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of and marked as aforesayd aboard her and other her ladeing aboard her by
two men of warr Commissionated (as their Captaines Jacob Bolart
and John Van Sluce and their Companyes gave out) by the King of Spaine
for seizing the goods of the sunbiects of the Commonwealth of England
and belonging (as they alsoe sayd) to dunkirke which Captaines hee
saith with their men of Warr carried the sayd shipp Mary and
Joyce with all the pipes of wine predeposed of (marked as aforesayd) on
board her, and all other her ladeing into the Groyne in Galisia and
carried the Master and divers of the Company of the Mary and Joyce
this deponent and William Warren the Supracargo of her prizoners thither
where after some few dayes stay this deponent and the sayd Supracargo
and Master and some of the Company of the Mary and Joyce gott passage
in a dutch shipp to Rochell in ffrance and by that meanes stayd
not at the Groyne till the wines predeposed marked as aforesayd or
any other the wines seized aboard the Mary and Joyce as aforesayd were
taken out of her and laden aboard the Elizabeth arlate, yet saith
hee beleeveth the wines predeposed of marked as aforesayd together
with other wynes s[e]ized aboard the Mary and Joyce as aforesayd were
afterwards taken out of her and laden aboard the Eliza=
beth and shee with them soe laden aboard her seized by some shipp
in the service of the Commonwealth of England and brought
into the River of Thames, for that after her seizure (hee this deponent
being come from Rotchell to London) was aboard the Elizabeth
in the River of Thames and sawe a great many pipes of wyne
aboard her and ladeing out of her into lighters to bee carried
and put into cellars ashoare (and that by order of this Court
as hee beleeveth) and did observe that the sayd pipes of
wyne had then the same markes as the wines laden aboard the
Mary and Joyce at Oratava had at the tyme of their ladeing
there, and goeing afterwards into the Cellars where the sayd
wines were layed and lookeing upon their markes well
remembreth that among them hee sawe two pipes of wine
marked with the first marke in the margent, one marked with
the second marke in the margent, and two marked

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with the third marke in the margent and verily beleevth
them to bee the wynes predeposed of laden as aforesayd at Oratava
aboard the Mary and Joyce for the respective Accompts aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./

Repeated before Collonel Cock

Hugh [XXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 24th day of July 1658 [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation/

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