HCA 13/73 f.519r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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Folio | 519 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2014/06/04 |
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A.3.
The 23th. of June 1660./: [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Captaine George}
[GUTTER XXXdall] COMANDER OF THE}
[GUTTER ?henrietta] Maria against Captaine William}
[GUTTER XXX] and Company/ ffrancklin}
Examined upon Interrogatories given in by
Mr ffrancklin on behalfe of the said
Captaine Dowdall./
Rp. j.us
Phillip Mansell of Swanzey
Merchant aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts
sworne and Examined./:
To the first Interrogatories hee saith hee well knoweth the ffrigot
Interrate called the Henryetta Maria whereof George
Dowdall was Captaine, and soe hath Done ever since the 9.th
of May last, and saith she is of about thirty Tonns burthen.
To the second hee saith that in the Roade of Mumbles neere
Swanzey in the said moneth of May last hee this Deponent on
board the said ffrigot the Henrietta Maria severall times
sawe and Read a Comission granted to the said Captaine
Dowdall by His Royall Highnes James Duke of Yorke
Lord High Admirall of England and Ireland et cetera to
take Apprehend and possesse, and in case of Resistance
to sinke fire or otherwise destroye all shipps or vessells. belonging
to any place in the Dominions of his sacred
Majesty Charles the 2d. belonging to any person in actuall
rebellion against his Majesty, or to that effect. and this Deponent having
now seene and totally read over the first schedule annexed and memo
in the said 3d. Interrogatorie. hee saith that to the best of this Deponents
remembrance, and as hee verily beleeveth the said schedule
is a true Copy of the said Commission granted to the said Dowd[?all GUTTER]
by his said Royall Highnes, And the Originall Comission
was taken away by some of Captaine Barkers men of the
Seizure hereafter mentioned And further cannot depose
To the 4th, and 5th. hee saith that on the Eighth of May last the
said Captaine Dowdall with his said ffrigot, together with about
three vessells which hee had taken by vertue of the said Comission
did arrive in the Roade of Mumbles. where this Deponent the next
day sawe them. and went onboard the ffrigot. which was before the
Proclaiming of his sacred Majesty in those parts, and saith that
on the 11th. of May last the Proclamation of his sacred Majesty
coming to Swanzey, Colonel ffreeman the Governour of Cardiffe
Castle, who was then at Swanzey went onboard the said Captaine
Dowdall ffrigott, this Deponent going with him on board. And the
said ffreeman in this Deponents presence and hearing, did read the
said Proclamation upon the Deck of he said ffrigot, in the
Presence of the said Captaine Dowdall and his Company, which
expresst very much Joy thereat and fired severall Gunns in Testimony [?therat GUTTER]
(And