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Groine and that the said shipp was bound w … Groine and that the said shipp was bound with them for Ostend,<br />
And further deposeth not, saving as aforesaid and what followeth.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that the said Captaine<br />
Parker when hee delivered the papers to this deponent and his said<br />
contest acquainted them that they were brought and taken in<br />
the said shipp the ''lyon'' and the said Baggaert alsoe delivered [XXX GUTTER]<br />
[XXX] under them) and they both then and there affirmed and [?assured GUTTER]<br />
that they were the papers and evidences of the said shipp which<br />
were soe brought in her, and having soe received<br />
them this deponent and his said contest deliverd them to the [?said GITTER]<br />
Major and the towne clarke of Portsmouth who after examination of [?them XXXX] sealed them up<br />
with a certificate inder the hand and seale of the said major together [?with GUTTER]<br />
the said examinations, and then delivered them soe sealed up to<br />
Samuell Williams clarke of the<br />
prize office there, to be sent up to the Commissioners for prize goods<br />
at London, who sent them accordingly by the post on the fourteenth<br />
of the said moneth of may, which hee knoweth being present and<br />
acquainted with the said transactions and having [?lately] perused<br />
his notes for the times and passages of and in the said busines. And<br />
for the truth of the said sending up of the said papers, this deponent<br />
and his said contest made an affidavit before the Major of<br />
Portsmouth, which was in November last sent up to this Court<br />
And further deposeth not, savimg that having now seene the papers<br />
which are brought into this Court as comming from<br />
Portsmouth, hee saith hee verily beleeveth them to be the same<br />
papers without diminution, addition, or alteration that were<br />
soe delivered and sent as aforesaid./
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that at such time as the<br />
said Baggaert and others aforesaid were examined at Portsmouth<br />
all and every the said papers that were as aforesaid sent up [?sealed GUTTER]<br />
to the Commissioners for prize goods at London, where sh[?ewed] to the<br />
said Baggaert and the said others that were examined, and<br />
the said papers were then by the said Baggaert owned and<br />
acknowledged to come out of and to belong to the said shipp<br />
in the presence and hearing of this deponent, and in the presence<br />
of his said contest. And further deposeth not.
To the sixth hee cannot depose.
To the seventh hee saith that for the [XXXX] arlate there hath bin [XXXX XXX]<br />
hostilitie betweene England and Spaine, and reprizalls have<br />
bin and are granted against the king of Spaine and his<br />
subiects, and therefore hee beleeveth that the said shipp and all the<br />
goods that were in her were and are lawfull and good prizes to th[?ixs GUTTER]<br />
Commonwealth and confiscable to the keepers of the libertie of<br />
England by authoritie of Parliament, And further deposeth not
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
ff. Holt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]on is true.
ff. Holt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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