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Course thitherwards in the moneth of March … Course thitherwards in the moneth of March <u>1652:-</u> being neere the Coast of ffrance shee<br />
was mett withall and violently and piratically taken and seized<br />
by a dutch Merchant shipp laden with corne and bound for B[?XXXX]<br />
in france; to which place shee was brought up with her lading by the said dutch<br />
Merchant man, and the said Master and Companie utterly deprived<br />
thereof and the same deteyned from them notwithstanding that the sid<br />
harrigate did demand of the said Master and Companie of the said dutch<br />
shipp to see their Commission and authority for such their seizure (if any<br />
such they had) they or some of them declared that they had no Commission<br />
for such their doeing, neither did this deponent ever see heare or understand that<br />
they had any Commission or authority to that purpose. The premisses hee<br />
declareth as being present and suffering in and at the said seizure and<br />
passages predeposed And further cannot depose:/
To the third hee saith and deposeth, That this deponent well knoweth the<br />
said shipp ''Charity'', and hath soe knowne her from the time the said<br />
harrigate first bought her at Newcastle (being then a Scotch Prize shipp) till the<br />
time of her seizure aforesaid, and saith That about a yeare since this<br />
deponent saw her at Newcastle under the Command of a West Contrey<br />
man (whose name hee knoweth not) when and where this deponent well<br />
observed by the signe of the ''Charity'' in her stearage, and the fashion<br />
of her high stearne and Scotch manner of building, that shee was one and<br />
the same shipp which had as aforesaid been soe taken by the said dutch<br />
Merchant man, and belonged to the Owners predeposed, and to bee the said<br />
shipp wherein this deponent had made severall voiages under the Command<br />
of the said harrigate. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to the Acts andproceedings of this<br />
Court And further cannot depose:-/
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first negatively for his part, saying hee never heard nor hath any manner of<br />
interest in the shipp in question:/
To the second hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition:-
To the third hee saith hee was brought up to Bayonne in ffrance in the<br />
said Dutch merchant man, And further beleeveth not saving his subsequent deposition
To the 4th hee saith the said harrigate was esteemed and generally<br />
reputed a part Owner of the said shipp the ''Charity'' till such time as<br />
hee was dispossessed of her as aforesaid. And further cannot depose:-
To the 5th hee saith, the said shipp was sould at Bayon by a publique<br />
outcrye and sound of Trmpett by order of the Justice of that place<br />
so farr as this deponent understood, but to whom or for how much the<br />
same was sold hee saith hee knoweth not:-/
To the 7th hee saith hee heard a publique outcry made by sound of<br />
Trumpett for the sale of the said shipp (as this rendent was informed)<br />
but did not understand himselfe what the said outcry imported:-d himselfe what the said outcry imported:- +
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