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The fifth of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADI … The fifth of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Information [?material] touching}<br />
the misbehaviour of the Captaine}<br />
and Companie of the frigot that}<br />
tooke the ''Hope'' of Hamborowe}
'''fra: dt.'''
'''Casten Stubb''' of hamborough Mariner, Master of the<br />
shipp the ''Hope'' of Hamburgh, aged 40 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne as in the acts of Court, saith<br />
and deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That his said shipp the ''Hope'' comming from Croisick in ffrance<br />
with a cargo of one hundred twenty eight moys or thereabouts of<br />
salt bound for Saint Malo's, was in her course on the seaven and<br />
twentieth of June last (old stile) on the coast of ffrance shortly after<br />
her comming out of Croisick met with by a frigot of this Commonwealth<br />
commannded by Captaine Saddleton, and taken and brought up to<br />
ffoy in Cornewall. And saith that upon the said seizure the said<br />
Captaine Saddleton ca,e aboard the ''Hope'' at sea, and some of his<br />
company and imbeazeld and tooke and carried away out of and from the<br />
said shipp ''Hope'' many of her tackle, furniture and apparrell and<br />
much of her victuall, and the rest after her bringing ashore in<br />
England and alsoe many of her company the ''Hope'' their clothes, moneys<br />
and [?stores], and in perticular hee saith they tooke and embezeld<br />
all her tackle, furniture, apparell, clothes, moneys and necessaries<br />
comprised in a schedule thereof by him left for the information of<br />
this Court, of the valews and worth therein alsoe set downe;<br />
qwhich hee knoweth being master of the said shipp and seeing the most<br />
of them soe taken away, and brought aboard the said frigot, while<br />
hee was therein, and having information of and from his sailers and<br />
boatswaine of the rest. And saith that upon the said seizure this<br />
deponent was carried aboard the said frigot, and therein detained<br />
till her comming with the said shipp to ffoy, and there this deponent<br />
was taken out and by the said Captaine committed prisoner to a house<br />
in the towne, and there kept fourteene dayes or thereabouts under the guard<br />
somtimes of one and somtimes of two souldiers. And saith that<br />
assoone as the company of the said frigot came aboard the ''Hope'' they<br />
fell a striking and beating this deponent and company as if they<br />
had bin their enemies, and cutt the arme of one of this deponents<br />
man that was standing at the helme, and all this without any<br />
provocation given, and after this deponent and company had informed<br />
them that they were of hamborough, and had stricken saile<br />
according to commande. And saith that within three dayes or<br />
thereabouts after the said shipps bringinmg up to ffoy, the Captaine<br />
and officers there began to unlade the said salt, and in tenn or twelve<br />
dayes space wholly tooke out and discharged the same, soe that when<br />
this deponent came thence (which was on or about the nine and<br />
twentieth of July last) there was not any part of her<br />
salt remayning aboard./
Carsten Stubb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]oard./
Carsten Stubb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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