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The 20th day of September 1653
A Busines … The 20th day of September 1653
A Busines of Examination of Witnesses}<br />
for the perpetuall Remembrance of the}<br />
matter on behalfe of the Keeper of}<br />
the Liberty of England by authority of}<br />
Parliament concerning the losse of a}<br />
Certaine shipp named the ''Harry''}<br />
''Bonadventure'' whereof Robert Swanley}<br />
was Captaine and the goods that were}<br />
in her and concerning a certaine shipp)<br />
or vessell named the ''Saint Peter'' where of}<br />
one Claes Symondson Cohone was master}<br />
being a shipp formerly belonging to}<br />
the Dutch subiects of the States of the}<br />
united Provinces and taken and seized by}<br />
Captaine Swanly in the sayd shipp the ''Harry''}<br />
''Bonadventure'' in the immediate service of}<br />
this Commonwealth Bud}
Examined upon an Allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Keeper of the<br />
Liberty of England by Authorty<br />
of Parliament.
'''Lorenzo Michael''' of Sevill in<br />
Spayne Corporall of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Harry Bonadventure'' aged thirty<br />
yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined deposeth and saith as<br />
followeth. vidlicet.
To the first Article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that<br />
in the monethes of January ffebruary and March 1652. and in March<br />
Aprill May June and July of this present yeare 1653. the arlate shipp<br />
the ''Harry Bonadventure'' was imployed and sett to sea in the immediate<br />
service of the Commonwealth upon a warlike voyage under the Command<br />
of the arlate Captaine Robert Swanley with a lawfull Commission to<br />
surprize and take all ffrench shipps; and all Dutch shipps belonging<br />
to any Port or place of the United Provinces, and all other shipps<br />
whatsoever belonging to the knowne enemies of this Commonwealth and<br />
the sayd shipp did proceed upon the sayd designe and expediccon accordingly<br />
The premisses this deponent knoweth to be true for that he served in the<br />
sayd shipp during all the tyme aforesayd as Corporall of the Souldiers<br />
on board her, and saw the Commission aforessaid on board, which sayd<br />
Commission the sayd Captaine Swanly did of the knowledge of this deponent<br />
execute on the behalfe of this Commonwealth And otherwise cannot depose
To the second Article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith and deposeth<br />
that in the monthes of May or June last past the tyme otherwise he remembreth<br />
not, The sayd shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure'' by Order from Mr Longland<br />
Agent att Leghorne for this Commonwealth of England sett sayle from<br />
Messina towards Tunis, and in her Course thithe, haveing neere Cape<br />
[?Spertovento] mett with two dutch shippes who assaulted the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
and made shott against her, The sayd Captaine Robert Swanley and Company<br />
in pursuance of their sayd Commission and by vertue of the same fought<br />
with the sayd two dutch shipps with their sayd shipp of warr the Harry<br />
Bonadventure, and after a sharpe dispatch for the space of four houres<br />
or thereabouts after much dammage and hurt to the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
subdued surprized and tooke the better and stronger of the sayd two dutch<br />
shipps, that is to say the sayd shipp the ''Saint Peter'' whereof Clases Symondson<br />
Cohone was master or Commander, together with all the goods and ladings<br />
thatall the goods and ladings<br />
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