HCA 13/73 f.433r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 433 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2017/11/23 | |
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(hee and severall of them speaking good English) did declare of their
seizeing the sayd shipp Redd Rose and her ladeing was for that shee
had noe papers aboard her declaring to what place shee belonged
and that in case shee had had any such papers aboard her they had
not seized her, soe that the reason of such her seizure by the danes
was occasioned meerely by the sayd Wygaert and drewes and their confederates
their takeing away his papers as aforesayd And further to this article
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 20th article hee saith that the sayd Lemmon and Company by reason
of the seizure of the sayd shipp Redd Rose and her ladeing by the sayd Wigarts
and drewes and their Confederates and in the hurt and preiudice done by them
to the sayd shipp and ladeing and in losse of imployment of the sayd shipp
the syad tyme of her seizure, and in losse of victualls and mariners
wages and in losse of the sayd Lemmons tyme and of his bills of
Exchange and other papers and the losse hee receaved in his shipps provisions
tackle and furniture and ladeing by his seizure by the danish man of
warr and other charges and expenses occasioned thereby (all which
happened by reason of the sayd Wigarts and drewes their first seizing
the sayd shipp and takeing away her papers in manner before
declared) have in this deponents Judgment suffered losse and dammage
to above two thousand pounds sterling And further hee cannot depose./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/.
the marke of the sayd
John Z Johnson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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Examined on the sayd allegation
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John Triggs of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen
Bermondsey aged forty five yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well knoweth
that the arlate Edmond Lemmon, and one Captaine Harman and others
all Englishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth in the moneth
of Aprill and May One thousand sixe hundred fifty nyne were and
at present ought to be the true and lawfull Owners and proprietors
of the arlate shipp the Redd Rose and her tackle apparrell and furniture
and for such then were and still are commonly reputed this hee knoweth
goeing gunner of her the whole voyage in question And further to
this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2: 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that for that
hee was on shoare with the arlate Edmond Lemmon as severall other
of the Redd Rose her company were at Embden geting provisions for
the sayd shipp and takeig order to bring it aboard and about other the necessary
occasions of the sayd shipp at such tyme as the sayd shipp was in the
moneth of May 1659 seized togeather with her ladeing on board her by
the arlate Wigart Wygarts and John Drewes (who are reputed and are
as hee beleeveth subiects of the States of the United Netherlands provinces)
and their confederates) hee cannot of sight and certayne knowledge depose
to the whole manner of the sayd seizure made by them and their actions aboard
her but saith as hee hath credibly heard from Peter Wilkinson the
mate of the sayd shipp and his precontests John Johnson and William Howe
and others who were all aboard her at such her seizure the manner thereof
was thus videlicet the sayd Wygart Wigarts and John Drewes did in the moneth
of May 1659 while the sayd Lemmon and this deponent and severall others of
th
