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'''Q.Q.'''
The 14th of October 1653. [CEN … '''Q.Q.'''
The 14th of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Pallache}<br />
touching his jewells}<br />
seized in the ''Elias''}
'''Rp.'''
'''jius. 2.us'''
'''Samuel Pallache''' otherwise Jacob Carlos of Hamborough<br />
Merchant, aged 36 yeares or thereabouts and '''John Hendrickson'''<br />
of Hasselm in Westfalia Shoomaker aged 17 yeares<br />
or thereabouts, sworne in Court before the Judges of the<br />
High Court of the Admiraltie say and depose by certue<br />
of their oathes as followeth.
And first the said Samuel Pallache otherwise Jacob Carlos saith and<br />
deposeth that hee came passinger from Hamborough in the shipp named<br />
the ''Prophet Elias'' of that place (Simon Cornelis Prophet master)<br />
bound for Rochell in ffrance, which said shipp comming in her course in the<br />
Channell betwixt England and ffrance off Callice was met with and<br />
seized by the ''Elizabeth frigat'' about a fortnight since and brought into<br />
the River of Thames, And that hee this deponent brought along with<br />
him from Hamborough in the said shipp ''Elias'' and had in his custodie aboard her<br />
in his trunck at such time as the ''Elizabeth frigot'' came up with her<br />
a wooden box gilded on the out side with gold of about halfe a foote longe<br />
and about a quarter of a foote broade, and in the same box had another<br />
of about a quarter of a foote longe alsoe gilded on the outside, and that<br />
in the said boxes hee had severall Jewells<br />
and precious stones of valew, namely in the said outer box three diamond<br />
Rings, the diamond of one of which rings was of the weight<br />
of eleaven graines and a halfe, the diamond of another of eight graines<br />
and a halfe weight, and that of the third of the weight of six grains<br />
and a quarterne, and a golden bodkin with a pearle in the [?greete] and thereof<br />
two bracelets of pearle containing five hundred pearles, each pearle of a<br />
graine and a halfe weight, two bracelets of gold the weight whereof<br />
hee knoweth not, the figure of a parrot of gold set all over the bodie<br />
with emeralds, and having a small chaine of gold fastned to the head<br />
and taile, and a pearle in the middle of the said chaine. A figure<br />
of a Camell of gold set alonge on the back with Mother of pearle<br />
a hat band in gold in severall peeces, A little looking glasse having the<br />
frame in fashion of a booke to shutt, in silver, and two redd stones<br />
each of the bignesse of a small nutt peirced, and some other small things<br />
of silver whereof hee remembreth not the particulars. And that in the said<br />
inner box hee had five gold rings, each with a rubie therein, and a<br />
sixth ringe of gold with the picture of Lewis the 13th late kinge of ffrance<br />
therein appearing through a christall, and doth not remember the<br />
other particulars, saving that in the said outer box there was the picture of<br />
this deponents mother in a copper plate, and that on the said outer box<br />
there was a key whereof hee hath the key in his custodie, and the inner<br />
box had noe lock. And further deposeth that when the said shipp was<br />
boarded and taken by the Captaine and companie of the ''Elizabeth frigot''<br />
namely two daies after the said seizure hee this deponent tooke the said<br />
boxes with the said iewells and particulars therein and caused his contest and<br />
servant John Hendrickson to sewe the same with some papers into<br />
a peece of canvas and then delivered the same to the Gunner of the said<br />
shipp the ''Elias'' to be by him laid up and [?preserved] for this deponent who<br />
feared that the souldiers or mariners of the ''Elizabeth'' might breake up his<br />
trunck and take the same away, and sawe the said Gunner hide the same in<br />
the powder under the greate cabbin, and after that hee was sett<br />
ashore in the Downes, leaving the said boxes and Jewells aboard i the<br />
gunners custodie in the said powder. And the said John Hendrickson<br />
deposeth hee tooke a box of about halfe a foote longe of his said<br />
contest and master Samuel Pallache otherwise Jacob Carlos, and by his order<br />
and in his presence sewed the same with some papers into a canvas case, and<br />
sawe his said master deliver the same to the Gunner of the said shipp to [?XX]<br />
said up for him and further sawe the said Gunner open the [?skull] of the greate<br />
cabbin [?skull] of the greate<br />
cabbin +
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