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The 4th day of April 1660/
The Keepers of … The 4th day of April 1660/
The Keepers of the Liberty of England}<br />
by authority of Parliament against Edmund}<br />
Lemman, Budd, Smith}
Examined upon the Allegation given in<br />
by the said Lemman./
'''Rp. jus.'''
'''Godfrey Hembling''' of Waborne in<br />
[?Clay] in Norfolke aged 40 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and Examined./.
To the first hee saith that the arlate Edmund Lemman<br />
came first onboard the Arlate Ship the ''Virgin Mary''<br />
alias the ''All Saints of Cartagena'' about three or fower days<br />
after the said Ship was brought into the Downes, by the<br />
''Yarmouth ffrigot'' arlate, and saith that at such time as the<br />
said Leman soe came onboard her. shee was in the<br />
power and possession of Severall Mariners belonging to<br />
the said ''Yarmouth ffrigot'' which tooke her, And the said<br />
Mariners had then in their possession divers parcells<br />
of Tobaccoe, Some wooll and Some Tortois Shells<br />
which they found at the taking of the said Ship. upon her<br />
Gun Deck. halfe Deck Roundhouse. Cabbin and fore<br />
Castle, which hee knoweth for that hee then belonged to<br />
the said ''Yarmouth ffrigot'' and helped to seize the said<br />
Ship, and came to the Downes in her. and further cannot depose
To the 2d he saith that when, or a little before the said Lemman<br />
came first on board the said Ship about three Gentlemen<br />
came with a boate on board<br />
her. Shee then ryding in the Downes: and the said Gentlemen<br />
were Commonly said and Accomted to be the Commissioners<br />
of Prize Goods and soe this Deponent verily beleeveth they<br />
were, And saith that the said Gentlemen did see and<br />
well knowe that the Mariners on board the said Ship<br />
had plunder in their hands and possession which they had found in the places aforesayd and the<br />
said Gentlemen did not disallowe or disprove thereof<br />
nor forb[?a]d the said Mariners to sell the same, as this<br />
Deponent knoweth of, nor did offer to take the same [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
nor declare that they should not have the same, [XXX GUTTER]<br />
saith that the Mariners or Watermam which brought<br />
the said Gentlemen onboard the said Ship, did [?while GUTTER]<br />
the said Gentlemen were on board buy, Diverse Rolls<br />
of Tobaccoe of this Deponents sight and knowledge and ladid the same in the said boate [?when GUTTER]<br />
the said Gentlemen went ashore, soe that the said [XXX GUTTER]<br />
could not choose but see or knowe the same as this deponent beleeveth but notwithstanding<br />
they did not expresse their dislike thereof, And further<br />
cannot depose./
Tond further<br />
cannot depose./
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