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howbeit hee saith the said monsieur de la … howbeit hee saith the said monsieur de la Rosse and company slighting<br />
and neglecting such their notice and admonition, (and yet acknowledging<br />
that they had notice of the said Peace before their comming from ffrance<br />
which that comming thence they confessed was about the end of November 1655) went out<br />
to make the said seizure, and by force and in a hostile manner tooke<br />
and seized the said shipp, tackle, apparell, furniture and guns,<br />
with her said lading of copper barrs and other goods, and her<br />
provisions and necessaries, turning the said ffishbell and company<br />
(after they had beate and very ill intreated them) ashore, and having<br />
soe possessed themselves of the said shipp and lading and dispoiled<br />
the said ffishbell and company thereof, they tooke out her lading<br />
of copper barrs shott, mastes, sailes, rigging, provisions and<br />
other appurtenances into their owne shipps, and then at a high water<br />
marke set her hull on fire and burnt the same, to the greate<br />
losse and dammage of the said owners, all which hee knoweth<br />
being sailemaker of the said shipp ''Justice'', and present and<br />
seeing the premisses soe done. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith the said shipp ''Justice'' was of the<br />
burthen of an hundred and fourtie tunnes or thereabouts, and<br />
late built, and newly (before shee went hence) sheated and rigged,<br />
and was at the time of the said seizure and spoile, with her<br />
gunns, sailes, shrowds powder, ammunition tackle, apparrell<br />
and furniture well worth in his estimation the summe of thirteene<br />
hundred pounds sterling, and that her lading of copper barrs, and other<br />
goods necessaries and provisions, were alsoe then worth<br />
in his estimation the like summe of thirteene hundred<br />
pounds, And otherwise cannot depose.
To the seventh hee saith the said shipp at the time of the said<br />
spoile was in pay of the said [?Mayler] and company at ffiftie<br />
pounds stereling per moneth for seaven or eight monethes, and<br />
saith shee would have made for freight from the Barbadoes<br />
to London 400 ''li'' sterling cleare of all expenses and victualls,<br />
and soe much other shipps of like burthen doe ordinarily make<br />
which hee knoweth having used that voyage. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving the said shipp if shee had come to the<br />
Barbadoes the said voyage (as shee was designed) was there to<br />
have bin delivered up to the said owners or their use.
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
doctor Godolphin.
[MARK] The marke of Lewis Maddock [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The third of December 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
De haze and others against Mr.}<br />
ffernandez and Mr kilvert.}
Exámined upon the fore said allegation on the<br />
behalfe of de haze and other.
'''Rp. ?X ?X priori'''
'''2.'''
'''John Rumbout''' of Middleborowe Skipper aged<br />
46 yeeres or thereabouts. sworne and exámined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the producents Michael de haze and ffoppe<br />
Wessells and soe hath donne for eighteene yeeres last past, and<br />
saithne yeeres last past, and<br />
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