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of the ffrigotts company well provided wit … of the ffrigotts company well provided with musketts and other weapons<br />
and there being smale [?AXe] of winde the sayd Lietenant and Company<br />
of the boate made up to the sayd shipp ''hadarene'' and by force entred her<br />
and seized her and her ladeing, to the hazard and adventure of their lives the<br />
premisses hee deposeth being one of the sayd ffrigotts company and seeing the<br />
premisses soe had and done And further to these articles hee cannot depose./
To the 3 article hee referreth him selfe to the Act or Ordinance of Parliament<br />
arlate and further hee cannot depose/
To the 4th and the schedule therein mentioned now read to him at<br />
this his examination hee saith for that hee was aboard the ''hadarene'' soone after her seizure and sawe<br />
them soe stowed and lyeing and tasted some of the Brandie after the ''hadarene'' came into the Plymouth harbour hee knoweth that shee had divers hogsheads of viniger and<br />
pipes of Brandie lying betweene decks, but the number or markes of them<br />
hee knoweth not and that shee had in her cabin divers bales of goods but the contents<br />
marke or number of them hee knoweth not but hath heard they were paper<br />
all which<br />
Viniger Brandie and Bales of goods continued in the same places where they<br />
were stowed when seized, untill such tyme as they were delivered to the officers<br />
of this Commonwealth for Prize goods at Plymouth And further to this article<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the lawe and the Registry of this<br />
Court and his foregoeing deposition and saving the same cannot further depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
Richard Keate [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation/
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'''Richard Megin''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney Mariner<br />
aged thirty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the yeare 1654<br />
and moneths therein concurring and alsoe in the yeare 1655 the ''Middleburrough ffrigott'' arlate<br />
was in the imediate service of this Commonwealth and the arlate Godfrey as her Commander,<br />
and was imployed against the dutch ffrench and other enymyes of this Common=<br />
wealth, and in pursuance of such designes the sayd Godfrey and company (whereof<br />
this deponent was one) did in the tyme arlate give chase to the arlate shipp the<br />
''hadarene'' and comming neere, haled her and commanded her to strike sayle, which<br />
notwithstanding shee refused to doe and held on her course without strikeing or<br />
yeilding obsedience to command, whereupon the sayd Godfrey caused some gunnes<br />
to bee fyred at her to bring her to Lee, but shee still refused to obey and<br />
continued on her course, Insoemuch that thereupon the sayd Godfrey caused his<br />
Lieutenant to goe with a boate well manned and armed (there being little<br />
winde stirring) to rowe up and seize the sayd shipp, which they did, and shee<br />
not submitting nor strikeing sayle the sayd Lieutenant and his Crue seized<br />
the sayd shipp ''hadarene'' and her ladeing by force, this hee deposeth of his<br />
owne sight and knowledge being one of the ffrigotts company And further hee<br />
cannot depose
To the third hee referreth him selfe to the Act or ordinance of Parliament<br />
arlate And further cannot depose./r />
arlate And further cannot depose./ +
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