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the master of the said shipp to come aboar … the master of the said shipp to come aboard the frigot, which hee<br />
did, and after some discourse with the Captaine, the said master<br />
of the ''Golden Parrot'' came into the Cabbin of this deponent<br />
who was then master of the said frigot, and demanded of this<br />
deponent whether hee thought the said shipp would prove prize<br />
or not, and this deponent thereupon asking him whether he<br />
had traded with or any of her English plantations in America<br />
or not, hee answered that hee had traded in the English Plantations<br />
there with nothing but what was the produce of<br />
his owne country (speaking of the united Netherlands) but said<br />
that some Merchant passengers that hee had brought over, had<br />
traded with some goods that were brought out of ffrance, and<br />
saith that shotly after the premisses this deponent being at<br />
Saint Christofers was there told by English Planters, that the<br />
said master of the ''Golden Parrot'' had received a hundred and odd rolls of tobaccoe there<br />
which were brought out of the English ground or Plantation<br />
The Premisses hee deposeth and knoweth to be true, hearing and<br />
being the same soe said and donne as aforesaid and lastly hee<br />
saith that the said shipp being soe found trading contrary to the act was seized by the said frigot and at the time of the said seizure the said shipp had<br />
tobaccoe, sugar and ginger aboard her of the growth and make<br />
of America, and otherwise he referreth himselfe to the foresaid<br />
Act and the law, hee cannot depose.
Repeated before Collonel Cork.
Rowland [?Bowtill] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 5th of November 1656
examined upon the foresaid allegation
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'''Captaine John Clarke''' of London Mariner, aged 42<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the shipp the ''Golden Parrot'' arlate, and<br />
saith that at the time of her seizure hereafter mentioned shee<br />
was a foraine shipp, belonging to fflushing in zealand<br />
and her master and company were all dutch and strangers, and<br />
for and as such they were commonly accounted and reputed, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second article hee refereth himselfe to the Act arlate
To the third, 4: 5 and 6th articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
on the twelveth of ffebruary 1654, hee this deponent with the<br />
''Selby frigot'' whereof hee was commander, in the<br />
immediate service of this Commonwealth riding at anchor<br />
under the Iland of Mountserrat in the West Indies espyied a<br />
Saile in the offing, and sent out men in his pinnace to goe and<br />
see what shee was, and that his said men tooke and brought<br />
her (being a dutch sloop) to the frigot, and being soe brought<br />
and some of her company coming aboard the frigot, this deponent examined them where<br />
they were, to which they answered that they were of fflushing<br />
and confessed that they were bound for Mount Serrat (an English<br />
Plantation)Serrat (an English<br />
Plantation) +
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