| First transcribed
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30 September 2014 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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102 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 30/09/2014 +
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| Transcription
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined up … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation/
'''4us'''
'''Stephen Tayler''' of the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner Gunner of the ship the ''Affrican ffrigott'' aged fifty<br />
yeares or thereabouts a witness sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that the arlate<br />
Isaac Woodgreene and Company in the moneths and tyme arlate in the yeares<br />
1653 and 1654 had a Commission under the great seale of this high Court<br />
of Admiralty to man and sett out the ''Affrican ffrigott'' arlate as a private<br />
man of war to seize and surprize the shipps and goods of the ffrench<br />
King and his subiects And saith the sayd Woodgreene amd Company in pur=<br />
suance of the sayd designe did man and sett forth the sayd ffrigott accordingly<br />
the premises hee deposeth being with the sayd Woodgreene when hee procured<br />
the sayd Commission under the seale of the sayd Court and alsoe goeing his<br />
Gunner in the sayd ffrigott during the whole voyage in question and<br />
having heard the sayd Commission read on board the sayd ffrigott And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Woodgreene<br />
in his sayd ship the ''Affrican ffrigott'' did in or about the latter end<br />
of March last upon the high and open seas neere the Island of Scio<br />
meete with and take a certaine ship called the ''Madam Guardiana''<br />
which was at her seizure manned with French men and wore the french<br />
Colours and was reputed to be a ffrench ship and this deponent hath heard<br />
divers English men resident at Smirna who understood French saye that<br />
the mariners of the sayd ship ''Madam Guardiana'' did before them acknow<br />
ledge and confesse that the sayd ship and her ladeing did belonge to<br />
ffrenchmen of Marselles subiects of the King of ffrance And hee alsoe<br />
saith the sayd Woodgreene having soe seized the sayd ship went therewith<br />
for Smirna having occasion soe to doe the better to provide him selfe with<br />
provision of victuals which hee stood neede of and for other occasions, and<br />
saith that after the sayd ship came thither the arlate Peter Martyne the<br />
Master of her and all the Mariners got on shoare and got them selves shippt<br />
into other shipps belonging to ffrance then lying there by meanes<br />
whereof the sayd Woodgreene could not bring any of them to England<br />
here to be examined And further hee cannot depose not knowing of the<br />
sayd Woodgreene his making any addresses to the ffrench Consull there to<br />
the effect arlate./
To the third and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith the ship ''Madam''<br />
''Guardiana'' at her seizure was and is a ffrench built ship and was<br />
manned with ffrench men And further saving his foregoeing depositions to which<br />
hee referrerth hee cannot depose not knowing or being present at the sayd Martyne his<br />
subscribing the schedule arlate nor knowing what hee confessed afore to the English Consull at<br />
Smirna./
signed [?XXX]<br />
Stephen '''ST''' Taylor [MARKE, RH SIDE];
Stephen '''ST''' Taylor [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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