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bin a great while abroad and could get no … bin a great while abroad and could get no prizes, and therefore had taken<br />
a Spanish Commission which was to last for a certayne tyme, and that the sayd<br />
Commission was expired two moneths before the<br />
seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing which notwithstanding (as they also<br />
sayd and acknowledged) they were resolved to seize what English shipps and<br />
their ladeing they could meete with under colour of that Commission And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose.
To the 8th article hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle, ffurniture,<br />
freight, stock, and provisions aboard her at her seizure aforesayd were<br />
in this deponents Judgement worth fower thousand five hundred pounds<br />
sterling or neere thereabouts and soe much the arlate Swift Packer<br />
and Harris and Company Owners of her were by such her seizure were damnified<br />
in this deponents Judgement and as hee verily beleeveth.
To the 9th article hee saith that in his this deponents Judgement the<br />
hundred and sixty tonnes of Mahaligo and Petrao Currans belonging<br />
to the arlate Alderman Ricard and Company and seized on board the<br />
Lady ffrigott were (at the tyme of their seizure) worth fowerteene thousand pounds sterling and<br />
soe much in this deponents Judgement and as hee verily beleeveth they would<br />
have yeilded the sayd Alderman Ricard & Company if he had not bin<br />
taken by the sayd Genoa shipp of warr in manner aforesayd. And<br />
further hee cannot depose.
To the 10th and 11th hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer, and his<br />
Company at the tyme of the seizure of the shipp the ''lady''<br />
''ffrigott'' and her ladeing had on board the sayd shipp goods that were his<br />
and their adventures, and moneyes cloathes and instruments worth in<br />
this deponents Judgement fowerteene hundred pounds of lawfull English<br />
money All which hee saith hee well knoweth (being present at the seizure)<br />
were seized and taken from the sayd Captaine Hoyser and his company<br />
by the Captaine and Company of the sayd Genoa man of warr called<br />
the ''Santa Cruse'', and the sayd Hoyser and his Company utterly dispoiled of them<br />
And saith that the Captaine and Company of the sayd Genoa man of<br />
warr haveing made the sayd seizure of the ''lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing<br />
plundered and taken away from her Captaine and her Company all that<br />
they had., kept the most of her Company prisoners in the hold, XXXXX<br />
for some tyme, and afterwards turned them on XXXX in the Ile of<br />
Cephalonia to ?shift for them XXXX without allowing them neither<br />
provisions or money And further to these arles he cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
Repeated in Court before both Judges
Richard Baker [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
'''3.'''
'''Gilbert Anckelly''' of Debtford in Kent Mariner<br />
late Boatswaine of the ''lady ffrigott'' aged thirty yeares<br />
and upwards a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first and second articles hee saith that during the months and tyme arlate in<br />
the yeare 1658 happening next before the fowerteenth day of the Month<br />
of November the sayd yeare which was the day shee and her lading were<br />
seized in maner hereafter specified, the arlate John Swift John Parker<br />
Johnte John Swift John Parker<br />
John +
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