XXX] of the sshipp ffortune called John
Duplessis who is a ffrenchman of [?StXXXX] by Deipe as hee hath
severa; times told this deponent who hath knowne him for many yeares
and saith that from the Isle of Wight this deponent went in the sayd shipp
Royall to Chichester and in his passage thither had severall times
dscourse with the sayd John Duplessis and alsoe after their coming to Chichester, And
saith that at first the sayd John Duplessis said that hee was bound for
Dunkirk, and that his lading was hios owners goods and that hee
might sell the same where hee pleased and that hee tooke the same
in at Bourdeaux, but when hee was come to Chichester hee
sayd that hee was bound to London, and this deponent asked of him
why hee did not say so before, hee sayd was because hee could
not tell what man of warr hee had mett with, And saith that as the
sayd shipp ffortune was coming into Chichester this deponent went onboard
her and accidentally goeing by the pumpe of the shipp ffortune spyed
a peece of Canvas betweene the pumpe and the deale board that [?XX]
the pumpe and hee thinking that it had money in it pulled it out
and opened the same and found therein only a letter which hee sayeth is
the letter No. 36 amongst the sayd ships papers which hee hath now seene
which letter this deponent imediately delivered to
the Boatswaiine of the ffrigott whow as just by him with a Candle when hee found
the same, and sayth that aboput three houres after this deponent

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