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To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that h … To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp ''Scout'' departed<br />
from Zant aforesayd with her sayd ladeing on board her upon or about the two or<br />
three and twentieth day of december last bound for London the port of her discharge<br />
and in her course homewards was on the third day of ffebruary last about<br />
fifty leagues off of Cilley togeather with her sayd ladeing surprized and<br />
taken by two Brest men of warr and carried to Saint Sebastians in Biscay<br />
where the sayd men of warr sold the sayd ladeing of the ''Scout'' and disposed of<br />
her according to their will and pleasure whereby the sayd shipp and her ladeing<br />
are wholly lost to the sayd dighton and Wilkins and the rest of the owners and<br />
freighters of the sayd shipp and noe satisfaction given to any of them<br />
for the same that this deponent knoweth of And further to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee cannot depose./
Repeated with his contest in both causes before<br />
Doctor Godolphin<br />
Edward Turnor/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fifth of Aprill 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
A businesse of exámination of witnesses}<br />
in the behalfe of William Beck Master and}<br />
owner of the shipp the ''hopefull William'' and}<br />
seized by the subiects of the King of Spaine}<br />
Clements.}
Examined upon an allegation given in on<br />
the behalfe of the said Beck<br />
the third of this instant.
'''Rp. .J.'''
'''George Streete''' of Exmouth in the County of<br />
devon Mariner, aged 55 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second Articles of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''hopefull William'' whereof William Beck allate was Master, and<br />
generally reputed the sole Owner and Proprietor thereof, And saith, That in or<br />
about the the moneth of October 1654. this deponent being heere at London spake<br />
with the said William Beck who then declared to this deponent that hee would<br />
saile his said shipp then being in the River of Thames to Saint Sebastians in Spaine<br />
and in or about the moneth of July next ensueing this deponent saw the said<br />
shipp att or neere Shoreham in Sussex, about which time shee sett sayle and<br />
Departed hence under the Command of the said William Beck for Saint Sebastians<br />
Spaine, and that this deponent in the shipp the ''Buckingham'' of Shoreham,<br />
Thomas Soldnig Master) sett sayle and departed from Shoreham aforesaid upon<br />
the 11th day of July 1655. as Pylott of the said shipp, and comeing into the<br />
bay of Biscay, they there mett with the said shipp the ''hopefull William''<br />
under the Conduct of the said William Beck, and that both the said shipps upon the<br />
17th day of July aforesaid arrived together at Saint Sebastians, where after they had<br />
remained till the thirtieth day of August next ensueing, the Officers or Ministers<br />
of the King of Spayne did in a hostile manner seize upon stopp and detaine<br />
the said shipp the ''hopefull William'' with all her tackle apparell furniture and<br />
goods aboard her, whereby the said William Beck became utterly deprived of<br />
the same, Which this deponent well knoweth, being present and aboard the said shipp<br />
''Buckingham'', when both shee and the said shipp ''Hopefull William'' were<br />
seized upon, they then lyeing neere together ashoare at Saint Sebastians<br />
aforesaid, And further cannot depose./
To the third and fowerth articles of the said Allegation hee saith That the said shipp<br />
the ''hopefull William'' her tackle apparrell furniture and provisions belonging<br />
to her and aboard her at the time of her said seizure were to the best of this<br />
(deponentsto the best of this<br />
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