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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined u … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined upon the foresaid Interrogatories
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Thomas Sharpe''' of London Mariner, aged 28 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined as aforesaid.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith hee well know the shipp the<br />
''ffortune'' the voyage in question and well knoweth mr henry Clarke interrogated<br />
and sawe the said mr Clarke at leith in August last, at or about which<br />
time hee laded and caused to be laded aboard the said shipp five hundred<br />
deale boards, betwixt thirtie and fourtie tonnes of casks or thereabouts<br />
severall brasse kettles, pistolls, and other commodities, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth the said mr henry Clarke<br />
was owner of the said deale boards, caskes, kettles, pistolls and other<br />
goods, and to him alone they belonged, and were consigned to the<br />
Barabadas, (whereunto the said shipp was intended), to be delivered there<br />
to his brother. And otherwise hee cannot depose saving the said goods were<br />
to be disposed to the use of the said henry Clarke.
To the fourth hee saith the said shipp with the said goods aboard her<br />
departed on the said voyage from leith about the end of August last<br />
and touching at Saint Andrews went on her said voyage for the Barbada's,<br />
but the servants that were aboard the said shipp tumulted and rising<br />
against the master and mariners, endeavoured to prevent her sailing<br />
for the Barbadas, howbeit the master and mariners, having the navigating<br />
the shipp, lay to and against with her in the bay of Biscay hoping to<br />
meete some English frigot or shipp, and by their end to reduce the<br />
said servants to obedience, but it soe happend that there came two<br />
ffrench man of warr, who put men aboard her and carried her and<br />
her lading to Broua[?ge] in the Realme of ffrance, and there turned out<br />
her master and company and possessed themselves of the said shipp and lading<br />
and disposed thereof, and soe the foresaid goods of the said mr henry Clarke<br />
were and are quite lost unto him. All which premisses hee knoweth<br />
seeing the said goods laded and going in the said shipp factor for the<br />
owners, and being in her to the time of the said spoile and dispossessing<br />
by the ffrench as aforesaid, and at Brouage this deponent sawe many of<br />
the said Clarkes goods landed and disposed of by the ffrench, and beleeveth<br />
hee hath never had any the least recompence for any of them.
To the cross Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith there were about sixe score servants aboard<br />
the said shipp when shee departed from Scotland and was taken as aforesaid,<br />
which servants were to have bin transported to the Barbada's,<br />
and were belonging some to the said mr Clarke, some to one mr Watson, some<br />
to his precontest mr hicks, and the rest to others, but howe many<br />
of them were belonging to the said mr Clarke or how many to any others<br />
hee saith hee knoweth not. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as<br />
aforesaid.
To the second hee saith the said servants soe tumulting, over powered the master<br />
and mariners, and endeavoured to have the shipp carried away and prevent<br />
the voyage, and when the said two ffrench man of warr came up with the them, the<br />
said servants delivered themselves up and unto them, to be carried into ffrance.
Tounto them, to be carried into ffrance.
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