HCA 13/72 f.398v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 398 |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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Stafford (as hee verily beleeveth) at the tyme of the ladeing there [?hee]
was and still is or ought to be the true Owner and Proprietor of the
sayd seaven pipes of wyne And further to these articles hee cannot depose
for that hee remembreth not the markes of the sayd seaven pipes of wyne./
To the 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd alleagtion hee saith that
hee being supracargo aboard the sayd shipp Mary and Joyce the voyage
in question knoweth that the sayd shipp having received the sayd seaven
pipes pf wine and other her ladeing aboard her, sett sayle therewith from
Oratava bound for London, And in her course thithewards came upon
on or about the thirteenth day of March last 1657
old style with the sayd seeaven pipes of wyne and all other her lading
aboard her seized by two shipps of warr, whereof the arlate Jacob
Bolart was (as it was sayd) Commander of the one of them, and the
arlate John Van Sluce Commander (as it was sayd) of the other of them
and both as they and their companyes gave out and pretended belonging to
Pstend or dunkirke and Commissionated by the King of Spaine for
the seizeing of the shipps and goods of the subiect sof the Commonwealth
of England, which Commanders hee saith with their sayd shipps of
warr did after seizure carrie the sayd shipp and her ladein into
the Groyne in Galisia And the sayd Stafford being then Master and this
deponent Supracargoe the sayd Stafford and this deponent and divers of the Company
of the Mary and Joyce were carried prisones (sic) in the sayd men of warr to the
Groyne, but saith hee sawe not any of the wynes laden aboard the
Mary and Joyce taken out of her and put aboard the Elizabeth
arlate for that after some few dayes stay at the Groyne hee this
deponent and the Master and divers of the Company of the Mary and Joyce
gott passage from the Groyne for ffrance, Yet beleeveth that the sayd
seaven pipes or the greatest part of them togeather with the rest of the
wynes seized aboard the Mary and Joyce or the greatest part of
them were afterwards laden aboard the Elizabeth arlate and shee with
then aboard her seized by some shipp in the service of this Common
wealth and brought into the River of Thames where the wines aboard
her were unladen out of her into Lighters and carried ashoare (and
that as hee beleeveth by rder of this Court) for that after hee came
home to Plymouth from ffrance hee this deponent having [?noticed]
that a shipp with such wines aboard her as were formerly laden
aboard the Mary and Joyce was then there, did goe aboard the sayd
Elizabeth at Plymouth and came in her thence to Gravesend, and
afterwards at her coming into the River of Thames went aboard
her and there sawe in the sayd shipp and the lighters that were unlading
her severall pipes of wyne to the number of seaven or thereabouts
with the severall markes in the second article of the allegation mentioned
and expressed And further to these articles hee cannot depose for that
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