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Case: The Jonathan and Abigail vs. Daniel Edwards; Deposition: Thomas Andrews, of Wapping, in the parish of White Chappell

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16:o Aug:ti 1666
Super allon apud acta ex parte
drorum Brandling et alXX

THOMAS ANDREWS de Wapping in parro
S:ta Marice Matsellon als White Chappell
annos agens 42 aut XXXXXXXX
testis produit et Juratus.

Ad dictam allegacconem deponit et dictit thathee hath for severall
yeers last knowne the allegate shipp Jonathan and Abigaill Thomas
Morley Master. And saith that hee hath bin informed by the said
Morley and the Merchants the ffreighters that the said Charles
Caryll on behalfe of himselfe and Company tooke to ffreighte
the said shipp Jonathan and Abigall (sic) two hundred and fourty tonnes
certaine to the best of his remembrance to goe from this port of
London to Archangels in Russia thence back againe to this port of
London with such goods as the said Caryll and therest of y:e ffreighters
should send aboard, and the said ffreighters as appeares by the said
Charterparty were to pay for ffreight at the rate of 6:li 10:s per tonne
primage and average XXXXX And saith that about the time of the said affreightment there was
a generall Embargo upon all English shipps and a generall Imprsse for
all seamen in the publiqe service, and the sd Caryll taking notice
thereof this deponent heard him promise to procure a lycense for
the sd shipp and a proteccon for her mariners from these Imprests
And not long after the said promise hee saith the sd Caryll gave by the
hands of this deponent to the sd Morley a paper or writing which hee
procured upon the sd voyage as also a protection for the security
of y:e marriners from the sd Impresse. And the sd Morley having
soe received the same ffitted and prepared the said shipp for the sd
voyage had Expended as hee verlily beleeveth in the calking, graveing
rigging and fitting her out clearing at y:e Custome house and at
Gravesend neere one hundred pounds y:e whole charge amounting ?to 400:li to sett her to sea and did hire mariners to saile
and serve in the said shipp, the whole company with the M:r and boy
consisting of 34 or 36 persons and provided and furnished the said shipp with
provisions necessary for the said voyage for the space of foure or five monthes. And the sd shipp being ready the said Merchants sent
severall goods on board to bee carryed in her the sd voyage but
he beleeveth that the sd Merchants were not bound to send any goods
aboard but the said shipp might have gon in her ballast thither
And the said ship lying windbound in Bugbyes hole being ready
to proceede upon the sd voyage the sd Morley in this deponents
hearing advised the sd Caryll and Bell two of his said ffreighters to goe
downe to y:e Generalls of y:e ffleet then riding at the buoy in the XXXX
and to carry with them y:e said passe or oroteccon as they affirmed it
to bee and show it to y:e Generalls and know of them whether by XXXX
thereof they might proceed upon their said voyage. Howbeit the sd
Caryl and Bell refused ffor to doe and with the other ffreighters importuned

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importuned and urged the sd Morley to goe downe with his shipp
which hee accordingly did with the first faire wind the sd Carryll
and Berry two of y:e said ffreighters going downe in the sd Morley's shipp
and Bell and Thirsby in this depots shipp which shipp was also ffreighted
by the sd Carll and Company for the sd voyage and was to goe in ?Company
with the Jonathan and Abigall. And comming into the Buoy and the XXX
the Generalls commanded the sd Morley and this depots shipp to an Anchor
and sent for the merchants and the said Morley and this depot who
accordingly comming aboard Captaine Hobart Capt of Royall Charles
told the said Morley and this depot that y:e Prince and the Duke would
see their proteccons, And the s:d Morley and this depo:t accordingly
gave him the very same papers that Mr Caryll had before
given them which they had affirmed to be the lycense and protteccon aforesd. and after
saying that the Generalls had seene the, And saith that about the
same time y:e Generalls under theor hands sent an order to the sd Capt:
Hobart to empresse, and the sd Hobart or some employee under him did by
virtue of the sd Warrant impresse all y:e seamen saving fifteene men to bring the
shipp back into the river of Thames. And much about that time
the sd Capt Hobart and the Lieutenant of y:e Royall Charles told
this Deponent and y:e sd Morley that had the Merchants come downe before the
shipps and addrest themselves to y:e Generalls, they beleived the Generalls
would have suffered them to have proceeded on their sd voyage
with their full number of men and not have imprest them.
The premisses hee deposeth and knoweth to bee true Having seene
y:e Charterparty, and to his best remembrance seing the same
signed. And ffor that this depo:t lett his shipp to ffreight to the said
Caryll and Company and was bound to goe the same voyage
and being an eye and Earewitnesse of the premisses and
acquainted therewith. And the merchts hee saith were also aboard
and were eye and eare witnesses of y:e premisses namely of the Impresse
of the men and sending the sd shipps back againe into the river
of Thames whereof she came to an Anchor at Ratcliffe ?Chaine on or about the 30:th
or 31:th of June last past, Rtalr nescit deponere.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rendit that hee was the time Interr and now is M:r
if y:e ship the Owen and David and is owner of an Eigth part
of her Etalr nescit.

Ad 2:th deponit that hee XXX and appeares in this busienes on the
behalfe of his owners being as M:r of y:e said shipp ?aferX:t to them and ?perceiving XXX
of them which is XXX about six pounds y:e month. And this XXXXX XX y:e
only person signing y:e Charterparty for letting the said shipp the Owen
and David to ffreight to the sd Merchants parties in this suite on behalfe
of himselfe and the rest of y:e said owners, Whose names and parts
in theOwen and David are as followeth vizt John Sands owner of
an 8:th John Harris of a 16:th, Edward ffenn of a 16:th Walter Hampton and
M:r ?Hanning 16:th Thomas Hancock 16:th John ?Asty 16:th M:r ?Walter
?Wild a 16:th John ?Chaston 16:th David Sidney a 16:th Thomas
Davies 16_th Richard Adams 16:th this depo;t an 8:th And knoweth
not Who are the owners of y:e Jonathan and Abigaill saving he
hath heard M:r Morley say that M:r Brandling and M:r Hoopers are

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parties in this suite are two of his owners but of what parts hee knoweth not nor
hath heard Aalis nescit rendere.

Ad 4 et 5 deponit that at the time or times of treating for y:e ffreighters
of the sd shipps Jonathan and Abigail (sic) Owen and David this depot and the
sd Morley knew that there was a generall Imbargoe upon all English
shipps and a generall impresse for all seamen. And saith this depot
agreed with the sd caryll that hee and or the rest of said ffreighters should
procure a lycense and proteccon for the sd shipps and mens the said voyage
and they bringing the papers predeposed being as the sd Carykk
alwayes affirmed a lycense and proteccon, this deponent then signed the Charterparty and not before, And he beleeveth
and is well assured that the sd Morley did the like.

And saith the
saidproteccons were signed (James) and the Anchor (a Seale)
was put to the topps or heads of them. And this deponent saith
that had the said proteccons bin sufficient (which this depot
and the sd Morley never beleeved they were in regard the sd
Caryll would not procure them a lycense to ?neere y:e Kings XXXX
the Generalls would not have impeded the voyage by the impresse
of their men and ordering the said shipps back againe to this
River, And the sd passes or papers are in the hands of M:r Sukly
the Procter. A alr referendese ad predeposta nescit XX

Ad 6 et 8 rendit that the sd Caryll. Bell, Perry and Thirsby and XXXXXX y:e sd ?Caryll did at
Greenewich and London after the obtaining the sd passe and
before and after the sealing of y:e Charterparty Interr declare
and affirme that the sd lycence and proteccon. would cleare
them from being hindered or molested in their said voyage. And the
said ffreighters nor any of them did not promisse to pay the
Charges of fitting and preparing, or of victualling the said shipp.
or to pay the mariners wages in case the said shipps or any
of them should bee stopped or hindered in their said voyage. Et
alr nescit rendere.

Ad 8 et 9 rendit that the Owen and David os of y:e burthen
of about 200 tonns or thereabouts the Jonathan and Abigail
about 250 tonnes and this deponents freight for this voyage
would have amounted to 1200:li or thereabouts and the ffreight
y:e Jonathan and Abigail about 1500:li as hee beleeveth. And saith
that y:e voyage in question is usually made in five or
six monthes, And saith that the sd ship Owen and David cost this depot
about ?1800Li sterln and hee bought her before this voyage namely about about twelve moneths time. And saith
the said shipps Owen and David and the Jonathan and Abigail
had not bin fitt for the voyage in question unles they had
bin reparied and fitted in the same Conditon she went downe
int to the buoy and Nore. But as to the particular repaires and summes
of money expended he saith they are entred and mencconed
in his ship booke which booke he shall be ready to produce for
y:e informacon of Court when required thereto. And the Jonath
and Abigall with her tackle apparrell and furniture hee judgeth

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to bee worth 1400:li or 1600:li sterling And saith the said shipps
if either of them goe upon another voyage must bee ?new
caulked rigged and graved, snd severall other things done
which are wanting and will bee but necessary. Aalr nescit
renera.

Ad 10 rendet that in the time of peace three pounds
five shillings have bin usually paid per tonne. And soe much
this depo:t hath had per tonne having bin severall
times the voyage Interr. But are not then at halfe the
Charges for wages as they are now at. Hee remembreth
not what hee made the last voyage with his shipp which
voyage Was about two yeers since. Etalr nescit rendera

Ad 11. 12. et 13 rendit That he is to beare and Eigth part of
the whole shipps Charges being the owner as aforesaid of an
8:th . And saith that hee is to pay and hath paid for marriners
wages fitting and setting out the sd shipp Owen and David ?according
to the Note thereof which hee now leaves. And he also
leaveth a Note of the quantities qualities and prices of the provisions
of the said ship and what were spent by y:e shipps company to which
herefforth himselfe having compared them with his said  ?note
and made them to agree in every particuler. And saith hee
had an adventure consisting of woolen Manufactury, stuffes,
and other goods. but the perticulers and quantities he now remembreth
not but saith the same may beknowne by his cockets remaining
in the Custome house. some part of his Adventure yet on board
and some on shore, and denieth that ever hee
since the sd shipps returne ever proffered to sell any of his clothes
or other part of his Adventure for losse or otherwayes and did
suffer dammage as hee is an Eigth part of the sd shipp Et
alr nescit rendere neiscit quid credat.

Ad 14 renat that he beleeveth the goods mencconed in the
bills of lading were lading on board the ship the Jonathan
and Abigail Interr and knoweth the firme of Thomas
Morley thereto to bee of his the sd Thomas his
handwriting And saith hee hath heard M:r Richard Perry
and some others of y:e ffreighters acknowledge that they
had received all their goods from on board the Jonathan
and Abigail according to the bill of lading And as to the severall
parcells of goods and quantities and qualities laden aboard the Owen and David hee
refereth himselfe to the Bills of lading signed by him upon
the receipt of those goods contents and Qualities not knowne
all which are returned againe to the sd ffdreighters save
100 slabbs of lead Which lieth yet on board at the
request of M:r Daniell Edwards etalr nescit.

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Ad 15 Rendit that M:r Suckly has y:e order Interr and
has a copy now about him. there is mot any command
therein to pay y:e mariners wagaes. Et alr salvis prodepstis
nescite deponets

Ad 16 et 17 rendat that some of his mariners were hired
by the voyage others by the month, and one with another hee
reconeth their wages to bee about fifty shill a man per month.
And saith that two or three of his said men were hyred
about a weeke or tenn dayes before the sd shipps Went out from
Bugbys hole, In time of peace hee saith it is usuall to hire men
at Halfe pay in the River of Thames, until their falling
downe to Gravesend and untill they shall bee cleared there.
There was noe ffreight to bee paid according to y:e Charter
party untill the shipps returne. Onely primage and Average
at the delivery of y:e Goods at Archangell. Et alr nescit

Ad 18 rend:t that this depo:t and the said Morley advised the ffreighters
of some or one of them to goe to the ffleete as is Interr. andproffered to beare their Charges up and downe. And saith that M:r
Caryll and Bell came to London but whether they tooke
any Advice of merch:ts about that busienes hee knoweth not.
Et Alr nescit

Ad 19. 20 et 21. Rendat that these two sutes in his Judgmt are one
and the same, and the Charterparties are thesame saving the shipps
names y:e owners the burthen of y:e shipp the Masters names, number
of men. And hee beleeveth the determinacon. will bee one
and the same, M:r Suckly is proctor. S:r W:m Turner S:r Walter
Walker are Counsell for this depots owners. Morley is Examined on this
deponents owners behalfe, and this deponent on the sd Morleys hath
not had Communicaccon with any about this busienes, or his disposition
herein: Before this suite was commenced this depot on behalfe of his
owners proffessed to and would have left the decision of this busienes
to the award of any unconcerned merchts: the owners hee saith are
not to pay any thing to the ffreighters as to any losse or dammage
in regard as hee saith these ffreighters were not bound to lade any
goods on board, and also for that they failed in their lycense and
proteccon. And these Caryll and Edwards hee saith many times
declared to this dep:t and the s:d Morley that they had bought
the hreatest part of y:e goods the yeare before and could not
shipp them of that yeare. As to the ffreight and damages
sued for by this suite he referreth them to the determinaccon
of y:e law: And saith that hee beleeveth that he came from the buoy in the
Nore in three or ffowre days space. to Ratcliffe Chaine. And saith the sd
ffreighters neversent a boate or bills of lading to take away their said
goods untill they were by order from this Court summoned to appeare
and show cause why they would not ffetch away their goods &
pay this depot and his owners their Charges. And M:r thirsby he saith
XXX:t before y:e sd processe was issued out said that the shipp was a
good warehouse for their goods. Etalr nescit

THOMAS ANDREWS [His signature]

Repetit coram dre
lloyd. SaXX XXXX Edwardo Browne not. pubb.

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Case: Rex vs. the St Peter, of which Rasmas was master: Deposition: Sven Rasmusond, XXXX, of Sweden

P1090924
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Dmus M:r Rex con Navem y:e S:t Peter)
suon Rasmas est magister)

XXXX XXXX$$Sug Interriys in proppario XXXXXX

I:us SVEN RASMUSOND Master (and in SuoXia Navarchus dicte
navis annos agens 50:ta ant XX rirter testis producent et JuruXXX
dicit et deponit proXtxxx

Ad j:n 2 et reliqua Interria deponit that hee will knoweth the
Interr shipp S:t Peter, and hath sailed in and bin M:r of her for
one yeere last past, during all which time she hath
belonged to Masterland in Sweden, and to subjects of the said King,
And saith his owners and their parts are as followeth viz:t. Hanco
Croosen of Masterland owner of one eigth part. Hanco Martinson of
Stockholme of an Eigth part, Olock Tromon of Stockholme of an Eigth
part John ffrick of Stockholme also of an Eigth part, and this deponent
of the other halfe part of the said shipp, all subjects and natives
of his Majesty of Sweden, and Eminent Burgers of the Cities of
Masterland and Stockholme And saith that y:e foresaid Crooson is
a native and an Alderman of y:e City of Masterland aforesd, and the
other three are Burgers natives and Inhabitants of y:e City of
Stockholme and for and as such commonly accounted. And
saith the said shipp was about a yeare since built at
Masterland, by order of this deponent on behalfe of himselfe and y:e
rest of y:e foresaid owners. And saith that the said ship hath made
three voyages since y:e ?sd building. The ffirst was from ottenborow
in Sweden to Hamborow with Iron, Pitch, & XXXlis, ad from thence to Masterland
with salt. The second was from Masterland with Herrings to
Stockholme, and there this depo:t tooke in a lading of Pitch, tarr,
Iron and some Dealeboards, for and to bee delivered at this
city of London to Charles Marisco a merchant here, And saith the
same were laded at Stockholme by Jacob Mumma, Abraham
Mumms, Abraham Veruson all Inhabitants in and XXXX
of Stockholme, for their owne account consigned to and to bee delivered the foresd
Charles Marisco, and the quantities and qualities were as followeth twenty thhree
lasts of tarr, twenty lasts of pitch, ffive hundred shipp pounds
of Iron. Every shipp pound conteining three hundred w:t of Iron
and ffive hundred DEales being his whole shipps lading. And
saith noe part of his lading belongeth to any of the subjects of y:e ffrench King or King of Denmark or any in Enmity with this
Crowne. And saith that there was noe ffrench Dutch or Danish
ffactor or supra Cargo aboard his said ship the foresd voyages
or y:e voyage in question where in hee was seized. And at seizure
of y:e sd shipp he saith hee had with himselfe and his Company
consisted of Eight mariners all natives of and hired by this depo:t
at Masterland in Sweden aforesd, and subjects of the sd King. Nor XXX XXXX
live in any of y:e Dominions or territoryes of y:e ffrench King Dane or
States of y:e United provinces. And saith that y:e papers and writings at
the sd shipp were delivered to y:e Captaine of the ffXXXXXXX who XXXXXXXXXX
of of Yarmouth as he was comming with his sd ship and lading to
London, and afterwards the sd shipp was sent up into y:e river of Thames
and is there now remaining. And saith there was noe papers or
writings burnt, torne, concealed or any wayes made away. And saith

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?y:e foresaid seizure happened on the 12:th instant And saith
that at his sd siezure he declared to y:e Captaine of y:e vessell that tooke
him that his said shipp belonged to Masterland
and that hee was to goe with his ship and lading to Ostend, and
showed him his passe which hee had on board purporting soe
much, ffearing the seizor might have bin ffrench, Dutch,
or Danish man being very darke in y:e night which passe they did clourably that they might
thereby gett through the Sound. And saith she had at her
sd
seizure and never ?caried any but y:e Swedish fflagge or ?poles nor
ever had any other on board her, And saith that there were noe goods
betweene the said shipps docks she having but one deck. at the time of her said seizure,
and that the sd shipp is of the burthen of about 60 lasts and hath
bin M:r of her ever since her building at Masterland as aforesaid
And lastly saith that for the lading in question hee signed bills of
lading all of one tene:r as they are found in And taken out of y:e said ship
by the seizor Et Alr nescit

SVEN RASMUSSEN [His signature]

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: The Orange tree and XXXX: Deposition: Andreas Barton, John ?Ennet, John Carter, John Rice

XXXXXXXX

That off of the River of Emms upon the Coast of Holland they with
their sd ffrigott W:m Godfrey Commander about ?Wednesday last XXXXX discovered and gave chase
to two hoyes and making up to them fired two Gunns
to one of them named the Orange, upon which she struck, and the other of them seing now
opportunity of an Escape, bore up to the ffrigott and struck also And when these
deponents came up with them they went aboard and tooke possession
of them and found them both to bee laden with oake Timber
for shipping. And imediately after sich taking the Command:er
of y:e Crowne ffrigott sent and ordered these deponents to goe on
board and bring the sd Hoyes up the said River of Thames
namely these deponents Andrew Barton John ?Ennett, John
Carter on board (the Death), and constituted this deponent
Andrew Barton as Commander of her, And these three deponents say
and declare that two Dutchment that were left aboard
(the Skipper being taken onboard the Crowne) declared that
the sd lading of Oake Timber was lawfull prize and that they were and
bound for Holland and soe they constantly
affirmed during the time these deponents were aboard the sd Hoy
And they further say that off of Yarmouth a ffrench
ffisherman gave chace to y:e sd prize (y:e death) who comming
and bearing up with them the sd two Dutchmen told the
ffrenchman that there were goods onboard their sd Vessell were
Hollands goods and that they were bound for Holland, where
upon the ffrench asking the sd Dutch men if they would bee
released the sd Dutch men answred that they would. then the
ffrench men bad them to come on board. Whereupon one of
the Dutch men being at the Helme endeavoured thereby to lay
the ffrencgman aboard which this depo:t taking notice of
thrust him from it & fired a pistoll at them and soe gott cleare.
And saith that this depo:ts John Rice & Thomas XXXX, and Henry Bryan since XXXX was put aboard the Orange
The other prize and put this depot John Rice M:r of her And
one ffleming that was left in the Orange (the M:r and the other
of them being taken aboard the ffrigott.) often declared to this
these two depots John Rice and Thomas Chick that the sd lading of
oaje timber aboard the sd prize y:e Orange was free prize, belonging
to enemys of this Crowne. And saith they came to an anchor with them
sd two prizes at S:t Catharines where they came yesterday afternoone
y.e afternoone where they are now remaining

JOHN RICE [HIS MARK] His marke
Sigm [HIS MARK] dicti CHICK
XXXXX
XXXXXX

Repetit et XXXX XXXX XXX
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Case: The Death: Deposition: Oll Oilse, of ffrederickstadt, Holstein, sailor, aged 30

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Dnus nr Rex XXXX navem y:e Deale or Death
cujus Hancaus Decker XX Doata eXXXXX
et Rex

24:° Aug:ti 66

Super Interr in propario. Examinat

OLL OILSE Nomos de ffeure prope ffrederick stadt in ?HolXXX
Nauta, annos agens. 30 aut de rixter testtis
productus et Juratus

Ad primum 2 et reliqua Interria deponit that the Interr shipp the XXX
belongeth and hath belonged to ffrederickstadt ever since her building
there which happened about five or six yeares since, and was
hired to serve in the sd shipp; DEath, about Easter last by the Skipper
named Hance Decker le Doate, at ffrederickstadt, where the owners
of her live, but who are the owners are (sic) what their names are
or of what parts they are owners hee knowteth not but beleeveth
them to bee ffee persons under the Dominions of the Duke of ?Holsten
And saith that since he soe served in the sd shipp she never was
in any of y:e ports or places of y:e ffrench King or states of
Holland, but has bin once in Norway but saith that this depo:t
was borne in ffoure neere ffrederickstadt and when he is
not at sea hee liveth with his father and mother there dwelling
and housekeepe
And saith the sd shipp is of the burthen of about 32 tonns and had
on board her a lading of Oake Timber (for building of shipping and
Houses) laded on board her by severall merchants living
at ffrederickstadt, but their names hee knoweth not, nor for whoe
act the same were laden nor knoweth hee to whom consigned, but
saith the same were to be delivered in Holland or in the dominions of y:e sd States and the laders of the
said timber he knoweth to dwell and bee inhabitants of ffrederickstadt
And saith that since he became marriner and served in the said ship
she made a voyage from ffrederickstadt to Norway in Ballast
and returned thence with a lading of DEale boards to ffrederickstadt
And saith that at her ?asiling she had not any ffrench Danish or Hollans
ffactors aboard, nor any ffrench Danish or Hollands Colors onboard but the
Nettle leafe the ffrederickstadt fflag was on board
saving there are some other fflaggs on board
asguifts with their coates of ?armes in them which severall merchants have given them, There were
with this depot three persons on board which was y:e whole Company
the other two namely y:e skipper and Cooke are natives
of ffrederickstadt where the skipper liveth when hee is at
home and hath a wife and children there,
all ffree persons under the Duke of Holstein (sic).
And that what papers were on board the sd shipp came to the hands
of y:e Captaine of y:e Crowne ffrigott that tooke and seized them
off the River of Emms upon y:e Coast of Holland without concealing or making away
any of them. And that upon theisaid seizure they declared that
the said shipp and lading belonged to ffrederickstadt to owners and
merchants there, all ffree persons, but were bound for Holland, and
the sd seizure happened about twelve dayes since: And saith that
the sd shipp hath made three voyages since hee served in her the first was as aforesd in Ballast
from ffrederickstadt to Norway when XX she returned with
Deales to ffrederickstadt where shee delivered her sd lading.
And then going a second voyage from ffrederickstadt to Norway in

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Ballast to take a ffreight she was by tempestuous weather forced back againe to ffrederickstadt
where being arrived the Skipper tooke in her now lading of Timber for Holland.
There were noe colourable bills of lading signed, nor any of Contrary
tenour, And saith the sd shipp has but one deck. And saith that when
y.e Crowne ffrigott that chaced them fired a gunn the skipper and this depot XX
presently struck saile and yeilded themselves and denieth that any of
the Company deserted the sd shipp But saith that the Skipper was
taken out of his shipp aboard the man of warr that tooke him, and
three Englishmen put on board the sd vessell who brought her and
her sd lading of Timber with this depot up into the river of Thames

Et alr nescit

XXXXX

Case: XXXXX: Deponent: Hanceus Peterson, of ffrederickstadt, sailor, aged 29

Eadem dia sup Interrijs prodict

2. HANCEUS PETERSON da ffrederickstadt natus ibm. annos agens
29 aut XXXX testsis

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f. 7r.

XXXXX

Case: XXXX: 2. Richardus Tuo, of Rye, Sussex, victualler, aged 33

2. RICHARDUS TUO de Rye in Com Sussex Victualler ibni ubibitant
per octonnia ant XXXX annos agens 33 et ultra, testis produt
et Jurat.

Ad 6. 7. 14. et 17 arles super quibus solemmodo Examinatur XX XXXXX
M:rs Eaton deponit. That he well knoweth the shipp Surprizall aclate,
Capt John Tozier Command:r and was and went as Corporall of her when shee
was fitted and sett out from Rye as is aclate, And saith that the second
or third day after such their setting out from Rye they discovered and
seized by vertue of a Common which the sd Tozier had onboard the aclate
ship the Jesus Josephe Mary of the burthen (as this deponent guesseth)
of about 150 tonns, laden with ?razons part whereof they took XX XXXX XXXX XXXX they consisted which they
brought into Rye, And saith that at the sd seizure (which happened
about ffoure leagues off of Rye in the English Channell) this deponent
and fowre more namely ffrancis Spooner, W:m Standish one of the
owners and his brother Charles Standish the Lieutenant of y:e sd ship
Suprizall, George Blanch and this deponent went on board the sd shipp:
Jesus Joseph S:t mary. And this deponent at his first coming onboard
of her one of y:e persons onbpard a clubfoated fellow and a pilot or
stiersman of y:e sd XXXXX but his name hee knoweth not whence
they came he answered from Genova, and asking him twice together
whether hee was bound, hee Answered to Amsterdam. Which words
hespake in very good English and very pertinent to y:e quetions untill
another person who also spake English, and was also a pilot or stiersman as
hee beleeveth ?hubbed the sd person they first spake to, and to
this deponent and the other onboard that they were bound for Hamboro

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saying that hee (the first person they soe spake to) know not what hee
sayes whereupon, the first person or clubfoated fellow said that
they were bound for Hamborow. Although as hee saith the Clubfooted
fellow spoke a great deale better English than the other did, and
this depo:t better understood him. And this deponent verily beleeveth
in his Confesiones that Had not y:e Drake ffrigott bin on the one side
and one of the Kings XXXXX on the other side the said Prize the Joseph Jesus
and Maria would have fought the Suprizall Each man having
their matches ready having their gunns charged and primd being XX
whole XX domicalven, and Eight or nine Petareren or peeces called maXXXXXX &
pistoll XXXXX XXX XXXXX Et alr nescit this depot hath bin
informed by some of y:e sd XXXX XXXXXX that y:e DXXXXe ffrigott alsoe waited for the sd prize and saving
they seized upon the sd shipp and lading as prize and belonging
to the states of the united Neatherlands, or their subiects

Ad Interria

Ad primum redet that hee cometh by y:e meanes and at y:e request of
one Capt Steele, And saith he was Examined before the Mayor of Rye
about a fortnight or three weekes since and then deposed to the like effect
of this his deposicon, And hee Expecteth that the sd Captaine Steeéle
should beare his charges up and downe but as yet hee hath not
received any thing saving tenn shillings of XXX then at Rye
to whom y:e Capt wrote to send up this dep:t and nomore to XXX XXXX, he hath
lived and kept a victualling house in Rye for about seaven or eight
yeers last, knoweth not what he is worth and owes but litle. Et alr
nescit.

Et 2. rendet that he knoweth not who are the laders of y:e goods
in Controversy, nor where laden saving he hath heard some of the
XXX XXXXX Company say that the same or a great part thereof were
laden at Malaga, and cannot specify the particuler parcels of them
Et alre nescit.

Asd 3 non concernit cum.

Ad 4 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 5 nonconcernit cum.

Ad 6 rendt that hee was one of y:e man of warrs Company, namely Corporall
but knoweth not whether he shall have any share in y:e XXX
y:e ship and goods bee condemned, neither knoweth hee of any money or other
goods taken from the XX or XXX of y.e sd shipp. Et alr nescit.

RICHARD XXXX [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Georgius Blanch, of Rye, Sussex, sailor, aged 50

Eadem die

Super all XXXX prodict

3. GEORGIUS BLANCH de Rye in Com Sessex Nauta, natXXX ubi
annos agens 50 aut XXXX ter testis product et XXXX

Ad 6. 7. 14. et 17 arles super quibus solummodo Examinatis depont
et dicit THat he was one of y:e ship uprizalls Company XXXX
Masters Mate of her, and went on board her at Rye where she
was fitted victualled and manned And saith that after they had
bin at sea for a day or two she tooke and seized a Vessell or prize.

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and as belonging to y:e subiects of the States of the United Neather-lands named
the Jesus Joseph Mary and S:t Andrew burthen about 140 or 130 tonnes.
And goth, upon the high and open seas in the English Channell about some
three leagues off of Rye, And saith that presentley after the sd seizure
this deponent, M:r Standish, one of y:e owners of the man of warr, and
his brother Charles Standish Lieutenant his ?precontent Two, and
one ffrancis Spooner XXX XXXX and upon such their coming onboard they found
two Pilotts as they XXXX but what country men they were hee knoweth
not, and asking one of them a lame footed man, who spake very good
English whence they were and whether bound he told this depo:t
and the other on board that he came from Genoa, and touched
at Malaga in Spaine and were bound with their lading comprising
of raisons and some wine for Amsterdam, Which theother pilot
hearing and jogging the person that answered the depot
and saying that they were bound for Hamboro the
person who first answered this deponent said soe alsoe - but not before.
And upon their comming on board hee saith they found them
in a warlike posture ready for fighting, there XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Stones that lay upon the deck ready fitted, and would have undoubtedly
fought had not the Drake frigott and one of the Kings Ketches bin
insight andneere to them, Et alr nescit saving the sd Jesus
Joseph Maria was brought by this depot who was Command:r of her and
tooke care to and by the assistance of y:e other foure
persons and the rest of the ?prezt Company was brought unto y:e
port or Harbo:r of Rye. And saving the two pilotts assisted in
carrying her in the lame one hee saith stood by this deponent
at the ?lead ad as this deponent found the water and according XXXX
depo:ts direcon the sd pilot gave direcons to his seamen to order ?their
sales and they both also spake Dutch.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t that one M:r Raymond on behalf of Capt Steele spoke to
this depo:t to come and bee a witness herein, and at Rye XX XXX received of Raymond
ten shillings but Exoects to have his owne Charges and horse hire upon XXXX XXX
andliveth by going to sea. knoweth not what he is worth. Ad alr nescit

Ad 2 rend:t that hee knoweth not who laded y:e goods in question nor for whom XXXXX
nor can specify the particular parcells of them. Et alr nescit.

Ad 3 non concernit cum.

Ad 4 nescit non XXXXX

Ad 5 non concernit cum.

Ad 6 rendit that in case the shipp on lading bee condemned hee Expecteth hos
share as a Seaman and according to his XXXX which is XXX XXXX. Knoweth
not of any money taken away from the XXXXX but XXXXXXXXX Captaine
Tozier tooke a little box out of y:e Captaines Cabbin XXXX Et alre nescit

XXXX XXXXX

Repetitium precXXXXXX coram XXXX
XXX XXX unto Ed:do BrXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX: 4. Carolus Standish, of Rye, Sussex

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31:° Aug:tis 66

Super allone predict Examinat

4. CAROLUS STANDISH de Rye in Com Sussex inhihitavit
per biennium aut XXXXX annos agens 24 XXXX XXXX testis product et Jurat

Ad 5. 7. 14. et 17 arles dicte allonis super quibus solemedo
Examinatur ex direnono M:ri Exton premria deponit et dicit that
hee welll knoweth the ship the Suprizall aclate and was one of her
company namely Lieutenant of her, And saith that about three
monthes since the sd vessell having taken in men
at Rye aforesaid went from Rye in the Evening of a day, and the next
morning about six of y:e Clock seized and tooke the aclate shipp
The Jesus, Joseph, Mary and S:t Andrew of the burthen of about 150 tonnes laded with wine and fruite and brought the
sd shipp with her said lading into Rye harbo:r, And she was
soe seized and tooke by the Suprizall and her Company about foure leagues
off . y:e West ward of Rye (to the best of this deponents Judgm:t) in the English
Channell, And saith that upon the boarding the sd vessel
by this deponent, his precontists George Blanch, Richard Tue,
Edward Standish this depots brother and one of y:e Surprizall, owners
and ffrancis Spooner, all of y:e Surprizalls Company they found
onboard the said vessell two pilotts one of which he saith affirmed himselfe
to bee a Hamburger, both spake dutch as alsoe poor English,
and they being asked by this deponent and others then on board from whence
they came, and whether they were bound, one of y:e pilotts a Clubfoated
person,) answered that they came from Genoa, and were bound
for Amsterdam, Which the other pilott hearing said, Noe.
for Hamborow, and then the sd Clubfoated fellow also said
for Hamborow but not before although hee well understood w:t was asked him speaking so good English Et alr nescit upon XXXX. Saving this deponent when
hee and the others soe went on board ffound them in a ffighting posture, their Petererers
or peeces called ?Murderers being Eight in number laded, and their baggs
of shott by them, and some which were on board with this deponent told this
depo:t that they saw severall matches lighted, and most of their
musquets charged, The peterers were discharged at Rye harbo:r
and the musquetts carried aboard the Surprizall, and in one musquett
he saith there were five bulletts one or two whereof were chewed
this depo:t seing the same drawne, And y:e sd Jesus Joseph Mary S:t Andrew had fought them as hee beleeveth
had not the Drake ffrigott and another Catch bin neere them.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t that hee cometh at y:e request of M:r Steele on of y:e
owners of y:e Surprizall who came to know what this deponent could say
herein because he knew or understood that this depot was one
of her Company as aforesd. And saith that before he was sworne as a
witnesse M:r Exton asked this depot what hee could say in this
busienes, and this deponent then told him to y:e effect aforesd. And
Expects to have his Charges borne by the owners of the
sd Man of warr, ffor his paines in comming to bee Examined
herein, And saith hee was an apprentice to one M:r ?ffiels a

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a vintner at y:e Greene Dragon in ffleete street for y:e space of six yeers of thereabouts ending aboit
twelve month since, and hath bin imployed in one busienes or other
touching the Surprizall aforesd, to and againe from Rye to ?London
by his sd brother Edward Standish and in other busienesses for him, and is maintained
by him. Et alr nescit

Ad 2 rendet that hee knoweth not for whose ac:t y:e goods in question were
laden, or where laded, neither can he specify the particular
parcells of them. Et alr nescit

Ad3 non concernit cum.

Ad 4 nescit rendere Hee not being at Mallaga the time Interr.

Ad 5 nescit deponere salvis predepositis nor concernited

Ad 6 rendit That if the said ship or lading proove lawfull prize this depo:t
Expects his share as being one of y:e Company that tooke her: And
saithh this deponents brother had or tooke from the Captaine of the Jesus Maria Joseph, Nine peeces of Eight and three shillings for which he told him
he would bee responsible in case the ship and lading prooved not prize,
and Captaine Tozier has also a little gold ring with a blackstone, in it which
was taken out of y:e Captaines Chest, And some cloaths hee saith the Company
of the Surprizall tooke from onboard y:e Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew
Et alr nescit.

CHARLES STANDISH [His signature]

Repetit coram dire XXXXX surr:t
prXXX Edw:o Browne No: publ.

Case: XXXX: 5. Gabriel Morgan, of Stepney, Middlesex, sailor, aged 36

Primo Septembris 1666

Super allone predict. Examinat.

5. GABRIEL MORGAN paroa de Stepney in Com Midd Nauta, ubi
habitavit per Septennia aut ?ricter annos agens
36 aut rirter testis productus et Juratus.

Ad 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. et 16. arles super quibus solum mod o Examinatur
et direccons M:ri Exton deponit et dicit That on or about the befinning
of ffebruary last past the aclate ship the Jesus Joseph Mary S:t Andrew came
with affaire wind to Malaga. Xould ffor feare as was sd she should bee taken by S:r jeremy Smith
then being at y:e Streights mouths And saith that at such
her coming thether she came full laden with muscadino candies and pirckled
Lemmons which were by y.e Common report of merchants and others there
ladedin the river ao (sic) or Bay of Genoa by the Dutch Consull there and two other
merchants there (whose names hee remembreth not) for their
acc:t to bee delivered at Amsterdam for the same acc:t And saith
the said ship going there by the name of the Genowesse petache might
have departed and gone away with her said lading to Hamborow the
wind being then Easterly and faire for her, And there was a Hamburger
man of warr of thirty six peeces of ordinance or upwards and
fourteene merchant men under his Convoy which then rode neere
y:e same mole where the sd shipp Jesus Joseph S:t Mary then rode
which sd Genowesse Petachi he saith runn up as farr as she could

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into y:e ?moule and there moored her selfe at a great distance
from them, and pulled of her sailes from her yards And at
the time aforesd hee saith there was an ostend man of warr then
also riding neere the sd Mole one ?carew and Englishman M:r or
Command:r of her
the M:r of y:e said Petacher he saith was very fearefull
and refused to put to sea least shee should bee seized and taken by S:r
Jeremy Smith who with his squadron at that time and for
severall dayes together rode without the Hamburgers in the Road
within shott of y:e mole where the sd Petachi then ridd, And soe long as there
was any report of S:r jeremy Smiths being in the Streights or
anyways thereabouts the Captaine of the Petache never stirred
nor dared soe to doe but kept himselfe within Malega Mole for fear
of being taken by y:e English. And saith that during the sd
shipps Joseph Marias aboade at Malega, this deponent and
severall other English belonging to English Shipps then there
told the said Captaine of the said Genowesse vessell that the
English would meete with them before they gott to Amsterdam
the M:r and others of his Company replyed that they cared
not a ffart for y:e English for they had friends enough abroad
to guard them or words to the same or like Effect. And saith
there were onboard two pilotts, which
were said to bee Dutch men and as they acknowledged
themselves to bee, Namely hee hath bin told by the Clubfooted fellowe
(one of y:e pilotts) that hee was borne and lived severall yeers together
at Amsterdam, but that he now lived with his wife at ?Alicant And some
of y:e Petuches Company hee saith declared to this depo:t that a young
fellow (a Cooke) was borne at Schedam. And saith that when this
deponent, who was Masters mate of a merchtman y:e John of
London John Nansun Captaine
came away heeleft the sd Ostend man of warr as also y:e Hamburger
and his fleete and the Genewesse Petache all behind them at Malega
and if the sd Genewesse vessell had bin bound for Hamborow she
might have gonn in Company with te Hamborow ffleete XXXXXX
which she did not, as this depo:t hath bin informed or with S:r Jeremy Smith and
the English Squadron and merchantmen, Which as hee heard
she never did, But saith this deponent and severall other
English merchants then looked upon her to bee bound for Amsterdam
and to have Dutch lading on board ffor that Hamburgers now
and have ?done ever since the beginning of this warr
ffetched and doe ffetch their owne goods from Genoa and other
places in y:e Streights and send out good shipps for that purpose. And
saith that many more (that are now in his Majestys service) could and
can witnesse y:e same that this deponent hathe before deposed

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Ad Interria

Ad j:in rend:t that hee cometh at the request of one Captaine Steel who hearing
that this depo:t was at Malega when the ship the Jesus Mary S:t
Andrew was there spake to this rend:t to testify the truth herein. Espects
nothing for his paines herein. And hath bin for five yeares and two
months last upon a merchandizing voyage from port to port, and
knoweth not whether hee bee worth anything or nothing. Et alr nescit

Ad 2 rendit y:t hee cannot specify the perticular parcells of y:e goods in question And
saith that hee hath bin informed that y:e owners of y:e Petache are Italians and
that they lett her to ffreight to y:e foresd Dutch consull and merchnts at Genoa
and that there was insurance made at Genoa upon y:e sd ship by which y:e ffreighters were to pay for her
in case she shpuld bee taken by y:e English. Et nescit se ad prode poita Alr nescit

Ad 3 nescit saying hee left y:e Hamborow and Osetnd convoy at Malega when hee departed thence.

Ad 4 rend:t that S:r Jeremy Smith went from Malaga about tenn dayes
before this repd:t who came thence yout y:e sixth of March last past and left by y:e Hamborow convoy there. Et alr nescit
Salvis predepositis.

Ad 5 et 6 deponit that y:e words aforesd were spoken in y:e presence of many of
y.e Company of the John of London aforesaid. And saith theforesd Clubfooted
pilot was raken in at Alicant as this depot hath bin informed by ?lres from severall
merchants in Alicant, where he saith about tenn or elaven weekes
this depo:t saw the sd pilott and hath once bin in his house there where hee hath
lived for about three yeers space as hee beleeveth. Et alr nescit rendira.

GABRIELL MORGAN [ His signature]

Case: The Richard and Elizabeth: Deposition: Thomas Holbert, of St Saviour, Southwarke, Waterman, aged 44

The nyneth of October 1666.

On behalfe of his Matie, touching
goods ?embrazeld out of the Richard and Elizabeth

THOMAS HOLBERT of the parish of
S:t Saviour Southwarke Waterman
aged 44 or thereabouts, sworne in the
high Court of the Admiraltie of England
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath

That the said shipp the Richard and Elizabeth (whereof
Richard ?Bothick was and is M:r and part owner) being a Victualling
shipp in the service of his matie riding on tuesday before the
late lamentable fire at anchor in Solebay neere to the Assistance
frigot, Captaine Browne commander, and the said Captaine
desiring some firewood to be delivered aboard him one of the
Richard and Elizabeth, XXX XXX the frigot aboard the next
morning being Wednesday, and delivered wood aboard accordingly.
And while the Richard and Elizabeth lay ?lashed aboard the
said frigot, there were on the said Wednesay morning about foure
or five baggs of Spanish wools put out of the frigot aboard
her to be brought for London as for the ?use of the said Captaine
Browne, and then througe fowle weather the Richard and
Elizabeth bearing a sterne the frigot by the frigot ?HalXX, and
riding

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riding thereby, there were the XXX XXXXX a parcell of three
hundred skinnes (w:ch as hee undertood were XXXola skinnes) brought
in the said frigates pinnaces and put also aboard the Richard and
Elizabeth, and alsoe a parcell of kidd skinns (the number hee
cannot declare9 and also a parcell of flax, to be also brought
for London: all w:ch goods were by the conXXXX of the XXXXX
declared to be prize goods, and to thXXX ?purrpse they were XXXXX
thXX the Generall XXXXX XXX and take XXXX of them. And
saith that in the said shipp Richard ad Elizabeth all the
sd goods were brought up the River of Thames to Ratcliff XXXX
where they came to an anchor therewith on monday night the
third of September, and this deponent in regard of the danger
hee tooke his XXX and familie to be in, by XXX of the fire
getting XXXX by XXX hour, hee went that night ashore to his
house on the banck side leaving all the said goods aboard under
command of the said Bothwick. And on the Satturday next
following being the ?eigth of September this deponent
comming to goe aboard the said shipp, XXX with Samuel
?Clayman the XXX XXXXX ashore on Ratcliffe XXXXX, and
they goeing together into a XXX house to drinke a cup of beare
together, this deponent (who had got some intelligence that
the said goods were carried ashore by the said Masters order) asked
the said Boatswain as they wre in discourse thereabouts, how
they XXX XXX, to get parts to carry the said goods soe farr uplands
to w:ch him made answer that hee the said boatswaine by the said
Masters order got carts from Captaine Swanley XXX XXXX
to carry the said goods to Captaine Swanleys warehouse there
and that the CC they were carried accordingly. And this deponent
going to XXXX the said goods at Captain Swanleys, and
commanding a Constable of Stepney to assist them, the said
Constable declared unto them XX XXX of this materman
assisted in unloading the said goods one of the carts into the said
Captane Swanleys warehouse, and this deponent having
XXX XXXX with XXX of the XXXXX (whose XXX hee
now remembreth not) heard him affirme the XXXX

Signed [HIS MARK] XXXX XXXXX

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XXXXXXXXX

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Eggert Wold, of Stralsund, Pommerania, XXXX

EGGERT WOLF de Stralesund in Pommerania in XXXX

hat his said shipp was built at Stralsund about ?eight yeeres since
XXX XXX XXX this deponent was appointed to XXX XX and XXXX XXX his then and
now owners, who were and are all Stralsunders and subiects of the King
of ?Sweden, XXXX Nicholas Bowman, owner of an eigth part, John HoustXXX
eigth, John XXXXmaster an eigth, Hanse Yeila a 32_th, Ernest Waranta an 32:th
Jurris XXXX a 16:th, Claus PaXXXX a 16:th, Charles Banck a 16:th, Martin
ClXXXX a 16:th HXXXXX Clowe 1 16:th, and this deponent a 16:th part
and that noe Hollander, ffrench or dane hath any share therein, And they are
cometh now from Stralsund bound for Bremen, laded with XXXXX, and
XXXXX, XXXX three lasts of wheate, eleaven baggs of wool, 2000 sheep skins, and
about 20 shipp pounds of uron, 6 XXX of XXX XXXX, 12 barrells of linseed
and one felt of XXXX, all laded at Stralsund by subiects of the king of Sweden
and to them belonging and for their accompt and to be carried to Bremen from
rge XXXX XXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f.12r.

XXXX and
XXXX at interest to this deponent too XXXX her building, for w:ch his shipp is liable XXXX
bottomrie to XXX fourteene Rix Dollars seventy bedides the principall. And
saith that this deponent and his company XXXX his letter three persons
are all of ffrederickstadt, there and thereabouts dwelling in the XXXX
of the duke of XXXXXX, and there being and XXXX subiects , and that XXX
Hollanders, ffrench or danes hath any part in

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Detlef Hendrickson, of ffrederickstat, Holsatia, sailor, aged 38

25:° Septembris 1666

Contra navem the Orange tree)
of ffrederickstat)

2:is DITLEF HENRICKSON de ffrederickstat in Holsatia
Nauta, XXXXX dicti navis the Orange tree
a'tatis 38 annorum aut ou XXXXX testis in
preparis examinatur, deponit et XXXXX, vizt

vide 1:xx in D

That his said shipp (of the burthen of sixteene lasts) was built at
ffrederickstadt about eight yeeres since, and hath ever since belonged to that
port in that Dominion of the Duke of Holstein; and that Cornelius vander
Loo and this deponent of ffrederickstat and John ffolkers trading at Colembet neere
that citie (where rgey alwaies dwelt and were and are subiects of the said
Duke) have bin the owners ever since the said building and are XX at present
namely this deponent owner of halfe the shipp and the other two each of
a fourth part, and that noe Hollander, ffrench or dane hath any part
or share therein- And that about ?seaven weekes xxxx (as hee remembreth

the time) hee (in company of the shipp the Death Hance Dorker M:r) came
from ffrederickstat with a parcell of timber & clapboard (by way of ballast)
and some XXXXX, w:ch wood was laded by John John?sen Burger there
andthe XXXXX by Miles Johnson & John Ruttenberg two other
Burgers there and a widow there dwelling all subiects of the said duke
and their XXX a ?park (the contents hee knowes not) laded by Claus XXX they
?alsoe a Burger there, and they were all to be delivered at Amsterdam
for accompt of the said ?owners, to w:ch XXX of Amsterdam the said shipp
?was bound (in carrying as aforesaid) to fetch Rhenish wine and Millstones
for the use and accompt of the said ?duke to be brought to ffrederickstat.
And there his company was XX XXX XXX himselfe and one man more
but subiects as aforesaid and dwelling in the dominion and XXXXX therein
And thXX ?running off the XXX XXX they were taken by the XXXX
frigot, and after brought up into the Thames, and ther the Captaine
and company of the XXXX tooke this said XXX and XXXX aboard the
man of warr, and XXX of the clap board and many of this deponents XXXXX. And saith that XXXX
by rhis XXX to the Captaine, and XXX another by him, w:ch XXX
XXXXX to ?return, and ?had nine other XXXX XX XXXX XX passes XX
nore any interested or XXX away

DH

And

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Case: The Sampson of Stetin in Pomerania: Deponent: Joachim Smit, citozen of Stetin in Pomerania, sailor, aged 62

P1090941
f. 12v.

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Case: XXXX: Deponent: Michael de Craeyer, citizen of Antwerp, merchant, aged 68

P1090942
f. 13r.

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f. 14r.

XXXXX

Case: XXXX: Deponent: Jeremias Peltz, XXX, aged 20

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f. 15r.

JEREMIAS PELS [His signature]

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Arthur Burlacia, aged 22

P1090947
f. 15v.

16:° Octobris 1666

ARTHUR BURLACIA one of the Company
of the Dragon frigot, aged 22 yeeres or
thereabouts, sworne on behalf of his
Ma:tie XXXX AND DEPOSETH.

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f. 16v.

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f. 18r.

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f. 18v.

ABRAH: WALWYN His signature

Case: XXXX: Deposition: ffranciscus Raynsford, apprentice of Alderman ffoote, aged 19

eADEN DUE

sUPER ALLONE PREDICT EXAMINATE

2. ffRANCISCUS RAYNSFORD famulas Apprenticius Aldermanni
ffote partis producend. annos agens 19 aut XXXXX testis

Ad primum nescit deponere

Ad 2 aclum deponit that y:e aclate Alderman ffoote, Daniel Porteene, and Edward
Watts, are merchts of quality and Inhabitants of this city of London And
the sd Alderman ffoote hee saith hath traded and doth trade to Venice
Gallipoli and other places beyond y:e seas, and kepeth his factors to that
purpose, and particulerly he saith the aclate George Ravenscroft is the
factor for y:e sd producent at Venice aforesd. And saith that about
January 1665 old stile the sd Ravenscroft informed the sd producent
Ald: ffoote that hee had freighted a shipp called XXX Seignigyn ?del Gratia to goe to
Zant and Gallipoli there to lade oyles and currants and to bring y:e
same to London. And the oyles hee saith being three score ten tonnes or
thereabouts are for y:e acc:t and ?uisage of this depo:ts M:r and partners and to
his sd facto:r at Venice: And to that purpose hee saith hee hath seene y:e
lres sent to his sd Master, who he was desired by the sd Ravenscroft to receive
y:e freight due for Currants then on board. Et alr referendose ad primam
schedulam qua credit esse veram nescit saving hee beleeveth the sd schedule
to bee of y:e sd Ravenscrofts handwriting.

Ad 3 deponit that the sd Ravenscroft informed the sd producent Ald. ffoote that
hee had hired the sd aclate Abraham Walwyn to doe and act as is aclate
the better to avoid seizure by ffrench or dutch, knoweth not where the
sd Walwyn was borne, but hath seene a womman in London whom the sd Walwyn XXXX
to bee his sister. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4 deponit that the sd Ravenscroft advised this depts sd Master
that he had caused to bee laden at Gallipoli one hundred sixty three
Caskes of oyle smale and great on board the sd shipp, marked as is XXXX, for his sd Masters XXXX
au:t, ad that hee had colourably used the name of the aclate Angelo del Oylies
for feare of being mett with by y:e Enemys to this kingdome, which he knoweth
having seene such lres and being made privy to all his sd M:rs transactions
in merchandizing affarres and writing his lres and being booke keeper Et alre
referendo XX ad filie dulam qua credit esse verant in hummodi erle XXXXX
nescit deponere.

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f. 19r.

Ad 5 nescit deponere salvis predeportis refereado se ad schedulas aclate

Ad 6 deponit that y:e aclate Robert ffoote and Benjamin Child advised this
depots sd M:r that they had laded on board the sd ship at Legorne (she touching
there in her passage for London) two bailes of kid skins for their owne
XXX markes and numbred as aclate. And that y:e sd Welwyn had subscribed
a note as is aclate And saith y:e fifth schedule is subscribed by the sd Welwyn
as is aclate, this deponent having severall times seene him write his name.
and thereby being acquanited with manner and character in writing
Et alr refereado se ad drum schedulam nescit

Ad 7 deponit that y:e aclate Robert ffoote sent a Copy of a Certificate obtained from
y:e aclate S:r John ffinch his Matys resident at fflorence to this depots
sd master. Which Copy he alsoe saw: Et alr nescit proprantosua saving he beleeveth
that y:e sd currans really belong to y:e aclate Daniel ?Pourteene and Edward Watts
Ad nescit deponere

Ad 9 deponit that when the sd shipp was seized or stoppd in ffalmouth by the parties aclate
Oyles were then worth and about London would have bin sold for 60: L XXXX and upwards
per tonne, and now they will yeild but abput 45:L per tonne. And saith that hee hath
seene a note subscribed by one ?Fremaine for the receipt of twenty one XXX
from his precontest M:r Walwyn Et alr nescit saving the sd producent
XXXX suffered losse and dfammage in y:e losse of their marketts and demurrage of their
shipp and leakeage of oiles, and dammage of goods, in this deponents Judgmt

Ad 10:th deponit that y:e lading of oyles belonging to this depots M:r and partners were assured upon
at Genoa to come from Gallipoli for London for y:e acc:t aforesd by ffrancis Gardiner
and Thomas Kirke and y:e Charge thereof was drawne upon this depots master
who gace credit in his XXXX to his sd factor as he procured the sae to bee assured, which
hee knoweth for y:e reasons aforesd.

Ad ult. dicit predeporta per cum XXXXXX

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t that hee is not related to Alderman ffoote otherwise than by being his
apprentice nor to any of y:e parties producent and was borne at ?Harrndon
in Northtonshire as he supposeth it to bee.

Ad negative saying

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Case: XXXX: Deponent: 3. Robertas Demetrius, of St Botolphs without Alddgate, London, aged 35

P1090955
f. 19v.

16:th of October 1666

Super XXX

3. ROBERTAS DEMETRIUS paroa S:ti Bodolphi extra Aldgate London XXXX
annos agens 35 entrXXXX testis product et Jurat

Ad primum nescit deponit

Ad 2. 3. 4. & 5. deponit that hee well knoweth y:e Aclate Alderman Samuell ffoote, M:r
Daniell Pourteene and M:r Edward Watts merchts and Inhabitants of this
city of London. And soe hath knowne Alderman ffoote and M:r Watts for
theise twenty yeares or thereabouts and M:r Powrteene for about XXX
yeers last who hee saith are merchts of very good quality and great ?trade
to Venice Gallipoli and Zant and other places in y:e Streights and to
that purpose keepe their factors beyond seas. And saith there were laden
on board the shipp Notro Seigniora del Gratia at Zant one hundred and fifty
thousand weight or thereabouts of Currans for the ac:t of the aclate
Daniel Pourteene, Edward Watts and Marine ?Gathoffe a
subiect of Venice and there resident and the same were to bee XXXX
in the sd shipp to London and here to bee delovered for y:e same ac:t And
saith the sd Currants are as hee verily beleeveth and is well
assured marked and numbred as is aclate and that none but
y:e persons aclate have any share or interest in the sd Currans or any
part thereof. And the third and fourth schedules being two original
bills of lading are as hee beleeveth the bills of lading soo signed for
y:e said Currans and y:e Contents thereof reall and true. The premisses
hee deposeth having seene y:e receipt of severall lres from y:e said
Gelthoff about y:e same and having answered and copyed the lres
of y:e said

XXXXXXXXXX

Ad Interria

Ad primum rendit that hee was borne in S:t Mary Axe in London. And
that M:r Pourteene married this rend:ts first cozen is not otherwayes related
to any of them

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f. 20r.

XXXXXXXXXX

ROBERT DEMETRIUS [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Abraham Beake, son of Arnold Beake, aged 22

29:° Octobris 1666

Super XXX

1. ABRAHAM BEAKE filius Arnolde Beake producent
annus natus 22 aut XX XXXXX testis productus

Ad primum secundum et 3:th arle deponit that the producent Arnolde
Beake is his father (with whom hee hath lived for the most part of
histime) and Elias Beake his uncle, who for all the time
of his remembrance have bin merchants of and dwellers in London
(where they at present inhabit) and subiects of his Ma:tie and such
ias have and doe drive a trade of merchandize betwixt
England and ffrance upon their owne accompt for wine, brandy and
vinager, andXXXX XXXX good quantities thereof XXXX them to London from ffrance for the proper acco:t of them the said Arnold and Elias
Beake who were and are partners in ther trade and busines. And
with that the aclate Samuel Beake is his this deponents brother
(sonne alsoe of the said Arnold) and a native of London and for the time
aclate hath bin and is the factor of the said Arnold and Rlias at
Bordeaux, and XXX XXXX XX accompted, and bought and
provided by their order and for their accompt severall ?greate quantities
of wine and brandy, and shippedXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX London
and particularely (as by lres and XXX XX from him) in or about
the moneth of July 1666 hee laded and caused at Bordeaux to bee
laded and XX about the shipp ffortune of XXXX aclate twenty
XXX of brandy marked with the first mark in th margin
and further two tunns and one hogshead of wine and three tunns and
three hogsheads of vinegar of the ?same marke in the margin, all
to be transported in the said shipp to London and there to be XX to them
and for their accompt, w:ch hee knoweth for they XX writeth in the
sd producents Counting house and is acquainted with thXX XXX XXX
and XXX XXXXXXX the said bookes touching XXXXX
frequently pressing the bookes and XXX XXX in those affaires XXX
Et alre nescit

Ad 4 aclum et prima schedulam annex deponit that hee verily beleeveth
the said schedulXX to be one of their bills of lading XX XXX ?signed by the said XX for
the said goods, for that hee knoweth the hand writing of the filling
XX XXX to be the hand of one of the said Samuell his servants, and to XXX
remembrance made ?her taketh in her XXX in XXXX XXXXX from the said Samuel
to this said XXXX, and saith hee is assured of the truth of the XXX
thereof Et alr nescit

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f. 20v.

Ad 5:X arlum et secundam et 3:X sched annex deponit that
hee well knoweth (for the reasons aforesaid) the said second schedule
to bee of the hand of the said Sammuele XXXX XXXXX and the said third
schedule to be the said Samuels owne hand, and is assured of the
truth of the contents thereof, with this addition XXX the said
Elias is in part ?ownershipp therein as in the rest of their trade
with the said Aclate, w:ch the said Sammuel well understands as XX
albeXXX them for ?brevitie and for his part XXXX XX to whom hee XXX XXX XXX markes
the addresses XXX XXXX Arnold Beake alone

Ad 6 aclam deponit that hee jath heard and beleeveth that there
was a colourable bill of lading signed by the said XXX to the
end of avoiding seizure and confiscation in case of capture by the
enemies of this XXXX, But of his certaine
knowledge the said XXX were really laded for the accompt of the
said Arnold and Elias who did and doe  ?run the XX adventure
thereof, and are by efforts of theirs in the said Samuels hand
(w:ch this deponent knoweth XXX XXXXXX) or otherwise to XXXX
by them the said Arnold and Elias Beake, who of his knowledge
as aforesaid run the XXX thereof
Et alr nescit

Ad 7. deponit that hee well knoweth the aclate Peter Crosse
and hath XXXX true XXXXX this deponents said brother from
XXXXXX directed to the said Peter in this the said Peters hand
and ?truely knoweth them to ne correspondents, and this deponent
hath understood that the said Sammuel XXXX the XXX XXX and XX
the shipp aclate for the said Peters acco:t for London tenn XXXX of
brandy of the marke in the margin w:ch said Peter hee saith is
an English man (as this deponent taketh him) and lately
as hee hath heard lived in Billeter lane London, and having ?seen
the 4. 5. and 6:th schedules annexed hee saith the
5:th schedule being the bill of lading for the said
tenn ?peeXX of brandy is filled up with the hand of one of the
?servants of the said Sammuel, the 5:th schedule being the XXXX
for the same is of the hand of the other XXXX of the said Sammuel
and the 6:th is the prod:ts Sammels owne hand and XXXXXXX the
contents thereof to be true. Et alr nescit.

Ad 9 deponit that XXX

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f. 21r.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

ABRAHAM BEAKE [His signature]

Ad Interria

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

ABRAHAM BEAKE [His signature]

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P10900959
f. 21v.

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Johannes Poplar, of St Salvatoris, Southwarke, yeoman, aged 26

Eadem die

Super Allone prXXX Examinat

2:X JOHANNES POPLAR paro S:ti Salvatorie in Burgo da
Southwarke ?yeoman annos agens 26 aut inter dicit et
deponit prout seq viz:t

Ad primum et 2:XX dXX XXXXX deponit et dicit That hee well knoweth
y:e aclate Arnold & Elias Beake and soe hath done ever since hee can
remember during all w:ch time they the sd Arnold & Elias Neake have
lived in London and were & are subiects of his majesty of England &
soe commonly accounted & knowne to be and saith that they are merchn:ts
of great repute and dealings on their owne acc:t w:ch hee knoweth
for that hee hath bin one of their Clerkes in their counting house for
about a yeere last and used to copy their lres & make up
accounts about their merchandizing affaires, And saith that hee
thereby alsoe knoweth that they have during the sd times of his having
bin their serv:t driven a great trade from ffrnace to England for wine
Brandy XXXXX & other things XXXX all as far as ever hee understood
on their owne acc:t & adventure they being brothers using to trade in
ptnership, et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX 4:XX 5:XX 6:XX 7:XX 8:XXX et 9:XX arles dXXX Allonie deponit et dicit
That by y:e meanes aforesd h

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f. 22r.

Ad 11:XX deponit That head not y:e sd ship bin seized shee ?would
doubly have come directly to Legorne X where y:e sd goods XXXX
to the sd partyes or their assignes et alr nescit.

Ad 12:XX XXX pte sua nescit.

Ad 13:XX deponit That hee hath heard that the M:r & Company of y:e sd
ship (who queszion?bly is necessary XXXXX herein) were XXXX up in
person as Enemyes
et alr nescit

Ad ult XXXX prepoisa p XXXX esse vera.

Ad Interria

Adprimum rend:t that the sd Arnold & Elias Beake did not in any of their
lres ofOrders about y:e XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX goods in question XX y:e sd ship ffortune
and saith that they sent the sd lres XXXXX by ?post to y:e sd Samuel Beake
at Nourdeaux & this depo:t just before they were sent away copyed them
in y:e Copy book of y:e sd M:r Beake, out of w;ch hee tooke
notes (w:ch hee hath now w:th him) of ye teno:r aforesd, et
alre salvit prdepotie ad qua XXXXX nescit.

Ad 2:XXX rend:t That hee knoweth not y:e rest of y:e sd goods but by y:e
Invoyces to XXX he referred wXX Invoyces were sent over by y:e sd
Samuel Beakes to the sd XXXXXX, but when they received them hee
knoweth not nor knoweth whether any money or any thing els is
pd for or in pt of y:e goods now claimed. et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX rend:t That the sd M:r Beakes XXX severall markes
but y:e pticular markes hee cannot put downe And saith that the
sd M:r Arnold Beake is this rend:ts uncle & hee is their XXX as a foresd
& is not otherwise related to them, & sayth that hee hath now interest in y:e
goods claimed, & is worth fourty pounds in cleare estate as hee beleeveth
et alr nescit.

JOHN POPLAR [His signature]

Case: The Seaven Starrs, taken by the Assurance: Deposition: 1. Nathaniel ?Pocket, Masters Mate, aged 24

Ult: Octobris 1666

Touching y:e shipp the Seaven Starrs)
taken and seized by the Assurance)
ffrigott. On behalfe of his majesty)

NATHANIEL ?POCKET Masters mate of y:e Assurance
ffrigot aged 24 or thereabouts sworne and
Examined on behalfe of his Majesty in
prapacrco. saith and deposeth

XXXX

That hee was one of the Company of y:e Assurance ffrigott John Norborow Commander
and hath soe bin mate of her, and Mitchiap (sic) man for about five monthes last
And saith the said ffrigott being by y:e Generalls sent out to front while
the English ffleete lay at Sole bay, and being upon the scout on or about
the thirteenth of August last past discovered three vessells under
saile and making up to the shipp in question discovered her to have
dutch colo:r up and ?hee (OR, ?her) by eleaven of y:e clock toward ?noone comming soe no one as to discerne the ffrigott to bee
an Engish ffrigott, boore away before y:e wind making all the saile hee
possibly could which y:e Command:r of y:e sd ffrigott XXXceiving made also
after them and on or about one or two of y:e Clock in the afternoone of y:e same day
seized and tooke the Seaven Starrs aclate being laden with wine and
Brandy as y:e Company affirmed, bound for Holland and having eleaven
Gunns on board. And saith that after and before the said ffrigott
came up with her the sd prize she fired severall gunns at y:e ffrigott
namely one of the shotts tooke place in y:e main mast, another in y:e
maine topmast, which much damnifyed the masts and XXXXXall the
Shotts before she and XXXX before XXX XXXXX
And saith severall of y:e sd Shipps Company declared that they came from
ffrance and were bound for Holland, and that the sd shipp and lading consisting
of wine and brandy belonged to Hollanders also. Et alr nescit saving y:e M:r refusing to yeild
was by one of y:e Assurances Company killed, whereupon they presently yeilded

NATHANIELL ?POCKETT [His signature]

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Case: The Seaven Starrs, taken by the Assurance: Deposition: 2. Thomas Beavens, of the Assuance ffrigott, aged 46

P1090961
f. 22v.

The same day

2. THOMAS BEAVENS one of y:e Company of the Assurance ffrigott
aged 46 aut XXXX sworne saith and deposeth

That in Aug: t last the Assurance ffrigott was sent out of
Solebay by y:e Generalls to scout, and being out upon such scouting
on or about the eleaventh of Aug:t last to the best of his
remembrance of the time, discovered and tooke a shippe called
the Seaven Starrs ladn with wines and brandy and bound for
Amsterdam as y:e Company declared to this dep:t and others: having
Eleaven Gunns on board sverall of which she fired at trhe ffrigott and
made severall shotts at y:e masts rigging and sailes endeavouring
thereby to disable the ffirgott and to impede her persuite being in and upon asterne chase.
And three of her shotts he saith in particuler were remarkeable
one X y:e first was in her Main topmast, the second in her mainmast which
his precontest saw and tooke y:e bullet out being a bullet of 3:li weight
the other was through her spritsaile yard, which rendred her
unable to beare any more saile thereupon. And saith that when
they came up together and within shott the sd ffrigott fired some
gunns and severall small shotts past bteweene them and were given
and taken. And y:e Captaine of the said Seaven Starrs being killed
with a finale shott the Company Imediately yeilded, who declared
that there said shipp and lading belonged to Hollanders and was
thither bound, and that they had taken a Scotch bessell bound for
y:e barbadoes that they had made prize of her lading and restored
the shipp to the master againe wanting to XXXXXX And that they had taken an English
fflyboate laden with deales. And saith there were two other vessells
in the sd Seaven Starrs Company a dutch ffly boate and another
who made their escape wule the ffrigott was in persuite of y:e said 7
Starrs. who was taken by y:e said ffrigott about 17 or 19 leagues from
shore betweene Sole and Lasthow. Et alr nescit.

THOMAS BEAVENS [His signature]

Case: The Swedish Lyon: Deposition: 2. Johannes Rainmorter, of North Yarmouth, sailor, aged 25

13. Novembris 1666

XXXX et XXXX)
XXXX con y:e Swedish)
Lyon predict.)

XXXXX

2. JOHANNES RAINMORTER de North Yarmouth Nauta annos agens 25
aut XXXX testis productis et Juratus dicit et deponit proXXXXX

Ad primum et secundum arles deponit et dicit that for about tenn or Eleaven
yeares last past this deponent hath knowne y:e producent Samuell Beake who hee
saith was and is a merchant of good quality and reputaccon and one that
drives and hath driven a good trade in salt wines, and other
ffrench Merchandizes for his owne acc:t from severall places in ffrance to the
kingdomes of Ireland and England. And saith that the said Beake is to y:e best
of his knowledge and as hee beleeveth an Englishman, the sonne of y:e aclate
Arnold Beake and this depo:t hath bin informed that y:e said Sam:le was borne in
London. And dwelling such the time of this depo:ts knowledge of him hee the said Samuel
hath bin ffor y:e most part resident in Bourdeaux, a Batchelo:r, and boarded there. And further
carrying on of such his trade hee keeps his factors at Rochel ?Olroone
and other places in the dominions of y:e said ffrench King as also at Dublin and Corke, in Ireland. Et alr nescit deponit

Ad tertium et 4 arles deponit that in ffebruary last past the aclate Peter Knight and y:e
producent had treaty about the buying and selling a shipp, and the producent XXX
of him the said XXX shipp called then the Cumberland the said Knight XXX lying in the
River of and neere Bourdeaux for y:e summe of foure thousand Livers or
thereabouts

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f. 23r.

thereabouts which hee knoweth hee being made privy thereto, And being
sent by the said Samuell Beake to view the said shipp her tackle and
furniture. and to give him acc:t what this depo:t thought the same
were worth. And saith the sd producent agreed and undxertooke to pay for
y:e said shipp at her arrivall at Royen (sic) below in that River the foresaid summe
of 4000 livers or thereabouts in this depots presence. And hee verily beleeveth that the said summe
is since paid but he for his part saw not any mony paid. And for y:e reasons
aforesd beleeveth him to bee sole owner of the said shipp her tackle apparell
and furniture. And saith that after such buying the said shipp hee the sd
Beake Changed her name and called And named her y:e Swedish Lyon and
put and constituted the aclate Henry Roode M:r of her and the said producent
Expended and laid out severall summes of mony in triming and fitting put
the said shipp for a voyage to bee made from y:e port of Bourdeauy to Dublin in
Ireland, for which voyage and for his owne acc:t and XXXX to the best of this
deponents knowledge hee laded and caused to bee laden on board the said shipp
about seaventy tonns of White and redd wines, and severall peeces of Bruins (sic)
to bee carried to, and which were carried to and delivered at Dublin in
Ireland to y:e aclate Josuah Allen
his factor there and to bee and were disposed of by him for y:e sd Beakes acc:z. And
the aclate Henry Roode y:e master hee is well assured received moe mony for
ffreight of y:e said goods from y:e sd Allen or from any other, y:e same belonging wholy to
y:e said producent. Which hee knoweth being one of y:e Company
and going the said voyage and being made privy to the
whole transaction of the sd lading and voyage by y:e sd M:r Beake and Master
of y:e sd shipp. Et alr nescit saving that in y:e voyage afoesaid they touched at
Plymouth and there tooke in a Pilott bamed Nicholas Lampin an Englishman
living then at Plymouth to goe in her to Dublin in Ireland, this depo:t being a
stranger in these seas, and the sd shipp went from Plymouth some part of y:e seas under
the Convoy of the Dartmouth and y:e Little ?Guifts his Majesties frigots untill
stresse of weather parted them.

Ad 5. 6. & 7 deponit that y:e said shipp returned in Ballast with some small things
to Rochell and ?Oloroone about June last past, by y:e orders of y:e said Samuel Beake, And
hee saith the aclate Baily the producents factor did at Xloroone lade
and caused to bee laden on board the said shipp by order and advice of y:e
said producent, and for his ac:t about three hundred of Xloroone salt to bee
carried in the said ship to Corke in y:e Kingdome of Ireland and there
to bee delivered to y:e aclate Gold for y:e sd producents acc:t and to bee
by him vended and disposed of for y:e same acc:t which hee knoweth ffor that
this deponent and y:e Master at Dublin as also at Rochell after their returne
from Dublin had lres from the said Beake ordering them to goe to ?Moroone
and advising them that the aclate Baily would lade them with salt for
his ac:t to bee carried to Corke in Ireland. Which lres hee has since lost, as
hee beleeveth. But knoweth not of any bills of Exchange drawne upon y:e
sd producent or of any monies wither paid or remitted for y:e sd lading but beleeveth
the same to bee paid for y:t y:e said Beake being as hee supposeth a rich mann & a great trader
useth to pay very Currant. Et alre nescit.

Ad 8 deponit that y:e lre aclate being y:e first schedule is wholy written and subscribed
by and with y:e proper hand of y:e said Samuell Beake which hee knoweth having
severall times seene him write, and received severalll lres from him and therby
being well acquainted with his manner and Character of handwriting. Et alre
referendo soad diXXX misivam, ffacturam et atte starenem aclate et contenta in eiXXdem
nescit depondre saving . Sam Beake at y:e foote of y:e sd attestaccon is y:e firme of y:e sd producent

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f. 23v.

Ad 9 deponit that the said shipp Swedish Lyon with her said lading of salt on
board was in her Course for Corke in Ireland namely about halfe Seas over from
?Ushing in ffrance to y:e landsend y:e wind being scant met with and seized by a
private man of warr one Hampton then Comman:r and by him brought
up into or neere ?ffoye aclate Et alre nescit.

Ad 10 deponit that since y:e said seizure the sd privateers Company have broken
the sd shipps bulke and have taken and plundred out of the said bulke about
two thirds of the sd salt to the best of this depots judgmt being part of y:e sd shipps
lading and belonging to the sd Beake, and about three tonns of wines white
and red and about five or six haffe hogsheads of Brandy belonging to y:e
shipps company as this depo:t hath bin informed by y:e ;:r and other of y:e Company and as hee guesseth by y:e lightnes of y:e shipp and have also taken away a New Cable about Eight
Inches thicknes, and a halter also belonging to the said shipp and severall
of y:e Companies Cloathes, and monies, and sailes Kettles and other
the Shipps furniture and three barrells of XXXXX, and y:e bookes belonging to y:e sd Knight
And as this dep:t who was a prisoner on shore at ffoy ?about some twelve dayes hath bin
informed y:e said privateers used to and did put the Company of y.e said
shipp Swedish Lyon into y:e Great cabbin when they had a mind to plunder
or tale anything out of the sd shipp least the sd Company should see what
they soe tooke, and to that purpose they ordered a person to stand with a
pistoll charged at y:e doore of y:e cabbin to keep them in. And saith that one
W:m Pauley (who came onboard with Captaine Stanthwaite and who is now
waiter on board the sd shipp) stood with a pistoll to that purpose and hee the said Pawley
hath confessed to this depo:t that hee was ordered by the privateers
soe to doe.
Et alr dicit predeporta pereum de vera:.

Ad Interria.

Ad primum rend:t that he went onboard and served in the said shipp soe soone
as she was bought and hath served in her ever since untill her said seizure
and is well assured that y:e shipp y:e Swedish Layon is the same that
was formerly called the Cumberland and was and is one and y:e same
ship and not divers. Et alr referende sead predeporta.

Ad 2 rend:t that he saw y:e greatest part of y:e lading of salt put on board y:e sd
ship Swedish Layon by order of y:e sd Bailey for y:e sd Beakes acc:t but sawe noe mony paid
for y:e same. and knoweth not whether hee bee related to any of y:e parties
Interr. and knoweth note what he is worth, andoweth little or nothing. Et
nescit so ad predeporta. Nescit.

Ad 3 ren:t that hee knwoeth not y:e parties Interr., and hath heard that M:r
Sam:ll Beake Interrate hath corresponded withone ?Guill living in fflushing as hee hath
heard and remembreth. And denieth that y:e sd lading or any part thereof was
to have bin delivered at any other port whatsoever than Corke in Ireland
And saith that y:e sd shipp with her sd lading was seized about 13 or 14 leagues
from Ushiont to y:e best of his Judgement and saith that y:e palce where she
was seized is y:e way from Rochell to Amsterdam. and somewhat out of y:e
way from Rochell to Corke. but was forced to steere that way the wind being
betweene the West and y:e North west and very scant and thought it a greate
deale better to fech any port in England than to Cruze at sea which they XXX
?not doe. Et alr nescit novo

Ad 4 rend:t that hee knoweth not of any bills of lading that were signed for y:e XXXX
question But saith that y:e M:r told this depo:t that hee had signed one for Stockholme to XXX
secure y:e goods. And knoweth not who directed y:e same Et alr nescit

JOHN RIMMORTER [His signature]

Repetit corum dri Lloyd Currta
XXXX Ed:da Browne XXXXX

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Case: The Swedish Lyon: Deposition: 1. Johannes Rainmorter, of North Yarmouth, sailor, aged 25

P1090964
f. 24r.

Ad 3 et 4 arles deponit that hee well knoweth the aclate Michael Hobbs
reputed deputy ?defico Admirall of ffowey in whose house this deponent was
kept a prisoner for the soace of tenn or twelve days, and during that
time was not suffered to speake to any one but by the permission of y:e aclate
Captaine Stainthwaite and M:r Hobbs and in the presence and hearing of one or
both of them. And hee saith that within the said time by M:r Hibbs his permision
this depo:t wrote foure lres at wto separate ?tymes two to M:r W:m Jennings of Plymouth (M:r Arnold
Beakes Correspond:t there) and two therein inclosed for and to bee conveyed
to M:r Arnold Beake Two of which lres hee the said Hibbs read before sealing thereof
after sealing this depo:t gave two of y:e same to
M:r Hobbs to bee sent to y.e post house which lres were never delivered
but were by some meanes or other intercepted by Captaine Stainthwaite , and this
depo:t sending y:e other two by a messenger to Plymouth, the sd Stainthwaite mett
with the sd Messenger and tooke y:e sd lres from him, and about two days after came
to this deponent and told him that hee had mett with y:e messenger and had cut and
secured him and seized upon this deponents lres and then also shewed this deponent
the sd lres. And saith that the aclate Hibbs is the owner of y:e man of
warr aclate that seized the sd ship Swedish Lyon and for and as such commonly
accounted and reputed. And that y:e said Hobbs hath confessed to this deponent
that hee stood engaged for y:e mony that bought the sd man of Warr. And
this depo:t during such his imprionm:t saw y:e wife of y:e said Hibbs helpe XXXX
and salt Beefe, and saw meate put into a boate

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f. 24v.

to bee carried on board the said shipp . And saith that about thXXXX
?August since the sd shipp or man of warr was in y:e possession of y:e sd Hobbs whom
this deponent often saw on board the same shipp neere his owne XXXX
and looking to and taking care of her. And saith that upon and after
the sd seizure this deponent complaining of Embezlemen of the XXXX ?M:r
(Nicholas?Grove) of y:e sd man of warr who kept y:e ?keys of y:e Hibbs
of y:e Swedish Lyon) told this deponent that hee needs not feare any XXX
for their owner (meaning and speaking of y:e aclate Hobbs) whom
(as he said)deputy vice Admirall would seale up the hatches soe soone
as she came into Harbo:r. And beleeveth that if y:e said shipp ?Swedhish Layon
and her lading bee condemned the sd Hobbs will have a share
as owner of y:e sd Man of warr. Et alr nescit.

Ad 5:nd aclum deponit that hee hath bin told by the M:r that y:e aclate XX XX
Great Cabbin doore with a pistoll charged and therewith kept y:e Company
of y:e Swedhish Layon in the great Cabbin by the privateers XXX XXX
the sd shipps Company should see w:t they soe plundered or carried away
And that during such his standing there XXXX XXXXX XXXXXX of XXX
wines and Brandy were carryed away as the sd M:r also told this depot. Et alr
nescit.

Ad 6:nd deponit that it is a usuall thing for masters and Companies of shipps XX
in shipps from ffrance to load XXX quantities of wines and Brandy for
their owne acc:ts and saith that the M:r and this deponent had on board y:e sd
XXXX of y:e sd shipp twelve hogsheads and five XXXX of XXXX
and two halfe hogsgeads of Barndy and three barrells of Beefe and y:e Company
had also some quantities of wines and brandies aboard All which were
laded upon by and for y:e acc_t of y:e Master and Companies and by them
paid for and that noe other person whatsoever but they the M:r and
Company of the said shipp have any part or share therein. Et alr
nescit.

Ad 7 deponit that y:e said shipp y:e voyage proceding the voyage in question ?touched
at Plymouth in her course for Dublin in Ireland, and was convoyed part of
her way from thence to Ireland by two of his Majesties ffrigotts the
Dartmouth and the Little ?Guift and had convoyed them further had not
a storme parted them. Et alr nescit.

Ad 8 deponit that the said shipp had undoubtedly arrived with her
said lading at Corke and delivered the same to the aclate GraXX
according to Consignation had not the said seizure happened. Et
alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepita pereum offe vera.

Ad Interria

Ad j:n rend:t that he is not concerned in this busienes otheriwse than by being
Pilot and szoracargo of y:e sd ship Swedish Lyon. Et nescit soad predeposita
A liter nescit.

Ad 2 rend:t that he knoweth not of any papers hid concealed or any ways made away
and to y:e best of his knowledge all y:e papers on board ca,e to y:e hands of y:e sezors. Et alr nescit-

Ad 3 rend:t that he saw a bill of lading a letter in the ?Rogry shewed him by M:r XXXX XXX
who writ y:e said lre hee knoweth not nor how y:e sd lre and bill of lading came thither XXX
beleeveth that y:e ffirme subscribed to y:e sd Bill is y.e skippers firme having compared y:e XXX
with y:e skippers firme to lres received by this depot from him. dindes y:e same of XXX
characters. Et alr nescit

JOHN RIMMORTER [His signature]

Repetit coram XXX Lloyd suXXX:te
XXXX Ed:to XXX XXXXXXXX

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Case: The Godlieve: Deposition: 1. Johannes Blackwall, of the Strand, Middlesex, aged 50

P1090966
f. 25r.

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P10900967
f. 25v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johannes Janson, of Ostende, sailor, aged 29

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P1090968
f. 26r.

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P10900969
f. 26v.

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Case: The Swedish Lyon: Deposition: 3. Arnoldus Beake, of Crutched ffryers, London, merchant, aged ?56 (OR, ?58)

16:° Novembris 1666

Super allone prodict Examinat

3. ARNOLDUS BEAKE habitans in Crutched ffryers London
mercator, atatis ?56 autooricter testis product et Jurat

Ad primum aclum deponit that y:e aclate Samuel Beake is this
deponents sonne and was borne in the parish of S:t Buttolph ?Billens
gate in this city of London, and here educated by this deponent
his father and was and is a subiect of o:r soveraigne Lord y:e King
and for such commonly accounted.

Ad 2 deponit that the said Samuel liveth at Bourdeaux as a merchant
stranger and facto:r being an Englishman and a batchelour
noe housekeeper but a lodger there, And that hath driven and doth
drive a very considerable trade in merchandizing from Rochel, MoXXXX
and other places in ffrance to Corke and other places in Ireland
upon his owe acc:t And to that purpose keepes his factors at the respective places, which
hee knoweth being frequently advised by lres of such his
negotiaccon and traffique Natr salvis subsequon nescit.

Ad 3. deponit that the aclate Samuel Beake advised this depot that
hee had bought a shipp Peter Knight M:r and English shipp then
called y:e Cumberland of London now y:e wedish Layon
and this depot desireing a share with him therein, he denyed this dep:t
adviseing him that hee had laded her with wines and ?pruines for
Dublin in Ireland to bee delivered and consigned to Josuah Allen a
merchn:t of Dublin , and that she was upon her voyage. But when ?shee
had ended her voyage hee wrote
this deponent that hee might then have a share. And the aclate Joshua Allen
wrote this deponent about May last that hee had Received a
lading of wines and pruines and had sold or disposed of them or y:e greater part of them for the said
Samlls acct. and that hee intended to have laden her back for Rochel
with pipe staves. Which this depot forbad him in regard they were
Counterband goods and soe counter manded his said sonnes order. Et
alr nescit.

Ad 6 deponit that the aclate Baily did about the month of July
last by advice and order from the sd producent lade and caused to bee
laden on board the sd shipp Swedish Lyon three hundred of ?Maroon of XXX
wanting Eight bushells, or thereabouts for his the sd producent, and to bee

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P1090970
f. 27r.

carried in the sd shipp to Corke in Ireland and there to bee delivered to M:r
Gold of Corke his factor there to bee by him disposed of and vended for his the
sd producents acc:t which hee knoweth having received Adv ice of the sd
lading from his said sonne, and order therein to assure upon the sd
shipp and goods Which this deponent could not effect before seizure
of the shipp Swedish Lyon. And for y:e reasons aforesd is assured that y:e
sd producent is owner of y:e said salt and noe other person whatsoever
hath any share or interest therein. Et alr nescit.

Ad 8 in aclum et Exhibita in eadem deponit that y:e first schedule annexed was
and is wholly written subscribed by and with the proper hand of y:e said
Samuell this depots sonne and was received by him this depot on y:e 20:th
of August last as appeares by y:e post marke on y:e backside thereof. And the
factory being y:e second schedule annexed hee knoweth to bee the hand
writing of y:e aclate Baily this deponent having corresponded with him
for severall yeers together last past and thereby made acquainted
with his character and handwriting And beleeveth the Attestacon annexed
to bee true and reall and knoweth the firmes of Sam: Beake, ?Botoll
and decator thereto to bee of their respective handwritings. ET
alr rederando sead dictas schedulas et contenta XXdom nescit.

Ad 9 deponit that y:e sd ship Swedish Lyon with her lading on board was
in her course for Corke taken and seized by a privateer one of ?Carews
Com:on and brought into ffoye aclate.

Ad 10:nd deponit that hee hath bin informed y:e privateer have broken Bulke and
plundered and taken away a considerable part of her lading of salt
a new cable and a halter, and many other of the shipps necessaries.
Et alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit predeporta Xoreum ad vera.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rendet that by this depots Advices y:e shipp y:e Cumberland formerly soe called
and y:e Swedish Lyon in question were and are one and the same shipp. And
verily beleeveth it to be y:e same and to belong in propriety to this depots sonne
onéy Et alr salvis predeprta nescit.

Ad 2 rendet quod nescit Rendere saying y:e salt was laded at Oleroone where
this deponent was not. this deponent is ffather to y:e producent and the Interr Elias
Beake is this rend:ts brother and partner in merchandizing affaires knoweth not
what hee is worth.

Ad 3 rend:t that in times of peace he beleeveth y:e producent did correspond with
Dutchmen. knoweth not y:e parties Interr Et alr nescit
et novo

Ad 4 rendet that he knoweth not of any bills of lading signed for y:e said goods
And that hee is well assured that the sd shipp was bound to Corke and now where
else for that this depo:t had advice that there was a parcell of butter bought at Corke
to relade her back, and this dep:t had orders from his said sonne to insure
upon y:e sd lading back wards five or six hundred pounds according as y:e goods should amount unto. Et alre nescit deponere

ARNOLD BEAKE [His signature]

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Benjamin Bennett, of Kingston supra Thames, XXXX, aged 32

P1090971
f. 27v.

16:° Novembris 1666

Super allone prodict Examinat

3. BENJAMIN BENNETT de Kingston supra Thamesm in Com Surria ?Gen
annos agens 32 aut de ricter testis productus et Juratus dicit
et deponit prout seq:r (viz:t)

Ad primum et 2 arles deponit that hee this depot was steward of y:e vessell
or man of warr called y:e Royall XXXX Bourne Captaine
at y:e seizure of y:e shipp God liffe Michael Sansier M:r And saith that
upon his the said santions first coming on board y:e Royall hee the said
Sansier Stamping and fretting severe and passionately said that had hee
knowne that y:e Royall had had soe few men on board he would not have
bin taken he would have runne her over first, Which words of
y:e like in effect hee soe spake in the Cabbin in the presence of this XXX
and his precontest John Blackwall and y:e Captaine of y:e man of warr
And shortly after namely within two days or thereabouts
after the said seizure he the said sansieur declared and ackmowledged
that his shipp and lading were good prize and that hee was bound
for Amsterdam And saith the sd Captaine Sansier did declare to him
this deponent walking upon the sd Royall

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P1090972
f. 28r.

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P1090973
f. 28v.

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Samuell Swynocke, of St Catherine Colman, ffanchurch street, London, merchant, aged 43

16:° Novembris pedicta
Super allone XXXX

4. SAMUELL SWYNOCKE paroa S:t Catherine Colman ffanchurch
street London Mercator, annos agens 43 XXXXX
testis product et Jurat.

Ad 3:nd aclam dicti allonis deponit that hee was a fourth part
owner of a ship called then y:e Cumberland of London whereof
Peter Knight was M:r And saith that y:e sd Knight went with the
sd shipp upon this depots and y:e rest of his then owners acc:t upon a trading
voyage from this port of London to Rochel from thence to Dublin
in Ireland from thence back to Rochel and Bourdeaux. And when she
came to Bourdeaux he saith the aclate Peter Knight sold to
the aclate Samuell Beake XXXX the sd shipp then lying in y:e port of Bourdeaux
for y:e summe of foure thousand livers
which he knoweth by being part owner, namely of a fourth part
and by his factor Gabriell ?Reaw merch:t in Bourdeaux
having received y:e sd summe of 1000 livers for his share
or fourth part. And this deponent and y:e rest of y:e owners ?approved
of such sale made by the sd M:r And for y:e reasons aforesd this depot
beleeveth the sd M:r Beake to bee only proprietor of and XX
y:e properly to reste only in him. And for such hee was and is commonly
accounted.

Ad Interria

Ad primum nescit se ad predeporta. Als nescit saving as hee and XXX
the foresd Knight received y:e sd mony for y:e sd shipp and hath XXXXXX

Ad 2 nescit not being present at y:e lading in question. And is worth ?100:li

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad 4 nescit not being present when y:e salt was laded.

SAM SWYNOCKE [His signature]

Case: The ?Welfare: Deposition: fferdinando Bartlet, of XXXX, sailor, aged 3?9

17:° Novembris 1666

Touching y:e ?Welfare Samuel Bates M:r)

Super Interr ex parte Gold et Savior

FFERDINANDO BARTLETT paroa de ?Maker in Com XXXX
Nauta, annos agens ?39 aut XXXXX testis prodXXX
et Jurat dicit et deponit XXXXX

Ad primum rendet et deponit that hee was one of y:e Company namely Masters
Mate of y:e shipp the Welfare XXXX Samuel Ra?tell M:r the voyage in
question which voyage she began on or about y:e twentieth of
December last past from Plymouth to Leghorne, from thence to
Gallipoli, to lade oyles thence to London, whenre the XXX
shipp arrived and came to an anchor about five weekes of XXXXX
Shadwell dock or staire where she delivered her XXX
of oyles. Et alre nescit.

Ad 2. rend:t that the lading outwards bound from Plymouth consisted of
XXXXX of betweene five or six hundred hogsheads or thereabouts XXX XXXX
of XXXX Gold and Company as hee supposeth and were carried in the said shipp XXX
at Leghorne for XXXX as hee beleeveth. Et alr nescit.

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f. 29r.

Ad 3 rendet et deponit that when the said shipp went from Plymouth her said
voyage she was an old shipp w.ch soe generally looket upon to bee, And the
upper worke he saith was untrimed and unrepaired and the pumpes of y:e shipp
were not fitted as they should have bin for such a voyage and by reason
of such defects of the said shipp and a great storme happening neere y:e
Northerne Cape the foresaid goods received dammage by reason
of y:e waters comming into y:e said shipp and running into y:e hold. Et
alr nescit.

Ad 4 rendet et deponit that in case the said shipp had bin fitted as she ought to have
bin for such a voyage, in her upper workes and pumpes hee beleeveth
in his Conscience that the goods would not have received soe much
dammage as they did. And it is possible hee saith that y:e goods
might have bin damnified by y:e fore sd storme had the shipp bin a
tight and substantiall shipp, et alr nescit.

Ad 5 rendet et deponit that hee helped to land y:e said lading of
Pilchards at Leghorne, and did see and know that severall of y:e Caskes
of y:e said goods were damnifyed by water running into or amongst them, which were chiefly occasioned by reason the shipp
was defective in her upper workes and pumpes and thereby unable to beare
a storme soe well as a stronger shipp. Et alre nescit

Ad 6 rendet et deponit that y:e owners of y:e said pilchard have sustained losse
and dammage but to what vallue he cannot estimate. Et alr nescit

FFARDINANDO BARTLETT [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Peter Tooker, of MXXXX, Cornwall, sailor, aged 30

Eadem die

Super Intererys predict. Examinat

2. PETER TOOKER de Milnrooke in Com Cornwall Nauta annos agens 30 XXXXX XXXXX XXXX Jurat

Ad primum et 2 Interria deponit et rendet that hee was second mate of y:e aclate
shipp Welfare Samuell XXXXX M:r and sailed in her from Plymouth
to Leghorne thence to Gallipoli to lade oiles and thence to London which
yoyage she soe began on about the 20:th of December last and came to
an anchor over ag:t Bell wharfe staires in lower Shadwell about six weekes since. And saith the said shipp went from Plymouth with a lading of
about 600 hogsheads of pilchards to bee carried in the sd ship and to bee delivered at Leghorne to M:r James Gould upon y:e acct of M:r John Gold
and Company y:e producents. Et alr nescit.

Ad 3 et 4 Interria rendet et depont that when the sd ship began her sd
voyage she was an old shipp and some part of her upper work was defective
and the pumps underviceable when occasion and greatest use was to have bin
made of them and thereby unusefull for y:e said shipp, and by reason thereof
and stresse of weather or storme happening off y:e Northerne Cape the goods
or lading of pilchards received dammage about (as hee conceiveth) twenty two
Inches deepe. at y:e Windward pumpe. And beleeveth also that y:f y:e said shipp
had bin a tight and substantiall shipp the goods in all probability would not
have suffered dammage in such a measure as they did notwithstanding y:e foresd storme Et alre nescit rendere.

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f. 29v.

Ad 5 et 6 deponit et rendet that hee assisted and helped to unlade the said
goods so sawe and know some of y:e caskes to bee damnifyed but how many
or what dammage y:e merchts have suffered thereby hee cannot
declare. And saith that there was noe neglect in y:e Companyes
endeavours in pumping and keeping of waters from y:e goods for preservaccon
of them from dammage. Et alr nescit

PETER TOOKER [His signature]

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BREAK

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Franciscus Fleau, of Argenton, Britannia, sailor, aged 22

p1090992
f. 38r.

3. FRANCISCUS FLEAU de Argenton in
Britannia Nauta, annos agens 22 aut
de ricter dicit et deponit prout XXX Vizt

Ad dra Interria respond:t et discit That hee well knoweth the sship
the Swallowe interrate Captaine Manning Com:der and hath knowne her
for about two monthes last past and came to knowe her by being taken
by her as a XXXXXXX about two monthes XXXXX
in Britannia w:hr was laden w:th about 20 tonnes XXX XXXXXX salt for the acc:t offfrXXXXXXX
the sd ships owners were also XXXXXXXX that were XXXX
taken her company were all ffranXXXXX du GXXXX upon y:e sd XXXXX
all escaped in the boate saving this depo:t who hath ever since bin of the Swallowes
company, and saith that p:rsently after y:e XX ship Margaret was taken towit
the same day the Swallowe also tooke a Rotterdammer and suddenly
after towit about 8 or 9 dayes shee tooke two
ffrench ships of S:t Malloes of about 35 or 40 Tonnes laden w:th Rosin
& Pitch & y:e M:r XXXXX was ?Peter Bettard & the other
John Mathew XXXX XXXXXX XXXXX the sd shipps & their ladings &
company were carryed to ffalmouth, by y:e sd Captaine Manning

XXXXX

THOMAS XXXXXX lately of Rye in
Sussex but now a prisoner in y:e Marshalseyey
in Southwarke , Vintner, aged 31
or thereabouts saith & deposeth as followeth viz:t

To the 3:d 5:th & 6:th arles of the sd Libell hee deposeth & sayth That
on a Saturday happening in or about August last the aclate Cap:t
Nicholas HayXXXXX w:th y:e ship Neptune where hee was command:r met
upon y:e high & open seas to wit on y:e coast of ffrance off y:e fflatts
of Somme a reclaimed ship called the ffortunde of Hamborow John GXXXX
M:r

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f. 38v.

M:r laden w:th Copper wire Copper plates Copper Kettles some
blew XXXXX Tinne Lattin & other goods, coming as y:e M:r says from
Hamborow bound for Roane in ffrance, and saith that upon y:e sd XXX
w:ch was about foure or five of y.e Clock in y:e afternoone of the s:d XXX
the sd Captaine Heydon haled y:e sd ship & bid y:e XXX come on board
him w:ch XXX writings, w:ch the M:r did. And
p:rsently after the sd Captaine Heydon & the sd M:r went on board
the sd ship ffortune and this depo:t (belonging then to the sd ship Neptune
went

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Johannes ?Bapistral, of XXXX, sailor, about 24

P1090955
f. 39v.

1. JOHANNES ?BAPRISTAL XXXX
de ArXXXsano in X XXXX
XXXX Nauta
about 24 aut XX

Ad primum XXXXX XXX XXXX deponit et dicit That hee well knoweth
the aclate Joachim LanzXXXXX & David XXXXXXX & his freighters XXX
& hath soe knowne them ever since they freighted ?his ship the
Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew of w:ch XXXX the Cap:t XXX
freighting him was in December last at Valentia in y:e Dominion of the
King of Spaine, at w:ch place the ds freighters lived the sd time and
kept house, and there hee left them all living. And sayth that they
freighted the sd ship to goe from Valentia to GauXXXX & XXXX in the
Kingdome of Valentia aforesd to take in Wine & RegXXXX & XXXXX
XXX as their ffactors would lade, and to carry the same to fflanders
and there to Deliver the same to John SXXXXing a merchant & XXXX
of that place And all for y:e acc:t of the sayd three XXX
XX freighters And says his paps XXX alsoe dXXXXXX ?should &
et alr nescit

Ad 2:nd deponiit That y:e sd ship being soe freighted
the sd PolleXXXX did lade XXXX sd ship at ?Gaudia
one hundred seaventy five pipes of wine, and twelve butts of PXXXX
XXXX XXX XXX butts of Brandy and two hundred sixty XXX XXX
of Raysens, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX about six bales of XXXXX other goods and at ?Sabia they
alsoe lade onboard the sd ship about two thousand foure hundred XXX
seaven basketts of Raysins All for the acc:t of the sd XXXX XXXX
who were p:rsent at y:e sd places, and the same hee saith were to be XXX
XXX delivered at Hamborow as aforesd for & upon the acc:t & adventure
of y:e sd XX XXXX And hee XXXX saith that hee tooke
not any XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
of wines for one of his pilotts & two butts more for his other pilot XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
nescit saving hee saith that hee this depo:t laded at GaudiaFootNote(?Gaudia (OR, ?Gandia). Gandia is a town on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, ca. 75 km south of Valencia three butts of
black wines for his owne provision & at Sabia sixty XXXX basketts of
raysins for his owne acc:t

Ad 3:XXX deponit That the sd XXXX Zolliroffore told this Depo:t at the ?time
of lading y:e sd Goods that M:r John Luiknoll of London Merch:t was XXX
correspond:t in England, and that if hee this depo:t should by ?storme or other
accident be driven into England hee should make his addresses to the sd
XX XXXX, And saith that then thXX aclate M:r Tobias ZolliXXXffer was
XXX into England et alre pro XX sua nescit.

Ad 4:XX deponit That hee this depo:t did not before hee was brought in by
y.e XXXXXX that tooke him receive any letter about this busuines from
y:e XXX Tobias ZolliXXffor but since y:e sd XX Tobias Zollinffor wrote to
him promising him to assist him & get him cleared w:ch w:t expedicon XX
could. And hee further saith that this sd Cargo of Goods
marked w:th y:e marke in y:e marg:t XXX as XXX marke &
it being heated y:e marke was burnt upon y:e Caskes, and hee supposeth that
the sd marke is the usuall marke of the sd freighters, but hee doth not know
it to be soe not having ever before carryed any goods from them et alr referendXX
Et al RegXXXX XXXX XXXXX nescit

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Case: XXXX Deposition: Tobias Zollicoffre, of S:t Gall, XXXXX, Merchant, aged 39

P1090999
f. ?

15 Octobris 1666

Super Allone prod Examinat

2:dn TOBIAS ZOLLICOFFRE de S:t Gall in Switzerland
Mercator annos agens 39. aut XXXXX dicit et
deponit prout seq:r vizt.

Ad primum aclum depo:t et dicit That the Company called by y:e name
of ?Joachim Laurence and David Zollicoffre of S:t Gall in Switzerland
are afarr off allyed to this depo:t And this depo:t was a serv:t of y:e sd
Company at Valentia & Allicant & other places (?where they had & have a house of trade or buisines) for about Nine yeers
ending about Eight yeeres since the sd Company using to XXX
in their merchandizing affaires most of their owne name & XXXX
and saith that there were Joachim Zollicofre & one Jacob Laurence living now or lately in
S:t Gall in Switzerland, and there was & is alsoe one David Zollicoffre
also of S:t Gall, but lately lived or was at Valentia in the
Dominions of the King of Spaine, where this depo:t had XXX
from him about three quarters of a yeere XXXX & some about the ship & lading in
question called the Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew John Crayliff a XXXX
Command:r And other letters this depo:t alsoe received from other
in the name of the sd Company about y:e sd ship s Lading XXX
XXXX before her seizure to wit about ffebruary & March
last All declaring that the sd Company had freighted or caused to be
freighted at Valentia aforesd the sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew
to goe to Gandia & Sabia, there to take in her full lading of wine & fruite
on the sd Companyes proper acc:t & adventure, and to carry the sayd
Lading directly to Hamborrowe, on the same acc:t & adventures, and there
to deliver the same to John Srzethering (who this depo:t well knowes & XXXX
him to be a Burgher and senato:r of Hamborow) or to this depo:t XX XXX
then there, And saith that of the trueth thereof hee is fully assured &
convinced in his conscience, saying that if there had bin any XXX
of role therein or any thing contrary to what is above mentioned that
this depo:t (as he weekely used to receive letters from y:e sd Company & XX
to be made privy to their merchandizing affaires) must needs have XXXX
thereof. Et alr nescit.

Ad 2. 3. et 4:XX deponit That in or about March last hee ?received
an acc:t from y:e sd Company that on the 10:th of January last
there were laden onboard the sd ship at Gandia for the acc:tXXXX XXX of the sd XXX
of Zollicoffre (who hee saith are all Switzers (sic) & subjects of y:e Cantons of
Switzerland) One hundred seaventy five pipes of red wine, three
pipes of Brandy, twelve pipes of pickled XXnons one hundred thirty
two XXintalls of XXXXX , a pcell of dry rosemary leaves
consists, & squills, Eight parts of DXXXX, and two ?sucall cases of perfume
and at Sabia on the same acc:t & XXX two Thousand foure hundred sixty
basketts of Raisins as marked w:th XXXX y:e XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and in the letter in 10:X that XXX XXXXXX y:e sd Company
gave this depo:t full power that if in case the sd ship should be forced
or brought into England that then this depo:t if hee found an
advantagious market should sell the whole lading there for their acc:t
and they alsoe wrote to that effect to M:r John Lucknel their ffactor
or Correspondent here in this depo:ts absence, the sd Company not being
certaine how long this depo:t should stay here before hee returned to haXXXXX
And saith that hee is fully psuaded in his conscience XXXX XX that the sd Acc:t was & XXX
reall, and that none besides y:e Company have had any interest in y:e sd Lading since the putting y:e same onboard the

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And sayeth that this depo:t having XXXX y:e XXXXX
advice and knowing that XXXX & wines & espetially y:e ?fruite were
good Comodities XXXX and about two monthes before y:e seizure of the sd
ship write foure lres of one teno:r XXX foure of y:e XXXX theise ports of England
?Receited to y:e sd Captaine of y:e sd ship, to acquaint him that hee this
depo:t was at London & that hee had XXXX order XXXX XXX Company to y:e effect aforesd and thatt
XXX ffruite & wines were good commodityes here & that therefore XX XXX was
brought or ?feried into England hee would advise him this depo:t thereof
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX or to that effect, but notice of the sd Lres (as hee understands) came to y:e sd
Captanes hands, hee being brought into Rye, et alr nescit, saving hee saith that
upon y,e XXX of the sd advice this dep:t did make an XXXXX
for XXXXXXXX XXX the sd Lading in the XXXX of this court as thereby
appreareth.

Ad 5:th deponit That the sd Company alsoe advised this depo:t long before
the seizure of the sd ship that they sent the Charterpty for y:e sd
ships sd voyage & a bill of lading for y:e sd Lading overland to the sd
John Srzehering at Hamborowe, and the sd John Srzehering from
Hamborowe before y:e sd ships seizure advised this depo:t that hee had
received advise of the sd ships lading & a bill of Lading and wished that
this depo:t might be at Hamborowe at y:e time of the sd ships arrivall
there, for that hee XXXXX was old & did not care to be troubled w:th
factorage, And saith that y:e sd Company gave order to the
sayd Srzehering & to this depo:t y:f hee was at Hamborowe whXXXXX
sd ship arrived here to relade her w:ch the XXXX of her p:rsent lading
w:th Load Tarr & other merchandizes ?on theri acc:t and to send her on the
same acc:t to Valentia & Allicant, and that if this depo:t met w:th the sd
ship here & disposed of her lading then to lade her w:ch the proceed
thereof w:ch load, load XXXX XXXXX XXXX pepper & other commodityes
on their acc:t & XXXX & to send her on y:e same acc:t to Vallentia & Allicant
And saith that hee by reason of y:e premisses well knwoweth that y:e sd
ship (of this depo:t did not meete XXX her in England) was to goe
directly to Hamborow & not to Holland or any unfree or other port
than Hamborow w:htsoever, and hee is well assured that y:e Captaine would
not have goce for y:e freight agreed on, to any unfree port, et alr nescit

Ad 6:XX nescit.

Ad 7:XX deponit That hee is well assured that y:e foresd Lading was
taken in at Gandia Sabia, according as is mentioned in the
acc:t by him receaved as aforesd, and hee doth verily beleeve that nothing
was taken in at Mallega unles twas some small matter taken in
between Decke by some of y:e Company, And say that hee knowe not
sd shipps Company before seizure, And saith that by their XXXXX
hee judge them to be all of Genoa except the two pilotts, one of w:hom is
called Gro XXXXXXX XX is at this depo:ts judges by his name & XXXXX a Hamburger
and the other (who is clubfooted & sayd to have bin marryed three yeeres in Allicant)
declares themselfes to be of ffrerickstadt under y:e Dominion of y:e Duke
of Holsteyn & soe this depo:t beleeveth hee is, et alr nescit.

Ad XXXX arle deponit that y:e foresd one hundred seaventy five pipes pf
wine laden at gandia as aforesd (being now filled up) doe ?make but about
Eighty pipes of wine, soe that allowing five p. Cent ?common Leakage there would
have bin about one hundred sixty seaven pipes w:ch would have yeilded at
Hamborowe

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Hambrorowe ten pound p pipe cleere of all charges therXXXXX only XXXX
and according to that computacon there are X7 ?pipes XXXX short, w:ch XXXX
out by reason of y:e detention of the sd ship at Rye about three months
y:e hottest time of the yeere in w:ch time that depo:t was onboard XXXX
Rye and ?found & sawe that y:e heate had so XXXX that the raisins
resXXXXXXX ?leaves, that they dryed the caskes & made y:e hoopes dry
& consequently y:e wines to leake out & this depo:t then sawe
Bucketts full of wine pumped up XXX at this depo:t XXXXXX
informed, used to be done every morning, And saith that by reason
of y:e said heat most of the wine that is left is decayed & growne XX
and worth but about two thirds of w:t twas worth at the time of y:e XXXX
And saith that y:e foresd CreyXXXX making in all one thousand three
hundred sixty five XXXXalls & a XXXXX (two of y:e foresd basketts being
XXXXX to a Quintall) were worth at XXXXXXXXX both there and at Hamborowe about
two & seventy shill p Quintall ?cleere of all charges freight excepted,
and y:t should yeild at publicke XXXX (by reason of their being XXX
overflowed by their says long detention) Much lesse to wit about a thousand
Quintalls but about ?five shill a Quintall and the rest about Nine
shillings a Quintall, Amd saith that y:e greatest pt XXXXXX XXXXX
XXXXXXX Quintalls XXXXXX y:e XXXXXX sd oyles & the wine away
by reason of y:e sd long Detention, XXX XXX
of XXX ?Rosemary leave being worthat y:e sizure at Hamborow about
thirty shillings, but y:e vallue of y:e XXXXXXX XX cannot XXXXX XX
but supposes that the same was of some greater vallue than the
Rosemary leaves, And saith that the Rosemary leaves that are left XX
are about fourty Quintalls all much damnifyed by y:e sd long ?detention
Et alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit prdeposita p omna XXX vera.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t That hee knoweth not who are y:e owners of the sd
ship, et quoad cetera refert so ad prdeposita et alr nescit.

Ad 2:XXX rend:t RThat since the XXXX y:e sd Company hath yet XXX
knoweth of or beleeves traded to Holland or had any factors
XXXX there, And saith that in regard this rend:t was there hee had ?heard
that y:e sd ship should ?have bin taken by y:e English than by y:e ?Hollanders
& hee beleeveth that XX of Company were of y:e same mind for y:t reason
Et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX rend:t That hee sawe not any money payd for y:e sd Lading, And
saith that an Assurance is made upon y:e sd Lading at Genoa by?Charles ?Dominick XXXXX
& XXXXX Henoueses & merch:ts dwelling at Genoa & well XXXX & XXXXX of that free XXXX
to this rend:t who hath lately recvd lres from them about y:e same to get XXXX
to avoyd the Companys that they may sustaine, Et XXXXX causas XXXX
XXXXX supra et alr nescit.

Ad 4 nescit nor XXX XXX p pte sua.

Ad XX rendit That y:e sd ship was by agreem:t to have two pilotts XXXX
at XXX and charges of the freighters as this depo:t was informed & XXXX
clubfooted pilott (whose name hee knoweth not) was taken in before the other
pilott as hee understandes, And saith that twas very XXXX
that there should be two pilotts that one XXXXX have the other XXX
awake, the rest of the men being strang:rs in these seas, et alr nescit
XX

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Ad 6:XX rend:t se ad XXX deporta et alr nescit

Ad 7:XX nescit et XXX sua.

Ad 8:XXX rend:t That the sd ship was seized in or about ?may XXX
last And saith that hee doth not knowe beleeve or hath heard that the sd
ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew made or intended to make any
resistance at her sd seizure, et alr nescit

Ad 9:XX nescit

Ad 10:XX necit

Ad 11. 12. et 13:XX rendet That p:rsently after baile was
given in this Court for y:e bringing y:e sd ship about to wit in July last hee
this depon:t went downe to Rye to XXX XXXX to bring her about to
London & there to unlade her to pvent further leakage & damage And sayeth
that noebody at Rye XX XXX XXX proposed to have any  ?remedy put to p:rvent further damage
but on the contrary hee XX XXXX was XXXX from bringing y:e sd ship about by
George ?carew ag:t whom hee protested for y:e same and sayth that he XXXX XXXXX
M:r Steele did XXX London give this rend:t a note to some ast Rye to
assist him this rend:t for y:e p:rvention of damage, w:ch note signifyd
XXX this rend:t being XXXXed by M:r Carew as aforesd And sath that y:e
sd note was directed to one Standish of Rye to whom this depo:t delivered the
same & hee by consent of this rend:t did XXXX XXX and M:r Gilliard of
Rye sell about ffifty foure basketts of Raysins XXX XXXX and agreed that y:e money should
be deposited in the hands of the Major of Rye wXXXXX XXXXXX XXX promise XXXX
& this day at this XXXX is informed, the sd sale being made after this
refend:t departed from Rye, And saith that the sd M:r Steele XXX hee gave him
y:e sd note told him that XXX XXXXX out XXX this rend:t knowe XXX
XX true and saith that XX XXXX was allwayes willing & soe was M:r Lucknell & the Captaine
tp p:rvent leakage XXX damage as XXXX at XXXX as is
?concerned them to doe, but nothing appeared but XXXX XXX on y:e other side
And saith that although this rend:t left an order in writing w:th the sd GiXXX
to sell as many of y:e sd raisins as hee could at & about Rye & XXXX xx:s
a Quintall w:th this priXXXX taht be mony should be payd into y:e hands of the
major of Rye XX XXX Gilliard XX XXX could not sell any more at or about Rye
as XXXXX informed this rend:t et alr nescit rendere

Ad 14:XX rend:t That neyther hee this rend:t nor y:e sd M:r Lucknell
to his knowledge ever refused to doe any thing that XXXX to XX
p:rXXXXX of Lekage or damage of y.e sd Lading, and any that were
frequently told by the owne pty & the privateers that y:e wines leaked
out & y:e fruite receaved every day damage and hee this rend:t used his endeavo:r
to p:rvent the same but was obstructed by M:r carew as aforesd, et alr
salvis predeporta nescit.

Ad 15:XX rendet That about foure or five weekes after seizure of y.e sd
ship ?D:r Exton y:e proctor for y:e privateer XXXXXXXXXXXX professed XX this rend:t That
hee shpuld have the ship & goods his XXX possession, giving
baile to be answereable for the vallue w:ch hee XXX did not accept of, not
knowing in w:t condition the fruite XXXX & XXXX, & for y:t the same could not XXXXXX
be appraised. And for that XXX not being XXXXX in y:e ship was not willing
to engage for her. the sd M:r Exton standing upon XXXly from this
rend:t XXXX for her as her lading, et alr nescit

Ad 16:XX rend:t That hee cannot judge w:t damage or leakage happened tp
y.e sd wine XX XX XX or six weekes after sd seizure
XXw:t y:e XXX were deteriorated w:thn in ye sd time or w:thin every moneth
nor any moneth since, et alr nescit

Ad 17:XX rend:t That XXXXX at first desired that thee sd ship
should be XXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx decaying XX XX baile was given in
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in this Court as y;t afterwards will make appeare and to wit after his returne from Rye XX
gave his owne bond in 3000:li to bring y:e sd ship about to London y:e
danger of y:e seas excepted & to satnd y:e Judgem:t of this Court
this being done the sd ship was brought about to London and saith that when this XXX
was at Rye the XXX aforesd
y:e Dutch ffleete was then gone or going off the English Coast, and
that they were all gone of the English Coast, et alr nescit

Ad ult nescit nor XXXXXX

TOBIAS ZOLLICROFTE [His signature]

Case: XXXX: 3. Garret Johnson, of Allicante, sailor, aged 37

3. GARRET JOHNSON de Allicant in Regno XXXX
Nauta annos agens 37 aut inter dicit et deponit
prout sequitir

Ad primum et 2:XX arle dXX Allonis deponit et dicit That hee well knoweth
the aclate ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew Capt. John Bapstisto GalXXXXX
Comman:r abd hath soe done ever since the XX:th of June
last new stile at w:ch time this depon:t came onboard her at Allicant to goe ?as
one of her steeresmen from thence directly to Hamborowe, and thence back againe to
Allicant & there he was to be freed, and saith that hee was hired for the
sd voyage by two Merchants called The ?Sollingffore who live at
Allicant who at their hiring told this depo:t that y:e ship was free & the
goods were free & the place hee was to goe to was free, this depon:t
refusing otherwise to goe in the sd ship, And saith that before this
depo:ts coming onboard the sd ship shee was fully laden XXX XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX and XXXX
was Layd from Gandia & Sabia and saith that hee cannot set downe y:e
pticulars of y:e sd Lading but saith that as heeallwayes understood & as hee
verily beleeveth the sayd Lading was & is upon y:e acc:t of a free company
called y:e Sollisoffers and saith that hee is very sure that y:e sd ship was
to carry y:e sd Lading directly to Hamborowe, and that the said lading was
to be delivered there to John Srzethering XXXXX to be a Lord of y:e
Towne of Hamborowe And firther saith that from Allicant y:e sd ship went
to mallaga because y:e Hamborowe Convoy lay there, w:ch when that sd XXXX
ordered the sd Captaine to keepe company to
Hamborowe, and saith that nothing was taken in at Mallaga, saving
that hee this depo:t tooke in two pipes of Mallaga wine for his owne acc:t
and the Captaine two pipes on his acc:t & the other steirsman called Henry HrXXXXX who was XXX
at Mallaga) tooke in two more piples, & XX XXX Company one pipe, et alr
nescit

Ad 3:XX nescit XXX pte sua.

Ad 4:XX nrefert so ad XXXquam hujus Curia et alr nescit
saving that hee hath seene severall things in y:e sd ship of her cargoe
marked w:th such a marke as is aclate.

Ad 5:XX deponit That hee is well assured that y:e sd ship was to have gone
directly XXX her sd lading to hamborowe & at XXXXXX there to XXXX the same as
aforesd, and hee was hired to goe directly their to XXXXX from thence
directly to Alicante, And saith that hee is well assured that y:e sd Captaine
would not have gone for Holland or any unfree place for much ?more XX
sd was the XXXX XX for his freight & this depo:t for his p:t would not have gone
for any unfree place for two times his wages, et alr nescit.
Ad

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Ad ?6:XX deponit That the sd shipp stayd at Mallaha attending y:e ?dpture
of the sd Hamborowe Convoy from y:e 19:th or thereabouts of ffebruary to the ?16:th of
Aprill last or thereabouts new stile and saith that the Captaine of y:e sd
ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew & this depon:t severall ?times at Mallaga
wentt on board y:e sd Convoy & the Comman:r of y:e sd Hamborow Convoy
was XX well tp them, and lent them a CXXXXX w:ch they were to returne
to him at Hamborowe, And saith that from Mallaga the
ship went any XXX y:e sd Hamborow Convoy
also y:e Ostend Convoy in XXXX and Pre XXXXX lost y:e sd Ostend
Convoy and the ship ca,e w:th y:e sd Hamborow Convoy to y:e
sayd XXXX XXXXX & XXXXX Hamborow Convoy sailed away to goe y:e
?North passage but y:e Captaine of y:e sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew
understanding that that was two hundred ?Duty miles out of his way &
in regard gee was hired to goe that way & for that hee considered himselfe
free from y:e XXXXXXXXX his only XXXXX hee steered to come
through y:e Channell, And saith that hee did not y:e time aforesd heare
that S:r Jeremy Smith or y:e English ffleete were at or neere any place
where the sd ship was. Et alr nescit.

Ad 7:th deponit That Gandia is about a hundred leagues or ?Dutch
miles from Mallaga And saith that
the foresd Henry GrotXXXXson is a Hamburger & there hath
a XXX XXXXX as hee & other s have affirmed to this depo:t & this
depo:t doth verily beleeve & saith that hee this depo:t XXXX is y:e XXXX
XXX XXXXX pilott or the XXX) XX of Allicante there hath lived to y:e
XXXX wife & XXXXXX for XXX three yeeres & a halfe last & before that
went to XX & downe XXXX & before lived at ?Jeere & XX the XXX
at Allicant, and was borne in Frederickstadt under y:e Duke of Holsteyn
and saith that tis true that hee hath bin & XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX in Holland & there marryed his
wife but never was asubject of the united provinces & soe soone as gee
was marryed hee carryed his wife to Allicant where shee hath ever since
lived and saith that had hee not bin a free pson the Zollwiffres
would bot have hired him they being careful that noe unfree persons
should come onboard y:e sd ship. et alr nescit

Ad 8:XX deponit That by reason of y:e wine so long lying at
Rye abundance of y:e wine namely about halfe as hee
suposeth is leaked out & that w:t remaineth is ?much damnifyed,
& soe are the reasins (sic) as hee judgeth & hee sawe that severall other goods
towit _S:t Johns ?Broke & Rosemary leaves were XXXX spoiled
XXXX of y:e goods hee beleeves are almost XXXXX all occasioned by
long detention by y:e Cap that tooke the ship and saith that hee
cannot estimate y:e sd damage not having skill in
the vallue of such merchandizes , but saith that ?had not y:e sd seizure happened
the same would doubtles have come to a good market et alr nescit

Ad 9:XX arlum deponit That so soone as y:e ?Caver came up
toward y:e sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew shee fired a Gun at
XX her , & then one of her company put tp y:e Genoese flag & that
?bouXX done &XX y:e spXXX that one might have XXXX XXXXXred after y:e ?firing
y:e first gun the Cap fired a second & then the sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph
S:t Andrew XXXXX XXXX her top saile & pulled up her mainesaile XXX
& sd shipp, & did stop her p:rsently & XXXXXX submitted to y:e sd Cap &
did not make or ?attempt to make any resistance w:tsoever. And saith that
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the sd Cap commander & y:e Captaine of y:e sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew
on board XX, and the Captaine soe soone as possibly hee could XXXX on
his boate went onboard y:e ap XX w:th his paprs and then severall
of y:e Caps Company came onboard y:e sd ship & tooke XXX into their
custody & tooke away y:e Captaines money amounting as y:e Captaine
sd to about sixty or seaventy peeces of Eight & his Ring, silver forks,
& spoones & some of his cloathes and severalll of y:e ships cpmpany
XXXX, alsoe some wXXX XXX & amongst XX belonging to
XX sd ship, and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX of the Captaines
XXXX & one of this depon:ts piples of wine
XXX pipe worth then 15:li sterle cleare of all charges. et alr nescit

Ad ult XXX pde XXX p XXXX este vera.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t That hee cannot sware XXX XXXX brought of y:e sd
ship but knoweth her to be a Genoese shipp, and saithh that
hee knows none of y:e sd Ships Company before this voyage saving two
of them w:ch hee knowe about a yeer before & saith
that y:e sd Captaine & all the Company. (saving this rend:t & XXXX pilot
hath CCCCCC or of some place thereabouts. et alr referando
XX XXX XXXX nescit.

Ad 2:XX salvis predeprta nescit rendere

Ad 3:XX rend:t That hee sawe noe money payd for y:e sd ships cargoe,
& for this XXXX XXXX payd for y:e hands & XXX himselfe. et alr pro pte sua nescir

Ad 4:XX nescit.

Ad 5:XX rend:t That when this rend:t was hired & came onboard y:e sd shipp
shee had never a pilot & XX or pilot XXXX taken in afterwards at Mallaga
and two were taken in, in regard that y:e Genoese XXXX little skill
navigacon , & for feare that one pilot should dye or be sick
et alre XXXXXX

Ad 6:XX refert XX ad preXXXX

Ad 7:XXX nescit et negative per ptesiva

Ad 8:XXX rend:t That y:e ship was taken on y:e 5:th of June last new
stile, and say that the Cap fired but two Gunns in all a y:e sd ship,
& tis treie that y:e Cap was prepared to fight, & sd Cap XX XXX
at sea use to be , but y:e sd ship Jesus Maria Joseph S:t Andrew prepared ?nothing
for fighting nor was at XXXX when y:e Cap came up XXX her in XXX
XXXXX to XXXXX make resistance shee used to be / sautrh that they knowing
that they were met w:th by English who were three freinds, they did not
make or intend to make resistance, expecting upon sight of the paps
to be let goe, et alr salvis pdeposis nescit rendere.

Ad 9:XX rend:t that at first Xahing this rend:t & severall others the CapXX
several times that they were bound to Hamborow XX XXXXX Y:e Lawe
but say that some of the Caps company coming onboard y:e sd ship & ?beating
Company from one place of the ship to the other
and XXXXX y:e Cap company crying out that the sd ship was to goe
to Holland this rend:t (being ?frightened) did on a sudden let the word Amsterdam
slip out of his mouth, w:ch hee p:rsently recalled of himselfe & sayd Hamborowe
as hee had sayd halfe a dozen times before, as the truth was et alr nescit rendere

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100007
f. 45r.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Anthony Smith, of Poole, Dorset, marriner, late Boatswaine of the Orange Tree, aged 20

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P1100008
f. 45v.

ANTHONY SMITH H[is signature]

*****

Case: XXXX: Johes Debron, of Plymouth, sailor, aged 20

Privateer Edward Bonadventure

Ad Interria

Swedes Lyon

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Isaac Gill, citizen of Dublin, Ireland, Merchant, aged 21

P1100009
f. 46r.

Samuell Beake

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P1100010
f. 46v.

ISSAC GILL [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Isaac Gill, XXXX

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P1100011
f. 47r.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

ISAAC GILL [His signature]

Case: XXXX Deposition: Petrus Peterson, citizen of Riga, Livonia, sailor, aged 44

5:° Novembris 1666

PETRUS PETERSON civitatis Rega in Livonia Nauta
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100012
f. 47v.

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P1100013
f. 48r.

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P1100014
f. 48v.

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P1100015
f. 49r.

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P1100016
f. 49v.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX Deposition: Petrus Rich, of Lambeth (sic) Norway (sic) Merchant, aged 36

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P1100017
f. 50r.

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P1100018
f. 50v.

YXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

P. RICH [His signature]

Case: XXXX Deposition: Cornelius Van XXXX, XXX, XXXX

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P1100019
f. 51r.

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P1100020
f. 51v.

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P1100021
f. 52r.

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P1100022
f. 52v.

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Case: XXXX Deposition: 2. Humphrey Groome, of London, merchant, aged 36

P1100023
f. 53r.

John Day

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P1100024
f. 53v.

hee saith were all y: etime of y;e daies of y:e respective schedules aclate
XXXXXX belonging to the sd Prize Office, and sath used to
receive money and give receits & this depo:t hath had severall ?receipts
of them and being well acquainted w:th their manner of subscription
ther first schedule to be signed by the sd Hugh Hurst the second
& fourth by the sd Edw:d BuryX & the third by the sd Clement
Eglestone, and beleeveth y:e contents of the said foure receipts (w:ch
hee hath seene & XXX to be true & reall, to be soe XXX &
done as herein is conteyned et alr nescit

Ad Interria

Ad primum et 2:XX That y:e Copyes of y:e TRansferrs interraie w:ch
are
drawne according to y:e sd John Dayes usuall forme of drawing y:e ?transferrs
and saith that hee cannot tell whether y:e sd John
Day did YYYY 1652 1653 or 1654 act as a Broker
or not bit this Rend:t knowes that hee did fore
that time sometimes doe busines as a Broker et alr salvis
p:rdepositis nescit

Ad 3:XXX rend:t that hee hath not seene the Prize Office Bookes or ?is
relaccon to this busuines, et alr nescit.

Ad 4:XX rend:t That M:r ?Cury might w:thin y:e time interrare buy

severaéé Quantityes of Prize goods of the then Com:rs or their
Officers & not pay for the same & this rend:t not knowe there XXX
but saith that hee doth not knowe that hee bought XXXX et
alr nescit

Ad 5XX nescit pro ptescia

Ad 6:XX nescit.

Ad 7:XX rendet That hee never sawe any money payd by the sd Luke Lucy
to XXX the Com:r interrate et alr nescit

Ad 8:XXX nescit.

Ad 9:XX rend:t that hee this rend:t recvd the foresd three summes or sawe it
received of the sd XXX XXXX XXXX pr els hee should not have given the receits for the same w:ch XXX
hee knoweth to be his owne hand , but w;ch XXX money out or who was then
p:rent or where hee recdd the same of the XXX otherwise than by the dare
of y:e receit note hee beleeveth are XXXXdated hee for his pte
remembreth not it being soe long since et alr nescit rendere.

Ad 10:XX rend:t that hee hath not prssed y:e bookes interraia in relacon to y:e
busiones, nor did this rend:t ever belong to y:e sd Prize Office et alr nescit

Ad 11:XX 12:XX 13:XX et 14:XX rend:t that hee was not p:rsent nor did XX
the foresd Hurst BXXXX & Eglestone or any of them subscribe the
foresd Receits et alr nescit

Ad 15:XX et 16:XX nescit pXX pte

Ad 17:XXX rend:t That nothing is given or promised to him for his
testimony herein or coming about this busuines nor doth hee expect
ought bor will it be ay benefit or p:rjudice to this rendt w:ch way
soever thi cause goes y:t hee knoweth of et alr negXXXXX

HUM BROME [His signature]

Repetit coram Dno Sweit Sur:to

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Case: XXXX Deposition: 3. Thomas Harris, citizen of London, XXXX, aged 52

P1100025
f. 54r.

13:° Novembris 1666

Sup Allone prod Examinat

3. THOMAS HARRIS civitatis London Generesus annos
agens 52 aut XXX dicit et deponit prout seq Evizt

Ad Octavium et 9:XX arl die Allonis et computum deponit et dicit That this depo:t very
well knoweth y:e aclate M:r Luke Lucy deced and often time did busines for him
and sayth that in the yeere 1659 that y:e sd M:r Lucy was called before a Committee for brining
in y:e arreres of the revenue appointed by y;e then power, and one M:r ?ffinch XX XXX was then
theCouncell & this depo:t was his solicitor and did XXXX or XXXX appeare as XXX XXXX M:r
Lucy & M:r ffinch before the sd Comittee, and oftentimes about that time this depo:t heard
y:e sd M:r Luke Lucy very seriously affirme that an agr:t was made up betweene
him & y:e aclate John Day CCC CCC time of y:e sd Day for
y:e ship Elias & other XXXX goods bought of y:e sd Day, and that hee y:e sd M:r Lucy had really payd
for y:e same, and had severall acquittances for money payd on that acc:t
and that the sayd Day was & continued still his debtor above a hundred pounds
and that in regard of their old acquaintance & former service done by the sd Day
hee the sd M:r Lucy tooke two Looking Glasses for the same, All w:ch this depo:t
doth really beleeve to be true, for that the sd M:r Lucy was a man of great
integrity, and one that would not as this depo:t is psuaded in his conscience affect
such a thing unles twas true & reall, And saith that the sd M:r Lucy was
XXXXX before y:e sd Committee in y:e month of June 1659
to pay into y:e treasury for prize goods 504:li 10:s 2:d or therabouts for soe much owing by
him for prize goods bought of the late Com:r for Prizes and alsoe to pay
290:li 2.s 3:d for prize goods bought of y:e sd Com:r by the sd Lucy & John
Day, and saith that the sd M:r Lucy together w:th the sd M:r ?ffinch & this depo:t
did appeare before y:e sd Comittee & denyed the charges and the sd M:r Lucy
then desiring to avoyd further trouble being a XXXX man did by his Councell
M:r ffinch put it upon this issue That if it did appeare by y.e bookes of the
Prize Office that the sd M:r Lucy was anyways
endebted to y:e sd office for any ship or goods bought of the sd Office by him
or his order, that then hee the sd Lucy would Imediately pay what hee should
be soe charged w:thall, whereupon the sd Comittee made an order a copy of
w:ch this depo:t nowe hath w:th him being of the teno:r following vizt
Wednesday 29. June 1659. By the Comittee for bringing in the arrears
of the revenue due to the Commonwealth Upon hearing what was offered
this day by the Com:r for prize goods acc:t Lucas Lucy and w:t in M:r ffinch
being of the Counsell alledhed on his behalfe it is ordered that the sd Com:r
doe suffer y:e sd M:r Lucy to see their bookes in relaccon to his charge or
discharge for prize goods as likewise to deliver him Copyes of the transferrs made
by M:r Day and also tp give him a copy of the XXXX acc:t charged upon him
of thee desire the ?Land and they are to agree & setle the acc:t if they can
or else the Com:r are to certify us in writing the state of the case w;th
their opinion upon Wednesday the sixth of July next at nine of the
Clock in the forenoone, signed in the name & by the order of the sd Com:r
A ?Baynes. And saith that some few dayes after the sd order was soe
made, the sd M:r Lucy & his serv:t Abraham Guallier now as this depo:t
beleeveth in y:e barbadoes) & hee this depo:t did w:th severall of the
Accomptants & other Officers or Clarkes of the sd Office ther in the p:sence
alsoe to his remembreance of one or more of the sd Com:rs & alsoe
one M:r ?RomX accomp:t to M:r Oxenbridge y:e Controller of y:e sd Office
peruse the bookes of the sd Office w:th were then produced by some of the sd
Office, and the sd M:r Lucy did then desire them to show him where
hee stood XXXX in their bookes w:th any of XX sd summ for w:ch hee was
questioned before the sd Committee but notwithstanding XX
of them did (or could as hee beleeves) shew any Amount XX the sd
XXX in any of y:e bookes of the sd Office, wherby hee was charged as Debter
to them for any time but only shewed unto him the acc:t of the sd John Day

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P1100026
f. 54v.

And sayth that hee this Rend:tthen or about that time did declare to the sd
Lucy this depo:t being p:rsent that hee hath XXXXX the Acc:ts of the sd Office
and by reason of his sd Imploym:t did well understand them, and thatM:r Lucy was not charged for any thing therein, or to that effect, and ?after
hee told this depo:t that the sd Office could not charge the sd M:r Lucy w:th any XXX
unles by the bookes being written over againe, w.:ch hee sayd
they had bin as hee beleeved twice or thrice or to that effect And further
that suddenly after the foresd XXXXX hee this depo:t did repaire to the XXXX
or Register of y:e sd Comittee and desired to knowe whether y:e sd ComXXX
had made any rectifyate according to y:e foresd order & whwther the sd Comittee
had made any order thereupon, and hee replyed & told this depo:t that
hee beleeved that the XXXX XXXXX XXXXX noe other XXXXXX or to that
effect, And saith that afterwards y:e XX M:r Lucy was not ever XXX y;e XX depo:ts
knoweth or ever heard of further questioned XXX et alr nescit saving that the sd
John Day did live some yeeres after the time in w:ch the ship
& goods in question were sayd to be bought.
Sup reliquis non examinatur ex direnone M:r Lucy

Ad Interria

Ad primum rendet that hee cannot answer thereto, nor can tell w:t to beleeve
therein hee being a stranger to y,e buisines interrate.

Ad 2:XX rend:t That the sd John Day was reputed to by a publique broker
about twenty yeeres since
& this depon:t hath heard and beleeveth that the sd John Day
did buy or contract for severall parcells of prize goods both as a broker and XX
as merchant on his owne acc:t et alr nescit.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX Deposition: 1. Guilielmus Sweetmore, of Redcliff, Surrey, sailor, aged XXX

P1100027
f. 55r.

Ad primum et 2:XXX arle XXX deponit et dicit That hee this depo:t was one of y:e
Company of the ship Hopefull Seaventure Henry Robinson M:r XXXX
and XXXX that about five weekes since cXXXXing alr non nescit the sd ship was
by a stiffe winde driven almost upon ? XXX Bucksam sand coming foule XX XX XXX
Anchor XXX to get further off, and the sd shipp, the Hopefull Seaventure being under sayle
w:th her sprittsaile y:e aclate ship y:e Comfort Sparkes M:r did lie in the way of y;e
sd shipp Hopefull Seaventure by a sayle XXXX upon the XXXXX, soe that y:e sd Robinson
could get cleare of y:e Comfort or not called out & XXX six or seaven XXXX
aloud, & as loud as possibly they could to those of the Comfort to clap their
XXXXX a port that y:e Hopefull Seaventure might goe cleere, and this depo:t (XXX XXX
y:e rest of the sd ships company soe called & cried out and saith that after such
calling & crying a which much was y:e sd Sparkes XXX as hee of herXXX confessed in this depo:ts ?presence
came running up out of his cabbin, & to the forecastle & by that time

the sd ship Hopewell Seaventure was past the sd ship Comfort, and saith that noe answer
XXXX XXXXX was made by y:e sd Sparkes or any of his company that this
depo:t heard, and therfore this depo:t judges that they were all besides y:e sd Sparkes
asleepe, and that M:r Sparkes the next day did onboard the sd ship Hopefull
Seaventure in the p:rsence of this depo:t & the rest of the sd ships company confesse
that there was none upon his ships deck the time aforesd & that his watch
was asleep in the Cooke roome, But saith that notwithstanding this neglect
in them the sd ship Hopefull Seaventure by gods blessing upon y:e endeavo:r of
the XX M:r & Company went clere of the Comfort & never touched her head
Boltspritt masts or any pt of the yards, or any thing els belonging
to her only y:e yard arme of the spritsaile w:ch was soe slightly touched that
noe XXX was done to it or to the sd ship Comfort of his surtaine
knowledge of this depo:T who was an eye witnes thereof, and saith that such touching the sd
yard arme might have bin easily p:rvented if the M:r & Company of the Comfort
or any of them had bin at hand to have put their XXXX a port
or topped their sprittsaile yard. et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX arlum deponit That y:e sd ship Hopefull Seaventure being passed the Comfort
it went about a quarter of a mile from the Comfort, XX past anyXX & veered
out a hundred & a fathom of cable, and XX about ag:X of a milestone the Comfort
XX continued fast at anchor halfe and hower or betweene
halfe an hower & three a:r of an hower after y:e Hopefull Seaventure passed by
and then this depo:t espyed her driving and shee suddenly after passed by the
Hopefull Seaventure and came to an Anchor about two Cables length off of her
and saith that had the Hopefull Seaventure XXXyed her cable this depo:t XXXXX who has
bin a seaman these 6 yeeres must needs have bin sensible of it for them hee saith XXXXXXXXXXXX
that the Hopefull Seaventure would have in stopped & in danger of being
sunk by XXXX y:e Comforts haws or else her cable must have yeilded & y:e ship
Comfort have driven, and this is well knowne to all seamen, and saith that
y:e sd ship Hopefull Seaventure was not in y:e least stopped, but went as cleere
as any ship could doe, and y:e Comfort continued XXX for the time aforesd
et alr nescit
Ad

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P1100028
f. 55v.

Ad 4:XX et 5:XX XXX deponit et dicit That the next day after y:e ship Hopefull
Seaventure passed by y:e Comfort as aforesd the M:r of the Comfort ?swept one
tide for his cable & anchor, but not finding of it hee came that day onboard the
Hopefull SEaventure, and then p:rtended that shee had not his cable, and sayd that
hee had had a buoy to his anchor but that twas not seene in eight& XXXX XXXXX
before XX shee was adrift or to that effect w:ch hee sayd &
confessed in the p:rsence of this depo:t & severall of teh rest of the Hopefull
Seaventures company and alsoe of his owne company. And saith that the
sd M:r of the Comfort desiring the ship & Company of the Hopefull Seaventure
to assist upon in sweeping for the sd Anchor & cable, y:e Company of the Hopefull
did sweepe two ?tymes for the same, but noe buoy appearing they could not
find the same, and soe the M:r of the Comfort gave it ober for lost, and came
away y:e next day w:th the Hopefull Seaventure & y:e rest of the ffleete & gave
noe order that hee XXXXX of or beleeveth) for any further ?search for the same
and in XX the same it lost XXXX occasioned for want of a buoy, and not
through any neglect or default in y:e help Company of the Hopefull SEaventure or
any of them nor indeed was any manner of p:rjudice done to y:e sd ship Comfort
by y:e sd ship Hopefull Seaventure or her M:r & Company or any of them.
Et ar nescit XXX knoweth as aforesd et alr nescit.

Et alr XXX predeporta p XXX XXXXX.

Ad Interria.

Ad primum rend:t That hee was a common man of y;e Company of the
Hopefull Seaventure, and hee was to have 7:li 10:s for his wages from London to XXX
& back againe, w:ch hee receaved about three weekes since, & saith that y:e Hopefull
Seaventure had about fourteene or fifteene marriners onboard her the night
aforesd & shee is of about 240 tonnes burthen & the Comfort is of about XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Ad 2:XX rend:t That hee knowes not whether the sd Henry Robinson hath any pt in
y:e sd ship Hopefull Seaventure or not & ?hee warned this rend:t to come to XXXXXX XXXX
& told him that if hee would not come in hee would subpoena him in & saith that
upon his life hee XXXX XXXX only y:e truth betweeene the ptyes concerned X
XXXXX hee saith hee equally favoureth and saith that if it were in his power hee
would give y:e victory of this cause to hee that is least in fault
alr negative.

Ad 3:XX rend:t That y:e Hopefull Seaventure just before shee came & passed by y:e
Comfort as aforesd in aout a quarter of a mile XXX the Comfort & the Hopefull
Seaventure then ?at about a mile from shore, but a about halfe a cables length from
Buckhans Sand & the Comfort athere rode about a mule & ag:r from y:e shore, &
soe the sd ships had layd almost two dayes, et alr nescit rendere

Ad 4:XX rendt That the sd ship Hopefull Seaventure weighed anchor about two of y:e
clocke in y:e foresd night & twas then very darke, & XXX & XXX weather & there
was them a?Long stiff gale of wind and saith that they
were then forced to weigh in regard that the wind drove them soe towards the sd sand
that they were in eminent danger of being foule of y:e sd sand et alr nescit.

Ad 5:XX rend:t That y:e sd rend:t & Company first spyed the sd ship Comfort the ?time
aforesd about a cables lebgth before they came at her , & soe soone as they XXXXXher they cryed out to her, and by speciall order of the M:r every man of the Hopefull
Seaventures company cryed out as loud as they could hXXXXX hallowe the better to
give notice & to wake the Comforts watch, w:ch they feared were asleepe because they
did not answer at severall times calling before, et alr nescit.

Ad 5:XX rend:t That y:e wind was at west south west the time aforesd & blew very
hard, & the Comfort lay north or north east from y:e Hopefull
Seaventure when shee weighted as aforesd et alr nescit.

Ad 6:XX rend:t That there was roome enough on each side of the Comfort for
y.e Hopefull Seaventure to passe by to wit about two or three Cables length
but y:eXXX was soo that XXX could not have command of the Hopefull Seaventure
to bee otherwise than XXXX saith that they used their XXXX abd XXXX to get
cleere

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P1100029
f. 56r.

cleere of the Comfort as it concerned them highly to doe et alr referende
so ad predeporta nescit

Ad 8:XX rend:t That it is usuall & doubles lawfull for ships to
lye at Anchor (to wit by a single anchor that they may veere & give way
as occasion requires) in such a place as the Comfort was in the time
aforesd, but not w:thout a buoy w:ch is a warning to ships to keepe XXX
of the XXX it being y:e custome for a buoy to be at every Anchor XX
out in all rivers harbozrs & all XXX places et alr nescit.

Ad 9:XX rend:t prod refert so d p:rdeporta et alr nescit.

Ad 10:XX rend:t That y:e M:r of the Hopefull SEaventure assisted the M:r
of the Comfort in Sweeping as aforesd because the M:r of the Comfort
desired him. et alr nescit.

Ad 11:XX rend:t That 'tis a very difficult thing to find an anchor lost
in the foresd place without a buoy the sd place being a wide  ?space & full of sands et alr referendo XX ad p:rdepita
nescit
Sigmund dM WS [HIS MARK] Guilielmi Sweeting

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Case: XXXX Deposition: 2. Guilielmus Chip, of Redcliff, Surrey, sailor, aged 67

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P1100030
f. 56v.

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P1100031
f. 57r.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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cCase: XXXX Deposition: 3. Jacobus Taylor, of White Chappell, London, sailor, aged 46

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P1100032
f. 57v.

The Hopefull Seaventure

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Case: XXXX Deposition: 1. Jacobus Hedoethorne, of London, Merchant, aged 30

P1100033
f. 58r.

Ad 2:XXX 3:XX 4:XX 5:XX et 6:XXX arlate deponit That hee this depo:t very well noweth y:e aclate
M:r samuel Beake son of M:r Arnold Beake of London Merch:t & this
depo:t hath lived w:th y:e sd Samuele Beake severall yeeres XXX here in
London and in ffrenace w:ch sd Samuel Beake hee saith is an Engléish man
borne, but is or lately was resident at Bourdeaux but not as a subject
of y:e ffrench King, but as a merch:t stranger and as a
subject of his Majesty of England, And further saith that this depo:t
being at Bristoll about a fortnight before y:e lamentable fire in London
and lodging at y:e house of the allegate M:r James Whittwood
who is y:e said Samuel Beakes correspondent three hee was lading goods for him at Bristoll XXX ship st
Bristoll being also a subject of his sd Majesty XXX severall times XXXXX

w:th him about the sayd ship Crowne Towne of Bruges XXX fflanders and the sd M:r Whittwood
in XX disXXXXXX XXX was before y:e newes of y:e seizure of the sd ship)
?forciebly told this depo:t that hee dayly expected the arrivalll of the sd ship
Crowned Towne of Bruges at Bristoll, from Nantes w:th a lading of Salt
Wine, Spiritts of wine or Brandy & shewed this depo:t & XX from y:e XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx w:ch hee was to receive and
dispose of for the acc:t of the sd M:r Samuel Beake, declaring that hee
knowe not that any other was commanded therein, and further say that hee
had order to relade her at Bristoll w:th Calve Skinns Lead
& butter & pilchards if hee could get any for the sd Samuel Beake, and this depo:t well knowes that y:e
sd Whitwood did provide a considerable quantity of Calves skinnes for
pt of y:e sd ships Lading and therefore hee is fully psuaded that y:e sd ship was
really bound to Bristoll & that shee was there to deliver her lading now in
question seized in her consisting as hee understands of ffourscore
fourteene muXX & a halfe last fifteene great Barrells
or peeces, & a small peeice pf spiritts of wine or Brandy, fourteene Tonnes
& a higshead of Mountaine (sic) wine tow tonnes & a halfe of
Spanish wne, two tonns & a halfe of small Nantes wine, and one
hogshead of black or red wine, marked as in the marg:t that the
same were to be transported from Nantes to Bristoll aforesd on the
acc:t and XXgo of the sd Samuel Beake and Partners therein all
freinds and all of this Kingdome, and that noe enimy hath had any interest
therein, XXX the Lading thereof, And hee further deposeth that hee
is well assured that y:e mentioning in y:e bill of Lading that y:e sd ship was bound
to XXXton in Norway, & the sd Lading consigned to M:r BruXXghan there, was
done

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P1100034
f. 58v.

done merely to p:rvent seizure & XXXXX by y:e Enemeyes of this
Kingdome, such consignm:t being frequently made of this depo:ts
knowledge upon English men are concerned y:e better to XXXX
their goods. And further saith that hee well knoweth y:e lader of the
sd Lading called Jacob Vandermesse living at Nantes XX knoweth
that the sd Samuell Beake & y:e sd Jacob Vandermesse doe XX to doe busines
for one another all y:e places where they reside, and knowes
that there have bin dor severall moneys ?left ?on
open acc:t betweene them w:ch hee the better knoweth for that hee
this dep:t (XXXXX a little nefore coming ober XX y:e sd HolleX) used to doe business for y:e sd
Samuel Beake at Nantes, and upon his XXXX to com some
to England reXXXXXed y:e sd Samuel Beake to make of of the
sd Jacob Vandermesses at Nantes, a:ch Samuel Beake approved
of, & accordingly imployed him & this depo:t sawe some acc:ts betweene
them and when this depo:t came away from ffrance hee sawe that
by y:e acc:ts the sd Vandermesse was debtor to y:e sd Beake, but how
much hee cannot remember, et alr pre pte sua nescit.

Ad X XXXX aclum et XXXXX in XXXX
must in often deponit et dicit That hee beleeveth that y:e
Attestacon aclate is sealed w:th the seale of Bruges, and that the
contents of y:e sd attestacon were & are true, & that 'twas soe ?had &
done as therein is contained, et alr refereXX ad predepoita nescit
deponere.

Ad ult dicit p:rdepoita pXXX este vera.

JAMES HEDGTHORNE [His signature]

Reponsa sua ad Interria pXX exXXXX M:r Arnold Beake.

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Case: XXXX Deposition: Arnoldus Beake, of London, Merchant, aged 58

Eodem dXX

Sup Allone pXXX Examiniatus

2. ARNOLDUS BEAKE de London Mercator annos agens
58 aut ricter dicit et deponit prout seq:r vizt

Ad primum arlum necit pre pte sua salvis subscriptis.

Ad 2:XX 3:XX 4:XX 5:XX 6:XXX et 7:XXX arles dra Allegaconnis deponit et dicit
That hee this depo:t well knoweth y:e sd aclate Samuel Beake hee being
the depo:ts son, who hee saith is an English man and was borne in London
but now lives at Bourdeaux in ffrance as a Merch:t stranger & a subject
of his Majestie of England and hee stayed at Bourdeaux to accomplish his busuines ther
having a Licence (as hee wrote to this depo:t) from the ffrench King soe to
doe, and saith that from Bourdeaux this sd son wrote to him this depo:t
that hee had freighted the aclate ship the Crowne Torone of XXXXX
Jacob ffrance) XX y:e to goe from Nantes to Bristoll, and that hee had laded
her
w:th salt & Brandy & some wine, and had consigned her to Jacob
WrightXXXX or Whitewood of Bristoll, and that one XX XXXXX
sd lading was for the acc.t of him the sd Samuel Beake XXXX XXXX XXX
for y:e acc:t of hs p:rcontest James Hedges & XXXX (also an English man) and
ChXXXX CruXXXXXX XXXXX of Bruges and Company (meaning as hee beleeveth
the rest of the owners. of y:e sd ship all whom hee beleeveth to be ffrandzians & subiects
of y:e King of Spaine) and further saith that y:e sd XXXX
who is ffactor for this deponents says son Samuel Beake at Bristoll
wrote XX

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wrote to this depo:t from Bristoll before y:e newes of the lading of y;e sd ship
That hee expected the sd ship Crowned Towne of Bruges at Bristoll with
salt Brandy & wines for his this depo:ts sonn Samuels acc:t (hee not knowing
that any other was concerned therein, and that hee was to relade her w:th
butter lead & other goods at Bristoll & send her to Bourdeaux or Royall
ans sayth that hee is well assured by such this informaccon that the sd ship
was really bound to Bristoll w:th her p:rsent lading of salt Brandy
& wine, and doth verily beleeve in his conscience that the sd ships lading
seized in her was designed to be transported in y:e sd ship to Bristoll & there
to be delivered & disposed of by y:e sd Whitwood on the account & XXXX
as his sd son mentioned, to wit one third on y:e acc:t & risgo of his sd
son, and thother two thirds for the acc:t & risgo of the sd Jacob
Hedgethorne and of Phillip Cornelison & Company fflandrans & subjects of
his Majestie of Spaine and hee is very certaine that y:e sd ship
putting in in XXXX that y:e ship was bound to XXXX in Norway & consigned to
M:r Brugman was done colourably to avoyd seizure by y:e Enmyes
of England And further sayth that hee well knoweth that his said son Samuel
& the aclate Jacob Vander Messe, living at Nantes, doe correspond
together & that the sd Vander messe doth use to doe busines for
his sd son at Nantes & y:t for some businesses that hee hath there done
for this depo:t son hee hath drawne bills of Exchange upon this
Depo:t

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Ad 5:XX refert ad p:rdepsita et alr nescit

Ad 6:XX repon:t questioning y:e acc:t of y:e sd ship XXX hee XXXX
to Bristoll hee seriously averred to this depo:t that hee intended
to goe to Bristoll, but when this XXXXXX know that they
made a reXXXXXtion to carry the sd ship to Ostend because XX
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hands of M:r Abraham Gill of Nantes for his sd ?sixth part off y:e sd Lading
& hee denyes that hee is ffactor thereof XXXX for any of tXXX
?persoms comcerned therein et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX rend:t That hee hath knowne the foresd Jacob Vandernesse
for about two yeeres last XXX during that time & long before as hee
beleeves, thay lived at Nantes in ffrance w:th his wife children &
family, & sath that hee supposeth that hee is a Hollander borne et
alr nescit

Ad 4 rend:t That hee beleeveth that Merchants that lade goods in
ffrance doe use to conceale (as much as in them lyes) to w:t place the
goods soe laden are consigned the better to carry on trading &
this this rend:t ?hath done severall times to
p:rvent seizure, and paper hee (as other slsoe have done) hath caused
to be made for free places when the ship were bound to a place
that had war, but hee for his owne pt never did any thing of that
XXXX but for this Subjects of his Maj:ty of England
And saith that in ships merch:ts doe use to write a coloured
lre & inclose y:e Colourable bill of Lading directed to some from at the the free port,
to w:ch the ship us ptended is bound although the ship is to goe to a place that hath warr & this hee hath alsoe done
but only for his Maj:ties subjects to carry on y:e Englishe trade et alr
nescit

Ad 5:XX refert XX ad predeita et alr nescit.

Ad 6:XX rend:t That hee ?lknoweth not where y:e sd ship was taken & XXX
that if shee was out of her course to Bristoll (to w;ch place hee is certaine
shee was really bound to make her discharge) hee beleeveth that twas occassioned
by her marriners revolting or by contrary windes, et alr nescit.

Ad 7:XX rend:t That hee beleeveth that y:e sd Samuel doth drive a
Trade colourably for the subjects of his majesty of England in such
manner as is mentioned in y:e 5:th Interry, but hee doth not knowe nor
hath heard that hee hath driven any trade XX under any role for any
of the XXXXX of his Majesty of England, et alr nescit.

Ad 8:XX nescit XXX XXXivit pco pte sua.

Ad 9:XX rend:t That y:e sd Samuel Beake did ct
& lade goods for some Dutch subjects of the United Provinces & ffrench
subjects of y:e ffrench King before y:e now warrs. but hwther hee hath soe
done since y:e warr or not. hee knoweth not nor hath heard, but supposeth
that now & then hee doth but not under any role XX in all upon XXX in XXXXXX
as hee beleeveth et alr nescit

JAMES HEDGTHORNE [His signature]

Repetit XXX XXXXXX suo coram Duo Judican

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21 Decembris 1666

Super allegatXXX prXXX ex XXX dXX XXX XXX
XXXX 22:° Nov: XXX examinate

4. MATHAUS STARENBURG civitatis Brugensis Nauta, ubi XXX
per XXXX ult aut XXXXX, atatis 26 annos XX XXX XXXX
testis

Ad primum, 2. 3 et 4 arles dicte allagaconis deponit that hee this deponent
is Carpenter of the said shipp the Godelieve w:ch hee hath knowne for
about 15 monthes last, and that above a month before Easter last hee was
imployed to work in the repair of her in the XXX of the producents XXX
XXXX and Anthonio XX BogXXXden who XX and XXXX XXX and XXXX

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masts namely y:e maine mast XX XXXX downe And sawe
that the water stands in the hold of y:e said shipp
and is bery much damnifyed thereby. Et alr nescit

Ad 10:a deponit that y:e said Michael Sanfier was confined and kept under Custody as a
prisoner under y:e pretence of being a Holland:r by the meanes of Captaine XXX
and his Complices And soe were the Company in Custody severall dayes together
Et alr nescit

Ad 11. 12. 13. 14. nescit et preparte sua neve.

Ad 15 deponit that y:e sd Bearne and Company after y:e seizure of y:e sd shipp Godlife
kept on board and confined in the sd shipp y:e Godliffes Commander and were denyed pen inke
or paper nor would they suffer them to write to any friends et alr nescit

Ad 16:XX XXX predeporta sua de vera.

XXXXXXX [His signature]

Ad primum nescit deponere salvis subscriptis.

Ad 2 deponit that hee hath bin but y:e voyage in question in the said shipp Godliffe which
was from Bruges to Nants and thence was to have gon to and had arrived at Bridges
had not y:e foresaid seizure happened Et alr nescit

Ad 3 et 4 deponit that hee hath seene a person called John Johnson, an Ostender who
came on board the Privateer at y:e Ille of Wight , by y:e meanes and at y:e request of y:e
foresd Captaine Bearne, who went with the sd Bearne in his Man of Warr to Chichester and sometimes came on board
y:e Godliffe at Chichester. And XXXX the said Johnson was not any of y:e Godliffs Company. Et alr
nescit salvis predeporta.

Ad 5 deponit that soone after namely about three or foure days after y:e sd shipp
Godliffe came into Chichester one M:r Bradshaw as hee understood he name bee came on board
the sd shipp and sealed up y:e hatches of y:e sd shipp to prevent further plundering
And saith that y:e said Bradshaw sealing up a like place wherein y:e sweetmeats
were with y:e foresaid soule the aclate Johnson or some of y:e sd Bearnes Company
brake y:e sd Seales and carried away y:e sd Sweetmeates and some other things
Et alr nescit

Ad &:X deponit that y:e aclate Joseph Vorstell is a common seaman And one of y:e ships
Company. And beleeveth that he lives at Bridges or Ostend having seene his wife thre
Et alr nescit.

Ad 7 deponit that there is noe such person belonging to y:e shipp aclate as Bartholomew ?Xayes,
And saith that this sepo:t is y:e said shipps Carpenter And had served in the said shipp about
three monthes before y:e said seizure, and hath lived at Bruges with his wife and family
the sd two yeares last and is a Burger of that place. And that when hee was XXXX
at Chichester, one Captaine?Walchan an Englishman told this depo:t that Bartholomew and Mathias were allone and y:e same name. Et alr nescit

Ad 8 deponit that the aclate ?Casher is one of y:e Company of y:e Godliffe aclate, and was
hired at Bruges to serve in the said shipp, and is commonly said to bee borne in ?Rosebroogen
and to bee a Burger of Bruges. Et alr nescit

Ad 9 deponit that y:e said Phillip Arrison is one of y:e shipps Company. Et alr nescit.

Ad 10:a deponit that y:e aclate Claes Brooke Huisen is stiersman of y:e Godliffe and doth and
hath kived at Bridges the sd XXX or three yeeres last or thereabouts. and is a Burger of that
place and a subject of y:e king of Spaine. Et alr nescit.

Ad 11 deponit that the aclate Mary Bushee and her three children ca,e aboard the sd
shipp at Nants and was a passenger only And was to goe to Ostend Et alr nescit.

Ad 12 deponit that y:e aclate Peter Johnson falling sick at Nants came on board the said
shipp to goe also as a passenger to Ostend And beleeveth him to bee of XXX
and to dwell there and to bee a subject of y:e Spanish King. Et alr nescit

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Ad 15 nescit

Ad 16 deponit that y:e fore said Andreas van dergaard and James XXXX sent y:e Godliff y:e
voyage in question from Bruges to Nants to lade wines and other hoods for acc:t of
themselves and other fflandrians. Et alr nescit.

Ad 17 deponit that y:e sd Nearne did very much beate and abuse y:e shipps Company
and perticulalry this deponent and Peter Casher, and kept them in awe and feare aXXXX
both before and after their Examinacon. Et alr nescit

Ad 18 deponit that y:e sd Sansier hath told this deponent to y:e Effect aclate. Et alr nescit

Ad 19 deponit that by order of y:e Captaine of one of y:e Kings men of warr y:e said
Sansier carried his shipps papers and documents aboard y:e man of war, and y:e
Captaine upon the perusall of the said papers dismissed them. Et alr nescit

Ad ultimum dicit predeporta sua esse vera.

MATHxxx xxxxx xxxx H[is signature]

Repetit coram dno XXXX XXX:to

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Case: XXXX Deposition: Johannes Knight, of Wapping, Middlesex, Sailor, aged 46

?ffrisby et W?Wittam als ArXXXX)
contra Hunt)
XXXXX Suckley)

22:° Decembris 1666

Super allegaccon aclate ex parte dicti XXX
18:° XX XXX date exXXX XXtus

1. JOHANNES KNIGHT de Wapping in Com Midd Nauta
etatis 46 aut XX XXXXX, testis

Ad prima et 2 XXXX deponit that the shipp the ?Rossbush articulate
was in or about November 1665 at Portsmouth aclate and thence
bound for ffalmouth to take in pilchards to proceed to severall ports in
the straights and to retourne for England all in Merchant imployment for account
of English men, and that then the said ?ffrisby and ?ArlXXr were at
Portsmouth in poore cloathes, and (as farr as appeared) very bare of
mony, and ffrisby was sickly, and at their instance and request the sd
?Henry Hunt the master of the said shipp, shipped them aboard her to
XXX in the said voyage outwards and back for London where the voyage was to end, and the said ffrisby was ships carpenter and the said ArXXXX
a mariner for the said voyage, and they came accordingly aboard and ?betooke
themselves to the sd duties and offices of the XXXX of this XXXXXX, who
was Gunner of the said shipp, Et alr nescit, for hee was not ?present or
then living, and he knoweth not what wages were agreed for, nor what
promisses they made.

Ad 3 deponit that the said shipp accordingls proceeded and tooke in her lading of
pilchards at ffalmouth, and went then to Cadiz, Majorcca, and other places
and XX to Civita Vecchia, and delivered her said pilchards, and at Civitas Vecchia
received a quantitie of Brimstone to be brought for London, w:ch hee knoweth ?hee
going the voyage in her
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Ad 4:XX deponit that the said ffrisby in the beginning of the said voyage was
sickly and for XXX XXXXcould doe but little service, and the said Archer
XX poorly clad and XX unprovided of clothes, that for some XXX hee was XXX
in XXX to come upon the decks or able to endure the rigor of the role, but
before that ?move from Portsmouth they the said ffrisby and Archer got into a
better condition of clothing, and this deponent heard the said ffrisby say that
the said M:r had supplied him with mony towards the charges of his sickenes
and clothing, and beleeveth that XX supplied the said Archer, not knowing
whether hee should XX XXX supplier. Et alr nescit.

Ad 5, 6 et 7 deponit that the said shipp in her course of proceeding went
from Civitas Vecchia to Zant and cephalonia and tooke in currants, and
came thence back to Ligorne,a nd while ther was XX at Ligorne the said
ffrisby and Archer went and staid ashore five dayes and XXXX together drinking and
frequenting houses of lewd XXXX, and ?they neglected their duties aboard and
the XXX businessXXX, and the said ffrusby as this deponent heard him say XXX
XXXXX ashore and a XXXXX or XXXX other tooke, towards his XXXXX
with XXXXX XXXX, and saith that other five of the said shipps company
likewise XXX keeping company with the said ffrisby and Archer,
the said Master as this deponent XXXX went and complained of them to the English consul
there, and XX the said Consul went and XXXXed the men of XX XXXX
XX hee ?bound them, and that they being all XXXX (after a little while
they the said man had determined them under a Course of XXXX for his
XXX) XX as libertie, three of them came aboard, but the said ffrisby, and
Archer and two others staid behinde, and came not afterwards aboard,
although they came neare to the water side with XXXX three XXXX came aboard
and XXXX them XX comm aboard with XXX have in the shipps boate w:ch
was then ashore. And durther XX XXX XXX want of her man who XXX
XX XXX, the said shipp was in danger both of ffrench shipps
XX XXX, and wher ffrench and dutch might arrive, before the danger
by foule weather, by w:ch meanes of ffrisbies departing the said shipp
the said M:r was necessitated to hire and did hire another Carpenter
one John Malum to XXXX at his stead for England, by w:ch desertion
by the said ffrisby and Archer, the soad shipps strength was
abated, and XXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XX the more dangerous
both to shipp and goods in regard of Archers dutey and otherwise
Et alr nescit

Ad Interria

Ad primum rendet that hee is a Gunner of a shipp, and livet by
seafaring, and is worth 50:li in cleare of ?debt, and is not of XXX
XXX XXXXXX to her XXXXX, nor otherwise related to him, having bin
cleared off the said shipp about siy weekes.

Ad 2 rendet that the sd ffrisby and Archer while they staid aboard and untill
they going ashore at Ligorne (w:ch was about the 28 of June last)
followed their worke and performed their duties for XXXX this depo:t
XXX to the contrary, Et alr nescit, saving XX XXX XXX mony paid them

Ad 3 rendet quad nescit.

Ad 4 XXXX pro XXXX sua, alr nescit.

Ad 5 rendet that hee verily beleeveth that if the said XXX XXXX went XXX XXX
tXXX XXXX (as this XXXXX XXX understand) the said ffrisby and Archer would have retourned aboard
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Case: XXXX Deposition: 1. Ludovicus Tremaine, of Wapping, Middlesex, Sailor, aged 18

The Rosebush
Edward ffrisby and Thomas Archer

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Case: Frisby & Archer vs Hunt Deposition: Thomas Tyll, Steward of the Helverthorn, aged 30

THOMAS TYLL Steward of the shipp the Helverthorn one
of his Majesties shipps and hath soe bin steward of her
ever since the tenthe of June 1665. And was borne in the
parish of Barking in the County of Essex. aged 30 yeers
or thereabouts sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth (vizt.)

Ad primum arlum dicta allonis super quo solummedo Examinatur ex XXX
Johannes Hungerford fam: M:ri Cheeke deponit et dicit That hee well
knoweth the arlate Everard ffrisby who hee saith was one of the
said Helverthorns Company before hee entred into the service of the ?ship
or fflyboate called the Rosebush the arlate Hunt Commander. And
saith that the said ffrisby was hired at Portsmouth by the said
Hunt to serve in the said shipp or vesselll the Rosebush , (bound for
the streights as hee hath understood) as Carpenter of her. And
for such his service in her the said Hunt promised and undertooke
to pay the sais ffrisby monthly for his said wages in the said
shipp the summe of three pounds and promised also the time
and place aforesaid to make his wages a great deale
better in the voyage. The premisses hee deposeth and knoweth
to bee true ffor that this deponent at the request of the said
Hunt spoke to y:e Commander of y:e said Kings shipp the Helversthorn
(Captaine John Habbert) to discharge the said ffrisby from the service
of the Helversthorn, and was and eye and eare witnesse of y:e Contract
or hireing of y:e said ffrisby at Portsmouth. Et alr nescit.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t that he remembreth the said Hunts hiring the said
ffrisby the better ffor that hee this rend:t by y:e said Cap:t Hubberts order
made out or discharged the said ffrisby from the said shipp Helerthornes
service, the 14:th say of November 1665: And soe it appeareth by the
depots bookes and cometh at y:e request of y:e arclate ffrisbys wife to testify
the truth herein. Alr satisffacit supra. Et nescit

Ad 2 Rend:t that hee supposeth the said ffriby was to doe the service of
a Carpenter in the said shipp the whole voyage. Et alr nescit.

Ad 3 rend:t that had not Captaine Hubbert thought that y:e wages of 3:li per moneth
would much better the said ffrisby he would not have parted with him
And saith that XXXXX afofresd has officers and is numbred and manned as a third rate ffrigott
but being XXXX shipp, hee knoweth whether their wages will be allowed
a third rate ffrigott or not not having bin paid since she was taken from y:e XXXXX

THOMAS TYLL [His signature]

Repetit coram M:rX Lani surr:to
XXXX Ed:do Browne Np.

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Case: XXXX Deposition: ?Toppe Hayes, of XXXX, Sailor, aged 43

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Ad 6 rendet that it is two yeares  ?since this examinate XX the said
Hielbrand Hielbrandts the XXXX interr at Stockholme, XXX XX this depo:t

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

JOPPE XXXXXX [His signature]

Case: XXXX Deposition: 3. Hielbrant Hielbranss, citizen of Stockholme, XXXX, aged 28

11:° Marty 1666

Super allegacone pradCXX

3. HIELBRANT HIELBRANTS cicitatis Stockholm XX XXXX
dicte navis the WineXXXX etatis 28 aut du XXXXX testis

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then the said XXXX was for the said Roberts his accompt, and for XX
the moneyes w:ch this deponent received of the said XXXX XXXXX
and victualling the vessell, hee tooke this deponents XXXXX XX XXX
XXXX and for the said Roberts his accompt, and told this extaminate that
hee would send the accompt to Stockholm to the said Roberts for
whom hee disbursed it, and further hee declared to this examinate
that having at Nantes delivered her said parcell of ?CopperXX for the said
Roberts, hee this deponetnt XXXX XXX take in wine to be carried to
Stockholme to the said Roberts and for the said Roberts his accompt; and
before this deponents XXX from Amsterdam hee desiring of the said
XXX that hee might have a new saile to the said vessell, and XXX further
fitting theX ther was furnished with, him anweres now, hee had XXX
assurance money towards fitting her, as XXX order from XXX Roberts
to lay out, and if this deponent wanted any furniture more than hee had
hee must stay XXX till XXX came to Stockhol with the said vessell
to the aid Roberts, who XXXX supplier him. And

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Ad primum rend:t that the 'Interrate ship y:e Piper Paul ?Volker XX M:r is of
100 lasts burthen as hee XXXXX, and saith that hee this depo:t first XXXX her &
on board her at Ostend the 23:th of Marcg last new stile ?when XXXX
XXX for about a yeere before as twas sayd, and saith that from Ostend he
went to Bourdeaux where shee was bound as this depo:t XX XXXXX
to Ostend although y:e XX when hee met w:th y:e ?Caper that now brought
in at XXX was coming from Bourdeaux declared that shee was bound XXX
and saith that the M:r told him that y:e sd ship belonged to XXX
and otherwise hee knoweth not & saith that hee never heard y.e XXX
of y:e sd Owners & the sd shipp as hee heard the skipper saXXX
built at XXXam in Holland et alr nescit.

Ad 2:XX rend:t that hee & the rest of the Company were at Ostend in XXXX
hired by y:e sd shipwr to goe to Bourdeaux & hence to returne backe XX
& this rend:ts time began y:e sd 23:d of March last, & saith that at XX
they tooke in (besides their provisions) only ballast & went in ballast to
Bourdeaux and there XX sd ship tooke in her full lading of wine
& brandy & nineteene parcls of sjynns, & saith that one moXX XXXX
(as hee heard) was ?concerned in lading the sd ship, but w:ho was y:e XXXX
or for whose acc:t y:e sd lading was laded hee knoweth not XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
saith that a young man at Bourdeauy that came about
teh sd ships lading told him when that ship was lading ther that
hee as to goe w:th her sd lading to London , w:hr hee XXX
to this depo:t for that hee was y:e ?shorsman of the sd ship, but XX
y:e rest of the Company. et alr nescit.

Ad 4:XX rend:t that at y.e sd shipps seizure there were XXX skipper & this depo:t
eleaven psons onboard besides two passengers Joost Reall
& his wife . Joost Reall is sayd to be a High Jerman (sic) XX
about Brunswick & his wife is as hee beleeveth is a native of XX
in fflanders & soe XXX as heard say & saith that y:e sd skipper is a ?Lubecker
& this depo:t is a native of Holsteyn but under whose jurisdiccon hee knoweth
not his father and mother living from ?thence XX XX about 36 yeares
since & XXXX thence to Copenhagen in Debmarke where hee XX XXX
living severall yeers since & where they are living or dead XXXXXX
but this depo:t for his pt XXXX since hee left them (being XX
XXXXX) had noe fixed habitation, but sometimes XXXX in Holland XX
sometimes in ?Hamburg & sometimes in fflanrians where hee XXXX
got y:e best Imploym:t & saith that y:e others are two XX
Norway about foure Swedds one XXXX y:e ?boy) a Hamburger & XXX
Boatswaine did XXX sd live here but now lives in fflensborow in fflanders
and XXXXXX and XXXX XXX a Hollan:r or ffrenchman of her XXX
that hee knoweth of. et alr nescit.

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Ad 5:XXX rendet That the sd skipper sayd that hee had a passe from the
Duke of York but this Examinate sawe not the same & saith that
hee knoweth not w:t papr were onboard y:e sd ship the XXX
not letting him see them & w:t is become of them hee knoweth not et alr nescit

Ad 6:XX rend:t that the sd ship made no resistance at her seizure nor XXX
to save herselfe & saith that since hee hath belonged to y:e sd ship shee
hath not carryed y:e XXX Danish or ffrench colo:r but only the Lubeck
fflagg & colo:r & saith that the sd shipp was taken off of y:e XXX about y:e
20:th of Julie last newstile, but whr shee was taken hee knoweth
not but supposeth that XXX because that ship had asusuption that
shee was a Holland.r and saith that the sd shippp was first
brought to ?Hastings where shee lay about 20 howers &
hence was carryed to Rye, where the M:r & this depo:t & comp:a came
w:th a pilot up to London being then at liberty and saith that at
Rye shee was kept about a month and saith that wholst the sd ship was
at Hastings some of the Capts company sized this depo:t & the rest in
the sd ship into y:e M:rs Cabbine & XX severall tymes there kept them sometime & XXX
opened y:e bulke of XXX w:ch was not made fast) but w:t was taken out
hee knoweth not. et alr nescit.

Ad 7:XX rendet that hee heard that whiest y:e sd ship
was at Rye the Skipper and passengers gave bond to y:e Caper to
pay him 100:li bit how it came to be done hee knoweth not. Et alr nescit-

Ad 8:XX nescit.

Ad 9:XX rend:t That ?sayth that y:e sd wine & brandy
leaked out at Rye to a great quantity
& some was drawne out by y.e Capt, but by w:t meanes y:e leakage
happened hee cannot say but saith that hee supposes that the
hott weather was pt of the occassion. et alr nescit

Ad 10:XX rend:t That y:f the sd ship had bin not XXX a ffrench Dane or
Dutch man of war they intended to have declared that they were
bound to Ostend and if this depo:t had but brought upon ?oath
hee would have told
only how hee was hired & would not have declared that hee
was told that y:e sd ship was to XXX to London, et alr salvis XXXXX
nescit

Ad ult nescit

XXX XXXX [His signature]

Interpreted by me JOHN XXXXXX [His signature]

Repetit XXXXX Sweit Surr:to

Case: The Piper of Lubeck: Deposition: 2. Joos Riall, of ?Gorlaer, Brunswick, Merchant, aged 42

2. JOOS RIALL natus apud Gorlaer prope Brunswick
Mercator annos agens 42 aut inter dicit et deponit
prout sequitur vizt.

To the first Interry hee answereth & deposes That hee knoweth not y:e
?shippers of the sd ship XXX called y:e XXXX nor knoweth w:ch are the Owners but saith that
as the skipper Paul ?VerXX saith shee belongeth to Lubeck and saith that this
depo:t and his wife came onboard her at Ostend in the beginning
of May last, and hee had seene the ship before at Lubeck, and saith that from Ostend
shee went to Bourdeaux and in coming thence was taken et alr nescit
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P1100056
f. 69v.

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f. 70r.

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Case: The Piper of Lubeck: Deposition: 3. Arianna Maria Reall, of Ghaunt, wife of Joost Reall, aged 30

3. ARIANA MARIA REALL uxor p:rcontestis
XNI JOOST REALL nata apud Ghaunt annos
agens 30 aut contra dicit et deponit prout
seq:r

Ad primum rend:t that shee knoweth not of how many tonne burthen the
sd ship XXX called y:e Piper XXX is built saith that shee knoweth that the sd ship belonged to Lubeck
because the skipper who is a Lubbecker told her soe, but shee knoweth
not who are the owners, but shee was told for a truth
that they live at Lubeck, and saith that this rend:t knoweth her not untill
about y:e beginning of May last at w:ch time shee came w:th her husband
onboard her at Ostend, to goe to Bourdeaux, et alr nescit

Ad 2:XX rend:t That y:e sd ships company as shee understood were hired at
Ostend to goe thence to Bourdeaux to seeke a freight and saith that this Depo;ts
husband (who is High Dutchman borne about six miles above Brunswick
laded at Bourdeauy onboard her this voyage about 18. 19. or
twenty ?fatts of wine, & two tonnes of viniger for his owne account
but who laded the rest shee knoweth not, but one Savage was
talked of at Bourdeaux for a Lader, And saith that shee knoweth
not for whose acc:t y:e rest of y:e sd Lading was nor y:e pticular quantity
thereof, but saith that there was wine brandy wine vineger & skinns
and say that shee doth not beleeveth that y:e same doth belong to London & XXXXXXX
heard at Bourdeauy & since that one M:r Samuel Putt of London was concerned therein
et alr nescit.

Ad 4:XX rendet That shee knoweth not how many psons were onboard y:e sd ship
at her seizure not taking notice thereof nor w:t Countrymen
they were but beleeveth them to be all free psons & soe they are safe to be XXXX her husband
is a high Dutchman borne & shee this rend:t is a native of Ghaunt in
fflanders they have not had any fixed habitacon since
their marriage w;ch was about foreteene yeers since or thereabout
in S:t Catherines ?Church neere y:e Port of London et alr nescit

Ad 5:XX rendet That upon y:e seizure of the sd ship and a parz that writing on board of y:e sd ship XX
great seale of a ship thereto w:ch was said to be the Duke of Yorkes
passe & twas says to be signed by him, et alr nescit

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f. 70v.

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Case: The Piper of Lubeck: Deposition: 4. Paulus Volkers, of Lubeck, Sailor and Master of the Piper, aged 37

P1100059
f. 71r.

24:° Augusti 1666

Sup Interrogatorys pXdd Examinat

4. PAULUS VOLKERS de Lubeck ibn natus
nauta, M:r navis the Piper de Lubecj annos
agens 37 aut ?ricter dict et deponit prout
sequitur Vizt.

Ad primum et 2:XX rendet That hee hath knowne the sd ship and shiper & bin M:r
of her for seaven yeers & a halfe last past, during all w;ch time shee
hath belonged to Lubecke , and during all that time Olave Symson hath bin
owner of two eigth s Jeremy Moller owner of one eigth widow Chrst:r
owner of one eigth & this depo:t owner of the other two eigths
and saith that all persons are
of Lubeck & there did & doe live & have allways lived there & there
were bourne, and saith that the sd ship was built at XXdam & is of about
a hundred lasts burthen, And saith that about three seeres since hee went
w:th the sd ship from Lubeck XXXXX w:th Rye & Barly on a:e acc:t of a Lubeckr
bound to Lisbone & by y:e way was taken by a Spanish Cap who carryed
him to S:T XXXane in Biscay, where his XXX was spoiled, but hee got
cleare & then went to Bayon and was bound w:th his lading of wines &
brandy to Ostend but was taken by y:e English & carryed into Dover
& was there cleared & then went to Ostend, and then began this voyage
from thence to Bordeaux to seeke a freight, and saith that for this voyage
hee hired all his company at Ostend, in or about the month of Aprill last
and from thence they went in ballast, and saith that at Bourdeauy the sd ship
was freighted by Englishmen & one XXXXX alwayes was y:e XXXX man
and hee & the rest all English but living at Bourdeauy laded y:e sd ship
w:th about 160 Tonnes of wine & Brandy & Nineteene parXX
of skins, all w:ch hee saith was soe laden to be transported in the sd ship
to the port of London to w:ch place the sd ship was really bound, & the sd
Lading was & is as hee beleeveth upon y:e acc:t of M:r Samuel Putt and others all of
London & sunjects of his Majesty of England and hath put reall bills of Lading w:th this depo:t
signed for y:e ?London) were sent overland to London, but others who were
made colourable hee carryed in y:e sd ship declaring that she was
bound to Ostend w:ch was done to avoyd Dutch or ffrench seizure
et alr nescit

Ad 4:XX rendet That there were Eleaven w;th this depo:t besides two passengers
onboard y:e sd ship at her seizure his Company hee hired at Ostend as
aforesd, and saith that one of the passengers is a High Dutchman & tthe other (who is
his wife) is of Ghaunt in fflan:rs and saith that this depo:ts Company are
all Swedes Lubeckers & hamburgers & none of them are ffrench Dutch
or Danes, et alr nescit.

Ad 5:XX rendet That when hee was now seized he had a XXXXXX writing w:th a great read seale thereof onboard,
and saith that all this writings hee did upon his seizure
deliver up to the Capt who delivered them to him againe at Rye, and this
Eaxaminate hath them nowe on board et alr nescit

Ad 6:XX rendet That hee did not fight or make any resistance or fly from
the Capat, and saith that the sd ship carryed the Lubeck flagg (wch is white & Red
and never carryed any other fflag, or Colo:r and saith that shee was taken
by the sd Cap about seaven or eight weekes since off of Rye, and saith
that

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that the Cap first tooke this depo:t out into y:e ffrigott & then carryed
y:e sd ship to Hastings & thence send the sd ship to Rye & ?there they XX
this depo:t overland, and saith, that at Hastings & Rye the Capt
tooke some wine out of the sd ship, and kept the sd ship at hastings
but one night but at Rye above three weekes, and saith that
about ffifty hogsheads of wine & about ten ?peices of Brandy ?were
taken away or leaked out Leakage happened by meanes that the seizure
kept the sd ship soe long at Rye in soe hott weather, And saith
that at Rye the Capt sized him & the passengers
to give bond to XX
ffaccoone y:e Owner of the Cap for a hundred pound, to XXX
them to get y:e sd ship discharged but did not otherwise force XXXX saith that hee hath did not doe XX
to pay same s:e ship and Lading being free & XX reason therefore that hee
should pay any XXX and saith that thee sd passeng:rs & this depo:t
signed & sealed the sayd bond XXX ffalroone & thee ieutenants
y.e Cap & another man was then p:rsent,
et alr nescit

Ad 10:XX rendet That if hee had bin met w:th by y:e ffrench Dutch or Danes
hee would have sayd that hee had bin bound forOstend, and shee his XXX
mentioned and hee would then have p:rtended that his paps onboard
were reall, and if hee had bin brought upon his oath hee would have
referred himselfe to his paps & would not have declared that hee was
bound to London, and saith that his paps were made for Ostend for
y:e resons aforesd, et alr bescit, saving that the Cap that took
him shewed him noe Commission.

Ad ult nescit peo pte sua

PAULL VOLSKERRS [His signature]

Interpreted by me
JOHN LE LECLURE [His signature]

Reoetit coram D:re ills XXX:to

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f. 71r.

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f. X

Ad primum Interr XX rendet That y:e sd ship Interrate called the S:t Jacob XXXXX
to MXXXXX XXXX and soe hath done XX severall yeeres last

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f. 73r

Eadem die

Sup XXXXX XXX Examinat

3. ARVA INGAMERE de Mastaand in Swedeland ibm XXX
annos agens28 aut XXXX dicit et deponit prout seq:r

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f. 73v.

24:° Augusti 1666

Sup Interriye in XXX Examinat

1. MICHAEL VAN ROSEN de Czybork XX XXX
Redis Hispania ibm batus Nauta annos agens
38 aut inter dicit et deponit prout seq:r vizt

Ad primum rendet That the said Interrate ship the Hope whereof this Examinate is
M:r doth belong to M:r Vincent de Bleke who liveth in Bruxelles in XXX
the Dominions of the King of Spaine & is a native of that place or of Antwerpe
hee hath bin sole owner of the says ship for about ?thirteene weekes
last, and was alsoe owner of her for about three q:r of a yeere next before only his sister
who liveth at Antwerp & is named Susanna Vandersleyn had a share w:th him XX
hee bought of her about 13 weekes since, and saith that about a yeere since ?the
sd Vincent de Bleke bought y:e sd ship at Brussells of one Joos IXXXXXX
living in Zealand where the sd ship then was but this depo:t was not at XXX XXXXX
sawe y:e contract & sawe that the mony to wit 505 guild:r payd XXXXX
to the sd JoosJooson who was there there, and soe was XXXX XXXX, this depo:t
having by appointm:t of y:sd Vincent de Bleke XXXX her XXX from
Zealand And saith that the sayd Vincent de Bleke bought the sd ship to send
her a fishing or upon any other designe because the Dutch trade was ?seized by y:e XXX
And saith that hee knoweth y:e sd ship for about a yeere before XXX her buying
& sayth shee belonged to y:e sd Joos Jooson of Zealand & shee is Zealand ?built
and saith that since shee soe XXXX her from Zealand shee hath not bin in any
XXXXX XXXXX or dominion & upon the sd buying the sd Vincent de Bleke lett his
sd sisters hXXX apt w:herin, and saith that y:e sd Vin:t de Bleke hath XXXXX all
the XXXX of this depo:ts knowledge of him (w:ch hath bin for about 13 yeeres & had
in Brussells aforesd et alr nescit.

Ad 2:XX rend:t That the sd ship is of the burthen of about thirty two tonnes
and when shee was taken shee had in her about 72 barrells of Herrings & 32
barrells of other fish, w:ch they had XXXX upon the sd Vincent de Blekes acc:t
who was & is y:e reall owner thereof as well as of the sd ship, et alr nescit

Ad 3:XX rend:t That hee this depo:t hired all his men at Ostend to goe this time a sishing
& carryed only empty barrells & salt out for his fish on y:e sd Vincent XX XX
acc:t et alr nescit

Ad 4:XX rend:t that hee this rend:t had onboard Eight men besides himselfe & ?three
boyes. None of w:ch are ffrench or Danes, but some are of ffland. XXX whereas
the rest arehee knoweth not but hee hired them at Ostend, et alr nescit

Ad 5:XX saving hee hayth that hee beleeveth that two of his company are XXX
of the United Provinces.

Ad 4 (sic):XX rendet that hee had a seabriefe & other writing onboard but no bill of
Lading and saith that hee delivered them till XXXXXXXXX up tp y:e Kings Officers & none were
burnt torne concealed or anywayes made away, et alr nescit.

Ad 6:XXX rendet That when the sd ship was taken shee was goeing to Ostende
where she was really to goe and soe they declared at y:e time of y:e seizure
that the sd ship did belong as aforesd when seized
was made by an English frigott about five or six miles from y:e fflanders
shore, who carryed him onboard Prince Rupert, and saith that y:e sd seizure
happened about three weekes since. et alr nescit.

Ad 7:XX rendet that hee sayth seised in y:e sd ship as her M:r about a yeere XXX
w:ch time hee had made three voyages from Ostend to Leith in Scotland
going thither XXXX in ballast & brought thence to Ostend
Oysters on his sd owners acc:t & two voyages hee made from Ostend to ?Crill
in Scotland on y:e same accompt going in ballast and returning w:th Lobsters &
Coles w;ch are all y:e voyages besides this that hee hath made w:th her And
the sd lading were consigned to that sd owner & being upon his acc:t
et alr nescit.

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f. 74r.

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24 Augusti 1666

Sup Interrys in p:rpar Examinat

1. JOHES NOAT de Bruges uni habitavit
a mense January ult natus in Dunkirke
Nauta, M:r XXvis corat the S:t John ?Bayliss
annos agens 51 aut XXXX dicit et deponit XXXXX
seq:r vizt

Ad primum rendet that hee this depo:t & y:e M:r of the sd ship S:t John BayXXXX
& XX hath bin XXXX since the 25:th of ffebruary last
new stile & knoweth her not afore, and saith that hee was
sent for from Ostend to come to Bruges by M:r Abraham Van XXXXX, and
BrXXXX XXXXX XXXX & the XXXX Justice Tollmaer, XXX Joose Asa
M:r Dambiel to goe M:r of the sd ship w:ch was then at Brugges & hee goeing
thither accordingly XX made him M:r of her the sd ship, and saith that the sd
psons were & are her owners but of w:t pts hee knoweth not nor knoweth
of whom or when they bought her saving that hee heard that they bought her
at XXXX in Zealand, and hee ?surmises that shee was there built and
sayth that all the sd Owners live at Brugges and are all natives of
ffland:rs & Brabant & were & are subjects of the King of Spaine, and saith that since
hee hath bin her M:r shee hath not bin in any Enemyes port or dominion
et alr nescit

Ad 2:XX rend:t That y:e sd ship is of the burthen of about two & thirty tonns
and when shee was taken shee had two hundred & ten barrells of herrings
& some smaller vessells of herenings in her XX y:e heringe they had taken for the
acc:t of the sd owners of the sd ship w:ch sent her out from Ostend w:th barrells & salt
upon a fishing voyage and they were to returne therew:th to Ostend & thence
upon a fishing voyage, and they were to returne therew:th to Ostend & thence
were to goe to Bruges & deliver the same to the sd Owners & salt that
noe during hath any manner of interest therein or in the sd ship
uponXX XXXX X salvation et alr salvis XXXXXXX nescit

Ad 3:XX et XX rend:t that hee & all his company were hired by y:e sd Owners at
bruges to goe a fishing & to returne XXX againe and saith that before
this voyage hee made but one XXXXX w:ch was called from Bruges on a fishing voyage on his said owners acc:t
& was taken by a Scotch privateer & carryed into Leith, & was there
cleared & thence returned to Ostend w:thout lading, and then began this voyage
and saith that his company consistes of nine men besides himselfe & two
boyes, and saith that about seaven of them as hee beleeveth were borne in the Dominions of y.e
States of y:e United Provinces, but live w:th their wives & children in
Bruges & y:e rest are for ought hee knoweth to the contrary of ffland:rs
and saith that hee had not at y:e sd ships seizure any bills of Lading onboard but
had other writings w:ch came all to the Kings Officers hands & none of his writings
were torne burnt throwne overboard her or concealed, and sayth that the seizur
was

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f. 74v.

made by an English ffrigott who brought him onboard Prince Rupert
to whom they declared at XXX done there before and saith that y.e sd
seizure was made on y:e 10:th August last new stile, and hee had then
only the Spanisg Colo:r onboard, & shee never carryed any other XXXX
was XXXX, & sayth that y:e sd bessell hath no decke being but a small
ffishing vessell, et alr nescit, XXXXXXXXX saving hee saith that be XXXXXX was made
XXX of the sd ship, the foresd owners of her sent her out XXXXXXX upon their
accounts two Voyages to fish & some of his now company then XXXXX

XXX XXXXX [His signature]

Interpreted by me
JOHN ?TUE

Repetit coram D:re Mills Surr:to

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. XXolif Peterson, pf fferederickstadt, Sailor, aged 39

Ad orimum redet That hee XXX knoweth y:e sd ship Orange Tree
Detliff XXXXXsson M:r for about Eight yeeres last past namely from her building &
sailed in her ever since y:e latter end of last winter, and saith that during
all the time that hee hath knowne her shee hath belonged to ffrederickstadt
w:ch is under the Earle of Holsteyne & there shee was built & this depo:t ?there
sawe her building, and saith that John DXXXXXXXson John ffXXXXXXX & her
skipper were and (are) her owners & soe have bin ever since the sd ship was built

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P1100067
f. 75r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Petrus Olson, of Maastland, Swedeland, Sailor, aged 34

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P1100067
f. 75v.

Case: The Seaven Starrs: Thomas Bpna, of XXXX, in Zealand, Sailor, aged 40

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P1100069
f. 76r.

Ad dXX Interria rendet That hee XX knowe & saith in y:e interrate ship the
Seaven Starres Paul SpXXX

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f. 76v.

JEAN MORGAN [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Hendrick Vaoher, of Bruges, in fflanders, born in Waterland, in Holland, Sailor, aged 47

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P1100071
f. 77r.

To the XXX

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f. 77v.

tooke the opportunity of the faire winde & sailed to Bourdeaux to seeke
a freight & there arrived about June last , but staying there about 12 orXX
dayes & not getting freight there went to Royall , & there was freighted by
Henry der suitter a Comissary for the King of Sweden at

Royall to goe to Brougge in ffrance to lade XXXX & there arrived about
y:e beginning of July last & there toke in a lading of salt
for y:e sd henry dersuitters acc:t to be carryed in the sd ship to Ostend
& ro be delivered there to Jacques Ozure and from Browage they
went inder the Cloyster neere S:t Maartins about 13:th of July last new stile XXXXXX hee signed this bill of lading
and there the sd ship stayed about two dayes, and from thence went
to S:t Martins & there stayd about two howers & then went to sea
& sett saile w:th a strong ebb & faire wind for Ostend & made not XXX
to S:t Martins or the sd Cloyter , & since setting saile was about XXX
of the Clock on the Morning of y:e 17:th of July last new stile, And
sayth that the sd ship did not the time aforesd nor at any time since hee
hath bn M:r of her weare or carry any Holland ?Antient or Jack or
any Colo:rs w:tsoever but y.e Bruegmidia fflagg & colo:rs w:ch XX
had done hee being her M:r must needs have knowne thereof , and
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 78r.

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P1100074
f. 78v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: XXXX Cornelils, of Blastendall, in fflanders, Sailor, aged 44

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f. 79r.

to XXX in paym:t of the sd ship, and the bill of sale then lay upon y:e
table there et alr nescit

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f. 79v.

Ad 17:XX arlum deponit That some of the sd Kings Company plundered XX
tooke away out of the sd ship XXX XXXXXX ten caskes of sugar, a great XX
of the salt, Eleaven musketts six pistolls, Eight Cutlasses wbout 600:li of ?Gunpowder
12 bundles of maty 14 Caskayes about a hundred great bulletts & bolts, sixteen
brasse ladles & ?spoones, two bundles of Ropes of three or foure hundred
weight two great jack or XXeales vizt bundles of XXXX, twelve XX
& spinning XXXX two splite ropes, one barrell of ?pitch halfe a barrell of XX
a boate saile , a new halter, & a new cable of about seaven XXX as
& about a hundred & twenty fathoms long, two halfe rolls of new
saile cloath, ?leaves, skinnes, XXXX, two Burgundy flaggs, a Burgundy
Jack, two Burgundy XXXX, ten serving to p:rserbe y:e ropes, three cop
kettles a Copper pott & Copper pan & the rest of the Cookes XXXX &
y:e Skipper & Companyes cloathes & XXX to the vallue in y:e XX
of about foure or five hundred pounds XXX as hee XXXXXXXX et alr nescit

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100077
f. 80r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3: Clases Jacobson, of Dantzuk, Sailor, aged 28

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f. 80v.

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f. 81r.

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CLAES JACOBIS [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Petrus Sybrants, of Stadtein, in Pomerania, Sailor, aged 30

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f. 81v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. Johannes Haynes, of Hamburgh, sailor, 38

5. JOHANNES HAYNES de Hamborgen, natus infra
libertates cicvitata de Hamorow, Nauta annos agens
38 aut ricter dicit et deponit peout seq Evizt:

Ad primum 2:XX 3:XX 4:XX 5:XX 6:XX 7:XX et 8:XX arles dna Allonis deponit et
XXX That hee this depo:t in or about y:e beginning of Aprill last was
at Amsterdam hired to serve in the fflyboate allegate y:e Exchange of
Bruges by her skipper Houden Vayliez but before XXX XXXX the
skipper nor y:e sd fflyboate
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
a Holland:r & hee told him that hee was not but a free pson in relacon
to y:e English & thereupon hee hired him & told him that hee was to goe
to Ostend & thence to Norway, to lade Deales there to freight XXXXX, and
saith that hee knoweth not whome the sd Skipper or therest of her
company are, but beleeveth them to be free psons as to XX EngXXXX
XXX a company (before y:t XXX consisteth of 12 men & two boyes, And he
saith that the sd ship was almost fitted for sea before hee was XXX
at the charge of fitting her but hee knoweth not, And knoweth XXXX ?who
is her owner, but saith that in Aprill last a little after hee was hired
the skipper told him that hee must goe w:th hym & XX XXXX
ship payd for X hee tooke XXXX

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f. 83r.

and from thence they went to Royall, and thence after a day of two they
would to Brouage to take in salt & there did take in a Lading of salt
and stayd there about two or three weekes & XXX went XXXX y:e Cloyster
neere S:te Martins & there stayd two dayes & then wen to S:t Martins
& there stayed but about an hower or an hower & halfe & then
sett saile w:th XXX wind for Ostend where they were bound & afterwards came
not neer S:t Martins. And saith that hee beeing one of the sd ships Company
well knoweth that y:e sd ship did not at S:t Martins or at any?Island
XXXX XXXX that belonged to her carry or weare any Hollands Autient, Jack
or Colo:r

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f. 83v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Rogerus Powell, of Bristoll, Sailor, aged 25

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P1100083
f. 84r.

ROGER POWELL [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Pedro Aquira y landa, pf S:t Sebastians, Sailor, Master of the Guift of God, aged 39

Formerly called the St: Peter

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f. 84v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Jacobus Thompson, pf Newcastle upon Tyne, Sailor, aged 21

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P1100085
f. 85r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Christianus Lambke, of Stettin, in Pomerania, aged 43

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P1100086
f. XX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Peter Rich, of London, Deal Merchant, aged 36

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P1100087
f. XX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition 2: Thomas Copplewell, of Kingston upon Hull, Merchant, aged 28

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f. XX

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f. 87r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Johes Blackwall, of The Strand, Middlesex, Gentleman, aged 50

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Johes Janson, pf Insula Vertis, Sailor, aged 28

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The Godliffe and upon such his comming aboard hee declared that hee was to have
y:e said shipp up in to Chichester river by the said ?Bearnes order And the pilot endeav:ring
to effect it ran the said shipp aground where she stuck soe fast that she lay aground
about fourteene or ffifteene days together. Although y:e sd Bearne and Company
heard over board severall and very many tonns of wine to lighten the sd
shipp endeavouring thereby to get her off, And saith that whilst she soe
lay aground severall people came and carried wine in caskes which they brought
with them away and dranke and embezled a very considerable quantity namely about 30 tonns as he concebeing parte of y:e shipps XXXX, to y:e
great dammages of y:e sd owners. And saith that the sd shipp lyeth about two houres
every tide affloate and her under deck is risen up a great deale and y:e Main mast
hee saith riseth every tide about a ffoote and halfe and she is in soe leaky and
bad a condiccon that hee questioneth whether she will ever get to sea againe. All
which is occasioned by y:e foresaid seizure. Et alr nescit

Ad 10:d deponit that y:e foresaid Michael Sansier was suddenly confined as a prisoner
And was kept in custody by the means of y:e said Borne and his Complices under
The pretence of being a Holland:r. Et alr nescit

Ad 11. 12. 13. Et 14. Nescit et preparto sua neve

Ad 15 nescit that y :e sd Borne and Company kept y:e M:r of y:e Godliffe and her Company
In Custody two monethes together or thereabouts after y:e said seizure and would
Not allow them XXX Inck or paper to write to any ffreind Nor suffer any man
To goe ashore but with a keeper. Et alr nescuit

Ad alr discit predeposta sua de vero

Signum dei F H Philippi (His mark)

Idem super allone dat. 11:o Decembris 1666

Ad primum nescit salvis subscriptis

Ad 2 deponit that y:t voyage in question is irst voyage that hee hath made in the sd
Shipp Godliffe which was from Ostend to Nants and had she not bin
Seized she had returned thether Againe Et alr nescuit

Ad 3 et 4 arles deponit that y:e aclate John Johnson was none of y:e shipps company
The voyage in question. And came on board Captaine Berbeaty y:e Cowes and at Chichester y:e sd Johnson came often onboard y:e Godliffe and hath staid there severall
Days together by y:e meanes and at y:e request of y:e sd Bearne and in his service as hee
Conceiveth. A alre nescuit

Ad 5 arlum deponit that some time after y:e said shipp came into Chichester one Capt
Bradshaw said to bee an officer of his matys Customshouse came on board y:e sd
Shipp and sealed up the hathces of y:e said shipp in order to and for preservaccon
Of y:e goods from ffarther plunder, And the said Bradshaw sealing up also a lile
Doore wherein y:e potts of sweet ?muskes were put y:e sd Johnson said that hee would
Broke open those seales XXX they are not worth a fart (sic) I will put downe my breeches
And shitt upon them or hee spake in words to y:t effect. And saith that a ffattman
One of y:e privateers owners as hee supposeth brooke up y:e said doore and y:e said Johnson
Or some of y:e XXX Company tooke away y:e said ?sweetmeets and onshore namely at the house of one Egbert an
Alehouse keeper in sicklesham this depot. Saw y:e sd Johnson break open y:e caskes of sweetXXts
Whereon y:e foresd Bradshaw had put his said seale. A Alr nescit

Ad 6 deponit that y:e aclate Joseph ?Verflett is one of y:e shipps Company and is a married
Man, and supposeth him to dwell either in Bridges or Osetnd. Et alr nescit.

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severall people came with potts

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Super allon XXXXXXX

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Ad 7 deponit that there is noe such person belonging to or one of y:e Godliffes
Company XXX XXXX Mays. But saith there is one Matheas who us Carpenter of her et alr
Nesuit

Ad 8 rent that y:e aclate ?Casher is one of y:e Company of y:e God liffe and was hired
At Bridges and is said to bee a native of ?RoesBrooker. Et alr nesuir

Ad 9 deponit that y:e aclate ?Arrionson was hired at Ostend and served in the sd
Shipp about 3 monthes before y:e said seizure. Et alr nesuit

Ad 10 deponit y:t y :e aclate Claes Brookehhosen is stiersman of y:e Godliffe and
Lives at and is a burger of Bridges and a subiect of y:e King of ffrance
Et alr nesuit

Ad 11 deponit that The aclate Mary Bashee came as a passenger in y:e sd shipp
From Nants and was to goe to fflanders. Et alr nesuit

Ad 12 deponit y :t y :e aclate Peter Johnson was also a passenger and came sick aboard
Y:e sd shipp at Nants and paid to XX XXX XXXX A alr nesuit

Ad 13 deponit that y:e aclate George Jacobson is a Dunkirker borne, but hee lived
And liveth in Newport in fflanders, Et Alr nescuit.

Ad 15 deponit that hee well knoweth y:e aclate Lodwick Wittenburgh who has lived
As he supposeth all his time and is a native of Bridge. Et alr nesuit

Ad 16 nescuit salvis predeportis

Ad 17 deponit that hee hath seene y:e sd Boarne and Company beate and abuse y:e
Godliffs Company and kept them in awe and feare and under restraint. Et alr nescuit

Ad 18 deponit that hee hath heard the said Bearne declare that whether y:e Godliffe
And he lading were free or unfree hee would keepe them about fower or five weekes
Before XX could bee cleared. Et alr nesuit

Ad 19 deponit that y:e Godliffe was visited and dismissed by y:e Captaine of y:e Bredah
Upon y:e rusall of y:e papers. Et alr nesuit

Ad 20 dicit predeporta per ?um XX vera

XXXX [His signature]

Repeated cum XXXX XXX
Dr Mills

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Johannes ?ffrole, of Wapping, in the parish of White Chappell

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ffirstly et ?Ancher ?cord Hunt produit: X 23:o Januariij 1666 Incta XX

Super allons prodict no: ex part Naut

3. JOHANNES ?FFROLE de Wapping in parisco s:tX MaXXX Matsellon
als White Chappell in CoXX MXXX de Disteller , natXXX
XXXX de sent XXX arle armes agens ?28 ant XX XX XX

Ad primum nescit salvis sunscriptus

Ad 2:x3 et 4. nescuit

Ad 5. 6. et 7. arles deponit that y.e shipp y:e Rosebash aclate capt Hunt

XXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Henricus Thurston, of XXX, Colchester, Essex

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XXXX et XXXXX Reeves et alies)
Cheeke Suckly)

Septime ffebruarij 1666 Juxta X
super allone ex parte dict Haberdine et socioram.

Examinatus.

HENRICUS THURSTON de ?Nivenhos prop Colchester in Com Essex Nauta, annos
agens 43 ant XX XXXter testis productus et Juratus dicit et deponit
prXnt seq:r (vizt.)

Ad primum arlum deponit that he well knew y:e aclate shipp the Hester, and too
know her for XXX y:e time of her building which was at Colchester to the time
of her being cast away about three or foure yeers since a boat Whitby as hee
hath bin credibly informed and verily beleeveth. And saith that when y:e said
shipp set forth upon y:e voyage wherein she rundowne which was from
Wivenhoe to Sunderland or Newcastle she was XXXX with her said lading
of reales the summe of ffive hundred pounds at least, sterling mony.
And this deponent saith that was y:e said shipp now in being and in as good
a condiccon as she was litle before or upon her said running downe
this depot would give five hundred and fifty pounds XXXXX for her, and
if hee gave for her six hundred pounds hee saith hee should have an
indifferent good penniworth. The premisses hee deposeth and knoweth to bee
true for that hee has bin a master of a shipp these twenty yeares last
or thereabouts and having gad parts and shares in and bought
and sold many shipps and thereby well skilled in shipping and acquainted
with y:e vallues of them. And saith that after y:e said shipp Hester was gone
from hence upon the voyage wherein she was ran downe as a fore said
this depots brother ?Seth Thurston bought a ?q:r part of y:e said vessell of M:r Giles
Wigener after y:e rate of 500:li sterling for y:e whole shipp. considering the
said shipps stock and disburses of y:e said shipp upon y:e said voyage Et alr nescit

Ad 2 necuit

d 3 nescuit

Ad 4 nescuit not having seene y:e Johns Advantage before or since y:e reparaccons
but once

Et dicit prodeporta sua ista XXXat

HENRY THURSTON [His signature]

Repetit coram Dr Baldwin saXXXXte

Case: Ffrisby & Archer con XXXX: Deposition: 4. Williamus Grainger, of Elmore, Gloucestershire, sailor

ffrisby et Archer con:a XXXeint)
Cheeke Suckly)

Septimo ffebrurarij 1666 Juxta XX
super allone ex parte dicti Hunt

4. WILLIAMUS GRAINGER PAROA de Elmore in Com Gloucesteren Nauta, annes
agens ?fere 30:t testis product et Jurat dictit et

Ad primum et 2 arles deponit that y:e shipp y:e Rosebush aclate was in or about
y:e month of November 1665 aclate at Portsmouth aclate and was there
bound for ffalmouth to take in pilchards to proceede with them to
severall ports and places in y:e Streights where they could meete with y:e
best market, and to returne for England upon a merchandizing voyage
for accompt of English merchants. And that then the said ffrisby and
Archer were in very poore and thinn cloathes for such a voyage
and as hee understood very bare of mony, and at their request and
instance and in compassion and pity as hee conceiveth of their low and meane

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condiccon the sd M:r Hunt shipped them on board the said shipp to serve in the said
voyage outwards and back for London where the voyage
was to end, And the said Hunt shipped the said ffrisby Carpenter
(although hee was sickly) and y:e said Archer marriner y:e said
voyage. and they the said ffrisby and Archer accordingly ca,e on board
were hired in the fight and knowledge of this deponent who was
mate of y:e said shipp. Et alr nescit not being present at their
hireing or of their promises they made. Nor knoweth what wages,
they were to have.

Ad 3 et 4 deponit that y:e said shipp accordingly proceeded ?to ffalmouth
and tooke in a lading of pilchards there, and went thence to
severall place in the streights and at Civita Vechia tooke in a
lading of Brimstone to bee brought for London for y:e use of his
Majority the King of England. And saith that y:e said ffrisby was
very sickly in the beginning of y:e said voyage and could doe but
little serviice, and the said Archer was shortly after y:e beginning
of y:e said voyage very ill, and soe bare of cloathes that y:e
M:r Henry Hunt did out of pity supply them of which hee knoweth being aboard and going y:e said voyage Et alre. nescit

Ad 5. 6 et 7 arles deponit that y:e said shipp in her course of
proceeding went from Civita Vechia to zant and Zephalonia where
she tooke in Currance, and came thence back to Ligorne touching
at Messina, and while the said shipp was soe at Legorne y:e said
ffrisby and Archer went and staid on shore six or seaven dayes
and nights together drinking and ideling, and
soe neglected their duties aboard and the shipps busines. And
saith that five other of y.e said shipps Company keeping company
with the said ffrisby and Archer the M:r went ashore and as this
deponent hath bin credibly informed went to y:e English Consull
and complained of his said men and of y:e man of y:e house that
harboured them, And saith they they all seaven being some time
kept prisoners three of them came on board and y:e Captaine entertained them
but y:e said ffrisby and Archer, and two others staid behind, and
came not afterwards on board, although they came neere
to y:e waterside as y:e said three persons who returned aboard told
this depo:t and who might have come aboard in y:e said shipps boate
with y:e other three if they had pleased being at liberty, and y:e
shipps boate then ashire And saith that by reason of y:e said ffrisbys
desertion of his said shipp, the said Hunt was forced to hire another
carpenter in his stead, and by reason of y:e disertion of y:e said shipp
by y:e said ffrisby and Archer and y:e other two, (the Cooper and the Gunners mate
who also staid ashore) y:e shipps strength was much abated. Et alr nescit

Ad Interria

Ad primum renat that hee is going in a merch:t man called y:e Merryland XXXX
bound for Barbery and is mate of her, and is worth little, and this depot?s
wife and y:e producent call Cozens which is a ?farrest is not other wife related to him

Ad 2 rendt that while they y:e said ffrisby and Archer while they were onboard and untill their
going ashore at Leghorne. did indifferently well performe their duties
And saith hee ?saiv noe mony padi them. Et alr nescit

Ad 3 nescit.

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Ad 4:d ?rendit noava proparta sua alr nescit

Ad 5 deponit that y:e said M:r Hunt was y:e meanes by applying as aforesd
to y:e English consull that they the said ffrisby and Archer were sett at
liberty with y:e rest whether their reckoning were paid or noe. And
soe they might also have come onboard aswell as y:e other three
Et alr XXXXX predeporta nescuit

?SSITT GRAINGER [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. ffrancisens ?DowXX, of Stepney, born in Dublin, Ireland

XXX coram?dmo ?Juditan pXXte
y:e Ar=cani XXXXX
XXXX et Codd con Vander?zipps)
Chester & Suckly)

XXXXXX ffebruary 1666
Super libelle ey parte ?dcorum Brett et Codd

1. FFRANCISENS DOWXX paroa de Stepney als Stebenheath natui in Civitate
Dublinien in Hibernia annos agens 46 et ultro. testis productas et
Juratus dicit et deponit proXX ?seq:r

Adprimamet 2. arles deponit that y:e aclate George Codd a native of
?Wrexford in Ireland and a subiect of his Majesty of England, had and obtained lres
or marque from his majesty of England then at y:e ?Sparr in Germany bearing
date in August 1654, wherby the said Codd was authorized to bee Captaine
of a ffrigatt, or private man of warr, called the Loyall James and to take
such shipps and goods as did then belong to his said Majestys then rebellious subjects
of England and other his dominions, Which Commission this deponent hath seene
and read, and knoweth that y:e same was signed by y.e King of England King Charles
y.e second that now is, having had a Commission also himselfe from his said Majesty
y:e right and lawfull King of England and ?of ?the jis Matyes
Dominions and countryes then usurped from him. Et alr salvis ?XXXX quXXX nescuit

Ad 3 deponit that y:e aclate Capt Codd proceeded to sea having fitted and armed out
his said shipp y:e Loyall James for his said Imployment) by virtue of his said ?Comon
out of of the harbour of Brest in ffreance, and did surprize
and take two English shipps betweene y:e lands End and ?Mounte
buy, the one called the Alice of Topsham of y:e burthen of about
thirty five tonns, whereof one Browne ?Morrys was master, then laden with
oyle and other goods from Mayorca, bound for y:e Port of Topsham, and
belonging to English merchants, and the other the John of Plymouth laden
with salt oyle and other goods bound for Plymouth, and belonging
to merchants of that place. The premisses hee deposeth being resident
sometimes and y:e greater part at Brest X and sometimes at Port Lewis
in ffrance, ad saw y:e privateer y:e Loyall James fitted out upon that designe
and saw y:e XXXXXXX of y:e said two shipps in his Majestys Court
of Admiralty in Brest of which he shall speake more hereafter. Et
alre XXX in subsequen. nescuit.

Ad 4. 5. 6. et 7 arles deponit that there was y:e time aclate peace and
amity betweene the Kings of England and Spaine and their respective
Subjects, And saithh that Martin Clauson Vanderzippe aclate did about the time
aclate sett forth a shipp of warr called y:e Leopaldus Lieven van ?Jore Commander
from XXXX under a Commission obtained of ?my:x King of Spaine for y:e
takeing and surprizeing y:e shipps and goods of y:e enemyes of y:e Crown of
Spaine as hee conceiveth of which shipp y:e said Clauson Vanderzippe was owner, and for
and as such commonly accounted and reputed. And saith that y:e said

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captain Lieven van Ipre, with his said shipp seized and violently tooke from
y:e said Captaine Codd the said two shipps (although hee had held y:e possession
of them severall dayes together.) and their respective ladinge and
carried the same two Rnglish shipps into Ostend, where there was a publique
sale and vendition of them and their respective ladings made by y:e
said Clauson, and y:e mony or proceeds of y:e said shipps and ladings came
to y:e hands if y:e said Martin Clausib, and was by him or his order ?disposed
And saith that about halfe a yeere XXXX to his best remembrance this depo:t
having bisones of his owne at Pftene spake to y.e aclate Martin Clauson
about the seizures of y:e foresaid two shipps by y:eLeopardus, and the said
Clauson then acknowledged that hee had made sale of two Englishe shipps
and their ladings seized as aforesaid by y:e Leopardus, of which XXX this depo:t
know y:e said Clauson to bee owner or a great part owner, and in which
this deponent afterwards sailed almost three yeers together in the service
and employment of y:e said Vanderzippe. Et alr nescuit.

Ad 8:d. 9:d et 10:d arles deponit Et decit that y.e said Codd upon the said Captaine
of y:e said two English shipps Alice and John, possessed himselfe of y:e said
shipps papers, and did upon y:e ?same and other evidences bring y:e same
to Judgement in his said Majesty's Court of Admiralty in Brest whereof y:e XXXXX
Thomas Holder of y:e sd XXXX was Judge and the said two shipps and their respective ladings were
found to bee good prize and were according by condemned this deponent
being then present at and taking notice of y:e premisses. And saith that
the two sentences annexed were and are as hee verily beleeveth the true
Copies of y:e said sentences of Adjudicaconn or condemnaccon, and knoweth the
same XX bee wholy writtena nd subscribed by Ben: Johnson, then REgister
of y:e said Court of Admiralty. with whose handwriting this deponent is very
well acquainted having often seene him write and received very many ?lres
from him. And saith that it was y:e use and Custome of y:e Court of Admiralty aclate to
condemne all such shipps and ladings as were taken by y:e Kings Com.X aclate XX
sett out by the Captaine or other owners, And soe hee saith y:e aclate shipp y:e
Loyall James was sett fitted and equipped out by y.e said Codd and XX ?Dillex on
behalfe of themselves and y:e rest of y:e owners, And saith that deducting
tenths and fifteenths to y:e King and Duke of Yorke the owner of y:e man of warr
is to have one third part, the Victualler another third part, and y:e Captaine
and Company the other third, of all prizes Et alre referende ?sead Jura
et consuetudines aclate et ?deas sententias et ?contenta in XXXXXquorXXXXXX nescit.

Ad 13 aclos deponit that he knoweth the aclate Captaine Ignatio ?Breth
But cannot depose to y:e Contents of these arles but by hearesay, and by
y:e relaton of others.

Ad 14 arlum deponit that hee hath seene a lre from y:e said Clauson Vanderzippe
to y.e said Capt Brett desireing him to cometo Ostend to treat with him aboaut y:e
dammages done to his y:e said Bretts shipp And soe saw y:e same about three
or fowre yeers since. And beleeveth it to bee in y.e hands of S:r Anthony
?Massry. And the said Brett went over as hee understood, and was then
abused. and returned without any satisffaction and to make and Escape least hee should loose his life ?there. Et alre nescit.

Ad Interria

Ad primum rend:t that hee liveth neere Ratcliffe Crosse in Stepney parish and hath
lived there neere these five yeares last, and come that y:e request of S:r Anthony
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de Massry XXX Captaine Dillob was not of y:e said Codd or Bretts shipps Company
and is not to have any share in y:e prizes or money that shall or should bee recovered
by y:e said Codd ag:t and from y.e said Vanderzippe, And is worth as hee conceiveth
ffive hundred pounds XX his debts paid Alr nescit

Ad rend:t that y:e sd Codds Com:on was signed by y:e King that now is Charles y:e 2;d and to his
best remembrance was in lattin, and in parchment, and y:e said Codd had y.e translacon
thereof in English which this rend:t hath read. And hath not bin promised
pr received any thing for his testimony herein. Et alr nescit salvis predeportas

Ad 3 rend:t that he knoweth y:e said Vanderzipp to bee an owner of y:e Leopardus
Interr by his corresponding with him severall yeares before y:e seizure
of y:e two English shipps in question, And by his being imployed by y.e
said Vanderzippe and sailing in the said shipp Leopardus upon the said
Vanderzipps account three yeers together or thereabouts not long after
y:e seizure of the said shipps Alice and John as aforesaid and being
made privy and acquainted with y:e said Vanderzipps concernes in the
said shipp. Which shipp Leopardus was bought by y:e said Vanderzipp XXXX
as this dep:t (who was then there resident) was credibly reported of one
Capt John Daniells and his partners but for what summe hee remembreth
not, Als nescit salvis predeportas.

Ad 4 rend:t that hee was not in Ostend as aforesd at y:e sale of y:e said shipps
and ladings, and soe knoweth not y:e particulers of goods or tackles sold.
saving that one David Mosses, who was a purser of y.e Leopardus at y:e time
of y:e seizure of y:e said two English shipps and was acquainted with and know
of thier fates and of y:e sale of their respective ladings told this depo:t.
that the said shipps and ladings were Exposed to sale by y.e said Vanderzippe
and y:e momeys or preceeds thereof came to y.e said Vanderzipps
hands XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX And saith that y:e said Lieven van?Spre had a
Comon as hee is fully persuaded from y.e King of Spaine. And that y:e said
shipps by vertue thereof were seized and afterwards condemned by
a Court in fflanders
Et alr salvis prodiportis nescit.

Ad 5XXXX salvis predeports. ad quo servefors

FFRANCIS DXXXX [His signature]

Repit coram M:r Petro Land
SXXX pnto Ed:d Browne XXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Adam Magerl, XXXX

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XXXX XX ?Key and XXXX the XXXXX (XXXX Martins)
Tyson XXXX of XXXX) X con ?Dourke or XXXXX)

Seyto Marty 1666

Super allegaconn aclate ex
parte dictram dourker et XXXX
sat et XXXXX XXXXX annXXX
examiniatis.

I. ADAM MAGERL Dominus XXXXX XXXX a ?Searvant
annos agens 32 ant XXXXXX, testis.

Ad 1. 2. 3. 4.et 5 nescit XXXX XXXXXXXX

Ad 6. 7. 8. 9. et 10 arles et XXXXXX eidem allegationi annexat XXX XXX
arles XXXXXX in ?tempore XXXX exXXXXis XXXXX deponit a diXX
that hee being secretary of Master Lienberg Resident in London
?of this Nation of Sweedden, and privie to his dispatches and XXXX of lres
from abroad, well knoweth the hands of ?Master Apple?baum mentioned
in the said XXth article (who herewith was and is Envoy extraordinary for the
said King at the Hague) and that the first ?schedule was sent
from the said ?Master Applebaum to the said ?heer Resident, and received
by him in due time after the date, and was and is of the and of ?the
Secretary of the said ?Master Applebaum well known to this deponent
and fXXXXd by ?Master Applebaum himselfe. And ?this the said XXXXX
lre or XXXXXX was alsoe XXX from the XXXXXX XXXXXXX subject
to the said Resident touching the said shipp the XXXn, and by him ?duely
received before XXX XXXX of the XX ?shipp, and the XXX XXX XXX such XXXX
now and one XXXXXX of ?Pomeraniafor the said King, and further
that the said then Resident after received the third XXXXX as XXX XXX from the ?said
Martin and ?Joachim ?Dunker, and that the XXXX was by him received in
or about September XXXX and was by their ?dutymann by his order present
to the XXX XXXX in this XXXX, and saith then the XXX was and is a time
XXX of the XXXX in the ?Master had aboard as the time of XXXX
from XX Martin and Joachim Dunker, and received the
?fifth XXXX from the Regents aclate mentioned in the tenth article,
and for the XXX and plXXX of the XXates hee refereth himselfe to
the said XXXX XXXXX, and the XXXXX and shipp XXX
the XXX mentioned in the XXXX Et alr nescit

Ad 11:nd deponit hee hath knowne the said Joachim Dunker
about twelve yeares and so long XXXX was acquainted
and lodged and XXX in the XXX XXXX wth him in the Ministrie of Tubingn (sic)
in Germany, for about two yeares XXXX, and then hee was accompted
a ?Stralsunder ?vizt a native of Stralsund in Pomerania in the
dominion of the King of Sweden, and he and his ?said XXXX are
accompted Burgers of Stralsund and subiects of the said King, alr nescit

Ad 12 hee the said master was and is alsoe accompted of Stralsunden, and
subiect of the said King, and referrs himselfe to the saod alr ?aforesd

XXXX XXXXXX [His signature]

XXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Martinnus Tyson, of Stralsund, Pomerania

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2. MARTINNUS TYSON ffock de Baxx prope Stralseunden
in Pomerania, Navarrtus distr navis XX liefde, annos natus
49 aut du rXXXXX testis.

Ad primum 2. 3. 4. et arles dicte allegaconis deponit that the said ship shipe was
provided of tackle, apparell, rigging and furniture at the proper costs and
XXXXX of Joachim Dunker and Martin Dunker, who dwell in Stralsund
in Pomerania in the Dominions of the King of Sweden, and were and are
XXXXX of 15 sixteenth parts of hee and this deponent owner of the other
sixteenth XXXX and master of wth said provisions and furniture XXXX t?tym
in and cost them 7500 gilders, wch hee knoweth for ?that hee this deponent
is XXXX of himselfe and the said other owner disbursed and paid the moneys
to workman and materiall men; After wch fitting and furnishing this dep:t
and company of mariners set saile and departed with all in ballast from
Amsterdam (whether hee was brought from XXXdam) in or about the beginning
of September last for XXXXXX in Norway to lade deales for the said owner
XXXX accompt for Cadiz in Spaine, and in about the end of the said month
of September they arrived at SwXXXXX, where this deponent wth the proper
XXXges of the said Dunskins and of himselfe owners aforesaid bought and
laded about 5500 deales, and yyyy masinXXX for the said owners average, and
after ?wch lading namely at or about the eigth of October last, this
deponent and company of mariners departed with the said shipp and lading
from XXXand and steered course for Cadiz aforesaid with
XXXX there XXXX of XX the said ?serges for accompt aforesaid, XXX
coming off the coast of Brittany they were by storme and tempestuous
weather, ?forced tym the said coast and to goe into S:t Maloe on or
about the twentieth of November last, where being he arrived, and the
winde XXXXX XXXX for Cadiz and this deponent finding a good
XXX did in S:t Maloe sell the said cargo of deales and XXXX for the
XXXX and accompt of himselfe and of his said two partners owners aforesaid,
and wth ?part of the XXXX thereof this deponent with the assistance of
Peter ?Pallint aclate bought them andladed abord XX for their owne accompt
six butts of oile and about 96 XXXX or yarnes of XXXXX under the make
in the margin: And saith that hee make use of the name of the said Pallint
in his bills of lading as laden of said goods to XXX and that if hee their
XXXXX didd in the XX XXX his partners and relations XXXX know to whom
XXXX reason charging the cost and what abt XXXXX the buying and lading,
and for the XXX XXX of this deponents XXXXX of death, they were
XXXX to the aclate Abryam von SyXXXXX or bridges, but
if XXX XXX hee intended (vt dictit) to XXXXX and sell them himselfe. And
XXXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXX XXX in the bill of lading for XXX XXX XXXX
XXX hym and for the said manner XXX XXXX appeal. Et alre nescit

Ad 6. 7. 8. 9 et 10 arles et XXXX XXXXX XXXX deponit that
he XXXXX the XXXX ?schedule to XX XXX
and XXXXX Applebaum and the subjects XXXX Master Appelboome marchant, and
XXXX

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P1100193
f. 138v.

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P1100194
f. 139r.

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P1100195
f. 139v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Michael Neiburgh, de XXXX, sailor

P1100196
f. 140r.

19:o die January 1666

MICHAEL NEIBURGH de LaXXX Nauta

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P1100197
f. 140v.

Ad 10:nd That this rend:t, a little before seizure was about three
or foure yeares East from Downes

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P1100198
f. 141r.

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P1100199
f. 141v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johes Boreman, of East Greenwich, Kent

P1100200
f. 142r.

JOHES BOREMAN de East
Greenwich in Com Canty ?Generalis
annos agens 31 XXXXXX
XXXXX

Ad primum aclum deponit that for divers monthes last past hee
hath bin and still it often was & XXXXX betweenen the majority of
England and y:e United Provinces y:e ffrench
King and King of Denmark, and this was & is true & commonly
knowne to be so, et alr nescit

The 2:nd aclum deponit That
the
beginning of the war betweene XXXXXXXXX of
England and the Ud States & ffrench King & King of Denmark
respectively, but subjects of England did grant Letters patents
under the great seale of ?Scotland XXXX power thereby to his right

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P1100201
f. 142v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Trouls Neilson, of ?Larwick, Norway, sailor

P1100202
f. 143r.

TROULS NEILSON de ?Larwick in Norway
Nauta XXX XX due navis y:e S:t Jacon de
Larwick, annos agens 29 aut nrter duit et
deponit prout seq:r virt.

XXXX
That hee the depo:t well ?knoweth the ship S:t Jacob now in controversy
and was M:r of her for about foure yeeres before her seizure
hereunder mentioned and saith, that during all that time she hath of
his knowledge bin imployed to bring Deales and great timber, spars & balkes
from Norway to XXXX on the account and XXX of the producent M:r
Edward ?Suny (commonly called Alderman XXXX) and M:r Edward Lee Deale
Merchant of London, and saith that in March last the said M:r?Lucy & M:r
Lee did by XXXXX the sd M:r Leeds servant their in
Norway but since come to London lade on board the sd ship S:t Jacob at
Larwick in Norway, about five or six XXXX XX of Timber ?ten
thousand and XX hundreds of Deales and about five or six hundred of small
balkes and about three hundred of sparrs and about forty XXXX of XXX
woods to be brought in the sd shipp from Larwick directly to this Port
of London

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P1100209
f. 146v.

?DANIELIS CROSSEKEYES [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Guilemis Mixon, of Ratcliffe, in XXXX

2:nd GUILEMIS MIXON de Ratcliffe in XXXX
XXXX XXXXogus annos agens 47 ant XXXXX
et deponit pront seq. XXXX

Ad primum aclaum Deponit et dictit That hee this depo:t
was one of the Company to wit Carpenter of y:e shipp Yourke XXXX
M:r the voyage in question four Newcastle to London & came XXX
her at Yarmouth about six weekes before her coming from Newcastle with her comonh her was XXX XXX XXX
and saith that ever since his coming onboard her the aclate Captain
Stanton has nin sole owner of her and her appurtenances by ?common
reputacon & as hee beleeveth et alr nescit.

Ad 2:nd aclum deponit That on the sd Thursday in XXXX XXXXX
sd ship Yourker being laden with coales came with a great fleete of ships consisting of XXX
their XXXX Convoyes) of about a hundred saile as hee judged them XXXX
of January ?haven & many of y:e XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
as well as the Yourker to London, and saith that amongst the XXXX XXXX

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P1100210
f. 147r.

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mentioned in this cause came with the sd time from January haven
wch hee knoweth being then in sd ship Yourker and seeing the sd
fleete soe come out et alr nescit

Ad 3:nd et 4:nd aclos die Allegaconis deponit et dictit That all day on
Fryday bought next day after the sd ffleete soe came out the sd
other ship mentioned in this cause kept close to the side of
the sd ship Yourker and soe close that severall times there was XXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Ad 5:nd aclum depo:t That by meanes of the s:d other shipps falling
fowle of ye Yourker as aforesd shee proved very leaky soe that
the water was imediately above the coales. and saith that this
depo:t her Carpenter & her Company wch XXXXXXX &
sailes & such things as were propper did as well as they could stop
her leakes, and did wth all industry ply her pumps and by
Gods blessing upon their great paines they kept her pritty cleare
of waters and brought her safe to London, but saith that shee
is too ?much damnifyed by the sd dysaster that ?the ?hoill cost her
sd owner above a hundred and ?thirty pounds
to repare her & make her as goods as shee was immediately before in sd
XXXXXX

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P110211
f. 147v.

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Need to fill in this gap

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Adam Magerl, secretary of the Swedish Resident (in London)

P1100220
f. 152r.

12.o Martij 1666

4. ADAM MAGERL Dxx Residenti SuXXXX XX Secretis
annos XXX 31 ant de XXXX nescit productus

Ad septimum aclum dicte allegaconis XX ad primum XXXX annex XXXX
Teutonica scriptum ai tempore ains exXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX deponit that the aclate
Martyn Lyonberge, Resident here for his Matie of Sweden, since
thattime after the date thereof, received the said schedules or lre from the
aclate Mster Appleboom, Emssy Extraordinary for his said Ma:tie at
the XXXXX, w:ch hee knoweth for that hee this examinate was and is
secretary to the sais Resident, and in the ?qualitie XX the said lr
after the receiving and receipt thereof, and had is delivered to his han
by the said Resident to keep amongst other the like dispatches, and

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. Petrus Joy, merchant of London

P1100221
f. 152v.

5. PETRUS JOY civitatis London Mercator, annos natus 30:x
ant XXXXXXX.

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P1100222
f. 153r.

XXXX

Case: Allexanderi Spittlebroot : Deposition: 1. Derrick Fransen, of XXXX, sailor

?Ad Allexanderi Spittlebroot de)
XXXX sw Cork pro XXXX the)
XXXXX et XXXXXXX)

Case: XXXX: 1. Derrick Fransen, of XXX, sailor, aged 23

15:o Martij 1666

Supra allegacone aclate ex XXX dicte
partXX XXXXXX XX nescit examinatus.

1. DERRICK FRANSEN civitatis XXXXXX Nauta, annos
natis 23 ant XX XXXXX testis

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P1100223
f. 153v.

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P1100224
f. 154r.

XXXX

Ad Interria

XXXXX [His signature]

Case: Allexanderi Spittlebroot : Deposition: 2. Adrianus de Vinck, of XXX, XXXX

19:o March
Supra allegacons prXXX

2. ADRIANUS DE VINCK civitatis NaviXXXX in XX XXXXX, annos natus
24 ant XXXXX testis.

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P1100225
f. 154v.

XXXX

Ad Interria

XXXX

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Case: The St Jacob of Larwick, Norway: Deposition: Thomas Ledisham, of London, factor

P1100226
f. 155r.

Touching the ship the S:t)
Jacob of Larwick, Troulis)
Neilson M:r)

20:o ffeburary 1666 XXX XX

THOMAS LEDISHAM of the citie of London, factor, aged 24 yeares
or thereabouts sworne before the
right wor:ll Leollin Jenkins D:r
of London Judge of the High Court
of the Admiraltie of England saith
and deposeth by vertue of his oath

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P1100227
f. 155v.

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P1100228
f. 156r.

THOMAS LEDISHAM [His signature]

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P1100229
f. 156v.

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P1100230
f. 157r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. William Curry, of Edinboro, Scotland, Merchant

P1100231
f. 157v.

Eadem XXX

2. WILLIAM CURRY of Edinboro in Scotland
Merchant, aged 23 or thereabouts sworne
as aforesaid deposeth as followeth vizt

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P1100232
f. 158r.

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P1100233
f. 157v.

XXXX

WILLIAM CURRY [His signature]

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Adrian Vinck

P1100234
f. 158v.

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P1100235
f. 159r.

ADRIAN VINCK [His signature]

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case: XXXX: Deposition: Nicholas Garnier, of XXXX, London, aged 23

P1100236
f. 159v.

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P1100237
f. 160r.

NICHOLAS GARNIER habitans ?nisza Jurrum
de London BlackXXXX annos agens 23 ant
XXXX dictit et deponit proXX Leg. E vizt

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Jacobus ?Dam, of XXXX

P1100261
f. 172r

?18:th Mary 1666

JACOBUS ?DAM civitatis XXXXX XXX

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P1100262
f. 172v.

Ad 4 aclum depont that of the said lading of the said shipp sixteene XXX
of XXXXX of the 4:th ?marker in the margin were laded for accompz and XXXX
the aclare Machael Vander Planck, sixteene of the fifty and sixty markeXXX
for accompt of the acclate Nicholas ?Badier and Stephen XXX XXXX, also
16 naggs of wooll of the 7 and 8:th for accompt of Martin XX XXXXXX XXX
Thomas?Molender aclate, and one roll of ?pictures of XXXX
Vanderplanck XXXX is a Merchant of Bridges and there dwelling XXXX
a citizen there, XXX for the rest of the persons aclate hee saith hee knoweth the XXX
not, ?bin refererreth himselfe XXX said bills of lading touching their XXXX
Et alr necit.

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P1100263
f. 173r.
hee saith was all to be delivered at Bridges) and that noe subiect or
subiects of the ffrench king, king of Denmark of States of the
United Netherlands ....

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P1100264
f. 174v.

and freights hee saith there would not nor was XXa any dXXXXX, for
the ladings there are appointed by the ?ContXXXXXX XXXX, XXX

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P1100265
f. 175r.

there and was ?however acquainted with XX by the said Carkis ?Boove, at
whose house this deponent dined in his XXX XXX. And saith that hee
did not ?lade any money aboard this deponents said shipp XXX XXXX deponent
knoweth of, nor made this deponent acquainted with the lading, but...

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P1100266
f. 175v.

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P1100267

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P1100268

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P1100269
f. 177r.

?her XXX XXX and wXXXX XXXXX of to XXX XXXX XXXX to XXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Signed dn [MARK] ?Everson [His mark]

Case: The St Mary: Deposition 1. Jacob Rogiers, of XXX, fflanders, XXXX

XXXX the S:t Mary de ?NXXXXX)

29:o Martij 1667

Super ?Inter in XXXXX examinatus

1. JACOB ROGIERS de XXXX porto in fflandri a nauta
NavXXXXX dicta navXXXX the S:t Mary

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

*****

Case: The St Mary: Deposition 2. Johannes Creke, of XXX, fflanders, ?sailor

Eadem XXX

Super XXXX XXXX

2. JOHANNES CREKE civitatis XXXX porti in ffrandria nauta, XXXX
natus 40 XX XXXX XXXXX

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P1100270
f. 177v.

Ad primm, 2 3. et 4:nd Interria deponit that XXXX knoweth
XXXX

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P1100271
f. 178r.

this deponent first XXXX ?father a skipper using to XXXX XXX XXX
from fflabders, and now as a skipper in XXXX) hath XXXXX that
XXXX, and seeing such lading and XXXXXXX other said XXXXXXX, and
delivery of XXXX XXXXX in fflanders, of wines to greater quantities
than XXXX XXX laded at ?Bourdeaux, and for such as XXXX XXXX rge said
van ?Rym ?XXXck was and is commonly arranged, Et alr
nesit.

Ad Interria

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Case:: The Sampson of Gothenburg: Deposition: Olle Nilsen, citozen of Gothenburg, sailor, aged 28

XXXXX XXX the Sampson de Gottenburgh)
XXXX Olle Nilson XX XXX)

29:o Aprilis 1667.

OLLE NILSEN civitatis Gottenburgenis
Nauta, aetatis 28 ant XXXXX, juratus
coram XXXXili ciro dXX doctore Jenkins
JudiXXXX Curia, deponit XXX examinatus
viz:t

That in or about the beginning of January last past XX ?Wulf
and ?Lawrence Yong both XXXX XXX citizens and Mercahnts of GottenbergX
met there and treated with this deponent to goe M:r of a ship ?w:ch they
affirmed thex had bought with her lading of deales at ?Krugers in Norway of one XXXX Matson
?ther dwelling, and agreed with this examinate to XXX XXXX to fetch
her and her said ladeing and XXX masger of her. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100272
f. 178v.

Image is not very easy to read

to the Towerhouse in Gottenburgh, where the deponent

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P1100273
f. 179r.

Image is not very easy to read

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXX [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Manuel Martinez de Figuerira, Master of the S:t James

MANUEL MARTINEZ DE FIGUEIRA Magr dicte navis the S:t
James, annos agens 49aut de XXX testis productus
et XXXXX et deponit XXX XXXX viz:t

Adprimum 2 et 3 Interia deponit et rendit that hee is master of the
said shipp the S:t James and hath soe bin ever since y:e nonth of December
last past, and came first on board her at y:e port of Lisbone. and this is y:e
first voyage that hee hath made with the said shipp since hee became
master of her. And saith the said shipp tooke in at Lisbone a lading or Cargoe of
goods, consisting of salt sugar, Cinnamon, oyles, XXXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX and other
merchandizes to bee carries and transported in the said shipp S:t James from
Lisbon to Amsterdam there to bee delivered for accompt of
Portuguezes, And saith that the principall laders were ANTONIO CORREA
BRUNO & ?XENTO DE SILVIA BRAVO and

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P1100274
f. 179v.

thereof he knoweth not neither can hee guesse not seing y:e
same, but remembrerg not to whom y:e same belong therein
referromg himselfe to his papers- And had noe more
provisions on board than what was for his owne Company
proporcconnable to his number of men and voyage. Arle nescit

Ad 5 rend:t et deponit that hee was shipped master of the said shipp
at Lisbib as aforesaid in December last by his foresaid owners
and his voyage was XXX XXXXX from Lisbone to Amsterdam and soe back
to Lisbone, where the voyage was to have ended, and was to have for
his wayges twelves ?Milkes per mensem And saithh that there has
bin ne Master of y:e said shipp this voyage but this depo:t
who became master of her as aforesaid

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100275
f. 180r.

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Domingos da Costa, of S:t Jago, Portugal, sailor

Repetit coram dno XXXX XXXXX XXXX
XXXX Ed:du Browne Np:

Nono maij 1667

Super Interry pradict

2. DOMNINGOS DA COSTA natus in S.t jago Nauta annos agens 40 aut
do XXXXX testis productis et Juratus.

Ad dicta Interrogatoria deponit et dicit that hee hath well knowne
the aclate shipp S:t James for severall yeares last and was shipped
Boatswaine of her for this voyage at Lisbone in y:e monthe of December
last past, and was soe shipped by her owners Antonia Correa Bravo
and Vinto da Silva Bravo both eminent merchants of and dwelling in
the Citty of Lisbone subiects of his said Majesty of Portugall and for
and as such commonly accounted and reputed. And the foresaid
Correa and da Silva Bravo (who hee saith are brothers and merchant
partners,) did as owners of y:e said shipp fitt out thesaid shipp upon this
present voyage and laded the said shipp with a cargo of goods

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P1100276
f. 180v.

consisting of salt, Brazeel wood, sugar, tobacco, Cinammon,
Oyles, Sweetmeates, Oranges and Lemmons, and two ?Parcells
or pacquetts sealed up wherein hee guessed there were
diamonds being madeup in y:e usuall forme of such, the ?product
part of thesaid XXX XXX XXXX the said owners acls and the rest for y:e XXXX
of some friends of theirs PXXXXX which lading was to ?bee ?carried
and transported in the said shipp from Lisbonne to Amsterdam
in Holland, there to bee delivered according to ?consignment
for their said accounts, And saith that there were aboard
the said shipp S:t James Brazeel wood and some ?salt which hee
saith was to bee delivered to Jeronimo ?Munez de Costa the King of
Portugalls Agent in Amsterdam to bee disposed of by hin
for y:e said Kings acc:t And saith thta this deponent hath
made five voyages from Lisbone to Brazeele in the said
shipp S:t James under y.e foresaid owners and in their
service and imployment, and the said owners laded the
said shipp for their owne accounts and some other persons
Portuguezes with a lading consisting of y:e growth of Portugal
and sent the same to Brazeel from whence they brought
Brazeel wood, Sugar, and other goods of y:e growth of the
country to Lisbon for y:e same account And saith that
the shipps Company consist (with the M:r) of thirty three
persons all natives of Portugall saveing the pilot of the
said shipp named Melchior Tobias who is a reputed ?man
of Hamborow but hath lived with his wife and family
at Lisbon these nine or tenn yeers last past. And this
deponent hee saith was borne at a village called ?Bellin ?net
Lisbone, where he lives with his mother
(who is yet living) when hee is not at sea, And this
depo:t was hired as aforesaid to goe from Lisbon to Amsterdam
and returne thence to Lisbone, and was to have twelve
?Markes per month for his service in the said ship, And saith
that his precontest ffiguras was appointed and constituted M:r in
November or December last by the said owners at Lisbon, and ?Antonio
da Costa Torres native of Lisbon, and an inhabitant of Oporto
in Portugall where hee has his wife and family was her former master next besides XXXXX, And
since this depots coming onboard the said shipp shee has not bin
in any port or place in y:e dominions of the ffrench King XXXX
King of Denmark or the united Netherlands, the five
former voyages being from Lisbon to Brazeel. And denieth
for his part that the lading in question or any part thereof
belonged to any persons whatsoever enemyes of his
Majesty of England or to any other but Portuguezes and
the greatest and most considerable part to y:e for said owners of y:e said shipp
And having seene the papers and y:e bagg wherein they XXXXX
XXXXX

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P110277
f. 181r.

XXXX [His mark]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Melchior Tobias, of Lisbon, Portugal, sailor, born in Hamburg, aged 36

Super Interije (sic) predict

3. MELCHIOR TOBIAS de Civitate Lisbon Nauta natus in Civitate Hamburghen, annos agens 36 aut do XXter testis product
et Juratus

Ad dict Interria deponit et dicit that he was
shipt aboard the shipp S:t James in the Port of Lisbon on or about
the twenty ninth of March last past at which time she parted from
thence with a lading of goods to bee carried in the
said shipp from Lisbon to Amsterdam. And saith that
this deponent was hired to goe pilot of y:e said shipp from Lisbon
to Amsterdam by Vinta dy Silva Bravo whom hee beleeveth to bee
an owner of the said shipp S:t James. And if this depo:t would better
himselfe he might if hee soe please leave the service as a pilot
in the said shipp at Amsterdam and goe on board any other shipp

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P110278
f. 181v.

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P110278
f. 182r.

Image is rather unclear

XXXX agoe and that he bever
knew of any other owners but y:e XXX XXXX whome
hee knowthe to bee, and to have bin these seaventeene yeares
last merchants of great eminency and quality of and
dwellin in Lisbone and subiects of his majesty of Portugall.
And saith that atsuch his coming aboard the said shipp was éaden
with a Cargoe of goods consisting of Salt Brazeele woods
tobacco Cinnammon oyles XXXXX and other goods to bee
carried to Amsterdam from Lisbon consigned to XXXXX
XXXXX da Costaas y:e XXXXX da Bravo upon their XXXX this
depo:t told him for y:e acc:t of y:e King of Portugall and the XXXX
da Bravo and other Portuguezes, but y:e particuler quantities
and qualities hee knoweth not therein referring himselfe
to y:e Bills of Lading and others the shipps papers touching
the severall proprietors also of the said lading And saith that
gee knoweth not whether y:e papers remaining in Court now
shewed unto him were aboard the sd ship or not, or if aboard
whether they were all on board or are XXXX XXXX XXX but well knoweth that
y:e bagg wherein they now are was aboard the sd shipp at
the time of y:e said ?service with papers in it. And knowerg
not of any papers that were concealed hid or throwne
overboard or otherwise made away y:e CapXX taking all
with him as they were in the bagg in y:e XXX XXXXX, And
saith that at y:e time of her Capture the S:t James was in Company
of about ten XXXX and XXXXX and XXXX more
And that y:e Cap?er comming up with the ffleete neare XXXXXXX
at the Hamburgers Admirall and as the CompanyXXX the sd S:t James
his Company y:e said ?Capter XXXX XX and wounded two people aboard
the ?Admirall And denyeth that y:e S:t James her Company made any
resistance or opposition or would not suffer y:e Englishe to come on board
or that they endeavoured to make ?due escape with y:e sd shipp
and lading from the Privateere. Et alre XXXXXX

'JUSTE ?RODRIGO [His signature]

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P110278
f. 182v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Anthonius Cicardo, of Madera, sailor, aged ?34

P1100289
f. 186r.

ANTHONIUS CICARDO de Insula Madera
Nauta annos agens ?34 naut XXX dicit et deponit

Ad primo 2:nd 3:nd et 4:nd XX Allonis deponit et dicit That hee this depo:t well knoweth
y:e ship aclate called the ?Nostra Xeimoza de Empare and is Boatswaine of her
and soe hath bin for about foure months last, and during that space hee
has bin in y:e River of Thames and saith that about a month since
the aclate John de ?Lausezou came severall times on board y:e sd ship
shee then lying at S:tCatherine and (as the M:r Antonio Vas Dominiquiz
& others sayd hee desired to goe a passenger in y:e ship from hence to the
Island of Maderas (where the sd ship was bound, and the sd Antonio
cas Dominigoz at first seemed willing to lett him goe a passenger in y:e
sd ship but afterwards hearing that hee the sd John de Lausezon had borne
armes against portugall refused to carry him unles hee gott a passe
from y:e Lord Bishop ?Russell, w:ch passe (as the sd Lausezou declared
publiquely onboard y:e sd ship in the p:rsence of this depo:t and many more
of y:e sd ships company) hee could not get the sd Bishop
to grant of to that effect and saith that about six dayes after in regard hee XX Lausezou could not get
such a passe and the sd M:r durst not carry him w:thout sent for all his
things that hee had onboard namely two chests & a trunk a
sword fowling peece some bookes a dog & some other things w:ch hee
intended to have carryed w:th hm to the Maderas in the sd ship, w:ch
sd two chests trunk sword, fowling peece bookes XXX of XXX XXXXXX were delivered to a Negro and another man that
were sent for y:e same by Lauseson, this depo:t seeing the same soe
delivered, and saith that the sd two chests and a trunk were soe delivered
fast made up to wit y:e two chests corded about & nailed up, and the trunke locked
and the same and the rest of the things aforementioned were sent onboard
by y:e sd Lausezon ?to about twenty dayes before
such that sending for y:e same and the two chests upon their coming aboard
were committed to this depon:ts charge who kept them all the while they were
onboard under lock & key, and hee is well assured that the same were delivered
to the Negro & other man sent by the sd Lauseson as aforesd
w:th all the same things in them & in y:e same manner & cndicon as they were at the time of their
coming onboard w:ch hee is the better assured of for that hee reXXXXX
them upon their coming onboard kept them safe as aforesd all the while
they were onboard and delivered them to the sd Negro & other man XX XX
XX presence and for the rest of the sd Lausezons things they were well
and safely placed in the sd ship. and particularly hee saith that the
trunke was placed betweene decke by y:e M:r Cabbnidoze, and
saith that about ten dayes after its coming onboard the sd Lausezon came
onboard y:e sd ship and did in the sight of this depo:t & XXX XXXX XXXX a marriner belonging
to the sd ship unlock & open the sd trunke and take out of the same severall
things (but the particulars hee could not discerne), and then locked the sd trunke againe
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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Antonini ffernandez, of ?Misponia, Portugal, sailor

P1100293
f. 189r.

11:o die mensis October 1667

Super allone prXXX Examinat.

3:th ANTONINI FFERNANDEZ de ?Misponia in Portugallis
Nauta annos agens 25 aut inter dicit et deponit XXXX
XXXX viz:t

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f. 190r.

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f. 191r.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johnes Collins, of Radcliffe, Surrey, merchant

JOHES COLLINS de Redcliffe in Com Surria mercator
annos agens 31 aut inter dicit et deponit prXXXX XXXX viz:t

Ad XXXXX XXXXX et ad schedulam in ead mentionat XXXX in XXXXXX deponit
et dicit that at the Barbadoes in December last this deponit went as a
passenger XXX in the aclate ship Successe imbarqued himselfe
in her XXXXX againe to London and came home in her XXX ?y:e voyage
and brought w:th him in her y:e Sugar and Cottons mentioned
in the schedule to be laden by him & was to pay y
freight therin set downe soe XXXXX and XXX of Cotton hee sayth was
?really soe much as is therein set downe XXXXX the sugar worth about 36:li
per hundred and XX this depo:t soldy:e sd cotton & sugar the same being
y:e cotton price thereof here, and saith that for his pt hee knoweth not w:t other XXXXX
y:e sd voyage nor w:t was to be pd for y:e freight thereof of y:e vallue of
s:e same soe laden but beleeveth that sugar and cottons brought in y:e
sd shoè y:e sd voyage were worth as much as those laden by this depo:t & that
the same price was to by payd for freight and saith that y:e sd ship coming
from y:e Barbadoes to London y:e sd Voyage under y:e conduct of y:e sd XXXXXX
George PrXXXXX XXX M:r XXXX also went out in her XXX XXXX was XXX very
stormy weather and more especially about y:e XXXX of January and
to his remembrance about y:e 15:th day of that month in a latitude of about 42 degrees XX XXXXX shee met w:th
a very great storme w:ch continued for many howrs by meanes of
the violente whXXXXXXX the sd PrXXXX and Company (conceiving it best soe
to doe) cut downe y:e maine mast of y:e sd ship and all y:e tackle
belonging to it & XXXXXX off into y:e sea and soe through Gods mercy
preserved the rest of y:e sd ship, and all her lading ag:t all XXX XXXX w:ch
were in very great hazard of perishing in y:e sea for about a XXXXXX

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P1100298
f. 191v.

JOHN COLLINS His signature

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Johes Babb, of Shadwell, Middlesex, sailor

Eadem dXXX

Sop Allone pred Examinat.

3:xx JOHES BABB de Shadwell in poa:x XXXX
in Com Midd Nauta annos agens 33 aut XXX
dicit et deponit pront seq viz:t.

Ad dram Allon et ad sXXXXdulam in XXX mentionat deponit et dictit that
hee this dep:t has belonged to y:e aclate ship the Successe as her cheife mate for
a yeere last past during all w:ch time y:e XXXX George ?Bruice hath bin
in her XXXX and one M:r Langsley & Company subjects of his majesty of England XXXXX
XXX XXX XXXX her reputed XXXXXX and saith that in or about November or December last the
sd ship being then under XX sd PrXXXX his XXXXX at Barbadoes sheee
XXXX her full Lading of Sugars and Cottons and a little ginger, to be XXXXXX
this port of London & here to be delivered but y:e pticular psons interessed XXXXX
XX XXX XXX but supposeth that y:e sd XXXX XXXXXX XXXXX is a XXXX acc:t of XXXXXXX

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f. 192r.

and that the respective goods therein mentioned XXXX brought in
y:e sd XXXX voyage from y:e Barbadoes to this port of London, and
here deliveredaccording to consignm:ts and that the same were worth
?then XXXXX was to be payd for the same as is mentioned in y:e sd XXXX
w:ch hee the XXXX beleeveth to be true for that hee XXXX a pcell of sugar ?was
soe laded in that sd ship y:e sd voyage ?outwards XXXXX, and saith that at
y:e time of Cap:X puttin y:e sd Lading onboard the sd ship XXX XXXX a very
?strong XXXX and XXXXX ship and was then looked upon ?to be
the ?lightest ship at YYY Barbadoes, and that the sd ship continued very strong
all y:e sd voyage or els doubtless had perished in y:e sea & shee alsoe
continued XXXXXX, tight untill about seaven a Clock at night of y:e 13:o of January
1666 in the latitude of about forty three degrees at w:ch time hee saith
y:e weather was extraordinary stormy and tempestuous in XXXXX
XXX y:e sd XXXX XXX XXX XXX and XXXX XXXX & many lives were in very great danger of y:e
perishing in y:e sea, some ?pt of her sailes being blowne away
and her inXXXX company being wholely deprived ?of ?governance of XXXXXX
and the sd M:r and this depo:t his mate, being in that sad condition
?considered w:t was XX to be done for y:e preservacon of all & conXXXXyed
that y:e only way soe to doe was to cutt y:e maine mast & its appurtenances
cleare away w:ch was p:rsently done, and the sd mast & XXXX ?therto
belonging were thereby utterly lost, and the same being cut away they
made aXXXX to XXXX the sd XXX, and through Gods mercy brought her XXX XXXX
although y:e sd XXXX endured for severall dayes ?afore y:e cuttng away her
sd mast, w:ch hee XXXX was a very XXXXXX XXX and had not y:e same
bin soe done hee verily beleeveth that hee would not have bin there to have
made this relacon, but that hee & the rest and the ship and Ladong would
have bin lost in y:e sea, and sayth that y:e damage that owners
of ye sd ship sustained by y:e premisses amounteth to a XXX XXXXX
XXXXX XXXX in y:e hee XXX hee cannot guesse XX XXXXXX, but saith that hee
judgeth that y:e Mast and appurtenances as were lost by y:e sd XXXXXX
will cost near XXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 192v.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Antonius Coles, of East Smithfeild, London, XXXX

J:XX ANTONIUS COLES de East Smithfeild, XXXX
London XXXXX annos agens 39 aut XXX XXX
deponit XXXX seq viz:t

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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P1100301
f. 193r.

Antonij Coles [His mark]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johes Bunkley, of Eastsmithfeild, XXXX, baker

Eadem dXX

Sup Allonne pred Examinat.

2:dus JOHES BUNKLEY de Eastsmithfeild Bishos baker
annos agens 40 aut ?inter dicit et deponit prXXX seq E
viz:t

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 193v.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

JHON BUNKLEY [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Jeremias Pels, of XXXX, ?Antwerp

27:o Aprilis 1667

Super allegacon XX XXX ex parte
Dicti SparkXXXX examinatus

1:nd JEREMIAS PELS famulus XXX XXXX dicti producti
natus in dicte XXXXXX AntwerpXXXX, aetatis 20 XXXX
aut XXXXX testis

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX to be an Inhabitant and
Merchant of Antwerp, and hath ?served him in his Counting house for
these tenn monethes last, and there by further knoweth that XXX XXXX Pproducent
was and is a Marchant of very eminent qualitie and reputation, and
a great dealer in Marchandizes w:th that ?useth to send from fflanders and
hath ?retournes, and goods imported from ?foreine parts for ?his owne acco:t
and particularly a dealer in salt, ?XXted by him to be sent him from
ffrance. And saith hee hath of late bought and caused to be bought
severall shipps in the Netherlands in the dominions of the States of the
United Provinces for his owne acco:t for the said salt XX XXXX to fetch salt from ffrance XXXX
XXXXlanders, England and other places, in w:ch commodities hee dealeth
XXXX for his owne acco:t and for such as aforesaid hee was and is commonly
accoumpted. alr nescit

Ad secundum aclum deponit that in or about October or November last past
the said Gabar Sparkhommer for his owne acco:t bought and XXX XXXX
to be bought at Amsterdam by Messieures Leonard ?Bonnart
andJerome du Panne his correspondents and further XXXXX the said shipp the S:t EXXXX who haveing
paid for the ?same, and the duties thereof, XXXX upon the sad XXXXXX
for severall bills of exchange for their reimbursuance, w:ch they XXXXXXXXX
accepted abd paid, w:ch hee hknoweth writing in his Counting house and
doeingthis XXXXXXXX as aforesaid and ?seeing the ?receiving of the said bills
and accepting thereof,

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. Gerrit Johnson, of XXXX, Norway, XXXX

P1100305
f. 195r.

6 May 1667

1. GERRIT JOHNSON de XXXXXX in Norwegia Nauta,
XXXXXX dicta navis the Sampson aetatis 50 annos agens
aut XXXXX, nescit in pXXXXXX ex parte dicti
XXXXXX Admiralti examinatus, deponit in XXXXXX

Ad prima Interrium XXX et deponit that hee hath knowne the said shipp
the Sampson about five or siy yeeres last, and was master of her for
neare three yeeres and ?at about Michaelmas last met her XX XXXXX at
w:ch XXX XXXX XXX, shee lying still and ?unimployed, and about two monethes
?since hee was at XXXrn in Norway shipped ?stiersman of her by
Ole ?Mistr XX XXX ?not to come to London with her, for w:ch
XXX XXXX at CroXXXX in Norway laded with deales and timber.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 195v.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXX [His mark]

Eadem XXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Augustinus ?Hance, of Shadwell, Middlesex, sailor

P1100307
f. 196r.

2. AUGUSTINUS ?HANCE de Shadwell in Com Midd
Nauta, ubihabitavit p

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Sir William Warren, of London

P1100317
f. 201r.

20:° de mensis Maij 1667

Sup Allone pXXdd Examinat

DXXXs Guilielmus Warren de London miles annos agens
44 aut inter dicit et deponit prout seq Evizt.

Ad primo 2:nd et 3:nd arles due Allegationis deponit et dicit That hee this depo:t
well knoweth y:e ship in question called now as hee understandes the Sampson
but formerly theJohannes and saith that the sd ship did as hee
beleeveth untill lately belong to ?Croskrey in Norway in the Dominions
of the King of Denmarke; and to Hans Matson of Croskrey, a subject
of the King of Denmarke & reputed to be borne in Norway w:ch hee
saith os of his this depo:ts acquaintance & saith that in December
last hee this depo:t then supposing the sad Hans Matson to be y:e Owner
of the sd ship wrote to him a lre of the tenor following vizt
London 7:th Xber 1666 XX Hans Malson After hearty salutations wishing
you & all yo:rs all health and happynes this is to advise you, that inasmuch
as there y:e great occasion for deales XXXX y:e greatest at of London y burnt
therefore if you please to send in the shipps Hope & ?Joannes & 2 or 3
more w:th deales in the spring. I will give you as XXXX mony XXX them as any
XXXXX can, ready money only XXXXX desire you will write XXX y:e
resolution w:th the ships names and M:rs names that I may send you over
passes from y:e Duke of Yorke that your shipps & men may come hither &
returne XXXX in safety notwithstanding the warr that is betweene both kingdomes
I desire y:e answer by the first apportunity XXXX y:e Every loving freind
& servant W. Warren and saith that upon y:e arrivall of the sd ship
XX voyage at this port this depo:t receaved an answer thereof from y:e
sd Hans Malson of the teno:r following vizt. My good freind S:r Will:m
Warren, Salut, I have receaved y:r letter from Gottenborowe from y:e
freind David Matson dated in London last yeere 16666 y:e 7 Decemb;r
and doe understand that you would have the ship S:t Johannes and that you
would give as much for the lading as any other but this is to let you
knowe that I cannot doe it, because I have sold the ship at Gottenborow
to two able men namely Hannis Wolfe, and Laurence Young but
nevertheless I have spoke with their M:r Ollo Neilson that you should
have one halfe of the lading and John Shorter thother halfe
before any others. but upon these conditions that you shall give as much
for the goods as any others and not let the ship be seized in her
delivering or in paying their money for the sd goods- XXXXXXX the
three hundred dollers wch I am indebted unto you shalbe payd
w:th the first oportunity if you can get a ship or two to send XXXX
I would ?loade them off for you; freind S:r Will:m if you & M:r Shorter
would get the ?Lubecker (his name is John Loudez) his ship Lading
it would be good for you & great proffitt XXX as hee hath a
very XXXX ladeing of deales and more than ordinarily
XXXX, God be w:th you, Croskery the 25:th March 1667. Hans Madtsson
w:ch was y:e only letter w:ch hee receaved about the sd shipp since this XX XXX
writing his letter & more than the sd letter from the sd Matson
declareth hee knoweth not & knoweth not whether y:e sale therein
mentioned was reall or not but supposeth that y:e said sale was really
made in regard of the sd Matsons refusall of this depo:ts faire proffer as aforesd
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f. 201v.

and sayd that since the sd ships arrivall there this depo:z hath ?heard
XXXXX on John Shorter say that hee wrote a letter to y:e sd
Matson XXXX to y:e effect of this depo:ts letter to XXXX and that
an answer to the like effect as hee ?returned to that depo:t XXXX
nescit depXXXXer

Ad 4:nd depo:t that y:e said ship as hee verily beleeves was laden
w:th her prent lading at Croskery aforesd w:ch lading ?consists
of Deales ?Tinber balkes, and sparrs board XXXXX XXX XXX
& the sd Lading hee saith was XXXXX to be XXXX to this sepo:t but afterwards
the same was sold to M:r ?Peter Rich & M:r Charles ShXXler as this
depo:t understood, et alr nescit.

Ad 5:xx nescit preXXX sua.

Ad 6:xx deponit That hee knoweth not w:t Country XXX y:e sd XXX
Company are but saith that two or three of them speake XXX
Danish & are danes as hee beleeveth & saith that Garret Johnson
that now belongeth to the sd ship was formerly (as hee ?formerly
told this depo:t) M:r of y:e sd ship. et alr nescit

Ad 7:xx xxxx so ad xxxx xxxxx prxxd et XXXX
A alr nescit

Ad 8:xx depo:t That it is notorious & well knowne that there
was & is open warr betweene y:e Kings & states & this
subjects & generall especially granted & the English XXX
take & seize the ships & goods of y:e ffrench King King of Denmark
& States of y:e United Provinces or Inhabitants XXX XXX XXX
& ?got the same condemned for prize as XXXX goods et alr
nescit

Ad 9:xx xxxxx so ad Declaracoon in XXXX aclo mentionata

Ad 10:xx deponit That hee had heard & beleeveth that the sd ?ship
lading were seized in this port of London as is aclate et alr
nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepsta pXXXX XXX XXXX

Ad Interria

Ad primo red:t that hee beleeveth that tis a frequent & usuall
course amongst Merch:ts owners & M:rs of ships to sell dispose
XXXX & XXX for XXX shipp and to another as
to agree w:th their advantage & hath heard & therefore beleeveth that
persons of severall nations doe by Letters, & XX XXX ffactors sell & buy XXX
& pts of ships & make bills of sale & other writings accordingly
all w:ch may be done in a short space & soe consequently hee that
was an owner may ?of a suddaine become noe owner & XXXXX
noe owner may become the true proprietor et alr nescit

Ad 2:nd rend:t That hee is sole owner of some & ptowner of XXX
ships and saith that sometimes it XXXX that when y:e owners of ?y:e
ships cannot well agree about setting out a ship upon a voyage
some of them XXXX XXXXX XX hath bin ready to goe to sea, sold theire pt XXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 202r.

sold by the XXXX of the English to ffreinds of y:e English, et alr nescit

Ad ?3:xx rend:t that ?hee judges XXXXX of all men & doth ?rather beleeve
that the common morall principall of men as men doe incline them
to speake & XXXXX XXX truely than falsely XXX more
XX to be XXXX amongst the Christian nations & XXXX
having now heard y:e Examinaccon of y:e M:r in XXXXXX & XXXX not
being to be found, hee saith that hee supposeth that what the XX in X$
that sworne is true & supposeth that y:e XXXX sale mentioned in the
sd Hans Matsons lre was reall, XXX this supposition being
mainly grounded upon Matsons not accepting of y:e proffer of the Duke
of Yorkes passe; & hee is desired not to XXXXXX to any other
what hee hath deposed as y:e interrogatory requires et alre nescit XXXX

Ad 4:xx rend:t That hee had a great desire to have had the deales & ?the ?Rest
of the sd ships lading this voyage & was in XXXXX w:th the M:r
Peter ?Splitt about the same, but XXXXX XX or would have given hee
remembreth not, but remembreth that hee bid y:e master XXXX that
then was or neere thereabouts, & saith that hee bought some of the
deales afterwards of M:r Rich, and said that hee this rend:t ?thought that
hee had agreed & XXX should have had XX XX ladeing for himselfe & M:r
John Shorter but y:e broker underhand disposed of them otherwise as
aforesd. This rend:t XXXX to give security for them as hee
had bidden unles hee could have them delivered for XXX to him
before y:e market fell, et alr nescit

W:M WARREN [His signature]

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P1100323
f. 233r

23:° Martij 1666

JOSEPHUS XXXXXX de Redrith in Com Surria Nauta, natus
in parea S:t Olavi Hartstreet London annos agens 20 et
XXX testis productus et Juratus dicit et deponiz XXXXX XXXXX

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Case: XXXX: Cornelius Bourne, of St. Salvatoris, Southwark, sailor, aged 25

P1100325
f. 204r.

16:° Aprilis 1667

XXX Princeps Jacobus Dux Ebor)
et Albanis con Navem quandam vorat)
y:e S:t Ignatius cajus Gualterus BXXage
corat M:r, nuper in porta in Insula vectis)
seizit Doctor Budd)
pd.

1. CORNELIUS BOURNE in parra S:te Salvatoris in BurgodX
Southwarke Nauta, annos agens 35 and XXXX testis
product et Juratis dicit et deponit prout

Ad primum et secundum arlos deponit that about six weekes since
the time more precisely he remembreath not this deponent being then
and now one of y:e ffrigatts Company y:e ffrancis the aclate Captaine W:m
?Brustowe Commander went on board and seized or stopped the shipp
S:t Ignatius aclate in Yarmouth Roade within the Isle of Wight, And saith
that under a little parcell of tobacco in a private place of y:e great Cabbin of y:e S:t
Ignatius this deponent found the three schedules or ffrench lres
aclate N:o 6. 7. 8 and breaking them open found them to bee ffrench
but could not understand them, and some two dayes after such his
finding of y:e said lres this depo:t gave them to y:e said Captaine
W:m Burstow Commander of y:e said ffrancis ffrigatt, And saith this
deponent is well assured that y:e said three lres annexed are the
same which he found in the Ignatius as aforesd. this deponent
taking notice of y:e seales and superscripccons findeth them to bee
y:e same. Et alr nescit saving that one Richard Earlisman Commander
of y:e Hawke Ketch was also in the said Cabbin when this deponent
found y:e said lres and when hee nroke them open.

Ad 3 deponit that in the Topp of y:e three papers or lres N:o 6. 7. 8
the word Brugge is written every y:e head of another word which is blotted
out but may bee discerned to have been written flushen or vlissing
And saith that y:e word Bruges written over the said lres and y:e blotts were
made before y:e said papers were found and before this depo:t broke them open
A alr nescit

Ad 4 nescit-

CORNELIUS XXXXX [His signature]

Super allono per drom Budd dat
exparte dicti dmis Ebor. Examinatus

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: John Jacob, of Wapping, XXXX, Merchant

P1100342
f. 212v.

25° Septembris 1667

Sup allon quadam aclata da parte dicti Johis Payne dat XXX

JOHN JACOB de Wapping ubi habitanvit per bXXXXX XXX
XXX Mercator annos agens 23 aut XXX XXX
Ipswich in Nora Anglia testis producti et Juratus
et deponit prout seqr vizt

Ad primum aclum deponit et dicit that hee hath well knowne the
aclate John Paine for seaven yeares last and upwards for
and during all which time he hath bin his apprentice, and
being out of his time is now imployed by him. And thereby
knoweth that the sd John Payne (sic) was y:e time aclate and is an owner of seaven sixteene
parts of the shipp aclate John and Sarah, and of her tackle
apparell and furniture, and for and as such commonly accounted
and alsoe knoweth the parties aclate XXX XXX bin and to bee owners of y:e XXXXX
parts aclate namely Zacharias Long the M:r of one eighth part and
the tackle apparrell and furniture thereunto belonging, and ?was
all the time aclate John Wood?ansey was owner of another eigth part
?John Carter and XXX Norton of there sixteene parts, Samuel XXXXX
of one sixteenth, and Edward XXXX of another sixteenth, and for XX XXX
respective owners of y:e sd shipp her tackle apparrell and furniture they XXX
commonly accounted and reputed. XXX XXXX

Ad XX aclum deponit that in January 1663 aclate the ?same shipp John and Sarah
set saile from Boston in New England with goods aboard bound for ?London
and arrived there in or about ffebruary next following the aclate XXXXX
then master of her as is aclate, and hee saith that XXXX in y:e XXXXX
Jacob menconned in this arle and was by the said John Payne XXX XXX

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f. 213r.

was at that time an apprentice sent and did goe in the said shipp as ffactor or Agent
for him hee being the person intressed in y:e ladeing, And saith that
y:e said shipp continued at ?Siranam untill y:e 20:th or one and twentieth of August
1664 at which time she sailed from thence with sugars and other goods
(wherein the said Payne was principally concerned9 to the Island of Barbadoes
and arrived there on or about the nine and twentieth of y:e said month of
August, And having taken in provisions there and fresh water they sett saile
from thence for London but by XXXX and ignorance of y:e foresd Zacharias
Long the Master of the said shipp she was carryed to S:t Valereye in
ffrance and ran ashore there and was ?bilged, and her lading which were
sugars were for y:e most part lost and the shipp was thereby
made unserviceable, and could not bee sett to sea without repaireing
and amending, And hee saith that at the severall places aforesaid
thes aid shipp did stand in need of and had the severall provisions and they
severally mencconed in the schedule aclate, and that the same ?were
usefulll fitting and necessary for y:e said ship,
which things were for severall XXX and spent by this
deponent (who is the person named in this accll) as ffactors servant and
Agent of the said John Paine in and about the said shipp, And saith
that having fitted out the sd shipp they sailed from S:t Valereyes for
London where she arrived in Aprill 1665 the said Long continued
still M:r And saith that after the said shipp ca,e to London she stood in
neede of some other provisions and things severally named in the sd XXX
schedule aclate now by him read and perused, And this deponent
did lay out the severall summs severally mencconed in the said schedule
Et Alr nescit

Ad 3 aclum deponit that hee knoweth the contents of the said
schedules to bee reall and true and soe had and don as therein
is contained, and this deponent as servant and factor of the
producent did really and truely pay and lay out the severall summs
of money mencconed severally in the said schedules for severall
tacks apparrill and furniture, for provisions and mending the
said shipp and otherwise as in y:e said schedules contained, And
saith that at the time aclate the things schedulated could bot bee
bought for lesse than the summes schedulate all which summs in
the totall amount to three hundred and five pounds thirteene
shilling and eleaven oence Et alr nescit XXX XXXX XXX ad sict XXX

Ad 4 aclum deponit that the parts of y:e severall owners amounts XXXX to
the summe of one hundred seaventy one pounds nineteene shillings,
and they not paying the same their severall parts in the said
shipp was arrested by a warrant from this Court A alr nescit
so ad Regisham et a eta Curia aclate nescit saving that this depo:t
had possession of y:e said shipp for or on behalfe of the producent John
Payne

Ad 5 deponit that there is a XXXXX XXXXXX as is aclate And the effect
or copy thereof was fixed upon the exchange as he beleeveth XXXX
so ad Regram Alr nescit

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Ad ?septum arlum deponit that the parties aclate were and are
Englishmen and subiects of his Majesty of England. Et alr nescit

Ad ultimum dicit predeporta sua offe verra

Repetit coram due Exton Jura
Surr:to XXXX Ed:do Browne Np:

JN: JACOB [His signature]

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is very well acquainted hee having bin this deponents correspondent for a
yeare last past and this depo:t having received many lres from
him. And hee verily beleeveth the subscription of the said Peter de Vinck
to bee of his the sd De Vinckes handwriteing

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sid his shipp standing in neede of severall things without which she wold noz XXX
borrow and received of and from Lewes Hayes the factor of the arle to XXXX
Lyenburgh the summe of three hundred livers upon the bottome ?keele of
the said shipp

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Michael Saverye, of St Catherines, born in Calais, France

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14° September 166X

Super libella

MICHAEL SAVERYE XXXX S:te Catherines XXXXXXXXXXXXX
natus in Calais in ffrancia XXXXX

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was present at the delivery of the said wines at Brewers key and upon
such delivery found three puncheons of the said wines to bee wanting
of the number hee entred in the customehouse,

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f. 216r.

?viresimo die mensis Septembris 1667

Super Libells XXX Examinat.

4. THOMAS SLADE poa S:te Magdalene Bermondsway in Burgo da
Southwark in Con:x Surria Mercator, natus apud deepingham in
Cond Suffolia

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da XXX XXXX a XXXXX in the Marshalseye. And having
Intimation by his p:rentest Michael Savary that the said de XXXX
had to discharge a debt of his owne formerly contracted in ffrance

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Case: The Castle of Gaunt: Deposition: 1. Johannes Cardon, citizen of XXXX, XXXX

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f. 217r.

7. Octobris 1667

Super

1. JOHANNES CARDON cicitatis XXXXX generalis, als XXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Ad 47 et 47 arles deponit that as hee hath credibly bin informed by this XXX came
from the said Peter Cardon and otherwise, hee inn or about June last comming with
the sd shipp and lading from Nantes for fflanders and in the ?Narrow Seas XXX with
XXXX PeXXX de Bills, who ?pretend a Portugall com:xx against the subiects of
Spaine, XXX the sad shipp the Castle of XXXX and goods, the XXXX being then
in a ffrench vessell, and with his XXXXX disposessing the said?Peter CXXXX and carrying of their said shipp the castle of ?Gannt and ?her lading
after their bringing to or near XX Martins aclate, where as hee hath understood
English XXXXX XXXXX aboard for Ireland, and thXX in her XXXX for that place their was
?retaken by the English ffrigat called the Victory and brought her to Plimouth XXXX
XXXX examinaXXXX lately XXXXX; and when XXX the XXX XXX, hee reviewed and tooke
particular notice of her and untill and XXXX know and knoweth her to be the said shipp the
Castle of Gaunt, by the picture of a Castle painted on her sterne, and therto?under
these words, HET CASTEEL VAN GENOT, there still appearing, And upon her head a lyon
carved in wood, painted white with green ?locks or ?shagg and a blew marke, and XX many
other signes and tokens, w:ch hee found to be the same ?charged before her departure out
of fflanders, and w:ch hee hath never particularly XX XXX and XXXXX in ?his ?relacon
taken at Plimouth in August last whereunto hee referreth to . Et alre XXXX XXXXXXX,
XXXX her addeth to his XXXsaid tokens by w:ch hee knoweth to be the ?same shipp, XXXX XXXX
of

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of the blessed Virgin in XXX XXXXX, with a XXX XXX XXXX
and above her head a picture of the holy Trinity, with theise words
niet sonder Godt.

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Case: The Castle of Gaunt: Deposition: 2. Georgius de Sutter, citizen of XXXX

P1100352
f. 218r.

8:° Octobris 1667

Super allegatione et XXX XXXX

2. GEORGIUS DE SUTTER civitatis XXXXX Nauta, ubi XXXtavit a XXXXX
sui item XXXX, etatis 23 amorum XX XXXXX testis productus

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Ad 4 XXXX XXX XXXX was about XXXX of July last (XXX XXXX) XXX

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Ad primo rendet that hee is a greate and XXXXXX of the XXX, and excepted XX aclate from his
XXXXX, alr XXXXXX XXX XXXX

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Ad Interria ?Regia

Ad XXXX XXX that hee was ?born and hath alwaies dwelt in Gannt, is a XXX XXX, XXXX
by navigation, and ?worth 500 gilders; als XXXX

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15:° Octobris 1667

MARTINUS de PARMARTEN de S:t John da Los XXXXX, XXX
XXXXX XXX, etatis 28 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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19:° Octobris 1667

WILLIAMS DYE de Ipswich

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times XXXXXX and as XXXX as possibly they could, XXX the shipp

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And saith that y:e salt and Deale boards aclate were laded and
put aboard by the producents order all which were laded by and
for y:e producents accompt any by him paid for. Et alr nescit

Ad 4 refXXX XXXX predeporta et salvis eidem novo

Ad 5 refert XXX predeprta

Ad 6 rend:t that hee is not now nor has bin for these two yeares ffive
monthes last servant to y.e producent, and is not any way related to him
and favoureth the parties alike and would give the victory
according to Justice. Et alr nescit

BALTHASAR SLUYRINGH [His signature]

******

Dmis M:r Rex con the S:t John Johnannes Williamson Lsyl)
ert M:r et bona in eadem et con Johem Bierman et)
alios Cheeke ffrancklin)

31:° Octobris 1667

Super allone ex parte dictiXXXXX et XXX
Examinatus

ANTHONIUS SIMSNSON PAUW Civitatis Amsteldamen in Hollandia
annos agens 25 aut XXXX XXX natus in civitate predict XXX
product et Juratus deponit prout seqr (vizt.)

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Ad aclum deponit et dicit that the said de Swan having received and XXXX
of his foresaid orders did as factor for the said Sebastian Lamsento hire and
take to ffreight the said shippe S:t John then lyeing at Amsterdam of the said
Williamson Leyl her then Master for a voyage to bee made with the said shippe
to S:t Thome there to lade sugars for the said Lamberte's accounts, And the
skipper hath told this deponent that hee was to have for his shippe goeing from
Amsterdam to the said Iland and from thence back to Amsterdam Eleaventhousand
guilders, And beleeveth that y:e contents of the second schedule are also reall
and true and not colourable hee well knowing Adrian Lack who hee saith
is well knowne to him, a Notary publiq and soe commonly accounted Et alr
referado so ad dict sched et contenta nescit

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his owne account to bee carried in the said ship to Amsterdam, and thence
to bee delivered to the said John de Swan for his the said de XXXX
acc:t

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f. 225r.

quarto Decembris 1667

3:tins JOHANNES GARTSEN de Hamborowe ubi
natus fuit annos agens 30 aut XXXX M:r
navis y:e ffortune de Hamborowe

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ship ffortune at Hamboro about two moneths before y:e sd time XXX
w:ch y:e ?rest of y:e sd ships ?lading, all w:ch was so to be carryed and XXXXX
to Roane in ffrance XXXX

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ship ffortune, and hath bin M:r of Hambororo ships for about eighteene yeeres
last and maineaineneg himselfe by goeing XXXX as M:r of a ship and hath a
pretty good estate, but y:e vallue hee ?certainely knoweth noz alr negative

Ad 2:xx red:t That hee well knoweth y:e foresd Mathias van Overbosh &
y:e foresd Houdrink JuXXX DXXXX, and hath soo knowne y:e sd Van
XXXXX XXX for about four & twenty yeeres last, and the sd ?DXXX for about
seaven yeeres last durng all w:ch time they have lived in Hamborowe &
were & are Burgers there, and not Holland & fflemish or Danes XXX

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2_° die mensis XXXX 1667

ANDREAS CAMPLING de ?Yarmouth
in Com Norfolkia Nauta annos agens
XXX

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and just as XXXX

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y:e ship fortune called out alone in the hearing of this depo:t XXXX was then
w:th severall others of her company upon her deck ?and sayd to XXXX
y:e Betty for ?Godsake just XXX

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Ad 6:XX rend:t That y.e Betty was never a head but asterne of y:e
Red fortune untill after y:e foresd falling fowle and sath that alsoe
XXXX now ship calling out or answering as is interraze although hee was
upon y:e Deck of y:e Red fortune the sd time helping to keepe her XXXX
that y:e Betty might not come fowle of her, and saith that y:e Red fortunes
Topsail was not the sd time lowered, and was but about three quarters
fowle of the Betty but saith that y:e Betty ran foule of the REd fortune
as hee hath before deposed et alr nescit XXXXX

Ad 7:XX rend:t That after y:e sd ships were foule the M:r & Company
of each of them did questionbly apprehend much danger, and called to
?each an other to do severall things to get cleare and saith that y:e Betty
ran w:th her ?bolt spritt ag:t y:e quarter of the Red fortune and thereby
presently broke her ?boltsprit, & upon y:e breaking of it shee got cleare but
had not her ?boltsprit broke shee would have gone ashore w:th  ?the
Red fortune as hee beleeveth et alr pro pte sua nescit

XXXX

signnis di [HIS MARK] WILLIAM ATKINSON

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. Jacobus Baert de North Yarmouth, Norfolk

9:° die mensis Maij 1667

Sup Allone XXX Examinat:

5:us JACOBI BAERT de North Yarmouth in
Com ?Norfolrice Nauta in XXXXX y:eRed fortune
annos agens 35 aut inter dicit et deponit prXX
sequitur vizt.

Ad primo aclum deponit That hee this depo:t knoweth the aclate
ship the Red fortune and is M:r XXXXX of her and soe hath bin for allmost
two yeeres last past and so accounted to be and saith that hee was put & constituted M:r of
her by y:e aclate Abraham Stayard who hath bin duing all y:e
sd time and still is y:e true & lawfull & sole owner of her and of
her tackle apparell and furniture, and for and as owner of her XXX
was & is commonly accounted & reputed, and saith that hee alsoe XXXXXX
the aclate ship y:e Betty and sawe her at ?Billensgate y:e voyage
befoore y:e disaster hereXXX mentioned & ?appended & saith that yt y:e time of y:e
sd disaster y:e aclate John Modder was M:t of her & soe accounted
et alr nescit.

Ad 2:nd 3:nd 4:nd et 5:nd acles dXX Allegationis deponit et dicit That
about one or two of y:e Clock in the afternoone of Saturday the 23:d of
March Last past the sd ship y:e Red fortune (coming from y:e Northwards
y:e sd ship Betty coming from y:e southwards) were sayling to get into Yarmouth
harbo:r or Haven. the Red fortune being a head of the Betty, and sayd
that hee this depo:t who was then onboard y:e sd shop Red fortune ?prowing
that y:e Betty was ?follwing up y:e Red fortune and came XXX & XXXX
XXXX in a gangerzone XXXXX hee this depo:t edged the XXX for XXXX
to the North to keepe cleare of y:e Betty w:ch was to the southward
of the Red fortune, & hee this depo:t alsoe called out to XXX & Company
of y:e Betty who were XX XX hearing to keepe off from him XXX XXXX
XXXX XXXXX be onboard XXXXX doe him damage and desired them to XXXX
XXX or keepe to the southward that the Red fortune & Betty might goe XXXX or to that
XXXX

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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

JAMES ?BRANTZ [His signature]

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johes Mather

10° die mensis Maij 1667

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Johes Hayman, of XXXX, Zealandia

P1100395
f. 236r.

Eadem die

Sup Allons XXX Examinat

4:th JOHES HAYMAN da Zeniklea in Zealandia Nauta
annos agens 28 aut inter XXX et deponit XXX XXXX

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5° July 1667

XXXXXX PETERSON Civitatis XXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. XXXX

1. GUILIELMUS READ de LOndon
Mercator annos agens 35 aut
XXX dicit et deponit prXXX seq
viz:t

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Jacques Comarr and Stephen Vandam SSSS saile from
Ostend with her for Nantes to lade for the producents aXXXXXX to
returne to Ostend, XXX his departure from Ostend being on or about the
15:th of January last New Stile, and his arrivall XXXX XX XXXX
shipp at BXXXXX on or about the 8:th of ffebruary last past

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3. PETRUS LUPERT civitatis London Marcator, aetatis 53 XXXXX XX
XXXXX testis XXXXXX

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f. 248r

12° Junij 1667

Super allegaconn aclate ex parte dir XXXXX YYYY
XXXXXX examinatus

1. OLIVERUS POLEYN civitatis ?BrugesXX Mercator ubi XXXX
a XXXXX etiam natus, xx testis 26 XXXX XXX
testis

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f. 249r.

3° July 1667

DIETRICK DICKMAN da WesterXXXX in XXXXX
annos XXXX 31 XXXXXXXXX productus

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f. 2xx

4:th Juky 1667

2. CLAUSLIEVENSEN DEUTXX civitatis Stockholkm XXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
41 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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5° July 1667

1. CHRISTIANUS LAMKE civitatis XXXXXX in
Pomerania Nauta, XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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f. 252v.

9° July 1667

1. JOHANNES LAXX

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2. ANDRXXX TORISON de DanXXX Nauta, aetatis XX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX

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The FrXXXXX of Hamburgh)

25:th XX July 1667.

1.ROLANDUS GERRETSON da XXX Hamburghen
Nauta aetats 31, aut XX XXXX
XXX XXXX, deponit XXXXX XXX
viz:t

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3. ?DARRICKE DXXXXX da XXXX Nauta, XXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX of Hamburgh
XXX 26

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4. ISAACUS ?STOCKMAN Civ:ts LondingXXXXX Mercator
annos agens 31 XXXXXXXX
XXXXX

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thXXX Customes & to nestow y:e sayd Lading into Warehouses for y:e Accompt
of y:e sayd Owners. And hee saith that in pursuance of his says under-
taking, hee this deponent caised y:e sayd shipp to bee unladen, & to be
taken out of her Seaventy & three Tonnes most of them decayed wynes
Whereof hee sayth That three & forty Tunnes of y:e sd wines were valued and
apprized by Two substantiall Wyne Cowpers at xi:li p Tonne &
no more, and y:e remayning Thirty Tonnes at 6:li XX p Tonne & no more
And also one Tunne of Vinigar at 13:li p Two Tonnes, oneXXX
& half more of Vinigar vaéued at 5:li p Tunne & no more.
Likewise a parcell of ffeathers made up in fower baggs, much damnifyed
in pt imbezelled, each bagge as they at present appeares to bee, this
Deponent judgeth to be worth about yij:li x:s each bagge, as now they
are & were at theor Landing, but had the sd Baggs beene full
& undiminished they might have beene worth xXXX:li p Bagge
as is aclate; And lastly three Weighes & three bushells
of Salt y:e other 3. bushells going for ?ffees) worth about yyi:li &
for so much sold. All w:ch soe really pXXXX of Wares & Merchandizes
except y:e salt, Were carryed on Shore by this Deponent & stored by his order
& stowed in a Cellar hyred for that purpose under y:e Artillery
house upon Horset-downe, & were there viewed & appreized by
his?Contests John Willis & M:r Marsh Wynecowpers;
The prmisses hee knoweth for y:e reasons before deposed. Et alre
nescit, saving hee saith That y:e sd goods were so samnifyed , & (belonging to aliens) y:e Customes so high
that this Depo:t offred y:e sd Wynes & Vinigar to y:e Officers of y:e Customes for 7:li p Tunne XXX abt
up reliqius non ex directione Producents

Ad Interrogatoria:

Ad 1:° rendt That hee cometh to testify at y:e request of one Peter
Gerrard an Agent for y:e Owners of y:e Shipp in question. Et alr neg.XX
rendet ad XXX:

Ad 2:da 3. et 4:XX Interr a nescit rendere.

Ad 5. 6. et 7:X Interr a nescit rendere nisi ex XXXXX XXXXXX

XXXX THO: WADE

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 11. Johes Goodman, of St Catharine Coleman fenchchuchstreet, winecooper

Eadem XX

Super libello XXXXX examinate

Godslieve

11:n JOHES GOODMAN paro de S:te Catharine Coleman
in ffanchurchstreete London Wyne Cooper, annos agens 30:xx
XXXX anneXXXX, Testis XXXXX & XX deponit XX XXXXXXX

Ad 12:xx et 13:xx aclos lui produit et alr 3. XXXXXXX annex deponit et dicit That hee this
Depon:t being a Wynecooper by profession, was (upon y:e request of M:r
Peter Gerrard Agent for y:e Owners of y:e shipp & goods in question)
present at y:e unshipping of y:e Wines & Vinigar schedulated out of y:e
Shipp y:e Godslieve aclate (w:ch to his best remembrance was about Easter
last past) at such tyme as shee lay at y:e Chaynes neere ?Saviours Docke
Southwarke; & saith that hee sawe 73. Tonnes of wine (most of them
decayed

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XX HENRICUS MARSH XXXX

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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

HEN: MARSH [His signature]

*****

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 13 Johes Willis, of St Olave Hartstreet, London, wine cooper

13. JOHES WILLIS Paro de S:te Olavi Hartstreet Londre
WinXXX Cooper, annos agens 55. Testis product ex-
aminat pXXXXX sequiXXXXX viz:t

Ad 1 2:m et 13 arles libelli pXXXXX et ad tertiam schedulam in XXXX
mencionate et in XXXX XXXX deponit et dicit, That hee this Depon:t
together w:th his ?Contest Henry Marsh, in or about May last
past upon request went to view & apprize a parcell of Wynes & Vinigar
laying in a Cellar belonging to y:e Artillery House upon ?Horset-down
& therein found 73. Tunnes of french wine & no more, & three
Tonnes one hhd & halfe of vinagar & no more, All y:e sayd
Wynes & Vineger being much decayed & damnified, especially some
?pt of them, w:ch were very little worth). And hee sayth
that having tasted & thoroughly considered of ?many XXXXX of the
sayd Wines & Vinegar they valued 43. Tunnes of y:e XXXX of
y:e says Wynes at 11.XX p XXXX & no more & y:e other 30. Tonns
of y:e XXXXX sort at 6:10:XX p Tonne and w:th another & no more,
and also ?one Tonne of y:e sayd Vinager at 13_li & y:e other Two
Tonnes XXX XXX & half of Vinegar after y:e XXXX of 5:li p Tonne
& no more, w:ch respective XXXX XXXX y:e most that this Dep:t and
XXXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX worth in y:e condicon they were
XXXX in. Ez alr nescit depanXXXXX

Super ?reliquio non exam:X ex ?directiona xer

Ad Interrog:a

Ad i:X rendet That hee was spoken unto by his XXXXXX
M:r Wade in y:e behalfe of y:e producents to come to testify
y:e truth in this cause. Et alr XXX rendet

Ad 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 et 7 Inter, nescit XX XXXXX

JOHN WILLIS [His signature]

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f. 260r.

Viresimo primo die mensisAugusti 1667

3. GEORGIUS SMITH de London, mercator,
Annos agens 32 aut XXXX

Jacobs Thomas
Two Brothers
Letter from his brother, the aclate John Smith
Robert Willmott
Juan Fabian Loretto
Teneriffe
Southampton
Thomas ffreeman of Dublin

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The last voyage from Cadiz
Sherry wine, & logwood
Lay in y:e Channell
Portsmouth
Y:e sayd ship from y:e canaryes to Dublin

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The sd Peter Oben
The sayd Blake

Ad Interria

James Thomas
Y:e said Carwell
M:r ffranklin y:e proctor

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Don Christopher de ?Alvarado

GEO: SMITH (His signature)

Touching the ship London Merchant)
Henry Martin M:r)

JOSEPH CAIN of Shad Thames in
y:e parish of S:t Olaves in y:e Burrough of
Southwarke Carpenetr of the said ship, aged
30 yeares or thereabouts and WILLIAM
PROBERT of West Lane in the parish of Radcliffe
in Surry marriner a common man of the sayd
ships company aged 31 yeares of thereabouts

The good ship London
Voyage from Morlaix in France to the Port of London laden with Linnen and paper

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Put into the Isle of Wight
Ship only thre years old, about 70 tonnes burthern

Signed HIS MARK Jospeh Cain

THOMAS BURLEIO?TH of Portsmouth marriner a common
man belonging to the sayd ship Successe aged 37 yeares or
thereabouts, and THOMAS ANDERSON of ?Putten wen in
the County of ffife in Scotland also a common man belonging to y:e sd
ship aged 22

Ralph Myerose master of the Successe
Laden at Morlaix and bound for London

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Two other ships, the XXX and the John

THOMAS BURLERY His signature
Signed HIS MARK Thomas Andrews

Touching the John
fferdinando Popplestone M:r

Monday morning the 14:th October 1667

GEORGE DREW of the parish of S:t Leonards Shoreditch mariner
Belonging to the sayd ship John aged 27 yeares or thereabouts
And JACOB HEYMAN of flushing in Zealand marriner
Also belonging to y:e sayd ship aged 26 yeares or thereabouts

Fferdinando Popplestone Master of the John

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the buoy in y:e Nore

GEORGE DREW
JACON HEYMAN
(Their signatures)

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22:° Maij 1667

1. JACOB GOSSELING de Civitate London Mercator
Annos agens 40

This deponent has held correspondence with the aclate M:r Henry Steward for two years
Deponent received a letter of advice from the aclate stating that he had shipped on a flyboat of ca. 84 Tonnes called the S:t Michael of Bruges, in Flanders (Dingman Bastianson Master) a freight of herring for his account. The letter made no mention of butter
A further letter from Mr Steward requested the deponent to ensure the cargo of the said ship fpr 300:li at the Insurance Office of London to be sent to Bordeaux in France
Received two further letters enquiring what rates could be obtained to ensure the cargo for the ships return from Bordeaux to Edinburgh
The deponent was requested by the aclate to provide assistance should the aclates ship touch any port in England (which appears to have been unplanned)

Mr Hugh Thompson, now resident at Bordeaux, a recent correpondent of the deponent
Deponent hath consigned goods to Mr Thompson for the account of Mr Steward

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f. 264v.

The deponent found the insurance rates offered too high and did not buy insurance

Henry Steward, Archibald Hambleton and Rob:t ?Smirlane, all of Edinburgh

JACOB GOSSELIN (His signature)

23:tis May 1667

HENRICUS JOSSY da Cite Edinburghensi in Regno Scotia Mercator
Aetat 25

The deponent knows Henry Steward, Archibald Hambleton and Rob:t ?Smirlane and the St Mathew of Bruges, formerly called the Europa of Leith in Scotland
The ship was in the River of Clyd in y:e West of Scotaland in December 1666 laden with herrings and butter for the acoount of M:r Stuart & Company and bound for Rochell Bordeaux and Bilboa

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f. 265r.

After selling the herring and butter the ship was prdered to Bordeaux to load wine and make for Ostend in fflanders and to dispose of it there ort to bring it to Leith for the account of M:r Stewad & Company
The deponent was interested in the outward lading and wrote to his correspondent at S:t Martins in the Isle of Rez to ask him to be of assistance to the Master if he arrived there. The ship did indeed land at St Martins and Rochell and the correspondent provided assistance.

Henry Stuart & Company

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f. 265v.

The ship was taken by the Dutch or the French and her owners at Bruges were odered to claim for the loss of ship and goods

Bartholomew Delbaro de ?Veyo of Bilboa in Biscay

An honest frenchman Daniel Albert was the deponents landlord when he was at Bordeaux and is now the said Hugh Thompsons landlord was used to the shipping of wine and was often used by this respondent to protect his cargos from seizure during the wars

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f. 266r.

HENRY JOSSY (his signature)

JOHES BODE de civi:XX Libera et Imperiali Bremensi in XXX
Germania superioria

The Golden Fox of Bremen
Deponent has been master of the said ship for seven years
April 1667 there were several packs of Linnen cloth and linnen yarn laden in the haven of Bremen on the Golden Fox for several merchants in the Port of London
Goods were consigned for W:m de Visscher, Thomas Morris, John Nortman, Theodore Jacobson, Francis Miller, Gasper CousXX, W:m Kiffin, Peter Cowston, ?W:m du ?Mearth, John ?Levroun, & John ?Dorvilla
Delayed departing due to adverse winds, but touched England northwards of Great Yarmouth

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f. 266r.

Met a vessel the Mary of Callice, Master John ?Peshers, which surprized his ship and robbed the ship. It was frenchman of war.

Golden Fox is a vessell of under 70 tonnes with a crew of 4 men and a boy, not warlike

XXXX His signature

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f. 267r.

WILKEN VOGELSANG, sailor, of the city of Bremen, aged 40

Deponent was one of the maryners on the Golden Fox, namely the Steersman

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f. 267v.

JOHES HOVECOST, sailor, of the City of Bremen, aged 31

Mr John Bode & Company set sayle

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f. 268r.

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f. 268v.

CHRISTOFERUS JANSEN, sailor, of the City of Bremen, aged 27

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f. 286v.

JOAS ?EVERSEN paroa S:ta Maria Matsellon als Whitechappell
In Com Midd Mercator natus infra Libertatem Jurris London
Annos agens 40

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f. 287r

The aclate John Castens advised this deponent by letter in January last past that he had sent a ship from Amsterdam to Norway to lade deales for the accounts of the aclates John and Arnold Vanderhagen merchants and inhabitants of Stockholme and therwith to come to London consigned to this deponent and partner and to be sold by them for the account and benefit of John adn Arnold Vanderhagen. For the security of the ship against scottish privateers this deponent procured a pass from the Duke of York and caused the ship to be registered in Scotland. The ship was also registred with the Duke of York’s Commissioners for Prizes. But this deponent never sent the pass upon the ship the Northpole for fear that if surprized by Dutch or French ships they would discover that she were bound for London and take her prize. Afterwards the aclate John Carstens advised this deponent and his partner that the shipper ?Mello ?Mellos in Norway had died of the small pox after the lading of the ship, and that the steersman and the rest of the company had brought the ship into the Texell rather than to London. John Carstens had presently sent a letter to the Swedish envoy at the Hague asking for his advice, the master Mello Mellos being dead. The Swedish envoy had advised him to put another Swedish shipper in the place of the deceased. Thereupon John Carstens had constituted Peter Carelson, a burger and dweller of BaXXXin Sweden, master of the ship. John Carstens orderd the new master to put into any English port he could, but if the ship were in manifest danger of capture by the French Dutch, he should put into the port of Rochell in France. John Carstens is amerchant stranger, resident at Amsterdam.

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f. 287v.

HUMPHREDUS DUNSTER Paro:XX S:ta Leonards
Shoreditch in Com Midd Mercator annos agens 41

The S:t Nicholas
The aclate Joseph Jurado, with whom the deponent often conversed on the Exchange in London, was known to be the Captain Master & Commander of the said ship

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f. 288r.

Jurado asked the deponent that he might speak to Alderman Gregorie to reach an end to this suit. His desire was seconded by one Georga Rodrigo ffrancia "a jewe of this depo:ts acquiantance"

When the ship was at Mallaga, the Alderman’s son had taken freight at Malaga of the aclate goods and ship, but Joseph Jurado had refused to take the goods, despite their agreement

Pedro Ballesteros, an eminent Notary at Mallaga had signed the agreement

The deponent had lately requested the producent to take Mallaga wine in the Neptune of Hamborough
Wines and raisins suffered damage by being left at Mallaga

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f. 288v.

The deponent is a bachelor, a resident of Morefield for 6 years, and was sometimes a resident at Bristoll and sometimes at London

HUM DUNSTER (His signature)

1. THOMAS GREGORIE Para BLANK in Lymestreet London
Mercator annos agens 30

Aclaet John DrapXXX was the master’s mate or Pilott of the S:t Nicholas

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f. 289r.

The aclate John Gregory the younger was also in Mallaga

The deponent was resident in mallaga at the time of the events

Deponent refers to a transcript of the proceedings in the Spanish tongue attested to by Pedros Ballesteros

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f. 289v.

The deponent is brother to Mr Gregory the elder, and uncle to Mr Gregory the younger

THOMAS GREGORIE (His signature)

Octobris 1667

2. GEORGIUS MOORE parro: XXX S:t Catherine Coleman London Wine
Cooper, annos agens 56

In September last past this deponent, being the wine cooper of the producent Alderman Gregory, was present and assisting at the landing pf 40 butts of Mallaga wines at Gally Key in London

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f. 290r.

He tasted the butts there and then and found several to be very decayed, scarcely worth selling, and several others much impaired, and all the rest to some extent damnified & deteriorated. They might originally have been sold for 27 or 28:li p butt, but were now not worth half that amount

Richard Emms

GEORGE MOORE (His signature)

3. RICHARDUS EMMS Parro:XX St Catherine Coleman in Fanchurchstreete London winecooper aetatis 54

He went with his XXX George Moore to a cellar or two at Gally-Key London to taste Mallaga wines, which had been left behind at Mallaga , and which should have come to London four months sooner.

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f. 290v.

He hath lived by his trade in Fanchurchstreete for 4 or 5 years, and before that in Leadenhall

RICH EMS (His signature)

4. WILLMUS BELLAMY par S:t Martin Outw:ch Cit London Mercator
Annos agens 35

In April last past the deponent received from the aclate a number of butts of wine and raisins in the St Nicholas and got good prices; when Mallaga wines and raisins next came to London, in September last, the prices achieved were poorer

W:M BELLAMY (His signature)

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f. 291r.

Rob:t Walker

1. LAWRENTIUS CRUITSEN de Larwick in Norwegia Nauta annos agens
48

Known the aclate Caleb ?Veron and Robert Walker for the last sixteene years to have been and to bee "woodmerchants" "and to have driven a trade and commerce from this port of London to the parts of Norway, and to be Englishmen, and subiects of his Mejesty of England"

Isaack Lawson, a burger and merchant of Longsound in Norway was the whole owner of the ship the Norway merchant aclate, which was built in the river of ?east Resoy in Norway
Before the war aclate the ship the Norway Merchant used to bring deales and Timber for Veron and Walker
This deponent was Master of the ship the Sophy employed by several English merchants to bring deales and timber to the port of London and came 5 or 6 times in the company of the Norway Merchant from Norway when the Norway Merchant came laden with deales and timber for Veron and Walker

Bartell Berrison, shipper of the Angell Gabriell of Larwick, Norway, in August 1666, delivered to Isaac Lawson a pass for the Norway merchant to come to London, Christopher Mortenson master. Bartell Ber(r)isson is well known to this deponent, being his neighbour dwelling in Larwick.
This deponent understand the English tongue, in which the pass was written

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f. 291v.

Lawson received the pass late in the year 1666, and it being winter, waited till April 1667, when he ordered Christopher Mortenson to caulke the ship the Norway Merchant, but not to heat the pitch aboard the ship. Mortenson ignored him and fired the ship and y:e cabin and Cooks roomes were burnt , so that she was not repaired and fitted out until August 1667. Mortenson was thrown out as captain and replaced by Hance Symensenswell as master, also knwon to this deponent
The ship was laded with deales and timber at Longsound and came out of Longsound on August 27th 1667, but on August 29th 1667 was taken by a Scottish privateer and carried into Leith in Scotland. This deponent beleeves that the pass sent from England was aboard the ship and came into the hands of the privateers. He had also seen in Lawsons counting house letters from Veren and Walker undertaking to secure the said Lawson of his shipp tackle and furniture

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f. 292r.

2. JACOBUS PETERSON, de Larwick in Norwegia,
XXXannos agens 42

Has known Veren and Walker for last four years and knoweth them to be wood merchants “and to have been very great traders to Norway from this port of London”

Isaack Lawson living at Browick in Longsound

The Norway Merchant should have come in the company of this deponent and eight other ships from Norway to the port of London, but for the delay caused by the caulking fire

JACOB PETERSON (His signature)

3. OULA OULSON de Larwick in Norwegia Mercator, annos
Agens 31

Hath well known veren and Walker for five years

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f. 292v.

Before the late war between the King of England and the King of Denmarke the Norway Merchant used to bring deales and timber to London
After the beginning of the war the Norway Merchant was laid up and traffiqued not

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f. 293 r.

Lawson replaced the captain and laded the ship with deales timber and rafts
In times of peace the ship had for several years been freighted ONLY for Veren and Walker

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Oula Michaelson, of Larwick, Norway, sailor, aged 40

f. 293v.

4. OULA MICHAELSON, de Larwick in Norwegia Nauta annos agens 40

HIS MARK

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. Bartel Berickson. of Larwick, Norway, sailor

24 :° Octobris 1667

5. BARTEL BERRICKSON de Larwick in Norwegia Nauta
Master of the Angell Gabriell

Has known Caleb Veron for thirty years and Robert Walker for twelve or fourteen years

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 6. Bow Bartelson, of Larwicj, Norway, aged 47

f. 294r.

6. BOW BARTELSON de Larwick in Norwegia, annos agens 47
Veren and Walker wood merchants and “considerable traders in Commodetyes of y:e Growth of Norway”

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f. 294v

December last past this deponent went as steersman with his father to deliver deales and timber to M.r Rich. Merchant of London

The aclate captain Groodt took the Norway Merchant

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Willimus Tibbs & Margareta Tibbs, of XXXX

f. 295r.

WILLIMUS TIBBS ET MARGARETA TIBBS

Case: XXXX: Deposition: Richardus utchins, of St Maria Matsellon alias Whitechapell, ships chandler, aged 21

RICHARDUS HUTCHINS of S:ta Maria Matsellon als Whitechappell shipp chandler natas in Tower Streete in paroa Barking annos agens 21

The aclate Roger Smith
The aclate John Warren

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Isaac Legay, of London, merchant, aged 40

f. 311r.

3:rd Feb 1667 (68)

ISAAC LEGAY of the citie of London merchant aged 40

He and John Jurin freighted about one year past the Castle of Stockholme to go to the Island of Barbadoes "an English plantation"

Case: XXXX: Deposition: John Jurin, of London, merchant, aged 37

JOHN JURIN of London merchant, aged 37 yeares or therabouts

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Peter Legay, of London, merchant, aged 25

f. 311v.

PETER LEGAY, of London, merchant, aged 25

On September 18th last past this deponent came from the island of Barbadoes, and which time he left the Castle of Stockholm was rising in Barbadoes having taken in sugar and cotton wool and was ready to depart

This deponents father Mr Jacob Legay

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Robertus Marshall, of Dantzick, in Polandia, born in Dundee, Scotland, aged 36

f. 331v.

ROBERTUS MARSHALL de Dantzick in Polandia XX natus in Dundee in
Scotia, annos agens 36 XXX

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: John Pollexfen, of London, merchant, aged 30

f. 335r

JOHN POLLEXFEN of London merchant aged 30

Used to live at Lisbon

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Abraham Jacob, of London, merchant, late of Lisbone, Portugal, aged 37

f. 335v

ABRAHAM JACOB of London merchant late
living at Lisbone Portugall, borne at Dover in the Com
of Kent, aged 37 yeares or thereabouts

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Jacomo di Giudico, of Venice, Merchant, aged 50

f. 457r.

JACOMO DI GIUDICO de Venetia Mercator, natus in Venetia
Atatis 50 annorn

Has known three named men, all inhabitants and subjects of the Republis of Genoa

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Benjamin Skutt, of parish of Great St Helens, merchant, aged 37

f. 501r.

2. BENJAMIN SKUTT paroa S:ta Helena magna Mercatoris, aetatis 37

Knows the aclate Lewis Morris, and got to know him by trading to Barbadoes, where Lewis Morris is a planter. The said Morris lodged in London for six months in 1651 and the deponent met him many times on the Exchange. Morris left for Barbadoes in 1652. This deponent came from thence (the Barbadoes) in 1655, leaving Morris there dwelling "in much credit and repute"

(Lewis Morris was originally at Plymouth in 1650)

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Serjeant Major James Banister, late Governor of Surynam, Guina, aged 42

f. 533r.

The first of ffebruary 1668

Touching the violation of the Articles)
Of Surynam by the Dutch)

SERJEANT MAJOR JAMES BANISTER, late Governor of the Colony of Surynam
Upon the continent of Guiana in America, aged fourtie two

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f. 533v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: Nathaniel Adcock, of Surynam in Guiana

f. 534r.

Secundo ffebruary 1668

NATHANIEL ADCOCK de Surynam in Guiana in America

Lived on Major Bannisters plantation in Surynam for several years

The inhabitants of the colony were visited with a great sickness before and after the visit of a Dutch squadron and at the time of their surrender

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f. 534v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Willia, Newham, now of London, merchant, aged 38

f. 535r.

The second of ffebruary 1668/9

3. WILLIAM NEWHAM now of London Merchant, aged 38 yeares or thereabouts

On or about the 20:th ffebruary 1666/67 he was resident on Major Kingslands plantation in the Colony of Surynam in Guiana

Lieutenant Generall Byam was Governor of the Colony

Byam surrendered the colony to Admirall Abraham Cryusson the commander of a squadron of ships of the States of Zealand

At the time the inhabitants of the colony were very sickly and ill furnished with ammunition, but were sufficiently able to have kept and defended the colony against the Dutch, but the colonists, fearing the arrival of a ffrench force, rather submitted to the Dutch

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f. 535v.

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 4. Richard Shepard, late of Surynam, planter, now of Winchester Street, London, aged 28

f. 536r.

4. RICHARD SHEPARD late of Surynam Planter, now dwelling with his
ffather Francis Shephard scrivener in Winchester Street London, aged twenty eight yeares

On 20th feb 1666/67 he was dwelling in the colony of Surynam, and had done so for five years

The colony was delivered to the dutch upon articles agreed between Byam and Cryusson

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. Thomas Garrot, late of Surynam, planter, now of Southwark, aged 30

f. 536v.

5. THOMAS GARROT late of Surynam Planter
Now living in Southwarke, aged 30

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Case: XXXX: Deposition: 6. William Colman, late of Surynam, now of St Georges parish, Southwark, shoemaker, aged 26

f. 537r.

6 WILLIAM COLMAN late of Surynam but now living in the parish of St George in Southwark shoemaker, aged 26

Case: XXXX: Deposition: 7. George Angelll, late Surynam planter, now of St Georges parish, Southwark, aged 25

7. GEORGE ANGELL late of Surynam Planter, now living in St Georges parish Southwark, aged 25 yeares

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