HCA 13/63 f.291r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/63 |
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Folio | 291 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2016/10/26 |
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12th July 1650 [CENTRE HEADING]
3us
Franciscus Shammon de Wappinge in Comitatus Middlesex Nauta
aetatis 23 annorum aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus.
....hee was one of the company of the shipp the ffortune (Captaine
John Greene commander) at the time of the taking the shipp the
Prince of Amsterdam arlate and llading which was about two monethes subce
and saith that when the said shipp the ffortune came up with her, this
deponent went with the said Captaine Greene aboard her, and had
speech with the arlate Peter Piron, and being together in the masters
cabbin the said Piron confessed and acknowledged to this deponent (who
well speaketh and understandeth ffrench) in the presence of the said Captaine
Greene, that hee had freighted the said shipp the Prince at Teneriffe fir thar
voyage, and that hee had a good quantitie of goods aboard her for
his owne accompt, and that hee was Cape merchant of her and that
all her lading was in his power, saving a parcell of sweete wood
that was for an English mans accompt, and further acknowledged that
hee was a ffrench man borne at St Malo's, and that his father
and mother were there livinge and were subiects of the kinge of
ffrance, And for a ffrenchman, borne in the Dominion of
the fffrench kinge and under his subiection, hee the said Piron
was and is commonly accompted repputed and taken, Et alr nescit
deponere salvis subscriptis.
...hee us by Religion a Protestant
and taketh himselfe bound to speake the truth upon an oath taken upon the
Evangelists or testament, and holdeth that the Pope nor any other can
therein dispense with him, and knoweth not what it is to sweare on the
crosse.
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