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Transcription

C10

The 18th day of October 1658./ [CENTRE HEADING]

A busines of Examination of Wittnesses o perpetuity}
on behalfe of ffrancis Bellers Richard Glover}
Thomas ffowke and Company Owners of the Constant}
Mary whereof daniell Leister was late Master}
and her tackle furniture and ladeing seized by
a certayne dutch shipp called the Santa Sicillion}
whereof hans Albrechts was Captaine) in}
the service of the States Generall of the United}
Provinces of the Netherlands against the sayd}
hans Albrechts in speciall and all others}
in generall takeing upon them the Justification of}
the sayd seizure Colqueit]

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe
of the sayd ffrancis Bellers Richard
Flover Thomas ffowke and Company

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Arthur Bartlett of Wapping
Mariner aged forty two yeares or
thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate
ffrancis Bellers Richard Glover Thomas ffowke and Company
Merchants of London were in the moneths of March Aprill and May
in the yeare one thousand six hundred fifty fower commonly reputed
to bee the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the shipp the
Constant Mary arlate and of her tackle apparrell and furniture and
provisions, as Alsoe of severall goods wares and Merchandizes
mentioned in the schedule arlate as Bouges striped stuffe India Cloath
Redd cloath powder Musketts Copper rods Manelas Iron strong waters
Brandy and other things of which shipp the alate daniell Leister was
Master the moneths and tyme aforesayd, this hee the better knoweth for
that hee this deponent went Master of a shipp called the Gyant of
London the same voyage from London in Company and consortshipp with
the sayd shipp the Constant Mary both bound for Guinney and sawe
goods and Merchandizes of the severall species aforesayd seized and taken
out of the Constant Mary on the eighth day of the Moneth of May 1654 shee and her ladeing
being then seized by a dutch shipp of warr in manner hereafter declared
this deponents shipp the Gyant being alsoe seized togeather with her ladeing
by the same dutch shipp at the same tyme or within an hower or two
the one of the other and the GYant being first seized and further saving
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./

To the 3: 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith That
the Constant Mary with her provisions and ladeing aforesayd being in
her course from Plymouth for Guinney in Company of this deponents
shipp the Gyant A dutch shipp of warr whereof the arlate hans Albrechts
was Captaine and Commander and who was then (as hee afterwards
confessed) in the service of the States Generall of the United Provinces
did upon the eighth day of May one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower
about twenty leagues off of Cape Saint Vincent arlate meete with
and sett upon and surprize first this deponents shipp the Gyant and her
ladeing and having taken her persued the Constant Mary and about two
howers after seized her alsoe and her sayd ladeing and haveing soe seized
them