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To the first hee saith hee hath knowne the said Dennis Bovret
for about six Yeeeres last, and beleebth hee was borne in fflanders
and is (as this Deponent alsoe beleeveth) a Subject of the King of
Spaine:/:

To the second hee saith hee was not present when the said ketch
was Condemned at Ostend or ordered to be sold, but did as aforesaid
take out and exactly compare the schedule Interrate with
the Originall thereof remaining in the registry of the Admiralty
Court at Ostend./.

To the 3d hee saith hee was not present when the said ketch was
sold to the said Dennis Bovrell, or when hee sold her to the producent
neither was hee a witnes to the Bill of sale, but Saw the said
LaBatt as aforesaid pay 800 Livers to the said Bovrell in or about
June or July last 1659: which was for the said ketch as this deponent
verily beleeveth./.

L francis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 22th of March 1659: [CENTRE HEADING]

Touching the Peahen.}

Examined upon the foresaid Interrogatories.

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Pero Michel of Marseilla in ffrance Mariner, aged 32 yeares
or thereabouts sworne and examined.

Tio the first Interrogatorie hee answereth and deposeth That hee
well knoweth the shipp the Pava or Peahen Interrogated and hath
soe donne for theise three yeares last during which space hee hath bin
boatswaine of her, and saith that shee belongeth to Saint Lucars in Spaine
and is built of the Timber of Campecha in the West Indies, and that
don ffrancis da Morales her Captaine was and is her sole owner
and is a Spaniard native and Inhabitant of Saint Lucars and a
subiect of the king of Spaine, in whose dominion Saint Lucars is situat.

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said
shipp began her outwards voyage from Saint Lucars and Cadiz, and
tooke in at Saint Lucars about a thousand arobes of wine, foure hundred
measures (not knowing the quantitie of each measure) of aqua vitae,
and three hundred arobes of oile, and thence falling downe to Cadiz, and
shee there tooke in ffrench linnens and English cloth stuffs and other
English commodities, all to be transported to the west Indies to be
there landed at such port and places as they could finde the best market at,
and saith shee departed from Cadiz about a yeere since, and because the
ffrench and English commodities were contrabanda in the
Spanish West Indies, upon the arivall of the said vessell neere Cartagena
shee there dischardged part of the said English and ffrench
commodities privately, unknowne to the Magistrate, and with the rest
of her lading shee (touching by the way at Porto velo where shee did dischardge [?XXXX] proceeded to havanna and there dischardged the same, and
saith the whole cargo was (as hee understood) committed to the disposall of
her said Captaine, but to whom it was delivered this deponent did
not as hee saith take notice.

To the third hee saith that last before her seizure the said shipp came
from the said port of havanna, where hee saith shee tooke in all her
lading which was aboard at the time of her seizure, which seizure happened
about three monethes since neare the Canarie Ilands [?where] shee was
seized