| First transcribed
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21 September 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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276 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/68 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 13/01/2018 +
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| Transcription
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'''E.E.E.'''
The third day of October 165 … '''E.E.E.'''
The third day of October 1653./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Robert LLewellin and Company against}<br />
Henry Powell late Master of the ''Hopewell''}<br />
Clement Suckley.}
Examined upon the sayd libell
'''3.'''
'''Richard Clarke''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and<br />
County of Middlesex Mariner where hee hath bin an Inhabitant<br />
for these sixteene yeares last past or thereabouts a witnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first second third and fowerth articles or positions of the libell hee saith<br />
and deposeth That hee hath heard divers of the company of the shipp the<br />
''hopewell'' saye and affirme that the arlate Peter Mackerell<br />
and Valentine Austin and others were the true and lawfull Owners and proprietors <br />
of the sayd shipp the ''hopewell'' of London her tackle apparrell and furniture<br />
during the tyrme arlate and soe hee beleeveth them to be And and as hee hath allsoe<br />
heard from divers of the sayd shipps company and also from the arlate Powell himselfe the arlate henry<br />
Powell was by the arlate Austen and the rest of the sayd Owners appointed<br />
Master and Commander of the sayd shipp and went as Master of her the voyage<br />
arlate And hee further saith that hee well knoweth that in the moneth of<br />
October 1652 arlate and to the best of this deponents remembrance on the thirteenth<br />
day of the same moneth) the sayd henry Powell as Master of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''hopewell'' came to the five Iland, a port in Antego where hee then found<br />
the shipp the ''Recovery'' arlate of which Captaine William Swifte was Master<br />
or commander, in a leakie and disabled condition, and hee hath heard the sayd<br />
henry Powell and alsoe divers others ofthe Company of the shipp ''hopewell'' saye that<br />
hee was imployed by the Owners of the sayd shipp ''hopewell'' only on purpose to<br />
receave on board the sayd shipp ''hopewell'' the ladeing and goods which were<br />
on board the sayd shipp called the ''Recovery'' and was ordered to come<br />
therewith directly for the Port of London arlate and not to staye any longer tyme<br />
at the sayd port of five Ilands in Antego then he could conveniently take<br />
in the sayd goods and ladeing this hee deposeth being then on board the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Recovery'' and of that shipps company and helpeing to lade all the<br />
goods which were laden out of the sayd shipp the ''Recovery'' into the sayd shipp<br />
the ''hopewell'' And further to these articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith that<br />
at the arrivall of the sayd shipp the ''hopewell'' at the five Ilands aforesayd the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Recovery'' was ready to deliver and unlade her ladeing aboard<br />
the sayd shipp the ''hopewell''./
To the 5th hee saith that before and after the arrivall of the shipp the ''hopewell''<br />
arlate at the five Islands aforesayd there was a generall reporte that Prince<br />
Rupert arlate was to the Leewarde of the Island of Antego with certayne<br />
men of warr and had taken some English vessells in those parts and soe much could not but be heard of and taken notice of by<br />
the arlate henry Powell and his shipps company by [?reason] of the generality of the reporte and further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 5th and 7th articles of the libell hee saith and deposeth that the shipp the ''hopewell'' arlate<br />
imediately upo the arrivall at the five Islands aforesayd in Antego [?mightXXXX] hee the sayd<br />
henry Powell had fitted and prepared his sayd shipp in a readinesse to receave the same and diligently applyed [?himselfe] to have<br />
taken in all the ladeing which shee was there to take and receive in from the sayd shipp the<br />
''Recovery'' within the space of sixe or eight dayes at the most and might in all probability<br />
have might in all probability<br />
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