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To the fourteenth article of the said alle … To the fourteenth article of the said allegation hee saitH and deposeth<br />
that the said shipp the ''Crosse of Jerusalem'' when this deponent came To her as<br />
aforesaid to Saint Mallo's was there in repairing and saith shee continued a good space<br />
under repaire, after this deponents coming thither, and that there was<br />
much cost bestowed upon such her repairing, amounting as hee beleeveth<br />
to a thousand Pistolls, and saith that the said Monsieur Philladieu<br />
defrayed the said charges, and that one Monsieur Gimber as the accomptant<br />
or Booke-keeper was hee through whose hands the said chardges passed. but<br />
on whose accomptant (sic) or cost the said moneys were expended, hee saith hee<br />
knoweth not. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifteenth hee saith that the provisions for the said shipp for this<br />
voyage were bought, provided and supplied by the said monsieur fiiladieu<br />
and monsieur Gimber, and by them the said shipp was fited out to sea,<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the sixteenth hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and cannot<br />
otherwise depose
To the seaventeenth and 18 hee saith that after the seizure of the said shipp and<br />
her bringing up to Plimouth, hee this deponent and two others<br />
of the said shipps company were brought ashore to be examined, and<br />
were caried into the Armes of hamborough a victualling house to<br />
attend till the officers were readie, and that there the said Peter Martensen<br />
the master meeting them spake to them and willed them upon their<br />
examination to declare that the said shipp belonged to Amsterdam<br />
and this deponent saying noe hee would not doe it, but doe it (quoth<br />
the said Peter) and I will take it upon my selfe; but this deponent<br />
still said now, you cannot answer for mee, nor I for you when wee<br />
come before God, or to the same effect. And otherwise hee cannot depose.<br />
saving that the said Skipper seeing that this deponent would not sweare<br />
that the said shipp belonged to Amsterdam, fell to reviling and abusing him<br />
calling him Skallam many times over with many other reproachfull<br />
termes, and monsieur ffarseau the merchant alsoe abused him with<br />
opprobious speeches; and the said Skipper going aboard told the<br />
company that this deponent would betray the shipp and was a Skellam<br />
and after this deponents examination some of the company upbraided<br />
him with slanderous termes, and the Stiersman severall times persued him with<br />
a naked knife to stabb him, and all this, because this deponent<br />
would not sweare that the said shipp belonged to Amsterdam; and that<br />
they threatened him that hee should be hanged, and much afflicted<br />
and disquieted him with such their reproaches and abuses of him<br />
when as hee hath not (as hee saith) spoken otherwise then the truth.
'''9. [?XXXs] causa ad Interria folio sequenti.'''
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Erasmus [?hartensen] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the eleaventh of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Smith, Wright and Company}<br />
late Mariners of the ''Constant''}<br />
of which William hurley was Commander}<br />
against Captaine Isaack Phillips.}<br />
Suckley. Smith}
Upon the arlate allegation given in<br />
and admitted on the behalfe of the<br />
Mariners.
'''Rp.'''
'''William Newland''' of Newport in<br />
the Isle of Wight Merchant, where he<br />
hath lived for the space of forty yeares<br />
aged above yeares, a wittnes produced and sworne<br />
andittnes produced and sworne<br />
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