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to be carried and there to be delivered fo … to be carried and there to be delivered for accompt of her said owners, And that in her<br />
course therewith from Dantzike for Dunquike comming off the Texel shee was<br />
on the seaven and twentieth of the said moneth of August met with and seized<br />
by Captaine Lawson Admirall of the Blew Squadron for the English and by<br />
sent up into the River of Thames, where her said lading was disposed of by<br />
this deponent Jaspar ffisher. All which premisses touching the said proprietie<br />
and other particulars they very well knowe, the said Jaspar ffisher having bin<br />
Master and the said Swaine [?Bunnerson] Stiersman of the said vessell the ''ffishar''<br />
for theise fourteene yeeres last, and being aboard at the time of teh said seizure<br />
and bringing up tinto the River of Thames.
Caspar fisher [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]<br />
[?Signum] ['''?L'''] Bundurson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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Th eighteenth day of October 1653
On the behalfe of Sam: Palache}<br />
touching his Jewells seized in}<br />
the ''Elias''.}
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'''John Chappell''' living within the Libertie of the Tower<br />
of London Vintner aged five and forty yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne in Court before the Judges of<br />
the High Court of Admiralty saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet.
That upon Sunday last was sennight att night being the ninth day of<br />
this present moneth of October the sayd shipp the ''Elias'' came upp to<br />
Limehouse in the River of Thames, and this deponent being one of<br />
the Wayters for the Customes did that night goe aboard her and att<br />
his comeing aboard there found one Richardson or Jackson or some such like name who had attended<br />
the sayd shipp as wayter from Deale Castle or some place thereabouts<br />
whom this deponent discharged according to Custome. And moreover<br />
saith that there was amongest other pesons then likewise on board the<br />
sayd shipp one Alderman who att that tyme had the Command of the<br />
sayd shipp. And saith that the sayd Alderman the same night in discourse<br />
with this deponent told him that he had gound some writings aboard<br />
the sayd shipp in the Gunnroome oor powder roome thereof which would as he sayd<br />
make the sayd shipp ''Elias'' a prize being one of the shipps lately<br />
surprized by the shipp the ''Elizabeth'' one of the frigots in the immediate<br />
service of this Commonwealth And saith that the sayd Alderman<br />
did then likewise acquaint this deponent that he had, or had seene<br />
aboard the sayd shipp ''Elias;; a box wherein were as he sayd some<br />
rich things, not specifying what to the best of this deponents<br />
remembrance; And sayd that he the sayd Alderman would the next<br />
morning carry the writings aforesayd to the Prize office, and<br />
accordingly the next morning being Monday the 10th of October present<br />
the sayd Alderman did take a boat and goe off towards London in<br />
the same, and saith that he took something with him under his<br />
Coat but what this deponent knoweth not. And saith that of this<br />
deponents sight a young man a servant of the aforesayd Samuel<br />
Palvache did attempte or endeavour to goe off in the sayd boat with<br />
the sayd Alderman but the seamen aboard the ''Elias'' did not permitt<br />
the sayd young man to goe with the sayd Alderman ashoare as he<br />
desired and attempted to doe, but kept and deteyned him aboard the<br />
sayd shipp ''Elias''
John Chappell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before the three JudgesRH SIDE]
Repeated before the three Judges +
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