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Transcription

A.4.

The 9.th of July 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of Alice (sic) Weaver}
the Relict of Richard Weaver}
touching the seizure of the Michael}
dogger boate}

Rp. 1

Michael Lindsey of London Chirurgion
aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
before the Right worshipfull Richard Zouch
Doctor of Lawes Judge of the high Court of the
Admiralty, and Examined upon certaine
Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said Mary (sic)
Weaver. saith and deposeth as followeth/:

To the first 2d and 3d Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee very well
knew the Interrate Richard Weaver in his life time and saith
that on the 7.th of June last hee this DEponent embarked himselfe
in the harbour of Scilley onboard the Michael Dogger boate whereof
the said Weaver was Master, and saith there was then alsoe a
Dutch ship called the Oosaman birke. then riding in the said
Harbbour which the said Weaver and his Company had formerly
taken, by vertue of a Commission granted to the said Weaver by the King
of Sweden, as this Deponent was Credibly informed at his Coming
onboard both by Papers and the Company of the said Doggerboat
and the said Weaver intended (as hee declared) to carry the
said Dutch ship to Gottenborowe in Swedland, and saith that
the next day after this deponent came onboard the said Doggerboate
namely on the 18.th of June last, foure Dutch men of warr, called
the Laures[?tell] the Spion, the Zealand, and the Salamander, came
upon the Coast of Scilley, and a counsell of warre being called
onboard the Lares[?tell] They ordered the Salamander to goe
into the Harbour of Scilley (as her Company declared) abd
the Salamander accordingly came into the said Harbour, and did
in a violent and presumtious manner come up to and board the said Michaell
Dogger boate, shee, and alsoe her said Prize being then in the
Harbour of Scilley in his Majestyes Chamber and with in Comand
of the fforts and the Company of the said ship Salamander
did without any offence offered that this Deponent knoweth of fire severall peeces of Ordinance
brasse bas[X]s, Musketts and Pistolls and in a hostile and Cruell manner
killed the said Weaver, the Boatswaine the Quarter master of the
said Dogger boate, and forced the Gunner overboard who was frowned
and seized the said Doggerboate and
all the Goods in her, in the said Place, and carried the same
away, and alsoe carryed this Deponent and three others away as Prisoners
and about foure dayes after this Deponent was put ashore, and saith
that the Gunns upon the said fforts were fired at the Salamander
after shee had soe seized the said Doggerboat, to comand ther (sic)
Captaine or Company ashore, and before the said Gunns were fired from the fforts the Comptroler of the Ordinance
was by the Governour of Scilley sent onboard the Salamander who did
in this deponents presence demand the Captaine of the Salamander in his
(Majestyes