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To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and … To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee did<br />
not speake with the said Goulding at Sandwich, hee being as this<br />
deponent understood, gonne with the said shipp from the downes for fflushing and<br />
the tuesday next before such the said comming downe to Sandwich,<br />
And saith this deponent demanded only his charges for going after the said [?Goulding] but<br />
the said Greene and Odway not inclining thereto, there was<br />
noe mention of any sume for his voyage after him, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
William Hammond [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27th of Aprill 1657. [CENTRE HEADING]
On behalfe of his highnesse}<br />
the Lord Protector touching}<br />
the ''Virgin Mary'' prize}
'''dt. Rowe'''
'''Alexander ffrathey''' late master of the ''yarmouth''<br />
''frigot'' whereof Captaine Marke was or is commander<br />
aged 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the<br />
Judges of the high Court of the Admiralty saith<br />
as followeth.
That on or about the eleaventh day of this instant Aprill 165[?7]<br />
the said ''yarmouth frigot'' met with and tooke a Spanish prize<br />
called the ''Virgin Mary'' about fourteene leagues<br />
off the North Cape of Galicia as shee was comming from the West Indies<br />
bound for the coast of Spaine, and afterwards brought her<br />
for the downes, And saith that on the said day of her said<br />
seizure, the said Captaine Marke tooke out of her<br />
and brought aboard the ''yarmouth frigot'' tenn chests, the<br />
contents whereof hee knoweth not, saving one of them hee<br />
sawe opened and to containe bundles of white rawe silke,<br />
or silke [?XXXXght], which tenn chests after they had remained<br />
an howere or two on the deck of the said frigot, the said<br />
Captaine tooke them into his cabbin. And saith that the next<br />
day after the said Captaine went againe in the afternoone<br />
aboard the said prize accompanied by with James English<br />
a midshipp man of the said frigot, and as the said James the same<br />
night or the next day informed this deponent tooke out of her<br />
before the maine mast eleaven chests more into his disposall, and presently<br />
aboard the prize before their bringing thence stowed the [?locks] [?of]<br />
five of them and disposed of the contents of them, (amongst which<br />
contents the said English said there was plate) and soe left the<br />
emptie chests there, and that hee gave another chest with what<br />
was therein to his lieutenant and brought the other five aboard<br />
the frigot and put them into his store roome, and tooke them [?or ?XX]<br />
[?canister] of tobaccoe out of the hold of the prize and gave to his<br />
clarke. And saith that two or three dayes after the said seizure<br />
[the GUTTER]
[TEXT AT 90 DEGREES IN LH MARGIN]<br />
the Spanish captaine of the said Prize being in this deponents cabbin aboard the said frigot<br />
and this deponent asking and discoursing with him about her lading, the said Captaine<br />
in the presence of Charles Aston Gunner of the said frigot said [?were]<br />
six rich chests downe in the hold [?abaft] her main mast, and two truncks,<br />
and that in one of the said truncks there were thirty two pounds of gold
Alexander ffrathy [SIGNATURE, IN LH MARGIN]lexander ffrathy [SIGNATURE, IN LH MARGIN] +
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