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26th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On th … 26th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of John Blake late}<br />
Captaine of the shipp the ''ffreindshipp''}<br />
and of Thomas Davies concerning their}<br />
losses in the said shipp}
Upon the Interrogatoryes ministred<br />
on the behalfe of Blake and Davies.
'''1)'''
'''Benjamin Clarke''' of the Liberty<br />
of the Tower of London Mariner<br />
where he hath lived about 2 yeares last<br />
past, aged about 31 yeares, a wittnes<br />
sworne before the right worshipfull John Godolphin<br />
Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high<br />
Court of Admiralty, saith and deposeth as followeth.
That he the deponent was in March 1651 interrate aboard<br />
the shipp interrate the ''ffreindshipp'' as a ffactor for<br />
the Guiney Company, unto whom the said shipp and her Lading<br />
did belong, and that in the said month of March 1651 the said<br />
shipp riding at Anchor in the River Cambray in Guiney<br />
neere a Towne called [?Bintam] was taken and seized by a<br />
fleete of shipps under Prince Ruperts command and carryed<br />
into Saint Jago, And he saith that of his this deponents knowledge<br />
there were aboard her at the time the said Prince Rupert<br />
seized on her about twenty hundred weight of Elephants<br />
teeth worth (as he verily beleiveth) 7 ''li'' 10 ''s'' per hundred, tenne<br />
hundred of waze or thereabouts worth about five pounds per<br />
hundred Little more or lesse tenn cases (or thereabouts) of strong<br />
waters really worth twelve pounds, and that the wearing apparrell and<br />
the Instruments which the interrate John Blake the Master<br />
of the said shipp the ''ffreindshipp'' then lost were well worth<br />
the summe of XV [15] ''li''. All which sayd Elephants teeth, waxe<br />
and strong waters were alsoe the proper goods of the sayd John<br />
Blake, And he alsoe saith that there were then on board her at<br />
the time the sayd shipp was seized by Prince Rupert for the<br />
account of the said Thomas Davies some Brandy wine,<br />
waxe, hides, wearing apparrell and instruments, apperteyning to<br />
navigation, All which he lost, But he saith he cannot certainly depose the value thereof, but beleiveth they were well worth<br />
twenty pounds./
Ben: Clarke [CENTRE HEADING]
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On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2)'''
'''Thomas Davies''' of the parish of Rederith in the County<br />
of Surry Mariner, aged 22 yeares or thereabouts, a<br />
wittnes, sworne before the right worshipfulll John Godolphin<br />
Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges et cetera deposeth and saith.
That he the deponent was servant unto the interrate John<br />
Blake in the moneth of March 1651 interrate, at which time he<br />
the sayd Blake was Master or Captaine of the interrate<br />
shipp the ''ffreindshipp...
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...and deposeth that he this deponent had aboard<br />
the said shipp at the time of her said seizure by Prince Rupert<br />
aaid seizure by Prince Rupert<br />
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