MRP: HCA13/71
HCA13/71
Editorial history
16/12/11, CSG: Created page
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Notes, not a full transcription
Examinacon upon an Allegation on the behalf of the said John Jeffreys, Colelough, Beane, Lewellin and others
Thomas Clarke of
Rederhithe or Redriffe in y:e
County of Surrey late
Master and Commander of
the said shipp y:e Xappahawarke
aged 42: yeares or thereabouts
sworne in Court and examined
saith as followeth-
The ship, the Sarah, was freighted "from London to Guiney and from thence to Barbadoes and Virginia and from thence to London, in which voyage the said shipp was surprized and seized as hereafter shall bee dexxxxxxx."
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"the Sarah had XXXXXXX been there bartered away and XXXX
16X Negroes or thereabouts, and that they were in the quiett and
peaceable possession of the same upon the high and open seas neere
unto a place called XXXX de Lopez in Guiney aforesaid as such since as
the said shipps and their respective ladings more XXXXXed and to bee
XXX hereafter reste to bee XXXXed, And further hee cannot depose
To the 5:th Article of the said Accon hee saieth That in or about the
moneth of September 1656, and upon y:e 11:th day of the said moneth
according to y.e English style, the said shipp the Xappahamarck and or
y:e XXuct of this depon:t being at sea with y:e said 53 or 54 Negroes
and the residue of her said Cargo, and sayling towards and
being in sight of the said Cape de Lopes upon her quiett and peaceable trading
was mett with by two duch shipps the one called the Mary of
Amsterdam, and the other called the XXXX of Middleburgh both
of them being commanded by the aclate John SXXoll a Duchman
and Subject of the States of the United Provinces, which did then in
a violent and hostile manner sett upon surprize and take the said
shipp y:e Xappahammarke togeather with her Tackle furniture and
Negroes and the rest of her lading, and dispoyled and utterly ?deprived
this depon:t and Companie thereof and ?converted y:e same to the use
and benefitt of the said John Scroll and Companie. The premisses hee
knoweth by sadd a psonall experiences. And further saith, That by and
according to the credible relation of the said Arthur Perkins and Comp:nie
the said two Dutch shipps in the moneth of August, immediately
precedent had alsoe in a violent and
hostile manner assaulted surprized and taken y:e said shipp y.e Sarah
and her tackle furniture and Negroes aforesaid shee being at an anchor
at or neere Cape de Lopes aforesaid, and had dispoyled and depXXXed
said Master and Companie thereof. And that indeed this depo:t being
himselfe and his said shipp shortly after surprized and taken as afores:d
did soe the said shipp Sarah in the power and possession of the said
John Scroll and of those under his Command in the said Dutch shipps
And further cannot depose
To the 6:th hee saith That the said shipps the Marye and y:e
Unicorne at the time of the surprizeall of this deponents said shipp y:e
Rappahamarrke were Dutch shipps, that is the Mary was and is a
shipp built at Amsterdam in Holland, and the said shipp y:e Unicorne
a shipp which had beene taken by the Holland:ers or Zealanders from y:e
Portugueze and had been repaired and built upon in Zeeland, and saith
That at the time aforesaid both the said shipps carried Spanish Colours
but the night immediately prceeding the said seizure, this depon:t had
seene them carry the Colours of Middleborough in Zeeland And farther
saith that the said shipps were from y:e said United Provinces sett out
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to sea each of them with a cargo of goods to trade at Guiney [?for]
Negroes, and pticulalry that one ?Vandergoes of Zeeland XXX XXX
principall ?Owner and imployer of the said shipp the Unicorne
was alsoe interested in the other shipp y:e Mary and that the ?said
Vandergoes and others the Own:rs of the said shipps the Mary and
Unicorne were Dutchmen and Subjects of the said States of y:e
United Netherlands Provinces, ??All which the premisses of this dep:t
saith hee hath understood and beene very credibly informed of XXX
before the seizure of the said shipp the XXappahamarck and the
one Lucas ?Carrots Master of a shipp in XXXX belonging to Holland
then trading in these parts with whom this dep:t XXX at the XXX
dayes before y:e seizure of the said shipp XXappaXXXX XXXX the
depon:t asking whether there were any men of warr upon y:e XXX
answered noe, but that there were some Dutch Merchant shipps
and that hee knew where their Own:rs and Imployers lived, XXXX XX
hee know where his owne Own.rs lived, and that if hee were in
Amsterdam hee could presently goe to their or severall of their houses
habitations in that place, and moreover that therefore hee did not
feare them under any such notion, And ptly for y:t the said
Commander John Scroll and the Gunner of the said shipp y:e
Unicorne (this depo:t upon y:e said seizure being brought on bord XXX
and there continueing a prisoner for about 6 weekes after) did
sevearall times declare in the hearing of this depon:t that the said ships
were sett out, as aforesaid, by the said Vandergoes and others subject
of the States of y:e said United Provinces, and saith that XXX
said Scroll and one Claes or Nicholas ?Praine Merchant or
Supra Cargo of the said shipp Marie did aboard y:e said shipp
Unicorne declare to this depon:t that they had in and about y:e
said shipps a Cargaison for y:e procureing of two Thousand
ffive hundred Negroes to be transported to ??Carthagona in the
West Indies there to be disposed of and sold for y:e use of XXX
of such their Dutch ?Proprietors And further said That soe long as
this depo:t continued a prison:r in and aboard the said shipp Unicorne
hee well observed that all or the most pt of their shipps XXX
and provisions consisted in ?grett, ?horse ?beXxanes and other XXXX
usually employed in shipps fitted and victualled from Holland and
other united provinces, and that severall of the said shipps ?Companie
then confessed, that the provisions of beef, and sundry XXXX of
water which they then had aboard y.e said shipps had beene by XX
taken in, in the said united Netherlands, or words and expressions
to that or the like effect. Hee further saith That hee this depon:t
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was not present at the seizure of the said shipp y:e Sarah and therefore
doeth not know, what colours y:er said Dutch shipps carried at the time
of the said seizure othrewise than that hee hath credibly understood
