| First transcribed
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9 February 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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17 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| People
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Robert Browning<br />
Stephen keech … Robert Browning<br />
Stephen keech of Bristoll merchant<br />
king of Portugall<br />
John legg and John Downer<br />
Rowland Serchfeild (London merchant)
<u>Stephen Keech</u>
"20 September 1639<br />
'''Stephen Keech''' an owner of shipping is admitted into the Society of the Company of merchantes adventurer of this Citty by Redempcion at the fine of thirteene poudne sixe shillinges eight pence"UNIQ73a471faf30c7b21-ref-0000000B-QINUe"UNIQ73a471faf30c7b21-ref-0000000B-QINU +
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London +
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| Primary sources
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'''TNA'''
<u>PROB</u>
PROB 1 … '''TNA'''
<u>PROB</u>
PROB 11/332/550 Will of John Legg of Stepney, Middlesex. 27 April 1670<br />
PROB 11/334/4 Will of John Downer. 20 September 1670 14 August 1685<br />
PROB 11/381/102 Will of John Legg or Logg, Merchant of Hackney, Middlesex.<br />
PROB 11/410/358 Will of John Downer, Mariner of Saint Olave Southwark, Surrey. 07 July 1692aint Olave Southwark, Surrey. 07 July 1692 +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 09/02/2013 +
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| Transcription
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To the sixth hee saith that the said Rober … To the sixth hee saith that the said Robert Browning served in the<br />
said shipp the ''ffortune'' from the tenth of May 1654 untill the seaven<br />
and twentieth of March 1655, at which time this deponent left him<br />
ashore at Cadiz in the imployment of the said owners, but howe long<br />
from that time hee continued there in that imployment hee knoweth<br />
not, for that this deponent then came thense. And saith that from the<br />
said tenth of May 1654 till the said 27th of March thense next<br />
following hee the said Robert honestly and diligently performed his<br />
said place of masters mate, as alsoe that of Assistant to and of<br />
the Sopra cargo, in all things as became him, and as hee ought to doe<br />
of this deponents sight and knowledge, being master and seeing such<br />
his service and behaviour./
To the 7th hee saith that the said Vanderpost, Tilley and Cordell have<br />
bin by the said Robert often demanded payment of the said wages and<br />
hire, in this deponents presence and hearing, but they have refused<br />
to pay the same, offering him only part for the whole.
To the 8th hee referreth himselfe to the Registrie of this Court.<br />
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Tho: Browning SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
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The 7th of May 1656.
A busines of exámination of the to perpetuall remembrance}<br />
to sett forthe the owner shipp or proprietie of the shipp}<br />
the ''Jonathan'' of Bristoll whereof George Potts was}<br />
master, and of her tackle and furniture, in order to}<br />
settling the question touching the same lately}<br />
depending before the Commissioners in the Portugall}<br />
busines, promoted on the behalfe of John legg}<br />
and John Downer.}
'''Rp. .1.'''
'''Rowland Serchfeild''' of London Merchant<br />
sworne in the said busines before the<br />
right worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of<br />
lawes, one of the Judges of the high<br />
Court of the Admiraltie saith and<br />
deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That hee this deponent well knew the said shipp the ''Jonathan'', which<br />
about five yeares since in a voyage from Bristoll to ffiall, being seized at<br />
ffiall by the ministers of the king of Portugall, hee this deponent on the<br />
behalfe of Stephen keech of Bristoll merchant (commonly reputed owner of<br />
the said vessell) prosecuted the matter of reparation of and for the said seizure<br />
or spoile, before the right worshippfull doctor Walker and others, Commissioners<br />
specially appointed for auditing and determining the matters of complaint<br />
of the subiects of this Commonwealth for dammages sustained by the said king<br />
and his subiects; and upon such prosectution and upon what was made<br />
appeare to the said Commissioners, they ordered foure hundred and fourtie pounds<br />
sterling, in eight hundred and eightie Milikes Portugall money to be paid for the<br />
universall action touching the said shipp #
[#] which said summe of money was soe procured to<br />
be awarded and allowed (upon ˹and by˺ that said prosecution<br />
of this deponent) for the sole use and accompt<br />
of and to redound to the benefit of the said<br />
Stephen keech.
And saith that John legg and John<br />
Downer of London did in October last really buy of the said keech for a good<br />
summ of money all this the said keech as interest claime and title in or to the<br />
said shipp, tackle and furniture and the said moneyes thereupon a[XXXXXXXX GUTTER]<br />
andereupon a[XXXXXXXX GUTTER]<br />
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