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shipp the ''Dolphin'' arlate for and durin … shipp the ''Dolphin'' arlate for and during the time arlate<br />
and alsoe of her lading of Coales and was for and<br />
during the time arlate Master of her, and did of his this<br />
deponents certaine knowledge make within the time arlate many<br />
voyages with her as Master and part Owner of her, and that<br />
he the said Grant did behave himselfe onestly in his said<br />
place The premisses he deposth because of his this deponents<br />
acquaintance with the said Grant, and by reason of such<br />
acquaintance well knew that the said Grannt bought the<br />
said shipp at Yarmouth (she being taken prize from the<br />
Dutch in the late warrs) for himselfe and Owners<br />
And further he cannot depose./
To the second and third articles he deposeth and saith that<br />
in or about the moneth of JUne 1654, the arlate John<br />
Grant the producent did bring the said shipp the ''dolphin''<br />
with her lading of coales from Newcastle to Ramsgate<br />
Road in the Downes, and thence came ashoare at Sandwich<br />
to take orders from the rest of the Owners of the said<br />
shipp whither he sowld bring her into the haven of<br />
Sandwich, or to goe to some other Port, where the Markett<br />
was better, and that the sayd Grant being soe on shoare<br />
at Sandwich, he was arrested, and the arlate Mathew<br />
Pinder did about 10 of the clock of the same night after<br />
The said Grant was arrested, with about five mens [?XXX]<br />
without any lawfull authority goe aboard the said shipp<br />
the ''Dolphin'' and by force take possession of her and<br />
her said lading of coales, and hath ever since kept<br />
the possession of her and gone in her as Master of her, and<br />
hath disposed of the part of the shipps<br />
laoading belonging to the producent The premisses he deposeth<br />
for that he was in Sandwich when the said Grant the<br />
producent was arrested, and was with him in the Jayle<br />
after he was arrested, and went to the shipp<br />
side and saw the said Mathew Pinder aboard the said<br />
shipp And further he cannot depose./
To the fourth article he deposeth that on the next day<br />
after the sayd Grant the producent was arrested, he this<br />
deponent and his contest Andrew harris were bayle for<br />
the said Grannt, and that thereupon he was released from<br />
the said arrest, And that within a day or two after the said<br />
producent had his said discharge, he procured from the Vice=Admiraltie<br />
Court at Dover a decree to bee putt into the possession<br />
of the said shipp the ''Dolphin'' as Master of her, and came<br />
with the said decreee and an officer of the said Court to<br />
have been putt into possession of her, accordingly but that the said [?PXXX]<br />
would not lett the said Grannt come aboard the said shipp<br />
nor would in any wise yeild obedience to the said decree The<br />
premisses he deposeth for that he was present and sawe the<br />
producent come towards the said shipp with the said decree<br />
andshipp with the said decree<br />
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