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The 19th of March 1659. [CENTRE HEADING]
… The 19th of March 1659. [CENTRE HEADING]
hugeson and Company against the}<br />
''ffortune'' and Walker and Companie.}<br />
Colquite. Cheeke.
Examined upon an allegation arlate given in on the<br />
behalfe of the said hugeson and Company [?the]<br />
8th of december last.
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''Andries Verhoogh''' of fflushing in Zealand Mariner, aged<br />
37 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the<br />
producents Waran hugeson and Company, and that they for all the [?time]<br />
arlate untill the violent seizure of the said shipp ''ffortune'' by Captaine [XXX]<br />
and Company (happening on the last of May last new stile) were in<br />
quiet and peaceable possessoion of the said ship and of her tackle apparrell<br />
and furniture by this deponent master of her, And that they were<br />
all the said time arlate and are the true and lawfull owners and<br />
proprietors thereof, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent was [?by]<br />
them about two yeares since constituted Master of her, and hath from that<br />
time made account of her freights and earnings to them, and [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
time to time fitted and furnished her at their costs as owners of her<br />
And for and as owners, and to have bin soe in possession of the said [XXX]<br />
the said hugeson and company have bin and are commonly accounted.
To the second and third articles hee deposeth and saith that before [XXX]<br />
at the said time of the said seizure of the said shipp, shee was in the [?service]<br />
of this Commonwealth, and was by this deponent her master [?taken]<br />
to freight to John Ver hulst, who was the master Mason and tooke her<br />
to freight on the behalfe and in the name of the Jugeneer, for this [XXX]<br />
at dunkirke, to saile and fetch lime from dover to dunkirke [XXX]<br />
to repaire the Walls and fort of dunkirke. And that the said [XXX]<br />
under conduct of this deponent and company sailing peaceably toward<br />
dover in the foresaid Imployment, was in her course near Goodwin<br />
Sands on the said last of may last new stile, met by a ketch [XXX]<br />
this examinate deemed to be a Packet boate because shee had the<br />
English colours out upon her sterne and boltspritt, and being by the<br />
ketch haled, and demannded whence shee was and whether bound<br />
this deponent made answer that shee was of fflushing, came [XXX]<br />
from dunkirke and was going for dover to fetch lime for dunkirke<br />
for the service of the Engineer there, whereupon hee saith the [XXX]<br />
of the said ketch came presently aboard the ''ffortune'' and said that shee<br />
was their prize, for that they as they said were Swedes and had [?a]<br />
Swedish Commission against the dutch, and therewith they in a violent<br />
and hostile manner dispoiled this deponent and company of the said [?ship]<br />
tackle and furniture, and on the fourth of June last (new stile) [XXX]<br />
this deponent ashore and his company, neere Marget after they [?caried]<br />
the said shipp away, as this deponent afterwards [XXX XXX XXXX] carried to [XXXXXX] in [XXX]<br />
where they sold and made away her sailes, anchors and other [?appurtenances]<br />
and soe in an uniust and violent manner deprived the said owners<br />
thereof; And in this violent and hostile manner Robert [XXXX]<br />
company became possessed of the said shipp tackle and furniture,<br />
not by any sale or legall manner. And for declaration how this deponent<br />
came after such his turning ashore to know where the said shipp [XXX]<br />
how hee came afterwards to the sight of her and of the persons [XXX]<br />
seized her, and other particulars, hee referreth himselfe to an [?affidavit]<br />
by him made touching the same in this Court on the tenth of [?November]<br />
last, which affidavit hee saith is wholly true. And further deposeth [XXX]
Toholly true. And further deposeth [XXX]
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