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and there informed, but did not understand … and there informed, but did not understand the same being made in french
To the 8th hee saith, That hee this deponent was present when the Master<br />
and Companie of the said Zealand Merchants man who tooke the ''Charity''<br />
were judicially examined there at a publique Court in Bayonne concerning<br />
the seizure of the said shipp ''Charity'' and her lading, and whether they had<br />
any Commission soe to doe, but saith upon such their examination they<br />
did not nor could produce any Commission for their soe doeing. And<br />
further cannot depose.
Robert harrigat [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day examined upon the said Allegation:- [CENTRE HEADING]
'''4us:-'''
'''George Toblin''' of Newcastle upon Tyne Shipwright<br />
aged 45 yeares or thereabouts, a Wittnesse sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth videlicet:-
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee<br />
this deponent well knew the shipp the ''Charity'' in Controversie in the yeares<br />
<u>1651.</u> and <u>1652.</u> being about a yeares time before her seizure hereafter<br />
deposed, and saith hee sailed in and served aboard her the Voiage in question<br />
and in a former voiage to ffrance and thereby knoweth, That Richard Rice and James Cole and Company<br />
were then generally esteemed the true and Lawfull Owners and Proprietors<br />
of the said shioo and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, this deponents<br />
precontest Robert harrigate then being Master and part Owner of the<br />
same: And further cannot depose:
To the second hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Charity'' was in or about<br />
the moneth of September 1652 lett to freight in Ireland upon a trading<br />
voiage for Saint Sebastians in Spaine or other free Port or Ports according<br />
to the said harveys direction, and saith the said shipp having performed her<br />
Voiage to Saint Sebastians aforesaid was thence ordered to saile for Bordeaux<br />
in ffrance, and in her Course thitherwards was in or about the moneth<br />
of March <u>1652</u>, met with neare the french coast, and violently and illegally surprized<br />
and taken by a dutch Merchant man and brought up to Bayonne in<br />
france, and the said harrigate and Companie dispossed thereof, notwith<br />
standing that the said dutch merchant man had not nor did produce<br />
any Commission or authority for such the said seizure so farr as this deponent<br />
ever saw, heard or understood. The premisses hee knoweth being Shipps<br />
Carpenter of and aboard the said shipp the Voiage in Controversie, and<br />
seized in her and brought up to Bayonne with her by the said dutch<br />
Merchant man. And further cannot depose:-
To the third hee saith, That hee this deponent never saw the shipp the ''Charity''<br />
in Controversie since shee was seized and brought up to Bayonne as<br />
aforesaid, and therefore to this article hee cannot depose:-
To the fourth hee referreth himselfe to the Acts and proceedings of<br />
this Court, And further cannot depose:-/;
this Court, And further cannot depose:-/ +
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