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as alsoe ginger, and the said shipp, goods and sloop being by the said frigot
carried to Saint Christopher and there confiscated by the Engish Commissioners for
trading in America contrary to the foresaid act of Parliament, the said
boatswaine told this deponent that hee had two or three cases of brandiewine
aboard for his owne account, and requested this deponent to be a meanes to
help him to them againe, and confessed the rest of the said shipps lading
to be prize to the English, the premisses hee knoweth and
deposeth being then a Midshipp man of the said frigot and being and
hearing the same soe donne and spoken, and otherwise hee cannot depose.

Repeated with his precontest before Doctor Godolphin

Andrew Hemerson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The fourth of November 1656

Examined upon the said allegation

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Roland Bevans of the parish of Saint Dunstans in the
West London Mariner, aged 31 yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined

To the first article hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth
the shipp the Golden Parrat (otherwise called the Golden Poppegay)
arlate, and saith shee was a forraigne shipp, and belonging to
united Provinces at the time of her seizure hereafter mentioned, and
not to any of the sujecte of this Commonwealth, and her master
and company were alsoe forainers, and as such the said
shipp, master and company were commonly accounted and reputed
yielding a reason of his knowledge as followeth.

To the second he referreth himselfe to the Act of Parliament
arlate, and otherwise cannot depose.

To the third, 4th, 5th and 6th articles hee saith and deposeth
that on or about the twelveth day of ffebruary in the yeere 1654
(according to the English computation) Captaine John Clarke commander
of the Selby frigat and company in the immediate service of this
Commonwealth riding with the said frigot at anchor with at
Mountserrat and espying a sloop at sea in the offing, the said Captaine
sent out his precontest John Warner and others in the shipp said
frigots boate or pinnace to speake with the said sloope and see what
she was, when finding her to be dutch brought her in to the
frigot, and there brought her to an anchor some of the sloops
company being brought aboard the frigot this deponent master
of her said frigot and upon their examination heard them say and
acknowledge, that they were belonging to the shipp the Golden
Parrot with arlate, and then they were going to the English
plantation in Mountserrat to receive some goods which one of their
merchant had there bought for goods which they had there sold, and
with them next day, the said frigot company espying a shipp
in the offing, weighed and stood off to her, and calling her and
demanding where shee was and whither bound answered made
from on board her, that shee was of fflushing and was then bound
for Mountserrat, where upon the said Captaine Clarke commanded
the