| First transcribed
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27 March 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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597 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 27/03/2013 +
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| Transcription
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The 13th of March 1656/
A busines of Exam … The 13th of March 1656/
A busines of Examination of witnesses on the behalfe}<br />
of John Neavyne and John Kerr and others late Mariners}<br />
of the ''Speedewell'' of which John Kerr was Commander}<br />
against Captaine Adrian Ven{XX}imon Swart [?nowor}}<br />
late Commander of the vessell called the ''Saint Patrick'' and}<br />
Captaine Jacob Johnson Governour late Commander of}<br />
a smale ffrench ffrigott in speciall and all others in}<br />
generall that will take upon them the Justification or}<br />
defence of the sayd seizure: Suckley}
Examined upon an allegation given in on<br />
the behalfe fo the sayd Neavyne and others./
'''Rp. jus'''
'''John Smith''' of Erevin neer Ayre in<br />
Scotland Mariner aged fifty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth
To the first hee saith that for that hee was one of the Company of the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Speedewell'' the voyage in question hee knoweth that the arlate John<br />
Kerr was Commander of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage and commonly acompted during the<br />
tyme arlate, and before, to bee a part Owner (videlicetof one halfe) of the sayd shipp and<br />
one Theophilus Rankin (both subiects of the Commonwealth of England and Scotch<br />
men by Nation and habitation dwelling both in Eyre) was commonly reputed the owner of the other halfe<br />
of the sayd shipp, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee being one of the Company of the<br />
''Speedewell'' as aforesayd the voyage in question knoweth that the arlate John Neavin<br />
and Company did at Bordeaux (besides one tonne which was then and there laden<br />
aboard for Accompt of the sayd shipps company) cause to bee laden aboard the sayd<br />
shipp for their proper Accompt nyneteene tonnes of ffrench wines, every of which<br />
twenty tonnes of wyne hee saith were at Burdeaux accounted commonly to be<br />
then worth thirty five pounds sterling per tonne and soe much this deponent in his<br />
Judgment and estimate beleeveth them to have then bin worth And alsoe<br />
knoweth that the sayd Neavin and Company did then and there alsoe lade aboard the<br />
sayd shipp for their Account severall lookeing glasses ribbons hatts and<br />
other smale goods which this deponent helped to lade on board, but as to the worth or<br />
value of them hee saith hee cannot depose And to the sayd wines and other goods being<br />
soe there laden hee saith the sayd shipp departed from thense with the sayd wines and<br />
goods on board her bound thense to London derry in Ireland and was with the sayd<br />
goods on board her in her passage from Bourdaux to London derry neere the<br />
Coast of ffrance upon the back of the Seames mett with and surprized by<br />
two ffrigotts Brest men of Warr of which ffrigotts the arlate Adrian Vandimon and<br />
Jacob Johnson Governor were Captaines, who and their Companyes did by violence<br />
and contrary to the articles of Peace betweene England and ffrance about the<br />
twenty fowerth of November one thousand six hundred fifty five seize the<br />
sayd shipp and goods and carried the same and her ladeing into Brest<br />
where they disposed of the sayd shipp and goods according to the pleasure of them<br />
the seizers aforesayd and utterly dispossessed the sayd Neavin and Company<br />
Owners of the sayd goods and the sayd Kerr and Rankin (Owners of the sayd shipp)<br />
thereof And hee saith in his this deponents Judgment the sayd shipp and her<br />
tackle and furniture at the tyme of such her seizure were well worth (beside<br />
the ladeing aforesayd) a hundred and forty pounds sterling at the least, her<br />
tackle and furniture being all new and very good at such her seizure the premisses<br />
hee deposeth being aboard her at her seizure as one of her company and carried<br />
a prisoner in her to Brest And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 3 hee saith hee alsoe knoweth that the sayd Neavin had a suite of<br />
Cloathes and some linnen aboard the sayd shipp at her seizure which hee left thereaboard her not being aboard her at her seizure but as to the value<br />
of them hee cannot depose and alsoe saith the sayd Nevin had then aboard (as hee hath heard<br />
and beleeveth) about seaventeene pounds sterling in ready money which hee lost alsoe aboard [?her] And this deponent<br />
knoweth that the arlate Kerr at the seizure aforesayd had on board the sayd shipp for<br />
his the sayd Kerrs Account a parcell of beere, but what the value thereof was<br />
hee knoweth not, And saith the sayd Kerr of this deponents knowledge did then alsoe<br />
looseknowledge did then alsoe<br />
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