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River of Thames, and that the said seaven … River of Thames, and that the said seaven packs being ordered lad[XXX GUTTER]<br />
to be restored to the owners, there came Captaine Brock one of the prize<br />
officers to take the said seaven packs out of the said shipp the ''hare in''<br />
''the feild'' lying before Black wall, but hee could finde but sixe of them<br />
nore were there any more to be found after search and rummageing of<br />
the whole shipp, soe that one of the said packs was and is [?wanting GUTTER]<br />
lost and gonne, while the same were under the power of<br />
the officers of this Commonwealth. All which hee knoweth being<br />
present and helping to search and rummage for the said goods and<br />
seeing the said six packs found and that the said seaventh was and is<br />
wholly missing and lost, And otherwise cannot depose not<br />
knowing ought of the contents of the said packs. And saving hee saith that<br />
before the bringing in of the said shipp to Portsmouth the man of warrs<br />
company broke opon the hatches of the ''hare in the feild'', and after the<br />
bringing into Portsmouth, and to the [?time] of her taking out the<br />
said six packs (which was about foure monethes since) there went<br />
prize officers and Customes house officers aboard her, who had the<br />
command of her.
Jan danckers [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
'''Rp. 3'''
'''John van Latum''' of Middleborowe Chyrugeon of the<br />
said shipp the ''hare in the ffeild'', aged 26 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne and exámined.
To the first, second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that<br />
about the beginning of May 1655 new stile there were laden<br />
aboard the shipp the ''hare in the ffeild'' (Jan kein Commander)<br />
at haver de Grace by Jacques d'Acoste seaven small packs<br />
No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. of merchandize to be transported for the bay
[MARKE, M WITH DIAMOND ABOVE CENTRE, LH MARGIN]
of Cales and there to be delivered according to bill of lading<br />
which hee knoweth being Chirurgeon of the said shipp and seeing the<br />
lading thereof and keeping a booke of the shipps lading, and<br />
having nowe seene the bill of lading for the same, by which bill the<br />
said goods are said to be laden for account and adventure of the<br />
Sieurs Robert and hendrick Mayanburgh, merchants dwelling<br />
at Amsterdam. And saith the said shipp being in her course<br />
from haver da Grasse for the Baye of Cadiz,<br />
taken by two men of warr of this Commonwealth on<br />
or about the fifteenth of May 1655 New Style, and brought<br />
into England, and that from that time the said shipp and goods were<br />
continually under command of the officers of ths Commonwealth<br />
and that the said goods were aboard her at the time of the said<br />
seizure, but about foure monethes since when Captaine Brock<br />
one of the prize officers came to take out the said packs there could<br />
be but sixe of them found, the other being lost and gonne<br />
while the said shipp and lading were soe under command and dispose ofthe<br />
officers of this Commonwealth, and soe the said pack was<br />
and is wholly lost to the owners thereof. And otherwise cannot depose
Jan van Latham [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]epose
Jan van Latham [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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