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To the 4th negatively for his owne part. A … To the 4th negatively for his owne part. And further cannot answere.
To the Interrogatories in the second place/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee knoweth nothing thereof:-/
To the second hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, And further<br />
cannot answer./
To the third negatively for his part And further cannot depose:-/
To the fourth, hee referreth himselfe to his precedent deposition to the 4<br />
article of the Allegation precedent And further cannot depose:-/
To the 5th hee saith, that all the Prize Vessells predeposed were under the<br />
Commannd of Cowes Castle, (when this deponent saw them as aforesaid)<br />
Captaine Baskett then Commannder there, And otherwise knoweth not.
To the 6th hee saith, hee knoweth nothing thereof:-/
To the 7th and schedule interrate hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:/
To the 8th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:-
To the 9th hee saith, That as this deponent remembreth, some of the said<br />
wines were by the said Mr Rich sould to some Vintners for about 25.<br />
26. or 27. ''li'' per tunn to the number of about 90. or 100. Tunns so farr as this<br />
deponent now remembreth, And furthe cannot depose:-/
Repeated before Doctor Clerke:-/
Rous Tokeley. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 11th of Juy 1655. [CENTRE EHADING]
deposition from the Master of the}<br />
''thristie hart'', touching his usage}<br />
by the Captaine of the ''Preston frigot''.}
'''Hessel Jacobson Neve''' of der Schelling in North Holland<br />
mariner, Master of the shipp the ''Thirstie''<br />
''hart'', aged 40 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the<br />
acts of Court, saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
That his said shipp the ''Thriftie hart'' in her passage from Lisbone for<br />
Roan in ffrance laden with sugars, tobaccoe and Brazil-wood comming<br />
about tenn leagues short of haver de Grace on the coast of ffrance<br />
was about three weekes since met with and seized by the ''Preston''<br />
''ffrigot'', in the service of this Commonwealth, and about a day and halfe<br />
after brouht up to Portsmouth, which hee knoweth<br />
to be true because hee was the Master of the said shipp the ''hart''<br />
and upon the said seizure taken out of her, into the said frigot and<br />
brought neere the Ile of Wight and thence to Portsmouth.<br />
And saith that the said seizure being made in the evening, the Captaine<br />
and Companie of the frigot set saile with the said frigot and the ''hart''<br />
fastned to her and sailed all night and in the morning came neere the<br />
Ile of Wight, and then slacking saile the said Captaine with some<br />
of his Companie in his two boates went aboard this deponents said shipp<br />
and tooke this deponent and two of his men out of the frigot alonge<br />
with them, in whose presence they fell to plundring this deponents said<br />
shipp and tooke out of the same and carried away fiftie large<br />
Rolls of tobaccoe, and a great quantitie of Brazil wood, and three full<br />
chest sof sugar one white and two other being (as hee beleeveth) Muscovadas, with a great<br />
number of Oranges and lemmons, part of 68000 which this deponent had<br />
aboardwhich this deponent had<br />
aboard +
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