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The 11th day of September 1651.
Touching … The 11th day of September 1651.
Touching the said ship the}<br />
''Lawrell''.}
'''Israell Powell''' of the parishe of Saint Olaves in<br />
Southwarke in the County of Surry ffeltmaker<br />
aged 40 yeares of thereabouts sworne<br />
and Examined deposeth<br />
as followeth. videlicet That hee this deponent was one<br />
of the Company of and belonging to the ship the ''Lawrell''<br />
att such tyme as she came last from Smirna bound for Leghorne<br />
And saith that when the said ship was about 25 leagues off<br />
Leghorne they espied two saile of ships to the Leward of them<br />
one of which after wards proved to bee a French man of warre and<br />
the other a prize which shee had taken, which said ships were noe<br />
sooner discovered but that Mr Maplesden comander<br />
of the said ship ''Lawrell'' said they were Englishe ships and therefore hee<br />
would stay for them, and soe did accordingly, untill the Eveneing<br />
at which tyme the said ffrenchman of warres Longboate came<br />
up with the ''Lawrell'' and hawled them and demanded whence they<br />
were and whither they were bound to which answere was returned<br />
from the ''Lawrell'' that they were of England and they they were bound<br />
for Leghorne which done the man of warres company told them<br />
what theire ship was and therefore willd them to stay there where<br />
they then were till the next morning which was upon the thirteenth or<br />
fowreteenth dayes of November 1649 as hee remembreth the tyme<br />
which was done accordingly and the said ship stayed there albeit<br />
shee was to the windward of the said Ma of warre and might without<br />
doubt have gone in to Leghorne if the said Maplesden had soe<br />
thought good long before the man of warre could have come up to her<br />
And on the said Morning soe soone as it was daylight the said<br />
Man of warre came up with the ''Lawrell'' and sent his boate<br />
abord with diverse men in her who againe hawled them and demanded<br />
the said Maplesden to come abord, which hee did not doe, but<br />
with them in his owne boate did send his Cheife Mate and a<br />
Fryer which (sic) was abord the ''Lawrell'' unto the said Man of warre to<br />
give them satisfaction to such questions as they should demand<br />
touching the said ship both which (sic) together with the said Boate were<br />
by the said Man of warre detayned and kepte there without<br />
returneing againe to the ''lawrell'' which gave this deponent<br />
and all the rest of the Company abord the ''Lawrell'' great cause<br />
to distrust the said man of warre, and to beleeve that they intended<br />
noe good unto them. And further saith that soone after the premisses<br />
the said Man of warre did againe send his boat with [?some CHECK NOT ONE] of<br />
his officer[?s] and diverse of his company abord the ''Lawrell''<br />
which said officer was noe sooner come abord but hee<br />
was sooner come abord but hee<br />
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