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The first of Novembere 16?6
The Lord Prot … The first of Novembere 16?6
The Lord Protector against the shipp named the}<br />
''Golden Parret'' (whereof John danielson was master}<br />
and goods in the same, seized by the ''Selby frigot''}<br />
Captaine John Clarke commander in the immediate}<br />
service of this Commonwealth}
Examined upon an<br />
allegation given in on<br />
his highnesses behalfe.
'''.j.'''
'''John Warner''' of the Isle of Wight<br />
Merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first article he saith and deposeth that the shipp the ''Golden''<br />
''Parrat'' arlate was at the time of he seizure a foreigne shipp, belonging<br />
to fflushing and not to any of the people of this Nation, and the<br />
master and company were all dutch, and for such they confessed themselves,<br />
and for such as aforesaid the said ship and company were commonly accounted<br />
and reputed yeelding a reason as followeth./
To the second he refereth himself to the Act of Parliament arlate
To the third fourth fifth and sixth articles he saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth<br />
of february 1654 the ''Selby frigot'' in the immediate service<br />
of the Commonwealth being at an anchor on Mount Serrat (one of<br />
the Caribbe Islands) her company espied a sloop<br />
off at sea about a legue or two distant from there, which being the<br />
espied, Captaine John Clarke commander of the said frigot<br />
commanded this deponent (who was a Midshippman belonging<br />
to the said frigot) to goe with the shipps boate manned and speake with<br />
the said sloop, which this deponent accordingly did, and comming<br />
aboard her, demanded of their company were that were on board her<br />
whome they were and whether bound, to which they answered that they<br />
were belonging to the shipp the ''Golden Parret'' of fflushing which was<br />
then at Saint Christopher, and was coming up and intended the next<br />
day to be on Mountserrat and that they were going before to<br />
get their ship laden with tobaccoes and sugars and<br />
of a storehouse which they had there, against the shipp come up, and<br />
that these tobaccoes and sugars were the procede of goods which they<br />
had sold and bartered away to the English planters there, whereupon<br />
this deponent carried her to the said frigot; and the next day or<br />
next day but one (or thereabouts the time) they ordered the said shipp<br />
the ''Golden Parrat'' carried up towards Mountserrat and thereupon<br />
the said frigot weighed and went off to sea to her and haled her<br />
and demanding wheure they were, they answered of fflushing, and<br />
being alsoe demanded where they were bound, they answered to<br />
Mountserrat upon which and finding the shipps company to be<br />
all dutch and to have dutch colours, and the master (named to his<br />
remembrance) John danielson) to be alsoe a dutchman, they seized<br />
and carried her to an anchor before Mountserrat, and the next<br />
morning they went for Saint Christopher and carried the said shipp<br />
the ''Parrat'' (called in Dutch the ''Poppagay'') and the sloop along<br />
with them, and coming to her, an English planter there<br />
resident made it appeare that he had goods aboard the said shipp<br />
which were brought from fflushing and were consigned unto and to be<br />
delivered to him at Saint Christopher in the English Plantation and<br />
the said master acknowledging soe much, the said goods were deliveredng soe much, the said goods were delivered +
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