HCA 13/73 f.507v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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Folio | 507 |
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The first day of May 1660./.
A Busines of Examination of witnesses on behalfe}
of John Anderson, Ninian Anderson and}
Company owners of the Golden Cock}
Robert Thomson Master, and her Lading against}
Morgan Jones. Comander of the Charles.}
Smith. Suckley./.
Examined upon an Allegation
given in on the behalfe of
the said John Anderson
Ninian Anderson and
Company::/::
Rp. jus.
Henry hart of ffalkirke [?neere ?Glascoe GUTTER]
in Scotland Mariner aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts
sworne and Examined./:
To the first article hee saith that for and during all the monethes
of July August September October November December and January last the arlate John Anderson senior Ninian Anderson and
James Kerr (all well knowne to this deponent) being all Merchants of
Glascoe, and Subjects of this Comonwealth were (as this Deponent verily beleeveth) and alsoe [?att GUTTER]
this Present are the true and Lawfull Owners and
Proprietors of the arlate ship the Golden Cock whereof
Robert Thomson was and is Master and for Owners they were and are Comonly accounted
And the said Anderson and Kerr have seriously told this Deponent that [?they GUTTER]
bought the said ship at Rotterdam, and they of this Deponents knowledge
paid the Customs for the Bulke of the said ship at [?Glascoe GUTTER]
and made the said Thomson Master of her, in the
moneth of September, last, And further cannot depose.
To the second and third. hee saith that in the said moneth of
September last, the said Owners of the said ship. did provide and
cause to be Laden onboard the said ship Golden Cock at Glascoe
in Scotland a cargoe of Herrings Butter and Tallowe to be
transported in the said ship to Bourdeaux in ffrance, upon
their Account, and there to be delivered to their ffactor who was
to Lade wines on board the said ship upon their Account in
proceed of the said outward Cargoe, and the
said wines was to be brought in the said ship to Glascowe, and saith that the said ship having
received the said outward Lading onboard departed and
set saile with the same, and on the 6th of October last in her
Course for Bourdeaux shee and her said Lading upon the high and open Sea were in
a hostile and Piraticall manner seized by a ship called the
Charls whereof one William Browne (who was her Lietenant)
was then Comander her Captaine (called Morgan Jones)
being left ashore, The Premisses hee deposeth being with the [??said GUTTER]
ship the Hope whereof hee was Master) at Glascowe [XXX] by the Golden Starr all the time And said [XXX GUTTER]
was taking in her said outward Lading, and being the same [XXX GUTTER]
put on board her, and sawe the said Owners often come on board the
said ship, and give order to the said Thomson touching the
said Lading, and sailed from Glascoe in Company of the said
ship Cock and was taken the same time and by the same
ship. that the Cock was, And further cannot depose.
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