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The day aforesaid.
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''Raph … The day aforesaid.
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''Raph Page''' of London Chirurgeon of the shipp the ''Barnstable''<br />
''Merchant'' aforesaid aged 27. yeares or thereabouts sworne as<br />
aforesaid and examined touching his losses sustayned by the king<br />
of Portugall, upon the seisure of the said shipp att LIsbone saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
That the shipp the ''Barnstable Merchant'' of London (John Wherdgoe Master)<br />
being bound out upon a tradeing and Merchand[?X]zeing voyage, the said<br />
Master indented with this deponent to goe the said voyage, as his Chirurgeon And<br />
saith that u[pon the first of June 1648 hee entred into pay, and did goe out with<br />
the said Shipp in that service, and sailed first to Newfound land, and then<br />
to Lisbone, where hee saith the said and Company did enter into the service of the king of<br />
Portugall, and tooke freight and sailed to Brazeela, and there dischardged, and att<br />
Brazeela was reladen, and freighted, and came and sailed backe againe to Lisbone<br />
Where, (att theire returne) he saith hee found Prince Ruperts Shipps within<br />
the River, and the Parliaments ffleete without the Harbour; and a while after there<br />
happened a difference betweene the king of Portugall and the Parliaments Generalls<br />
which so incensed the said king that hee caused the said shipp the ''Barnstable''<br />
''Merchant'', and all her goods in her to be seised upon, And the said Master this deponent<br />
and the rest of the sid Shipps Company were in the Month of June 1650,<br />
imprisoned and [XXXXed], And hee saith that hee for his part lost a<br />
Chest of Sugar worth 50 li sterling, all his Cloathes a Chest of Chirurgery<br />
with Instruments, books and other necessarie Accomodation worth 45 li sterlin<br />
or thereabouts, And all his wages for 20 monthes which hee saith att fifty<br />
shillings per month amounteth to 50 li All which att present are lost unto<br />
this deponent who hath manifested his affections to the Comonwealth of<br />
England in the service both of sea and land, which hee saith is true and<br />
knowne to the said Master and all the said Shipps Company and others and further hee<br />
saith hee cannot depose./
Repeated with the 2 foregoeing//<br />
wittnesses before doctor Exton//
Ralph Page [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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15 July 1651.
Alderman Berkley and company}<br />
against the shipp the ''Saint John'' of Olaron.}
'''jus.'''
'''Peter Biroché''' of Ol[?onne] neare Rochell in<br />
ffrance, master of the said shipp the ''Saint John'' aged<br />
30 yeares or thereabouts. sworne and examined<br />
saith as followeth, videlicet.
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that his said<br />
vessell the ''Saint John'' belongeth to the port of Olon or Oleron in ffrance, and<br />
that the owners thereof are Jaques P[?omeroy], and luke B[?onin] gffrenchmen, and<br />
Margaret P[?ewtean], and Anne Pomeroy Widowes, ffrenchwoman (sic) and unto him<br />
this deponent alsoe a ffrenchman, all five dwelling in Olon or Oleron<br />
aforesaid and being subiects of the ffrench kinge, and saith that the said<br />
shipp having there received in her lading of Codd-fish, and being in her<br />
returne therewith for Oleron or Olon aforesaid was in her course on the high and open sea met with<br />
and taken by Captaine Wilkinson on the 18th of June last neere S[XXXX], all which hee<br />
knoweth being master of her and then aboard her, and saith that the said lading was<br />
for accompt of the said owners, and should have bin carried to and dischardged at Olon<br />
aforesaid to and for their use and accompt, if the said seizure had not bin made, [?saving a]<br />
third part belonging to the shipps company, all likewise ffrench
Repeated before doctor Clarke
P[?idre] biroché [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]rke
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