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to assist him, the said Currall came alsoe … to assist him, the said Currall came alsoe aboard; And that<br />
they being soe come all aboard, and the said Tailor ordering<br />
them to carry the shipp to the other side, saying hee seized her<br />
as belonging to mr Pickering, the master that was aboard her<br />
told him, that shee did not belong to mr Pickering but to<br />
Mr Splitt, howbeit the said Tailor showing a paper, which<br />
hee said was his warrant for the said seizure, caused them to<br />
carry her away, which they accordingly did with the assistance of<br />
the said Currall, and brought and fastened her ashore at Redriff<br />
Wall, neere the Cherry garden, and then and there by the order<br />
of the said Tailor they tooke off her sailes and carried them ashore<br />
to the ffountaine taverne, and tooke downe all her running<br />
rigging and put it into her hold, and left the said sailes in<br />
the possession of the said Tailor, and the said shipp under<br />
his said seizure.
The marke of '''O''' William Eves [MARKE]
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The same day. CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 3'''
'''Nicholas Arons''' of Wapping Mariner, aged two and<br />
fiftie yeares, sworne as aforesaid, saith as<br />
followeth videlicet.
That on thursday last in the afternoone this deponent master<br />
of the shipp the ''Angell'' of London, and companie being<br />
busie to loosen her from the place where shee then lay neare<br />
the hermitage to goe lower to take in ballast to the end to goe<br />
a voyage with her upon which shee was bound, there came one<br />
by the name of Edward Tailor aboard her accompanied with<br />
five water men, and speaking to this deponent her master, said,<br />
that hee arrested her in my Lord Protectors name as belonging<br />
to Mr Pickering, and this deponent asking him where was the<br />
officer of the Admiraltie, the said Tailer said that hee had a<br />
warrant from Commissioners that was beyond the Admiraltie,<br />
or words to the same effect. And this deponent saying that Mr<br />
Splitt was her owner, and imployed this deponent as master, and<br />
that hee would goe ashore and call him, went accordingly ashore<br />
and acquainted the said Mr Splitt, who came presently with this<br />
deponent and found that the said shipp was carried halfe way<br />
over towards the other side, whereupon this deponent tooke boate and hasted<br />
after, and saw the said water men with the assistance of<br />
one Mr Currall moore her at Redriff wall, neare the<br />
Cherry garden, which having donne, they by order of the said Tailor<br />
tooke off her sailes, and carried them ashore into the ffountaine<br />
taverne, and tooke downe her running rigging and put it into<br />
her hold. And afterwards the said Tailer spake to this<br />
deponents company being three men and commanded them to goe<br />
out of the shipp ashore, telling them that this deponent the master<br />
andt this deponent the master<br />
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