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The 12th of September 1657.
On the behalf … The 12th of September 1657.
On the behalfe of Richard}<br />
ffitz Gerald of Waterford}<br />
Merchant, touchinge a loss in}<br />
the ''Martin frigot''.}
'''Mr. dan. Arth. dt. X X XXX.'''
'''Mathew Paine''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, late master of the shipp the ''Martin ffrigot'' of<br />
Waterford, aged 29 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne before<br />
the right worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie,<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew and was master of<br />
the vessell interrate called the ''Martin frigot'' of Waterford<br />
at such time as shee was last at Waterford in Ireland, from whe[nce GUTTER]<br />
hee saith shee last departed, (namely from Passage in Waterford)<br />
on the eighteenth of July last bound for Rochell in the Realme of<br />
ffrance, which hee knoweth being then master of her and departing in her
To the second hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate Richard ffitz Gerald<br />
of Waterford Merchant, and saith that while the said shipp was soe<br />
at Waterford, and designed for her said last voyage, there were at<br />
Waterford laden by and for account of the said mr ffitz Garrard<br />
about eleaven tonne and a halfe of butter, and a tonne of tallowe<br />
or thereabouts, to be in the said shipp carried to Rochell, and there<br />
to be delivered to one mr Lea to whom they were consigned, All<br />
which hee knoweth being master as aforesaid, and receaving the said<br />
goods aboard, and signing a bill of lading for the same
To the third Interrogatorie hee deposeth that after such departure<br />
of the said shipp with the foresaid goods aboard her from Waterford,<br />
and being in her course of proceeding from Rochell, shee was on the<br />
foure and twentieth day of July last after about tenn houres space<br />
fetcht up, surprized and taken about tenn leagues off Olo[?XX]<br />
in the coast of ffrance by an enemie man of warr, Commanded<br />
by ffrancis Sanstevan belonging to ffonteravia, and with the said<br />
goods and the rest of her lading carried to Saint Sebastians, where the<br />
said shipp and goods were made prize, and this deponent and company<br />
plundered and turned ashore soe that the said goods of the said mr<br />
ffitz Garrard were and are (as hee beleeveth) wholly lost unto him, of this deponents<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that the name<br />
of the frigot or man of warr that tooke them was called the Saint<br />
Antonio nuevo, and had six Guns, and about fiftie men, and<br />
this deponent and two of his company were exámined<br />
at Saint Sebastians before the Magistrate touching the said shipp and lading<br />
and to what place shee belonged, and to whom her goods were belonging<br />
and then sent away.
Matth: Payne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]t away.
Matth: Payne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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