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private man of warr belonging to a subiect … private man of warr belonging to a subiect of this Commonwealth<br />
And further he cannot answeare./
To the ninth Interrogatory he answereth that some of the<br />
Company belonging to the Brest man of warre did heave<br />
and throw over board some Letters, which were taken<br />
aboard the shipp the ''Rappahanacke'' And further<br />
he cannot answeare.
To the tenth and eleaventh Interrogatoryes he referreth<br />
himselfe to his former deposition and further he<br />
cannot answeare./
Repeated before Doctor Clarke./
The marke of [MARKE] John Sharkerly./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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On the sixteenth of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2)'''
'''Richard Hull''' of the parish of Stepney in the<br />
County of Middlesex, Master of the said shipp<br />
the ''Rappahanacke'', a wittnes produced and<br />
sworne and being examined he deposeth and saith<br />
as followeth.
To the first article of the allegation given in and<br />
admitted on the part and behalfe of the articulate John<br />
Jefferyes and Company he deposeth and saith That he this deponent was<br />
Master of the arlate shipp the ''Rappahanack'' in the<br />
months arlate, and that he very well knoweth that the<br />
said John Jeffreyes and one Thomas Colclough and he<br />
this deponent were in the said monthes the true and lawfull<br />
Owners and Proprietors of the said shipp, And further<br />
he cannot depose.
To the second and third articles he deposeth and saith that<br />
the said shipp went from Gravesend on the twelth day of<br />
September last 1654 on a trading voyage to Virginia,<br />
and that she sagfely arrived in the River of Rappahanacke<br />
in Virginia on the fourteenth day of december last<br />
(English stile) and that there she tooke in her Lading of<br />
Tobaccoes for the use and Account of the said John<br />
Jeffreyes and Company, The premisses he well knoweth<br />
being the Master of her as he hath predeposed And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To the fourth article he deposeth and saith that the said<br />
shipp did departe from Virginia on the seaven and<br />
twentith day of March last past with her Lading of<br />
Tobaccoes being bound for this Port of London where the<br />
said Jefferyes and Company the Owners of the said shipp<br />
and her said Lading doe dwell, and that in her course<br />
hither to this Port she was upon the two and<br />
twentith day of April last mett with upon the open<br />
Seas not farr from the Isle of Wight by a Brest man of warr<br />
and surprized by her, and that on the fifth day of may<br />
after she was rescued and retaken by the arlate shipp<br />
the ''hound'' a private man of warr, and a man of warr<br />
belonging to this Commonwealth calld the ''hopefull Pinke'', and<br />
thate ''hopefull Pinke'', and<br />
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