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20th Junij 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
Ex part … 20th Junij 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
Ex parte Roberti Bardett et [?aliornd]}<br />
quoad navem the ''Saint George'' de dover}
'''Rp.'''
'''1us'''
'''Stephen Kinge''' of the parish of Saint Catherins<br />
neere the Tower of London Saylor aged 24<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull John Exton doctor of Lawes one of the<br />
Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
and examined upon Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the behalfe of the said Robert Burdett<br />
and others saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatory hee deposeth that hee well knewe the shipp<br />
called the ''George'' of dover whereof henry Curtis was master<br />
at the time shee was last at Gallipoly and the ports and<br />
places thereabouts. And saith shee was bound from hence for<br />
Newfound land, where taking in her lading of ffish shee sailed<br />
to and discharged at Naples, from whence shee sailed to Castla<br />
a Mer and tooke in casks which shee discharged at Gallipolie<br />
about Christmas last past, and there<br />
having taken aboard her lading of oiles and sope, shee departed<br />
thence to come for London which her departure was about a moneth<br />
after Christmas last past, The premisses hee deposeth and knoweth<br />
to be true because hee went all the said voyage in the said shipp and<br />
was one of her company videlicet one of her foremast men, Et<br />
alr nescit deponere.
To the second hee deposeth that one Mr Bishop a merchant living<br />
in Naples freighted the said shipp thence for Castle a Mer, Gallipoly<br />
and soe to come for London as aforesaid, and saith that having<br />
carried a quantitie of emptie casks which shee tooke in at<br />
Castle a mer to Gallipoly and there discharged them, shee received<br />
and tooke aboard in Gallipoly her full lading of oiles and<br />
sope, her burthen being 140 tonnes or thereabouts, to be transported<br />
as aforesaid for London for the Accompt of severall<br />
merchants, and otherwise hee cannot as hee saith depose.
To the third hee deposeth that the said shipp and lading of oiles<br />
and sope comming betixt Portland and the Isle of Wight in her<br />
homewards voyage from Gallipoly, was there sett upon surprized<br />
and taken by a shipp of warre of Jersey, commannded by Captaine<br />
Nicholls oon or about the 28th day of March last past, and<br />
by the said Captaine and company carried to Jersey, and there confiscated<br />
and the shipp and goods there sold as prize goods, and soe they<br />
were and are utterly lost to the owners of them, which hee<br />
knoweth because hee was on board her when shee was soe<br />
seized and was carried in her to Jersey,<br />
and being afterwards released and comming to Saint<br />
Malo, hee sawe some of her lading brought thither, which was bought<br />
by some merchants of Saint Malo. Et alr nescit.
Signum<br />
[MARKE] Stephen King [MARKE, RH SIDE]>
[MARKE] Stephen King [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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