HCA 13/71 f.319r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 319 |
| Side | Recto |
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| Philip Hnatkovich | |
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| Edited on 31/07/2014 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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knoweth that the arlate Shipp the Princes an English shipp belonging to
this Port of London and whereof William Osgodby was Master (by reason of
a warr broken out betweene this Commonwealth and the Kinge of Spaine) was
upon the last day of August 1655 seized upon with such ladeing as was
then on board her in Mallega Roade and carried into a place called the
Mole at Mallega by the Kinge of Spaines Subiects and there lost and
Confiscated by reason of the warr then being betwixt England and Spaine
this hee knoweth being then Supracargo on board the sayd shipp the
Princes and seeing her soe carried into the Mole and confiscated as
aforesayd and also saith hee sawe another shipp English shipp called the Anne and
Joyce Captaine Piles Commander endeavoured to bee seized by the sayd
Kinge of Spaines subiects, but her company by cutting her cable and
presently hoyseing sayle gott out of Mallega Roade and escaped being seized,
And hee saith that about a weeke or a fortnight after the sayd last of August an other English
shipp belonging to Bristoll (whose name hee knoweth not) was by reason of
the sayd warr betwixt Spaine and England seized by two Spanish men
of Warr and carried into Gibralter in the King of Spaines dominions
(as hee this deponent
was credibly informed by John Meade and others who were passengers
(as they affirmed) in the sayd shipp when shee was soe taken by the sayd
Spanish men of warr) And further hee cannot depose./
Upon all the rest of the articles of the sayd allegation hee is not
examined by direction of Master Browneing the producent./
Repeated before Colonel Cock
Thomas Bordfeild [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation./
Rp. 3us
Thomas Bargrave of Wapping in the parish of Saint
Mary Mathfellon alias Whitechappell Mariner aged thirty
sixe yeares or thereaboutes a wittnes sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the 8th 9th and 10th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that
in the moneth of October 1655 hee being Master of a shipp called the
ffreindshipp of London was chased at Sea by certaine ffrench men of
warr, and to avoide being taken by them put into Lisbone in Portugall
and neere the Rock of Lisbone mett an English ffrigett then in
service of this Commonwealth called the Bristow ffrigott (Captaine
Clarke Commander) which Captaine Clarke hoysed out his boate
and sent his Lieutennant theirin on board this deponent to advertise
him that hee this deponent being an Englishman and his shipp belonging
to England it was not safe for him to goe to any port of Spaine for
that there was then a warr broken forth betwixt England and Spaine
and this deponent told the sayd Lieutennant that hee was bound for
Pharoe in Portugall whereto the Lieutennant replyed that it was not safe
for this deponent to goe thither by Cape Saint Vincent for that divers Spanish
men of warr laye off the sayd Cape to surprize what English shipps
they
