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former voyages, and that he had an eight p … former voyages, and that he had an eight part of the said<br />
shipp and of her lading of coales, and that during the sayd<br />
Newcastle voyage he the said Grant did behave himselfe<br />
as honestly as any Master that ever this deponent went<br />
to sea with, And further he cannot depose saving that he<br />
hath heard the maior part of the said shipps Owners say<br />
and acknowledge that they had putt him the said Grant<br />
in Master of the sayd shipp.
To the second and third article he deposeth and saith that<br />
the sayd shipp being [?moored] in Ramsgate Road arlate the<br />
producent about the latter end of May 1654 went ashore<br />
at Sandwich to know of her Owners what he should further<br />
doe concerning the sayd shipps lading, and that about 7 houres<br />
after the producent was gone ashoare the arlate Mathew<br />
Pindar came aboard the sayd shipp with fower or 5<br />
men more, and this deponent having none aboard of the<br />
sayd shipps company but a little boy did not hinder them in<br />
comming aboard her, and about an houre after the sayd<br />
Pindar askt this deponent if he knew why he the said Pindar was come aboard the<br />
sayd shipp and this deponent told him he knew not, and then<br />
the sayd Pindar told this deponent that he was come to take<br />
possession of the sayd shipp, and this deponent asked him by<br />
what authority, and that then the sayd Pindar shewed a paper<br />
or writing, which this deponent could not read (as he cannott<br />
write nor read written hand) and he further deposeth that<br />
on the next day after the said Pindar and his [?XXXX] came<br />
aboard the said shipp they were going to unmoore her and<br />
this deponent did then beginne to oppose them therein, and that<br />
one of the said Pindars Company tooke up a boate hooke,<br />
and threatned him be quiett, telling him this deponent<br />
that there was two to one And further he cannot depose
To the fourth article he deposeth that the producent being<br />
turned out of possession of the sayd shipp (as he hath predeposed)<br />
he complained thereof to the Vice=Admiralty Court at dover<br />
and obteyned a decree from the sayd Court to bee putt into<br />
the possession of her, and that by vertue thereof the producent<br />
endeavoured to regaine the possession of her but that the<br />
arlate Mathew Pindar would not lett the said John GRant<br />
the producent come aboard her, notwithstanding the said<br />
decree The premisses he deposeth becuse he was present<br />
aboard the said shipp when the said decree was exhibited aboard<br />
the said shipp by one Thomas Rushman, and when the said<br />
Grant would have come aboard, but was not suffered by<br />
the sayd Pindar, And further he cannot depose
To the fifth he deposeth that the Coales arlate were worth<br />
about one hundred pounds, whereof the producent had<br />
an 8th part And further he cannot depose.
To the sixth and seaventh articles he deposeth that the<br />
producenthe deposeth that the<br />
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