HCA 13/68 f.328r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/68 |
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| Folio | 328 |
| Side | Recto |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| Edited on 01/10/2018 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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H.H.H.
The fifth of December 1653
Moses Goodyeare against the shipp the}
Pidgeon (whereof William Hassan}
is pretended Master) as belonging to}
himselfe and against the sayde}
Hazan and all so against John Giles}
comeing in for his Interest. Smith}
ffrancklin Allen}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of
the sayd John Giles
Rp EA
Thomas Wethers of Wapping in the
County of Middlesex Mariner Master of the shipp
James of London aged 30 yeares or thereabouts
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth
and saith as followeth videlicet./
To the 1. 2. 3 and 4th Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that being
att the port of Puenta Demas in Gallicia within the Dominions of the
King of Spayne about the latter end of december and beginning of
January 1648. he then and there saw the arlate shipp then called the
John Adventure (and since as it seemes called by some Hopewell, by others
the Pidgeon.) lye in the sayd port in the quiet and peaceable
possession of the arlate Samuel Travis the then Owner thereof
who on or about the seventh day of the sayd month of January for
the somme of two hundred and forty pounds sterling sold alienated
and made over the sayd shipp tackle and furniture to the foresayd
John Giles party in this Cause, by a Bill of sale
which moneyes this deponent saw payd by the sayd Giles to the sayd
Travis, and the sayd Bill thereupon signed sealed and delivered
by the sayd Travis to the sayd Giles for the sayd shipp. And saith that the
schedule to the sayd allegation annexed and now shewne to him this Examinat
was and is the sayd very originall Bill of sale, and the Contents
thereof were and are true and the same [?and] was really signed sealed
and delivered by the sayd Frowy or his Act and deed to the sayd Giles in the presence of this
deponent and others whose names are subscribed as witnesses att the
foot thereof,
and saith he saw the sayd Travis putt the sayd Giles into the
quiet and actuall possession of the sayd shipp. And further saith that
the sayd shipp in the sayd bill of sale and att the tyme of making thereof
called and knowne by the name of the John Adventure, and the shipp
Hopewell or Pidgeon now in Controversy aboard which this deponent
hath lately bene in this River of Thames was and is one and the the same
shipp and not diverse. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the fifth sixth and seventh Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent
saith that the sayd John Giles having bought the sayd shipp and her tackle
and furniture as aforesayd continued in the quiet possession of her till
about the latter end of the summer 1651. about which tyme this deponent
happening to be att Brest in ffrance saw the sayd shipp there arrive and
John Giles in her as Master, who then acquainted this deponent that he was
driven in thither by a Turkes man of warr. And saith the sayd John Giles
of this deponents sight was in the quiet possession of the sayd shipp att rest
aforesayd for some tyme, and that soone after he saw the sayd shipp with her lading violently taken
out of his possession by the Governour of Brest but upon what ground hee
knoweth not, and saw the sayd Giles himselfe and shipps Companie
violently seized on and imprisoned by the sayd Governour, but how longe they
were so deteyned knoweth not. And beleiveth from that tyme to this present in the
sayd shipp hath bene kept out of the quiet possession of the sayd John Giles. And further
he cannot depose.
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