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plundered and taken away, videlicet a Ches … plundered and taken away, videlicet a Chest of sugar worth 40 li sterling,<br />
a Chest of Chirurgerie and instrumentsm with all his cloathes and other<br />
necessarie accomodations of a good vallue, And hee further saith that there was<br />
due to the said Page for his wages of 20 monthes att fiftie shillings per<br />
month amount to the summe of 50 li sterling, which att present hee saith<br />
is lost unto him, the said Page being for all the time afore said a Man very<br />
well affected to the Parliament and present Government of this Comonwealth of England<br />
All which hee knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent was quartermaster<br />
of and in the said shipp from the time of her setting forth unto the time of<br />
her seisure as aforesaid And further hee cannot depose, saveing that hee saith<br />
the said Page after the seisure of the said Shipp was (together with this deponent<br />
and the rest of the Shipps Company) imprisoned att Lisbone, and so contynued<br />
seaven weeks or thereabouts.
Archi[XXXX] Cooper [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
'''2. Rp.'''
'''Hugh Ball''' of the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex<br />
Marriner aged 35, yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the said doctor Clarke, and Examined deposeth as followeth videlicet./
That in or about the Month of May 1648, the said Shipp the ''Barnstable''<br />
''Merchant'' of London (Mr John W[?e]therdge being Master and Comander thereof)<br />
did goe out and sett saile from this Port of London upon a Merchandizeing<br />
and tradeing voyage which time the said Raph Page did goe Chirurgeon of<br />
and in the said shipp dureing the said voyage/ And hee saith That the said<br />
Shipp and Company sailed first to Newfound land, thence to Lisbone where<br />
shee was freighted by the king of Portugall for Brazeel[?a], and there dischardged<br />
and was reladen, and returned back againe to Lisbone, And hee saith that att her<br />
returne, Prince Ruperts Shipps rideing att an Anchor within the River of<br />
Lisbone, and the Parliaments Shipps rideing without the Harbour there<br />
happened a difference, betweene the Generalls of that ffleete and the king of<br />
Portugall concerneing the said Prince Rupert, insomuch the goods in the Brazeela<br />
ffleete goeing out from Lisbone was taken by the English Generalls, and upon<br />
that the said Shipp the ''Barnstable Merchant'' was likewise seised and<br />
taken by the king of Portugall in or about the month of June 1650, And<br />
the said Raph Page (together with this deponent and the said Shipps Company<br />
were all imprisoned andso con[XXXXed] seaven weekes or thereabouts And further saith that att the said seisure of the<br />
ship the ''Barnstable Merchant'', the said Page had all his goods plundered<br />
and taken away videlicet a Chest of Sugar worth 40 li sterling and upwards, a Chest<br />
of Chirurgereie, and all his clothes and other necessarys (saveing what were<br />
on his backe) to a good vallue but the worth thereof he knoweth not And<br />
also all his wages (being for 20 monthes amounting to 50 li<br />
sterling), are (for the present) lost unto the said Page, who hee saith<br />
was and is a man very well affected to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England<br />
Allwhich hee knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent was a Marriner belonging<br />
to the said shipp and went in her all the said voyage, from the time of her<br />
setting forth to her seisure as aforesaid And otherwise hee cannot depose.
[?signe]<br />
Huge[XX?s] [MARKE] Ball [MARKE, RH SIDE];
Huge[XX?s] [MARKE] Ball [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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