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the said Wells declared himselfe for the k … the said Wells declared himselfe for the king of Scotts, and<br />
having a Commission from the king of Scots beforehand, hee read<br />
the same upon the said seizure upon the deck (in the hearing of this<br />
deponent as hee was bound in his cabbin) for imployment<br />
of the said shipp in the king of Scots his service. And saith<br />
that after the said shipps being soe brought into Saint<br />
Antoniás shee was taken into the possession of the king of<br />
Spaines officers, and soe was and is wholely lost to her<br />
owners, of this deponents knowledge who was carried<br />
thither in her, and sawe her soe seized of by the said officers.<br />
And saith the copie of the protest now shewne unto him is<br />
a true copie of the originall remaining in this deponents<br />
hands, and the contents thereof were and are true./
Wm: Winter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 31th of July 1657/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Sanford and Company of the ''Elizabeth and''}<br />
''Dorothy'' against Yarwood./ Cheeke Suckley
Examined upon the sayd allegation and<br />
schedule therein mentioned./
'''Rp. EA. 3us'''
'''Haniball Jenninge''' of Shadwell in the parish of<br />
Stepney and County of Middlesex Cooper of<br />
the shipp the ''Elizabeth and Dorothy'' the voyage in question<br />
aged twenty yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was<br />
one of the Company of the shipp ''Elizabeth and Dorothy'' in and during the voyage in<br />
question and served aboard her as Cooper of her untill the tyme of her<br />
seizure here after specified and thereby knoweth that the arlate William Keeble<br />
(since deceased) the months and tyme arlate in the yeare of our Lord 1656 was master of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage, and tooke upon<br />
him the charge and government of her that voyage as Master of her, and was<br />
(as hee beleeveth) soe made Master of her by the arlate Yarwood and other<br />
her Owners with whose consent and good likeing (as hee beleeveth) hee went Master<br />
of her that voyage which was a voyage from the Port of London to Ireland and<br />
thense to ffrance and back to Ireland againe and thense back to ffrance<br />
againe and thense to London And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the second article of the sayd allegation and the schedule therein<br />
mentioned hee saith that hee this deponent goeing Cooper of the sayd shipp<br />
the sayd voyage, thereby knoweth that the arlate Sandford and Company<br />
whose names are mentioned in the sayd schedule did all serve in the<br />
sayd shipp the sayd voyage in the severalll qualities and places as they<br />
are in the sayd schedule now read to him declared, and saith hee this deponent<br />
was hyred by William Blunt the sayd Keebles Mate, who is alsoe a part<br />
owner of the sayd shipp, and entered into whole pay in October 1656 at<br />
which tyme the sayd shipp set sayle from Gravesend on her intended voyage<br />
And saith that all the parties schedulate (except John Cooper who was shipped<br />
about a fortnight after at Portsmouth) entered into whole pay at the same tymeh) entered into whole pay at the same tyme +
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