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Transcription

The 27 of November 1656/

De Vinck and Company against the shipp the strong}
Rowland now called the Jamaica Merchant}
and her tackle and furniture and against}
Martyn Noell and Company comming in for}
their interest : Budd Francklin}

Examined on an allegation on the
behalfe of the sayd Martyn Noell
and Alderman Tems and Company./

Rp. EA 2us

William Poole of the Burrough of Southwarke
Mariner aged thirty yeares or therabouts a
wittnes sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that
for severall yeares last past all forraigners not subjects of this
Commonwealth have bin prohibited all trade and commerce
with the Inhabitants of the Iland of the Barbados without
speciall licence first obteyned from this Commonwealth soe
to trade there but for more certaynetie referreth him selfe
to the lawes Statutes and ordinances arlate And further
to this article hee cannot depose/.

To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this
deponent was one of the Company of the Swift Sure a shipp
in the Imediate service of this Commonwealth and in her arrivall
about the latter end January 1654 English style at the Island
of the Barbados And saith that at the sayd shipps comming thither with the rest of the States ffleete
the Strong Rowland alias the Jamaica Merchant arlate a dutch shipp and some other dutch
shipps were then at the Barbados tradeing and trafiquing with
the Inhabitants there for sugars and other Commodities which the sayd
Iland afforded and saith that soone after the arrivall of the Swift
Sure aforesayd the sayd shipp the Strong Rowland and the other
dutch shipps were by order of the honorable the Comissioners
for the mannageing of affaires in America seized upon with such
ladeing as they had on board them, and all other goods whatsoever
by them brought thither to trade with, in Whose hands soever they
were found on off shoare And hee this being deponent being by
order of the sayd Commissioners imployed to goe on board the
sayd shipp Strong Rowland and the other shipps soe seized to take
an Inventory of their tackles furnitures and ladeings on
board them hee this deponent did accordingly performe the same
and coming aboard the strong Rowland aforesayd found that shee
had in hold in casks great and smale as hogsheads butts and barrells
about two hundred caske of Muscovadoe sugar and other goods
to the quantitie of a third part of her ladeing of which goods
some