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The 27th of September 1653.
Examined upon … The 27th of September 1653.
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
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'''Robert Swanley''' of Hackney in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner late Captaine or Commander of the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure'', aged eight and<br />
thirty yeares or thereabouts, a witnes sworne<br />
and examined deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet
To the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in the<br />
monethes of december January ffebruary and March 1652 and in<br />
March Aprill May and June 1653 last past thesayd shipp the ''Harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' was imployed to sea in the immediat service of this Commonwealth<br />
under the Command of him this deponent with a lawfull Commission and<br />
Instructions to surprize and take as a Man of Warr all ffrench shipps<br />
and dutch shippes belonging to any port or places of the united Provinces<br />
and all other shipps belonging to any the knowne Enemies of this Commonwealth<br />
And the sayd shipp did proceed accordingly under the Command of this<br />
deponent upon the sayd expedition. And otherwise he cannot depose
To the second article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that on or about<br />
the nyneteenth day of May 1653, The sayd shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
by Letter from Mr Longland Agent for this Commonwealth at Leghorne sett<br />
sayle from Messina towards Tunnis and in her course thither upon [?or ?about]<br />
the 22th day of Mary 1653 off of the Cape Spertevento mett with two dutch<br />
shipps, which assaulted the ''Harry Bonadventure'', and made 2 or three<br />
shotts at her. Whereupon this deponent and his Company in persuance of<br />
the aforesayd Commission and Instructions, fought with the saud two dutch<br />
shipps and after three or four howres subdued and tooke the stronger<br />
of the sayd dutch shipps named the ''Saint Peter'' whereof Claes Symondson<br />
Cohone was Commander, which sayd Claes Symondson was slayne in the<br />
sayd fight, and the Company of the ''Saint Peter'' or greatest part of them<br />
taken in the ''Harry Bonadventure'', by meanes whereof This deponent<br />
and his Company became absolute Masters and Possessors of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Saint Peter'' and her Lading/ And otherwise cannot depose.
To the third article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith That the arlate shipp<br />
the ''Saint Peter'' was of the burthen of betwixt 4 and 5 hundred tonnes and<br />
had 24 gunnes about 24 ''lb'' weight a peice one with another and had<br />
in her 35 barrells of powder and was well fitted with Anchors Cable<br />
and other tackle and with armes and munition requisit and was [?furnished]<br />
and richly laden in her diverse sorts of goods, and saith according to<br />
the bills of lading found aboard the sayd shipp and perused by this deponent<br />
there was Laden aboard the sayd shipp two Chests of quicksylver [?XXX]<br />
of [?Rice], 8 or 9 hundred baggs of Anniseeds fennell seeds and [?Cummin seeds]<br />
about 100 tonnes of Currants, about 1600 weight of ffustick, and [?XX]<br />
butts of Almonds, and allso severall Chests of drinking glasses and<br />
lookeing glasses, and a large Chest of balsome beades, and a [?XX]<br />
of silke and other goods, And this deponent saith that accordingly [?the]<br />
quantityes of goods in the sayd bills of lading mentioned and entred in the<br />
sayd Cargazon of goods were well worth the summe of fifty [?XX]<br />
[?XXX]he summe of fifty [?XX]<br />
[?XXX] +
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