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deponent well know the shipp or Vessell th … deponent well know the shipp or Vessell the ''hopefull William'' allate whereof<br />
the allate William Beck was Master and Commander and generally<br />
accompted the sole Owner and Proprietor and that in the moneth of<br />
May <u>1655.</u> last past this deponent being then Masters mate and Pylott of the<br />
said shipp under the Command of the said William Beck sayled her<br />
from this Port of London to Shoreham in Sussex, and from thence sayled<br />
her to Saint Sebastians in Spaine, where they arrives in safety about the 18th<br />
day of July <u>1655.</u> And saith That upon the 30th day of August next<br />
ensueing the said shipp with her tackle apparrell and furniture and<br />
provisions belonging to her were by the<br />
Ministers and Officers of the King of Spaine seized upon stopped and deteyned<br />
and the said William Beck utterly deprived and divested thereof. The<br />
premisses hee well knoweth being then present at Saint Sebastian with and belonging<br />
to the said shipp in the quality of afõwersaid, And further cannot depose:-/
To the third and fõwerth Articles of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee<br />
this deponent in conscience verily beleeve and estimate, That the said shipp<br />
''hopefull William'' being a Vessell of about 80. tunns more or lesse and then<br />
not long before her said Voiage newly fitted to sea. togeather with her tackle<br />
apparrell and fürniture, and the provisions aboard her and belonging to her<br />
at the time of her said seizure (the losse of the Master and Mariners time and<br />
employment, and the freight due considered) did really amount unto six<br />
hundred pounds sterling besides an adventure of about fiftie<br />
pounds togeather with the cloaths and necessaries which this deponent had aboard<br />
the said shipp the time aforesaid, rendring for reason as is predeposed:- And further<br />
cannot depose:-
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./
Henerey Colquith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 11th of Aprill 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]
John Mayor against a certayne Lighter called the ''William''}<br />
''and ffrancis'' whereof william Knight and Company were}<br />
Owners and against the sayd William Knight and company}<br />
comming in for their interest and against whatsoever persons et cetera}<br />
Clements Smith
Examined upon a libell given in on behalf of<br />
John Mayor./
'''Edward Bigland''' of the parish of Saint Mary Mag=<br />
dalen in Southwarke Shipwright aged sixty seaven years<br />
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet./
'''Rp. 2'''
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee cannot depose not knowing who were the<br />
Owners of the Lighter arlate called the ''William and ffrancis'' the tyme arlate but saith that<br />
the arlate william Knight is now accompted to bee owner and Proprietor of the<br />
sayd lighter And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the second article of the sayd libell hee saith that the Lighter the ''William and''<br />
''ffrancis'' within the tyme arlate was lyeing in the River of Thames and wanted<br />
very many repayres and saith that within the sayd tyme the arlate Mathew Coultman<br />
who was as this deponent beleeveth imployed by the Owners of the sayd lighter to that<br />
purpose came and desyred the arlate John Mayor a shipwright by trade to repayre<br />
and amend the sayd Lighter as sufficiently as possibly shee might bee, and to make<br />
her stronge and tight which words or others to the like effect the sayd Coultman<br />
spake to the sayd John Mayor in presence of this deponent and his Contests William Robinson<br />
and Isaack Mayers and William haynes and Richard Cooke and others, Whereupon<br />
theooke and others, Whereupon<br />
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