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The 23th of May 1656.
On the behalfe of M … The 23th of May 1656.
On the behalfe of Mr John Tivell}<br />
and companie touching the seizure of the}<br />
''Noahs Arke'' by the ffrench.}
'''Claus Cornelison Col''' of Amsterdam Mariner<br />
aged 24 yeeres or thereabouts sworne in Court<br />
as by the Acts thereof, and examined upon<br />
certaine Interrogatories saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth.
'''Rp. 1'''
'''1. 3us A 13.'''
To the first Interrogatorie he saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knew the shipp the ''Noahs Arke'' of which William durham was<br />
Master, and saith hee went about September last from Newfound<br />
Land for Malaga with a cargo of ffish for the account of the interrate<br />
John Tivell of London Merchant and John Page of Plimouth<br />
Merchant, owners of the said shipp, and delivered the same at<br />
Malaga, and haveing soe donne, received there aboard for the<br />
same account sixtie buts of wine two hundred and fiftie<br />
barrells of raisins and four hundred frailes of raisins, which hee<br />
knoweth being Masters Mate of the said shippe goeing the said<br />
voyage and seeing the premises soe donne.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that having received<br />
the said fruite and wines aboard the said vessell departed therewith<br />
from Malaga and safely arrived with the same at Plimouth on<br />
or about the nineth (old stile) of January last, and there<br />
delivered thirtie of the said buts of wine, ninetie foure<br />
barrells and two hundred frailes of raisins, and there took in eight<br />
chests of white sugar, wherewith and with the residue of the said wines<br />
and fruite brought from Malaga, hee departed on about the<br />
twentieth of January last bound for London where shee was to have<br />
delivered the same, but on or about the three and twentieth<br />
of the same moneth in her course of proceeding for London, comming<br />
off dover shee was met with set upon and seized by a man of<br />
warr of Callice (of which one Captaine Bennard was Commander<br />
and carried to Callice, where the said wines, fruite and sugar were<br />
unladed, and there detained about six weekes space. namely from<br />
the foure and twentieth of January aforesaid<br />
to the seaventh of March next following (or thereabouts) old stile;<br />
which hee knoweth being masters mate aforesaid and carried thither<br />
in the said shipp and seeing the premisses soe happen.
To the third hee saith then the said Bennard and companie upon the<br />
said unlading of the said goods at Callice, tooke and imbezled<br />
away tenn butts of the said wines, and alsoe one and twenty barrells<br />
and eighteen frailes of raisins, and further a good part of the<br />
said shipps powder, shott, victualls and cordage, which hee knoweth<br />
for the reason aforesaid, and saith the said shipp was much broken and<br />
damnified was much broken and<br />
damnified +
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