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there were present the Mayor of Swanzey and severall
of the Aldermen and persons of good quality living at
Swanzey or neere thereabouts.

Ad 3um dicit that the said Captaine Dowdall and Company
did not take or seize any ships or vessells whatsoever after
the Eighth day of may last nor upon that day to this deponents
best remembrance./

Ad 4um dicit that there were at the time of the said seizure
two Masters of two barques which the said Dowdall had taken about
Eight dayes before the said Proclamation, which said Masters
were soe kept by the said Dowdall in regard the said Barques
were discharged, and they had agreed to pay some moneyes
for them, and upon the said seizure of the sayd ffrigot thy
were turned ashore as the said Dowdalls Company were
but their names hee remembreth not./.

Ad 5. 6. et 7 respondet that the said Captaine Barker and
Company came with the said Titchfeild ffrigot into Swanzey
Roade (where the Henrietta Marya lay) with the English Colours
flying, and the Company which were then onboard the
henrietta Maria (the Captaine and about tenn more being ashore)
not knowing what shee might be, cut their cable and sailed
upp to the Towne and there cast Anchor, but the Litchfeild followed
her and firing at her her company to avoid seizure sailed
about a mile higher in the River where shee was seized as
aforesaid, And saith that some of the said Barkers men said
that the said Barker had a Commission from the Parliament
and this deponent beleeveth hee had soe, And saith that what
money and plunder was seized in the said ship was before
the said Eighth of May last taken from English ships and
vessells, the money being given for the redemption of them.

Ad 8um respondet that hee referrs himselfe to the Act Interrate.

Ad 9. dicit that hee doth not knowe what hee is worth/.

Ad 10 dicit that hee expecteth to receive what he lost by the said
seizure, or satisfaction for the same, if the said Dowdall prevailed
herein, But expecteth nothing else./

Ad ult[?XXXdit] causa [?Scientiae] sua ut supra:/

Repetit coram Doctor Zouch:/

Christiannus = Tepffer [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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eodem die. [CENTRE HEADING]

Sup lilo predict Examinatus./

Rp. (2dus.

Owen Sullevane de Munster in Ireland
Gener annos agens 27 aut eo circiter productus et
Juratus.

Ad ja. et 2a. positiones dicti Libelli dicit et deponit, That hee
well knoweth the ffrigott henrietta Maria for about Nine monethes
before shee was seized by Captaine Barker as hereafter is mentioned
(of