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The 17th of Aprill 1656.
Touching the mis … The 17th of Aprill 1656.
Touching the misdemeanour of}<br />
some of the company of the shipp the ''dutches''}<br />
of Courland, aboard the said shipp}
'''John Anderson''' of Elsenore one of the boyes of and<br />
belonging to the shipp the ''dutches'' of Cureland.<br />
(John Brand Master) aged seaventeene yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne in Court saith as followeth.
'''Rp.'''
That yesterday (the 16th of this instant Aprill) about five of the<br />
clock in the afternoone certaine of the said shipps compány, namely<br />
Peter Christianson the boatswaine, and his brother who was Steward of<br />
the said Shipp, Sivert the Cooke of the shipp, Christofer the boatswaines<br />
mate, and Cornelius the Carpenters mate, accompanied with Richard<br />
[?Corey] a Brewer at the bird in hand at Poplar, William Every an<br />
Ale house keeper at the White Lyon and Crowne in Poplar, George<br />
huggers a Waterman and another whose name hee hath not learned,<br />
came aboard the said shipp (lying at Blackwall) in the said huggers his<br />
wherry, and this deponent being aboard, demanded what they came<br />
for, and what they would have, and they asking him what was that<br />
to him, went downe into hold, and fell to breaking open the beef<br />
barrells, and brake open two of them, and tooke out and carried away<br />
two or three peeces of beef, and rummaged the vessell up and downe<br />
and tooke away alsoe some pease and beanes, and some biscuites, and<br />
brought foure fish out of the hold and carried one of them alsoe<br />
away; and this deponent (who with another of the boyes named George<br />
Winger being all of the company that were aboard) endeavouring to<br />
prevent them and hinder them from carrying the said provisions away,<br />
the said boatswaine catcht hold of him and threatened to throwe him<br />
overboard, and severall of them said that they had order from the<br />
Judge of the Court and from the Master soe to doe; which this deponent<br />
not beleeving leapt into the boate to them as they were going off,<br />
and there againe the boatswaine laid hold on him, and said hee should<br />
not goe ashore with them, and that unlesse hee returned aboard, the<br />
said boatswaine would heave him overboard; howbeit this deponent<br />
continued in the boate and would and did goe ashore with them to<br />
see what they did with the said plundred provisions; and followed the<br />
said Cooke and Carpenters mate to the house aforesaid of the said [?Corey]<br />
being a victualling house, and shortly the rest of them came thither<br />
alsoe, and thither they carried the said provisions soe taken away of this<br />
deponents sight and knowledge.
'''IA''' The marke of John Anderson [MARK, RH SIDE]The marke of John Anderson [MARK, RH SIDE] +
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