HCA 13/73 f.485r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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Folio | 485 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2015/02/08 |
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shee yeelded, after the frigot had made two shotts towards he. And
further hee cannot depose as hee saith.
To the Interrogatories in the second place. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith there was a good quantitie of
moneys in peeces of eight aboard the said shipp at the time of the said
seizure in the coffers of the Captaine, passengers and mariners, amounting
together to the summe or number of tenn or twelve thousand peeces of eight
as the same was commonly said and reckoned to be by the passengers and
persons that were aboard and had the same in their keeping before the
seizure, and that the said money was in the said coffers above decks,
and that besides the same in the Captaines cabben and otherwise, there was other money in a chest which the
Captaine had betweene decks, into which this deponent saw him now and then put
a bagge of money, but the quantitie that was therein hee saith hee
knoweth not, And further hee saith hee cannot depose, saving that
for the said moneys above decks, hee saith hee saw
severall of the coffers (therein the same was) opened and the moneys in them.
To the second hee saith hee was presently upon the seizure taken out
of the Peahen into the frigot the Nightingale commannded by the
said Captaine lightfoot, and that being soe in the
Nightingale this deponent was thirtie five dayes or thereabouts
in company of the said vessell the Peahen, and at the end of the said
space comming neere the coast of Ireland they the said shipps lost each other in the night
by fowle weather. And further deposeth not saving what followeth.
To the third hee saith hee saw the mariners of the Nightingale upon their
entring the Peahen breake open severall namely
six or eight or thereabouts of the said chests and take moneys thereout, before
this deponent was turned out of her into the frigot, but the names
of any of those mariners, or other person that tooke any of the
said moneys jee saith hee knoweth not, nor knoweth to whose hands
it came, hee being soe suddanily turned out, and not having seene
the said vessell the Peahen since her being separated by night and
storme from the Nightingale. And further cannot answer.
To the last hee saith hee cannot answer thereto otherwise then as aforesaud
p?XXX Notary Publicus] Interpreter. [LH SIDE]
[?Xedro ?Mige] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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