| First transcribed
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19 October 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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Alex Jackson +
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| Folio
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505 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 19/10/2012 +
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| Transcription
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this deponent and the rest of the shipps c … this deponent and the rest of the shipps company for slaves the premisses<br />
hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd./
[?Jo ?Soon] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The seaven and twentyeth day of ffebruary 1656./ [CENTRE HEADING]
A business of Assurance touching a losse<br />
in the shipp the ''Blessing'' of London
Examined upon Interrogatories ministred on<br />
the behalfe of Manuell Swares./
'''Perera dt.'''
'''1.'''
'''Joseph Soon''' of Saint Mary Magdalens Bermondsey<br />
Mariner Master of the shipp the ''Blessing'' of London<br />
aged thirty three yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne before the right Worshipfull John Goldophin doctor<br />
of Lawes one of the Judges of the high Court<br />
of Admiralty saith as followeth/
To the first Interrogatory hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''Blessing''<br />
Interrogate the voyage Interrogate hee this deponent being the Interrate<br />
Joseph Soan the Master of the sayd voyage which voyage<br />
was to bee made from Roane in ffrance to Garachicho a harbour<br />
of the Canarie Islands and thence to any other of the Canarie<br />
Islands as occasion of freight required which voyage hee this<br />
deponent began with the sayd shipp from Roane and departed thense<br />
with her on the first day of March one thousand sixe hundred<br />
fifty six./
To the 2 and third Interrogatories hee saith that before the sayde shipp departed<br />
from Roane the voyage aforesayd there were there laden and put on<br />
board the sayd shipp by the sayd Manuell Swares twenty<br />
bales of fine linnen Cloath and one Peece of scarlett and<br />
a trunck with hatts therein for all which this deponent signed bills<br />
of lading as laden by the sayd Swares but whether Vas da<br />
Britto or any other were interessed or concerned in them hee<br />
knoweth not And saith the sayd shipp having receaved the sayd ladeing<br />
and other ladeing put on board her by Jer[?onimo] and Manuell G[?rXXX GUTTER]<br />
Pesson for Accompt of the sayd da Britto, departed therewith bound<br />
to the Canaries and was with all her ladeing surprised and<br />
taken neere the North Cape upon the Coast of Portugall upon<br />
the high and open sea by three Sallye men of warr after this<br />
deponent had continued fight with them soe long as hee could and<br />
the sayd Sallye men of warr tooke the sayd shipp the ''Blessing'' and<br />
all her ladeing and this deponent and the whole shipps company and<br />
carried them all to Salley and sold this deponent and the shipps company<br />
for slaves and made Prize of the sayd shipp and her ladeing<br />
without any recompense given to the Owners thereof that this deponent<br />
knoweth of And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot answere saving<br />
that hee saith hath lost his booke wherein the markes and numbers of the sayd goode were entered the<br />
same being taken by the Sally men of warr
The sayd Soon to the Interrogatories ministred [CENTRE HEADING]<br />
on the behalfe of the Assurers/t;br />
on the behalfe of the Assurers/ +
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