HCA 13/71 f.435v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 435 |
Side | Verso |
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Jill Wilcox | |
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2012/12/19 | |
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Edited on 31/07/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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man of warr, and that hee lived in fflushing, and otherwise hee cannot
depose.
To the fifth hee saith that the said shipp the Edward and John soe [?belongeth GUTTER]
to the said Greene, Bellamy and company, took was aforesaid from [?this GUTTER]
deponent, and the shipp the Edward and John were lying at [?Wivenell GUTTER]
in Colchester river by the name of the Pilgrim under the command
of a dutch master, and arrested by her authoritie of this Court, was and
is one and the same shipp and not to diverse, which hee knoweth being
aboard her there on wednesday and thursday last was a fortnight, and viewing her and finding
and apparently by many tokens and signes knowing her to be the same
and otherwise hee cannot depose.
john hobson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation.
Rp. 2.
John Goddard of Alborough Sailer, aged 27 yeeres or
thereabouts, sworne and examined.
To the first article hee saith then hee well knoweth the shipp
the Edward and John (nowe called the Pilgrim) arlate and so hath
donne over since hee was built, which was about seven yeeres since
at which time this deponent sawe her building at Alborough
and alsoe well knoweth the producents John Greene and company
arlate, who hee saith were and are her owners, and for such
commonly accounted.
To the second and third articles hee saith and deposeth that about the end
of March last past the said owners set out the said shipp from
Alborough under the conduct of this precontest John Robson her master
on a voyage for Island (sic), whence recives to retourne
to England, and that going to Island (sic) and being in her retourne for
England comming on the coast of Scotland, shee was in or about
the 19th of July last set upon and violently seized and taken
by a certaine man of warr called the Coach, commannded by one
Joseph [?Mervit], who upon the sea took her and her lading
from the said Robson and company who to that instant was in
quiet possession and peaceably sailing her for the said owners use
and the said [?Mervit] put men aboard her and carried her away
and so forcibly and uniustly dispoiled and deprived the said master
and the said owners of her, All which hee knoweth going out from
Alborough as her, and being one of her company, and aboard her
at the time of the said seizure and taken out into the said man
of warr, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that this deponent being brought in the said
man of warr to fflushing, hee sawe a gentleman came there aboard from
the towne, who hee saith was by some of the man of warrs company
said to be living there, and to be owners one of the said owners of
the said shipp the Coach, and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth article hee saith that the said shipp the Edward and John
be taken from the said master and owners of her as aforesayd
and