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22th of December 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
A … 22th of December 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
A busines of examination of wittnesse}<br />
on the behalfe of Edward ffranke, Charles}<br />
Butler and Company Owners of the}<br />
shipp the ''George and Thomas'' and}<br />
of her tackle apparrell and furniture}<br />
and of her [?XXXXs] and lading seized by the}<br />
King of ffrance or his subiects and more}<br />
particularly by Jaquis [?Lasses] and frenchmen}<br />
and his Company. Clements}
'''1)'''
'''Thomas Ratcliffe''' of the<br />
parish of Saint Btolph without<br />
Allgate London late Master of<br />
the sayd shipp the ''George''<br />
''and Thomas'', aged 46 yeares, a<br />
wittnes produced and sworne and being<br />
examined deposeth as followeth.
To the first, second, third and fourth articles of the allegation<br />
given in and admitted on the behalfe of the sayd Edward ffranke<br />
CharlesButler and Company he deposeth and saith That he<br />
the deponent was Master of the arlate shipp the ''George and''<br />
''Thomas'' in her voyage from this Port of London, being first<br />
bound to Jersey, and there to take in her lading, and there to receive<br />
orders, and that by his being Master of her in the voyage arlate<br />
he well knoweth that the arlate Edward ffranke Chaarles<br />
Butler and Company were in the monthes arlate the true<br />
and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp, for<br />
that they did putt in and appointe him the deponent Master<br />
of her for the sayd voyage, and that the sayd shipp was<br />
in her course to Jersy on the third day of July 1655 sett upon<br />
by a french man of warr<br />
(wherof the arlate Jaques Lasses was Captaine) and by her<br />
seized and taken, and both shipp, and this deponent and his<br />
Company all carryed away by the sayd french man of warre<br />
into haverdegrace in ffrance, where they putt him the deponent and all<br />
his Company on shoare within a mile or two of haverdegrace<br />
the frenchmen or company of the sayd man of<br />
warre having first pillaged this deponent and all the Company<br />
of their goods and clothes to about the value of three hundred<br />
pounds sterling, And that the producents were and are<br />
altogether dispoyled and robbd of their said shipp, which (as he well<br />
knoweth by the moneys he saw the said producents pay for<br />
the said shipp, her tackle and furniture and by their accompts)<br />
did cost them about 900 ''li'' at least, And that by the
900 ''li'' [LH MARGIN]
said french man of warre his seizing the said shipp the<br />
''George and Thomas'' the Owners of her have sustayned great<br />
damage, as alsoe he the deponent and the Company have done<br />
besides the losse of the shipp to the Owners and the losse of<br />
clothes, moneys and goods unto this deponent and Company<br />
The premisses by him predeposed hee well knoweth being Master<br />
of her when she went from this Port of London, in the<br />
voyage arlate, and aboard when she was seized and takem<br />
by the said fremnchman of warre, and pillaged and<br />
plundred of all he had by them, And further he cannot<br />
depose.
To the last he saith his former deposition is true.
Thomas Ratcliffe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ue.
Thomas Ratcliffe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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