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The 23th of August 1654 [CENTRE HEADING]
… The 23th of August 1654 [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Thomas Collins and}<br />
others touching the Carvell the ''Lady of''}<br />
''Nazareth'' aforesaid.}
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'''George Chappell''' of London Mariner<br />
aged 54 yeeres or thereabouts sworne XXX<br />
before the said Commissioners, saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knew the shipp or Carvell called our ''Lady of Nazareth'' arlate whereof<br />
Richard Chappell (this deponents sonne) was commander; and saith<br />
that shee belonged in proprietie to Thomas Collins, henry Bouford<br />
and company English merchants, who were alsoe commonly accompted and<br />
reputed the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of her and of<br />
her tackle and furniture, and this deponent heard Ambrose Chappell<br />
(commander of the ''John and Mary'' unto which the said Carvall<br />
belonged and was alsoe a part of her) say that shee belonged<br />
unto them.
To the second hee saith that in the yeere 1650 the said Carvall<br />
being out ward bound on a voyage from Lisbone for the Brazeele<br />
was by the command of Generall Blake (who then lay with<br />
the Parliaments fleete before the barr of Lisbone) ordered to attend<br />
the said fleete, and further that in or about the beginning of June<br />
1650 old stile the said Carvell was by Generall Blake sent into<br />
Lisbone with a message from him, and on the day of her<br />
said going in on the said message being in or neere the about the second<br />
day of June 1650, shee was seized at Lisbone with all<br />
that belonged unto her by the kinge of Portugalls officers, and her<br />
master and all her English mariners turned out of her and imprisoned<br />
by the said kings order, and kept some five monethes, some foure<br />
and some a lesse time in the said imprisonment, and the said<br />
owners were and are deprived of the said Carvell by the said<br />
seizure made as aforesaid by the order of the king of Portugall,<br />
from whom Prince Rupert had her, all which hee knoweth to<br />
be true being present at Lisbone and seeing and observing the<br />
premisses to be soe donne, and being imprisoned with the said<br />
master and company.
To the third hee saith the said Carvell was of the burthen of<br />
betwixt 25 and 30 tuns or thereabouts, And (as this deponent<br />
heard the said Ambrose Chappell who bought her and others<br />
diverse times say) shee cost and stood the owners in XX 600 mill<br />
Reis or thereabouts, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth árticle hee saith and deposeth that there were pilchards<br />
and other goods aboard the said shipp or Carvell the ''lady of Nazareth''<br />
at the time of her said seizure for the accompt of the master and other<br />
English, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee saith hee estimateth the said owners to be<br />
damnified by the said seizure and their deprivation of the said<br />
vessell thereby in the said summe of six hundre mill Res; and<br />
hee estimateth the said Richard Chappell her master<br />
in losse of his time, goods, clothes, bookes Instruments and<br />
[?chages] to be damnified by the said seizure and imprisonment<br />
the summe of one hundred pounds sterling at the least, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
George Chappell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ose.
George Chappell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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