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| − | ==Suggested links==
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| − | See [[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part One|HCA 13/73 Part One]]
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| − | See [[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part Two|HCA 13/73 Part Two]]
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| − | See [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty court cases]]
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| − | See [[MRP: Synthesis|Synthesis]]
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| − | See [[MRP: Transcription|Transcription]]
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| − | ===Front Cover===
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| − | January 1658
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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===
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| − | The 12:th day of January 1658
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| − | Examined on the libell./
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| − | Luke Wood x:r ag:t the ''Pearce'')
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| − | and ag:t Thomas Grove)
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| − | J:ius PETER BARTLET of Ratcliff Shipwright aged
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| − | thirty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne
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| − | & examined saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t./
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| − | To the first arle hee saith that hee this deponent goeing Carpenter
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| − | of the shipp the ''Peace'' arlate the whole voyage in question
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| − | knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove druing all the moneths and
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| − | tyme arlate in the yeares: 1657 and 1658 arlate was Master
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| − | and Commander of the sayd shipp the ''Peace'' and had the charge and
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| − | governmenz of her as Master of her during the sayd voyage on which
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| − | voyage shee sett sayle from Gravesend the tewnty eight day of March
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| − | 1657 English style and as hee beleeveth went soe Master of her with the consent
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| − | of the arlate Vincent delabarre Thomas delavale, And for Master
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| − | of her the sayd Voyage the sayd Grove was Commonly reputed And,
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| − | further to this arle hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the second article of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd shipp
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| − | ''Peace'' was in the Moneth of March 1657 bound from this Port of
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| − | London to ffrance and thence to Newfound Land and hence to the
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| − | Barbados and thence back againe to London And saith tha the
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| − | sayd Thomas Grove did in or about the sixteenth day of the moneth
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| − | of March 1656 lett to freight by Charterparty three eigth parts
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| − | of the sayd shipp the ''Pearce'' belonging to the arlate Vincent dela Barr
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| − | & Thomas de La Vall to the arlate Luke Wood during the voyage in
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| − | question for a valuable consideration, as the sayd Luke Wood did
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| − | affirme to this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company
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| − | And further hee cannot depose but for more certaynty therein referreth
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| − | him selfe to the sayd Charterparty./
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| − | To the 3 arle hee saith that hee well knoweth goeing Carpenter of the
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| − | sayd shipp that the arlate John Brewer and Edward Crispe were
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| − | commonly reputed the lawfull Owners & Proprietors of the other
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| − | five eighth parts of the sayd shipp ''Pearce'' & her tackle & furniture
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| − | And knoweth that they did freight and imploy their sayd five eighth
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| − | parts upon their owne charge and Adventure as Owners & freighters
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| − | of them And (as the sayd Luke Wood did affirme to this deponent) hee
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| − | was by the sayd Brewer & Crispe intrusted to goe supracargo upon
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| − | the sayd shipp & voyage ?as well for the management of their sayd
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| − | five eighth parts as for him selfe and the manageing of the
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| − | sayd three eighth parts of the sayd shipp ?soe ?lett to him the sayd
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| − | Wood by the sayd Grove And further to this arle hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 4:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp laye in the River
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| − | of Thames takeing in her provisions for the voyage in question this
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| − | deponent heard the arlate Edward Crispe aboard the sayd shipp
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| − | saye & declare that hee and the sayd Bower were to pay and beare
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| − | the voyage of their five eighth parts of the shipp ''Peace'' and of her victualls
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| − | //and mens wages and that the arleat Like Wood was to doe the XXX
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| − | for the other five eight parts of the sayd shipp & of her victualing and XX
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| − | XXX wages and that the arlate Grove the Master and the Mariners
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| − | of the sayd shipp were to obey the orders of the sayd Luke Woods & to sayle
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| − | her to such places as the sayd Wood should order & direct & to follow ?&
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| − | order in the ladeing unladeing and reladeing of the sayd shipp & to go
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| − | with their boate from tyme to tyme as the sayd Wood should appointe
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| − | and confesse And further hee cannot depose but referreth him selfe
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| − | to the schedule in this article mentioned./
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| − | To the 5:th and 6:th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that after
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| − | the sayd shipp ''Peace'' her departure upon the voyage in question hee XX
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| − | in her coarse towards ffrance shee was forced by Contrary winde to
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| − | put into ffalmouth where she lay winde bound neere about thirteene
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| − | dayes And that about the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came
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| − | fayre whereupon the arlate Luke Wood did make all speede to sett
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| − | sayle in regard soe much tyme had bin lost & the season of the gXXXXX
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| − | was & that the sayd shipp was to stay in ffrance to take in her
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| − | ladeing of salt there And saith that the sayd Luke Woods did call
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| − | upon the sayd Thomas Grove to goe aboard & speedily sett sayle that
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| − | the shipp might ?preserate her intended voyage and the sayd Grove
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| − | & Woods did about two oclock in the afternoone of the sayd day goe
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| − | aboard togeather, this deponent goeing aboard with them at the same
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| − | tyme, and soe soone as the sayd Grove & Woods came aboard they
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| − | sent the boate a shoare to Cleere at the Castle (this deponent and the
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| − | sayd Groves Mate goeing a shoare in it) XX XXXXX XXX brought the sayd shipp to sayle & the sayd mate p:rsentley ?gott
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| − | the sayd shipp cleared, And having cleered the sayd Mate and this
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| − | deponent returned to the sayd shipp in the shipps boate, And after
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| − | they were come aboard the sayd Grove ordered to sayle the sayd shipp
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| − | over the barr and there to bring her againe to Anchor and haveing
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| − | given such order, & there being a Country boate lyeing by the shipp
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| − | side, the sayd Thomas Grove would needes goe on shoare againe
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| − | and did goe on shoare in the sayd Country boate, notwithstanding
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| − | the sayd Woods did earnestly persuade & entreate him not to goe
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| − | on shoare & told him it would be a great hinderance to the voyage
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| − | the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the winde being ?the
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| − | fayre for her departure as in deede it was And the sayd Grove
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| − | being soe gone on shoare some of the shipps company after they
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| − | had sayled the shipp over the barr & then brought her to an Anchor
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| − | went on shoare with the shipps boate to fetch the sayd Grove on board
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| − | which notwithstanding the sayd Grove continewed ashoare most part
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| − | of that night and came not againe on board the sayd shipp till
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| − | about two of the Clock in the morning next after and was when hee soe came
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| − | (in this deponents Judgment) much distempered with drink and began
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| − | //to curse and sweare and amongst other words sayd that there
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| − | were some on board thought much of his being on shoare but
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| − | hee cared not for that, and sayd that the sayd shipp should ride
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| − | longer there and accordingly did keepe her there at anchor about
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| − | an hower after such his comming on board & then gave order to
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| − | weigh Anchor, and did sett sayl, this hee deposeth of
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| − | certayne knowledge & alsoe heareing the sayd words or others to
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| − | that effect spoken, as alsoe did most of the sayd shipps company
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| − | And further to these arle hee deposeth not./
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| − | To the 7:th arle hee saith hee knoweth that after the arrivall
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| − | of the shipp ''Peace'' at Le?serne in ffrance & whilst the arlate
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| − | Luke Wood was on shoare provideing the sayd shipps ladeing of
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| − | salt and sending boates aboard her therewith the sayd Thomas
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| − | Grve did the moneth of May 1657 the certayne day hee remembe-
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| − | reth not) refuse to receave aboard the sayd shipp two boates
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| − | loaded of salt which the sayd Wood had sent to be taken
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| − | aboard her ?and ?turned the sayd boates w:th their ladeings of
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| − | salt back againe without takeing the same aboard although
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| − | this deponent & the rest of the shipps company were willing to
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| − | take it aboard and could well have taken the same aboard &
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| − | carried the same which the sayd Grove did without acquainting
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| − | the sayd Wood thereiwth but what XXXXX dammage the sayd Woods was
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| − | thereby forced to pay hee knoweth not, but knoweth hee was dama-
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| − | ged thereby And further cannot depose./
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| − | To the 8:th arle hee saith that whilst the sayd shipp remayned
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| − | at Leserue aforesayd & when shee was ready to depart thence the
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| − | arlate Luke Woods did goe ashoare with some of the shipps company
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| − | to make even his Accompts that hee might be in a readinesse to
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| − | depart and saith that the sayd Grove would needes goe on shoare
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| − | with him & did goe on shoare with the sayd Woods but as to what
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| − | words the sayd Grove spake on shoare hee cannot depose for that hee
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| − | went not on shoare with them but saith hee heard the sayd
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| − | Grove before his goeing on shoare sayd before most of the sayd
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| − | shipps Company that whosoever of them did ask any thing
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| − | for Crispe (meaning the arlate Edward Crispe one of the
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| − | Owners & Adventuers in the sayd shipp the voyage in question) hee
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| − | would ?mallise or ?hate them during the voyage, or words to that
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| − | effect & rayled against the sayd Crispe & sayd hee was a roague
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| − | and a dogg & other the like expresonsfull towards ?him further
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| − | to this arle hee cannot depose./
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| − | //To the 10:th and ?11:th arle hee saith that in the beginning of the Moneth
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| − | of August 1657 the weather had bin somewhat fowle & foggie
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| − | that certayne fish to the quantitie of five hundred kintalls or thereabouts
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| − | which the sayd Wood had bought & provided a shoare could not be shipped
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| − | untill a fayer day happened And saith that a fayer day happening in the sayd
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| − | moneth (the certayne day of the moneth it soe happened to be fayer he remem
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| − | breth not) the arlate Luke Woods and the arlate William Tizard (who was
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| − | Masters Mate of the ''Peace'') called early in the morning for the Mariners of
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| − | the sayd shipp to goe a shoare with their boates to assiste in carrying
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| − | aboard & ladeing the sayd shipp with the sayd ffish And saith that thereupon the
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| − | sayd Grove the Master sent sixe men on shoare & not more to helpe to lade
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| − | the sayd ffish (whereas there were seaven & twenty men & boyes belonging
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| − | to the sayd shipp beside the Master, five & twenty whereof were under
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| − | pay off the sayd ?Merch & other the Owners above mentioned) and kept the
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| − | rest of the Mariners on board the sayd shipp & imployed them to pick OXX
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| − | and imployed this deponent being Carpenter to worke in the ?Okum
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| − | soe picked with severall plXXXX in the shipp where it would ?Okum ?W:ch
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| − | the sayd Wood would hande on shoare the weather being then fayre & XX
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| − | to lade the sayd ffish by which meanes the sayd Wood with those from thXX
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| − | the sayd Grove sent to helpe him could and did lade aboard the sayd
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| − | shipp only one hundred and twenty kintalls of the sayd three hundred
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| − | Kintalls of ffish whereas if the sayd Wood had had more helpe
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| − | on shoare to assiste in ladeing the sayd ffish aboard & that the rest of y:e
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| − | shipps Company had not bin hindred from goeing a shoare to assiste
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| − | therein by the sayd Groves employing them to pick Okum the whole three
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| − | hundred kintalls of ffish might easily have bin that day laden & put
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| − | all aboard the sayd shipp And further hee cannot depose saving hee
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| − | saith that while the sayd Woods was soe ladeing of the sayd one hundred
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| − | and twenty kintalls of ffish the sayd Grove did with three or fowre
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| − | more of the shipps Company take the shipps boate and turne to and
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| − | froe to the winde warde in the harbour for his pleasure noe way
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| − | offereing any assistance in the ladeing the sayd ffish, but what ?discourse
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| − | then passed betweene the sayd Wood & Grove as hee sayled to and froe
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| − | hee knoweth not.
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| − | To the 12:th arle hee saith that in the moneth of August 1657 (the certeyne
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| − | day hee remembreth not) the arlate Luke Wood having on shoare
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| − | sold a quantitie of salt came aboard the ''Peace'' to have it delivered
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| − | out of the said shipp and asked the Boatswaine for the sayd Grove the
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| − | Master & the Boatswaine made answere that hee was in his Cabbin
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| − | and the sayd Wood goeing into the Cabbin to desyre him (or by the sayd
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| − | Groves words afterwards appeared) to give order to his Company to ?deliver
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| − | out the sayd boates ladeings of salt the sayd Grove came out of
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| − | his Cabbin and rann upon the deck of the sayd shipp ''Peace'' and swore
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| − | that he would sinke the boate that should come for any salt there & the
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| − | sayd Wood seeing the sayd Grove rage in such a furious manner did
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| − | in a milde manner desyre and entreate the sayed Grove not doe as hee
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| − | //had threatned but to suffer the sayd boate to be laden with salt and
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| − | told him what a great disparagement it would be to him the sayd
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| − | Wood in his treade there if the sayd boate of ?hoymen aboard her
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| − | should be wronged whereupon the sayd Grove in an outragious manner
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| − | reviled the sayd Wood and called him old Roague and old Pedler
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| − | and old Pimpe and other the like disgracefull names and told him
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| − | the sayd Wood that if hee were not an old roague hee would drubb
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| − | him And alsoe sayd (speaking to the sayd Woods) yo:u old roague yo:u
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| − | were in the hold the other day but if ever I see yo:u in hold againe
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| − | I will ?trice yo:u up with a tackle or hee spake other menaceing speeches
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| − | to the same effect all which opporobious language & threates and
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| − | other passages were soe done & spoken on the open deck in p:rsence
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| − | & heareing of this deponent & the Boatswaine & most of the sayd
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| − | shipps company And further hee deposeth not./
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| − | To the 13:th arle hee saith that imediately after the sayd Grove
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| − | had soe threatned and reviled the sayd Wood, hee the sayd
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| − | Woods did in a civill & mylde manner demand of the sayd
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| − | Grove why he would not lett him have any salt from on board
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| − | and the sayd Grove replyed & sayd that the shipp wanted
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| − | stiffneing or ballast whereto the sayd Wood answered and sayd
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| − | to the sayd Grove why then did yo:w not a day agoe send for
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| − | more stones whereto the sayd Grove replyed and sayd hee had forgott
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| − | it & the sayd Woods then asked the sayd Grove what hee would doe
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| − | when he had more stones aboard whereto the sayd Grove replyed
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| − | and sayd that then hee would carry them on shoare againe And
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| − | these speeches passed betwixt the sayd Grove & Woods publiquely
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| − | upon the deck in p:rsence & hearing of this deponent and most of
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| − | the shipps Company the sayd Wood speakeing soe loude and with
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| − | such rage & fury that people who stood on shoare stood gazeing
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| − | and wondering to see & heare such words & behaviour proceede
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| − | from a Master of a shipp to his Supracargoe./
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| − | To the 14:th arle hee saith that the ayd Woods being discontented
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| − | with the forementioned words & actions of the sayd Grove went on
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| − | shoare leaving the arlate William Tizard one of the Mates of the
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| − | shipp aboard with the sayd Grove the master, and this deponent
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| − | went a shoare with the sayd Woods & therefore knoweth not what
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| − | words passed aboard then betwixt the sayd Tizard & Grove, but hath
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| − | heard the sayd Grove at severall other tymes (speakeing of the sayd
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| − | Tizard & this deponent & most of the Officers of the shipp who were
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| − | all ?hyred by the sayd Woods) in an anXXX manner sayd that there was a knott of them
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| − | but hee would breake them And hee saith that while this deponent
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| − | was soe on shoare with the sayd Woods the sayd Tizard came on
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| − | shoare and brought a noate from the sayd Grove & delivered the
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| − | same to the sayd Woods which noate the sayd Woods was before this
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| − | deponent & the sayd Tizard & divers other persons wherein (as the sayd
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| − | Woods read the same) is appeared that the sayd Grove had written that
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| − | //what salt hee wanted or would send for out of the sayd shipp
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| − | be delivered unto him And further hee cannot depose.
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| − | To the 15:th arle of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd M:r Woods haveing receaved the
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| − | sayd noate soe XXXX to be very glad thereof and sent this deponent to M:r Ellot
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| − | & M:r Pardon & Robert Rogers & Captaine Reynolds and others Who were by contract
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| − | to have salt from aboard the sayd shipp and desyred them to send
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| − | their boates aboard the sayd shipp for the salt which the sayd Woods had
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| − | sould unto them whereto the sayd people replyed that the dievell should have
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| − | him before they would goe againe to receave salt from aboard ?him yet
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| − | notwithstanding the fishing tyme being almost spent and they being in great
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| − | want of salt they sent their boates againe aboard the sayd shipp for
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| − | salt and demanded the same but the sayd Grove would not permitt
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| − | them to receave any salt from aboard the sayd shipp by which meanes
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| − | the sayd Wood began to loose his reputation in the
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| − | sale of his salt abd was discharged amongst those to wheome hee
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| − | had sold it whereas hgee neede not soe to have bin for that there was
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| − | of this deponents knowledge then aboard the sayd shipp about thirty
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| − | tonnes of ffish and about sixty tonnes of salt abd about sixty tonnes
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| − | of stones besides great store of provisions of beefe ?pocks pease and
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| − | other provisions and the ship then rideing in the harbour of S:t ?Jones
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| − | which is the safest and best or at least as good and
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| − | safe a harbour as any is in the Newfound land soe that in ?this the
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| − | deponents Judgment the sayd Grove by such two refractory and
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| − | discontented Carriage and words & actions did intend
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| − | to overthrow the sayd shipps voyage And further hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 16:th hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the 17:th hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 18:th hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 19:th hee saith that in the moneth of September 1657 (the certayne
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| − | day hee remembreth not) the ''Pease'' being come out some few dayes before
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| − | from Newfound Land the shipp the ''Pease'' & her company of espied XXXX
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| − | shipps at Sea which they thought to be some of her consorts
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| − | bound for the Barbados And the ''Pease'' bearing up to them the Master
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| − | & Company of the ''Pease'' know the shipp they came up with all to be one
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| − | that came out in Company of the ''Pease'' from Nants and thereupon
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| − | the sayd Grove the Master persuaded the sayd Woods to goe aboard the sayd shipp
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| − | 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
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| − | and ?hee sent the ''Pease'' her boate aboard her againe, And this being done
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| − | and the sayd Grove the Master still continewing aboard his sayd
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| − | shipp the ''Pease'' the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' by order of the sayd Grove the
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| − | Master stood off about halfe a league from the sayd other shipp that came
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| − | in her company from Nants and then stood to the winde of her and by ?this
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| − | meanes came her aboard in the quarter to the great endangereing
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| − | of the sayd shipps insoemuch that the ffrench men aboard the sayd shipp
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| − | seeing the great danger their says shipp was in gott out of her into XX XXX
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| − | leaving//
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| − | //leaving the arlate Luke Wards in the sayd ffrench shipp who with
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| − | much danger of his life by getting hold of the ?ragles of the heads of
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| − | the ''Pease'' when they came fowle one of an other with much difficulty
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| − | 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
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| − | soe done by the command and order of the sayd Grove the Master
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| − | notwithstanding that the Mates of the ''Pease'' & others of the
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| − | Company advised the sayd Grove the Master before hee
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| − | came within a quarter of a myle of the sayd shipp to leave up
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| − | to ne Lee ward of her or to the winde wards of her which hee might
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| − | 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
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| − | the sayd Jenkins afterwards during the ?whole XXXXX And further he cannot depose/
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| − | To the 20:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth and heard the sayd
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| − | Luke Woods upon the departure of the shipp ''Pease'' from the New found
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| − | land give order to the arlate Thomas Grove to sayle the sayd shipp
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| − | directly for the Barabados And hee this deponent heard the
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| − | Mates of the sayd Shipp sayd that the sayd Thomas Grove did not
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| − | cause the sayd shipp to bee steerd a course sufficient towards the
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| − | Southwards to gaine the Barbados And knoweth that the sayd
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| − | Thomas by his steering on his owne course contrary to the advise
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| − | of his sayd Mates did misse the Island of Barbados and
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| − | came to the Island of S:t Lusea in the moneth of November 1657
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| − | And further hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 21:th hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 22:th hee saith hee knoweth that about the beginning of the moneth
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| − | of March 1657 there came in a KelXX into NXXXX (where the ''Pease''
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| − | then lay) laden with ffish & other provisions whereof the arlate
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| − | Holloway was accompted Merchant & Owner And further to
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| − | this arle hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 23:th arle hee saith that while the sayd shipp stayed at MXXX
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| − | hee heard divers of the Planters there saye that they would
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| − | have laded goods aboard the sayd ship the ''Pease'' but that they
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| − | sawe that the arlate Thomas Grove was a man of lewde
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| − | and debauched behaviour and therefore they dearst not trust
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| − | him with their goods or words to that effect for which reason
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| − | hee beleeveth that the sayd Woods was much damnified by the
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| − | sayd Groves debauched behaviour and lost much ladeing there
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| − | which otherwise hee might have had And further hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the 24:th arle hee saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate
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| − | Thomas Grove did at New found land ?stowe aboard the Gunne
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| − | 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
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| − | //this deponents knowledge did leake out and came downe
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| − | amongst the Merchants fish and much damnified the same
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| − | in soe much that when the same came to be sold at ?Mevis where
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| − | other ffish was there sold for a pound of sugar for every pound of
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| − | fish the sayd Woods was faine to sell the sayd fish soe damnified
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| − | some of it at halfe that price and some at lesse than halfe that
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| − | price, to the great dammage of the sayd Luke Woods.
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| − | This hee deposeth of certayne knowledge And farther hee cannot depose,
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| − | To the 25:th arle hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 26:th hee saith that the arlate Luke Woods was during the ?sayd
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| − | voyage (of this deponents sight & observation) very industrious and
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| − | carefull in mannageing of the affayres of the sayd shipp the ''Pease''
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| − | committed to his charge and in the sale & disposall of er goods and
| + | |
| − | Merchandizes & in buying & reladeing her with ithers And hee this
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| − | deponent is verily persuaded in his conscience that if the sayd
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| − | Thomas Groves had used the like diligence in performance of his
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| − | duty as Master & not behaved him selfe in such refractory and disXXXX
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| − | manner as is afore declared the sayd shipp might have dischraged
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| − | her voyage fower or five moneths sooner than shee did And further
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| − | hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 27:th arle hee saith that in case the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' had
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| − | arrived at the Barbados whether shee was bound with her ladeing
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| − | from Newfound land the sayd Woods might in this deponents Judg
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| − | ment and as hee verily beleeveth) In all probability habe sold
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| − | & disposed there of the sayd ffish & other goods whilst the same was sounde marketX
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| − | & well conditioned, & at good valew, & made quick returne thence
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| − | to London abd quicker by at least five or sixe monethes than hee
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| − | did whereas the sayd ffish & other goods (whereof
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| − | the sayd Luke Woods had three eighth parts upon his Accompt) were
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| − | much damnified the fish growing rotten & divers Caskes of oyle
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| − | which the sayd Woods had aboard growing very leakie in soe much that many of them leaked cleare out by reason of
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| − | their lying soe long undisposed of And further hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 28:th hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the sayd Luke XXX
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| − | did susteyne losse & dammage in the sale of ?the three eighth parts of the
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| − | sayd shipp the ''Pease'' her ladeing of ffish & other goods more than whXXXX
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| − | hee might have made of them at the Barbados if the sayd shipp
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| − | had not missed her course thither the summe of three hundred pounds
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| − | sterling or neere thereabouts besides the losse of about fower or five
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| − | moneths tyme for which the sayd Woods payed or was to pay freight
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| − | And further hee cannot depose/
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| − | //To the 29:th saving his forefoing deposiccon hee canot depose
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| − | To the 30:th hee saith that the shipp ''Peace'' was of the burthen of ?two [this figure appears to have been blotted out]
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| − | hundred tonnes or neere thereabouts and that of his this deponents
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| − | knowledge shee came home about halfe dead freighted for that
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| − | the arlate Luke Woods beside the dammage hee susteyned in the sale
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| − | of his three eighth parts of the sayd shipps ladeing of ffish & other
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| − | Merchandizes did suffer losse and dammage in the sayd shipps want
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| − | of ladeing home the simme of two hundred pounds sterling or
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| − | neere thereabouts in this deponents Judgement & estimate And further
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| − | hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the 31:th arle hee saith that the monethly wages of the Master
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| − | & Mariners of the shipp ''Peace'' & the victualls & provisions by them
| + | |
| − | monethly spent during the voyage in question did amount to a great
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| − | & considerable summe of money but what to estimate the same
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| − | as hee knoweth not And further cannot depose./
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| − | To the 32:th arle hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the
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| − | shipp the ''Peace'' her voyage was overthrowne and spoiled by the
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| − | evell (sic) behaviour of the sayd Thomas Grove therein the sayd Grove behaving
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| − | him selfe in that rude and uncivill manner wheresoever hee came
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| − | during the sayd voyage that such persons as had heard of or sawe his
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| − | behaviour did not care to have anything to doe with him the sayd
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| − | Grave or the arlate Luke Woods for his sake and therefore diverse of them
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| − | did forbeare the ladeing of their goods aboard the sayd shipp of this
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| − | deponents sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge and such the sayd Groves rude
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| − | and uncivill behaviour was generall observed and taken notice of
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| − | by the whole shipps Company and by divers who had occasion to
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| − | lade goods aboard the sayd shipp and have dealings with the sayd
| + | |
| − | Luke Woods And further hee deposeth not./
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| − | To the 33:th and 34:th arles hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Grove did
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| − | not only in remote parts beyond the seas behave him selfe in such
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| − | rude and disobedient manner as is before declared but alsoe after
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| − | 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
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| − | was an occasion of the sayd shipps stay there a much longer tyme
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| − | than shee needed to have done by reason that seavrll Merchants who
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| − | had goods aboard the sayd shipp and which were there to be delivered
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| − | came aboard to demand their goods, and brought their bills of ladeing
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| − | and severall tymes demanded them andthe sayd Grove refused to
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| − | 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
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| − | tyme at the most & then might have had the oportunity of a fayer
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| − | winde to sayle for London which oportunitie the sayd Grove by his sayd
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| − | refractory carriage lost & the winde by his long stay there coming
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| − | //the sayd shipp could not get there and arrive at London soe soone
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| − | as otherwise shee might have done if the sayd Grove had behaved
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| − | him selfe civilly and bin obedient to order as hee ought to have
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| − | done by a moneths tyme or thereabouts And these p:rmisses hee saith
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| − | were and are well knowne bot only to this deponent but also to the
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| − | whole shipps company & alsoe to the Merchants who soe came to demand
| + | |
| − | their goods And further hee cannot depose knowing nothing touching the
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| − | makeing of the Protests arlate./
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 35:th arle hee saith hee well remembreth that at Mevis this deponent
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| − | & 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
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| − | in before them against the sayd Thomas Grove the Master who was
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| − | ?convened & appeared before them) touching his evell & disobedient carriage
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| − | in the sayd voyage at Newfound landX, which notwithstanding the sayd
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| − | Grove still continued his obstinate & refractory carriage and did upon
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| − | all occasions endeavour the overthrowe of the voyage in question in
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| − | manner as is before described And further hee cannot depose./
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 36:th and 37:th arles hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the
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| − | Registery of this Court to the lawe, and to his foregoeing deposition &
| + | |
| − | further cannot depose./
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| − | | + | |
| − | 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
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| − | foregoeing deposition and to the lawe and further cannot depose./
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 40:th hee saith the arlate Thomas Grove was & is an
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| − | Englishman & an Inhabitant of the parish of Stepney and subiect
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| − | to the Jurisdiction of this Court./
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| − | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true
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| − | | + | |
| − | The marke of the sayd
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| − | PETER XXXXX BARTLET
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| − | ===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===
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| − | The 14:th of January 1658
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| − | Examined on the sayd Libell./
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| − | Rp.
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| − | 2:us RICHARD CLAKE of Ratcliff in the pish of Stepney
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| − | and County of Midd Mariner aged thirty yeares of
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| − | therabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith and
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| − | deposeth as followeth vizt
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| − | To the first arle of the sayd allegation [allegation has been crossed out] libell hee saith by reason hee
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| − | 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
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| − | knoweth//
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| − | //knoweth that the arlate Thomas Grove then and alsoe during
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| − | all the tyme arlate in the yeares 1657 and 1658 was Master and
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| − | 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./
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| − | | + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | 1657 English Style bound forth on a voyage from London to
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| − | 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./
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the third arle hee saith hee well knoweth being Boatswaine as
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | provisions and wages for the Master and Mariners of the sayd shipp
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| − | //and hee this deponent verily beleeveth that the sayd Woods being
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| − | 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
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 5:th and 6:th arles of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd
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| − | shipp the ''Pease'' after her departure from Gravesend being in her course
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| − | towards ffrance she was by Contrary winds put into ffalmouth where
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| − | she lay winde bound for neere about thirteene dayes And on or about
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| − | the seaventeenth of Aprill 1657 the winde came fayer & the sayd Luke
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| − | Woods & the sayd Thomas Grove being then on shoare & hee this deponent
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| − | aboard, hee knoweth not what words passed on shoare betweene them but
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| − | well knoweth that they came both aboard the sayd shipp togeather about
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| − | two of the Clock in the afternoone that day and that as soone as they
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| − | came aboard they sent Thomas Yeomans one of the Mates of the XX
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| − | with the shipps boate to cleere at the Castle, and in the meane
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| − | tyme while the sayd Mate was goeing to cleere the sayd Grove com-
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| − | manded the sayd shipp to be brought to sayle and before the
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| − | Anchors could be gott aboard & the shipp fitted to sayle, there being
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| − | a Country boate lyeing by the shipps side the sayd Thomas Grove the
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| − | master would needes goe on shoare againe in that Country boate
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| − | and did goe ashoare in it notwithstanding that the sayd Luke
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| − | Woods seeing him about soe to doe did in p:rsence of this deponent &
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| − | divers of the shipps company earnestly perswade and entreate
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| − | the sayd Thomas Grove not to goe on shoare againe and told him XX
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| − | XXX his goeing a shoare would be a great hinderance to the voyage
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| − | the shipp being bound upon a fishing designe & the season somewhat spent
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| − | allready by the shipps lying soe long winde bound as she had done
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| − | & the winde then ?seerveing gfayre for her departure (as in deede it did)
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| − | but the sayd Grove notwithstanding such perswasions went ashoare and
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| − | there stayed most part of that night ashoare and came againe
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| − | aboard the sayd shipp about two a clock in the morning, in the
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| − | shipps boate which was sent after him to attend him and bring
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| − | him aboard And hee saith the sayd Thomas grove being come againe
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| − | aboard the sayd shipp did publiquely upon the deck in p:rsence of
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| − | this deponent & divers others of the shipps company, speake in an?gry
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| − | manner and sayd thus or the like in effect there are some on board
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| − | that thinke much of my being on shoare but I care not, and
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| − | further sayd that shee (meaning the sayd shipp ''Pease'') should ride
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| − | //there longer yet, and soe the sayd Grove kept the sayd shipp at Anchor about an
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| − | howers space after hee soe came aboard and then after his anger
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| − | was over gave order to weigh Anchor, and soe sett sayle the
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| − | p:rmisses hee deposeth off sight (OR, right) & certayne knowledge And further hee
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| − | To the 7:th arle hee saith that after the arrivall of the shipp ''Pease''
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| − | at S:t leforne in ffrance the sayd Luke Woods being gone on shoare
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| − | to provide salt to lade the sayd shipp and having
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| − | ?sent severall boates with salt, which were receaved on board.
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| − | the sayd Woods did about the fifth or sixth of May 1657 send
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| − | fower or five boates (more than what had formerly bin taken aboard)
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| − | with salt, and they being come to the shipp side the sayd Grove the
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| − | Master being aboard turnedd two of the sayd boate loades of salt
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| − | back againe & would not receave them aboard, saying his shipp
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| − | was at her load marke with what good jee had allready receaved
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| − | aboard her, and therefore hee would take noe more salt aboard,
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| − | and thereupon tooke this deponents penn & Xuke & writt a noate
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| − | and delivered the same to one of the boatmen whose boate loads
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| − | of salt were not receaved aboard & willed him in this deponents
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| − | sight & hearing to give that noate to M:r Woods (XXXXing the foursayd
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| − | Luke Woods) the contents of the sayd noate this deponent knoweth not
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| − | but as the sayd Grove told him this deponent the contenxt thereof
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| − | was to ?Call the sayd M:r Woods knowe tha the sayd shipp was fully
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| − | laden with the goods ?she had on board & that therefore hee could noz
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| − | take those two boates of salt more aboard And darther to this arle
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| − | he cannot depose knowinhg nothing touching what dammage the sayd
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| − | Woods suffered by the sayd Groves XXXXing back the sayd salt.
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| − | To the 3:th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp ''Pearce'' being at
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| − | Leforns aforesayd and ready to sett sayle thence the arlate Luke
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| − | Woods did with fower of the shipps company goe on shoare to make
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| − | 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
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| − | dayes continued fowle and foggie soe that ?certyne fish which the arle
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| − | Luke Woods at Newfound land provided to be laden aboard the ''Pease'' by way
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| − | of the fowle & foggie weather, (it being very preXXXXX to lade fish
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| − | aboard a shipp the unlesse in fayere & cleare weather) could not be laden And saith that upon
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| − | the fifteenth day of August 1657 the weather proveing fayre & very fitt
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| − | & convenient to lade fish aboard in, the arlate Luke Wood & M:r Tizard
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| − | called early in the morning for the marriners of the ''Pearse'' who were
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| − | aboarde (there being then ashoare only about tenn or twelve Mariners of her company
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| − | who constantly continewed a shoare there to helpe to prepare fish om a
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| − | readinesse to be laden aboard) to come on shoare with their ?boats
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| − | and assiste in ladeing the fish which was prepared in a readinesse
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| − | aboard the sayd shipp while the weather was fayer, (bit how many kintalls
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| − | wer then p:rpared hee knoweth not hee being seldome on shoare by reason
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| − | of his office of Boat swaine) And saith that the arlate Thomas Grove
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| − | did upon such the sayd Woods & Tizards calling for men to assiste them
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| − | send some men ashoare (beside those which used to XXXXXX take on shoare),
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| − | but how many hee remembreth not) And kept the ?part of the Company
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| − | aboard & imployed them to pick Okum for
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| − | the Carpenter to use about the sayd shipp And saith hee remembreth not
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| − | how many kintalls of fish were laden aboard the sayd shipp that day
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| − | 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
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| − | laden aboard her And further to these arles hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the 12:th and 13:th arles hee saith that about the one & twentieth day of August
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| − | 1657 arlate the sayd Luke Woods having bin on shoare came aboard the ''Pearse'' &
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| − | brought with him two boates to fetch salt from aboard the sayd shipp
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| − | for ?foure persons who had bought the same of him and being
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| − | //in Company togeather at the sayd Wood house in Newfound Land
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| − | To the 18:th hee saith hee cannot depose not being p:rsent at the tyme
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| − | and place arlate./
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| − | To the 19:th arle hee saith that about the twenty eighth day of 7:ber
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| − | 1657 in the morning the Master & Company of the ''Pease'' espied three shipps
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| − | which at a distance they thought to be some shipps bound for the Barbados
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| − | as the ''Pease'' was, & bearing up to them the Master & Company of the ''Pease''
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| − | ?knew the shipp they came up with to bee a ?banXer that came out in company
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| − | with the ''Pease'' from Nants And saith that what perswasion the sayd Thomas
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| − | Grove the Master used to the effect arlate hee knoweth not but knoweth that
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| − | Luke Woods did in Company of Robert Grave one of the sayd Thomas
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| − | Groves Mates goe aboard the sayd ffrench shipp which soe came from Nants
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| − | in Company of the ''Pease'', and then sent the boate they went in back againe
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| − | aboard the ''Pease'', & the sayd boate being come the sayd shipp the ''Pease'' stood
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| − | away from the sayd aXXX shipp about halfe a league & then steered
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| − | and stood to the windewards of the sayd other shipp and by that meanes
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| − | came her aboard in the quarter & thereby much endangered the losse
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| − | of both the sayd shipps in soe much that the ffrench men aboard the
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| − | sayd ffrench ship sseing the sanger their shipp was in rann all (save
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| − | one that was sick aboard her) aboard the ''Pease'' to secure their lives
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| − | leaving the arlate Luke Woods aboard the sayd ffrench shipp who with
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| − | much difficulty and the helpe of one of the Company of the ''Pease''
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| − | who caught hold of the sayd Wood (as hee hung by the head of
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| − | the ''Pease'') to p:rserve him from falling into the Sea) gott at length
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| − | on board the ''Pearse'' All which hee saith was done by order and
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| − | Command of the sayd Thomas Grove the Master of the ''Pearse''
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| − | although this deponent seeing him order such a coarse to be
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| − | steered XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx told the sayd Grove the Master when hee came XXXX at
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| − | neere the sayd ffrench shipp that hee soe by the Course that
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| − | was steered that hee the sayd Grove would come fowle in ?deede
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| − | could not goe cleere of the sayd ffrench shipp And further to this
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| − | arle hee cannot depose
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| − | To the 20:th hee saith that the sayd Shipp ''Pease'' was from the Newfound
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| − | land bound for the Barbados and saith that of ?his this
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| − | deponents observation and knowledge the sayd Grove never brought
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| − | the sayd shipp into her due XXXXX to sayle for the Barbadoes, but
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| − | by the coarse hee kept did misse the Barbados
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| − | and made S:t Lusea arlate and about the eighth
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| − | of November 1657 arrived with the shipp ''Pease'' at Mevis arlate
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| − | And further to this arle hee cannot depose not knowing what p:rticular
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| − | order the sayd Wood gave the sayd Grove the Master touching her goeing
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| − | to the Barbadoes or what discourse passed betwixt the sayd Woods and
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| − | the sayd Thomas Grove the Master & her mates touching the steering of
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| − | the Course for y:e sd Barbadoes or what answeare the sayd Groves made
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| − | them about the same./://
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| − | //To the 21:th hee saith hee heard the sayd Luke Woods saye openly upon
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| − | the deck to the sayd Thomas Grove (while the ''Pease'' lay ar Mevis the
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| − | tyme more certaynely hee doth not remember) that the sayd Grove hath
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| − | broken his Charterpty And the sayd Grovein an angrie manner
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| − | p:rsently imployed and syd if I have broken my Charterpty then I
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| − | will ruine all & ?XXX words passed betwixt them on the deck in XXXX
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| − | of this deponent & divers others of the shipps company And further to
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| − | rhis XXX arle hee cannot depose
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| − | To the 20:th hee saith that the ''Pease'' by XXXXX missed the
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| − | Barbados as aforesayd did lye at Mevis in disposeing of her
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| − | fish & other Co?jmmodities from the eighth of November till about
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| − | the middle of June next following And hee alsoe saith that hee
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| − | well knoweth that aboaut the beginning of March 1657 there came
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| − | a ?KotXy to Mevis with fish whereof the arlate Holloway (whome
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| − | this deponent well knoweth) was Merchant, And hee saith that
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| − | the said Holloway did at Mevis tell this deponent that the sayd
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| − | Thomas Grove & hee the sayd Hollway hath there had conference
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| − | together & that the sayd Grove told him the sayd Holloway, that he
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| − | the sayd Grove would take such a course that the old roague Luke
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| − | Woods should sell noe fish there for as the sayd Holloway
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| − | sayd the sayd Grove told him that hee the sayd Grove had sold all
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| − | his owne fish, and that one pound of the sayd Hollowaies fish were
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| − | worth sixe pounds of the fish avoard the ''Pease'' And that hee the
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| − | sayd Grove XXXX helpe the sayd Holloway to sell all his fish
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| − | 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===
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| − | //The 19:th day of January 1658 English style
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| − | Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson)
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| − | & other freighters of the shipp the ''Maydenhead'')
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| − | agt the Dutch East India Company in pticular and)
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| − | all other x:r X XXXXXX)
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| − | Examined on the allegation given in
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| − | XX XXX of November 1658 on behalfe of
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| − | the sayd ffreighters
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| − | 5 WILLIAM READING of Rederiff wall
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| − | in the parish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermond-
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| − | sey in the County of Surrey mariner aged
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| − | thirty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
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| − | sworne & examined saith and deposeth
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| − | as followeth viz:t
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| − | To the 10:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
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| − | this deponent was purser of the shipp the ''Olive Branch'' an
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| − | English shipp which went upon a tradeing voyage from London bound
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| − | for Bantam but at her comeing thither the sayd shipp ''Olive
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| − | Branch'' was hindred by certayne dutch shipps of warr belonging
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| − | to and being in the implyment of the dutch East India Company
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| − | by which meanes ?they wwas forced to goe to an Island in XXX
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| − | PaXXogando upon the Coast of Sumatra and there pXXXX her lading
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| − | of pepper to be brought
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| − | secretly unknowne to the dutch in XXXX or boates from
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| − | Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the
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| − | ''Olive Branch'' ridd And saith that hee being XXXX a foresayd Puerser
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| − | of the sayd shipp and on XXXX at Bantam during the moneths
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| − | of January ffebruary and part of March in the yeare of our
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| − | Lord 1656 while the lading of pepper which was shipped aboard
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| − | the ''Olive Branch'' was proXXXing at Bantam to be sent to
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| − | Pollegaade and takeing the weight there of and imployed in
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| − | sending the same away thaereby knoweth that in the yeare and
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| − | moneth aforesayd pepper might then have bin hard at Bantam bought
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| − | of the Chinese (sic) & was by the Chinese offered XXXXXXXXXX
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| − | there to be sold to ?sayth as would buy the same at the rate of five
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| − | and a halfe pence alright or XXXX for the parcell every parcell
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| − | being comonly accompted one hundred sixty two pounds English weight
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| − | And saith that the ''Olive Branch'' having taken in her ladeing
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| − | of pepper at ?Pulligaade XXXXX XXXXX and brought the same
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| − | to Ligorno which was according to Charterpty the Port whither
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| − | she was designed to carry the same And hee this deponent goeing
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| − | Purser in her to Ligorno knoweth that in the Moneths of ffebruary
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| − | and March 1657 in which moneths the sayd shipp ''Olive Branch''
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| − | was & remayned in the Port of Ligorno XXXX pepper was brought in XXXX was there frequently
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| − | and commonly sold at the rate of twenty peeces of eight
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| − | per hundred English weight, and hee this deponent having some
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| − | pepper pf his owne which was brought hither in the sayd shipp
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| − | did there sell the same at som what a bove
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| − | that rate of twenty peeces of eight per hundred English weight
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| − | And further to this arle hee cannot depose.
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| − | To the rest of the articles hee is not examinat, by ?direction
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| − | WILLIAM READING [His signature]
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| − | Repetit before Dor Godolphin//
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| − | //seized by the Commanders & Companyes of the sayd dutch
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| − | shipps soe in service of the dutch East India Company and the
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| − | sayd DEthick utterly deprived of them this hee knoweth being
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| − | on board & seeing the seizure thereof And further hee cannot depose/
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| − | ===Case: ffrancis and John: Examination: 1. James Berblok, of Poplar, Stepney, Middlesex, Mariner, aged 51: Date:February 26th 1658===
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| − | The 20:th of January 1658
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| − | //''ffrancis and John:'')
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| − | 1.:us JAMES BERBLOCK of Poplar in the parish of
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| − | Stepney and County of Midd mariner aged
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| − | fifty one yeares or therabouts sworne before
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| − | the right Wor:ll John Godolphin doctor of Lawes
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| − | one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
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| − | and examined for perpetuall remembrance of
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| − | the matter upon certayne Interries ministred
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| − | on the parte & behalfe of Thomas Rummings
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| − | and Anthony Beale two of y:e Company (vizt the
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| − | sayd Rummingsy:e XX Steward and the sayd Beale the
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| − | Carpenter) of the shipp the ''ffrancis & John''
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| − | whereof Lawrence Bro?Xunding was Comander)
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| − | touching their clayme for their goods in the sayd
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| − | shipp saith and deposeth as followeth vizt
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| − | To the first Interr hee saith hee hath well knowne the Interr
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| − | Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale during the whole tyme
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| − | of the voyage in question this deponent goeing Pylott of the
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| − | ''ffrancis & John'' and the sayd Rimming steward & the sayd
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| − | Beale Carpenter off her the sayd voyage and knoweth ?they were of her company
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| − | in the qualities aforesayd at such tyme as the ''ffrancis & John''
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| − | and her ladeing were taken & surprised by certaine shipps in the
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| − | service of the dutch East India Company./
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| − | To the second Interr hee saith hee well kniweth that the Interrogate
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| − | Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them conside
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| − | rable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar
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| − | Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie
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| − | hee canntot declare, but ?reall beleeveth and is persuaded in
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| − | his conscience that the same was worth sold in England in all five hundred
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| − | pounds sterling vizt the sayd Thomas Rummings his sayd goods worth
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| − | three hundred pounds sterling and the sayd Anthony Beales sayd goods
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| − | worth two hundred pounds of like money All which goods hee saith
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| − | were on board the sayd shipp ''ffrancis & John'' for Accompt of the sayd
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| − | Rumming and Beale at ?say tyme as the sayd shipp & her ladeing were seized
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| − | & surprized by the sayd dutch shipps in service of the dutch East India
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| − | Company and were seized by the Commanders and Companies
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| − | of the sayd dutch shipps and the sayd Rummings & Beale thereby
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| − | depXXXd of all or at least of a great part thereof XXXXX knoweth being Pylott and aboard at the seizure And further
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| − | to this Interr hee cannot depose./
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| − | JAMES BEEBLOK [His signature]
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| − | 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===
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| − | The 21.;th day of January 1658./.
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| − | On the behalfe of Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and)
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| − | John Turner Merchants of London)
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| − | ptiwners of the ship ffrancis
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| − | and John Laurence Browning Comand:r)
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| − | ffrancklin:/
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| − | Rp.
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| − | CAPTAINE LAURENCE BROWNING
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| − | of Ratcliffe in the parish of Stepney
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| − | and County of Midds Mariner M:r or
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| − | Comander of the Ship the ''ffrancis and
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| − | John'': aged 52 yeeres of thereabouts, sworne
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| − | before the right wor:ll John Godolphin D:r
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| − | of Lawes. one of the Judges of the High Vourt
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| − | of the Admiralty of England and Examined upon
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| − | certaine Interrie given in by M:r ffrancklin
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| − | on the behalfe of the Said Samuell Wilson, Thomas ?Plampian and
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| − | John Turner: saith and deposeth as followeth viz:t.
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| − | To the said Interrie hee saith and deposeth that this
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| − | depo:t very well knoweth the said Samuel Wilson, Thomas
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| − | Plampian and John Turner, who were as hee saith own:rs
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| − | of the greatest part of the said shipp the ''ffrancis and John''
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| − | and saith that at the time of the seizure of the said ship
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| − | and her Lading, by some of the ships belonging to the
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| − | Dutch East India Company of the United Netherlands
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| − | there were aboard the said Ship ''ffrancis and John''
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| − | two and thirty Musketts w:ch were taken by this depot for the sayd
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| − | ships use after her coming into Bantam Roade, he not daring to dispose thereof at Bantam and saith the same really and truely belonged
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| − | to the said Samuel Wilson Thomas Plampian and
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| − | John Turn?rer; and ?full the said two and thirty Musektts
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| − | (as hee saith) were seized in y:e said ship ''ffrancis and
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| − | 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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| − | //and saith hee last sawe the ?Consent lyeing on shoare at Redriff
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| − | about two or three moneths since & saith the last tyme hee sawe the
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| − | ?shipp was to the best of his now rememberance about a yeares &
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| − | a halfe since XXXXX neere Wapping And further to ?this Interest hee XXXX
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| − | answereth not seeing the ''Consent'' at her first mooreing nor
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| − | knowing when she came ?first to moore in the River of
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| − | Thames./
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| − | about
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| − | XXX
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| − | a halfe
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| − | answere
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| − | knowing
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| − | XXXX
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| − | To the 3 hee saith hee
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| − | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | WHAT FOLIO NO IS THIS?
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| − | ===Case: S:r John Dethicke John Bancks Hugh fforth, and Company: Deposition: George Dethick, of London, Merchant, aged 30: Date: January 24th 1658===
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| − | //The 24:th of January 1658 English Style
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| − | A business of Examination of witnesses upon
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| − | XXXXX Interries XXXXXX XXX the part and
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| − | behalfe of S:r John Dethicke John Bancks
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| − | Hugh fforth, and Company XXXX certain
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| − | XXXXX aboard the shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' (Cap:t
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| − | XX XXXX Commander) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | of XXXXX the XXXXXXXX of the Dutch East India
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| − | Company.
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| − | ffrancklin
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| − | Rp
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| − | GEORGE DETHICK of London Merchant
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| − | aged thirty yeares or thereabouts, a
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| − | wittnesse sworne before the right Wor:ll
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| − | John Godolphin doctor of Lawes one of
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| − | the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
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| − | of England saith and deposeth viz:t.
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| − | To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee well knoweth that the
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| − | Interrogate Hugh fforth
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| − | did in the moneth of ffebruary 1656 cause to be laden and put on board
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| − | the Interrogate shipp the ''ffrancis & John'' whereof the Interrogate
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| − | Lawrence MXXXing was Master, then lyeing in the River of Thames
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| − | and bound for Bantam Interrogate two Chests conteyning sixe and
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| − | twenty Barres and sixteene XXXX
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| − | marked & numbered as in the Margent
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| − | to be transported in her for Bantam & their disposed of for his
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| − | Accompt & the proceeds thereof to be thence returned in her for his
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| − | Account XXXXXXXXX knoweth say that hee went Supracargo of the
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| − | sayd shipp the voyage in question XXXXXXXXXXXXXX And further to this Interrorie saving his
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| − | subsequent deposition hee cannot depose
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| − | To the Interrorie hee saith that hee being XXXXXX as a foresayd
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| − | knoweth that upon the ladeing of the two chests and the XXXX XXXXX XXXX
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| − | XXXXXXXX XXXXX the sayd shipp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | XXXX//
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| − | //To the 9:th hee saith that sometimes ffacto:es at y:e
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| − | Canaryes doe marke all the wines and goods which thez
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| − | send to one Merch:t for y:e said Merchants account
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| − | with one marke: and sometimes with severall marks
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| − | to distinguish of what Vinyard they are of, and further
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| − | Cannot answer.
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| − | RICHARD CASBY [His signature]
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| − | Repeated before D:r Godolphin./
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| − | y:e 2:d of March 1668./
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| − | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: David Lloyd, Citizen & Cloatheworker, of London, aged 56: Date: March 8th 1658 (59)===
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| − | The ?8:th of March 1658:/.
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| − | Examined on y:e said Allon./.
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| − | R:X
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| − | 3:us DAVID LLOYD Citizen and Cloathworker
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| − | of London, aged 56 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
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| − | and Examined:/:
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| − | To the first articles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath knowne
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| − | y:e arlate John Casby for about fourteene yeeres last during
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| − | all w:ch space the said Casby hath bin a Merchant of great dealing
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| − | and quality, and in y:e moneth of July 1658. and ever since, and
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| − | for many moneth before y:esaid Casby hath and doth trade
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| − | from hence to the Canary Islands and from thence to this port of
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| − | London for wines and other goods: and doth send many Goods
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| − | and Merchandizes from hence on ?their ?owne account to y:e Canaryes and doth receive many pipes
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| − | of wines yeerely from y:e Canaryes on his owne acco:t and this Depo:t verily
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| − | beleeveth hee hath a ffactor at the said Islands: The premisses hee deposeth
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| − | being y:e sd producents packer, and hathe as hee beleeveth packed goods at severall times for
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| − | y:e sd producent to the vallue of above twenty Thousand pounds And further
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| − | cannot depose:/:
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| − | To the ?2:d hee saith hee Cannot depose:/.
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| − | To the 3:d hee Cannot depose, saving hee saith that English merchants
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| − | doe, (and have done since y:e warre betwixt England and Spaine)
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| − | trade at y:e Canaryes under fained and fictitious Dutch names
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| − | the better to Colo:r their goods, and p:eserved them from Spanish
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| − | Capture./.
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| − | To the 4:th hee saith that in January & March, 1657: there were laden on
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| − | board y:e arlate ship y:e ''Susan ffrigot'', whereof Abraham Philliter
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| − | was M:r sixty one bales , and XXXXX of Severall goods and
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| − | Merchandizes w:ch were all for y:e account of the said M:r Casby
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| − | and Company and of this depo:ts knowledge there were three
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| − | bales or Truncks Laden aboard y:e sd ship at y:e same time, for y:e said
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| − | M:r Casbyes sole account, all w:ch were to be Carried and Transported
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| − | in y:e sd ship from hence to the Canaryes And saith hee beleeveth
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| − | that y:e said 3 bales or Trunckes, and y:e part and share w:ch the
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| − | said M:r Casby had in y:e said sixty one Bales about foure or five Thousand
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| − | CXXXXXXX, XXXX said Trade being most XX them XXX XXXX
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| − | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | XXXXX Cloath And further hee cannot depose.
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| − | To the 5:th and 6:th hee Cannot depose:/.
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| − | To the 7:th and 8:th hee saith thatabout y:e XXXX moneth of March Last there
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| − | were laden aboard y:e arlate ship the same XXXXXXX here in y:e
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| − | River of Thames anout XXXXXXXXXX Bales or Truncks pf Severall goods
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| − | of the first marke in y:e margent XXXXXX
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| − | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | //Account of the said M:r Cosby, as this depo:t verily beleeveth for that he this
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| − | depo:t packt the said goods. and was & ?should be paid bz z:e said M:r Cosbz for y:e
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| − | same; And saith the said Goods amounted to a great vallue XX
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| − | they being XX Bayes. ?With plaine Cottons XXXX
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| − | Million ffustians. Norwich Goods. Stockings, and Kersyes, and
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| − | such like Comodityes. but the Vallue thereof hee cannot declare
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| − | and further deposeth not:/:
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| − | To the 9:th 10:th 11:th 12:th 13:th 14:th & 15:th hee cannot depose:/:
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| − | To the 16:th hee Cannot depose saving hee hath heard the said
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| − | ship y:e ''S:t Laurance'', in her Course from y:e Canaryes to this
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| − | Port of London was taken and seized by an English mann
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| − | of Warr:/:
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| − | To the 17:th hee saith that the said M:r John Caseby is an English
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| − | man borne: and a subiect of this Comonwealth, and hath lied
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| − | about three yeeres last in this City, and before that hee did use
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| − | to live sometimes at the Canaryes, and sometimes in this City
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| − | And y:e ffathr of y:e said producent (whom this depo:t did well knowe)
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| − | was in his life time an Englishman, and subiect of this Comon
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| − | 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===
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| − | The 27:th of January 1658
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| − | Examined upon the allon and
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| − | XXX on the behalfe of the said claime
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| − | //The claime of Stephen ?Pallavicio
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| − | of Genoa for sixe barrs of silver
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| − | in the ''S:t Laurence'' Peter BoughXXXXX
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| − | M:r taken by the ''Coventry frigot''
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| − | 1. PETER VANDEPUT of London Merchant
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| − | aged 47 yeares of therabouts sworne and
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| − | examined
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| − | To the first and second arles of the said Allon hee saith hee hath
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| − | corresponded with the producent Stephen Pallavicino in y:e wayes of
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| − | Merchandize, and saith hee was and is comonly reputed a native
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| − | subject, & Inhabitant of the State of Genoa, and saith hee beleeveth
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| − | him to bee, having bin credibly informed that hee is a ?patrician
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| − | of the City and State of Genoa, and this depo:t hath often
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| − | received Letters from y:e said pducent dated at Genoa, as the
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| − | place of his Dwelling, and hath accordingly directed his Letters to
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| − | him there, and further hee doth not depose
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| − | To the 3:d hee saith that by the Dealings and Correspondence
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| − | w:ch this Dep:t hath for ?diverse yeeres had, and hath with the said producent XX XXXX XXX of XXXXX hee
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| − | verily beleeveth him to be a merch:t of great dealing worth
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| − | and Quality and saith hee hath and doth drive a trade &
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| − | Commerce from y:e Canaryes and y:e dominions of the King of
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| − | Spaine in, and with silver by his ffactors there resident, and
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| − | that before y:e bringing of the silver in question to this port
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| − | this depo:t hath received to the vallue of betwixt twelve and
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| − | thirteene hundred pounds for the sd products account from y:e Canaryes, the
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| − | same being Consigned unto him this depo:t & further hee deposeth
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| − | not:
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| − | To the 4:th arle hee saith that before y:e lading of the silver
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| − | in question namely about two yeeres since and severall other times
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| − | this Depo:t received letters from severall Genoeses, and alsoe from
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| − | the said Palavacino himselfe, whereby they desired this Depo:t to
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| − | advise them whether they might not safely send silver or Bullion
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| − | to London. and without danger Consigne the same to this
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| − | depo:t or to the same effect. And this depo:t thinking. (besides
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| − | the furtherance of Trade & Comerce) that hee should doe good
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| − | service to this Comonwealth, did thereupon write to, and
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| − | encourage them to send silver thither, And for further incouragement
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| − | of the sd prodc:t this dep:t caused the Act of Parliam:t made for
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| − | importacon of Bullion, to be Translated into Spanish and ?sent
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| − | the same to him and them, and hee referreth himselfe to y:e said Act of
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| − | Parliam:t for Importaccon of silver. And further hee doth not depose
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| − | To the 5:th 6:th & 7:th arles and the Letter of Advise, and Invoice XXX
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| − | y:e sd 6:th arle mentioned, Nowe shewed unto him, hee saith & XXXX
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| − | deposeth that in or about the monethes of July or August last ?past
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| − | this depo:t received advise from the said producents ffactor
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| − | Don Luis Perez de Vittoria that hee had laded at S:ta Cruz del OzXXXXX
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| − | (being a port in y:e Island of Tenereife on of the Canary Islands) ?about
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| − | the said ship the ''S:t Laurence'' whereof Petr Bonningysent is M:r for y:e
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| − | Account of the said Stephen Palavasino, two barrs of silver, and
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| − | ?consigned//
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| − | //Consigned the same to be delivered to this depo:t herein XXX XXX
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| − | for the said Account of the said ''Provident'': and afterwards this
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| − | depot received the Letter of advise and Invoice annexed from him
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | Invoice and Bill of Lading Exhibited were and are the same
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| − | soe by him received:
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| − | To the 8:th hee saith that after the XX XXXX hee this depo:t was
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| − | advised by letters from Plymouth of the seizure of the said ship
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| − | and Lading by Captaine Aylett, and of her bringing in thither
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| − | where shee was brought (as hee saith) to this port for this depo:t
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| − | here received the said silver in question out of her, and further
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| − | deposeth not.
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| − | To the 9:th hee saith hee is well assured and verily beleeveth
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| − | 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
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| − | upon his adventure, and that hee runneth the sole hazard thereof
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | subjects the time arlate, and further doth not depose:
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| − | To the 11:th hee saith that his foregoeing depon is true.
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| − | To the Interrogatoryes
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| − | To the first hee saith hee cometh required by M:r ffrancklin to be
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| − | pduced in this Cause, and otherwise negatively :
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| − | To the second hee saith hee was never at Genoa nor ever
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| − | sawe the pducent that hee knoweth of norknowe his ffather
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| − | or mother. and otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing
| + | |
| − | depons:
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| − | 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.
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| − | | + | |
| − | 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
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| − | same time, and hee is sure that y:e said Pallavacino (the now
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| − | 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
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| − | this depo:t hath XX XXX made the same goods with them as aforesaid
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| − | //To the 5:th hee saith hee doth not knowe the said Don Luis
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| − | Peroz de Vittoria the said pducents said ffactor personally. and
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| − | saith hee knoweth not that the said de Vittoria is ffactor to any
| + | |
| − | Spaniard or subject of the King of Spaine, nor hath this
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| − | Depo:t received order from any pson to claime the said silber
| + | |
| − | in Question other than the said pducent from whom hee
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| − | saith hee hath received Expresse order therein, and hath had
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| − | ?procuzaccon from him alone in that be halafe, and other
| + | |
| − | wise negatively saving as aforesd, saying y:e said Don
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| − | Luis Perez de Vittoria is soe farr from having given any
| + | |
| − | order for Claiming y:e silver in question that hee Doth not as
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| − | this depot beleeveth yet knowe of the seizure tehreof
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 6:th hee saith that upon the bringing in of the said
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| − | 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.
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the 7:th hee saith hee knoweth not ought if any other bill
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| − | of Lading touching y:e said silver in Question than the said
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| − | 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:
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| − | | + | |
| − | PETER VANDEPUT [His signature]
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| − | Repeated before the two Judges in Court
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| − | <nowiki>**********************************************</nowiki>
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| − | ===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 2. Abraham Cabeljan, of London, merchant, aged 53: Date: January 27th, 1658===
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| − | The same day
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| − | Examined upon y:e said Allon:
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| − | 2:nd ABRAHAM CABELJAN of London merchant aged 53
| + | |
| − | yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and Examined:
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| − | 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
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| − | | + | |
| − | 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
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| − | 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.
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| − | | + | |
| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | <nowiki>****************************************************</nowiki>
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| − | ===Case: Claim of Stephen ?Pallavacio, of Genoa, regarding silver bars: Deposition: 3. John Lewis: Date: January 29th, 1658===
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| − | //The 29:th of January 1660.
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| − | Examinat ?ex parte for XXX XXXXX.
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | Ro XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
| + | |
| − | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the Interries
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| − | 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
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| − | 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
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| − | did
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| − | the Merchants of that XXX
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| − | To the 4:th XXX
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| − | To the 5:th XXXX
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| − | To the last XXXX
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| − | JO LEWIS [His signature]
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| − | Repeated before
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| − | XXXXX
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| − | <nowiki>*******************************************************</nowiki>
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| − | ===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Domingo de a Seida, of London, Merchant, aged 25: Date: January 31st, 1658===
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| − | The 31:th day of January 1660
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| − | Examined upon an Allon given in on the
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| − | behalfe of the said XXXX
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| − | The Claime of XXX XXXXX)
| + | |
| − | XXXX Merchant of London for)
| + | |
| − | 94 pipes of Canary Wines)
| + | |
| − | & other hoods taken in y:e ship y:e)
| + | |
| − | ''S:t Laurence'' XXX XXXXX)
| + | |
| − | M:r XXX XXXXXX)
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| − | D:r XXXX
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| − | 1. DOMINGO DE LA SEIDA of London Merch:t
| + | |
| − | aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
| + | |
| − | and Examined
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| − | 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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| − | //To the: 2:d hee saith hee hath well knowne the said Antonio
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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
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| − | 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
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| − | lying in y:e same house, and beeing his booke keep
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| − | 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===
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| − | XXXX of Maurice Thompson, Thomas CanXXXX)
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| − | Christofer Willoughby John Page and others,)
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| − | Merchants of London, freighters of the shipp
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| − | the ''Jonathan'', ag:t the Dutch East India)
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| − | Company in pticular and all others in genall)
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| − | The 11:th of ffeburary 1658
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| − | Examinands upon an allon given in on the
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| − | 1. HENRY DACRES of London Marchant aged
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| − | 34 yeeres or thereabouts sworne in the said
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| − | Court of the Admiraltie of England, saith and
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| − | deposeth as followth vizt.
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| − | To the fifth article of the said allon XXXX and deposeth that hee well
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| − | knoweth all the producents vizt Maurcie Thompson THomas
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| − | CaXtian, Cristofer Willoughby, John Page and company arlate and saith
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| − | they were the XXXX arlate of the yeere 1656 XXX others and Imployers
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| − | of the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' and XXX hee can from this XXX on a
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| − | trading voyage for sevrall parts and places of the East Indias, and
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| − | there to retourne for England on and for their proper account
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| − | w:ch hee knoweth for that hee was acquainted with and XXX XXXX at
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| − | such XXXXX XXXX and were supra cargo in thesaid shipp the said voyage
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| − | To the second article hee saith that within the foresaid time namely in
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| − | and about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp the ''Jonathan''
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| − | being in the parts of the East Indies and quietly trading there had aboard her
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| − | greate quantities of goods and merchandizes for the use and account of the
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| − | said Maurice Thompson and company aforesaid w:ch XXXXhad taken in
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| − | on the coast of Coromandel and w:ch they were carrying to Bantam,
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| − | for w:ch place of BantamXXX the said XXX were proper and not for
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| − | any other part or place thereabouts to be bartered away, and eben
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| − | XXXXX XXXX and provided for Bantam, where they were to be sold
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| − | and bartered away for such XXXX as were then to be head and ?procured
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| − | for the most advantage of the said producents, w:ch hee knowes for that
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| − | hee was supra cargo aforesaid and the person there ?carryed the said goods to
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| − | be taken in and was in person XXX with them in the said shipp for
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| − | Bantam.
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| − | To the third and 4 articles hee saith that in or about the said moneth of January
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| − | 1656 (old stile) the said shipp in her course of prceeding from the
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| − | said coast for Bantam, coming neere the Island of Pulliayanjan within
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| − | five leagues or lesse distance of the Road of Bantam, was met wizj
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| − | and set upon by five XXX of dutch shipps, in the XXX XX neare of the
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| − | East India company of the United Netherlands, and that upon their haling
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| − | and demanding XXXX that shipp (Speaking of the ''Jonathan'') over and
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| − | XXXX bound, and XXXX XXXX XXX sewall of England, came from
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| − | Cormandel bound wth XXX for Bantam, thet of the dutch shipps
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| − | XXXX and told the master and company of the ''Jonathan'' that they must
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| − | not nos could run into Bantam, and that they lay there on purpose to
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| − | oppose them or any other shipps of England that should endeavour to run into
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| − | Bantam, for w:ch (as they XXX) they had order from the Generall of the sd dutch East India
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| − | company XXXX was XXX and heard the XXX
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| − | To the fifth and sixth 7. 8 and 9:th articles hee saith that the master and company of the
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| − | ''Jonathan'' finding this XXXXX of the dutch, fairly and earnestly instructed
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| − | XXXXXX of the dutch commanders to goe in, and desired them to XXXX or
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| − | send aboard the ''Jonathan'' and XXX her assuring them XXXX XX
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| − | any XXXder, XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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| − | //aboard, XX XXXX of XXX the sd dutch XXXXX ?Daniell
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| − | this deponent ?fell to intreate them XXXXX to order
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| − | XXX in, telling them (as XXX truly was) that thay ?durst seek XXX
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| − | XXXX persons aboard, and XXXX greate necessitie of their ?going
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| − | XX the XXX In XXX victuakks and reXXX under for their part
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| − | and to XXX their trading XXXXX, and the dutch still suspitious
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| − | within XXXX, the ''Jonathan'' endeavoured to put in, XXXXX they of
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| − | ?othr dutch shipps sett on her, and XXX XXXX the
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| − | master of the ''Jonathan'' and this deponent XX XXXX to XXX XXXX
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| − | thereXXXX to search them if they came XXX XXXXX to such XXXX
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| − | XXX this deponent (the master XXX sick) went aboard to their
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| − | Admirall and told him and ?modestly expostulated with him the XXXX
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| − | ===Case: Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham, Christofer Willoughby, John Page et al v. the Dutch East India Company: Deposition: 2. William Stephen, of Limehouse, Marriner, formerly masters Mate of the Jonathan: Date: January 31st, 1658===
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| − | 2. WILLIAM STEPHEN of Limehouse Marriner late
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| − | masters mate of the shipp the ''Jonathan'' (Robert
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| − | Graves com:der) aged 28 yeares or therabouts
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| − | sworne and examined
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| − | To the first article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
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| − | hee well knoweth the producents Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham
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| − | and Christofer Willoughbie and saith that they and XXX XX were the
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| − | shipp the ''Jonathan'', and imployed and sent her out on a merchandizing
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| − | voyage from this port for the East Indies and places thereabouts for
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| − | their proper account, and they upon their account XXX XXX XX XXXXX
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| − | by her said Merchandizing imployment to this XXX, w:ch hee knoweth
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| − | being Master Mate of her the said voyage, and going the voyage
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| − | To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said XXXX
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| − | moneths in or about the moneth of January 1656 XX XXX XXX XXXXXX
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| − | trading in the parts of East India, and had aboard her XX XXXXXX
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| − | quantitie of goods and merchandizes w:ch were for the said account
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| − | XX XXXXX in the coast of Coromandell, and were to be transported
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| − | XXX, as were proper for Bantam trade and what ?Returne, and
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| − | XXXX to XXX ptended and XXXX with XXXXX to be XXXX to
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| − | Bantam and there delivered, and the said commander & company
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| − | XXX carrying her said goods in the said shipp for Bantam where thee
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| − | XXX were to be traded and bartered for the ?traffic an accompt
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| − | of the said Imployers of the said shipp, w:ch hee knoweth for the reason
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| − | aforesaid
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| − | 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
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| − | them plainly that they might XX XX should for in thither XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And XXXX
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| − | to come to an anchor XXX the Admirall , his precontest being XXXX
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| − | wXXX aboard the dutch Admirall, and upon his retourme aboard the
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| − | ''Jonathan'' declared the XXX Admirall, and expressly forbidden and
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| − | ?prohibited their going in to Bantam, and had declared that if they and XXXXXX to goe in
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| − | hee would sink them in ?that effort, and thereupon the said M:r Dacres being
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| − | supra cargo or merchant of the ''Jonathan'' under a protest against such their
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| − | hinderance by the dutch. All w:ch hee knoweth being present aboard
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| − | the ''Jonathan''. And further deposeth not.
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| − | ?9:th article of the said allon hee saith and deposeth that
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| − | the said shipp the ''Jonathan'' being XX prohinited and hindered by the dutch
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| − | from going into Bantam to w:ch hee was XX XXXX with her said XXXX
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| − | was XXX and to depose and goe to other places for w:ch ?ther goods
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| − | were not proper and to w:ch they were not designed, and there to barter
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| − | and XXXX them away, to the great losse and damage of the said
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| − | imployers in respect of what the ?prisses would have bin if thesaid goods
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| − | hath nin XXX to an delivered at Bantam accordinge as they were designed
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| − | To the tenth hee saith that by the said hinarance and prohibition of the
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| − | dutch the said Imployers have suffered greate losse and dammagem, but
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| − | the valew thereof hee cannot as hee saith estimate
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| − | ===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===
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| − | 3. ALEXANDER PRESCOTT of London Marchant aged 27 yeeres or
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| − | thereabouts sworne and examined.
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| − | To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth That hee very well
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| − | knoweth the procudents Maurice Thompsom, Thomas Canham, Christofer
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| − | Willoughby, John Page and company aclate and saith they were in and for
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| − | all the monthes arlate of the yeere 1656 XXXXX and Imployers of the
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| − | 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
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| − | January XXX was ?two ?yeers the said shipp being quietly trading in the said
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| − | parts, and having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX
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| − | cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast
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| − | of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for w:ch place the said goods were
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| − | XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX and XXXXXXX
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| − | and not for XXXXX to be disbursed XX XXX XXXXXX nir XXX XXXX XX
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| − | XXX XX XXXX soe XXXXX to her said ?merchants as XX Bantam, w:ch hee
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| − | knoweth being burser of the said shipp and goeing the said voyage from place to
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| − | place in her, being alsoe XXXX X XXX XXX XXX XXXX of the, XX XXX
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| − | To the third and fourth articles hee saidth and deposeth that the said shipp XXXXX
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| − | XX XX her course from the said coast for Bantam and XX XXXXX Island
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| − | of Pulliaayanjan about XXX XX XXX leagues distance from Bantam XXX
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| − | XXXX XXX XXXX of dutch shipps (w:ch wer in the service and Imployment
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| − | of the dutch East India company) XXX, saving that one of them XX
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| − | //the ''Jonathan'' XXXXing a XXXX XXXXX under the said XXXXX XXXX XXX to goe into
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| − | Bantam the next day, the said dutch shipp XXXX XXXXX the said
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| − | other foure dutch shipps riding also neere, and the next morning the ''Jonathan''
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| − | XXX XXXX to goe into Bantam the said dutch shipps boat ?came aboard XXXX
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| − | Bantam, for the dutch had ?warrs with the Bantamers and the said
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| − | sutch shipps lay there XXX XXXX to hinder all shipps from going in,
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| − | having order from their Generall ?intendeant, and being authorised that they
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| − | of the XXXXXX were bound to XXX in them their merchandizing designe, and therewith all
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| − | XXXX to XXX in, the skipper of the said dutch shipp aboard the ''Jonathan''
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| − | called out to those aboard the said dutch shipp to fire at the ''?Jonathan'', and
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| − | they thereupon XXXX a XXX XX the ''Jonathan'', and then the ''Jonathan'' being commanded
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| − | 5 PETER AYLWARD of London Merchant, aged 40 yeeres or
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| − | thereabouts sworne and examined as aforesaid
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| − | To the first second and third Interries hee saith and deposeth that in or about June
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| − | last was a twelve moneth M:r John Page one of the Merchants concerned in
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| − | this busines, having with his associates a designe in hand to send a shipp from
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| − | Amsterdam for the West Indies to trade for their account upon the coasts of
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| − | the Spaniards, and understanding that this deponent understood both the Spanish
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| − | and dutch tongues (besides English) and could speake them, and alsoe
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| − | understood the busines of traffique and XXXXX as a marchant treated and
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| − | agred with this deponent to goe the said voyage for five pounds per
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| − | moneth wages and XXXX for XXX goods for his owne account, wherein hee
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| − | this deponent was to give assistajce to John Lo?pes his ?precontest who was alsoe then XXX
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| − | and being XX hired this deponent was XX XXX XXXXX in a dutch shipp called the
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| − | ?''Mackerell'' bound for Amsterdam and concerned with him in the said shipp XXXXX,
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| − | perpetuanas, ?hatts, and many other particulars of goods w:ch were here ?provided by the
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| − | said M:r Page and XXXX ffernandez, M:r ?Robles, M:r Jenkin and M:r ?Painter
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| − | Merchants of this citie, to be at Amsterdam put aboard such a shipp
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| − | as could be provided for that XXXX and voyage. And YYYing to Amsterdam
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| − | the shipp the ?''HoyX'' interrogate was by order of their said Imployers and by
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| − | their partners at Amsterdam John Tilly and John ?XXnterwell and XXX
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| − | of XXXXX (as hee tooke them to be) who XXX XXX was but XXXX XXXXXX
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| − | ?expresslly reputed at Amsterdam about w:ch buying this deponent ?eyther
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| − | with the said John ?Hoyer and Patrick ?Betts (who were alsoe come over from
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| − | England in the ?same designe) were ?employed, and saith XX ?cost ?answere
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| − | 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
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| − | ?be carried from England were laded aboard her, together with XXXXX
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| − | Wines and other goods and XXXXX provided in Holland, and this lading
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| − | being XXXXX, the said shipp departed from Amsterdam therewith in September
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| − | last was a twelve moneth bound for the West Indies, not being limited
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| − | to any particular XXX, but left to the discretion of the said John ?Lopez
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| − | with the advise of this ?deponent to manage the voyage in XXXX parte to the
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| − | best advantage of her said Imployers, of w:ch hee saith M:r Page, M:r PXXXXX
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| − | and M:r Dunkin are English men and ?Inhabitating XXXXXX of this ?citie
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| − | M:r ?Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, and M:r Antonio Rodriguez Robles alsoe
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| − | merchants of this citie and reputed Portugueses, XXX M:r ffernandez is XXX
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| − | ?indenizened, John Tilly an Irishman borne but living in Amsterdam
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| − | where alsoe liveth the said John ?CXXXXXXnet, who hath formerly lived
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| − | long in London, but whose countrey man he is this deponent knoweth not-
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| − | And saith the said shipp from Amsterdam went directly to the Island of
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| − | Trinidad, and was there ?Registred and entred as a Spanish shipp, and
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| − | thereby and by presents to the Gouvernor and others (XXX w:ch XXXX goods
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| − | were there sold) XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX lived and XXXXXX for prattique XX
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| − | the Spanish XXXX in those parts, and being therewith furnished she departed
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| − | in or about November 1657 to ?Comana a coast on the terra firma and
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| − | there sold to the valew XXX XXXX of a XXX XXXX peeces of XXXX of her goods
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| − | and received the money for the XXXX and then went to ?TranXille, and
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| − | there sold ?of her said outwards cargo for about XXXXX XXX and ?peeces of
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| − | eight, and leaveing the money ?ther, XXXXXX further into the
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| − | Gulfe of Honduras and there sold and ?tucked away all the rest of
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| − | said goods, and there tooke in three hundred eightie three XXXX or thereabouts
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| − | of Indico (saving that XXX or XXXX of those XXXXXX XXXX XXXX druggs) and
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| − | eleaven XXXX of ?Indico and a XXX XXXX or XXXXXccos and two barreles of druggs
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| − | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX eleaven hundred and twelve XXXXX or thereabouts of SafsayXXXlla, and fowre
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| − | hundred seaventie six XXXes, or therabouts, w:th safXXXXXlla and hides
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| − | were the pcured of the said moneys so left ashore at TurXXXlle at the
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| − | said time of the said shipps first XXXX there, All w:ch goods she received
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| − | in a XXX InXXXX were the goods of and laded for the XXX account of
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| − | the aforenamed Imployers Antonio ffernandes Caravajall, Antonio Rodriques
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| − | Rubles, M:r Pain?ter, M:r Page, M:r Dunkin, M:r Tilly and ;:r ChamberXXXX
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| − | and provided wuth their effects, saving that of her said lading ?soe taken in
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| − | at the West Indies, twelve chests and twro thirds of a chest of the said Indico were provided by and
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| − | laded for this deponents owne account, and that hee hath ?two of his owne shipp
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| − | ?chests w:ch are full of druggs for his owne account, and that of the said
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| − | SasaXXXlla sixteene XXXXX were provided by and laded by his precontest
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| − | ?Toribia ffernandez for his owne account, and that this deponent ?bought ?them
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| − | afterwards of him, and that the said ?Betts hath twenty chests and a third of a chest of the fore said
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| − | Indico for his account, and his owne chest full of druggs, And
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| − | saith that this deponent is a subiect of this Commonwealth and hath
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| − | lived tenn yeares and bin married and a XXX ?lodger XXXX yeares in this
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| − | ?nation, five yeeres whereof hee lived in three tunne alley neere ?Moregate
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| − | and now liveth in Leadenhall streete over againstXXXXXX, and hath
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| − | loved XXXXXXX XXXX, but is an Irish man borne, and soe
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| − | is the said Betts, who hath lived in London for all the said time of this
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| − | deponents dwelling there, and (as hee hath heard) for tenn yeered before ?and
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| − | XXXX an Apprenticeshipp here to a Mariner. And further that the said
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| − | shipp departed from TXXXille aforesaid with ?intent to come and stop at
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| − | Dover or Deale wh?ence this deponent or the said ?Loyas were XXXX XXXX to
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| − | their said Imployers in this reXXX to receive orders aXXXX diXXXXXX, But
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| − | //by XXX XXXX was
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| − | In ?Milford
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| − | To the fourth fifth and sixth hee saith that the said Bets XXXyed the
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| − | XXXX XXX and was by the said Imployers XXX master of the said vessell
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| − | and was so to appeare untill her comming to the West Indies, XXXX
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| − | shee met with any ffrenchmen ?outwards XX XXX, in w:ch case Jerome XXXX
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| − | a dutch man (put in purposely therefore) was to appeare master of her
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| − | but in the West Indies John Lopes was to appeare Commander and XXXX
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| − | XXXX, and XXXX to doe all for his owne account, and saith their Instructions
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| − | were verball and not in writing, saving that M:r Tilly gave them a paper
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| − | belonging to the dutch) and that she belonged to the dutch West India
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| − | Company, w:ch paper the said Jerome was to show in case of meeting
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| − | with Spaniards, and in his custody XX was and was as XXXXX written in dutch. ?And
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| − | saith they had Invoices XXX of their outwards and XXXXwards goods XX
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| − | XXbills of lading or charterpartie, w:ch Invoices were in the XXXXXX
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| − | of here said M:r XXXXX, who (as hee supposeth) brought them to London. And
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| − | saith that while shee rode in Milford havem, being an XXXX harboure, and
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| − | a shipp appearing (whome they suspected to be an Ostender) but proved
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| − | a Dutch?man ?of ?warre) this deponent desired that the English Invoices might
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| − | be hidd, w:ch was accordingly XXXXXX, but after when appeared to
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| − | be a Rotterdammer, they were taken in and were brought XXXXX,
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| − | and XXXXX thatm hee knoweth not of any ?hat
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| − | were hided, nor knowe there any truXXX XXXXX, throwne over board or
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| − | othewise made away hat hee knoweth or beleeveth. And otherwise
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| − | negatively, saving hee XXX know the said shipp before hee mett her and
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| − | thXX EXXXXXXX he bought as aforesaid at Amsterdam.
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| − | To the 7:th hee saith there were twenty men and a boy belonging to the
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| − | said shipp when shee XX XXXXX Milford, whereof seaven were Spaniards
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| − | the said John Lopez being one of the said Spaniards, and saith three of the
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| − | said Spaniards are in London, and the rest were left abroad And
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| − | further cannot depose.
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| − | To the 8:th hee saith there were tenn guns in the said shipp shee XX
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| − | came to Milford Haven, and that shee is of about ?seaven or ?eighty ?two tonnes
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| − | burthen, and that she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one
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| − | XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box
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| − | and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore
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| − | at Milford. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
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| − | To the last, negatively.
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| − | PETER AYLWARD [His signature] [Five pointed star immediately to right of signature, in same black ink]
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| − | Repeated before D:r Godolphin.
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| − | ===Case: XXXX: Examination: 3. James Retallick, of Wapping, Mariner, aged 35: Date: March 5th 1658 English Style===
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| − | 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]]
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| − | 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]]
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| − | The 5:th day of March 1658 English style/
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| − | Examined on the sayd allegaccon/
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| − | 3 JAMES RETALLICK of Wapping Mariner aged thirty
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| − | five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne & examined saith
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| − | and deposeth as followeth vizt./ //
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| − | //To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of January ffebruary
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| − | and March 1648 and in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeare 1649 and
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| − | 1650 and untill Aprill 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was Master
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| − | & Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'' and had the care & charge of
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| − | her as Master Committed to him by her Owners & for Master of her ?and
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| − | Com only reputed this hee so better knoweth being hired by the sayd XXXX
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| − | & goeing a foremast man of the sayd ship the voyage in question./
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| − | To the 2 arle hee saith that in the moneth of January 1648 the sayd ship
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| − | ''Scipio'' was bound from this port of London upon a tradeing voyage to
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| − | the Streights & other parts neere adioyning and soe to returne to this port
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| − | of London & saith in persuance of such voyage the sayd shipp about the latter
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| − | end of the sayd moneth of January 1648 fell downe to the Hope And
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| − | the sayd shipp at here goeing out had noe designe of goeing to Brazeele
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| − | or any other parts of the West Indies as this deponent beleeveth for that
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| − | the sayd Ewens hyred this deponent only to goe from London upon a tradeing
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| − | voyage to the Streights & back thence to this port of London, and made ?then
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| − | noe mention of her goeing to the Brazeele or any other pts of the West Indies
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| − | And further hee cannot depose not being privie to the hyreing of any
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| − | other of the shipps company nor knowing at what rates or upon what XX
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| − | conditions they were hyred/
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| − | To the 3: 4:th & 5:th arles of the allegation hee saith that before the goeing
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| − | forth off the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
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| − | ffosse was hyred to foe & did goe Boatswaine & the arlate John TurkXX
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| − | Quartermaster & the arlate Charles ?Howgate a foremast man of
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| − | the ''Scipio'' the voyage in question but at what rates or what conditions
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| − | they were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee this deponent was hyred
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| − | at the usuall rate of a voyage from London to the straights which was
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| − | twenty three shillings p month or twenty two & XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And saith hee knoweth the sayd ffosse Turkes and
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| − | Howgate as alsoe this deponent & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
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| − | proceeded upon her voyage from London to Genoa in the Straights &
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| − | there discharged her outwards ladeing / there tooke in some goods & ?went
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| − | with them to Ligorne where fayling of their designe they there landed
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| − | the goods brought from Genoa, & went from Ligorne to Allecant and
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| − | there tooke in goods & went therewith to Lisbon & there unladed them
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| − | And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
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| − | To the 6:th and 7:th arles hee saith that after the ''Scipio'' had at Lisbon
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| − | discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant the sayd Thomas Ewans
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| − | the Master did take upon him a new voyage to be made from Lisbon to
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| − | Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having contracted with the
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| − | freighters for that new voyage acquainted his shipps Company
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| − | therewith, who not being hyred for any such voyage were most off ?them
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| − | unwilling to goe the same & refused to goe the same as being as ?they
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| − | ?conceived an unlawfull voyage for that thereby they should XXXX the
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| − | hazard of being taken by the hollanders w:ch were then at ?differences
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| − | with the Portugueses in whose behalfe that voyage was to be made and
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| − | also be reason of the unhealthfullnesse of the voyage it being beyond ?the
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| − | lyne & to the south latitude about fifteene degrees, whereupon the sayd
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| − | Ewans seeing the unwillingnesse of the company to goe the sayd voyage
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| − | to Brazeele did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsuance of
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| − | this deponent & his p:rcontsts XXXXXhurst & XXgant & divers others of the
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| − | sayd shipps company to encourage them the more readily to undergoe the
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| − | sayd voyage voluntarily promised to advance his XXXXX Companyes wages
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| − | five shillings in the pound per month from that tyme during the sayd XXXX
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| − | over & above the wages hee had agreed with ?there for when ?hee shipped
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| − | at London, and to pay every of them their wages then due till
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| − | //tyme according to the value agreed upon with ?them at London, which offer
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| − | the sayd shipps Company did accept & the sayd Ewens in persuance
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| − | of such his offere & promises did pay unto his sayd Company eight
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| − | moneths pay according to the first agreement made at London & did promise
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| − | & agree to pay them an addition of five shillings in the pound p moneth
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| − | for the future over & above the rates formerly agreed on which promise
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| − | of addition the Company did agree to & promised to provide on the sayd
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| − | Brazeele voyage and the sayd ffosse Tucker Howgate this deponent &
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| − | the rest of the shipps Company did thereupon proceede upon the sayd voyage
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| − | after the sayd new contract & went to Brazeele & there delivered their
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| − | outwards ladeing abd rekaded other goods & came back therewith
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| − | to Lisbon & alsoe discharged a good part thereof there in which service they continued after the sayd new agreement
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| − | abut twenty moneths, only hee saith that while they were at the Brazeele
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| − | the Portugeses in whose service the ''Scipio'' and other English shipps
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| − | were, did reXXXXX out of the ''Scipio'' the sayd Ewens the Master & the sayd
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| − | ffosse Tucker & Howgate & this deponent & divers others of the ''Scipio'' her
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| − | Company & put them aboard Portuguese shipps to serve in the homeward
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| − | Voyage & put Portugeses aboard the ''Scipio'' to serve in their ?roome, as
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| − | they did also to other English shipps that went the sayd voyage, which
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| − | they did as this deponent beleeveth to secure their goods laden aboard
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| − | the English shipps that the English might be thereby prevented of
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| − | running away with them And farther hee cannot depose./
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| − | To the 8:th and 9:th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry
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| − | of this Court & to the lawe And further cannot depose./
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| − | To the 10:th hee saith the arlate Ewens was & is a subiect of this Common
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| − | Wealth & Subiect as hee beleeveth to the authority of this Court./
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| − | To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposiccon is true./
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| − | To the Interries./
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| − | To the first Inter hee saith hee cannot answere not being p:rsent
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| − | when the persons Interr were hyred nor knoweth at what rates or upon
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| − | what conditions they were hyred/
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| − | To the 2 Interr hee saith hee was a foremast man of the ''Scipio'' the
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| − | voyage in question & saith hee was hyred as aforesayd only to goe
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| − | upon a tradeing voyage from London to the Straights & pts neere
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| − | therabouts & then back to Lodnon & not to such parts or places as
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| − | the sayd Ewens should get imployment for And farther hee
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| − | cannot answere./
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| − | To the 3 hee saith that at the tyme Interr there were five other
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| − | English shipps neside the ''Scipio'' all which as well as the ''Scipio''
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| − | were offered & Did take imployment for Brazeele and goe thither
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| − | & returne in Company of the ''Scipio'' And saith hee beleeveth if the
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| − | sayd Ewens had not promised an Augmentation of wages the Company
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| − | of the Ship?swould not have gone the voyage to Brazeele, but saith
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| − | as afore sayd the sayd Ewans made the sayd promise voluntarily
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| − | to encourage his company to goe the sayd voyage. And farther saving
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| − | his foegoeing deposiccon hee cannot answeare/
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| − | To the 4:th hee saith hee was one of the ''Scipio'' her company when
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| − | ?refused to proceed on the viyage to Brazeele unlesse his wages
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| − | first agreed upon were augmented And saith in regard hee know hee
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| − | was not at first hyred for any such voyage hee would have refused to goe
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| − | 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
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| − | sixe shillings portuguese money but are usually paid to mariners
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| − | at the rate only of fower & sixe pence (OR, pounds) sterling and saith at that value
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| − | of fower shillings sixe pence (OR, pounds) the doller hee reced of the say Ewens
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| − | at Lisbon eight moneths pay but how many dollers that amounted to hee
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| − | remembreth not And what others recevd hee knoweth not but between
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| − | they recvd eight months pay at the like rates of fower shillings XX
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| − | pence a dollar And further hee cannot answere./
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| − | To the 6:th hee saith hee hath recvd his whd his whole pay for the voyage
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| − | in question only according to the first agreement, without any
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| − | augmentation because hee was unwilling to goe to lawe for the ?same
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| − | though it were due, & hath given a discharge of all wages soe that
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| − | hee intended noe suite thereabout whoseever doth prevaile in the
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| − | cause And to the rest negatively./
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| − | To the 7 hee saith hee cannot answere knowing nothing thereof
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| − | To the last hee saith hee cannot answere having not heare any
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| − | thing touching the matter Interrogate./
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| − | JAMES RETALLICK [His signature]
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| − | 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===
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| − | //The 7:th day of March 1658 English Style
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| − | Examined on the sayd allegation./
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| − | 4 FFRANCIS MOULD of Poplar in the pish of Stepney and
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| − | County of Midd Mariner aged thirty foower yeares
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| − | or thereabouts a wittnesse swornne & examined
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| − | saith & deposeth as followeth vizt./
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| − | To the first arle hee saith that in the moneths of december Januaary
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| − | ffebruary & March 1648 & in the moneths & tyme arlate in the yeares
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| − | 1649 and 1650 and untill August 1651 the arlate Thomas Ewans was
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| − | Master & Commander of the arlate Shipp the ''Scipio'', & had the care and
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| − | charge of her as Master & Commander Committed to him (as hee beleeveth)
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| − | by her Owners, and for Master & Commander of her
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| − | during the sayd tyme was Commonly reputed this hee the better knoweth being
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| − | hyred by the sayd Ewens & goeing a foresmast man of the sayd shipp thereXXX
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| − | voyage in question And further hee deposeth not./
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| − | To the second arle hee saith that withinn the tyme aforesayd and more
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| − | especially in the yeare 1648 the shipp ''Scipio'' was bound forth from the
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| − | Port of London upon a tradeing voyage to the Streights or other parts neere
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| − | ?thereunto adioyning & soe to returne thence for London & in order thereto did
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| − | in the moneth of January 1648 sett sayle from London & fell downe as XX
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| − | as the Hope And the sayd shipp at such her departure from London had
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| − | noe designe of goeing to Brazeele or any other part of the West
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| − | Indies this hee deposeth for that hee knoweth that hee this deponent and
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| − | John Mi?ater a foremast man alsoe of the ''Scipio'' who was hyred XXX
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| − | only to goe upon a trading voyage from London to the Streights and parts neere
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| − | adiacent & soe back to London & were not hyred to XXX in her to Brazeele ?or
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| − | any other parts of the West Indies And further hee cannot depose not being
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| − | privie to the signeing off any other of the sayd shipps company nor knowing XXX
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| − | 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
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| − | the goeing forth of the shipp ''Scipio'' upon the voyage in question the arlate Humfrey
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| − | ffosse was hyred to goe & did goe Boatswain & the arlate John Tucker
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| − | Quarter Master & the arlate Charles Howgate a foremast man of the ''Scipio''
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| − | the voyage in question but at what rates or upon Conditions they
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| − | were hyred hee knoweth not but saith hee ?hee this deponent and the sayd
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| − | M?iater were hyred at the usuall rates of foremast men for a voyage to the
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| − | streights And saith hee knoweth that the sayd ffosse Tucker & Howgate
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| − | as alsoe this deponent & the sayd Minter & the rest of the ''Scipio'' her company
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| − | did proceed on her voyage from London to Genoa in the Streights and
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| − | there discharged her outward ladeing & then tooke in some goods and
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| − | went with them to Ligorno where fayling of their designe they then landed
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| − | the goods brought from Genoa & went from Ligorne to Allecant and there
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| − | tooke in goods, and went therewith to Lisbon and there unladed them
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| − | And further saving his subsequent deposition heecannot depose/
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| − | To the 6:th and 7:th arles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the
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| − | ''Scipio'' had at Lisbon discharged her ladeing brought from Allecant
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| − | the sayd Thomas Ewans did take upon him a new voyage to be made
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| − | from Lisbon to Brazeele & thence to returne to Lisbon & having bargaine
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| − | with his freighters for that voyage hee acquainted his shipps company
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| − | therewith who were most of them unwilling to goe the same they not
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| − | being hyred as they sayd to goe any such voyage when they came from London as
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| − | alsoe because the voyage was to an unhealthyfull Country lyeing
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| − | beyond the Lyne about fourteene or fifteene degrees to the South latitude and
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| − | in service of a foreigne Nation whereupon the Whereupon the sayd Ewens seeing
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| − | the unwillingnesse of his Company to goe the sayd voyage to Brazeele
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| − | did publiquely upon the deck of the ''Scipio'' in p:rsence of this deponent
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| − | & his p:recontests Pinshurst Bryant Rolallique & most of the sayd
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| − | Shipps company to encourage them with alacrity to goe the sayd
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| − | voyage voluntarily oromise to advance every of the shipps company
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| − | their wages five shillings in the pound per moneth from that tyme
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| − | during the sayd voyage over & above the wages hee had agreed with
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| − | them for when hee shipped hence (OR, ?Then) at London, and to pay them their wages
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| − | then due till that tyme according to the rates agreed upon with them
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| − | at London which offere hee saith the Company accepted And the sayd
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| − | Ewens in persuance of such his offere & promise did pay unto his
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| − | sayd Company eight pounds pay according to the first agreement
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| − | made at London & did promise and agree for the future to pay them
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| − | an addition or augmentation of wages after the rate of five shillings
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| − | in the pounds over & above the valew formerly agreed upon at London
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| − | which promise the Company accepted & thereupon proceeded upon the
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| − | sayd voyage to Brazeele & the sayd ffosse Tucker ?Gourgate & this dep:t
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| − | & the rest of the Shipps company did thereupon proceed upon the sayd
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| − | voyage after the sayd new agreement & went & served in the sayd shipp to
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| − | Brazeele and came back to Lisbon which they soe performed in
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| − | the space of about twenty moneths after XXX their ?new agreement
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| − | & made in that tyme discharge of their ladeing at Brazeele and alsoe
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| − | at Lisbone after their returne thither, only hee saith that while the sayd shipp
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| − | was at Brazeele the Portugueses in whose service shee was did for the
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| − | P1120010 f. 81 verso
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| − | <nowiki>********************************************************</nowiki>
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| − | ===Case: Swire con Church: Examination: 7. James Dixson, of Ratcliffe, Mariner, aged 30: Date: March 21st 1658===
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| − | The ''Phoenix''
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| − | P1120012 f. 82 verso
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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===
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| − | The 22:th of Aprill 1659:/.
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| − | The Claime of X Alfondso Gomez Dias)
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| − | for Goods in y:e ''Mornîng Starr'')
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| − | Claes Willemson M:r=
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| − | Budd, ffrancklin)
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| − | Examined upon an Allon given in
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| − | by M:r ffrancklin on behalfe of
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| − | the said Alfonso Gomez Dias:
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| − | 1. CLAES WILLEMS of Middleborough
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| − | Mariner, late M:r of the ship the ''Morning
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| − | Starr'' aged 38 yeeres or thereabouts
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| − | sworne and Examined:/:-
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| − | P1120017 f. 84 recto
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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===
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| − | Voyage from London to Roan
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| − | The ship the ''Thomas''
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| − | P1120019 f. 85 recto
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| − | ===Case: Christopher Malyn, Thomas Carret, Bethnel Tynck, George Southerne, George 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===
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| − | London to Yarmouth to Marsellis and other ports within the Streights
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| − | P1120020 f. 85 verso
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| − | //on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from
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| − | that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole
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| − | pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to
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| − | Yarmouthand there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and
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| − | from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered
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| − | the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus
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| − | and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in
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| − | a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of
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| − | Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX
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| − | and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another
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| − | Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and
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| − | there delivered y:e same, andthe
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| − | last of y:e said Salt was
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| − | delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of
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| − | June 1658./. During all w:ch time (namely from y:e said
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| − | ships Departure from Gravesend, untill her Delivery of
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| − | her last goods at Scanderoone:/ all the Mariners XXX
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| − | did serve in y:e said ship ''Anne''; and y:e foresaid Mariners
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| − | did doe their best Indeavour in y:e Service and Imployment
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| − | of the said ship, in their severall offices & places: w:ch hee
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| − | knoweth for y:e reasons aforesaid goeing from place to XXX
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| − | in y:e said ship, And further cannot Depose:/.
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| − | To the 6:th and 7:th hee saith that soe soone as y:e said ship
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| − | Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, y:e said William
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| − | Malymy:e M:r and Company of the said ship. did take
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| − | aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces
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| − | to be Transfported in her to this port of London, and
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| − | came from thence with y:e same on board her on or about
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| − | the 11:th. day of July. 1658. and in her Course XXXXX
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| − | the said Ship, and her Lading met with Extraordinary
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| − | soule, windy , and Tempestuous weather by w:ch shee was driven upon
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| − | y:e sand, neere S:t Vallazyes in ffrance; and
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| − | by meanes thereof split, and broken in peeces.
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| − | and utterly lost together with her lading, and saith y:e XXXX
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| − | came not, nor happened by any fault or negligence
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| − | of or in this depo:t or any of y:e Marine:rs in the said XXX
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| − | P1120021 f. 86 recto
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| − | //shhe bilging upon the said Sands. this Depo:t was forced
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| − | to leape into y:e sea, and by Gods providence did swim XX to the Boate
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| − | w:ch belonged to y:e said ship, w:ch her Company had lost
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| − | upon y:e sands, And further cannot depose: saving all y:e mariners
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| − | schedulate did serve in her untill y:e time of the said
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| − | Bilging w:ch was on or about the thirteenth day of December
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| − | last. and further Cannot depose:/:
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| − | To the 8:th hee saith that from y:e time of the said ships departure
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| − | from Gravesend upon y:e said Voyage unto the time of
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| − | the Delivery of her last goods at Scanderoone was the space of seaven monethes & 3 weekes or thereabouts
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| − | and for soe long time the foresd mariners ought to be paid: their wages
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| − | And further Cannot depose; Saving his
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| − | foregoeing Depon to w:ch hee referreth./.
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| − | To the 9:th hee saith hee Cannot depose otherwise than as aforesaid
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| − | To the 10:th hee referreth him selfe to the registry of this Court
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| − | To the Last hee saith his foregoeing Depon is true:/:
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| − | See his answer to y:e Interries
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| − | 2 Leaves sil?o
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| − | XXXXX ATKINS [His signature]
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| − | <nowiki>***********************************************</nowiki>
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| − | ===Case: Christopher Malyn, Thomas Carret, Bethnel Tynck, George Southerne, George Rogers, Thomas West, ffrancis Rosse, and John Robeck, late Mariners of the Ship the Anne:: Examination: 2. Joseph Bond: Date: February 26th 1658===
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| − | //The same day :/.
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| − | Examined on y:e said AlloXs:/:
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| − | Rp.
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| − | 2. JOSEPH BOND of Redriffe Mariner aged 26
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| − | yeeres or thereabouts sworne; and Examined:/:
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| − | To the first and second arles of the said Allon hee saith and deposeth
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| − | that from y:e time of the Arlate ship the ''Anne'' her departure
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| − | from the port of London on y:e voyage in question untill the
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| − | time of her Bilging hereafter mentioned the arlate
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| − | ffrancis ffowke (Merch:t of this City (whom this deponent knoweth commonly accounted
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| − | owne:r of pt of her, and soe hee verily beleeveth hee was
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| − | for that y:e said ffrancis fowke Now named y:e saod
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| − | ship y:e ''Anne'' shee being before called y:e ''Rainbowe''; and alsoe
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| − | paid severall bills, for sailes, and Blocks, w:ch were delivered
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| − | on board y:e said Ship y:e ''Anne'', a little before her goeing
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| − | out on y:e said voyage; And saith that one M:r ffowke
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| − | at Cyprus Correspond:t of the said ffrancis ffowje; told
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| − | this depot. that the said ship did wholly belong to him and
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| − | his brother ffrancis ffouke merchant of London, or to that
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| − | effect. and saith further that the arlate W:m Malim who was M:r of
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| − | the said ship y:e greatest pt of y:e voyage in Question, was
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| − | made M:r of y:e said ship (as hee told this depo;ts) by the
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| − | said M:r ffrancis ffouke; and further hee saith hee Cannot
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| − | Depose;
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| − | P1120022 f. 86 verso
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| − | //To the 3.:d hee saith that in or about November 1657: ?y:e
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| − | said W:m Malim did hyre all the Marine:rs severall
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| − | mentioned in the schedule annexed to y:e said Allon nowe
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| − | showed unto him, to goe & serve in y:e said ship ''Anne''
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| − | from this port. to Yarmouth, and from thence to
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| − | the streights. and to returne againe to this port. And
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| − | saith that y:e schedulate Christopher Malym Mate; and
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| − | Carpenter of y:e said Ship, was hyred at 3:li p moneth to goe y:e sd
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| − | Voyage; Thomas Garret Carpenter of the said ship at 1:XXX
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| − | p moneth to go y:e sd voayage Bethel Tinke (OR, Finke) A Common marriner of the said
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| − | Ship at 1:li. viij:s p moneth to goe the said voyage,
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| − | George Sotherne a Comon man of the said ship at 1:li ix:s
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| − | p moneth to goe y:e said voyage., George. Rogers a Comon
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| − | man of y:e said Ship at 1;li. viij:s p moneth, to goe y:e sd voyage, Thomas West
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| − | Coop at j:li. xiiij:s p moneth , to goe y:e sd voyage, & ffrancis RoXXX
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| − | at 1:li. 10:s p moneth to goe y:e said Voyage; And soe ?much
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| − | the foresaid Mariners well deserved, and soe much
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| − | is usually given to Marine:rs that serve in the quality
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| − | aforesaid. in such voyages. and oftentimes, greater
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| − | summes, And saith hee save y:e foresaid Marine:rs recvd
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| − | their halfe pay at Yarmouth and thereby knoweth y:e
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| − | premisses, but saith hee knoweth not for how much
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| − | John Roberts y:e Chirurghion of y:e sd ship was shipt
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| − | at, but saith hee well knoweth y:t hee well deserved
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| − | 2:li. 2:s. p moneth, and saith hee this depo:t never ?knewe
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| − | lesse given, to a Chirurgion for y:e same; or y:e like Voyage
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| − | And further Cannot depose:/.
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| − | To the 4:th ad 5:th hee saith that after y:e said W:m Malym
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| − | had hyred the foresd marine:rs at the rates aforesaid to
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| − | goe the said Voyage; the said ship y:e ''Anne'' Departed
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| − | from Gravesend on y:e 13:th of November. 1657: and
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| − | sailed to Yarmouth, and there y:e said William Malym
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| − | paid all his officers & Mariners, their halfe pay; and
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| − | this depo:t (as hee saith) beleeveth that y:e said Malim
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| − | did Charge the same downe to the account of the ?said
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| − | Francis Fowke; and saith y:t notwithsatnding y:e said XX
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| − | halfe pay was paid to them at Yarmouth, they entred
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| − | whole pay from y:e day of the said ships depture from XXX
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| − | And further saith that at Yarmouth there was a Lading
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| − | of Herrings put on board her, w:th w:ch she sailed ?to
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| − | ?Marsellis//
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| − | P1120023 f. 87 recto
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| − | //Marsellis and there delivered her said Lading, and take
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| − | in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus, and there (after her
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| − | ballast was heaved out,) shee tooke in a Cargo of Salt &
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| − | Carried the same to a place called Sattalia, and there
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| − | delivered y:e same, and having taken in Ballasts
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| − | sailed back to Cyprus againe, and after her hold was
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| − | Cleared of y:e ballast, shee tooke ?on another Lading of
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| − | salt, and Caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there
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| − | Delivered the same And saith the last of y:e said Salt
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| − | was there delivered in or about the 6:th Day of July
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| − | Last. duringa all w:ch time the said Christopher Mallin
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| − | Thomas Garrat Bethel ?Finck Georhe Sotherne George
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| − | Rogert Thomas West ffrancis Rosse & John Roberte did
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| − | serve in the said ship in the places &offices aforesaid
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| − | Honestly, and did pforme their dutyes belonging to
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| − | their severall offices & Imploym:ts wherein they were
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| − | put. The p:rmisses hee deposeth goeing all the said voayage
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| − | in y:e said ship namely from her departure from Gravesend
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| − | untill the time of her bilging, And further hee cannot
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| − | depose;/:
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| − | To the 6:th hee saith after y:e foresaid salt brought from Xyprus
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| − | to Scanderoone was unladen as aforesaid at Scanderoone
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| − | there were there laden aboard her about One hundred
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| − | Baggs of Galls, about one hundred Bales of Cotton
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| − | Yarne, and other goods w:ch she sett sayle for this
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| − | port, touching at Cyprus, and in her Course hether wards shee was by
| + | |
| − | Extraordinary great winds, forced upon y:e sands. upon y:e Coast of ffrance
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| − | , and there bilged, and shee and her Lading
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| − | lost. And saith that neither her M:r nor any of her Company
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| − | were in any fault. but the same came and happened
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| − | meerely by y:e said Extraordinary winds and y:e will of
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| − | God. The premisses hee deposeth by sad Experience
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| − | being on board her, when y:e said Disaster happened,
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| − | And further hee cannot depose:/.
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| − | To the 7:th hee saith that the said Malim, Garrat, Tinke(?r)
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| − | Southerne, Rigers, West, Rosse &, Roberts, served in
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| − | the said Ship. from her said Departure from Gravesend
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| − | untill y:e said Disaster happened w:ch was on or about
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| − | the 13:th of December last, And further he Cannot
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| − | depose:/. //
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| − | //To the 8:th hee saith that from y:e time of y:e Departure of
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| − | y:e said Ship ''Anne'' from Gravesend & Untill the say of
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| − | her discharging of her last goods at Scanderoone ?was
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| − | about seaven monethes and three weekes and soe
| + | |
| − | long time all the foresaid mariners ought to be paid
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| − | their severall wages for w:ch they were hyred. and
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| − | further hee cannot depose/.
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| − | To the 9:th hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./.
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| − | To the 10:th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this
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| − | Court./.
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| − | To the 11:th hee saith his foregoeing deponn is true.¨
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| − | ?Repe:X (OR, ?Depo:d) before D:r Godolphin:/:
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| − | JOSEPH BOND [His signature]
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| − | To the Interries./.
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| − | To y:e 1:th hee saith that hee was Boatswaine of the said Shop XX
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| − | thie voyage in question and saith that at Ciprus
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| − | hee receaved Twenty Dolla:rs ?impot for his ?servicing
| + | |
| − | the said Ship, namely fourteene Dollars of ?money Roger ffowke at the XXXX of
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| − | said Ships being there, and y:e other six of his ?Precontest XXX at her
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| − | there ?touching in her XXX XXXXX as aforesd. And further hee cannot answer./
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| − | To y:e 2:d hee hath not Deposed to y:e arles Interrate. further than
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| − | by report./:
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| − | To the 3:d hee saith that hee well knoweth all the ptyes mentioned
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| − | in the schedule Interrate and saith that Christopher MXXim
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| − | John Roberts. George Southerne, XXXX TXXXXX, are in and
| + | |
| − | about London, and the other as beleeveth are gone in y,e States
| + | |
| − | Service: And saith they are all able And sufficient Marine:rs
| + | |
| − | and Seamen and fit for such places as they were put into
| + | |
| − | the said shipp./
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 4:th hee saith that hee doth not account those Seamen able
| + | |
| − | and honest-men w:ch suffer a ship and Lading to be lost
| + | |
| − | before a faire winde, through their ignorance or Carlessnes
| + | |
| − | But saith that the winde was very high when y:e ''Anne''
| + | |
| − | was driven upon y:e sd sands, and the Seas were ?mighty
| + | |
| − | boysterous. Insomuch that they beate over y:e Deck of the
| + | |
| − | sd ship with such a fforce that y:e Company on y:e Deck could
| + | |
| − | Scarce Stand upon their Leggs, and saith there were XXXXX
| + | |
| − | saved, and brought out of the said ship, just before her
| + | |
| − | breaching in peeces, and saith y:e bookes of Accounts belonging
| + | |
| − | to y:e ship, was not brought out. but left in her, when her
| + | |
| − | Company left her. And saith that, after the sd ship ?Struck upon
| + | |
| − | y:e Sands, her Company had noe time to Take any of their
| + | |
| − | owne goods (save what they had about them) were all
| + | |
| − | busied about hoysting out their boate (OR, boats): and further doth not
| + | |
| − | answer;/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the fifth hee saith y:e said Ship ''Anne'' came from ffalmouth ?next
| + | |
| − | before//
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| − | P1120025 f. 87 verso (duplicate of P1120034 f. 87 verso)
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| − | P1120026 f. 88 recto
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| − | '''High quality digital image'''
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| − | //before shee was Cast away. in Company of about five saile
| + | |
| − | of English ships and saith that y:e Xday when they came from thence y:e winde
| + | |
| − | was faire, and y:e next day y:e weather Changed, and was very
| + | |
| − | Boisterous, and y:e said other Ships which were bigger, and
| + | |
| − | better sailers than the ''Anne''; left her behinde them, and y:e sd
| + | |
| − | ship ''Anne'' by y:e said High winds, foule weather, and greate
| + | |
| − | Tides (and by ?noe other meanes) was forced and driven upon
| + | |
| − | y:e Coast of ffrance, about tenne Leagues to the Westward
| + | |
| − | of ?Bullen, where shee as aforesd: was broken in peeces and utterly lost. And further cannot Answer/
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the last hee saith that all the said ptyes mentioned and
| + | |
| − | severally set downe in the said schedule; had receaved
| + | |
| − | at Cyprus some moneyes in pt of their Wages for their
| + | |
| − | service in y:e said Ship y:e voyage in question but how much hee knoweth not and further
| + | |
| − | Cannot answer;/:
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| − | | + | |
| − | JOSEPH BOND [His signature]
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| − | | + | |
| − | <nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
| − | ===Case: Sorrell con Hall: Examination: 4. William Sandwell, of Shadwell, Stepney, Mariner, aged 26: Date: March 4:th 1658===
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| − | | + | |
| − | The 4:th of March 1658:/.
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| − | | + | |
| − | Sorrell con Hall: aforesd
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| − | | + | |
| − | Examined on y:e said Allon:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | Rp.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | 4 WILLIAM SANDWELL of Shadwell in y:e parish
| + | |
| − | of Stepney mariner aged 26 yeeres or thereabt
| + | |
| − | Sworne and Examined
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| − | | + | |
| − | To the said Allon: hee saith that in the
| + | |
| − | moneth of November last, as this depo:t was goeing to y:e
| + | |
| − | Waterside; neere Colestaires, hee sawe one John Tyler, &
| + | |
| − | some others talking and discoursing in a Carpenters yard with one Mordecay Yonge:
| + | |
| − | (who (as this depo:t was informed) was one of the
| + | |
| − | Company of the arlate ship the ''Abigail'';) and as this
| + | |
| − | depo:t was passing by them. hee heard the said Tylor, Yonge
| + | |
| − | and others talking about the s:d ship ''Abigail'', and y:e ship y:e ''Agreem:t.''
| + | |
| − | whereof John Hall was M:r and this depo:t having formerly heard
| + | |
| − | of that busines. hee stood a little way of to heare what the
| + | |
| − | said Yonge would say and relate about the said Busines;
| + | |
| − | And the said Yonge in the hearing of this depo:t told
| + | |
| − | them to this or the very same effect: THat the ships
| + | |
| − | being in Company together, and they being neere M:r
| + | |
| − | Hall, they called one to one another, to take more
| + | |
| − | roome; and one of y:e ''Abigails'' Company being at the
| + | |
| − | Lead said that there was shore?s water,
| + | |
| − | And some of the Abigails Company hearing him called to the
| + | |
| − | man of the ''Abigails'' Helme, and bid him Starboard, Starboard
| + | |
| − | and hee at y:e Helme replied that, if yow will have it Starboard
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| − | I will Starboard it enough, Put the
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| − | Helme//
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| − | P1120027 f. 88 verso
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| − | '''Reasonable quality digital image'''
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| − | | + | |
| − | //Helme hard a Starboard, and Went from y:e same, and
| + | |
| − | by that meanes. before wee could recover our ship, we
| + | |
| − | fell foule of M:r Halls; And this depo:t having heard y.e
| + | |
| − | said word or words to the same effect. hee was called
| + | |
| − | away upon other occasions, ad left the said Tyler XXXX
| + | |
| − | and others, ffarther discoursing about the said busines:
| + | |
| − | And further deposeth that on Tuesday, last hee this
| + | |
| − | depo:t went to M:r Hall y:e producents house, to discourse
| + | |
| − | with him. (hee this depot. being his neighbo:r & using alsoe y:e XXXX
| + | |
| − | Trade;) and there found one whose name (as this depo:t
| + | |
| − | now remembreth ) was John Bath?o?e, who told M:r Hall,
| + | |
| − | in this depo:ts or:rsence ; and hearing, that y:e ship ''Abigail'' bore
| + | |
| − | up from . y:e South East to the North East. And said alsoe
| + | |
| − | that had hee the said Bathoe found any thing in
| + | |
| − | his way hee would have taken it up andXXXXed the
| + | |
| − | man from the Head that was att y:eHelme: for being
| + | |
| − | soe Crosse in putting y:e Helme soe much ?on Starboard, and leaving
| + | |
| − | it soe; or to that effect, and saith hee beleeveth the said
| + | |
| − | Hall, and ?Bathoe, had had discourse before this depo:ts
| + | |
| − | coming into y:e sd M:r Halls house about the said Business
| + | |
| − | The premisses hee deposeth hearing y:e same as aforesd and
| + | |
| − | further hee cannot depose/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the Interries:/.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the first hee saith that M:r Hall y:e producent required
| + | |
| − | him to come and Testify in this Cause; and to y:e rest hee
| + | |
| − | referrs himselfe to his forefgoeing deponn: And further
| + | |
| − | cannot answer:/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the second hee saith hee hath used the sea for about
| + | |
| − | Eighteene yeeres last, & about six yeeres last hath bin
| + | |
| − | a Master of a ship; And saith hee knoweth not what he
| + | |
| − | is worth, and further cannot answer/.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the last hee cannot Answer:/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | Repeated before D:r Godolphin:/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | WILLIAM SANDWELL [His signature]
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | <nowiki>***********************************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
| − | ===Case: XXXX: Answer: John Atkins: Date: XXXX===
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | The answer of the foresd John Atkins To the ?Interries
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the first hee saith as aforesd that hee went from Gravesend
| + | |
| − | in y:e sd Ship y:e voyage in question, and Continued onboard
| + | |
| − | till shee was breaking and splitting on y:e said sands. And
| + | |
| − | saith that upon y:e Death of the foresaid W:m Malim (w:ho
| + | |
| − | was M:r of the said ship) this depo:t became M:r of her, hee
| + | |
| − | being before: y:e said W:m Malims Cheife mate; And for
| + | |
| − | that hee received at Satalia, of the sayd William Malim ?twenty
| + | |
| − | Eight ryalls of Eight, and at Scanderoone hee received of y:e sd Malim either Eight
| + | |
| − | or tenne Ryalls more (but, whether eight or Tenne he
| + | |
| − | ?doth//
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| + | |
| − | P1120028 f. 89 recto
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| − | | + | |
| − | '''High quality digital image'''
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | //doth not nowe remember having lost most of his Accounts.) nd
| + | |
| − | saith that those summes were all that hee receaved the said voyage
| + | |
| − | in pt of his wages for his Service in y:e sd Shipp, And further
| + | |
| − | cannot Answer.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 2:d hee hath not soe deposed.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 3:d hee saith hee well knoweth all y:e partyes schedulate.
| + | |
| − | and saith that Christopher Malym is here in London;
| + | |
| − | or neere London, and soe is the foresd John Roberts, but
| + | |
| − | knowes not where the rest are; And saith that all the
| + | |
| − | marine:rs schedule were able Seamen, and were all Able
| + | |
| − | (for ought this depo:t knoweth to the Contrary) to performe
| + | |
| − | their severall places which they were put into in y:e sd
| + | |
| − | ship y:e sd voyage, And further doth bot answer:/.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 4:th hee saith hee doth not approve those Seamen
| + | |
| − | Sufficient Mariners that willfully suffer a ship and her Lading to be
| + | |
| − | Cast away in afaire winde, And weather; when y:e Ship
| + | |
| − | hath Liberty, and Searoome; And saith that y:e bookes
| + | |
| − | of Accounts, and all other accounts touching the sd Ship & Lading; (w:ch were aboard
| + | |
| − | the said Ship, at and upon y:e Death of the said William
| + | |
| − | Malim,) were locked and Sealed up in a box, by one
| + | |
| − | Captaine Hudson Comander of the''Smyrna ffactor'', and
| + | |
| − | Miles Bro?cose Comander of the ''William'' (w:ch werein
| + | |
| − | Company of y:e ''Anne'') the same daye that the said Will:m
| + | |
| − | Malim Dyed; and after they were soe Locked and
| + | |
| − | Seiled up, they were put into
| + | |
| − | the M:rs Cabbin, where they remained untill the
| + | |
| − | sd ship came to Cyprus, (after she came from Scanderoone;) where
| + | |
| − | (by order of the Wor:ll Roger ffooke) the said box was opened
| + | |
| − | in y:e presemce of the sd Captaine Miles Brouse, & Captaine PhXXX-
| + | |
| − | .ton, Comander of the ''Comerce''; and y:e bookes or Accounts
| + | |
| − | wherein the bills of Ladeig firmed at Scanderoone; for their
| + | |
| − | homewards Voyage, were entred, was taken out and
| + | |
| − | delivered to the said Wor:ll Roger ffooke, and then y:e said
| + | |
| − | box was Locked and sealed up againe by the said BrouXX
| + | |
| − | and Plumpton, and put into the Hold of the said
| + | |
| − | Ship the ''Anne''; where they Continued and were when
| + | |
| − | the said Ship was Cast away as aforesaid, And saith that
| + | |
| − | after the ?said Ship came upon y:e said Sand?s
| + | |
| − | her Company had noe time either to save any paps
| + | |
| − | or any of their Cloathes or goods w:ch were in y:e sd Ship,
| + | |
| − | but were most of them Imployed about Hoysting out
| + | |
| − | their boate, and using other meanes for saving of their
| + | |
| − | Lives. and while they were soe busied this depo:t gave, a small
| + | |
| − | bagg//
| + | |
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| − | P1120029 f. 89 verso
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| − | | + | |
| − | '''Poor quality digital image: See duplicate P1120030 '''
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| + | |
| − | P1120030 f. 89 verso
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | '''High quality digital image'''
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | //of ?lettyrs to the foresd John Roberts, desiring him to have
| + | |
| − | a speciall care of them, and p:rserve them if hee coul
| + | |
| − | Possible; and all the Company of the said Ship, being gone
| + | |
| − | a way in their boat?s, and this depo:t staying aboard
| + | |
| − | as aforesaid, hee went into his Cabbin, and there tooke
| + | |
| − | some Copyes of Accounts w:ch lay there ready Tyde
| + | |
| − | up, and put them in his pocket, and there being other
| + | |
| − | Originall papers, Letters, writings w:ch hee thought were of
| + | |
| − | more Concernmen:t hee wrapt them up in a paire of ?Loinings
| + | |
| − | & a Shirt, the better to keepe them dry, and by that time
| + | |
| − | hee had soe done the ship was bilging, and hee
| + | |
| − | perceiving y:e same Imediately ranne upp, upon y,e Deck
| + | |
| − | of the ship, with y:e sd writings. and ?heaved off as aforesd.
| + | |
| − | and after hee had Carried y.e sd writings w:ch were
| + | |
| − | wrapt upp in his ?Loinings & Shirt, in his hand
| + | |
| − | about a Stones through from y:e sd Ship, hee was forced
| + | |
| − | for safeguard of his life; to let them goe, and with
| + | |
| − | much difficulty and hazard of his life got to y:e sd Boate
| + | |
| − | as aforesd. and soe by the Great Providence of God
| + | |
| − | got to Shore, where the said papers w:ch hee had in his
| + | |
| − | pocket were dryed, LARGE INSERTION TO BE TRANSCRIBED, and after, LARGE INSERTION TO BE TRANSCRIBED, ?before dryed they
| + | |
| − | came to the hands of one John Walker who was Mate
| + | |
| − | and Pilot of the said ship, who delivered the same to
| + | |
| − | this depo:t herein London and this depo:t delivered them
| + | |
| − | to the foresaid M:r ffrancis ffooke; and the
| + | |
| − | said Bag of XXtters which were p:rserved by y:e said Roberts
| + | |
| − | this depo:t Carryed to y:e said M:r ffookes Lodging
| + | |
| − | but hee not being then in Towne; (as this depo:t was
| + | |
| − | informed by one M:r Bridges. kinsman of the said
| + | |
| − | ffrancis ffowke, and at whose house the said M:r ffowkes lay.)
| + | |
| − | this depo:t acquainted y.e said Bridges. with his Busines
| + | |
| − | and y:e said Bridges advised this depo:t XX delivered
| + | |
| − | the said Letters to y:e merch:ts to whom they were directed
| + | |
| − | and the said M:r Bridges to that End went along with
| + | |
| − | this depot to the Exchange; where hee delivered the
| + | |
| − | said Letters according to thir Superscriptions; And further
| + | |
| − | hee cannot answer to this Interrie saving hee saith
| + | |
| − | that neither hee this depo:t nor any of his Company durst
| + | |
| − | venture into y:e ships hold to take out the said Boy
| + | |
| − | of writings & Accounts:/.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 5:th hee saith the said Ship ''Anne'' Came from ffalmouth
| + | |
| − | next before her Casting away, in Company of about 6 or ?X
| + | |
| − | saile, and y:e winde then was variable; and the weather thicj
| + | |
| − | & ffoggy ad saith hee heard that afterXXX Vessell y:t came from
| + | |
| − | ffalmouth y:e same day the ''Anne'' came thence was cast away y:e same night that the ''Anne'' was , and XX
| + | |
| − | y.e same Coast And further cannot Answer.
| + | |
| − | To//
| + | |
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| + | |
| − | P1120031 f. 90 recto
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| − | | + | |
| − | '''High quality digital image'''
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | //To the 6:th hee saith that the foresaid ships in a ?forceable Gale of wind outsailed
| + | |
| − | the ''Anne'' and the ''Anne''. was driven by the said High
| + | |
| − | winds and foule weather on y:e sd Coast of ffrance, and further
| + | |
| − | cannot answer daying as aforesd./.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 7 Interrie hee saith hee knoweth not how much the
| + | |
| − | said Partyes schedulate or any of them received in pt for
| + | |
| − | their service in y:e said ship; but saith that at Cyprus in
| + | |
| − | their Coming home, hee laid out, and paid amongst
| + | |
| − | some of the ships Company by order of the wor:ll ffranics ffowke
| + | |
| − | , a Certaine summe of money but how
| + | |
| − | much hee knoweth not, nor perticularly to whom all y:e same
| + | |
| − | was pd. and further cannot answer:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the Interries in 2:d loco;/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the first hee saith that the said ship ''Anne'' arrived at
| + | |
| − | Cyprus the first time on or about the first of
| + | |
| − | Aprill 1658: And from and after that time y:e said ship
| + | |
| − | was Imployed (as this depo:t supposed) by y:e sd wor:ll Roger
| + | |
| − | ffowke, and was by him ordered to goe to such ports & places
| + | |
| − | as hee thought fitt, And further cannot depose./.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 2:d hee saith the sd William Malin dyed on: or about
| + | |
| − | the seaventeenth day of July last betweene Scanderoone
| + | |
| − | and Cyprus. as the shipp was Coming homewards, and
| + | |
| − | this depo:t according to the Custome in such cases, succeeded
| + | |
| − | him and at y:e Ships Comming to Cyprus, w:ch was on or
| + | |
| − | about the last of July 1658. the said Wor:ll Roger ffowke
| + | |
| − | ordered this depo:t to take the Charge and Care of
| + | |
| − | her in bringing of her for England. And further hee cannot
| + | |
| − | depose:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 3::d hee saith that at Satalia the said Malym did
| + | |
| − | pay to severall of the ships Comp:a some moneyes, but
| + | |
| − | how much hee knoweth not, And saith that after y:e said
| + | |
| − | Mahims Death there was a Noate found. wherein was
| + | |
| − | written that all the Marine:rs schedulate had received
| + | |
| − | three monethes wages for their service in the said Ship
| + | |
| − | But of this Depo:ts Knowledge none of y:e marine:rs
| + | |
| − | schedulate receaved soe much: And further cannot Answer
| + | |
| − | saving his foregoeing depon.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 4:th hee saith that the foresaid money w:ch hee
| + | |
| − | this depo:t paid as aforesd to some of the marine:rs of
| + | |
| − | the said ship hee receaved it of the Wor:ll Roger ffooke,
| + | |
| − | And saith hee knoweth not pticulalry how much the Mariners schedulate
| + | |
| − | receaved nor any of them since their Departure from
| + | |
| − | Gravesend in y:e said Ship and further cannot answer/:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 5:th hee saith the said Ship ''Anne'' was Driven upon
| + | |
| − | the Coast of ffrance only by extreamity of y:e winde and wearger
| + | |
| − | and by y:e will of God . And saith that at Satalia was a Difference betweene M:r XXXXX ffrancis Rosse
| + | |
| − | and George Southerne mentioned in y:e sd schedule and XX sd ?Psons
| + | |
| − | but//
| + | |
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| + | |
| − | P1120032 f. 90 verso
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| − | | + | |
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| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | //but the said Difference was Determined by XXXX Roger
| + | |
| − | ffowkes, and y:e said Rosse, Southerne, and ?Bond; XXXX
| + | |
| − | receaved aboard the said ship againe, and Continued
| + | |
| − | in her untill y:e sd Disaster happened, saving y:e said
| + | |
| − | Rosse not being obedient to this depo:ts words &
| + | |
| − | Comands was by ?then this depo:t put into y:e ''Guinney frigot''
| + | |
| − | about free weekes before y:e sd disaster happened. and
| + | |
| − | further cannot answer:
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 6:th hee referreth himselfe to his answer made to the
| + | |
| − | 4:th Interre in the first place; and further Cannot
| + | |
| − | Answer./
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | JOHN ATKINS [His signature]
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | <nowiki>****************************************************</nowiki>
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | ?Sims against Browne)
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | The 7:th of March 1658
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | Examined upon the foresaid libell.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | Rp.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | 2. JOSEPH LAMBELL of London Marchant aged 43 yeares
| + | |
| − | or thereabouts sworne and examined.
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the first, second and third articles of the said libell hee saith and
| + | |
| − | deposeth that hee well knoweth the producent John Syms, and saith
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| − | that about eleaven or twelve yeares since hee this deponent living in the
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| − | Iland of Teneriff and being correspondent of the said SXXXXr, received a lre
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| − | from him dated at ?Lyon purporting that hee the said SXXXXX in a shipp
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| − | whereof Captaine ?Walfore was commander had at XXX XX England laded for his
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| − | account and consigned to this deponent to be delivered as XXXXXX tXXXX
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| − | bales of ?stuffs, one third part of the XXX sad and XXXX
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| − | ?pipes XXXX, and some perpetXXXes strippd and XXed and some neither
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| − | and foure parts of linnen cloth, marked /to his remembrance) as in the
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| − | margent, And further hee cannot depose saving what followeth, it being soe
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| − | long since, and this deponents lres and disptaches being seized and taken away
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| − | at the XXXXX upon the falling out betwixt this Nation and Spaine./
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| − | To the fourth, fifth and sixth articles hee saith and deposeth that upon the arrival
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| − | of the said shipp the ?time aforesaid at XXXXX and this deponents receipt of the said lre
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| − | (w:ch came in the said shipp) hee this examinate XXXX the said ?belXXXXX order
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| − | to land the said goods XXXX XXXX by the said Simms and consigned to this examinate
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| − | but cannot answer that they were all landed by the said Captaine XXX XXXXXX
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| − | goods of one M:r Carling before such time as this deponents said order came
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| − | XXX XXXX, Whereupon this deponent went to the XXXXXXXX at
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| − | GraXXXXX to take order about receiving them, but found, only
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| − | packs of linnen cloth w:ch hee received ?and hath wXXX XXXXX XXXX the XX interr XXX XXXX Spaines but for the rest of the said goods
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| − | before mencconed, hee w:ch (OR, with) they were missing or XXXing, and thXXXXX this
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| − | deponents XXX many endeavour to finde them out and receive them hee could by
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| − | noe meanes come by them, the said master having otherwise dusposed them
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| − | and conveyed them into other hands, and keeping himselfe purposely aboard
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| − | them this deponent should take XXX course in lawe against him further XXX
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| − | And having XX XXX the factory or XXXX schedule annexed, hee saith that
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| − | ?M:r Simmes the time aforesaid XXX this deponent a factorie
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| − | of the said goods, andhee beleeveth the said factorie annexed to be a true XXXXX
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| − | or copie thereof and to XXXX with the ?same, and the contents thereof to be
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| − | true, and saith thet each thousand of the pXXXX as they were XXXX
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| − | X the said ?Invoice a ?fortiori were then on the XXXXXX worth fifteene XXX
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| − | XXXX//
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| − | //sterling ?per XXX said, and the said peeces of XXXX stuff (being as was mentioned
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| − | in the Invoice, Mohaires) were worth foure pounds per peece there one with another
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| − | and the AdXXXXXX the little & the ?Carnelions that
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| − | ===Case; Nuthall con Potts: Examination: 2. Clement Witham, of Tower Streete, London, Scrivener, aged 26: Date: March 7th, 1658===
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| − | Nuthall con Potts aforesd:
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| − | The 7:th day of March 1658.
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| − | Examined on the said Allon:
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| − | Rp
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| − | 2:nd CLEMENT WITHAMof Tower Streete London
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| − | Scrivener, aged 26 yeeres or thereabouts
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| − | sworne and Examined:/.
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| − | To the 1:st 2:d and 3:d: Articles of the said Allon.
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| − | hee saith that in y:e moneths of November December
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| − | January, ffebruary,a nd March 1656: y.e arlate Henry
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| − | Potts whom this depo:t then well knewe.) was Comonly accounted
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| − | M:r and Owne:r of arlate Ship y:e ''Gilly flower'', and soe
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| − | this depo:t beleeveth hee was the said time: And saith, that
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| − | in y:e said moneth of November y:e said Ship was bound
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| − | out upon a voyage to be made; (as the said Potts then told this
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| − | depo:t) from this Port of London to Newcastle; And the
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| − | said Potts at the same time wanted , stock XXXXX & provisions for y:e said ship ''Gilly flower''
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| − | as hee likewise told him this depo:t. And further he cannot depose
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| − | To the 4:th 5:th 6:th hee saith that in y:e said moneth of November 1656
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| − | y:e arlate James Nuthall, at y:e request of the said Potts
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| − | did Lend him the said Potts in this depo:ts p:rsence (who XXXX y:e sd money paid) y:e
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| − | summe of One hundred and thirty pounds of Lawfull
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| − | English money, for stock and provisions for y:e said
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| − | ship ''Gilly flower'', w:ch summe y:e said Nuthall soe Lent to
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| − | the said Potts upon Bottomrey y:e said voyage, and
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| − | the said Nuthall ranne y:e hazard and Adventure thereupom
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| − | And that in Consideraconn of the same the said Potts did
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| − | Covenant//
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| − | //Covenant and promise to and with the said Nuthall
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| − | to pay unto him the summe of One hundred ffifty six
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| − | pounds of Lawfull money of England, on or about y:e two and
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| − | twentyeth day of ffebruary 1656: old stile if the said Ship
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| − | shouldbee then in safety, and not then, nor at any other time before that time be sunck surprized by Pyratts
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| − | or such like or cast away: And saving nowe seene
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| − | and pused a schedule annexed to the sd Allon, beginning
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| − | To all men to whom this p:rsent writing shall come Henry
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| − | Potts of Newcastle x:r:e and ending Dated the Two and
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| − | twentieth day of November One Thousand six hundred
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| − | ffifty and six: hee saith y:e same was and is a Copy
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| − | of the Originall writing or Bill of Bottomry, w:ch was on or
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| − | about the day of the Date thereof really signed and sealed
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| − | by the said Henry Potts. in y:e p:rsence of this depo:t
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| − | and sauth hee verily beleeveth y:e said Copy to be a
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| − | true Copy of the said Orig:ll Bill, And saith one of thos
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| − | depo:ts serv:ts made the said Copy or Draught of y:e originall, And
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| − | further hee cannot depose./.
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| − | To the 6:th hee Cannot depose,/.
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| − | To the 7:th arle & y:e bond XXXX hee saith that on or about the 22:th day of
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| − | November 1656: y:e said Henry Potts. together with one
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| − | John Carter did become bound unto the said James
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| − | Nutall in y:e summe of three hundred pounds
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| − | of Lawfull money of England. for y:e performance
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| − | of the Covenants. mentioned and set downe in y:e
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| − | said writing or Bill of Bottomery And saith the said bond )now
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| − | showed unto him, was and is y:e bond wherein XXX
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| − | y:e said Potts, and Carter are bound to y:e said Nuthall
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| − | to pforme y:e Covenants in y:e foresd writing XXXXX bill of Bottomry
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| − | And saith y:e same on or about y:e day of And date
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| − | thereof was really signed, sealed, and delivered by them
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| − | the said Potts. and Carter for and as their Act and
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| − | Deed, in y:e presence of this depo:t (who made the said ?bond
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| − | and of one William Wyatt And further hee cannot
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| − | depose./-
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| − | CLEMENT WISHAM [His signature]
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| − | Repeated before D:r Godolphin//
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