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Ad 21 rendet that the said shipp came with … Ad 21 rendet that the said shipp came with about 30 tonnes dead<br />
freight from the Barbadas, and that none of the goods brought home<br />
therein were spoiled and damnified, some of which goods belonged to<br />
the producents, some to Colonell Drake and some to Captaine<br />
Maniford. alr negative et nescit salvis predepoita.
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19th Octobris 1650.
Quoad navem the ''Bonadventure'' de}<br />
Middleburg, in porte de Dover adduck}
'''Rowe dt'''
'''Anthony Briet''' of Middleborough in Zealand<br />
Mariner master of the said vessell the<br />
''Bonadventure'', aged 48 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right worshipfull John Exton Doctor<br />
of lawes one of the Judges of the High Court of the<br />
Admiraltie and examined upon Interrogatories touching the said<br />
shipp. saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatory hee deposeth that the said vessell<br />
the ''Boadventure'' was taken and seized as shee laye at anchor in the<br />
Downes about tenn weekes since by a Captaine aboard Colonell<br />
Deanes ship, and saith that hee this deponent was then master of<br />
her, and that the last port from whence shee came before thes<br />
said seizure was Gravesend, and that shee was soe staid in the Downes<br />
within two dayes after her departure from Gravesend aforesaid.
To the second hee deposeth that hee is a native of Abbeville in<br />
Picardie in the Kingdome of ffrance and that hee hath lived at<br />
Calice and Middleborowe for theise seaven yeares last, videlicet<br />
Calice in Picardie aforesaid for six yeares and at Middleborough<br />
during this last twelvemoneth, and that hee alone was and is owner<br />
of her.
To the third hee deposeth that when hee was soe staid hee ws bound<br />
for Saint Vallery on a merchandizing voyage, and not on any warlike<br />
imployment, of whicj hee saith shee is not capable, being but a poore<br />
little Billander, lesse than a hoy, and that there were then on<br />
board her only 30 hogsheads of copras, 30 sacks of old shooes and<br />
boots ad about a score of poles or sparrs for houses, and that there<br />
were neither armes, ammunition nor moneyes aboard her, nor not<br />
soe much as a sword: And saith the said copras was laden<br />
by Mr Bludworth and Mr Spenser two Englishmen and merchants<br />
of this citie and consigned to be delivered at Saint Vallery to Anthony<br />
Mabozin for accompt of the said Bludworth and Spenser, and that<br />
the said old boots and shooes were laden by one Mr Dias of this citie<br />
and consigned as aforesaid, and the said sparrs were laden by this<br />
deponent for his owne accompt and intended for Saint Vallery aforesaid<br />
and all the said goods were soe laden in this port of London.
To the fourth hee saith that hee was to deliver the said Copras<br />
and boots and shooes to the said Mabozin at Saint Vallery and<br />
thatozin at Saint Vallery and<br />
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