| First transcribed
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17 September 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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259 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 17/09/2013 +
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| Transcription
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either by Turkish men of warr or Spanish … either by Turkish men of warr or Spanish men of warr that passe that<br />
way the place being open and void of any defence save what the shipps<br />
can make them selves for securing them selves and their shipps and<br />
ladeing And saith that of his this deponents knowledge the ''East Land Merchant''<br />
and a ffrench shipp in her company were in June last taken neere the Island<br />
of Bickeere by Spanish men of warr and the ffrench shipp was burnt<br />
and the ''Eastland Merchant'' and her ladeing taken by the sayd men (the Turkes<br />
of the same place of Bickeere affording them noe helpe or assistance<br />
and the Company of the ''Eastland Merchant'' to save them selves gott into<br />
their boate and soe escaped and gott passage home for England as passengers<br />
in and upon the sayd shipp the ''defence'' whereof this deponent was then mate<br />
and this happened about the moneth of June last past and the sayd<br />
place of Bickeere is commonly accompted to bee a very unsafe place<br />
for shipps to ride in And further to this allegation hee cannot<br />
depose/
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin/
William ffeater [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th day of March 1657 English style
The Lord Protector against Lemon and Tuffnell)<br />
Budd Smith,)
Examined on an allegation given in on the behalfe of his<br />
highnesse the Lord Protector/
'''dt. Row. 2.us'''
'''Godfrey Reader''' of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged twenty seaven yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was Commander<br />
of the ''Eagle Ketch'' (a vessell in the imediae service of this Commonwealth)<br />
at such tyme as the arlate shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cathagena was sent<br />
from the downes for London and came thence in Company with her and thereby did take<br />
notice that there was one aboard the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' who was<br />
imployed by the Commissioners for prize goods to take care of the sayd shipp and her<br />
ladeing and after hee this deponent came in Company of the sayd shipp to Blackwall<br />
hee understood and was informed that the sayd persons name soe imployed was Edward<br />
Lemon And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2 third and 4th articles hee saith hee cannot depose knowing nothing touching the contents thereof./
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee coming in company as Commanded<br />
of the ''Eagle Ketch'' with the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena knoweth<br />
that the ''Eagle Ketch'' and the sayd shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena came<br />
both to Anchor neere a place called the Geare And saith that in the night tyme<br />
while this deponent was asleepe in his Cabbin in the ''Eagle Ketch'' one of his<br />
company came into his Cabin and awakened this deponent and told him that<br />
there was a boate coming aboard the ''Eagle Ketch'' and this deponent thereupon<br />
gave command that noe boate should be suffered to come aboard and to turne<br />
her away, and thereupon imediately arose out of bedd and sawe a boate about<br />
halfe a Cables length from the ''Eagle Ketch'' rowing away from her with some<br />
goods in it but what goods they were or what quantitie hee knoweth not And hath<br />
heard since that the sayd boate came from the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Carthagena<br />
and had bin at the side of the ''Eagle'', while this deponent was getting out of bedd<br />
but whether any goods were put aboard the ''Eagle Ketch'' out of the sayd boate hee<br />
knoweth not shee being gone from the side before this deponent could gett up And<br />
[?to XXX GUTTER]d gett up And<br />
[?to XXX GUTTER] +
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