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The same day Examined upon the sayd Allega … The same day Examined upon the sayd Allegation
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'''Cornelius Peterson''' of Edam in holland Mariner Carpenter of the sayd shipp<br />
''Fortune'' aged twenty four yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the .1 .2. 3 .and 4th articles of the sayd Allegation, he saith he is Carpenter of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Fortune'' and being on board her att the tyme of the seizure in question, knoweth that the<br />
sayd shipp and her lading being wines were upon a Sunday about seaven weekes agoe<br />
taken and seized by the ''Dartmouth frigot''. And further he saith that the master and Company<br />
of the ''ffortune'' did not make and opposition against the sayd frigot, nor did ever fly or<br />
offer to fly or escape from the same, but willingly and without force permitted their<br />
shipp to be visited and seized by the Company of the Frigott who came on board her.<br />
And also saith that the sayd Master and Company of the ''Fortune'' upon the first warning peice<br />
struck their main top sayle, and their foresayle upon a second warning peice, and<br />
were not negligent or faulty in that respect, but kept the same so struck and lowered<br />
till the seizure in question. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the sayd 1 and 2. Interrogatories This Rendent saith That the sayd ffrigot wearing the English<br />
flagg and Colours mett the ''Fortune'' sayling her direct Course for the downes and<br />
that there happened not any chase att all before the sayd seizure, And that the sayd<br />
frigott came along neere to the shoare, and seized the ''Fortune'' neere the shoare,<br />
that is about a miles distance from land or not much more. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving that att the tyme the sayd warning peices were shott as<br />
aforesayd the sayd frigot was about an usuall shotts distance from the ''Fortune''.
Repeated with his three precontests before doctor Godolphin.
cornelis pietersen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The eleventh day of March <u>1655.</u>
Hans Rauce of Quinsborough and Company}<br />
Owners of the shipp the ''hope'' of}<br />
Quinsborough against Beniamin and John}<br />
harrison and William Harrington}<br />
ffrancklyn: Suckley}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd<br />
Hans Rauce and Companye
'''Jan Pieterson''' of Lubeck Mariner and Carpenter of the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Hope'' aged thirty yeares or therea=<br />
bouts, a witnes sworne and examined saith as followeth<br />
videlicet.
To the first Artićle of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about four or<br />
five weekes before Michaelmas last .1655. (the tyme hee otherwise remembreth<br />
not there were laden in the sayd shipp ''Hope'' (Martin Barnhide Master) att the<br />
Port of Quinsborough, bound for this Port of London, thirty bundles of hempe<br />
marked as in the margent, twenty Spruce deales. more, two bundles of
'''H''' [MARGIN MARKE]
hempe, one hundred of wainscott, one hundred of pipe boards, five hundred<br />
and an halfe of Clapboard, twelve hundred and an halfe of [?keeving]<br />
staves, eighty [?keeve] pipe staves, and three hundred an halfe of oares<br />
all to be transported in the sayd shipp from Quinsborough to London and hence<br />
to be delivered to the respective persons to whom the same were consigned<br />
who were to pay the freight agreed on for the sayd Transport. All which<br />
he knoweth to be true for that he sawe the sayd goods laden, and was att the tyme<br />
of lading told they were for merchants of London in whose imployment the sayd shipp<br />
was freighted, and being Carpenter of the sayd shipp came in her to this Port.<br />
And further (referring himselfe to the bills of lading allegate touching the<br />
merchants and freight) he cannot depose.
To the second article he saith he ćannot depose.
To the third article hee saith that the sayd goods being so laden the Master and Company<br />
of the sayd shipp about three weekes before Michaelmas last (the tyme hee<br />
otherwises last (the tyme hee<br />
otherwise +
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