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merchants goods aboard of good value in to … merchants goods aboard of good value in tokens and otherwise, and severall<br />
goods Cloathes and necessaries belonging to the sayd Captaine Swanley and<br />
his Companie, and this deponent for his owne part had goods Clothes<br />
and other things in the sayd shipps the ''harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint''<br />
''Peter'' att the tyme of the sayd seizure by the dutch but most of them aboard the<br />
''harry Bonadventure'', and all for his owne Accompt to the cleare<br />
value of three hundred and thirty four pounds fourteene shillings six<br />
pence sterling. and lost besides by the sayd seizure in expences of travel[?l]<br />
home for England and losse of tyme to the value of 55 ''l'' sterling. And<br />
saith he cannot depose of the value of the sayd shipp the ''harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' nor the losse of others therein. But for his owne [?XXXX]<br />
hath left in the Registry of this Court a particular or schedule [?wherein]<br />
the same are more distinctly declared. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .21th. he saith and verily beleiveth that the fraud and [?XXXX]<br />
of the saud two Governours of Messina and Trapany was the occasion<br />
of the losse of the sayd shipps the ''harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter''<br />
And beleiveth that in case the Governour of Messina had permitted Captaine<br />
Swanley to furnish himselfe inn due tyme with necessaryes there, the<br />
sayd Captaine Swanley and this deponent had wholly escaped the sayd Dutch<br />
shipps, And that in case the Governour of Trapany according to his<br />
promisses had used his best endeavour to protect them, and had not<br />
prohibited the English to defend themselves, the sayd shipps ''harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter'' with their respective lading had not<br />
bene so taken by the Dutch nor lost to the English. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose.
To the last he saith his depositions are true.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin<br />
and Doctor Clarke./
John Merricke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 26th of September 1653.
Examined upon the said allegation.
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'''Richard Hall''' of Ratcliffe in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, Quartermaster of the sayd shipp the ''Harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' aged five and thirty yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith as<br />
followeth videlicet.
To the 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5th Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth<br />
that in the monthes of may and June last past and for some monthes before<br />
the sayd shipp the ''harry Bonadventure'' was ymployed in the service of the<br />
Commonwealth, and in pursuance of the sayd service about the month of May<br />
last past sett forth from Messina in Scicily and in her Course to T[?unis]<br />
wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth mett with off of the Cape Sp[?XXXX]<br />
two shipps dutch built wearing the holland Colours and chased them, and<br />
that the sayd dutch shipps fired upon the ''harry Bonadventure'', and fought<br />
with her, and saith that one of the sayd shipps named the ''Saint Peter'' was<br />
subdued and taken, and the master of her slayne, and the greatest part of her<br />
Companye greatest part of her<br />
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