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-===Front Cover===
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-January 1658
-March 1660//
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-===Case:  Luke Wood x:r ag:t the Peace and ag:t Thomas Grove:  Examination:  3.  Peter Bartlet, of Ratcliff, Shipwright, aged 30:  Date:  January 12th, 1658===
-The 12:th day of January 1658
-Examined on the libell./
-Luke Wood x:r ag:t the ''Pearce'')
-and ag:t Thomas Grove)
-Cheeke; Suckley:/:)
-J:ius  PETER BARTLET of Ratcliff Shipwright aged
-thirty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne
-& examined saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t./
-Rp.
-To the first arle hee saith that hee this deponent goeing Carpenter
-of the shipp the ''Pearce'' arlate the whole voyage in question
-knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove druing all the moneths and
-tyme arlate in the yeares: 1657 and 1658 arlate was Master
-and Commander of the sayd shipp the ''Pearce'' and had the charge and
-governmenz of her as Master of her during the sayd voyage on which
-voyage shee sett sayle from Gravesend the tewnty eight day of March
-English style and as hee beleeveth went soe Master of her with the consent
-of the arlate Vincent delabarre Thomas delavale, And for Master
-of her the sayd Voyage the sayd Grove was Commonly reputed  And,
-further to this arle hee cannot depose./
-To the second article of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd shipp
-''Peace'' was in the Moneth of March 1657 bound from this Port of
-London to ffrance and thence to Newfound Land and hence to the
-Barbados and thence back againe to London And saith tha the
-sayd Thomas Grove did in or about the sixteenth day of the moneth
-of March 1656 lett to freight by Charterparty three eigth parts
-of the sayd shipp the ''Pearce'' belonging to the arlate Vincent dela Barr
-& Thomas de La Vall to the arlate Luke Wood during the voyage in
-question for a valuable consideration, as the sayd Luke Wood did
-affirme to this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company
-And further hee cannot depose but for more certaynty therein referreth
-him selfe to the sayd Charterparty./
-To the 3 arle hee saith that hee well knoweth goeing Carpenter of the
-sayd shipp that the arlate John Brewer and Edward Crispe were
-commonly reputed the lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the other
-five eighth parts of the sayd shipp ''Pearce'' & her tackle & furniture
-And knoweth that they did freight and imploy their sayd five eighth
-parts upon their owne charge and Adventure as Owners & freighters
-of them  And (as the sayd Luke Wood did affirme to this deponent) hee
-was by the sayd Brewer & Crispe intrusted to goe supracargo upon
-the sayd shipp & voyage ?as well for the management of their sayd
-five eighth parts as for him selfe and the manageing of the
-sayd three eighth parts of the sayd shipp ?soe ?lett to him the sayd
-Wood by the sayd Grove And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
-To the 4:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp laye in the River
-of Thames takeing in her provisions for the voyage in question this
-deponent heard the arlate Edward Crispe aboard the sayd shipp
-saye & declare that hee and the sayd Bower were to pay and beare
-the voyage of their five eighth parts of the shipp ''Pearce'' and of her victualls
-and//
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-//and mens wages and that the arleat Like Wood was to doe the XXX
-for the other five wight parts of the sayd shipp & of her victualing and XX
-XXX wages and that the arlate  Grove the Master and the Mariners
-of the sayd shipp were to obey the orders of the sayd Luke Woods & to sayle
-her to such places as the sayd Wood should order & direct & to follow ?&
-order in the ladeing unladeing and reladeing of the sayd shipp & to go
-with their boarte from tyme to tyme as the sayd Wood should appointe
-and confesse And further hee cannot depose but referreth him selfe
-to the schedule in this article mentioned./
-To the 5:th and 6:th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that after
-the sayd shipp ''Peace'' her departure upon the voyage in question hee XX
-in her coarse towards ffrance shee was forced by Contrary winde to
-put into ffalmouth where she lay winde bound neere about thirteene
-dayes And that about the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came
-fayre whereupon the arlate Luke Wood did make all speede to sett
-sayle in regard soe much tyme had bin lost & the season of the gXXXXX
-was & that the sayd shipp was to stay in ffrance to take in her
-ladeing of salt there And saith that the sayd Luke Woods did call
-upon the sayd Thomas Grove to goe aboard & speedily sett sayle that
-the shipp might ?preserate her intended voyage and the sayd Grove
-& Woods did about two oclock in the afternoone of the sayd day goe
-aboard togeather, this deponent goeing aboard with them at the same
-tyme, and soe soone as the sayd Grove & Woods came aboard they
-sent the boate a shoare to Cleere at the Castle (this deponent and the
-sayd Groves Mate goeing a shoare in it) XX XXXXX XXX brought the sayd shipp to sayle & the sayd mate p:rsentley ?gott
-the sayd shipp cleared, And having cleered the sayd Mate and this
-deponent returned to the sayd shipp in the shipps boate, And after
-they were come aboard the sayd Grove ordered to sayle the sayd shipp
-over the barr and there to bring her againe to Anchor and haveing
-given such order, & there being a Country boate lyeing by the shipp
-side, the sayd Thomas Grove would needes goe on shoare againe
-and did goe on shoare in the sayd Country boate, notwithstanding
-the sayd Woods did earnestly persuade & entreate him not to goe
-on shoare & told him it would be a great hinderance to the voyage
-the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the winde being ?the
-fayre for her departure as in deede it was And the sayd Grove
-being soe gone on shoare  some of the shipps company after they
-had sayled the shipp over the barr & then brought her to an Anchor
-went on shoare with the shipps boate to fetch the sayd Grove on board
-which notwithstanding the sayd Grove continewed ashoare most part
-of that night and came not againe on board the sayd shipp till
-about two of the Clock in the morning next after and was when hee soe came
-(in this deponents Judgment) much distempered with drink and began
-to//
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-//to curse and sweare and amongst other words sayd that there
-were some on board thought much of his being on shoare but
-hee cared not for that, and sayd that the sayd shipp should ride
-longer there and accordingly did keepe her there at anchor about
-an hower after such his comming on board & then gave order to
-weigh Anchor, and did sett sayl, this hee deposeth of
-certayne knowledge & alsoe heareing the sayd words or others to
-that effect spoken, as alsoe did most of the sayd shipps company
-And further to these arle hee deposeth not./
-To the 7:th arle hee saith hee knoweth that after the arrivall
-of the shipp ''Peace'' at Le?serne in ffrance & whilst the arlate
-Luke Wood was on shoare provideing the sayd shipps ladeing of
-salt and sending boates aboard her therewith the sayd Thomas
-Grve did the moneth of May 1657 the certayne day hee remembe-
-reth not) refuse to receave aboard the sayd shipp two boates
-loaded of salt which the sayd Wood had sent to be taken
-aboard her ?and ?turned the sayd boates w:th their ladeings of
-salt back againe without takeing the same aboard although
-this deponent & the rest of the shipps company were willing to
-take it aboard and could well have taken the same aboard &
-carried the same which the sayd Grove did without acquainting
-the sayd Wood thereiwth but what  XXXXX dammage the sayd Woods was
-thereby forced to pay hee knoweth not, but knoweth hee was dama-
-ged thereby And further cannot depose./
-To the 8:th arle hee saith that whilst the sayd shipp remayned
-at Leserue aforesayd & when shee was ready to depart thence the
-arlate Luke Woods did goe ashoare with some of the shipps company
-to make even his Accompts that hee might be in a readinesse to
-depart and saith that the sayd Grove would needes goe on shoare
-with him & did goe on shoare with the sayd Woods but as to what
-words the sayd Grove spake on shoare hee cannot depose for that hee
-went not on shoare with them but saith  hee heard the sayd
-Grove before his goeing on shoare sayd before most of the sayd
-shipps Company that whosoever of them did ask any thing
-for Crispe (meaning the arlate Edward Crispe one of the
-Owners & Advenurers in the sayd shipp the voyage in question) hee
-would ?mallise or ?hate them during the voyage, or words to that
-effect & rayled against the sayd Crispe & sayd hee was a roague
-and a dogg & other the like expresonsfull towards ?him  further
-to this arle hee cannot depose./
-To the 9:th hee cannot depose.///
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-//To the 10:th and ?11:th arle hee saith that in the beginning of the Moneth
-of August 1657 the weather had bin somewhat fowle & foggie
-that certayne fish to the quantitie of five hundred kintalls or thereabouts
-which the sayd Wood had bought & provided a shoare could not be shipped
-untill a fayer day happened And saith that a fayer day happening in the sayd
-moneth (the certayne day of the moneth it soe happened to be fayer he remem
-breth not) the arlate Luke Woods and the arlate William Tizard (who was
-Masters Mate of the ''Peace'') called early in the morning for the Mariners of
-the sayd shipp to goe a shoare with their boates to assiste in carrying
-aboard & ladeing the sayd shipp with the sayd ffish And saith that thereupon the
-sayd Grove the Master sent sixe men on shoare & not more to helpe to lade
-the sayd ffish (whereas there were seaven & twenty men & boyes belonging
-to the sayd shipp beside the Master, five & twenty whereof were  under
-pay off the sayd ?Merch & other the Owners above mentioned) and kept the
-rest of the Mariners on board the sayd shipp & imployed them to pick OXX
-and imployed this deponent being Carpenter to worke in the ?Okum
-soe picked with severall plXXXX in the shipp where it would ?Okum ?W:ch
-the sayd Wood would hande on shoare the weather being then fayre & XX
-to lade the sayd ffish by which meanes the sayd Wood with those from thXX
-the sayd Grove sent to helpe him could and did lade aboard the sayd
-shipp only one hundred and twenty kintalls of the sayd three hundred
-Kintalls of ffish whereas if the sayd Wood had had more helpe
-on shoare to assiste in ladeing the sayd ffish aboard & that the rest of y:e
-shipps Company had not bin hindred from goeing a shoare to assiste
-therein by the sayd Groves employing them to pick Okum the whole three
-hundred kintalls of ffish might easily have bin that day laden & put
-all aboard the sayd shipp And further hee cannot depose saving hee
-saith that while the sayd Woods was soe ladeing of the sayd one hundred
-and twenty kintalls of ffish the sayd Grove did with three or fowre
-more of the shipps Company take the shipps boate and turne to and
-froe to the  winde warde in the harbour for his pleasure noe way
-offereing any assistance in the ladeing the sayd ffish, but what ?discourse
-then passed betweene the sayd Wood & Grove as hee sayled to and froe
-hee knoweth not.
-To the 12:th arle hee saith that in the moneth of August 1657 (the certeyne
-day hee remembreth not) the arlate Luke Wood having on shoare
-sold a quantitie of salt came aboard the ''Peace'' to have it delivered
-out of the said shipp and asked the Boatswaine for the sayd Grove the
-Master & the Boatswaine made answere that hee was in his Cabbin
-and the sayd Wood goeing into the Cabbin to desyre him (or by the sayd
-Groves words afterwards appeared) to give order to his Company to ?deliver
-out the sayd boates ladeings of salt the sayd Grove came out of
-his Cabbin and rann upon the deck of the sayd shipp ''Peace'' and swore
-that he would sinke the boate that should come for any salt there & the
-sayd Wood seeing the sayd Grove rage in such a furious manner did
-in a milde manner desyre and entreate the sayed Grove not doe as hee
-had//
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-//had threatned but to suffer the sayd boate to be laden with salt and
-told him what a great disparagement it would be to him the sayd
-Wood in his treade there if the sayd boate of ?hoymen aboard her
-should be wronged whereupon the sayd Grove in an outragious manner
-reviled the sayd Wood and called him old Roague and old Pedler
-and old Pimpe and other the like disgracefull names and told him
-the sayd Wood that if hee were not an old roague hee would drubb
-him And alsoe sayd (speaking to the sayd Woods) yo:u old roague yo:u
-were in the hold the other day but if ever I see yo:u in hold againe
-I will ?trice yo:u up with a tackle or hee spake other menaceing speeches
-to the same effect all which opporobious language & threates and
-other passages were soe done & spoken on the open deck in p:rsence
-& heareing of this deponent & the Boatswaine & most of the sayd
-shipps company And further hee deposeth not./
-To the 13:th arle hee saith that imediately after the sayd Grove
-had soe threatned and reviled the sayd Wood, hee the sayd
-Woods did in a civill & mylde manner demand of the sayd
-Grove why he would not lett him have any salt from on board
-and the sayd Grove replyed & sayd that the shipp wanted
-stiffneing or ballast whereto the sayd Wood answered and sayd
-to the sayd Grove why then did yo:w not a day agoe send for
-more stones whereto the sayd Grove replyed and sayd hee had forgott
-it & the sayd Woods then asked the sayd Grove what hee would doe
-when he had more stones aboard whereto the sayd Grove replyed
-and sayd that then hee would carry them on shoare againe And
-these speeches passed betwixt the sayd Grove & Woods publiquely
-upon the deck in p:rsence & hearing of this deponent and most of
-the shipps Company the sayd Wood speakeing soe loude and with
-such rage & fury that people who stood on shoare stood gazeing
-and wondering to see & heare such words & behaviour proceede
-from a Master of a shipp to his Supracargoe./
-To the 14:th arle hee saith that the ayd Woods being discontented
-with the forementioned words & actions of the sayd Grove went on
-shoare leaving the arlate William Tizard one of the Mates of the
-shipp aboard with the sayd Grove the master, and this deponent
-went a shoare with the sayd Woods & therefore knoweth not what
-words passed aboard then betwixt the sayd Tizard & Grove, but hath
-heard the sayd Grove at severall other tymes (speakeing of the sayd
-Tizard & this deponent & most of the Officers of the shipp who were
-all ?hyred by the sayd Woods) in an anXXX manner sayd that there was a knott of them
-but hee would breake them And hee saith that while this deponent
-was soe on shoare with the sayd Woods the sayd Tizard came on
-shoare and brought a noate from the sayd Grove & delivered the
-same to the sayd Woods which noate the sayd Woods was before this
-deponent & the sayd Tizard & divers other persons wherein (as the sayd
-Woods read the same) is appeared that the sayd Grove had written that
-what//
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-//what salt hee wanted or would send for out of the sayd shipp
-be delivered unto him And further hee cannot depose.
-To the 15:th arle of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd M:r Woods haveing receaved the
-sayd noate soe XXXX to be very glad thereof and sent this deponent to M:r Ellot
-& M:r Pardon & Robert Rogers & Captaine Reynolds and others Who were by contract
-to have salt from aboard the sayd shipp and desyred them to send
-their boates aboard the sayd shipp for the salt which the sayd Woods had
-sould unto them whereto the sayd people replyed that the dievell should have
-him before they would goe againe to receave salt from aboard ?him yet
-notwithstanding the fishing tyme being almost spent and they being in great
-want of salt they sent their boates againe aboard the sayd shipp for
-salt and demanded the same but the sayd Grove would not permitt
-them to receave any salt from aboard the sayd shipp by which meanes
-the sayd Wood began to loose his reputation in the
-sale of his salt abd was discharged amongst those to wheome hee
-had sold it whereas hgee neede not soe to have bin for that there was
-of this deponents knowledge then aboard the sayd shipp about thirty
-tonnes of ffish and about sixty tonnes of salt abd about sixty tonnes
-of stones besides great store of provisions of beefe ?pocks pease and
-other provisions and the ship then rideing in the harbour of S:t ?Jones
-which is the safest and best or at least as good and
-safe a harbour as any is in the Newfound land soe that in ?this the
-deponents Judgment the sayd Grove by such two refractory and
-discontented Carriage and words & actions did intend
-to overthrow the sayd shipps voyage And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 16:th hee cannot depose./
-To the 17:th hee cannot depose/
-To the 18:th hee cannot depose/
-To the 19:th hee saith that in the moneth of September 1657 (the certayne
-day hee remembreth not) the ''Pease'' being come out some few dayes before
-from Newfound Land the shipp the ''Pease'' & her company of espied XXXX
-shipps at Sea which they thought to be some of her consorts
-bound for the Barbados And the ''Pease'' bearing up to them the Master
-& Company of the ''Pease'' know the shipp they came up with all to be one
-that came out in Company of the ''Pease'' from Nants and thereupon
-the sayd Grove the Master persuaded the sayd Woods to goe aboard the sayd shipp
-which at his request hee did  (though hee being accompayed with Robert ?Grove one of the sayd Masters Mates so sayd Woods were XXX unwilling soe to do
-and ?hee sent the ''Pease'' her boate aboard her againe, And this being done
-and the sayd Grove the Master still continewing aboard his sayd
-shipp the ''Pease'' the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' by order of the sayd Grove the
-Master stood off about halfe a league from the sayd other shipp that came
-in her company from Nants and then stood to the winde of her and by ?this
-meanes came her aboard in the quarter to the great endangereing
-of the sayd shipps insoemuch that the ffrench men aboard the sayd shipp
-seeing the great danger their says shipp was in gott out of her into XX XXX
-leaving//
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-//leaving the arlate Luke Wards in the sayd ffrench shipp who with
-much danger of his life by getting hold of the ?ragles of the heads of
-the ''Pease'' when they came fowle one of an other with much difficulty
-came aboard the ''Pease'' with the assistance of one James Jenkins one of the ''Pease'' her company who tooke hold of RXXXX & helpeth him All which this deponent well knoweth was
-soe done by the command and order of the sayd Grove the Master
-notwithstanding that the Mates of the ''Pease'' & others of the
-Company advised the sayd Grove the Master before hee
-came within a quarter of a myle of the sayd shipp to leave up
-to ne Lee ward of her or to the winde wards of her which hee might
-easily have done & have avoided falling fowle of her  And saith the sayd Grove was soe displeased with the sayd Jenkings for helping the sayd Woods aboard hath XX beate & abused
-the sayd Jenkins afterwards during the ?whole XXXXX And further he cannot depose/
-To the 20:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth and heard the sayd
-Luke Woods upon the departure of the shipp ''Pease'' from the New found
-land give order to the arlate Thomas Grove to sayle the sayd shipp
-directly for the Barabados  And hee this deponent heard the
-Mates of the sayd Shipp sayd that the sayd Thomas Grove did not
-cause the sayd shipp to bee steerd a course sufficient towards the
-Southwards to gaine the Barbados And knoweth that the sayd
-Thomas by his steering on his owne course contrary to the advise
-of his sayd Mates did misse the Island of Barbados and
-came to the Island of S:t Lusea in the moneth of November 1657
-And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 21:th hee cannot depose/
-To the 22:th hee saith hee knoweth that about the beginning of the moneth
-of March 1657 there came in a KelXX into NXXXX (where the ''Pease''
-then lay) laden with ffish & other provisions whereof the arlate
-Holloway was accompted Merchant & Owner And further to
-this arle hee cannot depose/
-To the 23:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp stayed at MXXX
-hee heard divers of the Planters there saye that they would
-have laded goods aboard the sayd ship the ''Pease'' but that they
-sawe that the arlate Thomas Grove was a man of lewde
-and debauched behaviour and therefore they dearst not trust
-him with their goods or words to that effect for which reason
-hee beleeveth that the sayd Woods was much damnified by the
-sayd Groves debauched behaviour and lost much ladeing there
-which otherwise hee might have had  And further hee cannot depose./
-To the 24:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate
-Thomas Grove did at New found land ?stowe aboard the Gunne
-deck of the ''Pease'' five casks of Oyle when as there was roome sufficient in the hold for the sayd, & XXX XXX the sayd Woods ?& to stowe it in hold, and refused soe to doe XXXX oyle of ?her
-?this//
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-P1110855 f. 4 verso
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-//this deponents knowledge did leake out and came downe
-amongst the Merchants fish and much damnified the same
-in soe much that when the same came to be sold at ?Mevis where
-other ffish was there sold for a pound of sugar for every pound of
-fish the sayd Woods was faine to sell the sayd fish soe damnified
-some of it at halfe that price and some at lesse than halfe that
-price, to the great dammage of the sayd Luke Woods.
-This hee deposeth of certayne knowledge And farther hee cannot depose,
-To the 25:th arle hee cannot depose/
-To the 26:th hee saith that the arlate Luke Woods was during the ?sayd
-voyage (of this deponents sight & observation) very industrious and
-carefull in mannageing of the affayres of the sayd shipp the ''Pease''
-committed to his charge and in the sale & disposall of er goods and
-Merchandizes & in buying & reladeing her with ithers And hee this
-deponent is verily persuaded in his conscience that if the sayd
-Thomas Groves had used the like diligence in performance of his
-duty as Master & not behaved him selfe in such refractory and disXXXX
-manner as is afore declared the sayd shipp might have dischraged
-her voyage fower or five moneths sooner than shee did And further
-hee cannot depose/
-To the 27:th arle hee saith that in case the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' had
-arrived at the Barbados whether shee was bound with her ladeing
-from Newfound land the sayd Woods might in this deponents Judg
-ment and as hee verily beleeveth) In all probability habe sold
-& disposed there of the sayd ffish & other goods whilst the same was sounde marketX
-& well conditioned, & at good valew, & made quick returne thence
-to London abd quicker by at least five or sixe monethes than hee
-did whereas the sayd ffish & other goods (whereof
-the sayd Luke Woods had three eighth parts upon his Accompt) were
-much damnified the fish growing rotten & divers Caskes of oyle
-which the sayd Woods had aboard growing very leakie in soe much that many of them leaked cleare out by reason of
-their lying soe long undisposed of And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 28:th hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the sayd Luke XXX
-did susteyne losse & dammage in the sale of ?the three eighth parts of the
-sayd shipp the ''Pease'' her ladeing of ffish & other goods more than whXXXX
-hee might have made of them at the Barbados if the sayd shipp
-had not missed her course thither the summe of three hundred pounds
-sterling or neere thereabouts besides the losse of about fower or five
-moneths tyme for which the sayd Woods payed or was to pay freight
-And further hee cannot depose/
-To//
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-P1110856 f. 5 recto
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-//To the 29:th saving his forefoing deposiccon hee canot depose
-To the 30:th hee saith that the shipp ''Peace'' was of the burthen of ?two [this figure appears to have been blotted out]
-hundred tonnes or neere thereabouts and that of his this deponents
-knowledge shee came home about halfe dead freighted for that
-the arlate Luke Woods beside the dammage hee susteyned in the sale
-of his three eighth parts of the sayd shipps ladeing of ffish & other
-Merchandizes did suffer losse and dammage in the sayd shipps want
-of ladeing home the simme of two hundred pounds sterling or
-neere thereabouts in this deponents Judgement & estimate And further
-hee cannot depose./
-To the 31:th arle hee saith that the monethly wages of the Master
-& Mariners of the shipp ''Peace'' & the victualls & provisions by them
-monethly spent during the voyage in question did amount to a great
-& considerable summe of money but what to estimate the same
-as hee knoweth not And further cannot depose./
-To the 32:th arle hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the
-shipp the ''Peace'' her voyage was overthrowne and spoiled by the
-evell (sic) behaviour of the sayd Thomas Grove therein the sayd Grove behaving
-him selfe in that rude and uncivill manner wheresoever hee came
-during the sayd voyage that such persons as had heard of or sawe his
-behaviour did not care to have anything to doe with him the sayd
-Grave or the arlate Luke Woods for his sake and therefore diverse of them
-did forbeare the ladeing of their goods aboard the sayd shipp of this
-deponents sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge and such the sayd Groves rude
-and uncivill behaviour was generall observed and taken notice of
-by the whole shipps Company and by divers  who had occasion to
-lade goods aboard the sayd shipp and have dealings with the sayd
-Luke Woods And further hee deposeth not./
-To the 33:th and 34:th arles hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Grove did
-not only in remote parts beyond the seas behave him selfe in such
-rude and disobedient manner as is before declared but alsoe after
-the sayd shipp was returned to Plymouth from the voyage in question
-the sayd Grove by his stubborne & refractory carriage there
-and his refuseing to obey the orders of the sayd Luke Woods
-was an occasion of the sayd shipps stay there a much longer tyme
-than shee needed to have done by reason that seavrll Merchants who
-had goods aboard the sayd shipp and which were there to be delivered
-came aboard to demand their goods, and brought their bills of ladeing
-and severall tymes demanded them andthe sayd Grove refused to
-deliver them, and stayed there about tenn dayes whereas hee might
-have there discharged all the goods hee was there to unlade in three dayes
-tyme at the most & then might have had the oportunity of a fayer
-winde to sayle for London which oportunitie the sayd Grove by his sayd
-refractory carriage lost & the winde by his long stay there coming
-contrary//
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-//the sayd shipp could not get there and arrive at London soe soone
-as otherwise shee might have done if the sayd Grove had behaved
-him selfe civilly and bin obedient to order as hee ought to have
-done by a moneths tyme or thereabouts And these p:rmisses hee saith
-were and are well knowne bot only to this deponent but also to the
-whole shipps company & alsoe to the Merchants who soe came to demand
-their goods And further hee cannot depose knowing nothing  touching the
-makeing of the Protests arlate./
-To the 35:th arle hee saith hee well remembreth that at Mevis this deponent
-& Robert Grove Cheife Mate of the ''Peace'' & William Tizard another mate of
-the sayd shipp & one Robert Chipp the Gunner of her were produced as
-witnesses before Captaine Morton Captaine Russell Captaine Smith
-& other officers under the Governour at Mevis upon Interrogatories given
-in before them against the sayd Thomas Grove the Master who was
-?convened & appeared before them) touching his evell & disobedient carriage
-in the sayd voyage at Newfound landX, which notwithstanding the sayd
-Grove still continued his obstinate & refractory carriage and did upon
-all occasions endeavour the overthrowe of the voyage in question in
-manner as is before described And further hee cannot depose./
-To the 36:th and 37:th arles hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the
-Registery of this Court to the lawe, and to his foregoeing deposition &
-further cannot depose./
-To the 38:th arle hee saith hee beleevth and is verily perswaded in
-his conscience that the arlate Luke Woods by reason of the sayd Thomas
-Grove his sayd obstinate and refractory behaviour hath suffered losse and
-dammage beside the dammage in his foregoeing deposition
-mentioned, to a considerable value, but what to estimate
-the same at hee knoweth not And further hee cannot depose
-To the 39:th arle hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his
-foregoeing deposition and to the lawe and further cannot depose./
-To the 40:th hee saith the arlate Thomas Grove was & is an
-Englishman & an Inhabitant of the parish of Stepney and subiect
-to the Jurisdiction of this Court./
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true
-The marke of the sayd
-PETER XXXXX BARTLET
-<nowiki>******************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Luke Wood x:r ag:t the Peace and ag:t Thomas Grove::  Examination:  2.  Richard Blake, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 30:  Date:  January 14th 1658===
-The 14:th of January 1658
-Examined on the sayd Libell./
-Rp.
-:us  RICHARD CLAKE of Ratcliff in the pish of Stepney
-and County of Midd Mariner aged thirty yeares of
-therabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith  and
-deposeth as followeth vizt
-To the first arle of the sayd allegation [allegation has been crossed out] libell hee saith by reason hee
-this deponent went Boat swaine of the shipp ''Pease'' the voyage in question
-and was hired to serve as Boatswaine about the seaventh of March 1656 he
-knoweth//
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-//knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove then and alsoe during
-all the tyme arlate in the yeares 1657 and 1658 was Master and
-Commander of the sayd shipp ''Pease'' and had the charge and government
-of her as Master during the voyage in question  And hee beleeveth
-the sayd Thomas Grove went soe master of her the sayd voyage by the
-Consent & approbation of the arlate Vincent de la barre & Thomas delavall
-and the rest of the Owners of the sayd shipp And for Master of her the
-sayd voyage the sayd Thomas Grove was commonly reputed And further
-to this arle hee cannot depose./
-To the 2 arle of the libell hee saith that the sayd shipp having at
-London taken in her provisions & other necessaries did in the moneth
-of March 1656 sett sayle from London to Gravesend and having cleered
-?their sett sayle thence about the seaven or eight and twentieth of March
-English Style bound forth on a voyage from London to
-ffrance and thence to Newfound land and thence to the Barbadoes
-and further to this arle hee cannot depose being not privie to the
-bargaine made by the sayd Grove with the arlate Luke Woods touching any parte of the sayd shipp hyred by the sayd Woods but for
-more certaynety therein referreth him selfe to the Charterparty made
-between them thereabout./
-To the third arle hee saith hee well knoweth being Boatswaine as
-aforesayd that the arlate John Brewer and Edward Crispe were
-commonly reputed the lawfull Owners and Proprietors of five
-eighth parts of the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' & her tackle and furniture
-And knoweth that they did upon their owne charge & Adventure as
-Owners & freighters freight and imploy the sayd five eighth parts
-of her for their owne use  And saith that hee well knoweth that
-the arlate Luke Woods did goe the voyage in question absolute and
-sole Supracargo & manager of the sayd shipp ''Pease'' as well for the parts that XXXXXXX
-hee the sayd Woods had hyred as for the other five eighths which
-was soe freighted by and belonged to the sayde Brewer and Crispe
-And was soe impowered to goe Supracargo and sole manager of the sayd Brewer
-& Crispe their five eighth parts by the sayde Brewer and Crispe (as
-the sayd Luke Wood did affirme to this deponent & other of the sayd
-shipps Company and as this deponent verily beleeveth And further
-hee cannot depose/
-To the 4:th arle of the sayd libell hee saith that soone after this
-deponent was first shipped aboard the sayd shipp ''Pease'' as Boatswaine
-the sayd Thomas Grove the Master told this deponent that although hee
-the sayd Grove had hyred this deponent yet Luke Woods (meaning the
-arlate Luke Woods) was to be his this deponents paymaster for
-that (as the sayd Grove acknowledged & sayd) the sayd Woods was sole
-supracargo of the sayd shipp as well for the sayd Brewer & Crispe
-their five eighth parts of the shipp as for the other three eighth parts
-of the sayd shipp, and was to pay & beare in behalfe of him selfe &
-the said Brewer & Crispe all charges of victualls and
-provisions and wages for the Master and Mariners of the sayd shipp
-and//
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-//and hee this deponent verily beleeveth that the sayd Woods being
-sole supracargo of the sayed shipp for the voyage in question both
-the Master and Mariners ought to obey and observe the orders
-of the sayd Luke Woods as Supracargo as touching the lading unlading
-and reladeing of the sayd shipp & to goe with the shipps boate,  & with the
-sayd shipp from place to place according as the sayd Woods should
-for his best advantage of tradeing in the sayd voyage direct and
-appoint And further to this arle hee cannot depose not being p:rsent
-at the writeing or signeing of the Schedule arlate
-To the 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd
-shipp the ''Pease'' after her departure from Gravesend being in her course
-towards ffrance she was by Contrary winds put into ffalmouth where
-she lay winde bound for neere about thirteene dayes And on or about
-the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came fayer & the sayd Luke
-Woods & the sayd Thomas Grove being then on shoare & hee this deponent
-aboard, hee knoweth not what words passed on shoare betweene them but
-well knoweth that they came both aboard the sayd shipp togeather about
-two of the Clock in the afternoone that day and that as soone as they
-came aboard they sent Thomas Yeomans one of the Mates of the XX
-with the shipps boate to cleere at the Castle, and in the meane
-tyme while the sayd Mate was goeing to cleere the sayd Grove com-
-manded the sayd shipp to be brought to sayle and before the
-Anchors could be gott aboard & the shipp fitted to sayle, there being
-a Country boate lyeing by the shipps side the sayd Thomas Grove the
-master would needes goe on shoare againe in that Country boate
-and did goe ashoare in it notwithstanding that the sayd Luke
-Woods seeing him about soe to doe did in p:rsence of this deponent &
-divers of the shipps company earnestly perswade and entreate
-the sayd Thomas Grove not to goe on shoare againe and told him XX
-XXX his goeing a shoare would be a great hinderance to the voyage
-the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the season somewhat spent
-allready by the shipps lying soe long winde bound as she had done
-& the winde then ?seerveing gfayre for her departure (as in deede it did)
-but the sayd Grove notwithstanding such perswasions went ashoare and
-there stayed most part of that night ashoare and came againe
-aboard the sayd shipp about two a clock in the morning, in the
-shipps boate which was sent after him to attend him and bring
-him aboard And hee saith the sayd Thomas grove being come againe
-aboard the sayd shipp did publiquely upon the deck in p:rsence of
-this deponent & divers others of the shipps company, speake in an?gry
-manner and sayd thus or the like in effect there are some on board
-that thinke much of my being on shoare but I care not, and
-further sayd that shee (meaning the sayd shipp ''Pease'') should ride
-there//
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-//there longer yet, and soe the sayd Grove kept the sayd shipp at Anchor about an
-howers space after hee soe came aboard and then after his anger
-was over gave order to weigh Anchor, and soe sett sayle the
-p:rmisses hee deposeth off sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge And further hee
-cannot depose./.
-To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the arrivall of the shipp ''Pease''
-at S:t leforne in ffrance the sayd Luke Woods being gone on shoare
-to provide salt to lade the sayd shipp and having
-?sent severall boates with salt, which were receaved on board.
-the sayd Woods did about the fifth or sixth of May 1657 send
-fower or five boates (more than what had formerly bin taken aboard)
-with salt, and they being come to the shipp side the sayd Grove the
-Master being aboard turnedd two of the sayd boate loades of salt
-back againe & would not receave them aboard, saying his shipp
-was at her load marke with what good jee had allready receaved
-aboard her, and therefore hee would take noe more salt aboard,
-and thereupon tooke this deponents penn & Xuke & writt a noate
-and delivered the same to one of the boatmen whose boate loads
-of salt were not receaved aboard & willed him in this deponents
-sight & hearing to give that noate to M:r Woods (XXXXing the foursayd
-Luke Woods) the contents of the sayd noate this deponent knoweth not
-but as the sayd Grove told him this deponent the contenxt thereof
-was to ?Call the sayd M:r Woods knowe tha the sayd shipp was fully
-laden with the goods ?she had on board & that therefore hee could noz
-take those two boates of salt more aboard And darther to this arle
-he cannot depose knowinhg nothing touching what dammage the sayd
-Woods suffered by the sayd Groves XXXXing back the sayd salt.
-To the 3:th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp ''Pearce'' being at
-Leforns aforesayd and ready to sett sayle thence the arlate Luke
-Woods did with fower of the shipps company goe on shoare to make
-XXXX (as hee sayd) his Accomptes that soe hee might
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-//in the beginning of the moneth of August 1657 the weather for ?some
-dayes continued fowle and foggie soe that ?certyne fish which the arle
-Luke Woods at Newfound land provided to be laden aboard the ''Pease'' by way
-of the fowle & foggie weather, (it being very preXXXXX to lade fish
-aboard a shipp the unlesse in fayere & cleare weather) could not be laden And saith that upon
-the fifteenth day of August 1657 the weather proveing fayre & very fitt
-& convenient to lade fish aboard in, the arlate Luke Wood & M:r Tizard
-called early in the morning for the marriners of the ''Pearse'' who were
-aboarde (there being then ashoare only about tenn or twelve Mariners of her company
-who constantly continewed a shoare there to helpe to prepare fish om a
-readinesse to be laden aboard) to come on shoare with their ?boats
-and assiste in ladeing the fish which was prepared in a readinesse
-aboard the sayd shipp while the weather was fayer, (bit how many kintalls
-wer then p:rpared hee knoweth not hee being seldome on shoare by reason
-of his office of Boat swaine) And saith that the arlate Thomas Grove
-did upon such the sayd Woods & Tizards calling for men to assiste them
-send some men ashoare (beside those which used to XXXXXX take on shoare),
-but how many hee remembreth not) And kept the ?part of the Company
-aboard & imployed them to pick Okum for
-the Carpenter to use about the sayd shipp And saith hee remembreth not
-how many kintalls of fish were laden aboard the sayd shipp that day
-but beleeveth that if more men had bin sent a shoare more fish might have bin laden aboard the sayd shipp that day than was
-laden aboard her And further to these arles hee cannot depose./
-To the 12:th and 13:th arles hee saith that about the one & twentieth day of August
-arlate the sayd Luke Woods having bin on shoare came aboard the ''Pearse'' &
-brought with him two boates to fetch salt from aboard the sayd shipp
-for ?foure persons who had bought the same of him and being
-Come aboard
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-//in Company togeather at the sayd Wood house in Newfound Land
-To the 18:th hee saith hee cannot depose not being p:rsent at the tyme
-and place arlate./
-To the 19:th arle hee saith that about the twenty eighth day of 7:ber
-in the morning the Master & Company of the ''Pease'' espied three shipps
-which at a distance they thought to be some shipps bound for the Barbados
-as the ''Pease'' was, & bearing up to them the Master & Company of the ''Pease''
-?knew the shipp they came up with to bee a ?banXer that came out in company
-with the ''Pease'' from Nants And saith that what perswasion the sayd Thomas
-Grove the Master used to the effect arlate hee knoweth not but knoweth that
-Luke Woods did in Company of Robert Grave one of the sayd Thomas
-Groves Mates goe aboard the sayd ffrench shipp which soe came from Nants
-in Company of the ''Pease'', and then sent the boate they went in back againe
-aboard the ''Pease'', & the sayd boate being come the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' stood
-away from the sayd aXXX shipp about halfe a league & then steered
-and stood to the windewards of the sayd other shipp and by that meanes
-came her aboard in the quarter & thereby much endangered the losse
-of both the sayd shipps in soe much that the ffrench men aboard the
-sayd ffrench ship sseing the sanger their shipp was in rann all (save
-one that was sick aboard her) aboard the ''Pease'' to secure their lives
-leaving the arlate Luke Woods aboard the sayd ffrench shipp who with
-much difficulty and the helpe of one of the Company of the ''Pease''
-who caught hold of the sayd Wood (as hee hung by the head of
-the ''Pease'') to p:rserve him from falling into the Sea) gott at length
-on board the ''Pearse'' All which hee saith was done by order and
-Command of the sayd Thomas Grove the Master of the ''Pearse''
-although this deponent seeing him order such a coarse to be
-steered XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx told the sayd Grove the Master when hee came XXXX at
-neere the sayd ffrench shipp that hee soe by the Course that
-was steered that hee the sayd Grove would come fowle in ?deede
-could not goe cleere of the sayd ffrench shipp And further to this
-arle hee cannot depose
-To the 20:th hee saith that the sayd Shipp ''Pease'' was from the Newfound
-land bound for the Barbados and saith that of ?his this
-deponents observation and knowledge the sayd Grove never brought
-the sayd shipp into her due XXXXX to sayle for the Barbadoes, but
-by the coarse hee kept did misse the Barbados
-and made S:t Lusea arlate and about the eighth
-of November 1657 arrived with the shipp ''Pease'' at Mevis arlate
-And further to this arle hee cannot depose not knowing what p:rticular
-order the sayd Wood gave the sayd Grove the Master touching her goeing
-to the Barbadoes or what discourse passed betwixt the sayd Woods and
-the sayd Thomas Grove the Master & her mates touching the steering of
-the Course for y:e sd Barbadoes or what answeare the sayd Groves made
-them about the same./://
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-//To the 21:th hee saith hee heard the sayd Luke Woods saye openly  upon
-the deck to the sayd Thomas Grove (while the ''Pease'' lay ar Mevis the
-tyme more certaynely hee doth not remember) that the sayd Grove hath
-broken his Charterpty And the sayd Grovein an angrie manner
-p:rsently imployed and syd if I have broken my Charterpty then I
-will ruine all & ?XXX words passed betwixt them on the deck in XXXX
-of this deponent & divers others of the shipps company And further to
-rhis XXX arle hee cannot depose
-To the 20:th hee saith that the ''Pease'' by XXXXX missed the
-Barbados as aforesayd did lye at Mevis in disposeing of her
-fish & other Co?jmmodities from the eighth of November till about
-the middle of June next following And hee alsoe saith that hee
-well knoweth that aboaut the beginning of March 1657 there came
-a ?KotXy to Mevis with fish whereof the arlate Holloway (whome
-this deponent well knoweth) was Merchant, And hee saith that
-the said Holloway did  at Mevis tell this deponent that the sayd
-Thomas Grove & hee the sayd Hollway hath there had conference
-together & that the sayd Grove told him the sayd Holloway, that he
-the sayd Grove would take such a course that the old roague Luke
-Woods should sell noe fish there for as the sayd Holloway
-sayd the sayd Grove told him that hee the sayd Grove had sold all
-his owne fish, and that one pound of the sayd Hollowaies fish  were
-worth sixe pounds of the fish avoard the ''Pease'' And that hee the
-sayd Grove XXXX helpe the sayd Holloway to sell all his fish
-And further to this arle hee cannot depose./
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-===Case:  XXXX:  Examination:  3 Thomas Capell, of S:t Mary Matsellon, als Whitechappell, Cooper, aged 22:  Date;  January 16th (English Style), 1658===
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-===Case: Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson et al., freighters of the Maydenhead vs. the VOC:  Deposition: 5.  William Reading, of Redriff wall, St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, Surrey, Mariner, aged 35: Date: January 19th 1658===
-//The 19:th day of January 1658 English style
-Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson)
-& other freighters of the shipp the ''Maydenhead'')
-agt the Dutch East India Company in pticular and)
-all other x:r X XXXXXX)
-Examined on the allegation given in
-XX XXX of November 1658 on behalfe of
-the sayd ffreighters
-  WILLIAM READING of Rederiff wall
-in the parish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermond-
-sey in the County of Surrey mariner aged
-thirty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
-sworne & examined saith and deposeth
-as followeth viz:t
-To the 10:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
-this deponent was purser of the shipp the ''Olive Branch'' an
-English shipp which went upon a tradeing voyage from London bound
-for Bantam but at her comeing thither the sayd shipp ''Olive
-Branch'' was hindred by certayne dutch shipps of warr belonging
-to and being in the implyment of the dutch East India Company
-by which meanes ?they wwas forced to goe to an Island in XXX
-PaXXogando upon the Coast of Sumatra and there pXXXX her lading
-of pepper to be brought
-secretly unknowne to the dutch in XXXX or boates from
-Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the
-''Olive Branch'' ridd And saith that hee being XXXX a foresayd Puerser
-of the sayd shipp and on XXXX at Bantam during the moneths
-of  January ffebruary and part of March in the yeare of our
-Lord 1656 while the lading of pepper which was shipped aboard
-the ''Olive Branch'' was proXXXing at Bantam to be sent to
-Pollegaade and takeing the  weight there of and imployed in
-sending the same away thaereby knoweth that in the yeare and
-moneth aforesayd pepper might then have bin hard at Bantam bought
-of the Chinese (sic) & was by the Chinese offered XXXXXXXXXX
-there to be sold to ?sayth as would buy the same at the rate of five
-and a halfe pence alright or XXXX for the parcell every parcell
-being comonly accompted one hundred sixty two pounds English weight
-And saith that the ''Olive Branch'' having taken in her ladeing
-of pepper at ?Pulligaade  XXXXX XXXXX and brought the same
-to Ligorno which was according to Charterpty the Port whither
-she was designed to carry the same And hee this deponent goeing
-Purser in her to Ligorno knoweth that in the Moneths of ffebruary
-and March 1657 in which moneths the sayd shipp ''Olive Branch''
-was & remayned in the Port of Ligorno XXXX pepper was brought in XXXX was there frequently
-and commonly sold at the rate of  twenty peeces of eight
-per hundred English weight, and hee this deponent having some
-pepper pf his owne which was brought hither in the sayd shipp
-did there sell the same at som what a bove
-that rate of twenty peeces of eight per hundred English weight
-And further to this arle hee cannot depose.
-To the rest of the articles hee is not examinat, by ?direction
-WILLIAM READING [His signature]
-Repetit before Dor Godolphin//
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-//seized by the Commanders & Companyes of the sayd dutch
-shipps soe in service of the dutch East India Company and the
-sayd DEthick utterly deprived of them this hee knoweth being
-on board & seeing the seizure thereof And further hee cannot depose/
-JAMES BERBLOCK  [His signature]
-Repeated before dro. Godolphin
-===Case: ffrancis and John:  Examination: 1.  James Berblok, of Poplar, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 51:  Date:February 26th 1658===
-The 20:th of January 1658
-//''ffrancis and John:'')
-.:us JAMES BERBLOCK of Poplar in the parish of
-Stepney and County of Midd mariner aged
-fifty one yeares or therabouts sworne before
-the right Wor:ll John Godolphin doctor of Lawes
-one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
-and examined for perpetuall remembrance of
-the matter upon certayne Interries  ministred
-on the parte & behalfe of Thomas Rummings
-and Anthony Beale two of y:e Company (vizt the
-sayd Rummingsy:e XX Steward and the sayd Beale the
-Carpenter) of the shipp the ''ffrancis & John''
-whereof Lawrence Bro?Xunding was Comander)
-touching their clayme for their goods in the sayd
-shipp saith and deposeth as followeth vizt
-To the first Interr hee saith hee hath well knowne the Interr
-Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale during the whole tyme
-of the voyage in question this deponent goeing Pylott of the
-''ffrancis & John'' and the sayd Rimming steward & the sayd
-Beale Carpenter off her the sayd voyage and knoweth  ?they were of her company
-in the qualities aforesayd at such tyme as the ''ffrancis & John''
-and her ladeing were taken & surprised by certaine shipps in the
-service of the dutch East India Company./
-To the second Interr hee saith hee well kniweth that the Interrogate
-Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them conside
-rable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar
-Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie
-hee canntot declare, but ?reall beleeveth and is persuaded in
-his conscience that the same was worth sold in England in all five hundred
-pounds sterling vizt the sayd Thomas Rummings his sayd goods worth
-three hundred pounds sterling and the sayd Anthony Beales sayd goods
-worth two hundred pounds of like money All which goods hee saith
-were on board the sayd shipp ''ffrancis & John'' for Accompt of the sayd
-Rumming and Beale at ?say tyme as the sayd shipp & her ladeing were seized
-& surprized by the sayd dutch shipps in service of the dutch East India
-Company and were seized by the Commanders and Companies
-of the sayd dutch shipps and the sayd Rummings & Beale thereby
-depXXXd of all or at least of a great part thereof XXXXX knoweth being Pylott and aboard at the seizure And further
-to this Interr hee cannot depose./
-JAMES BEEBLOK  [His signature]
-Repeated before doc:r Godolphin///
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-===Case: Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampioan and John Turner Merchants of London part owners of the ffrancis & John:  Examination: Captaine Laurence Browning, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, master or Comander of the ffrancis & John, aged 52===
-The 21.;th day of January 1658./.
-On the behalfe of Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and)
-John Turner Merchants of London)
-ptiwners of the ship ffrancis
-and John Laurence Browning Comand:r)
-ffrancklin:/
-Rp.
-CAPTAINE LAURENCE BROWNING
-of Ratcliffe in the parish of Stepney
-and County of Midds Mariner M:r or
-Comander of the Ship the ''ffrancis and
-John'': aged 52 yeeres of thereabouts, sworne
-before the right wor:ll John Godolphin D:r
-of Lawes. one of the Judges of the High Vourt
-of the Admiralty of England and Examined upon
-certaine Interrie given in by M:r ffrancklin
-on the behalfe of the Said Samuell Wilson, Thomas ?Plampian and
-John Turner: saith and deposeth as followeth viz:t.
-To the said Interrie hee saith and deposeth that this
-depo:t very well knoweth the said Samuel Wilson, Thomas
-Plampian and John Turner, who were as hee saith own:rs
-of the greatest part of the said shipp the ''ffrancis and John''
-and saith that at the time of the seizure of the said ship
-and her Lading, by some of the ships belonging to the
-Dutch East India Company of the United Netherlands
-there were aboard the said Ship ''ffrancis and John''
-two and thirty Musketts w:ch were taken by this depot for the sayd
-ships use after her coming into Bantam Roade, he not daring to dispose thereof at Bantam and saith the same really and truely belonged
-to the said Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and
-John Turn?rer;  and ?full the said two and thirty Musektts
-(as hee saith) were seized in y:e said ship ''ffrancis and
-John''
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-===Case: XXXX ag:t Church:  Examination: 4.  Adam Veale, of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Shipwight, aged 48:  Date:  January 21st 1658===
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-P1110302 f. 17 verso
-//and saith hee last sawe the ?Consent lyeing on shoare at Redriff
-about two or three moneths since & saith the last tyme hee sawe the
-?shipp was to the best of his now rememberance about a yeares &
-a halfe since XXXXX neere Wapping And further to ?this Interest hee XXXX
-answereth not seeing the ''Consent'' at her first mooreing nor
-knowing when she came ?first to moore in the River of
-Thames./
-about
-XXX
-a halfe
-answere
-knowing
-XXXX
-To the 3 hee saith hee
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-<nowiki>************************************************</nowiki>
-WHAT FOLIO NO IS THIS?
-===Case: S:r John Dethicke John Bancks Hugh fforth, and Company: Deposition: George Dethick, of London, Merchant, aged 30: Date: January 24th 1658===
-//The 24:th of January 1658 English Style
-A business of Examination of  witnesses upon
-XXXXX Interries XXXXXX XXX the part and
-behalfe of S:r John Dethicke John Bancks
-Hugh fforth, and Company XXXX certain
-XXXXX aboard the shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' (Cap:t
-XX XXXX Commander) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-of XXXXX the XXXXXXXX of the Dutch East India
-Company.
-ffrancklin
-Rp
-GEORGE DETHICK of London Merchant
-aged thirty yeares or thereabouts, a
-wittnesse sworne before the right Wor:ll
-John Godolphin doctor of Lawes one of
-the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
-of England saith and deposeth viz:t.
-To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee well knoweth that the
-Interrogate Hugh fforth
-did in the moneth of ffebruary 1656 cause to be laden and put on board
-the Interrogate shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' whereof the Interrogate
-Lawrence MXXXing was Master, then lyeing in the River of Thames
-and bound for Bantam Interrogate two Chests conteyning sixe and
-twenty Barres and sixteene XXXX
-marked & numbered as in the Margent
-to be transported in her for Bantam & their disposed of for his
-Accompt & the proceeds thereof to be thence returned in her for his
-Account XXXXXXXXX knoweth say that hee went Supracargo of the
-sayd shipp the voyage in question XXXXXXXXXXXXXX And further to this Interrorie saving his
-subsequent deposition hee cannot depose
-To the Interrorie hee saith that hee being XXXXXX as a foresayd
-knoweth that upon the ladeing of the two chests and the XXXX XXXXX XXXX
-XXXXXXXX XXXXX the sayd shipp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-XXXX//
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-//To the 9:th hee saith that sometimes ffacto:es  at y:e
-Canaryes doe marke all the wines and goods which thez
-send to one Merch:t for y:e said Merchants account
-with one marke: and sometimes with severall marks
-to distinguish of what Vinyard they are of, and further
-Cannot answer.
-RICHARD CASBY  [His signature]
-Repeated before D:r Godolphin./
-y:e 2:d of March 1668./
-<nowiki>****************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: XXXX: Examination: David Lloyd, Citizen & Cloatheworker, of London, aged 56:  Date: March 8th 1658 (59)===
-The ?8:th of March 1658:/.
-Examined on y:e said Allon./.
-R:X
-:us DAVID LLOYD Citizen and Cloathworker
-of London, aged 56 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
-and Examined:/:
-To the first articles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath knowne
-y:e arlate John Casby for about fourteene yeeres last during
-all w:ch space the said Casby hath bin a Merchant of great dealing
-and quality, and in y:e moneth of July 1658. and ever since, and
-for many moneth before y:esaid Casby hath and doth trade
-from hence to the Canary Islands and from thence to this port of
-London for wines and other goods:  and doth send many Goods
-and Merchandizes from hence on ?their ?owne account to y:e Canaryes and doth receive many pipes
-of wines yeerely from y:e Canaryes on his owne acco:t and this Depo:t  verily
-beleeveth hee hath a ffactor at the said Islands:  The premisses hee  deposeth
-being y:e sd producents packer, and hathe as hee beleeveth packed goods at severall times for
-y:e sd producent to the vallue of above twenty Thousand pounds  And further
-cannot depose:/:
-To the ?2:d hee saith hee Cannot depose:/.
-To the 3:d hee Cannot depose, saving hee saith that English merchants
-doe, (and have done since y:e warre betwixt England and Spaine)
-trade at y:e Canaryes under fained and fictitious Dutch names
-the better to Colo:r their goods, and p:eserved them from Spanish
-Capture./.
-To the 4:th hee saith that in January & March, 1657: there were laden on
-board y:e arlate ship y:e ''Susan ffrigot'', whereof Abraham Philliter
-was M:r sixty one bales , and XXXXX of Severall goods and
-Merchandizes w:ch were all for y:e account of the said M:r Casby
-and Company and of this depo:ts knowledge there were three
-bales or Truncks Laden aboard y:e sd ship at y:e same time, for y:e said
-M:r Casbyes sole account, all w:ch were to be Carried and Transported
-in y:e sd ship from hence to the Canaryes And saith hee beleeveth
-that y:e said 3 bales or Trunckes, and y:e part and share w:ch the
-said M:r Casby had in y:e said sixty one Bales about foure or five Thousand
-CXXXXXXX, XXXX said Trade being most XX them  XXX XXXX
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-XXXXX Cloath And further hee cannot depose.
-To the 5:th and 6:th hee Cannot depose:/.
-To the 7:th and 8:th hee saith thatabout y:e XXXX moneth of March Last there
-were laden aboard y:e arlate ship  the same XXXXXXX here in y:e
-River of Thames anout XXXXXXXXXX Bales or Truncks pf Severall goods
-of the first marke in y:e margent XXXXXX
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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-//Account of the said M:r Cosby, as this depo:t verily beleeveth for that he this
-depo:t packt the said goods. and was & ?should be paid bz z:e said M:r Cosbz for y:e
-same; And saith the said Goods amounted to a great vallue XX
-they being XX Bayes. ?With plaine Cottons XXXX
-Million ffustians.  Norwich Goods.  Stockings, and Kersyes, and
-such like Comodityes. but the Vallue thereof hee cannot declare
-and further deposeth not:/:
-To the 9:th 10:th 11:th 12:th 13:th 14:th & 15:th hee cannot depose:/:
-To the 16:th hee Cannot depose saving hee hath heard the said
-ship y:e ''S:t Laurance'', in her Course from y:e Canaryes to this
-Port of London was taken and seized by an English mann
-of Warr:/:
-To the 17:th hee saith that the said M:r John Caseby is an English
-man borne: and a subiect of this Comonwealth, and hath lied
-about three yeeres last in this City, and before that hee did use
-to live sometimes at the Canaryes, and sometimes in this City
-And y:e ffathr of y:e said producent (whom this depo:t did well knowe)
-was in his life time an Englishman, and subiect of this Comon
-wealth; And further hee cannot depose:/.
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-===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 1.  Peter Vandeput, of London, merchant, aged 47: Date: January 29th, 1658===
-The 27:th of January 1658
-Examined upon the allon and
-XXX on the behalfe of the said claime
-//The claime of Stephen ?Pallavicio
-of Genoa for sixe barrs of silver
-in the ''S:t Laurence'' Peter BoughXXXXX
-M:r taken by the ''Coventry frigot''
-.  PETER VANDEPUT of London Merchant
-aged 47 yeares of therabouts sworne and
-examined
-To the first and second arles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath
-corresponded with the producent Stephen Pallavicino in y:e wayes of
-Merchandize, and saith hee was and is comonly reputed a native
-subject, & Inhabitant of the State of Genoa, and saith hee beleeveth
-him to bee, having bin credibly informed that hee is a ?patrician
-of the City and State of Genoa, and this depo:t hath often
-received Letters from y:e said pducent dated at Genoa, as the
-place of his Dwelling, and hath accordingly directed his Letters to
-him there, and further hee doth not depose
-To the 3:d hee saith that by the Dealings and Correspondence
-w:ch this Dep:t hath  for ?diverse yeeres had, and hath with the said producent XX XXXX XXX of XXXXX hee
-verily beleeveth him to be a merch:t of great dealing worth
-and Quality and saith hee hath and doth drive a trade &
-Commerce from y:e Canaryes  and y:e dominions of the King of
-Spaine in, and with silver by his ffactors there resident, and
-that before y:e bringing of the silver in question to this port
-this depo:t hath received to the vallue of betwixt twelve and
-thirteene hundred pounds for the sd products account from y:e Canaryes, the
-same being Consigned unto him this depo:t & further hee deposeth
-not:
-To the 4:th arle hee saith that before y:e lading of the silver
-in question namely about two yeeres since and severall other times
-this Depo:t received letters from severall Genoeses, and alsoe from
-the said Palavacino himselfe, whereby they desired this Depo:t to
-advise them whether they might not safely send silver or Bullion
-to London. and without danger Consigne the same to this
-depo:t or to the same effect.  And this depo:t thinking. (besides
-the furtherance of Trade & Comerce) that hee should doe good
-service to this Comonwealth, did thereupon write to, and
-encourage them to send silver thither, And for further incouragement
-of the sd prodc:t this dep:t caused the Act of Parliam:t made for
-importacon of Bullion, to be Translated into Spanish and ?sent
-the same to him and them, and hee referreth himselfe to y:e said Act of
-Parliam:t for Importaccon of silver. And further hee doth not depose
-To the 5:th 6:th & 7:th arles and the Letter of Advise, and Invoice XXX
-y:e sd 6:th arle mentioned, Nowe shewed unto him, hee saith & XXXX
-deposeth that in or about the monethes of July or August last ?past
-this depo:t received advise from the said producents ffactor
-Don Luis Perez de Vittoria that hee had laded at S:ta Cruz del OzXXXXX
-(being a port in y:e Island of Tenereife on of the Canary Islands) ?about
-the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' whereof Petr Bonningysent is M:r for y:e
-Account of the said Stephen Palavasino, two barrs of silver, and
-?consigned//
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-//Consigned the same to be delivered to this depo:t herein  XXX XXX
-for the said Account of the said ''Provident'': and afterwards this
-depot received the Letter of advise and Invoice annexed from him
-the said ffacto:r by the said ship ''S:t Laurence'' XXXX XXX seizure together
-with the bill of Lading arlate w:ch hee hath nowe alsoe seene, And
-this depo:t hath heard that the said ship belonged to the arlate M:r
-fford, And further hee deposeth not, saving that the said Letter
-Invoice and Bill of Lading Exhibited were and are the same
-soe by him received:
-To the 8:th hee saith that after the XX XXXX hee this depo:t was
-advised by letters from Plymouth of the seizure of the said ship
-and Lading by Captaine Aylett, and of her bringing in thither
-where shee was brought (as hee saith) to this port for this depo:t
-here received the said silver in question out of her, and further
-deposeth not.
-To the 9:th hee saith hee is well assured and verily beleeveth
-that the said two barrs of silver were really and truely pvided
-and laded for y:e prop and sole account of y:e sad producent and
-upon his adventure, and that hee runneth the sole hazard thereof
-and that noe Spaniard or other subject of the King of Spaine
-had at the time of the said Lading and seizure any interest
-therein w:ch hee is ?induced the more assuredly to beleeve for
-y:t this depo:t by theproducents order hath and ?must make good the proceeds
-thereof unto them and that amounted with him for y:e same as
-will noe other, And further deposeth not
-To the 10:th hee saith hee beleeveth there was peace, and Amity
-betweene the Comonwealth and the State of Genoa. and their
-subjects the time arlate, and further doth not depose:
-To the 11:th hee saith that his foregoeing depon is true.
-To the Interrogatoryes
-To the first hee saith hee cometh required by M:r ffrancklin to be
-pduced in this Cause, and otherwise negatively :
-To the second hee saith hee was never at Genoa nor ever
-sawe the pducent that hee knoweth of norknowe his ffather
-or mother. and otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing
-depons:
-To the 3:d hee saith that hee this depo:t hath had severall Letters, and
-orders from y:e said producent Stephen Pallavacine touching y:e
-silver now in question, and hee doth not knowe any other
-person besides him XX XXXX. And further hee cannot answer, saving his
-forgoeing depon to w:ch hee referreth himselfe.
-To the 4:th hee saith that this depo:t hath received pt of the foresd
-silver by him deposed of (not sent in y:e ''S:t Laurence'' ) in the
-''King David'' in or about XXX last, part in y:e ''Hope'', about the
-same time, and hee is sure that y:e said Pallavacino (the now
-XXXXX) is the same pson for whose account the foresd pXXX
-silver in question was laded and consigned to this Depo:t for y:t
-this depo:t hath XX XXX made the same goods with them as aforesaid
-To//
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-//To the 5:th hee saith hee doth not knowe the said Don Luis
-Peroz de Vittoria the said pducents said ffactor personally. and
-saith hee knoweth not that the said de Vittoria is ffactor to any
-Spaniard or subject of the King of Spaine, nor hath this
-Depo:t received order from any pson to claime the said silber
-in Question other than the said pducent from whom hee
-saith hee hath received Expresse order therein, and hath had
-?procuzaccon from him alone in that be halafe, and other
-wise negatively saving as aforesd, saying y:e said Don
-Luis Perez de Vittoria is soe farr from  having given any
-order for Claiming y:e silver in question that hee Doth not as
-this depot beleeveth yet knowe of the seizure tehreof
-To the 6:th hee saith that upon the bringing in of the said
-ship to Plymouth the bill of lading interrogated together w:th
-the Letter & ffactory were amongst other paps sent there
-in a packet to this depo:t as coming out of the said ship.
-and this depo:t brought them into this Court.
-To the 7:th hee saith hee knoweth not ought if any other bill
-of Lading touching y:e said silver in Question than the said
-bill soe brought into Court, and here remaining, nor of
-any other Invoice than that annexed to the Allon whereupon
-hee is now Examined, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his
-foregoing depon:
-PETER VANDEPUT  [His signature]
-Repeated before the two Judges in Court
-<nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 2.  Abraham Cabeljan, of London, merchant, aged 53: Date: January 27th, 1658===
-The same day
-Examined upon y:e said Allon:
-:nd  ABRAHAM CABELJAN of London merchant aged 53
-yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and Examined:
-To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that the
-pducent Steven Pallavacino, was and is commonly reputed a native
-of Genoa. and Inhabitant Subject of that Comonwealth, and saith
-that hee this depo:t livimng with and being Book Keep. of. and for the
-p:rcontests M:r Peter Vandeput merchant hath seene severall Letters
-from the said product Living at Genoa sent to and received by the said M:r Vandeputt XXX Correspondent
-here, and severall Letters of his directed to y:e said producent, and there
-resident, And further hee deposeth not
-To the 3:d arle hee saith that before y:e silver in question came & arrived
-here in England, the ffactor of the said producent called don Luis
-Perez de Vittoria, sent from the Iland of Teneriffe to the XXXX
-M:r Vandepur, for his the said producents Accompt to the Vallue
-of betwixt telve and thirteene hundred pounds sterling in silver w:ch XXX
-received by the said M:r Vandeput for the account of y:e said pducent
-and was soe received by the said M:r vandeput herein this XXXX
-before y:e arrivall of y:e silver in question of this depo:ts sihht, who XXX
-XXX receipt thereof and y:e Letters and dispacthes concerninge y:e
-XXXX//
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-//Hath placed the same to the said producent's Accompt, hee being as
-aforesd & booke XXX of the said M:r Vandeput and thereby hee well knoweth
-that the said Stephen Pallavacine hath and doth drive a greate trade in
-silver, from the Canaryes, And further thee doth not depose
-To the 4:th arle hee saith that before the Lading the silver in question
-aboard the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' severall Genoese merchants
-wrote ?unto the said M:r Vandeput to London, whereby they desired him
-to certifye or advise them, whether or noe they might safely send
-silver and bullion to London, and consigne the same to him the said
-M:r Vandeput, without danger of seizing or confiscacion of y:e same
-And saith the said M:r Vandeput wrote to them that they might
-doe it safely, and XXXX XXX them in such sending and sent a
-Translacon in XXXXX of the Act of parliam:t in that behalfe
-made for the security of such Importacons w:ch hee knoweth
-having seene y:e said Letters soe received and the answeres thereof
-being privy to the said M:r Vandeputs dispatches in such matters
-(hee being his booke keep as aforesaid) in his affaires of moment
-touching his ?Commerce.
-To the 5:th 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that before any newes of y:e
-seizure of y:e ship ''S:t Laurence'' in question the said M:r Peter vandeput
-receaved Letters by other?s shipping from the said Don Luiz Peroz
-de Vittoria, advising him of the Lading of the two barrs of silver
-(w:ch are nowe claimed) aboard the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' and
-of the Consignment thereof to him the said M:r Vandeput for y:e
-said producents account to be heere delivered in this Port
-And that afterwards the said M:r Vandeput received advise from
-Plimouth of the bringing in of the said ship thither and received
-a packet of Letters, and dispatched thence as brought thither in y:e
-said ship''S:t Laurence'', and XXXXXX them the Letter and Invoice and XXX
-to the ?allon (now shewed unto him this depo:t) and alsoe y:e bill of
-Lading inder y:e hand of Peter BXXXXXX M:r of the said ship
-now alsoe shewed unto him remaining in this Court, ?which he
-knoweth having seene the said first Letters of advise and alsoe
-these and y:e Invoice and Bill of Lading soe brought in y:e
-''S:t Laurence'' upon their first bringing to the said M:r Vandeput
-and havinge now XXXX XXXX Exhibited and remaining in the
-Court hee well knoweth them to be the same that were soe received
-by M:r Vandeput, and pticularly by a note or marke made upon
-the letter by him this depo:t, And further hee cannot depose
-To the 8:th arle hee saith that the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' being on
-her
-course from y:e Canaryes, seized and brought unto Plymouth was
-afterwards brought thence to this port of London, together with the
-said silver in question, ?which silver y:e said M:r Vandeput here
-received
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that by the Letters and transactions that XXXXX
-the said producent  XXX y:e said M:r Vandeput touching y:e said XXXXX
-w:ch hee hath seene hee verily beleeveth the same to be for y:e ?sole account
-of/
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-//of the said producent, and to be ?provided and laden for his Account
-without that any Spaniard of subject of y:e King of Spaine XXXX
-time of Lading or seizing or since ?may XXX therein whereXXXXX
-To the 10:th hee saith there was the time arlate by ?Comon XXXXX
-peace and Amity betwixt the Comonwealth and that if Spaine  and XXX
-y:e respective subjects of the said XXXXXXXXX
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing ?deponent XXXX is true
-To the Interres
-To the first hee saith hee cometh to Testify in this Cause  XX the
-order of the producents proctor & otherwise negatively
-To the 2:nd hee saith hee was never at Genoa nor XXXXX y:e XXXX
-nor knoweth his father or mother and other wise hee cannoz ?answere
-saving as aforesaid
-To the 3:d hee saith hee doth not knowe any of y:e name of Stephen
-Palladacino other XXXX the said producent, XXXXXX hee referreth him
-to his foregoeing Depn and saving y:e same cannot further answer
-To the 4:th, hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing depon &
-cannot further answer saving hee knoweth that the said XXXX
-XX XXXX pson for whose account the said other parcells of silver XX
-XXXX & this ?inquisition) was sent to the said M:r Vandeput XXX
-they XXXXfrom y:e same factor and in y:e same XXX & XXXXX
-in y:e same XXXXX.
-To the 5:th arle hee saith that hee doth not psonally knowe the sayd
-Don Luis Perez de Vittoria the ffactor of y:e said ?Pallavacino, XXXX
-what countryman nor whose subject hee is nor knoweth hee XX
-beleeveth that the said Don Luiz in any of XX XXX that this XXX
-hath?dwelt with the said M:r Vandeput XXX hath bin a ?Gent XXXX
-yeeres last) XXXX sent aor consigned any silver to the said M:r
-Vandeput for the said Don Luis his XXXX account, nor any for y:e
-account of any Spaniards. And further hee cannot answer
-saving as aforesaid.
-To the 6:th he referreth himselfe to his foregoing depon and
-further cannot answer saving negatively for his part
-To the last negatively for his pt saving as aforesaid
-ABRAHAM ?CABDELJAN ?Jun:r  [His signature]
-Deposed XXXXX two Judges in Court
-<nowiki>****************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 3.  John Lewis: Date: January 29th, 1658===
-//The 29:th of January 1660.
-Examinat ?ex parte for XXX XXXXX.
-JOHN LEWIS of the parish of S:t Dunstans XXXX East ?India
-Merchant aged 47 yeeres or therabouts sworne and XXXXX
-To the first second and third articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and
-deposeth that hee may knoweth the producent Stephen PaXXXXXX
-and hath XX XXX for a ?dozen or fourteene yeeres last or thereabouts
-and XXXX XXX to XXXX XXXX by meanes of the XXXXXXX dwelling in the
-citie of Genoa (the ?place of the said producents ?birth
-and XXXX) and keeping house there and trading ther as a merchant
-from the yeere 1644 to the yeere 1656, during w:ch tyme hee was
-well acquianted w;th the said producent Stephen Pallavacino and
-XXX his the said Stephens father living in the said citie. And for a
-XXXX//
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-//Genoese by birth and extraction and a subect of the stat eof XXXX XX
-the said Stephen Pallavacino was and is XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-And saith that for all the said time of this deponents said dwelling in Genoa
-the said producent of this deponents XXXX XXX knolwedge dwellt and ?kept
-house and familie there and that hee was and is XXX of the XXXXX of XXXXX
-soe commonly accompted: And saith that the said producent was and is
-a merchant of very greate account and dealing and estste and of ?such
-wealth that hee is estimated to be worth one ?hundred thousand pounds sterling,
-and saith that the said producent was XXXXX this deoinet XX XXX XXX
-because very greate quantities XXXX XXX XXX (of this deponents XXX XXXX
-knowledge)  for the XXXX account of the sais producen XXXXX
-XXXXX of greate account and dealing in XXX, XXXXX hath XXXX
-pXXXXX XXX and is commonly accompted and reputed and further
-hee deposeth not
-Ro XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-To the Interries
-To the first hee saith hee was XXXX unto by M:r XXXX the XXXX
-and deposed to come and XXXX what he knowes  as XX XXXX, and
-to the rest hee answreth XXXX XXX XX, and otherwise ?cannot answer,
-To trhe second hee saith and deposeth and XXXX XXX from XXXXX XXX
-December 1656,  and there XXX XXXX XStephen Pallavacino XXXX before
-this deponent had XXX XXXX, and this deponent did XXX XXX that
-said producents XXXX. And otherwise referreth himselfe to XXX XXX
-before  deposed.
-To the third hee saith hee knoweth and XXXXX XXX in XXXX arlate
-name is alsoe Stephen Pallavacino, who alsoe was XX XXXX of XXXXX
-XXXX of this deponents said dwelling there, and a XXXXXXXXXXXXX
-XXXXX, and was
-XXXX the XXX of the oredeposed Stephen
-XXXX producent
-this deponent doth not knowezj
-?before
-did
-the Merchants of that XXX
-To the 4:th XXX
-To the 5:th XXXX
-To the last XXXX
-JO LEWIS [His signature]
-Repeated before
-XXXXX
-<nowiki>*******************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Domingo de a Seida, of London, Merchant, aged 25: Date: January 31st, 1658===
-The 31:th day of January 1660
-Examined upon an Allon given in on the
-behalfe of the said XXXX
-The Claime of XXX XXXXX)
-XXXX Merchant of London for)
-pipes of Canary Wines)
-& other hoods taken in y:e ship y:e)
-''S:t Laurence'' XXX XXXXX)
-M:r XXX XXXXXX)
-D:r XXXX
-. DOMINGO DE LA SEIDA of London Merch:t
-aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
-and Examined
-To the first arle hee saith and deposeth that the arlate Anthony
-Rodriguez ?RivXXXes is Comonly and generally reputed a XXXX
-of ffinident in the Kingdome of Portugall, and soe his XXX
-deponent beleeveth him to bee and XXXX hee XXXXX
-?To//
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-Rodriguez Robles for theise thirteene fourteene yeeres
-last past or thereabouts.  and knowe him first Living att
-Civill in Spaine namely for y:e first yeires of the said time
-XXXX and thence hee went to the Canaryes, and soe for London
-and saith that this depot hath lived in London about six yeeres
-last past, during w:ch space hee hath knowne the sayd
-Robles to be an Inhabitant, and to be a house keeper
-in Dukes place London with his ffamily, and that this depo:t
-lying in y:e same house, and beeing his booke keep
-is well acquainted w:th his affaires & Transactions
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-===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 1. Henry Dacres, of London, Merchant, aged 34: Date: January 31st, 1658===
-//E:E:
-A business of examining of witnesses on the)
-XXXX of Maurice Thompson, Thomas CanXXXX)
-Christofer Willoughby John Page and others,)
-Merchants of London, freighters of the shipp
-the ''Jonathan'', ag:t the Dutch East India)
-Company in pticular and all others in genall)
-Smith
-Ro.
-The 11:th of ffeburary 1658
-Examinands upon an allon given in  on the
-behalf of the said M:r Thompson and others
-.  HENRY DACRES of London Marchant aged
-yeeres or thereabouts sworne  in the said
-Court of the Admiraltie of England, saith and
-deposeth as followth vizt.
-To the fifth article of the said allon XXXX and deposeth that hee well
-knoweth all the producents vizt Maurcie Thompson THomas
-CaXtian, Cristofer Willoughby, John Page and company arlate and saith
-they were the XXXX arlate of the yeere 1656 XXX others and Imployers
-of the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' and XXX hee can from this XXX on a
-trading voyage for sevrall parts and places of the East Indias, and
-there to retourne for England on and for their proper account
-w:ch hee knoweth for that hee was acquainted with and XXX XXXX at
-such XXXXX XXXX and were supra cargo in thesaid shipp the said voyage
-To the second article hee saith that within the  foresaid time namely in
-and about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp the ''Jonathan''
-being in the parts of the East Indies and quietly trading there had aboard her
-greate quantities of goods and merchandizes for the use and account of the
-said Maurice Thompson and company aforesaid w:ch XXXXhad  taken  in
-on the coast of Coromandel and w:ch they were carrying to Bantam,
-for w:ch place of BantamXXX the said XXX were proper and not for
-any other part or place thereabouts to be bartered away, and eben
-XXXXX XXXX and provided for Bantam, where they were to be sold
-and bartered away for such XXXX as were then to be head and ?procured
-for the most advantage of the said producents, w:ch hee knowes for that
-hee was supra cargo aforesaid and the person there ?carryed the said goods to
-be taken in and was in person XXX with them in the said shipp for
-Bantam.
-To the third and 4 articles hee saith that in or about the  said moneth of January
-(old stile) the said shipp in her course of prceeding from the
-said coast for Bantam, coming neere the Island of Pulliayanjan within
-five leagues or lesse distance of the Road of Bantam, was met wizj
-and set upon by five XXX of dutch shipps, in the XXX XX neare of the
-East India company of the United Netherlands, and that upon their haling
-and demanding XXXX that shipp (Speaking of the ''Jonathan'') over and
-XXXX bound, and XXXX XXXX XXX sewall of England, came from
-Cormandel bound wth  XXX for Bantam, thet of the dutch shipps
-XXXX and told the master and company of the ''Jonathan'' that they must
-not nos could run into Bantam, and that they lay there on purpose to
-oppose them or any other shipps of England that should endeavour to run into
-Bantam, for w:ch (as they XXX) they had order from the Generall of the sd dutch East India
-company XXXX was XXX and heard the XXX
-To the fifth and sixth 7. 8 and 9:th articles hee saith that the master and company of the
-''Jonathan'' finding this XXXXX of the dutch, fairly and earnestly instructed
-XXXXXX of the dutch commanders to goe in, and desired them to XXXX or
-send aboard the ''Jonathan'' and XXX her assuring them XXXX XX
-any XXXder, XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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-this deponent ?fell to intreate them  XXXXX to order
-XXX in, telling them (as XXX truly was) that thay ?durst seek XXX
-XXXX persons aboard, and XXXX greate necessitie of their ?going
-XX the XXX In XXX victuakks and reXXX under for  their part
-and to XXX their trading XXXXX, and the dutch still suspitious
-within XXXX, the ''Jonathan'' endeavoured to put in, XXXXX they of
-?othr dutch shipps sett on her, and XXX XXXX the
-master of the ''Jonathan'' and this deponent XX XXXX to XXX XXXX
-thereXXXX to search them if they came XXX XXXXX to such XXXX
-XXX this deponent (the master XXX sick) went aboard to their
-Admirall and told him and ?modestly expostulated with him the XXXX
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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-. WILLIAM STEPHEN of Limehouse Marriner late
-masters mate of the shipp the ''Jonathan'' (Robert
-Graves com:der) aged 28 yeares or therabouts
-sworne and examined
-To the first article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
-hee well knoweth the producents Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham
-and Christofer Willoughbie and saith that they and XXX XX were the
-shipp the ''Jonathan'', and imployed and sent her out on a merchandizing
-voyage from this port for the East Indies and places thereabouts for
-their proper account, and they upon their account XXX XXX XX XXXXX
-by her said Merchandizing imployment to this XXX, w:ch hee knoweth
-being Master Mate of her the said voyage, and going the voyage
-To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said XXXX
-moneths in or about the moneth of January 1656 XX XXX XXX XXXXXX
-trading in the parts of East India, and had aboard her XX XXXXXX
-quantitie of goods and merchandizes w:ch were for the said account
-XX XXXXX in the coast of Coromandell, and were to be transported
-XXX, as were proper for Bantam trade and what ?Returne, and
-XXXX to XXX ptended and XXXX with XXXXX to be XXXX to
-Bantam and there delivered, and the said commander & company
-XXX carrying her said goods in the said shipp for Bantam where thee
-XXX were to be traded and bartered for the ?traffic an accompt
-of the said Imployers of the said shipp, w:ch hee knoweth for the reason
-aforesaid
-To the third and fourth fifth and 6:th articles hee saith that XX that the said XXX
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-//the ''Jonathan'' as aforesaid that ?then was bound for Bantam ?told
-them plainly that they might XX XX should for in thither XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And XXXX
-to come to an anchor XXX the Admirall , his precontest being XXXX
-wXXX aboard the dutch Admirall, and upon his retourme aboard the
-''Jonathan'' declared the XXX Admirall, and expressly forbidden and
-?prohibited their going in to Bantam, and had declared that if they and XXXXXX to goe in
-hee would sink them in ?that effort, and thereupon the said M:r Dacres being
-supra cargo or merchant of the ''Jonathan'' under a protest against such their
-hinderance by the dutch. All w:ch hee knoweth being present aboard
-the ''Jonathan''.  And further deposeth not.
-?9:th article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
-the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' being XX prohinited and hindered by the dutch
-from going into Bantam to w:ch hee was XX XXXX with her said XXXX
-was XXX and to depose and goe to other places for w:ch ?ther goods
-were not proper and to w:ch they were not designed, and there to barter
-and XXXX them away, to the great losse and damage of the said
-imployers in respect of what the ?prisses would have bin if thesaid goods
-hath nin XXX to an delivered at Bantam accordinge as they were designed
-To the tenth hee saith that by the said hinarance and prohibition of the
-dutch the said Imployers have suffered greate losse and dammagem, but
-the valew thereof hee cannot as hee saith estimate
-W:M STEPHENS [His signature]
-Repeated with his ?precontest before
-Dr Godolphon.
-<nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 3. Alexander Prescott, of London, Merchant, aged 27: Date: ffebruary 17th, 1658===
-//The 17th of ffebruray 1658
-Examined upon the fore said allegaccon
-. ALEXANDER PRESCOTT of London Marchant aged 27 yeeres or
-thereabouts sworne and examined.
-To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth That hee very well
-knoweth the procudents Maurice Thompsom, Thomas Canham, Christofer
-Willoughby, John Page and company aclate and saith they were in and for
-all the monthes arlate of the yeere 1656 XXXXX and Imployers of the
-shipp the ''Jonathan'' arlate (Robert GXXXXX commander) as a trading  or merchandizing voyage from England to the parts of East India in XXXXX was XX retourne for England for their use and accompt, and saith that in
-January XXX was ?two ?yeers the said shipp being quietly trading in the said
-parts, and having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX
-cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast
-of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for w:ch place the said goods were
-XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX and XXXXXXX
-and not for XXXXX to be disbursed XX XXX XXXXXX nir XXX XXXX XX
-XXX XX XXXX soe XXXXX to her said ?merchants as XX Bantam, w:ch hee
-knoweth  being burser of the said shipp and goeing the said voyage from place to
-place in her, being alsoe XXXX X XXX XXX XXX XXXX of the, XX XXX
-To the third and fourth articles hee saidth and deposeth that the said shipp XXXXX
-XX XX her course from the said coast for Bantam and XX XXXXX Island
-of Pulliaayanjan about  XXX XX XXX leagues distance from Bantam XXX
-XXXX XXX XXXX of dutch shipps (w:ch wer in the service and Imployment
-of the dutch East India company) XXX, saving that one of them XX
-them XXXX, and XXX XXXX XXX along with XXX XXXXX, and saith XXXX
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-Bantam the next day, the said dutch shipp  XXXX XXXXX the said
-other foure dutch shipps riding also neere, and the next morning the ''Jonathan''
-XXX XXXX to goe into Bantam the said dutch shipps boat ?came aboard  XXXX
-Bantam, for the dutch had ?warrs with the Bantamers and the said
-sutch shipps lay there XXX XXXX to hinder all shipps from going in,
-having order from their Generall ?intendeant, and being authorised that they
-of the XXXXXX were bound to XXX in them their merchandizing designe, and therewith all
-XXXX to XXX in, the skipper of the said dutch shipp aboard the ''Jonathan''
-called out to those aboard the said dutch shipp to fire at the ''?Jonathan'', and
-they thereupon XXXX a XXX XX the ''Jonathan'', and then the ''Jonathan'' being commanded
-to come close to their Admirall,
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-===Case: Lord Protector ag:t the Hope: Deposition: 5.  Peter Aylward, of London, Merchant, aged 40: Date: February 21st 1658 (59)===
-//The 21:th of ffebruary 1658
-Lord Protector ag:t. the ''Hope''.)
-aforesaid.)
-  PETER AYLWARD of London Merchant, aged 40 yeeres or
-thereabouts sworne and examined as aforesaid
-To the first second and third Interries hee saith and deposeth that in or about June
-last was a twelve moneth M:r John Page one of the Merchants concerned in
-this busines, having with his associates a designe in hand to send a shipp from
-Amsterdam for the West Indies to trade for their account upon the coasts of
-the Spaniards, and understanding that this deponent understood both the Spanish
-and dutch tongues (besides English) and could speake them, and alsoe
-understood the busines of traffique and XXXXX as a marchant treated and
-agred with this deponent to goe the said voyage for five pounds per
-moneth wages and XXXX for XXX goods for his owne account, wherein hee
-this deponent was to give assistajce to John Lo?pes his ?precontest who was alsoe then XXX
-and being XX hired this deponent was XX XXX XXXXX in a dutch shipp called the
-?''Mackerell'' bound for Amsterdam and concerned with him in the said shipp XXXXX,
-perpetuanas, ?hatts, and many other particulars of goods w:ch were here ?provided by the
-said M:r Page and XXXX ffernandez, M:r ?Robles, M:r Jenkin and M:r ?Painter
-Merchants of this citie, to be at Amsterdam put aboard such a shipp
-as could be provided for that XXXX and voyage.  And YYYing to Amsterdam
-the shipp the ?''HoyX'' interrogate was by order of their said Imployers and by
-their partners at Amsterdam John Tilly and John ?XXnterwell and XXX
-of XXXXX (as hee tooke them to be) who XXX XXX was but XXXX XXXXXX
-?expresslly  reputed at Amsterdam about w:ch buying this deponent ?eyther
-with the said John ?Hoyer and Patrick ?Betts (who were alsoe come over from
-England in the ?same designe) were ?employed, and saith  XX ?cost ?answere
-XXXXXX fourXXX hundred gilders or thereabouts.  And saith
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-//the said shipp being so bought and procured for the said voyage, the said goods
-?be carried from England were laded aboard her, together with XXXXX
-Wines and other goods and XXXXX provided in Holland, and this lading
-being XXXXX, the said shipp departed from Amsterdam therewith in September
-last was a twelve moneth bound for the West Indies, not being limited
-to any particular XXX, but left to the discretion of the said John ?Lopez
-with the advise of this ?deponent to manage the voyage in XXXX parte to the
-best advantage of her said Imployers, of w:ch hee saith M:r Page, M:r PXXXXX
-and M:r Dunkin are English men and ?Inhabitating XXXXXX of this ?citie
-M:r ?Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, and M:r Antonio Rodriguez Robles alsoe
-merchants of this citie and reputed Portugueses, XXX M:r ffernandez is XXX
-?indenizened, John Tilly an Irishman borne but living in Amsterdam
-where alsoe liveth the said John ?CXXXXXXnet, who hath formerly lived
-long in London, but whose countrey man he is this deponent knoweth not-
-And saith the said shipp from Amsterdam went directly to the Island of
-Trinidad, and was there ?Registred and entred as a Spanish shipp, and
-thereby and by presents to the Gouvernor and others (XXX  w:ch XXXX  goods
-were there sold) XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX lived and XXXXXX for prattique XX
-the Spanish XXXX in those parts, and being therewith furnished she departed
-in or about November 1657 to ?Comana a coast on the terra firma and
-there sold to the valew XXX XXXX of a XXX XXXX peeces of XXXX of her goods
-and received the money for the XXXX and then went to ?TranXille, and
-there sold ?of her said outwards cargo for about XXXXX XXX and ?peeces of
-eight, and leaveing the money ?ther, XXXXXX further into the
-Gulfe of Honduras and there sold and ?tucked away all the rest of
-said goods, and there tooke in three hundred eightie three XXXX or thereabouts
-of Indico (saving that XXX or XXXX of those XXXXXX XXXX XXXX druggs) and
-eleaven XXXX of ?Indico and a XXX XXXX or XXXXXccos and two barreles of druggs
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX eleaven hundred and twelve XXXXX or thereabouts of SafsayXXXlla, and  fowre
-hundred seaventie six XXXes, or therabouts, w:th safXXXXXlla and hides
-were the pcured of the said moneys so left ashore at  TurXXXlle at the
-said time of the said shipps first XXXX there, All w:ch goods she received
-in a XXX InXXXX were the goods of and laded for the XXX account of
-the aforenamed Imployers Antonio ffernandes Caravajall, Antonio Rodriques
-Rubles, M:r Pain?ter, M:r Page, M:r Dunkin, M:r Tilly and ;:r ChamberXXXX
-and provided wuth their effects, saving that of her said lading ?soe taken in
-at the West Indies, twelve chests and twro thirds of a chest of the said Indico were  provided by and
-laded for this deponents owne account, and that hee hath ?two of his owne shipp
-?chests w:ch are full of druggs for his owne account, and that of the said
-SasaXXXlla sixteene XXXXX were provided by and laded by his precontest
-?Toribia ffernandez for his owne account, and that this deponent ?bought ?them
-afterwards of him, and that the said ?Betts hath twenty chests and a third of a chest of the  fore said
-Indico for his account, and his owne chest full of druggs, And
-saith that this deponent is a subiect of this Commonwealth and hath
-lived tenn yeares and bin married and a XXX ?lodger XXXX yeares in this
-?nation, five yeeres whereof hee lived in three tunne alley neere ?Moregate
-and now liveth in Leadenhall streete over againstXXXXXX, and hath
-loved XXXXXXX XXXX, but is an Irish man borne, and soe
-is the said Betts, who hath lived in London for all the said time of this
-deponents dwelling there, and (as hee hath heard) for tenn yeered before ?and
-XXXX an Apprenticeshipp here to a Mariner.  And further that the said
-shipp departed from TXXXille aforesaid with ?intent to come and stop at
-Dover or Deale wh?ence this deponent or the said ?Loyas were XXXX XXXX to
-their said Imployers in this reXXX to receive orders aXXXX diXXXXXX, But
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-In ?Milford
-To the fourth fifth and sixth hee saith that the said Bets XXXyed the
-XXXX XXX and was by the said Imployers XXX master of the said vessell
-and was so to appeare untill her comming to the West Indies, XXXX
-shee met with any ffrenchmen ?outwards XX XXX, in w:ch case Jerome XXXX
-a dutch man (put in purposely therefore) was to appeare master of her
-but in the West Indies John Lopes was to appeare Commander and XXXX
-XXXX, and XXXX to doe all for his owne account, and saith their Instructions
-were verball and not in writing, saving that M:r Tilly gave them a paper
-belonging to the dutch) and that she belonged to the dutch West India
-Company, w:ch paper the said Jerome was to show in case of meeting
-with Spaniards, and in his custody XX was and was as XXXXX written in dutch.  ?And
-saith they had Invoices XXX of their outwards and XXXXwards goods XX
-XXbills of lading  or charterpartie, w:ch Invoices were in the XXXXXX
-of here said M:r XXXXX, who (as hee supposeth) brought them to London.  And
-saith that while shee rode in Milford havem, being an XXXX harboure, and
-a shipp appearing (whome they suspected to be an Ostender) but proved
-a Dutch?man ?of ?warre) this deponent desired that the English Invoices might
-be hidd, w:ch was accordingly XXXXXX, but after when appeared to
-be a Rotterdammer, they were taken in and were brought XXXXX,
-and XXXXX thatm hee knoweth not of any ?hat
-were hided, nor knowe there any truXXX XXXXX, throwne over board or
-othewise made away hat hee knoweth or beleeveth.  And otherwise
-negatively, saving hee XXX know the said shipp before hee mett her and
-thXX EXXXXXXX he bought as aforesaid at Amsterdam.
-To the 7:th hee saith there were twenty men and a boy belonging to the
-said shipp when shee XX XXXXX Milford, whereof seaven were Spaniards
-the said John Lopez being one of the said Spaniards, and saith three of the
-said Spaniards are in London, and the rest were left abroad And
-further cannot depose.
-To the 8:th hee saith there were tenn guns in the said shipp shee XX
-came to Milford Haven, and that shee is of about ?seaven or ?eighty ?two tonnes
-burthen, and that she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one
-XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box
-and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore
-at Milford.  And otherwise hee cannot depose.
-To the last, negatively.
-PETER AYLWARD  [His signature]  [Five pointed star immediately to right of signature, in same black ink]
-Repeated before D:r Godolphin.
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-The ''Scipio''
-Brazeele
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-===Case: XXXX: Examination:  3.  James Retallick, of Wapping, Mariner, aged 35:  Date:  March 5th 1658 English Style===
-See also [[MRP: HCA 13/129#head-f9862f0d2831c9d6fe7f38464104365120d78fac|HCA 13/129:Personal answers of Thomas Ewens: Allegation: Humfrey ffosse, John Tucker & Charles Howgate: Date: 2nd June 1659]]
-See also [[MRP: HCA 13/129#head-2187c17fbe54015abbe3f7fced1c8d59ab105c17|HCA 13/129: Personal answers of Humfey ffosse John Tucker Christofer Mills: Allegation: Captain Thomas Ewens: Date: XXXX]]
-The 5:th day of March 1658 English style/
-Examined on the sayd allegaccon/
-  JAMES RETALLICK of Wapping Mariner aged thirty
-five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith
-and deposeth as followeth vizt./ //
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-//To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of January ffebruary
-and March 1648 and in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeare 1649 and
-and untill Aprill 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was Master
-& Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'' and had the care & charge of
-her as Master Committed to him by her Owners & for Master of her ?and
-Com only reputed this hee so better knoweth being hired by the sayd XXXX
-& goeing a foremast man of the sayd ship the voyage in question./
-To the 2 arle hee saith that in the moneth of January 1648 the sayd ship
-''Scipio'' was bound from this port of London upon a tradeing voyage to
-the Streights & other parts neere adioyning and soe to returne to this port
-of London & saith in persuance of such voyage the sayd shipp about the latter
-end of the sayd moneth of January 1648 fell downe to the Hope And
-the sayd shipp at here goeing out had noe designe of goeing to Brazeele
-or any other parts of the West Indies as this deponent beleeveth for that
-the sayd Ewens hyred this deponent only to goe from London upon a tradeing
-voyage to the Streights & back thence to this port of London, and made ?then
-noe mention of her goeing to the Brazeele or any other pts of the West Indies
-And further hee cannot depose not being privie to the hyreing of any
-other of the shipps company nor knowing at what rates or upon what XX
-conditions they were hyred/
-To the 3: 4:th & 5:th arles of the allegation hee saith that before the goeing
-forth off the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
-ffosse was hyred to foe & did goe Boatswaine & the arlate John TurkXX
-Quartermaster & the arlate Charles ?Howgate a foremast man of
-the ''Scipio'' the voyage in question but at what rates or what conditions
-they were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee this deponent was hyred
-at the usuall rate of a voyage from London to the straights which was
-twenty three shillings p month or twenty two & XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And saith hee knoweth the sayd ffosse Turkes and
-Howgate as alsoe this deponent & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
-proceeded upon her voyage from London to Genoa in the Straights &
-there discharged her outwards ladeing / there tooke in some goods & ?went
-with them to Ligorne where fayling of their designe they there landed
-the goods brought from Genoa, & went from Ligorne to Allecant and
-there tooke in goods & went therewith to Lisbon & there unladed them
-And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
-To the 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that after the ''Scipio'' had at Lisbon
-discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant the sayd Thomas Ewans
-the Master did take upon him a new voyage to be made from Lisbon to
-Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having contracted with the
-freighters for that new voyage acquainted his shipps Company
-therewith, who not being hyred  for any such voyage were most off ?them
-unwilling to goe the same & refused to goe the same as being as ?they
-?conceived an unlawfull voyage for that thereby they should XXXX the
-hazard of being taken by the hollanders w:ch were then at ?differences
-with the Portugueses in whose behalfe that voyage was to be made and
-also be reason of the unhealthfullnesse of the voyage it being beyond ?the
-lyne & to the south latitude about fifteene degrees, whereupon the sayd
-Ewans seeing the unwillingnesse of the company to goe the sayd voyage
-to Brazeele did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsuance of
-this deponent & his p:rcontsts XXXXXhurst & XXgant & divers others of the
-sayd shipps company to encourage them the more readily to undergoe the
-sayd voyage voluntarily promised to advance his XXXXX Companyes wages
-five shillings in the pound per month from that tyme during the sayd XXXX
-over & above the wages hee had agreed with ?there for when ?hee shipped
-at London, and to pay every of them their wages then due till
-XXXX//
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-//tyme according to the value agreed upon with ?them at London, which offer
-the sayd shipps Company did accept & the sayd Ewens in persuance
-of such his offere & promises did pay unto his sayd Company eight
-moneths pay according to the first agreement made at London & did promise
-& agree to pay them an addition of five shillings in the pound p moneth
-for the future over & above the rates formerly agreed on which promise
-of addition the Company did agree to & promised to provide on the sayd
-Brazeele voyage and the sayd ffosse Tucker Howgate this deponent &
-the  rest of the shipps Company did thereupon proceede upon the sayd voyage
-after the sayd new contract & went to Brazeele & there delivered their
-outwards ladeing abd rekaded other goods & came back therewith
-to Lisbon & alsoe discharged a good part thereof there in which service they continued after the sayd new agreement
-abut twenty moneths, only hee saith that while they were at the Brazeele
-the Portugeses in whose service the ''Scipio'' and other English shipps
-were, did reXXXXX out of the ''Scipio'' the sayd Ewens the Master & the sayd
-ffosse Tucker & Howgate & this deponent & divers others of the ''Scipio'' her
-Company & put them aboard Portuguese shipps to serve in the homeward
-Voyage & put Portugeses aboard the ''Scipio'' to serve in their ?roome, as
-they did also to other English shipps that went the sayd voyage, which
-they did as this deponent beleeveth to secure their goods laden aboard
-the English shipps that the English might be thereby prevented of
-running away with them  And farther hee cannot depose./
-To the 8:th and 9:th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry
-of this Court & to the lawe And further cannot depose./
-To the 10:th hee saith the arlate Ewens was & is a subiect of this Common
-Wealth & Subiect as hee beleeveth to the authority of this Court./
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposiccon is true./
-To the Interries./
-To the first Inter hee saith hee cannot answere not being p:rsent
-when the persons Interr were hyred nor knoweth at what rates or upon
-what conditions they were hyred/
-To the 2 Interr hee saith hee was a foremast man of the ''Scipio'' the
-voyage in question & saith hee was hyred as aforesayd only to goe
-upon a tradeing voyage from London to the Straights & pts neere
-therabouts & then back to Lodnon & not to such parts or places as
-the sayd Ewens should get imployment for And farther hee
-cannot answere./
-To the 3 hee saith that at the tyme Interr there were five other
-English shipps neside the ''Scipio'' all which as well as the ''Scipio''
-were offered & Did take imployment for Brazeele and goe thither
-& returne in Company of the ''Scipio'' And saith hee beleeveth if the
-sayd Ewens had not promised an Augmentation of wages the Company
-of the Ship?swould not have gone the voyage to Brazeele, but saith
-as afore sayd the sayd Ewans made the sayd promise voluntarily
-to encourage his company to goe the sayd voyage.  And farther saving
-his foegoeing deposiccon hee cannot answeare/
-To the 4:th hee saith hee was one of the ''Scipio'' her company when
-?refused to proceed on the viyage to Brazeele unlesse his wages
-first agreed upon were augmented And saith in regard hee know hee
-was not at first hyred for any such voyage hee would have refused to goe
-the same if the sayd Ewen had not promised an augmentation as aforesayd/ //
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-//To the 5:th hee saith that dollers did the tyme Interr & doe goe at Lisbon at the rate of
-sixe shillings portuguese money but are usually paid to mariners
-at the rate only of fower & sixe pence (OR, pounds) sterling and saith at that value
-of fower shillings sixe pence (OR, pounds) the doller hee reced of the say Ewens
-at Lisbon eight moneths pay but how many dollers that amounted to hee
-remembreth not And what others recevd hee knoweth not but between
-they recvd eight months pay at the like rates of fower shillings XX
-pence a dollar And further hee cannot answere./
-To the 6:th hee saith hee hath recvd his whd his whole pay for the voyage
-in question only according to the first agreement, without any
-augmentation because hee was unwilling to goe to lawe for the ?same
-though it were due, & hath given a discharge of all wages soe that
-hee intended noe suite thereabout whoseever doth prevaile in the
-cause And to the rest negatively./
-To the 7 hee saith hee cannot answere knowing nothing thereof
-To the last hee saith hee cannot answere having not heare any
-thing touching the matter Interrogate./
-JAMES RETALLICK  [His signature]
-Repeated before doc:r Godolphin/ //
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-===Case: XXXX: Examination: 4.  ffrancis Mould, of Poplar, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 64:  Date:  March 7:th 1658 English Style===
-//The 7:th day of March 1658 English Style
-Examined on the sayd allegation./
-Rp.
-  FFRANCIS MOULD of Poplar in the pish of Stepney and
-County of Midd Mariner aged thirty foower yeares
-or thereabouts a wittnesse swornne & examined
-saith & deposeth as followeth vizt./
-To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of december Januaary
-ffebruary & March 1648 & in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeares
-and 1650 and untill August 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was
-Master & Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'', & had the care and
-charge of her as Master & Commander Committed to him (as hee beleeveth)
-by her Owners, and for Master & Commander of her
-during the sayd tyme was Commonly reputed this hee the better knoweth being
-hyred by the sayd Ewens & goeing a foresmast man of the sayd shipp thereXXX
-voyage in question And further hee deposeth not./
-To the second arle hee saith that withinn the tyme aforesayd and more
-especially in the yeare 1648 the shipp ''Scipio'' was bound forth from the
-Port of London upon a tradeing voyage to the Streights or other parts neere
-?thereunto adioyning & soe to returne thence for London & in order thereto did
-in the moneth of January 1648 sett sayle from London & fell downe as XX
-as the Hope And the sayd shipp at such her departure from London had
-noe designe of goeing to Brazeele or any other part of the West
-Indies this hee deposeth for that hee knoweth that hee this deponent and
-John Mi?ater a foremast man alsoe of the ''Scipio'' who was hyred XXX
-only to goe upon a trading voyage from London to the Streights and parts neere
-adiacent & soe back to London & were not hyred to XXX in her to Brazeele ?or
-any other parts of the West Indies And further hee cannot depose  not being
-privie to the signeing off any other of the sayd shipps company nor knowing XXX
-rates or upon what conditions they were hyred./ //
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-//To the 3 4:th and 5:th arles of the sayd allegacon hee saith that before
-the goeing forth of the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
-ffosse was hyred to goe & did goe Boatswain & the arlate John Tucker
-Quarter Master & the arlate Charles Howgate a foremast man of the ''Scipio''
-the voyage in question but at what rates or upon Conditions they
-were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee ?hee this deponent and the sayd
-M?iater were hyred at the usuall rates of foremast men for a voyage to the
-streights And saith hee knoweth that the sayd ffosse Tucker & Howgate
-as alsoe this deponent & the sayd Minter & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
-did proceed on her voyage from London to Genoa in the Streights and
-there discharged her outward ladeing & then tooke in some goods and
-went with them to Ligorno where fayling of their designe they then landed
-the goods brought from Genoa & went from Ligorne to Allecant and there
-tooke in goods, and went therewith to Lisbon and there unladed them
-And further saving his subsequent deposition heecannot depose/
-To the 6:th and 7:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the
-''Scipio'' had at Lisbon discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant
-the sayd Thomas Ewans did take upon him a new voyage to be made
-from Lisbon to Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having bargaine
-with his freighters for that voyage hee acquainted his shipps company
-therewith who were most of them unwilling to goe the same they not
-being hyred as they sayd to goe any such voyage when they came from London as
-alsoe because the voyage was to an unhealthyfull Country lyeing
-beyond the Lyne about fourteene or fifteene degrees to the South latitude and
-in service of a foreigne Nation whereupon the Whereupon the sayd Ewens seeing
-the unwillingnesse of his Company to goe the sayd voyage to Brazeele
-did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsence of this deponent
-& his p:recontests Pinshurst Bryant Rolallique & most of the sayd
-Shipps company to encourage them with alacrity to goe the sayd
-voyage voluntarily oromise to advance every of the shipps company
-their wages five shillings in the pound per moneth from that tyme
-during the sayd voyage over & above the wages hee had agreed with
-them for when hee shipped hence (OR, ?Then) at London, and to pay them their wages
-then due till that tyme according to the rates agreed upon with them
-at London which offere hee saith the Company accepted And the sayd
-Ewens in persuance of such his offere & promise did pay unto his
-sayd Company eight pounds pay according to the first agreement
-made at London & did promise and agree for the future to pay them
-an addition or augmentation of wages after the rate of five shillings
-in the pounds over & above the valew formerly agreed upon at London
-which promise the Company accepted & thereupon proceeded upon the
-sayd voyage to Brazeele & the sayd ffosse Tucker ?Gourgate & this dep:t
-& the rest of the Shipps company did thereupon proceed upon the sayd
-voyage after the sayd new agreement & went & served in the sayd shipp to
-Brazeele and came back to Lisbon which they soe performed in
-the space of about twenty moneths after XXX their ?new agreement
-& made in that tyme discharge of their ladeing at Brazeele and alsoe
-at Lisbone after their returne thither, only hee saith that while the sayd shipp
-was at Brazeele the Portugueses in whose service shee was did for the
-better//
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-===Case: Swire con Church: Examination: 7.  James Dixson, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 30:  Date:  March 21st 1658===
-ADD DATA
-NOTES:
-The ''Phoenix''
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-===Case: M:r Alsonso Gomez Dias for goods in the Morning Starr:  Examination: 1.  Claes Willems, of Middleborough, Mariner, late Master of the ''Morninf Starr'':  Date: Aprill 22:nd 1659===
-The 22:th of Aprill 1659:/.
-The Claime of X Alfondso Gomez Dias)
-for Goods in y:e ''Mornîng Starr'')
-Claes Willemson M:r=
-Budd, ffrancklin)
-Examined upon an Allon given in
-by M:r ffrancklin on behalfe of
-the said Alfonso Gomez Dias:
-.  CLAES WILLEMS of Middleborough
-Mariner, late M:r of the ship the ''Morning
-Starr'' aged 38 yeeres or thereabouts
-sworne and Examined:/:-
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-===Case: The Claime of Cowell, Canham & others for the Thomas:  Examination:  2.  Thomas Yoakeley, of St Catherines neere the Tower of London, Mariner, aged 31:  Date: Aprill 27th, 1659===
-NOTES:
-Voyage from London to Roan
-The ship the ''Thomas''
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-===Case: Christopher Malyn, Thomas Carret, Bethnel Tynck, George Southerne, Geirge Rogers, Thomas West, ffrancis Rosse, and John Robeck, late Mariners of the Ship the Anne: Examination:  1.  John Atkins, Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 32:  Date: February 26th 1658===
-NOTES:
-London to Yarmouth to Marsellis and other ports within the Streights
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-//on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from
-that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole
-pay.  and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to
-Yarmouthand there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and
-from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered
-the same.  and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus
-and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in
-a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of
-Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX
-and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another
-Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and
-there delivered y:e same, andthe
-last of y:e said Salt was
-delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of
-June 1658./.  During all w:ch time (namely from y:e said
-ships Departure from Gravesend, untill her Delivery of
-her last goods at Scanderoone:/ all the Mariners XXX
-did serve in y:e said ship ''Anne''; and y:e foresaid Mariners
-did doe their best Indeavour in y:e Service and Imployment
-of the said ship, in their severall offices & places:  w:ch hee
-knoweth for y:e reasons aforesaid goeing from place to XXX
-in y:e said ship, And further cannot Depose:/.
-To the 6:th and 7:th hee saith that soe soone as y:e said ship
-Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, y:e said William
-Malymy:e M:r and Company of the said ship. did take
-aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces
-to be Transfported in her to this port of London, and
-came from thence with y:e same on board her on or about
-the 11:th. day of July. 1658. and in her Course XXXXX
-the said Ship, and her Lading met with Extraordinary
-soule, windy , and Tempestuous weather by w:ch shee was driven upon
-y:e sand, neere S:t Vallazyes in ffrance; and
-by meanes thereof split, and broken in peeces.
-and utterly lost together with her lading, and saith y:e XXXX
-came not, nor happened by any fault or negligence
-of or in this depo:t or any of y:e Marine:rs in the said XXX
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-===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al: Deposition: 1. Thomas Chevers, of Limehouse, Stepney, Mariner, Master of the Oporto Merchant, aged 28: Date: March 9th 1658===
-//The 9:th day of March 1658
-Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of)
-the ''Oporto Merchant''.  Thomas Chevers M:r)
-ag:t S:r James Drax Knight Richard ?Huggins Tho:)
-?Kendall, James ?Wyck and Robert Welding)
-Merchants in particular and all others in)
-Generall that have or p:rtend  to have any
-rights, Titles, or interest in y:e goods wares and
-Merchandizes lately brought in y:e sayd ship)
-to this port from y:e Barbadoes in a Cause
-of Damage and average.  Suckley.
-Rp
-.  THOMAS CHEVERS
-of Limehouse in the
-parish of Stepney
-Mariner, M:r of the
-ship the ''Oporto Merchant''
-aged 28 yeeres or thereabouts
-sworne and Examined.
-To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith that hee hath well
-knowne y:e arlate y:e ship the ''Opoto Merchant'' whereof this depo:t
-is nowe M:r for about Twelve monethes last, and well
-knoweth that y:e arlate Rowland Hill John Hill, and XX
-Hopegood and Company for all y:e ?same time
-were the true and lawfull owners and proprieto:rs of the
-said ship and of her tackle Apparell, and furniture,
-and for such being XX accounted and reputed: And further
-hee cannot depose.
-To the second hee saith the said ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' in
-her course from Barbadoes to this port of London
-?Laden with Sugars Cotton and Indico and other Comodityes
-for the account of y:e arlate S:r James Drax Richard  XXXXX
-Thomas Kendall James Wyck Robt ?Weeking & others did meete
-with neere the fflowers and Calves, on or about the
-twentieth day of January last a greate and violente storme
-w:ch did soe continue for about sixteene houres, the
-winde being then at West, And y:e said ship running
-before the sea, under ?her foresaile, the said ships ?stern
-gave way, and this depo:t and Company were forced
-to ?haul the said foresaile of the said ship, and lye under
-a ?mizen, And saith that y:e seas being very high brake
-the said ships Tiller, w:ch did much endanger y:e ?keeper the
-said ships Rudder, and ?Sterne part; And at the XXXX
-part (OR, port) hee saith the said ship, shipped under water w:ch came
-into y:e hold of y:e sd ship, And y:e weather being very
-Tempestuous, and y:e violent winde continueing, y:e said
-ships ?Missen saile was blowne away, and lost, and by
-Meanes of looseing y:e Misen, y:e said ship lay broad XXX
-to the sea, and by reason thereof shipped a very violent sea
-w:ch washed overboard And ?Sheats Anchor, and the long boate
-and//
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-//and skiffe: y:t were fastned to y:e sd ships Deck were XXXX
-to Leeward, and with the goeing oberboard of the said XXX
-w:ch hunge to the said ship by y:e Rope to w.ch it was fast was XXX
-and by y:e said ships Rowlings it bilged a hole in y:e XXXX
-of the said ship, through w:ch hole; and other places in y:e sd ships side w:ch were XX by violence of the XXXX
-Insoemuch that there was in a short time foure foote
-and a halfe of water in her hold, w:ch caused y:e said XXX
-to lye dead in y:e sea; And saith that the said ships lading XXX
-and Company onboard. by reason long XXXXXX of the said ?Extreme
-Stormy and windy weather, were all in greate danger
-of Sinking and perishing in the sea.  And further ?deposeth
-that this depo:t and Company on board y:e said ship did
-upon good advice Consideraccon, and Consultaccon, for y:e
-prservaccon of the said ship and Lading, and their owne
-Lives. Cut downe y:e maine mast. by the board. and cut
-away. y:e Ropes and Tackling thereto belonging,
-and did stave and cast over board most
-of their caskes with fresh waterm And were for y:e preservaccon of their shipp XXXX XXXto cut their foresaid XXX Anchor, and main XXX
-and tackling thereto belonging, and all and singular
-the Tackle Apparrell funiture and things belonging
-to the said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'' . mentionedd and
-set downe in the Schedule annexed to y:e said Allon
-(now seene and read over by this depo:t) and y:e said Tackle
-and things therein set downe. were at the tome of
-their said Cutting and Casting away and loosing
-well worth the severall summes set downe in y:e said schedule
-for y:e same, amounting in y:e whole to the summe of One hundred
-fourty two pounds two shillings sterling.  And saith. that by
-the violence of y:e said Storme y:e said mizen saile was blown
-away and Lost w:ch was then worth four pounds, and y:e stern
-poast Rudder and sterne of the said Shipp. were by y:e same
-meanes much damnifyed to the vallue of about twenty
-pounds: The premisses hee Deposeth being M:r of the said
-Ship, and on board her y:e foresaid time, and an Eye witness
-of the same And further hee cannot depose.
-To the 4:th and 5:th (sic) hee saith that during all the time the
-said Storme Continued, and after wards, this depo:t and
-All his Company did Constantly keepe both the
-pumpes goeing, and y:e water increasing they were CCCC
-to bring y;e said Ships starboard side to the sea, and then XXX
-said Ship being XXred, or turned, her spritsaile was XXX
-away, by y:e violence of the said Storme, and in y:e morning of
-the 21:th day of January last, y:e Said Storme abated And
-Depo:t//
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-P1110349 f. 93 recto
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-//Depo:t and Company did with much Carepaines & Dilligence
-stop the said hole made by the said ?sheat Anchor, and, freed
-her of the water, w:ch shee had received in at the the said Hold
-and at other places. as aforesaid. and saith that when the
-said ship departed from y:e Barbadoes, and untill y:e said
-storme came and happened the said ship was strong
-strong and Tight, and was well fitted with all manner
-of necessaryes and materialls for y:e said voyage, and was
-not over laden, but was able to beare the lLading w:ch was
-then on board her. and saith her ?sheath Anchor was  well
-and sufficiently fastened to the side of the said ship; untill
-the same was washed from y:e same by the said storme,
-And saith that what dammage did happen to y:e said ship
-and Lading y:e said time, happened meerely by y:e said
-tormy and windy weather, and not by any insufficiency
-in y:e said ship, or any fault of or in this depo:t, or any of his
-Company. The premises hee Deposeth for the reasons
-aforesaid: And further cannot Depose.
-To the 6:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true.
-THO CHEVERS  [His signature]
-<nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al: Examination: 2. Richard James, of Limehouse, Boatswaine of the Oporto Merchant, aged 3?8: Date: March 10th 1658===
-The Tenth day of March 1658
-Examined on the said Allon
-Rp
-:nd RICHARD JAMES of Limehouse. Boatswaine
-of the ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' aged 3?8 yeeres or
-thereabouts sworne and Examined:
-To the first Arle of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth that
-hee verily beleeveth that the arlate M:r Rowland Hill and Company
-fo:r theis twelve monethes last, have bin, and at p:rsent are
-the true & awfull own:rs of the arlate ship y:e ''Oporto
-Merchant'' (whereof Thomas Cheevers is M:r) and of her tackle &
-furniture & things belonging unto her, and soe they are Comonly
-accounted. The premises hee deposeth for that hee hath bin
-boatswaine of the said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'' for about thirteene
-monethes last, And otherwise cannot depose:
-To the second hee saith that y:e said ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant''
-Coming from y:e Barbadoes Laden with Sugars, Cotton & some Indico
-for y:e account of S:r James Drax. M:r Wood?ward severall other M:rchants
-Bound for this Port of London; in her Course ?hether was neere y:e XXXXXXX
-on or about the twentieth day of January, last, there happened and
-rose a very great & violent storme; w:ch Continued very violent for
-about Eight or Tenn houres, the winde being then at West, and
-saith that for y:e p:rservaccon of the said ship, Lading and men on board
-her, her Company ranne her before y:e sea, under her ?foreCourse
-halfe mast high; and which they ranne her soe, her Sterne (OR, Stemme) gave way//
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-P1110351 f. 93 verso
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-//XXXX, And XXXXXX y:e ?Master and Company of the said
-ship were foreced to ?hand their foreCourse; or foresaile, and
-lye under a mizen. and whXXXX shee soe lay. y:e said shipps
-Tiller was broken by y.e violence of the said Storme, and did
-much endanger y:e looseing of the Rudder and sterne ?poast
-of the said ship, and saith that at y:e XXXX port wher
-her Tiller was broken the said ship receaved much water
-in her hold, And y:e said very Violent Storme; not abating
-y.e said ships missen sail, was by the Violence there of XX
-splitt & Torne; and blowne away, and after it was blowne
-away, the said ship was by
-the force and Violence of the said Storme, forced to lye
-broad off, to the sea, and by that meanes, shipped a greate
-sea, which washed her boate and skiffe. to Leeward
-and washed her sheat Anchor over board, and it, hanging
-to y:e Rope to which it was fastened, and y:e said ship Roling
-two and againe y:e said Anchor bilged a hole in y:e side of the
-said ship  just by her Lough, through w:ch. And other places
-and ?Crozes: there came such Water in hold; soe that
-her hold, had & receaved in a short space some four and XXXX
-halfe water, w:ch caused y:e said ship to lye in y:e Sea,
-without motion; And saith that by reason of trhe Violence
-and duraccon of the said Storme; both the said ship Lading
-and all the Company on board her were in great
-danger of persihing in y:e Sea. This hee deposeth for that
-hee was Boatswaine of and on board the said ship at
-y:e time when y:e sayd Storme happened, and further hee
-doth not depose.
-To the 3:d hee saith that fore said Thomas Cheevers, and Company
-off and on board the said shipp; in y:e said Storme did  XX
-upon a seious Consideraccon, for y:e safeguard of the said
-ship and Lading, and their owne Lives Cut the said ships
-Mainmast by the board, and Cut away the saile and
-Rigging, and Tackling thereto belonging, and Cut away
-her Sheat Anchor, and staved most of the Caskes of water
-y:t were aboard her, and therby did much Lighten the said
-Shipp: And having now seene & read y:e Schedule Exhibited hee
-saith that all and singular y:e Masts, sailes, tackle and
-funiture & Materialls. therein set downe & Expressed
-to the said Ship, were and are Uteerly lost by meanes of the said Storme and they were XX
-, the time of their said Cutting away, and loosing well worth
-the severall and respective summes of money, set downe in the
-said schedule for y:e same, in y:e whole amounting to y:e summe
-of One hundred fourty two pounds two shilllings sterl. XXX
-that, besides y:e foresaid Damages, there was alsoe (by meanes
-of the violence of the said Storme,) much hurt and damage//
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-P1110352 f. 94 recto
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-//done to the said ships Rudder Sternepost and XXXXXXX; the
-repaire whereof will oast the said ?Owner:es about twenty pounds
-sterlins, besides hee saith that y:e ?Masson saile of y:e sd ship,
-was worth about XXXX at y:e time of y;e blowing away of the same; The
-premisses hee deposeth for y:e Reasons aforesaid, and for that
-hee was one that helped to comprize y:e ssaid Materialle
-set downe in y:e said schedule; and further hee deposeth not:
-To the 4:th hee saith that for and during y:e Continuance of the
-said Storme,; her Company did (when they
-could stand upon the Deck) XX XXX her pumpes, and keepe
-them goeing XXX Storme Continunuaeing the Company
-of the said ship were forced to bring the said Ships Starboard
-Syde to the Sea and the shipp being turned her Spritsaile
-was blowne away, and y:e next morning about day light
-the said Storme Abating the M:r and Company of the said ship
-by their Great Labo:r, Care, & Dilligence, did Stop the said
-ships Leake, by her Lough, and freed her of the water w:ch
-shee had in her, This hee deposeth for that hee assisted
-therein, And further hee cannot depose.
-To the 5:th hee saith that the said Ship, at such time as shee
-came from y:e Barbadoes y:e sd voyage, and untill the said
-Storme and Tempest happened was a strongXXXX & Tight
-Vesselle, and had very good ?decke and very well fitted with all manner of materialle
-fit for such A ship, and Voyage, And was not ober Laden
-the said voyage, And saith that the said sheat Anchor w:ch
-was as aforesaid washed from y:e said ships side; was before
-it was washed off very well and sufficiently made fast to
-the said ships Sude; the stock being lashed to the Timber before
-and the ff?looks Checked out, and firmely muffled and
-made fast w:th the shanke painter, And saith that all such
-dammage w:ch happened to y:e said ship; and that which is
-happened to her Lading or any part thereof, came not nor
-was occasioned by any insufficiency in y:e said ship, or any
-fault, or negligence; of or in her M:r and Company, on board
-her.  But neerely by y:e said violent weather yeilding a reason of his knowledge as before And otherwys (sic)
-Cannot depose./
-To the 6:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registrey of this Court.
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing ?Repon is true./:
-RICHARD JAMES  [His signature]//
-<nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Rowland Hill John Hill and Company own:rs of the Oporto Merchant vs. Sir James Drax et al:: Examination: 3.  Phillip Harvey, of Limehouse, Mariner, Carpenter of the Oporto Merchant, aged 40: Date: March 11th, 1658===
-//The 11:th day of March 1658
-Examined upon y:e sayd Allon.
-Rp
-:?ne PHILLIP HARVEY of Limehouse Mariner, Carpenter
-of the ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant'', aged 40 yeeres or
-thereabouts sworne and Examined:/
-To//
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-P1110354 f. 94 verso
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-//To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith hee hath knowne
-y:e arlate Ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' for about two yeeres
-Last, and saith y:e arlate M:r Hill, hath bin for all the said
-time Comonly accounted a pt owne:r of the said Ship
-and of her tackle and furniture, and further hee cannot
-depose/:
-To the second hee saith that the sayed Ship y:e ''Oporto Merchant''
-being laden at the Barbadoes, with Sugars & Cottons &
-some other merchandizes for the account of several merchants
-Departed from thence bound for this Port of London and
-in her Course hetherward (sic), neere y:e Islands fflowers
-and Calves, being two of the Westerene Islands on XX
-or about the 20:th day of January last, shee met with
-a great , and violent Storme; w:ch Continued about
-sixteene houres very violent, the Winde being then
-at West, and y:e sd. shipp tunning before y:e Sea, for
-her better preservaccon) under aforesaile, her sterne gave
-way, And thereupon, her Company were forced to
-hang their foresaile, and lye under a mizen, and
-y:e said Ships Tiller by Violence of the said Storme
-was broken, w:ch did much endanger her Rudder and
-sterne post, and by meanes of y:e breaking of her Tiller
-y:e said Ship, shee receaved much water in at her ?behind port ?w:ch
-came into y:e said Ships hold, and y:e said Ships mizen XXX
-by y:e violence & force of the said Storme was Torne in
-peeces.  and y:e greatest part of it blowne away, and y:e
-said Ship lying broad off to y:e sea, shipped a great
-Sea, w:ch washed over board her sheath Anchor, w:ch
-was fastned by y:e said Ships side and washed her Boate
-and Skiffe, to Leewards, and y:e said Anchor, hanging
-by a Rope where with it was fastned to the said Ships
-side, and y:e said Ship, Turning or rowling too and
-fro, y:e said Anchor bilged a hole, neere y:e Lough of ?the
-Said Ship, and made a Leake in her, through w:ch ?there
-went some water, and their being as aforesaid much
-water receaved ar rge XXXX Port of the said Ship, y:e said
-Ship had about foure foote water in her hold, w:ch
-caused y:e said Ship to lye dead in y:e Sea.  And saith that
-by the Violence and Duraccon of the said Storme & y:e pXXX
-aforesaid, the said Ship and her Lading and Company
-on board her were in Great Danger of Sinking and
-Perishing in y:e Sea The prmisses hee deposeth being on board
-y:e said Ship y:e said time, and Carpenter of her.  And
-Otherwise cannot depose.///
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-P1110355 f. 95 recto
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-//To the 3:d arle & Schedule therein menconed hee saith that y:e M:r and Company of
-and on board y:e said Ship, did upon Good Consideraccon
-for y:e Safeguard of the said Shipp and Lading, and of
-their owne Lives. Cut downe y:e said Ships Maine
-Mast by y:e board and Cut away all the Tackling
-thereto belonging, and did Stave & Cast over board most
-of the Caske (OR, casks) of ffresh water, y:t y:e said Sjip might bee
-Lightened.  And saith that y:e said Mainemast, sheat
-Anchor. and all and Singular y:e tackle Appell and
-furniture of or belonging to the said Ship the ''Oporto Merch:''
-severally mentioned & set downe in y:e Schedule, were
-Cast into, (and lost) in y:e sea, for y:e preservaccon of the said
-Ship, and at the time of such their loosing were well
-worth the severall summes mentioned, and set downe in
-y:, (now read over unto him). amounting in
-y:e whole to One hundred, fourty two pounds two shillings
-And beside y:e sd goods & materialls hee saith y:e Missen saile Blowne
-away as aforesaid, was worth about foure pounds XXXXX
-And much damage done to the said Ships Rudder
-sterne post, a nd sterne, the repaires whereof will Cost the
-said Owne:s about twenty pounds as he beleeveth The
-Premisses hee deposeth being Carpenter of the said Ship
-as aforesaid.  And further cannot Depose./:
-To the 4:th and 5:th hee saith that During the Continuance
-of the said Storme . y:e M:r and Company of the said Ship
-did Constantly ply both the Pumpes of the said ship and
-kept them Goeing
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-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the 'Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 1. Laurence Burr, of St Catherines near the Tower, Cooper of the Lady ffrigott, aged 38: Date: June 3rd, 1659===
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-//The 3. of June 1659
-A business of examination of witnesses for perpetauall)
-remembrance of the matter, on the part and behalfe of)
-John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company)
-Owners of the Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' whereof John)
-Hosier was Master, and her tackle furniture)
-apparell & freight, and of Andrew Riccard one)
-of the Aldermen of the Cittie of London and)
-Company, the Governor and Company of)
-English Merchants trading to the Mediterranian (sic))
-Seas, Owner of the goods in the sayd Shipp)
-against Hippolito Centurione of Genoa)
-in pticular and all others in generall which)
-will take upon them to ?iusifie the seizing or)
-takeing of the sayd shipp the ''lady ffrigott'')
-and her ladeing: SXXXXth)
-Examined on the allegation given in
-on the behalfe of the sayd Swift Parker
-Harris & Company and alsoe the sayd
-Ricard & Company.
-No. 1  LAURENCE BURR of the
-p:rish of S:t Catherine neere the
-Tower of London Cooper late Cooper
-of the ''Lady ffrigott'', aged thirty five
-yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
-sworne and examined saith and
-deposeth as followeth viz:t.
-To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the
-Monethe and tyme arlate 1658 (untill the fowerteenth day of
-November that yeare on which day shee was seized the arlate
-John Swift John Harris John Parker and Company all English
-men and subiects of the Commonwealth of England were, and
-soe still ought to be the lawfull Owner & Proprietors of the
-arlate Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle apparrell and
-furniture and for such commonly reputed this hee so better knoweth
-because hee was & went Cooper of the said shipp the voyage in
-question and was on board her at her seizure.
-To the 2 and 3 arles hee saith that in the yeares & monethes aforesaid the
-arlate Alderman Riccard & Company Marchants of London
-did hyre & take to freight and imploye the sayd shipp the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' upon a tradeing voyage to XXao ?Magaliga and other
-places beyond the Seas to lade Currans & other goods for their
-use and Accompt & transport them to & deliver them at London
-for their use this hee knoweth being Cooper aboard her the sayd
-voyage And hehreby also knoweth that in the monethe & tyme
-aforesayd and after the arrivall of the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott''
-at ?Potrao Roade arlate the ffactors or Agents of the sayd Alderman
-Ricard & Company put XXX cause to be laden a board the sayd
-shipp for Account of the sayd Ricard & Company one hundred
-and sixty tonne of Mahaligo Currans and also divers other
-goods and a great quantitie of money to be transported therein
-her for London and there delivered to them or their Agents This hee
-the better knoweth for that hee helped to lade the sayd Currans and
-other goods aboard her & brought  some of the sayd moneye aboard &
-& ?saw the rest brought aboard her And farther to these arles he cannot
-depose.
-To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the
-sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' having receaved the sayd lading & money
-aboard her and being therewith rideing at Anchor in the Roade of
-Perrao in a peaceable condition, there came into the sayd Roade on the
-fourteenth day of November 1658 a certaine shipp of about
-a hundred & fifty tonnes gaving a white Antient in her pXXXX//
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-P1110361 f. 122 verso
-//which shipp shipp (sic) (as this deponent was afterwards informed
-by XXXX XXXXX an ?Irishman & some others of her company who could speake English) was called
-the ''S:ta Cruse'' and her Masters name ffrancisco ?Stale and
-was a Genoa shipp and was there aXXXXdd and sett out
-by Hippolito Centurione a Genoese, and came ?hence (as this
-deponent was also by like men XX informed
-in Company of ?two other men of warr sett out thence
-also by the sayd Hippolito Centuriane, which Genoa shipp called
-the ''S:ta Cruse'' presently upon her comming into the Road of Petrao
-made as if she would have come to an Anchor neere the
-''Lady ffrigott'', but when shee was come neere her the Captaine
-& Company of the sayd shipp ''S:ta  Cruse'' did in a violent and
-hostile manner sett upon the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' with
-Swords & gunnes and other warlike Instruments and
-wounded the Captaine & six or seaven men of the Company pf the
-''Lady ffrigott'' & by that meanes surprized her & her sayd ladeing
-of Currans and other goods & money & dispoiled their Owners
-of them & converted them to their owne use And hee farther saith
-that hee this deponent was alsoe informed by a dutch man who was
-gunner of the sayd shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' & an Irish man who was one of
-her Company who could both speake very good English that the Captaine
-of the ''S:ta Cruse'' had  taken severall mariners & souldiers out
-of the sayd two other shipps of warr which came in Company
-of the ''Sta Cruse'' from Genoa, the better to enable them to surprise
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing, And saith that at the tyme of
-the sayd seizure hee did observe that most of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her
-Company who made the seizure were Italians & Genoeses And
-saith that after the says Genoeses preceived that the sayd dutch
-Gunner & the french man & others of their Company coulde speake
-English and had some conference with this deponent and
-others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company who were seized, they did
-forbid them to have any discourse with the English; and put the
-''Lady ffrigotts'' Company in ?hold & kept them there in Irons And
-further to these arles hee cannot depose
-To the 7:th arle hee saith that hee this deponent and severall
-other of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company were after their surprizall
-?told & informed by the sayd dutch Gunner & the sayd Irish man
-and some other of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her Company who could speake
-English that the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa by the
-sayd Hippolito Centurone upon a warlike designe against the
-Turkes, & has bin a great while abroad and could gett noe
-prize, and had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which
-was to last only for a tyme, which tyme or the says ?Gunner &
-Irishman & others of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her company acknowledged
-was expired two moneths before the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
-& her ladeing, but withall say thd that they were resolved to take
-any English shipp they could light on notwithstanding the expiration
-thereof, And this deponent well remembreth that the
-Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott'' told this deponent that hee did at the tyme
-of her seizure desyre the foresayd ffrancisco Stale Commander of
-the ''S:ta Cruse'' to show him his Commission by virtue whereof hee
-was impowered to make seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' being an English ship
-but//
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-P1110362 f. 123 recto
-//but the says Stale refused to shew the same And further to this arle
-hee cannot depose.
-To the 3:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that the shipp
-''lady ffrigott'' and her tackle furniture & freight and stock and
-provisions on board her at the tyme of her seizure aforesayd were
-then in this deponents Judgement worth five ?thousand pounds
-sterling or neere thereabouts and soe much hee beleeveth the arlate
-Swift Parker and Harris were damnified by the losse of them by
-reason of the surprizall aforesayd And further hee cannot depose
-To 4:th arle hee saith that in her this deponents Judgement XX
-hundred and fifty tonnes of Mathaligo Currans seized on board the
-''Lady ffrigott'' & belonging to the arlate Alderman Ricard & Company
-were at their seizure worth two pounds tenn shillings sterling a hundred
-which a mounteth being computed to a very considerable summe
-but saith at p:rsent hee cannot compute the same, and saith hee is
-well assured that if the sayd Currans had not bin suprized but
-come safe to London they would here have yeilded the sayd Alderman
-Riccard & Company two pounds tenn shillings sterling a hundred
-that being the usuall market price there
-To the Tenth & 11:th alre hee saith that hee this deponent being Cooper
-& aborad at the seizure knoweth that the arlate Captaine Hoyser and
-his Company had a board the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' at the
-tyme of her seizure in moneys & goods and Cloathes and instruments
-to the value of twelve hundred pounds sterling at least all which
-hee saith hee well knoweth were taken from him and them by the Captaine
-and Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' aforesays & hee & they dispoiled and
-deprived of them by the sayd Captaine & Company of the sayd man of
-warr called the ''S:ta Cruse'' who upon the
-seizure of the sayd frigott plundered & tooke away all whatsoever
-the sayd Captaine Hosier & his Company had and kept them
-prisoners for some time in chaynes & afterwards turned them on XXXXX at the
-Island ?Zephania to shXXX for them XXXXX without allowing ?them
-either provisions or XXXXX this he knoweth being one of the Company
-as aforesayd & soe kept in chaynes & after ?turned on shoare in manner
-aforesayd.  And further hee cannot depose
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposicon is true
-LAWRANCE BURR [His signature]
-<nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 2. Richard Baker of Debtford, Kent, Mariner, aged ?20 : Date: June 3rd, 1659===
-Rp
-.  RICHARD BAKER of Debtford in Kent Mariner
-aged ?twenty yeares and upwards a wittness sworne
-& examined saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t
-To the first arle of the allegation hee saidth that during all the moneths
-& tyme arlate in the yeares 1658 happening before the fowerteenth day
-of November which was the day of her seizure, the arlate John Swift
-John Parker John Harris & Company All English men & subiects of
-the Commonwealth of England were & still ?aught to bee the lawfull Owners
-& Proprietors of the arlate shipp the ''lady ffrigott'' & her tackle apparell
-& furniture And for such comonly reputed This hee knoweth being one of the sayd
-shipps//
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-P1110363
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-P1110364 f. 123 verso
-//shipps Company the voyages in question & a board her at her
-seizure. And further hee deposeth not
-To the 2 and 3 arles of the allegation hee saith that by ?reason hee
-went the voyage in question hee knoweth the arlate Alderman Ricard
-& others English Merchants of the Turkey Company did take the sayd shipp
-the ''lady ffrigott'' to freight for a Merchandizing  voyage to be made from
-London to ?Petrai & other pts beyond the seas to lade Currans & other
-goods for their Account & bring them for London & there deliver them to
-them or their Agents And saith the sayd shipp arrived safely at ?Polrao
-Roade where the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard and
-Company did lade & put aboard the sayd shipp for their Account
-one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans
-viz:t one hundred & thiry of M(OR, N)athaligo & thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans
-to be transported for London and there delivered to  them or their Agents And
-further hee cannot depose not knowing what other goods or money were
-put aboard her for their sayd freighters Account, but knoweth there
-were other goods beside the sayd Currans XX some bales of silke & other goods
-laden aboard the sayd shipp
-To the 4:th arle hee saith that whilst the shipp the ''lady ffrigott'' ?remayned in peaceable manner
-at Pererao Roade with the sayd Currants & other her ladeing aboard her
-viz:t the fowerteenth day of November one Thousand six hundred fifty
-eight there came into the sayd Roade a shipp of warr of about one hundred
-and fifty tonns and named (as be the Gunner of her & one of the Mates of
-her who were both dutch men and could speake good English and by others of her
-Company Italians which language alsoe this deponent can speake & understand this
-deponent was informed) the ''S:ta Cruso'' ffrancisco Stale Captaine w:ch shipp hee saith had
-when she came in a white Ancient in her poope and made as if she would
-have Anchored neere the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' but coming neere
-the sayed ffrancisco Stale & his Company in a hostile manner with
-swords & gunnes & other Instruments of warr boarded the sayd shipp
-the ''lady ffrigott'' and wounded her Captaine Captaine John Hosier
-& this deponent and severall others of her Company to the number of
-five or sixe and surprised her and her ladeing of Currans and
-other goods and dispoiled her and her ladeing of Currants and
-other goods and dispoiled the Owners thereof of the same and
-converted it to the use of the sayd Stale & his Company And further
-saving his deposition to the subsequent arles hee cannot depose
-To the 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
-this deponent understanding Italian did after the sayd shipp of warr
-the ''S:te Cruse'' had surprized the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing in manner
-aforesayd ?heare severall of the ''S:ta Cruse'' her Company (Italians) sayd
-that and acknowledge that their sayd shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' belonged to
-Genoa and was XXXX & sett out thence by the arlate Hippolite Cen-
-turioni who alsoe XX XXged sett out two other shipps of warr ?thence who came
-thence in Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'', and that the Commander of the
-''S:ta Cruse'' had before hee seized the ''lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing taken
-some XXXers and souldiers out of the sayd two other Genoa shipps
-the better to enable him to surprize the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing
-And saith the greatest part of the Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' who
-made the sayd seizure were Italians and as they acknowledged belonging
-to Genoa and further to these arles hee cannot depose
-To the 7:th hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her
-ladeing hee alsoe heard severall of the ''S:ta Cruses'' Company say and
-acknowledge that the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa by the said
-Hippolito Centuriani as a man of warr against the Turkes, and had
-bin//
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-P1110365 f. 124 recto
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-//bin a great while abroad & could get no prizes, and therefore had taken
-a Spanish Commission which was to last for a certayne tyme, and that the sayd
-Commission was expired two moneths before the
-seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing which notwithstanding (as they also
-sayd & acknowledged) they were resolved to seize what English shipps and
-their ladeing they could meete with under colour of that Commission And
-further to this arle hee cannot depose.
-To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle, ffurniture,
-freight, stick, and provisions aboard her at her seizure aforesayd were
-in this deponents Judgement worth fower thousand five hundred pounds
-sterling or neere thereabouts and soe much the arlate Swift Packer
-and Harris & Company Owners of her were by such her seizure XX damnified
-in this deponents Judgement and as hee verily beleeveth.
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that in his this deponents Judgement the
-hundred & sixty tonnes of Mahaligo & Petrao Currans belonging
-to the arlate Alderman Ricard and Company and seized on board the
-''Lady ffrigott'' were  (?at the tyme of their seizure) worth fower thousand pounds sterling and
-soe much in this deponents Judgement & as hee verily beleeveth they would
-have yeilded the sayd Alderman Ricard & Company if he had not bin
-taken by the sayd Genoa shipp of warr in manner aforesayd.  And
-further hee cannot depose.
-To the 10:th and 11:th hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer, and his
-Company at the tyme of the seizure of the shipp the ''lady
-ffrigott'' & her ladeing had on board the sayd shipp goods that were his
-& their adventures, and moneyes cloathes and instruments worth in
-this deponents Judgement fowerteene hundred pounds of lawfull English
-money All which hee saith hee well knoweth (being p:rsent at the seizure)
-were seized and taken from the sayd Captaine Hoyser & his company
-by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Genoa man of warr called
-the ''S:ta Cruse'', & the sayd Hoyser & his Company utterly dispoiled of them
-And saith that the Captaine & Company of the sayd Genoa man of
-warr haveing made the sayd seizure of the ''lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing
-plundered & taken away from her Captaine & her Company all that
-they had., kept the most of her Company prisoners in the hold, XXXXX
-for some tyme, and afterwards turned them on XXXX in the Ile of
-Cephalonia to ?shift for them XXXX without allowing them wither
-provisions or money And further to these arles he cannot depose
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
-RICHARD BAKER  [His signature]
-Repeated in Court before both Judges
-<nowiki>*********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 3.  Gilbert Anckelly, of Debtford, Kent, Mariner, late Boatswaine of the Lady ffrigott, aged 30 : Date: June 3rd, 1659===
-The same day
-.  GILBERT ANCKELLY of Debtford in Kent Mariner
-late Boatswaine of the ''lady ffrigott'' aged thirty yeares
-& upwards a wittnesse sworne & examined saith and
-deposeth as followeth viz:t
-To the first and second arles hee saith that during the months and tyme arlaze in
-the yeare 1658 happening next before the fowerteenth day of the Month
-of November the sayd yeare which was the day shee and her lading were
-seized in maner hereafter specified, the arlate John Swift John Parker
-John//
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-P1110366 f. 124 verso & f. 125 recto
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-P1110367 f. 124 verso
-'''Reasonable quality digital image'''
-//John Harris & Company all English men & subiects of this Common
-wealth of England were commonly reputed to be & soe still ought to be the
-true lawfulll Owners and proprietors of the arlate Shipp the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' & of her tackle apparell, & furniture And saith the sayd Shipp
-was taken to freight by the arlate Alderman Riccard & Company
-English Merchants on a trading voyage to be made from London
-to Ligorne Portrai (OR, Petrao) & other places beyond the seas to lade Currans & other goods
-ther for their Account & deliver them heere at London to them or their Agents
-To the 3 arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the moneths and tyme
-arlate the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigitt'' arriving safely at ?Polrao Road
-the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard & Company did there & XXX
-XXXXXXXXX cause to be laden and XXXX go ?nyne and sixty tonnes of Currans and divers other
-goods or bales of silke, and other merchandizes and moneys for Account
-of the saiyd Riccard & Company to be brought thence to London & there
-delivered to them or their Agents And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' haveing
-reced the sayd Currans & other goods & moneys aboard her lay therewitrh
-and with other her ladeing in a peaceable manner at Anchor in the
-Road of ?Poltrao in the moneth of November 1658 And saith that
-while shee soe lay there upon the fowerteenth day of the sayd moneth
-there came into the sayd Roade a shipp of warr of about a hundred and
-fifty tonnes called the XXXXX XXXXXX sayd XXX XXXXX belonging (as severall of her comoany afterwards con-
-fessed in this deponents heareing) to Genoa whence shee came
-as they alsoe sayd under command of  XXX Captaine ffrancisco
-Hippolito Centurioni togeather with two other shipps which
-came thence in her Company sett out alsoe by the sayd Hippolito on a Warlike designe, which shipp the ''Sta Cruse'' at her first coming
-into Polrao Roade had a white flagg in her poope and made
-as if shee would have anchored neere the ''Lady ffrigott'' but when
-shee was gotten up neere to her the Captaine & Company of the sayd
-Genoa shipp called the ''Sta Cruse'' did in a warlike manner with
-swords & gunns & other instruments of warr board the ''Lady ffrigott''
-and wounded the Captaine of her & six more of her Company
-and violently seized her ladeing of Currans & other goods and
-money & dispoiled ?the XXXXX thereof of the same & ConXXXXed
-them to their the said Captaine Stale & his Companyes use And
-saith the Gunner & an other of her Company  duXXXX ?boy who well
-speake good English told this deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company
-that the Captainne of the ''Sta Cruse'' the better to enable him to seize
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing had a little before the sizure
-taken some Mariners & souldiers out of the foresayd two other Genoa
-men of warr And hee saith most of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse''
-were Italians, and as they confessed belonged to Genoa And
-further  to theser arles hee cannot depose./
-To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
-& her ladeing severall of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' did confesse
-that they were sett out from Genoa upon a warlike designe a:t the
-Turk?s & had bin a great while abroad and Could get noe prizes
-& therefore they had taken a Spanish Commission which was only
-to last a certayne tyme, which tyme )as they sayd & acknowledged
-was expired two monethes before they seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' and
-her ladeing, but sayd alsoe that they were resolved ?although
-it//
------
-P1110368 f. 125 recto
-'''High quality digital image'''
-//it were expired yet they would take any English shipps they ?would (OR, ?could)
-meete with This hee knoweth for that hee being Boatswaine of the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' & seized in her heard severall of the ''Sta Cruse'' her company
-speake the sayd words./
-To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle and
-furniture, & freight, and stock & provisions on board her at her seizure
-aforesayd by the sayd Gennoa (sic) man of warr called the''Sta Cruse'' was in
-his this deponents Judgment well worth five thousand pounds of lawfull
-English money and soe much hee beleeveth the says Swift XXXXX &
-XXXXXX & other her Owners were dammaged by her being surprized & taken
-as aforesayd And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred & sixty Tonne of
-Currants aforesayd on board the ''Lady ffrigott'' belonging to the foresayd
-Alderman Riccard & Company were at their surprizall worth in this
-deponents Judgement and estimate ?thirteene thousand pounds of lawfull
-English money and would as hee verily beleeveth have yeilded the sayd
-Riccard & Company soe much of they had not bin surprized in manner
-as aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosier and
-his Company had at the tyme of the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''
-& her ladeing by the sayd Gen?uoa man of warr the ''Sta Cruse'' goods
-which were her & their adventures and money cloathes and Instru-
-ments aboard her to the value in this deponents Judgement of eight
-hundred pounds of lawfull English money All which were seized and
-taken from the sayd Hosier & his Company & they utterly deprXed of
-them by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Gennoa man of warr
-who plundered them of them and having soe done kept the Company of
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' prisoners for a tyme the most of them being cheyned, and after
-wards sett them on shoare in the Island of Cephalonia to shXXX
-for themselves without allowing them money or provisions  And
-further hee cannot depose/
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
-<nowiki>********************************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 4.  John Carrier, of Debtford, Kent, Shipwright, late Carpenters Mate of the Lady ffriggott, aged 22 : Date: June 3rd, 1659===
-XXXX ?verte Suckley.
-The same day
-Examined on the sayd allegation
-Rep
-:us  JOHN CARRIER of Debtford in the County of
-Kent Shipwright late Carpenters Mate of the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes
-sworne and examined saith & deposeth as followeth vizt
-To the first arles of the allegation hee saith that hee being Carpenters
-Mate of her the yoyage in question knoweth that the arlate John Swift
-John Parker John Harris & Company all Englishmen & subiects of
-this Commonwealth of England were during the moneths & tyme arlate in
-the yeare 1653 untill the fowerteenth day of November 1658 which was
-the//
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-P1110369 f. 125 verso & f. 126 recto
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-P1110370 f. 125 verso
-'''High quality digital image'''
-//the day when she & her lading were seized in manner hereafter
-expressed) were as hee beleeveth and still ought to be the true & lawfull Owners and
-Proprietors of the arlate Shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle
-Apparell & furniture, and for such were XXX commonly Accounted And
-further hee cannot depose
-To the second and third hee saith that the sayd shipp ?y:e ''Lady ffrigott'' was in the
-moneths & tyme arlate taken to freight by Alderman Andrew
-Riccard & Company for a tradeing voyage from London to ?Petrao
-and other pts beyond the Seas to lade Currans & other goods for their
-Account & bring the same for London & there deliver them to them or
-their Agents In order whereto the sayd shipp hee saith did in the
-moneths & tyme arlate safely arive in Petrao roade where and
-at Ma?thaligo the Agents of the sayd Alderman Riccard & Company
-laded one hundred & sixty tonnes of Currans of the growth of
-Mathalago:s and Petrao and divers other goods & money for their
-use and Accompt to be transported for London & there delivered
-to them or their Agents for their use And further hee cannot depose/
-To the 4:th 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' had recvd the sayd Currans & other her lading
-& the sayd moneys on board her shee lay peaceably at Anchor
-therewith, in the Road of Petra?s, till the fowerteenth of November
-on which day hee saith hee well remembreth a certayne shipp
-of about one hundred & fifty tonnes burthen manned for the
-most part with Italians, and called (as this deponent heard a
-dutch man who was MXXXX of her & a dutch man who was gunner
-of her & an ?Irishman who was of her company & ?could XXX speake English saye after the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigot''
-and her ladeing) the ''Sta Cruse'', whereof (as they sayd) one ffrancisco
-Stale was Captaine came into Petrao Road with a white flagg
-on her poope and made as if shee intended peaceably to have Ancho-
-red neere the ''Lady ffrigott'' but when shee came neere her the sayd
-Stale & his Company instead of coming to an Anchor did in a
-warlike manner with gunns swords & other Instruments of warr
-violently assault and board the ''Lady ffrigott'' and wounded
-the Captain of her and some of his Company (but how many
-hee remembreth not) and seized the sayd shipp & her ladeing
-of Currans and other goods & money & dispoile?th the Owners thereof
-of them, and ?conceveth it & them to the use of them the sayd Stale
-& Company And hee saith that hee this deponent  heard the
-sayd dutch man & Irish man acknowledge & say before this deponent
-& others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company that the sayd shipp ''Sta Cruse''
-belonged to Gennoa & was manned & sett out thence as alsoe
-were two other shipps of warr that came thence in her Company
-by the arlate Hippolito Centurioni a ?Gen?nose and that ?the
-sayd Captaine Stale did for the better enableing him to seize
-the ''Lady ffrigott'', a little before his seizure of her take about thirty
-mariners & souldiers out of the sayd two other Gennoa men of
-warr And hee this deponent saith that most of the ''Sta Cruse''
-her Company were Italians & XX the sayd dutchman and
-Irishman sayd  most of them belonged to Gennoa And further
-to these arles hee cannot depose./
-To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the seizure of the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' & her sayd ladeing and money the sayd two dutch men
-and//
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-P1110371 f. 126 recto
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-//and Irish man who were of the Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' did before
-this deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' company acknowledge & saye
-that the ''Sta Cruse'' at her setting out from Gennoa went as a man of
-warr against the Turkes and hath bin long abroad & gott noe
-prizes, and had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which was
-lymitted for a certayne tyme which tyme as the sayd dutch man and
-Irish man affirmed was expired two moneths before the ''Sta Cruse''
-seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing which notwithstanding the Captaine
-& Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' (as the sayd dutch & Irish man sayd) were
-resolved to seize all English shipps & their ladeing which hee would (OR, could)
-light of And further to this arle hee cannot depose./
-To the 8:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith
-that in his this deponents Judgment the ''Lady ffrigott''
-and her tackle & furniture and freight & stock & provisions aboarde
-her at her seizure by the sayd Gennoa shipp of warr called the
-''Ste Cruse'' was worth ?two thousand pounds of lawfull English
-money And soe much hee beleeveth the sayd Swift Packer Harris
-& other her Owners were damnified by her being surprized & taken as
-aforesayd And further to this arle he cannot depose/
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that the Currans seized aboard the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' & belonginging to the arlate Alderman Riccard & Compamy
-were worth at their seizure fourteene thousand pounds of lawfull
-English money in this deponents Juddgment and estimate and soe
-much hee verily beleeveth they would have yeilded to the sayd Alder-
-man Riccard & Company if they had not bin seized in manner aforesayd
-And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
-To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that the arlate Captaine XXXX
-& his Company had on board the ''Lady ffrigott'' at her seizure by
-the fooresayd Gennoa man of warr in goods which were XXX XXXXXX
-their proper adventure & in money Cloathes & Instruments to the value
-in this deponents Judgment of a thousand pounds of lawfull English
-money all which hee well knoweth were taken from by the
-sayd Captaine & Company of the sayd Genuoa man of warr who
-plundered & deprived them of them and afterwards kept the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company XXXX some
-tyme prisoners in chaynes and after a while
-putt them on shoare in the Island of Chephalonia (sic) and put them
-XXX toXXXXX for them selves without allowing them either provisions
-or momey And further hee cannot depose/
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
-JOHN [HIS MARK]  CARRIER
-His marke
-<nowiki>*********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Examination: 5.  John Gates, of Debtford, Kent, Ship Wright, one of the Carpenters of the Lady ffrigott, aged 18 : Date: June 4th, 1659===
-The 4:th day of June 1659
-Examined on the sayd allegation/
-Rp
-?5:th  JOHN GATES of Debtford in the County of Kent Shipps
-Wright one of the Carpenters of the ''Lady ffrigott''
-aged eighteene yeares or thereabouts a witnesse
-sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
-vizt
-To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith hee goeing in the shipp the
-''Lady''//
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-P1110372 f. 126 verso & f. 127 recto
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-----
-P1110373 f. 126 verso
-'''High quality digital image'''
-//''Lady ffrigott'' the voyage in question and serving in her as
-one of the Carpenters XXXXXX knoweth that in the monethe and tyme
-arlate in the yeare 1658 happening next before the foureteenth day of
-November that yeare which was the day whereon the ''Lady ffirgott'' amd her
-ladeing were seized in manner hereafter declared the arlate John Swift
-John Parker John Harris and Company all English men & subiects of
-the Commonwealth of England were (and as hee beleeveth still ought
-to be the true & lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the sayd shipp the
-''Lady ffrigott'' and of her tackle apparrell & furniture and for such
-comonéy  reputed./
-To the 2 and 3 arle hee saith that hee knoweth that in ?Examinate & tyme arlate the sayd shipp was
-?hyred and taken to freight by some of the Turkey Company
-Merchants of London (but their names hee knoweth not in pticuler) to
-to goe upon a Merchandising imployment from London to Petr?ao arlate
-and ?Mahaligo & other places beyond the seas to lade Currans and
-other goods for their use & Account & bring them for London & there
-deliver them to them or their Agents and did accordingly within the
-sayd tyme arrived at the Roade of Potrea and there & at Mahalago
-tooke in Currans to the quantity of one hundred and threescore
-Tonnes which were laden by the Agents of the sayd ffreighters to
-& for the sayd ffreighters Account to be thence transported to London
-& there dekivered ti the sayd ffreighters or their Agents for their use
-this hee knoweth being one of the sayd shipps
-Company and helping to lade the sayd Currans And further hee
-cannot depose./
-To the 4:th 5:th 6:th and 7:th ares hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' having taken aboard her the sayd hundred & sixty ?tonnes of
-Currans for the sayd ffreighters Account besides severall other quan-
-tities of Currans laden aboard her for Account of Captaine Hosyer
-the Captaine of her, & of his Company as their private Adventures
-and lyeing in peaceable manner therewith in the Roade of Potrai
-at Anchor, there came into the sayd Roade upon the fowerteenth of
-November 1658 a shipp of about a hundred & fifty tonnes burthen
-& having a white Ancient in her poope and made as if shee
-had intended to come to Anchor by the ''Lady ffrigott'' but being come
-neere her the Captaine & Company of the sayd shipp boarded the
-''Lady ffrigott'' & in a warlike manner assaulted the Captaine &
-Company of the ''Lady ffrigott'' with swords & gunnes and other warlike
-instruments & wounded the Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott'', and this
-deponent and about fower more of the sayd frigotts company
-& surprized & tooke the sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing of
-Currants & dispoiled the Owners thereof the same & XXX XXXXX
-them to the use of them the sayd seizers, And hee saith that all or the greatest
-part of the sayd shipps company that made the sayd seizure were
-Italians, except one dutch man who was Master XXXXX & an other
-dutchman that was gunner of her, & an Irish man who was one of
-her Company, and hee further saith that after the sayd seizure the sayd
-two dutch men & Irish man (who could & did speake all XXXX of them good
-English) did acknowledge & confesse to this deponent & severall others
-of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company that the sayd shipp which made the
-sayd seizure was a shipp belonging to Gennoa and called the ''Sta
-Cruse'' and that her Captaines name was ffrancisco Stale, and that
-her Company (except thXXX three) were all or most of them GenoXses
-& that shee was sett out from Gennoa together with two other ships of
-warr that came thence in her Company by the arlate Hippolite Centurioni
-and//
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-P1110372 f. 126 verso & f. 127 recto
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-f. 127 recto only
-//and that their Captaine ffrancisco Stale had a little before hee seized
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing taken mariners and souldiers out of
-the sayd other two shipps of warr to enable him the better to take the ''lady
-ffrigott'' or any English shipps they could meete with, And that the sayd shipp
-the ''Sta Cruse'' was sett out from Gennoa as a man of warr against the
-Turkes & hatd taken a Spanish Commission which was XXXX only for
-a tyme which tyme (as the sayd dutch men & Irish man acknowledged to this
-deponent & others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company) was expired some moneths
-before shee seized the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her ladeing, but as the sayd dutch
-men and Irish man dayd the Captaine & Company did saye and affirme
-that they were resolved though their sayd Spanish Commission were
-expired yet they would take & were resolved to take all English shipps
-& their ladeing they ?could meete with And further to these arles hee cannot
-depose/
-To the 8:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that in his this deponents
-Judgment the shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle & furniture and
-freight & stock & provisions on board her at her seizure aforesaid were well worth
-two thousand pounds of lawfull English money and soe much at the least
-in this deponents Judgment the arlate Swift Parker & Harris & other her Owners were damnified
-by her being surprized by the sayd Gennoa man of warr in XXXX the ''Sta
-Cruse'' And further hee cannot depose./
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred and sixty tonne of Currans
-laden aboard the ''Lady ffrigott'' for Accompt of the Turkey
-Company freighters of the sayd shipp and seized in her as aforesayd
-were at their seizure worth in this deponents Judgement and estimate
-thirteene thousand pounds of lawfull English money, and would have yeilded
-the sayd ffreighters soe much if they had not bin seized in manner afore
-sayd And further hee cannot depose./
-To the 10:th and 11:th arles hee saith that hee wel knoweth
-being one of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' company as a foresayd & aboard at her seizure
-that the arlate Captaine Hosyer and his Company of mariners had on
-board the ''Lady ffrigott'' at the tyme of her seizure by the Gennoa man of
-warr called the ''Sta Cruse'' goods Cloathes and instruments worth
-in this deponents Judgement eighteene hundred pounds of lawfull English money all which the
-Captaine & Company of the ''Sta Cruse'' aforesayd plundered and tooke
-away from the sayd Hosyer Captaine  of the ''Lady ffrigott''
-and his Company, and having soe done kept the sayd Hosyer and ?his
-Company for some tyme prizoners in chaynes and afterwards turned
-them on shoare in the Island of Chepalonia to shiXX for them selves
-without allowing them either money or provisiones/
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposiccon is true
-JOHN GATES [His signature]
-<nowiki>*********************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others:  Examination:  6. John Cock, of Redriff, Surrey, Mariner, late Quartermaster of the Lady ffrigott, aged 40: Date:  June 4th, 1659===
-The same day
-Examined on the sayd allegation./
-  JOHN COCK of Redriff in the County of Surrey
-Mariner late Quartermaster of the ''Lady ffrigott'' aged
-forty yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and
-examined saith and deposeth as followeth vizt./
-To the first arle of the sayd allegation hee saith hee goeing Quarter
-Master of the ''Lady ffrigott'' the voyage in question knoweth that the arlate John
-Swift//
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-P1110376 f. 127 verso
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-//Swift John Parker & other their Company all Englishmen & subiects of
-this Commonwealth of England were in the moneths & tyme arlate in the
-yeare 1658 untill the tyme of her seizure which was in or about the XXX
-of November 1658, were commonly reputed lawfull Owners & Proprietors
-of the sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' & her tackle & furniture And further hee
-cannot depose./
-To the 2 and 3 arles hee saith that hee foeing Quarter Master the voyage in question knoweth that
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' was lett to freight in the moneths & tyme arlate to certayne
-English Merchants of the Maria (OR, Morea) Company tradeing for Turkey to goe from
-London to Polerao & other places beyond  Seas & lade Currans & other goods
-for their Account & bring them for London & theire deliver them to them or their
-Agents and knoweth that the sayd Ship in order to her sayed voyage sett sayle
-from Gravesend in May 1658 and afterwards arrived safely at Polerao
-and XXXX and at Lathalago tooke in Currans which were laden aboard
-the ''Lady ffrigott'' by the Agents or ffactors of the sayd Maria Company and
-did account to a hundred and sixty tonnes of Currans, and also other
-goods & money for their Account but the quantitie hee knoweth not which
-Currans & other goods & money were to be transported from Polera to
-London for Account of the sayd Maria Company freighters of the sayd shipp &
-there delivered to them or their Agents for their use, but the names of the XXXX
-Company who XXXX the sayd ffreighters hee knoweth not And farther to
-these arles hee cannot depose./
-To the 4:th 5:th 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that the sayd shipp the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' having taken the sayd Currans and other goods & money aboard
-her lay peaceably therewith at Anchor in the moneth of November
-in the road of Polarao And saith that while shee lay there
-there came a shipp of warr into the sayd Roade of about a hundred &
-fifty tonns burthen and having a white Ancient in her poope and
-made as if shee intended to come to an Anchor by the ''lady ffrigott''
-& came with her Anchor ?cockbills ready to dropp downe & with only her
-foresayle & mizzen abroad as if shee would have come only to Anchor
-but coming neere the ''lady ffrigott'', the Captaine & Company of the
-sayd shipp boarded the ''Lady ffrigott'' and in a warlike manner sett
-upion the Captaine & Company of her with swords gunnes pistills &
-other warlike Instruments and wounded the Captaine of her, and
-this deponent & his p:rcontest John Gales and others of the ''Lady ffrigotts''
-Company to the number in all of about eight besides the Captaine, and
-tooke & surprized the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' & her sayd ladeinge of
-Currans & other goods & money and dispoiled the Owners thereof of the
-same, and dispersed of it at the will & pleasure of them the sayd seizers
-And saith that most of the company of the shipp that made the sayd seizure
-were Italians saveing there were two dutch men the one the master &
-the other the Gunner of her, & an Irishman who were of her company &
-which dutch men & Irish man soake good English, and did to this deponent
-and other of the ''Lady ffrigott's'' Company after the seizure aforesayd
-confesse & declare that the name of the ssayd Shipp that made the seizure
-was called the ''S:ta Cruse'' and her Captaines name ffrancisco
-Stale, and that the sayd shipp ''S:t Cruse'' did belong to Gennoa, and
-that most of her Company were Genoese that shee & two other shipps
-of warr that came from Gennoa in her Company were sett out XXXX
-by Hippollito Centaerioni a Gennose, and that the sayed Cap
-taine Stale not long before hee seized this ''Lady ffrigott''& her ladeing
-had taken some mariners & souldiers out of the other two Gennia shipps
-of warr the bettwe to enable him to seize the ''Lady ffrigitt'' And XX
-the sayd shipp the ''S:ta Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa as a man of
-warr against the Turcks & had bon a XXXXX while a broad & could get noe
-prizes & had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which was to be
-only for a tyme, which tyme as the sayd Irsihman & two dutch men  XXX
-war expired two moneths  before the ''S:ta Cruse'' seized the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' & her ladeing, but (as the sayed Irishman & dutchment alsoe say
-XXX//
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-P1110377 f. 128 recto
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-//the Captaine & Company of the ''S:ta Cruse'' did saye & declare that
-they were resolved that though their sayd Spanish Commission were
-expired yet they would take all English shipp & their ladeing which they
-could light of And further to these arles hee cannot depose,/
-To the 8:th arle hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle and
-furniture & freight and XXXX & provisions which shee had on board
-her at the tyme when shee was seized by the sayd Gennoa man of warr
-named the ''S:ta Cruse'' was as this deponents Judgment worth five thiusand
-pounds of lawfull English money & soe much hee beleeveth the arlate
-Swifte & other her owners were damnified by reason of XXX surprizall./
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that the hundred and sixty Tonnes of Currans
-laden aboard the ''Lady ffrigitt'' for Account of the Moria Company aforesayd
-her freighters, and aboard her at her seizure, were in hee this deponents
-Judgment worth fowerteene thousand pounds of lawfull English money And,
-soe much hee verily beleeveth they would have yeilded to the Owners of them
-if they had not bin seized in manner aforesayd./
-To the 10:th & 11:th arle hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer and
-his Company of Mariners had goods & cloathes & money aboard the ''Lady
-ffrigott'' at the tyme of her seizure by the foresayd Gennoa man of warr
-worth a very considerable value, and accounting in this deponents
-Judgment to eight hundred pounds at the least of lawfull English money
-all which hee saith hee well knoweth was plundered & taken away from
-them by the Captaine & Company of the sayd Gennoa man of warr wXX
-after they had taken the ame kept the Captaine & Company of the
-''Lady ffrigott'' for some tyme prizoners in chaynes, & at length turned
-them a shoare in the Island of Chephalonia
-to shifte for them selves giving them only one smale basket of
-Rusks but noe money, And further hee cannot depose/
-To the last hee sauth his foregoeing deposition is true./
-<nowiki>*******************************************************</nowiki>
-Case: XXXX ag:t  Grove: Examination: 3  Captaine John Rand, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 40:  Date: May 6th, 1659===
-The 6:th of May 1659:
-Examined on y:e sd Allon
-XXXX ag:t Grove)
-Rp.
-:us CAPTAINE JOHN RAND of Ratcliffe Marrine:r aged
-yeares or thereabouts sworne and Examined.
-To the 9:th arle of the said Allon hee saith and Deposeth that
-for that hee hath used the sea for theise Eight and twenty yeered
-ast as a Master and Mariner; and used to saile to the Island
-of Barbadoes, for theise Nine yeeres last as M:r thereby well knoweth
-that it is a very Common, and Usuall thing for ships to miss
-the Island of Barbadoes, by reason of hurricanes, w:ch  put them out
-of their Littitudes (sic), and saith that by reason of the said
-Hurricanes this Depo:t hath missed the Island twice, & one of those
-times was when y:e arlate ship y:e ?''Speare'' (Thomas Grove M:r)
-missed it, XXXXX y:e XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX as this Depo:t hath bin Credib,y Informed
-severall shipps did then misse y:e sd Island of Barbadoes, and went
-to y:e Leoward Islands.  And further hee Cannot depose saving
-what followeth
-To//
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-P1110378 f. 129 recto
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-//him to be an able honest, and skilfull seaman and M:r and soe
-hee is Comonly accounted to be.  And further, cannot
-depose:/:
-Upon y:e rest not Examined by direccon of the said Grove
-To the Interries
-To the 1:st hee saith y:e sd Grove requested this sd depo:t to come
-and testify in this Cause; and saith hee favoureth both the ptyes litigant
-a like, and if it were in his power.  hee would give y:e Victory
-to M:r Grove; and saith hee never belonged to y:e said ship, and otherwise
-cannot answer./.
-The second concerneth him not.
-To the 3:d hee saith hee hath  knowne y:e sd Luke Wood for
-about 14 or 15 yeeres next before his death, and for all that time hee had the
-repute of an honest and sober mann and further cannot
-Answer:/:
-To the 4:th hee saith that hee doth not knowe that y:e said Grove
-is accounted to be as is Interrate & Otherwise cannot answer
-The 5:th Concerneth him not
-To y:e 6:th. 7:th. 8:th. 9:th. 10:th. 11:th. & 12:th hee cannot Answer thereunto:7.
-To the 13:th hee hath not soe deposed
-To the 14:th hee cannot Answer:
-To the 15:th hee saith that hee went from Nevis many Dayes before y:e Day
-interrate. and therefore knoweth nothing of y:e matter Interrate
-To the 16:th 17:th & 18:th he cannot answer:
-To the 19:th he Cannot Answer.
-To the last hee saith that hee is not allyed to y:e said Grove in any
-Degree of Kindred that he knoweth of & is nowayes related unto
-him: /./.
-JOHN RAND  [His signature]
-<nowiki>***********************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Deposition: 7.  William Bowtell, of London, Merchant, aged 25 : Date: June 8th, 1659===
-The eighth of June 1659.
-Swifte and others against)
-CenturionX and others aforesd)
-Examined upon the fore said allon given on the behalfe of
-the said Swifte and other.
-Rp.
-  WILLIAM BOWTELL of London Marchant, aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts
-sworne and examined.
-To the nineth article of the said allegacon upon w:ch ?alon hee is by diXXXXX
-of the prudence examined, hee saith and deposeth that twenty hundred
-weight of Matyalago XXXX goe to and make a tonne of currans, And
-saith that  in the moneth of ffebruary last past the shipp the ''Virgin frigot''
-(Andrew CraXXX master) came and arived in this port of London laded
-with XXXX Currans, for account of this deponent and John Trelgany merchant
-and that the said Currans weere all here sold for the sume of three pounds and two shillings XXXX
-per hundred weight one hundred w:ch XXXXX to this cont?est John Savage and company ?Citizens
-of this citie of London, Xating them the market price of that commoditie in
-this arle, that as this deponent heard and beleeveth good MahXXXX
-currans//
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-P1110379 f. 129 verso
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-//currans were then worth tenn shillings in the hundred XXXX XXX ?Zante
-currans were.  And further ?that as hee was informed by lres of
-advise from Zante,  and hath since bin informed by the said XXXXXX XXX
-the shipp the ''Lady frigot'' allegate and the said shipp the ''Virgin
-frigat'' were designed and intended to come together in company to this
-port, to w:ch purpose the ''Lady frigot'' was intended to come from
-Morea to Zante and thence to come along with the ''Virgin''
-w:ch if shee had done, and that the ''Virgin'', XXXX had not
-XXXXXX, the said shipp the ''Lady frigot'' with her lading allegate
-and in all probabilitie arrived here in ffebruary last as the ''XXX
-frigot'' did.  And further deposeth not.
-W BOWTELL [His signature]//
-<nowiki>*********************************************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: John Swift John Parker John Harris and Company, Owners of the Shipp the Lady ffrigott vs. Hippolito Centurione of Genoa and others: Examination: 8.  John Savage, of S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal Exchange, London, Merchant, aged 32 : Date: June 4th, 1659===
-//The same day.
-Examined upon the said allon
-:  JOHN SAVAGE of the parish of S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal
-Exchange London Merchant, aged 32 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
-and examined.
-vidXX 9:us in XXX.XX:
-Rp.
-To the nineth arle of the said allon upon w:ch alone hee is by discretion
-of the producent examined, hee saith and deposeth that twenty hundred
-of ?Nathalago (OR, ?Mathalago) currans  XXXX to and XXXke a XXXXX, and saith that
-in and during the monethes of November December January and
-ffebruary last ?Nathalago (OR, ?Mathalago) Currans were worth in this citie and
-would have yeilded three pounds and tenn shillings per hundred one
-hundred with another as the ordinary and XXXXX ?price for that XXXX
-w:ch hee knoweth ?being a ffreeman and a ?G:rocer of ?London
-and having XXXX used that trade, and thereby being well acquainted
-with the condition and price or valew of that commoditie, and
-further saith that in ffebruary last hee this deponent with
-William Savage and Thomas ?Atterton, brought the lading of
-currans of the shipp the ''Virgin frigot'' being Zante Currans of the producente William Bowtell ?as XX
-agreed and paid three pounds and two shillings per ?pound
-weight for the same and soe much hee saith they were worth XX
-and saith that Mathalago currants were XXXXX worth twenty XX
-per hundred more than Zante currants.  and further ??he
-deposeth not.
-JOHN: SAVAGE  [His signature]
-<nowiki>*********************************************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: Wood ag:t Grove: Examination: 4.  Captain Thomas Thorne, of S:t Catherines XXXX, Mariner, aged 34: Date: June 18th, 1659===
-The 18:th of June 1659.
-Wood ag:t Grove)
-Examined on Groves Allon
-?d:t Grove./
-  CAPTAINE THOMAS THORNE of S:t Catherine XXX
-Mariner aged 24 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
-and Examined./.
-To the 9:th arle hee saith that hee hath used y:e Barbadoes XXXXX
-of a ship for about six yeeres last. and thereby knoweth that
-Ships doe usually misse the Island of Barbadoes,
-by reason of Greate Currants. and foule and Thicke weather
-w:ch often times happens in these parts, and further cannot
-depose.
-To the ?13:th hee saith that hee this Depo:t on or about the first
-day of January 1657: arrived at Nevis where hee ?found
-that y:e Hurricanes had spoiled y:e plantaccons ?there
-XXXX//
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-P1110380 f. 280 recto
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-//The 31:th of March 1659
-The Lord Protector against the shipp the ''Santa)
-Cruse'' don JoXXX XXXXX Commander XXX)
-in the River of Thames. BXXXX)
-JUAN FRANCESCO of MXXXX in ?Nova ?Hibernia
-mariner, aged 23 yeares or thereabouts, ?sworne
-and examined upon XXXX Interries
-in XXXXX XXXXX Highness behalfe XXXX
-prepXXXXX, deposeth as followeth.
-To the first article hee saith that the said shipp the ''Santa Cruse'' belonged to the
-port of VXXX CXXX in ?Nova ?Hibernia in the Dominion of the king of
-Spaine, and belongeth as hee berily beleeveth to the said Captaine don JosXXXX
-or JoXXXXX XXXago, who XXX and is commonly esteemed the XX XXX XXXXX
-and that his dwelling (of this deponents knowledge) in XXX XXXXX aforesays
-To the second hee saith that the said shipp in or about ffebruary last was a
-twelvemoneth departed from XXX XXXX aforesaid for S:ta Domingo, and
-arrived from VXXX CXXXXX XX two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar
-and tenn chests of perfume, and six sacks of Carra ?Nuts, and eight
-peeces of XXXXX, w:ch were to be carried to and delivered at Sta Domingo,
-XXXXXX her desigXXXX XX to take in Spanish bullion for Jamaica.  And
-further hee cannot depose.
-To the third hee saith that the said shipp departing from VXXX CXXXX
-put in the ?harbour to victuall, and after about foure or five monethes
-stay there, (occasioned by the Captaines falling sick) XXX departed to perXXXXX
-her voyage for Sta Domingo, and shortly after ?such her departure namely in
-or about August last XXXX, XXXX with and taken XXXX XX an English man of warr
-of foure XXX and fiftie men, and saith the said lading belonged to the
-said Captaine, a subiect of the king of Spaine, who laded them at
-Vera CXXXX aforesaid for his owne account.  And further cannot depose.
-To the 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.  11.  and 13 hee saith hee was ine of the said ships company
-and is alsoe a subiect of the king of Spaine and
-ADD TEXT
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-//''Santa ?Cruse'' was built in CoXXXpeXye in the West Indies about foure
-yeeres since, where the said Captaine Joseppo Sinnego bought her
-and brought her to ?Vera Cruce wheare the said Captaine
-XXXed her with goods for Havana and there tooke in other goods
-and after ?some ?time of ?stay departed with her and her lading for
-Sta Domingo where hs designe was to deliver the said goods and there
-to embarque ?soldiers for Jamaica and XXXXX theem in the said XXX
-but?running at sea in her course from Havana on the coast of the said Havana
-was on or about the eight and twentieth of August last met with
-and taken by an English vessell of warr of ?fXXXX gunns /the name
-pf w:ch hee knoweth not, but saith her commander was called
-Captaine James) and the said shipp ''S:ta Cruse'' with her
-lading of two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar and two chests
-of ffranjinsense, six sacks of cacoa nuts & eight pecces of
-?eigth, were upon the said seizure taken by the said Captaine
-James and XXXX XXX (in their said man of warr) and carried to
-Bermudas, and there the said man of warr and
-all her company being about 50 men saving the Captaine and one more) ?staid, and
-the said Captaine and ?that other persona nd such other as they ?got
-brought the said prize and lading directly for ladXXXX, XXXXX ?they
-now are their dXXXXX and his precontest being brought along
-in her saith the said goods were laded by and for seaparaterly
-account, all w:ch hee knoweth being embarked at Vera
-CXXXX to be a boy of the shipp to XXXX and doe reparires w:th
-and going from
-<nowiki>*********************************************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: XXXX: Examination: Allen Allenson, of XXXXX in Holland, Mariner, aged 40:  Date:  April 2nd 1659===
-The second of Aprill 1659
-Examined upon an allon given ?in
-by Suckley the 30:th of March last
-The Lord Protector against a parcell of)
-Virginia Tobaccoes and BarelXXXX)
-brought to Plimouth in the ''S:t Jacob'' of)
-Hamboro?w, and against TomXXXX and)
-others.  Budd.  Suckly.  ffrancklin)
-ALLEN ALLENSON of EuXXXXX in
-Holland Mariner, aged fourtie yeeres
-or thereabouts sworne and examined
-XXXX and saith
-Rp
-To the first and second third and fourth articles of the said allon hee saith and deposeth
-XXXX//
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-===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott:  Examination: Catch Kyme, of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, Mate of the Bantam ffrigot, aged 26 : Date: March 24th 1658===
-P1110382 f. 266 recto
-'''High quality digital image'''
-//The 24:th of March 1658
-A business of y:e Examinacon of Witnesses on the behalfe)
-of S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks)
-Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman, and)
-Company concerning the seizure, and for some time)
-detention and the hinderance of the trade in a Certaine)
-ship called the ''BANTAM FFRIGOT'' whereof Isaac Taylor)
-was M:r and Comand:r & such of the lading)
-as was aboard the said Ship in ffact but unduly made)
-by Antonie Van Voozst Captaine and Comander of
-the ship the ''Turtle Dove'' in the Imediate Service of)
-the Dutch East India Company and alsoe Concerning)
-all Damages happening thereupon and ag:t one John
-?Mait ?Suijker y:e now, or late Generall of the said Company)
-at Battavia in y:e East Indias ag:t the said Van Voozst in pticular)
-and all others y:e will take upon them the Justificaccon of the said Busines)
-FRANCKLIN
-Examined upon
-and Allegacon given
-in by M:r ffrancklin
-on the part and
-Behalfe of the
-said S:r John Dethicke
-Knight Edward Bolle
-John Bancks Richard
-Foord, Edward Mico
-William Pretman
-and Company.
-. ub:  CATCH KYME of Ratcliffe in the
-parish of Stepney and County of Mid
-Mariner Mate of the ''Bantam ffrigot'' aged 26 yeeres or thereabouts
-Sworne and Examined
-To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth
-that during all the monethes of September
-October, November, December, January, ffebruary and March
-: English Stil, and Continually since: the said S:r John
-Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard fford
-Edward Mico and William Pretman and Company
-have bin and are Comonly accounted and reputed the true
-and lawfull owne:rs and proprieto:rs of the said ship the
-''BANTAM FRIGOT'' (whereof Isaac Taylor was & is M:r.) and
-of the tackle Apparrell, and furniture, And soe hee verils
-beleeveth they were, and at p:rsent are; And further hee
-cannot depose.
-To the Second hee saith that y:e said S:r John Dethick, and
-Company aforesaid /who are all (as hee beleeveth) subjects of
-this Comonwealth of England.) did set out the said ship from
-this port of London in the sayd moneth of October 1656 (sic)
-upon their owne account (as hee beleeveth) to East India. there to
-Lade pepper. and other Merchandizes, and to bring the same
-for ?Europe, and saith the said Isaac Taylor, was and was
-M:r of the said ship y:e said voyage, and y.e arlate Thomas
-Newman Supra Cargoe; w:ch hee knoweth for that hee went M:rs Mate
-of y:e said ship (y:e said Voyage) and further cannot depose:
-To the third hee saith y:e said Taylo, Newman, and this depo:t
-the rest of the Marine:rs of the said Ship, set saile
-in her from this port to ?Indria ?Ponza in y:e island of Sumatra in y:e East Indias
-and there ?arriveth on or about y:e Nineth or tenth day of August 1657: w:ch hee knoweth being
-then on board her and further cannot depose//
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-P1110383 f. 266 verso
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-//To the 4:th. 5:th 6:th 7:th 8:th and 9:th hee saith that about a moneth after
-the Arrivall of the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigatt'' at Indra
-Ponza aforesaid the said Thomas Newman, and one ?ffrancis
-Griffith y:e then purser of the said ship (who is since deceased)
-did goe on shore, in the sd port of Indra Ponza, to buy pepper
-and did buy a great quantity of pepper there, w:ch was all
-to have bin transported in the said ship to Leghorne,
-for the Acco:t of Sr John Dethick and Company aforesaid
-And saith a Considerable Quantity of the said pepper
-was Laden on board her, w:ch did not Lade the said ship
-two Third pts of what shee could have well ?carryed
-and saith That while y:e Company of the said ship was lading
-in y:e rest of the sd pepper w:ch y:e said Thomas Newman and
-ffrancis Griffith had provided and whilest the said Newman
-and Griffith were on shore, providing More pepper to ?Complete Lading
-of the said ship, The arlate
-Comander of the ship the ''Turtle Dove'', whereof one Antonio van Voozt was Comander in the Service of the Dutch
-East India Company, and alsoe three pinnaces in y:e Company
-of the said ship ''Turtle Dove'', which were alsoe in the service of
-the Dutch East India Company, came all of them and
-Anchored by y:e said ''Bantam ffrigot'', and Imediately sent
-a Boate on board the ''Bantam ffrigot'', with a Dutch merchant
-therein & two others of y:e the ''Turtle Doves'' Company w:th hom w:ho Comanded y:e said Isaac Taylor, and the said
-Thomas Newman. (whereupon y:e comong of the said Dutch
-Merchant & the two others on board the said ship was sent came
-on board, to y:e said Dutch merchant) Not to take in any
-more pepper or other Goods onboard the said ''Bantam ffrigott''
-either at the said port of Indra Ponza, or any other port or
-place  on that Coast, for if they did the said Captaine
-van Voozt who was y:e Admirall  in those pts  would seize and surprize them , or to that effect
-and thereupon y:e said M:r Newman went with the said Ducth
-Merchant onboad the said ship ''Turtle Dove'' to speake with the
-said Captaine Van Voozt and knowe of him why XXX
-would not permit him the said Newman to Trade  XXXX
-his said ''Bantam ffrigot'' there, And saith that some XXXX
-after y:e said Newman had bin gone to the said XXXX
-Admirall the said Captaine Isaac Taylor sent this deponent
-in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate. to fetch the said M:r Newman
-from on board y:e said Dutch Admirall on board the ''Bantam ffrigot''
-And this depo:t being come on board the said Dutch Admirall
-hee heard the said Admirall Voozt, say and declare unto
-the said M:r newman that hee the said Voozt had order?s
-from the Generall of Battavia to hinder allEnglish Shipps
-from Commerce and Trade in these parts, and to seize y:e XXX
-if they did soe, or to that effect, and alsoe shewed the said XXX
-(in the p:rsence of this depo:t his orders in writing with a Great XXXXX Given him
-the said Generall, to the foresaid purpose & effect, and XXX//
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-//Admirall Van Voozt Commander the said M:r Newman (in
-this Depo:ts hearing) not to take in any more pepper or other goods
-at Indra Ponza or any other ports or places on that Coast
-and told the said Newman that if hee did soe, or offered to doe soe; hee must and
-would seize and surprize his goods or to that effect, and
-thereupon the said M:r Newman went with this depo:t in
-the said ''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate, (w:ch this depo:t had brought
-for him as aforesaid) and went on board the ''Bantam
-ffrigot'', and told the said Captaine Taylor what the said
-Dutch Admirall Voozt, had declared and said, and the
-next day the said Captaine Taylo:r went with this depo:t
-on board y:e said Dutch Admirall, and saith that upon
-the said Taylor coming on board; y:e said Taylor and
-Van Voozt had a great deale of Difference  together in
-Dutch, (w:ch this depo:t cannot understand) and saith that
-the said Voozt did shewe y:e said Taylour and after this depo:t and the said Taylor had bin XX on board y:e said XXXX came alsoe unto XXXX XXXX Dutch in y:e p:rsence of this depo:t  & y:e sd Newman his foresaid
-orders in writing. w:ch had a great seale affixed therto
-as aforesaid, and the said Voozt delivered the same to
-the said Taylo:r to read: w:ch the said Taylo:r (who well
-understandeth the Dutch Language, and can write and read the same.) accordingly did read y:e same over; and after
-hee had soe done hee & the said Newman went with this depo:t in the said
-''Bantam ffrigots'' Boate on board y:e ''Bantam ffrigot'', And
-y:e said Taylo:r ?there told the said Newman & this depo:t that y:e said writing that hee
-soe read was a Comission from y:e Generall of Battavia
-to hinder English Ships from Trade there and further hee
-cannot depose; saving that the said Captaine Van Voozt, did
-send one of ?his foresaid pinnaces about thirty
-men therein, to lye at the Rivers mouth at Indra Ponza to hinder
-and did hinder the goeing in and coming out of the Captaine
-and Company of the ''Bantam frigot'' (sic), to and from Indra Ponza
-and from bringing any goods from thence on board y:e said ship
-''Bantam ffrigot''.
-To the 10:th hee saith that a day or two after the said Tailo:r M:r Newman and
-this depo:t had bin on board y:e said Dutch Admirall. the said
-M:r Newman. (w:ch was then on shore) put a Quantity of pepper in y:e said
-''Bantam ffrigots'' Long Boate, and the said Newman himselfe
-went in y:e said Boate, and intended to have come directly
-to the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and to put y:e said pepper
-on board her, But the said Boate and pepper. and alsoe the
-said Thomas Newman was seized by order of the said Van
-Voozt and y:e said pepper y:e said Voozt caused to be tooke out of y;e Boate a& put into his owne and by him detained and further hee deposeth not
-To the 11:th hee saith hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid
-To the 12:th hee cannot depose; hee being then dangerously sick in his
-Cabbin: saving y:e ''bantam ffrigot'' was carried by the said Van
-Voozt and his Company to Battavia. and there anchored under
-Comand of the said Van Voozt his said ship, and severall other Dutch//
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-//To the 14:th hee saith that y:e said Thomas Newman
-and Isaac Taylor were Comanded at Battavia to appeare
-before John Ma?rt ?Sayler Generall of the Dutch East
-India Company at Battava (sic), and further cannot depose
-To the 15:th and 16:th hee cannot depose being then dangerously
-sick, and was carried out of the said ship ''Bantam ffrigot''
-to a house in Battavia where hee lay sick about
-five weekes.
-To the 17:th & 18:th hee saith that the said ship the ''Bantam ffrigot''
-was detained and hindered by y:e said Van Voost
-and the Generalll of Battavia, and their order, from
-the Eleventh of October 1657: or therabouts
-untill the tenth of December following, and then
-the said Ship set saile from Batavia for Rurope
-w:th such Pepper as shee had taken in before the said
-:th of October, shee not being pmitted to take in
-any goods whatsoever afterwards in those parts that
-this depo:t knoweth of, and further cannot depose
-saving as aforesaid
-To the 19:th hee cannot depose:
-To the 20:th hee saith that the said Bantam ffrigot
-was when she was in the pts aforesaid of the
-Burthen of about Two hundred and tenne Tonns
-and as many Tonne of pepper hee beleeveth shee
-would have brought for Europe y:e said Voyage; had shee
-not bin hindred interrupted and detained as aforesd. and further
-cannot depose:
-To the 21:th hee saith y:e said ship y:e ''Bantam ffrigot''
-after her Departure from Battavia, sayled to Leghorne
-and there safely arrived on or about the 18:th day
-of August 1658: and there her said pepper taken in
-at Indra Ponza was delivered. but howe many
-Tonns y:e same amounted to hee knoweth not, and saith
-hee this depo:t was upon y:e departure of y:e said ship ''Bantam
-ffrigot'' brought from shore on board her, and Carried
-in her to Leghorne and further cannot depose:
-To the 22:th 23:th 24:th 25:th 26:th 27:th 28:th and 19:th hee saith hee
-cannot depose thereto saving as aforesaid, and saving
-that the said S:r John Dethick Knight, and y:e reste of
-the sd Owne:rs: and Imploy:rs of y:e said ship, have suffred
-great Losse and dammage by meanes of the premisses
-but saith hee cannot estimate the same,:
-To the 20:th hee saith that whilest the said Shipp y:e ''Bantam
-ffrigat'' was upon y:e sd Coast of Sumatra, y:e Voyage in question
-and during all the space the Dutch as aforesaid had her in XXX
-power//
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-//Power, and under their Command neither the said Thomas
-Newman y:e Supra Cargoe of the said Ship ''Bantam ffrigot'' nor the
-said Isaac Taylor y:e captaine of the said ship ?or any of
-y:e Marine.rs of her did doe any Injury or Wrong in
-any Kinde to the said Dutch or any of them. ?that this
-depo:t knoweth if. but did XXXXX them selves Civily
-and peaceably towards them and this hee XXXXX
-being M:r Mate of y:e said ship y:e said Voyage And
-further cannot depose:
-To the 31:th hee Cannot depose
-To the 32:th he saith his foregoeing depon is true
-Repetit before D:r Godolphon
-CALIB XXXXX  [His signature]
-<nowiki>************************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott:  Deposition: 2. Lewis Walter, of Deptford, Mariner, aged 40 : Date: March 25th 1658===
-The 25:th day of March 1659
-Examined on the said Allon
-:us LEWIS WALTER of Deptford Mariner
-aged 40 yeeres or thereabouts: sworne and Examined:/:
-To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith that  XX XXX monethes
-of September, October, November. Decembe:r January ffeb:ry
-and March 16?46. English Stile and Continually since the
-arlate S:r John Dethick Knight XXXXX John Banckks Richard fford
-Edward Mico & Willaim Prittman, and Company, or some
-of them, (being all subjects of this Commonwealth) were
-and at present are the true and lawfull owners and
-Imployers of the arlate ''BANTAM FFRIGO:T'' and of her tackle
-and furniture as hee verily beleeveth, and soe hee saith
-they were and are Commonly accounted: And This hee
-deposeth for that hee wenta ll the Voyage in question
-Steward of the said Bantam ffrigot. and further cannot depose
-To the second hee saith that in the said moneth of October
-: the foresaid S:r John Dethick, John Banks; Richard
-fford Edward Mico and William Prittman (who are all of
-them well knowne to this Depo:t) and alsoe y:e arlate Edward
-Bolle: did set out the said ship from this port of London
-upon their owne account to East India there to Lade XXXX
-and bring y:e same to Europe; for their Account, And
-saith that the said Setters forth of the said ship did Appoint
-y:e arlate Isaac Tailo:r to goe M:r of the said ship and the
-arlate Thomas Newman Supra Cargoe of her the said
-voyage, And the said Taylor & Newman did goe y:e said Voyage
-in y:e said ship.  in their said Apointed Place.  The premises
-he deposeth for the said S:r John Dethick and the rest of the XXX
-aforesd did from XXX come on board y:e sd Shipp, before and at XXX XXXX//
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-//To the 3:d hee saith that the said ship ''Bantam ffrigat'' set
-saile from this port with y:e said Captaine Tayl:rs and M:r
-Newman on board her, and safely arrived in Indra ponza
-Road upon y:e Coast of Sumatra in or about the moneth
-of August 1657: w:ch hee knoweth for that hee sailed
-thither in her.  And further cannot Answer./.
-To the 4:th 5:th
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-===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott:  Deposition: 3. William Chamber, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, Gunner of the Bantam ffrigott, aged 48, Date: March 28th 1658===
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-===Case: S:r John Dethick Knight, Edward Bolle, John Bancks Richard ffoord, Edward Mico, William ?Pretman and Company, concerning the Bantam ffrigott:  Deposition: 4. Thomas Newman, of Mile End, Stepney, Merchant, late Supra cargo of the Bantam ffrigott, aged 43:  Date: Aprill 16th 1658===
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-To the 4:th hee saith that
-Indra Ponza Roade is and ought to be
-a place free for the English to trade in ober w:ch place y:e Queene of Achine
-(whom this depo:t well knoweth having lived with her about five yeeres)
-was and is the supreame Governournesse; who did about three yeeres
-since?there: and at all other of her Dominiones proclaime ffree
-Trade to the English Nation; And saith hee hath a Copy of the
-said Proclamacon now in his Custody. And saith that after the
-arrivall of the said Ship  in y:e said Road this depo:t and one
-ffrancis Griffith (who is since deceased) went ashore to Indra
-Ponza to buy and provide pepp to lade the said ship, and  did
-there buy & provide enough pepper XXX to Lade the said ship, and was
-all to have bin there put on board her. and to be Carried and
-Transported in her to leghorne for the Account of the said ffrancis
-who hee knoweth for y:e Reasons aforesd, And further deposeth not.
-To the 5:th arles of the said Allon, hee saith that in y:e monethes
-of September, and October 1657, this Depo:t upon y:e Account aforesd
-did Lade aboard y:e said ship y:e ''Bantam'', shee then Lying in teh Roade
-of Indra Ponza aforesaid six hundred seaventy two BXXXX of pepp
-And//
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-//And that the rest of the pepper sufficient fully to lade the said
-ship was then ready provided, and XXX, and was ready
-to have bin put on board, and would have bin Laden Aboard
-the said Ship within three or foure dayes next following, in
-case y:e arlate Antonio van Voozt and Company had not
-hindered them as hereafter is declared:
-To the 6:th & 7:th arle of the sd Allon hee saith that on or about
-the Eleveth day of October 1657: English Stile namely p:rsently after hee
-this depo:t had sent out y:e foresaid 672 Bahaizes (sic) of Pepper on board the
-''Bantam ffrigot'', this depo:t was sent for to Come on board
-the ''Bantam'', And this depo:t accordingly went on board
-the ''Bantam'', and upon his comming to her found y:e Arlate
-Ship the ''Turtle Dove'' whereof y:e said Van Voozt was Comander
-and alsoe three vessells with about tenne or Twelve peeces
-of Ordinance a peece; Anchored neere y:e Bantam; And saith that
-there came a Dutch Merchant from onboard y:e said Van Voozts
-Ship. (w:ch was the Admirall in those pts.) who told this dep:t that
-hee and y:e sd Taylor must come aboard their Comanders, (meaning the ''Turtle
-Dove''; w:ch this Depo:t accordingly did. but the said Taylo:r
-refused soe to doe saying hee had order from his imploy:rs
-not to goe out of his Ship; or to that effect, And saith that upon
-this Depots Comong on board y.e said ''Turtle Dove'', hee
-Asked the said van Voozt where fore hee had sent for this
-depo:t and y:e said Captaine Taylo:r to Come on board  his
-Ship, or to that effect whereunto the said Van Voozt made
-Answer, that it was in regard the said ship the ''Bantam
-ffrigot'' being an English Ship did trade there or to that effect,
-And the said Van Voozt then pemptorily (sic) Charged & Comanded
-this Depo:t that neither hee nor the said Isaac
-Taylor nor any of y:e ''Bantams'' Company should trade there
-or to that effect, And this Depo:t then told the said Van Voozt
-that the ships full Lading of pepper was there ashore by him
-bought, and some of it was allready Laden, and y:e rest
-was provided to be laden and would within three or foure dayes
-be all Laden aboard the said ship, and that hee had
-money and Goods on shore; bit that hee should Dispatch all within
-three or foure Dayes, and then be ready to depart with the ''Bantam''
-and her Lading on board her, or to that effect and desired
-the said Van Voozt not to give him any interruption therein
-But the said Antonio van Voozt then told this Depo;t that if hee
-did not dept from thence with the said ship without further
-trading ?There, hee would forthwith force this depo:t and y:e sd Ship
-and Company thereof to Dept thence; or to that effect, All w:ch
-words and XXXions passed betweene this Depo:t & y:e sd Van Voozt on
-board//
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-P1110398 f. 274 recto
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-//On board the sd ''Turtle Dove'' in the ?Molaine and English Language
-but w:th Languages the said Van Voozt, and alsoe this Depo:t well spake
-& understood and saith that one Kaleb ?Kime Mate of the ''Bantam''
-heard some of the said words, and further hee cannot depose,
-saving that both the said Van Voozt, and y:e ''Turtle Dove'', and
-alsoe the said ther three vessells were then in the Imediate
-Service of the Dutch East India Company:
-To the 6:th hee saith that y:e next day after this Depo:t had bin
-on board y:e ''Turtle Dove'' as aforesaid y:e said Captaine
-Taylo:r went on board y:e said ''Dove'', but what discourse or
-Words passed betweene him & y:e sd Van Voozt hee knoweth
-not in regard hee went not with him, And further cannot
-depose.
-To the 9:th 10:th 11:th & 12:th hee saith that on y:e day y:t y:e said Taylo:r Went onboard
-the said ''Turtle Dove'' as aforesd or y:e next day after this depo:t and
-y:e said Taylo:r did againe goe aboard y:e sd ''Turtle Dove'', together,
-And this depo:t & the said Taylor after their Coming on board her told the said
-Van Voozt that besides y:e pepp that was on board the said
-''Bantam ffrigot'' hee this depo:t had laid out at Indra Ponza three Thousand
-Dollars and had invested y:e same in pepper. And desired
-the said Van Voozt that hee would not hinder the lading
-of the same on board the said Ship y:e ''Bantam'' or to that
-effect, But the said Van Voozt in a Violent and Angry manner
-said that none of the said Pepper should be brought aboard
-the ''Bantam ffrigot'', and said ffurther that if any attempt
-was made to bring any pepp aboard y:e said ship the
-''Bantam ffrigot'' hee would seize, and take the same, And
-alsoe told this depo:t and the said Tailo:r that
-all the Trade for pepp on the West Coast of Sumatra in
-the Queene of ?Acheines Dominions, belonged to the Dutch
-East India Company: And then this Depo:t
-went on board y:e ''Bantam'' and from thence this Depo:t
-went in the ''bantam ffrigots'' Boate ashore, and there
-caused about a Bahaire of pepper to be put on board y:e
-said Boate; and having soe done, this depo:t went him
-selfe into the said Boate intending to goe directly onboard
-the''Bantam'' with the said pepper. but in his passage
-one of y:e said Dutch Vessells. w:ch came and Anchored
-at or neere y:e Barre of y:e River of Indra Ponza, sent her
-boate and alsoe another Boate well manned to seize this depo:t and y:e said ''Bantam
-ffrogotts'' boate & y:e Pepper therein w:ch they accordingly did
-and Carried this depo:t & y:e Said Boate and Pepper to the
-said Dutch Vessell and from thence they were sent to the
-said Dutch Admirall the ''Turtle Dove''; and there the said
-Pepper was by the said Van Voozt his order. taken out
-of the said Boate and putt aboard y:e said ''Turtle Dove''
-And//
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-//And there detained the same, And thereupon this Depo:t
-and the said Isaac taylor and one ?Gotham Howard
-Cheife Mate of the said ship protested against the
-said Antonio van Voozt Comander of the said ship
-the ''Turtle Dove'' and all of his Imploye:rs and having
-nowe seene the first schedule annexed to the sd Allon
-beginning WHEREAS THE QUEENE OF ACHEIN
-&c: and Ending: Dated from on board y:e ''Bantam''
-October y:e 19:th 1657: and subscribed Thomas Newman
-Isaac Taylo:r Gotham Howard. hee saith the same
-was and is a true Copy of the said Originall  protest
-made by this depo:t and y:e said Isaac Taylo:r and Howard
-ag:t y:e sd Van Voozt, and all his Imploye:rs And
-y:e said Originall protest was really and truely signed
-by this depo:t and the said Isaac taylo:r and Gotham
-Howard on or about, the said Nineteenth of October 1657
-and y:e Contents thereof were and are true; And
-further hee doth not depose.
-To the 13:th hee saith that the said Van Voozt on or about
-the said Nineteenth of Octob:r 1657: Caused the sd
-Captaine Taylo:r and Company to Depart from
-Indra Ponza, and sailed with the ''Bantam ffrigot''
-in her way to Bantam. neere w:ch place arriving
-the said Van Voozt, nor any other of the Dutch shipps
-Lying before Bantam, soe that y:e ''Bantam
-ffrigot'' was Constrained to goe to Battavia.  And y:e said Van Voozt in
-his ship the ''Turtle Dove''; and alsoe the saidthree other
-Dutch Vessells. Sailed with her thither, and there hee
-saith the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' lay under Comand of
-the said ''Turtle Dove''; and y:e sd Three other dutch
-vessells, and alsoe Under y:e Comand of severall other
-Dutch ships there lying, alsoe in y:e Service of the said
-Dutch East India Company. W:ch hee knoweth for that
-hee was Carried in y:e said Ship ''Bantam'' from
-Indra Ponza to Battavia. And further cannot depose
-To the 14:th & 15:th hee saith that upon or about the ?7:th o October
-: English Stile this Depo:t, and Captaine Isaac Taylo:r
-were Comanded to Appeare before the arlate John
-Martsuyker the Generall of and for the Dutch East
-India Company at Battavia w:ch they according (sic) did
-And the said Generall then told this Depo:t and y:e
-said Taylo:r that hee had order that neither
-they, nor any of the English should trade in any of the
-Dominions of the Queene of Acheine, or to that effect
-but//
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-//But the said Generall said that hee would speake with
-his Counsell there that they might be XXXXXX with a Lading
-at Battavia, And promised soe to doe, But notwithstandinge
-hee put on board y:e ''Bantam ffrigot'' two or three XXXX
-w:ch Comtinued on board y:e said Ship ''Bantam'', untill  her
-departure from Battavia, w:ch was
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-//or thereabouts, During all w:ch time they or some of
-them, would not suffer this Depo:t nor the said Captaine
-Taylo:r nor any of the ''Bantam ffrigots'' Company
-to take in any newe or other Lading on board her,
-And soe this Depot and the said
-Taylo:r and Company were forced to Depart with
-the ''Bantam ffrigot'' from Battavia, and out of the
-East Indias for Europe; with only the foresaid six hundred
-Seaventy two Balarzes of pepp, w:ch were as aforesd
-Laden on board the said ship, at Indra Ponza before
-the said Van Voozt came and Interrupted and
-hindred them as aforesaid: The premisses hee
-Deposeth Goeing all the said time Supra Cargo
-of the said ship as aforesaid, and further Cannot
-depose
-To the 10:th hee saith that had not this depo:t and Company
-bin Interrupted and hindred by the said Van
-Voozt and Company and y:e Dutch?X as aforesaid, all the said
-pepp that this Depo:t had bought and provided
-at Indra Ponza as aforesaid would have bin Laden
-onboard the ''Bantam ffrigot'' for y:e account of the said ffreighto:rs and
-undoubtedly have bin brought safe for Europe for
-their said Account, And this depo:t further saith that
-hee heard the said Taylo:r say at Legorne that Command:XX
-of ships had there received her before any of her pepper
-was unladen, and had or would give an Attestaccon under
-their hands that the said ship Would have Carried
-Ninety five tonnes or thereabouts of pepper more than shee had on board her or to
-that effect, And further hee cannot depose:
-To the 19:th hee saith hee Cannot depose:
-To the 20:th hee saith that yt y:e time y:e said ship was in
-East India aforesaid shee was as hee beleeveth of the
-Burthen of 210 Tonnes or thereabouts, And further
-cannot depose
-To the 21:th hee saith that after y:e Departure of the said
-''Bantam ffrigot'' from the East Indias as a foresaid shee
-set saile for Legorne and there arrived  on or about
-the 18:th or 19:th day of August 1658: English Stile there the
-said six hundred seaventy two BXXXXXX of pepper
-were unladen and of the sd ship.  And this
-hee deposeth arriving therein her and further hee
-cannot depose//
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-P111402 f. 276 recto
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-//To the 22:th hee deposeth not:
-To the 23:th hee can not depose.
-To the 24:th hee cannot deose, saving that every hundred weight
-of the said Pepp at the time of the unlading thereof at Lighorne did
-make a quintall
-To the 25:th hee daith that at the said time of unlading
-the said shipp at Leghorne every Quintall was worth about
-fourteene peeces of Eight cleare of al Charges (sccounting
-every oeece of Eight at five shillings a pXXXX and XXXX
-and about that rfate a Quintall of Copper (sic) was then and
-there usually sold for.  And further hee Cannot depose
-To the 26:th hee saith that the said 672 Bahaizes of
-pepp soe laden on board the said ship as aforesaid at
-Andra (sic) Ponza, and Carried in the said ship XX XXXX did
-cost at Indra Ponza XXXX thousand seaven hundred &
-fifteene peeces of Eight or neere thereabouts accounting
-every peece of Eight at five shillings a peece at Indra
-Ponza, w:ch doth amount unto 2428:li 15:s sterl: And saith
-that the provision and ?scuturage of the same doth amount
-to about 375:li sterl.  The p:rmisses hee deooseth being
-supra Cargoe of the said ship the said voyage; and
-Laid out the said peeces of Eight at Indra Ponza
-And further cannot depose:
-To the 28:th hee saith that the said S:r John Dethick
-Knight, and the rest of the ffreighters aforesad, have abd
-must pay all y;e Dead ffreight, and for the Dammage
-of the said ''Bantam ffrigot'' by the Dutch aforesd
-And further hee cannot depose:
-To the 29:th hee saith that the said S:r John Dethick and all
-the partyes in the suite; (w:ho are all Englishmen and
-subjects of this Comonwealth of England) besides the
-foresaid damages , have sustained great Loss; and
-Damages in forbearance of their principall money.
-And further cannot depose.
-To the 30:th hee saith that during the time that the said
-ship the ''Bantam ffrigot'' was upon y:e Coast of Sumatra
-& in y:e East Indias y:e Voyage in question; this depo:t
-and the said Captaine Taylor and Company of the
-said Ship Did Carry and demaneane themselves very
-Civilly, and peacably, and did not doe any Injury or
-wrong to any of the ships, goods, or psons, of or belonging
-to the said Dutch East India Company, And that in
-?Respect//
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-P1110403 f. 376 verso
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-//Respect of the Lading of the said Ship un the East Unias
-the Generall of Battavia, and y:e said Van Voozt and
-Company, Dif not Carry themselves Civilly towards
-this Depo:t and y:e sd Taylo:r and Company. W:ch hee
-knoweth, for y:e Reasons aforesd. And further
-cannpt depose
-To the 31:th hee saith that the said John Maetsuijker
-the Generall of the said Dutch East India Company
-at battavia Did (upon or about the 11:th
-day of December 1657) at Battavia
-give this Depo:t writing in the Dutch Language
-subscribed w:th his owne hand. signifying. the goode
-Carriage, and dilligence of this Depo:t And having
-now sene the third schedule annexed to the said Allon
-hee saith the same was and is the said Originall
-writing soe Given to this Depo:t and by the sd Generall & XXXXX this Deps saw
-the said ?Joan Mastsing subscribe the same
-And further cannot depose-
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true
-THOMAS NEWMAN  [His signture]
-Repeated before D:r Godolphin
-Here end proceedings in the protestors name
-<nowiki>***********************************</nowiki>
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-===Case: The Brazill Company of Portugall concerning the Jonathan and Abigaill:  Deposition:  Thomas Morley: Date:  June 13th 1659===
-//The 13:th of June 1659
-The Brazill Company of Portugall ag:t)
-Quintalls of Brazil Wood or)
-therabouts brought to this port)
-in the ''Jonathan and Abigail'')<ref>The ''Jonathan and Abigaill''.  See a later case involving the same ship. ([[MRP: HCA 13/76 Part One#head-5cf0caba21d3cd72801297968068a55885f62c8c|HCA 13/76 Part One: f. 1 recto: Case: The Jonathan and Abigail vs. Daniel Edwards: Deposition: Thomas Andrews, of Wapping, in the parish of White Chappell: Date: 16:th August 1666]]</ref>
-(Thomas Morley M:r) and ag:t)
-John Thacker)
-Suckley  Cheeker
-Rp
-Examined upon y:e Allon given
-in by M:r Suckley
-THOMAS MORLEY master of
-the ship the ''Jonathan & Abigail''
-aged 48 yeeres or thereabouts
-sworne and Examined.
-To the first arle of the said Allon hee saith and Deposeth
-that y:e parcell of Brazil wood arlate (being two Hundred Kintalls (sic), or therabouts
-was was (sic) brought to this Port in y:e said ship the ''Jonathan
-& Abigail'', as Delivered to this Depo:t out of a yard at
-Lisbone, w:ch yard did belong to the Portugall XXXX ?India Company as thisDepo:t
-was then and there Credibly Informed and ?soe hee verily beleeveth
-And saith that one John Roles, a Portugueze (sic) Broker, whom
-this Depo:t Imployed in procuring of goods to lade onboard y:e sd
-ship upon freight did ?procure all y:e said Brazill Wood, and y:e said Roles
-hath often times told this Depo:t, about the time of the Lading thereof  that y:e said Wood was to be
-transported in y:e said Ship to London for y:e Account of the
-Portugall Brazil Company, and soe this Depo:te verily beleeveth it was,
-And saith that the said Roles did pcure other goods for this
-Depo:t y:e said time of this Depo:ts being there, and saith there
-was an Agreemt made amongst divers of the Merchants that
-laded goods in y:e sd Ship that there should be
-a Teston upon each Chest of Sugar, and tow Ryalls upon
-each pipe of Oyle, and after that proporcon, for other goods
-to be Given as a Gratuity to y:e Convoy that stayed there for
-the ''Jonathan & Abigail'', and other English ships then there
-And this Depo:t Demanded of the said Roles y:e like rates
-for y:e said Brazill Wood and y:e other goods y:t hee
-procured, and y:t were laden on board y:e said Ship, But for
-the said 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood y:e said Roles refused
-to allow any thing. telling this Depo:t that y:e same did belong
-to the Brazil Company, and they being a Joint Company
-would beare their owne Adventures or to that effect, But
-for the other goods that the sd Roles procured, y:e said Roles allowed y:e rates
-aforesaid, to this Depo:t for y:e said Convoy, And soe much this
-Depo:t beleeveth hee hath acknowledged to severall psons
-The foresd premises hee deposeth, being M:r of the said
-ship aforesaid And further Cannot depose./.
-To//
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-P ????????
-THIS PAGE SEEMS TO BE OUT OF POSITION
-===Case: Mayflower vs. XXXX: Deposition: 2. John Stannian, of the City of London; Gentleman, aged 26: Date: September 23rd 1659===
-//The 23:th of September 1659
-Examined upon the fore said allegaccon
-.  JOHN STANNIAN of the vitie of London gent., aged 26
-yeeres or thereabouts sworne & examined
-To the first second and third of the articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and deposeth that hee well
-remembreth, and that in or about ffebruary or March last was
-XXXXXXth the Governour and Company of English Merchants trading
-to East India Imployed and XXX are the said shipp from this port of London
-on a trading voyage to goe and XXXX to XXXX on the coast of the Island
-of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, w;ch
-hee knoweth having XXXX the said Companies orders and XXXXXX XXX XXX
-with XX
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-P1110405 f. 277 verso
-//To the 2:d. hee saith that hee this Depo:t did in a former voyage
-carry about three hundred Quintalls of Brazeel wood, from Lisbone
-to Newhaven for y:e account as hee beleeveth of the said Brazil
-Companie, and y:t wood was procured Alsoe by the said Roles
-at the same BXXXXXX; And after, this Depo:te had receaved
-y:e said3000 Quintalls on board his Ship y;e sd Roles brought
-him bills of Lading, ready filled up; e:ch this Depo:t signed
-and ?those w:ch this Depo:t signed for y:e said 200 Quintalls
-of Wood now in Question; and alsoe for those other goods
-which hee then procured.  he brought bills of Lading to this
-Depo:t, ready filled up in Portugueze, (w:ch this
-Depo:t doth not well understand) and this Depo:t signed y:e same
-And further cannot depose: /:
-To the third hee saith that y:e arlate ffrancis Pardini is
-(as this Depo:t hath heard) failed) ?in Estate, and y:e arlate
-John Thacker (as this Depo:t hath also heard) is Employed
-to make y:e said Pardinies Composicon with his Credito:es
-And y:e said Pardini had never y:e possession of the
-said wood.  And further deposeth not saving hee referreth
-himselfe to the sd bill of Lading.
-To the last hee saith his foregoeing depon is true:/:
-To the Interries.:/.
-To the first he saith that y:e Bill of Lading Interrate nowe
-showed unto him, is really signed by him this depot for
-y:e said 200 Quintalls of Brazill, Wood and this Depo:t signed
-onely two or three bills of Lading more for y:e said wood, w:ch this
-DEpo:t verily beleeveth wweere of the same teno:r. and saith
-hee as aforesaid beleeveth that the said goods were so laded for the account
-of the Portugale Brazile company for the reasons before deposed, and
-hee knoweth not  XXXX did ?sen Marcos Valez da Silvera mentioned
-to be the lader in the said bill, nor knoweth him to be the lader, ?more
-than that that hee is so said to be in the said bill, the said XXXX  being
-the only person that procured and ordered the said lading, and saith the
-said lading was so made at Lisbone, and upon the seizure of her
-XXXXXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXXXX, and that the said bill was signed on or
-about the day of the date thereof, And otherwise ?saving as aforesaid hee
-cannot depose.
-To the second hee saith that sometimes there are Colourable bills of
-Lading made& signed for goods, and noe reall bills, but in such
-Cases, the M:r of the ship hath Instrctions where and to wheom
-to Deliver the goods mentioned in y:e Colourable bills./:
-To the 3:d hee saith that the said three hundred Quintalls w:ch this
-Depo:t Carried in his ship from Lisbone to Newhaven and w:ch as hee
-beleeveth, were for y:e account of the said Portugall Brazil Companye
-were mentioned in the bill of lading to be for the said
-companies account or not, & further cannot answer saving as aforesd
-To the 4:th hee saith, that hee doth not knowe that hee had any goods
-on board y:e  XXXXX ''Jonathan and Abigail'' in this her last homeward
-Voyage for XXXXX of y:e sad Brazil Compa but beleeveth as aforesd, that y:e said 200 Quintalls were for their account
-And further cannot Answer saving as aforesd/.
-To//
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-P1110406 f. 278 recto
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-//To the 5:th hee saith that hee was in y:e said yard (out of w:ch y:e said
-Logwood was taken & sent on board y:e said ship) whilest, some of the sd
-wood was weighing, and sawe most of it sent, and brought aboard
-y:e said ship, y:e said yard being neere y:e waterside & neere unto
-y:e place: where his ship lay & further Cannot Answer referring
-himselfe to his foregoeing Depn./
-To the 6:th hee saith that y:e said John Roles is of this Depo:ts
-knowledge a Comon Broker, betwixt Merchts and M:r of ships
-and other Trade:?s and hath noe pticular relaccon to the said
-Brazil Companz that this Depo:t knoweth of/:
-To the 7:th hee saith that y:e acknowledgements & Confessions that this
-Depo:t hath made touching y:e Lading of y:e said goods on board y:e
-sd. shipp, were made before hee had prsed his booke
-wherin he tooke Not of such things:/
-To the 8:th hee saith that had there not bin a arrest laid
-upon y:e said two hundred Quintalls of Brazill Wood, this depo:t
-intended to have deivered, and would have delivered y:e same
-to the said ffrancis Pardini, or his order. in regard they are
-Consigned to him by the said Bill of Lading: And saith that
-hee  was & is bound by the said Bill of Lading to deliver y:e same to the
-said Pardini or his order, And saith that the said Interrate Colonell hath
-not showed this DEpo:t any order or power to Demand or receive
-the said Goods either from the said Company or any other. pson
-whatsoever, and othewise Cannot Answer/.
-THOMAS MORLEY  [His signature]
-Repeated before D:r Godolphin.
-<nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: XXXX: Examination:  Thomas Morley, Master of the Jonathan and Abigail, aged 48:  Date: June 12th 1659===
-//The 13.:th day of June 1659./:
-Examibed upon an Allon given in on behalfe
-of the said Thacker:/.
-The Brazil Companz of Portugall)
-against 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood)
-brought to this Port Laded bz them)
-(as is pretended) in Lisbone on board)
-y:e ''Jonathan & Abigail'', Thomas Morley)
-M:r arrested by authority of this Court, &)
-ag:t John Thacker coming in for his interest)
-therein  Suckley:  Cheeke)
-THOMAS MORLEY M:r of the ship the
-''Jonathan and Abigail'': aged 48 yeeres or
-thereabouts sworne and Examined:/:
-R?p
-To the first & second arle hee cannot Depose:/:
-To the 3.:d.  hee cannot depose; saving hee referreth himselfe to his answer
-to the fisrt Interrie, on y:e other part,
-To the 4:th y:e Bill of Lading arlate now shewed unto him
-& by him prsed hee saith and deposeth that y:e same was & is really
-& truely signed by him this Depo:t.  & is one of the Originall bills
-of Lading for y:e 200 Quintalls of Brazill wood, and to y:e rest hee
-referreth himselfe to his answer made to the first Interrie on y:e
-other part,
-To the 5:th. 6:th 7:th 8:th 9:th 10:th. 11:th & 12:th hee Cannot Depose:
-THOMAS MORLEY  [His signature]
-Repeated as above.
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-P1110407 f. 299 verso & f. 300 recto
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-P1110408 f. 299 verso
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-===Case: Touching the Mayflower:  Examination:  2.  John Stannian, of the City of London, aged 26:  Date: September 23rd 1659===
-//The 23:th of September 1659.
-Examined upon the foresaid allegaccon
-Touching the ''Mayflower'')
-aforesaid)
-  JOHN STANNIAN of the citie of London gent, aged 26
-yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.
-To the first second and ?rest of the articles of the said allegaccon hee saith and deposeth that hee very
-well knoweth the shipp the ''Mayflower'' arlate whereof William Curtis was
-commander, and that in XXXXX ffeburary or March last was a
-twelve moneth the ?Governour and Company of English Marchants trading
-to East India Imployed and XX XX the said shipp from this port of London
-on a trading voyage to goe and ?saile to Achean on the coast of the Island
-of Sumatra to lade pepper for the said companies account, w:ch
-hee knoweth having seane the said Companies orders and dispatches tXXX XXXX
-they XXXX.  And further
-saith that hee hath seane Letters sent from the said master and factors of the said shipp
-imployed in India about the said shipps trade,
-purporting them upon the said shipps arrival  before Acheen they  XXXX
-XXXXXX and had from admittance and ?license from her 9 XXXXX of Acheen
-to lade her there with pepper, and in the said lre was alsoe sent the
-said QuachXXX license in writing with aXXXXXXX thereof
-to XXXXX and manifest to the said company her said leave to lade
-pepper there, and further perporting that having  got the said leave the
-said factors and agents of the Company fell to ?procuring of pepper there
-for her lading, and had XXXX or XXXXXX lading of pepper thXXXXX XXXX to be
-laded aboard her for the said Companies use and account, containing fiftie
-foure baggs of pepper w:ch weighed 3896 pounds net English weight
-and then there lay there three dutch shipps belonging to the dutch
-East India company whereof Balthazar ?Bert was commander and
-that the said boate with the said pepper therein was by the ?men and
-order of the said Balthazar Barts seized and taken away
-from the ''Mayflowers'' ?helm and carried aboard the XXXXordia and
-of the said dutch shipps, and that thXXX being donne, the dutch tooke ?all
-the pepper and turned off the ''Mayflowers'' long boat aXXXXXX,
-and would not suffer her to receive any more pepper or other goods from EXXXX but
-wholly prohibited and ?dysppointed her therein, and he XXXX XXXXX the
-voyage, to the greate dammage of the said English companye, and saith
-that the said Captain Curtis XXXXXX said ?first XXXX and
-seizure of her pepper were aboard the said XXX XXX, Balthazar Bart (as
-the said XXXX XXXXX) and?expostulated the matter with him and
-demanded the pepper XXXXX, but was denied and sent away  without
-any XXXXX, and that XXXXX hee and William Smith and John
-?Shedd two of the companies factors made a protest against the XXXXX action
-of the dutch and XXXX XXX XXX XX thereof to London under a ?notaries
-hand and with their names thereto, w:ch XXXX this depot
-hath
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-P1110409 f. 300 recto
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-===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 3. Samuell Sambrooke, of London, Merchant, aged 44: Date: September 24th 1659===
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-P1110415
-ADD TEXT
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-===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 5. Samuell Sambrooke, of London, Merchant, aged 44: Date: September ?14th 1659===
-ADD TEXT
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-P1110421 f. 333 recto
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-===Case: The Brazeele ffrigot ag:t XXXXX: Deposition: John Cocke: Date: September 8th 1659===
-//The X:th day of September 1659
-The ''Brazille ffrigot'' aforesd
-XXXXXX XX
-JOHN COOKE a witnes formerly rexamined
-and now againe Examined in this Cause
-XXX
-ADD TEXT
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-P1110422 f. 333 verso
-'''High quality digital IMAGE: REIMAGE PAGE SINCE LAST TWO LINE CUT OF MANUSCRIPT CUT OFF IN IMAGE'''
-//Many other othings belonging to the said ''Brazil ffrigot''
-and made her much like a XXXack - And this the
-said Quares told the said ?Heath before this Depo:t.
-and many others of the said ''Brazil ffrigotts'' Company $that hee would be as good as his words and give
-the said ?Heath his ship againe or to that purpose
-But the said Heath (seeing (sic) the said Ship
-in such a Condition) refused to take her, doublesse
-hee might have her in the Condition shee was
-in, when Shee was taken [Possibly taken is crossed out], from him together with
-the other things agreed upon, And the said Heath
-having an Oportunity (sic) to goe in an English Boate
-from ?Ensechecape to Surrenam, Got leave
-for passage therein, w:ch the Governo:r of ?Ensecherape
-hearing of, told the said Heath that if
-hee would not stay and take his Ship againe in
-that Condition hee would lay ?him in Irons
-or to that effect, and soe the said Heath was
-forced, to receave the said ffrigot in the foresd
-Condition ?much the XXX a XXXXX;
-All w:ch hee Deposeth being at ?Euchecheape the foresaid
-time & seeing hearing & taking notice of the
-premisses.  And further cannot depose./.
-To the 3:d hee saith y:t ?every ?MillXX Portugall money
-at ?ffarnambuck in Brazil was and is worth
-:s. 6:d. Sterl. money:/
-JOHN COOKE  [His signature]
-<nowiki>*******************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: XXXX: Depostion: 11. Thomas Wyat: Date: September 8th 1659===
-The same day:
-D:?t Bushell
-  THOMAS WYAT a witnes formerly
-Ex:d and ?now againe Examined in this
-Cause, upon the foresd Allon. deposeth
-as followeth by Vertue of his Oath
-To the first arle of the said Allon. hee saith and deposeth
-that after y:e ''Brazil ffrigot'' was carryed to EXXXXX
-[the M:r of CROSSED OUT IN MANUSCRIPT] The ''BrazIl ffrigot'' and his Company did
-their utmost endeavo:r to get the said Ship ffreight, and
-[LAST TWO LINES CUT OFF IN DIGITAL IMAGE]//
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-P1110423 verso & recto f. 345 verso & f. 346 recto
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-P1110424 f. ? verso
-'''High quality digital image'''
-//of this Commonwealth, And for such commonly accorded
-reputed and taken.  And further cannot answer./
-To the 27.:th he saith he hath knowne M:r Blackborow
-for these two yeares last or thereabouts, and saith he
-liveth within the Burrough of Siuthwarke near London.
-And beleeveth hom to be (according to common report)
-an Englishman and subiect of this Commonwealth.
-And this dep.:t knoweth that he the s:d Blackborowe
-and one M:r Shirly doe use the trade of Timber, Balkes
-masts and other commodities in Norway, and
-hath credibly heard that they keep ffactors and
-Agents in some parts of Norway for the trans-
-porting, the goods aforementioned to this port of
-London,  And further cannot answere./
-To the last he referreth himselfe to his foregoing
-deposition./
-HENRY LOBERY  [His signature]
-Repeated before D:r. Godolphin//
-<nowiki>*******************************************</nowiki>
-===Case: The Brazeele frigot vs. XXXX: Deposition: 13. William Bird, of Little St Hellens, London, Merchant, aged 31: Date: September 21st 1659===
-//The ''Brazeele frigot'' aforesaid
-The 21:th day of September
-:
-Examined upon the first Allon
-given in on behalfe of Edward
-and John Bushell of London
-M:rchants, containing 21 articles.
-: WILLIAM BIRD of Little S:t Ellens London
-M:chant. aged 31 yeares or therr
-abouts a witnes sworne and examined saith
-and deposeth by vertue of his oath
-as followeth viz:t
-To the third article of the said Allon upon w:ch
-alone he is (by dirrection from the producents Proctor)
-examined, he saith that at Lisbone in or about
-the moneth of May 1657 before the said ships
-departure thence for the parts of Brazeele it was
-by Charter partie covenanted and agreed on betwixt
-Thomas Heath (Comand:r of y:e sd ship) on behalfe of M:r
-Edward & M:r John Bushell; and one Man?oel AbXXX
-e Mosia freighter of her the voyage in question, that
-the//
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-P1110425
-f. 326 recto
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-ADD TEXT
-//
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-==Notes==

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