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dischardge, and saith that while shee was … dischardge, and saith that while shee was remayning in the said port of<br />
Nantes, and before such her departure there were laden and put aboard<br />
her 118 hogsheads and 49 barrells of wine and twelve barrells of<br />
Brandewine to be thence carried and transported on the said shipp<br />
to Ostend and there to be delivered to mr Mathew Everard, and saith the<br />
said wines and brandewines were soe laden by Mr William Skerret,<br />
and that the same were for his owne accompt, which hee knoweth being master<br />
of the said shipp and receiving the same of the said Mr Skerret, who told this deponent<br />
that they were for his owne accompt, and this deponent sawe him pay for the same<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second hee saith that after such departure of the said shipp with<br />
the said goods from Nantes for Ostend, shee was in her course of<br />
proceeding for Ostend met with off the ffountaine head by a private<br />
man of warr of England called the ''ffidelitie'' commanded by John<br />
Stafford, and by him taken and seized and carried to Apsham in England<br />
together with the said goods, where after 8 monethes endeavour for their<br />
recoverie, this deponent gave them over as lost and there left them, and<br />
hath not since seene either the said shipp or goods, And<br />
saith the said seizure was made on or about the 17th of July 1653,<br />
this deponent being then aboard.
To the third hee saith that Mr William Skerret aforesaid and Mr ffrancis<br />
Bodkin both Irishmen were<br />
owners of the said shipp, at the time of the said seizure<br />
and losse, which hee knoweth because they constituted this deponent<br />
master of her. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving what followesd.
To the fourth hee saith that the bill of lading for the said goods was<br />
made in the name and as if they were the goods of Mathew Everard<br />
of dunquirke, which hee saith was donne only to preserve them<br />
from seizure by the Spaniards, the said shipp comming from ffrance,<br />
And saith the said Mathew Everard is commonly accompted an Inhabitant<br />
of dunquirke and a subiect of the king of Spaine, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith that the said William Skerret about<br />
two yeares since bought the said shipp the ''Mary Magdalen'' at<br />
Nantes of Thomas Barneswell an Irish man, and otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the last hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, saying<br />
the foresaid wines and brandewines were laden by the said<br />
William Skerret for his owne accompt, And otherwise cannot<br />
depose.
John duncan [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 15th of November 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
A businesse of examination of witnesses}<br />
on the behalfe of Mathew Quine and John}<br />
Madyn about certaine goods by them lost}<br />
in ffrance and against Nicholas Le Bretan.
Examined upon an allegation given in<br />
on the behalfe of the said Quine and<br />
Madyn.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Richard Costilly''' of Galloway in Ireland Mariner<br />
aged 25 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
heeee saith and deposeth that<br />
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