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Whetcombe and Mr Jackson, and consigned to … Whetcombe and Mr Jackson, and consigned to be here delivered unto them<br />
All which hee knoweth because hee this deponent being then<br />
master of the said shipp as aforesaid received the said goods aboard and<br />
signed bills of lading for the same, And saith that on or about the<br />
fourteenth of the said moneth of October last the said shipp with the said<br />
goods aboard her sett saile and departed from Malaga for this port<br />
and in her course comming neare Scilly on or about the<br />
fourth of November last shee was met with and set upon<br />
by a Brest man of warr with tenn guns mounted, who tooke her<br />
and her said lading, and was carrying them for Brest, but in the<br />
night time [?comming] fowle of the [?Seames] Rocks on the coast of<br />
Britany the company of the Brestman cutt the cable wherewith<br />
hee towed her, and the man that hee had put into her being a [?mazed]<br />
ran out of her into their boate and eft her; all which hee knoweth<br />
being carried in the said man of warr in her company, and seeing<br />
the premisses soe donne, And saith that the said vessell being by the winde<br />
carried out to sea, a fflushinger comming homewards<br />
(as this deponent hath bin credibly informed) finding her adrift<br />
put men aboard her and carried her safe home to fflushing,<br />
with all the said goods in her saving two barrells of the said raisins<br />
namely one greate and one small) which the said Captaine<br />
of the frigot (that seized her) tooke away, soe that the said<br />
shipp and goods were and are in manner aforesaid lost for the<br />
owners thereof: And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Clerke.
William ffishman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The third of January 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
de haze, Stock and others against}<br />
Cable. Suckley. Smith.}
Examined upon an allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the said Cable./
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Thomas Ramsey''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex<br />
Shipwright, aged 27 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that the<br />
voyage arlate of the shipp the ''dove'' (Walter Cable master) for Newcastle<br />
in August last hee this deponent was Carpenter of her and went that<br />
voyage in her, and thereby knoweth that in all her passage and<br />
course from Tilbury hope to Tinmouth haven<br />
(happening in or about the beginning of August last past) shee did not<br />
come soe neare any shipp, barke or vessell whatsoever as to touch her,<br />
in her passing through the Well or elswhere in her outwards voyage<br />
betwixt the hope and Tinmouth haven aforesaid, which is shee had<br />
donne this deponent being constantly aboard must (as hee saith) needsonstantly aboard must (as hee saith) needs +
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