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that accordingly hee this deponent did sen … that accordingly hee this deponent did send the said twelve hogsheads<br />
of Copperas aboard the said shipp the said next tyde (after such them<br />
speaking together) in a lighter, putting them into the said lighter at<br />
Saint Saviours dock, near unto which the said shipp then lay<br />
And otherwise saving his former examination in this Cause hee cannot<br />
depose.
Repeated before the two Judges in Court.
P Tho: Hall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 2 of January 1656.
Lord Protector against the goods in the shipp the ''harderinne''}<br />
by the ''Middleburowe frigot'', and Godfrey}<br />
and others against the same. Budd. Cheeke.}
Exámined upon an allegation [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
given in 22 december last, on the behalfe<br />
of the said Godfrey and others.
'''Cheeke dt.'''
'''notice sent to Mr. Budd by Tom.<br />
and John told mee his Master. could give none.'''
'''.j.'''
'''Bennett Flute''' of Ratcliffe Mariner aged<br />
27 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that within the time arlate the shipp the ''Middleburowe''<br />
''frigot'' arlate was in the immediate service of this Commonwealth<br />
and imployed in the service thereof as a man of warr against the dutch<br />
ffrench and other the then Enemies of this said Commonwealth, and<br />
the arlate William Godfrey was then Commander of the said<br />
frigot, and was with his company in the immediate service of<br />
this Commonwealth therein, and being soe in the said service<br />
they with the said frigot in or about the moneth of May [?16XX]<br />
gave chase off the Lizard to a certaine shipp called the [?hXXX]<br />
(being the ''harderinne'' arlate) and comming up with and haling her<br />
commanded her to strike and submit, which not withstanding, her<br />
master and company refused, and did not strike their topsaile and<br />
submit, whereupon the said Godfrey and company fired severall<br />
gunns at her from the ''Middleborowe frigot'', and still [?persisted]<br />
in her obstinacie and rufusing to strike, some of the company of the<br />
said frigot by their said Captaines command clapt her aboard in<br />
their boate, and forcibly entred and seized her and her lading and<br />
possessed themselves thereof, running therein greate hazard of their<br />
lives, the said shipp the ''harderinne'' not having before submitted,<br />
All which hee knoweth for that hee this examinate was then [?Lieutennant]<br />
of the said frigot, and went in the said boate, and commanded the<br />
company that soe went and clapt the said shipp aboard and [?seized]<br />
her, being all well armed for that purpose. And further hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the third hee referreth him selfe the act or ordinance of [?Parliament]<br />
arlate.
To the fourth article and the schedule annexed now showne and read [?unto]<br />
him hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said seizure<br />
theretime of the said seizure<br />
there +
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