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To the fifth hee saith hee sold the said a … To the fifth hee saith hee sold the said anchor and eight pots in<br />
the said bay of Saint hellens to some English that came aboard him<br />
in á boate but their names hee knoweth not, and soe sold them before<br />
Captain Morris with the [''SXXXXXge''] ''frigot'' soe came and seized the<br />
said vessell, and that the summe hee sold them for was fiftie<br />
shillings or three pounds or thereabouts, and otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the last hee saith that hee had had the said vessell in the possession<br />
of him and company aforesaid about nine or ten dayes before such<br />
their sale of the said anchor and eight pots.
Repeated before the two Judges in Court/.
Robert Beville [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The nynetenth day of January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Riley and Company against the}<br />
''Peter'', and against [?Weele] and other.}
Exámined upon an allegation given on the behalfe<br />
Wilkin W[?Xele] and others.
'''Lemkuel dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''Christopher Peterson''' of hamborough and Mariner, aged<br />
45 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation and schedule annexed<br />
the saith that the shipp the ''Peter'' arlate was in or about September<br />
1653, seized with her lading of clapboards (laden for the merchants and a<br />
parcell of flax and tallow for this deponents companies account)<br />
by a private man of warr named John Welch in his shipp the<br />
''Mary'', and that such of the said Welches company as were by him<br />
put aboard her, kept her (after the said seizure) about a<br />
fortnight in the River of humber below hull out of command<br />
as their deponent was informed by such of this deponents company that<br />
were left and there remaining in her (this deponent being taken into the<br />
man of warr) and there while they soe lay there there came (as<br />
this deponent was likewise found by his said men and by letters of the<br />
carriage of the business) boates aboard and received and<br />
carried away clapboards and other goods and materialls, victualls and<br />
apparell, and then still as the said boates came aboard, Welches<br />
men there were in the ''Peter'' forced such of this deponents company<br />
as were left in her, into some place of the shipp out of the way,<br />
to the end they should not see what was taken away, constraining them<br />
with swords and pistolls soe to goe out of the way. And saith that<br />
about three moneths after the said seizure, and then the said shipp<br />
and goods now by this Court ordered to be released, this deponent<br />
went aboard his said shipp then brought into hull, and found<br />
many of his goods and materialls (that were board at the time of<br />
the said seizure) imbeazeld and gonne, being taken away by the said<br />
Welches company or by their conivense, which this deponent endeavoured<br />
to recover and did recover some part thereof, but of the eighteene hundred<br />
weight of flax which this deponent missed and found wanting of<br />
what was in the said shipp at the time of the said seizure, this deponent<br />
and company receaved about twelve hundred of clapboards or thereabouts (of two severall sorts)<br />
embeazeld; this deponent and company receaved only sixe hundred or<br />
thereabouts and not more and that were of the lesser sort of the two and alsoe recovered a topp gallant that had bin<br />
takenopp gallant that had bin<br />
taken +
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