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The 20th of January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING] … The 20th of January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the aforesayd allegation
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'''Simon Peterson''' of hambourough Purser of the said shipp the<br />
''Peter'', aged 23 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the first and second articles of the said allegation and the schedule<br />
annexed nowe showed unto him, hee saith and deposeth that in or about<br />
the moneth of September 1653, the said shipp the ''Peter'' with her<br />
lading of clapboards, flax and tallowe, were by a private man of<br />
warr named John Welch and company in a shipp called the ''Mary'', and<br />
seized and carried into the River humber, and while shee was there<br />
kept out of command (which was about afortnights space) there came<br />
severall boates (there called keeles) aboard her somtimes by night and<br />
somtimes by day, to fetch away and did fetch away severall of her<br />
goods, this deponent being part thereof so taken into them and carried<br />
away, notwithstanding that such of welches men as were put into her<br />
with swords and pistells forced this deponents and others of the ''Peters''<br />
company that were left in her to run from place to place in the shipp<br />
to be out of the way that they might not see such embeazeling of the<br />
said goods. and saith the said boates and the said welches men (or by their<br />
order or conivanse) tooke and embeazeled and carried away from the<br />
said shipp the ''Peter'' all and singular the merchandize goods, [?XXXX]<br />
sailes, ammuntion, victualls, and clothes mentioned in the said schedule<br />
; And that
albeit Christofer Peterson the master (after the said shipp and goods<br />
were ordered by ths Court to be returned) came to hull where the said<br />
shipp then was and endeavoured to get and did receave severall of<br />
the clapboards and other things, yet of eighteen hundred weight<br />
of flax that was in her at the seizure and was taken away, hee could recover but<br />
twelve hundred weight or thereabouts, and of twelve hundred of clapboards<br />
that were taken away, hee recovered but six hundred or thereabouts back<br />
againe, the rest being detained and wanting together with all the said<br />
goods schedulated. All which hee knoweth being one of her company and<br />
Purser of her and left in her upon the seizure and remaining in her<br />
to the said time of her release by this Court. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee had a share in said the flax and tallow<br />
with the shipper and other of the company, and is to have share in the flax and<br />
tallowe so taken away, if it be recovered, the tallowe being all taken<br />
away. And saith that Peter Old and Albert Schult were really [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
the interrogated wilkin welch, and otherwise saving as aforesaid hee answereth [?negatively GUTTER]
To the second hee sawe the clapboards told at Riga where the same were<br />
laden, and sawe told what was receaved at hull as aforesaid, this deponent<br />
telling the same himselfe hee being Purser of the ''Peter''. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot answer, saving as aforesaid.
To the 3 negatively saving as aforesayd.
To the 4 hee saith the said master of the ''Peter'' tooke a note in his booke<br />
of the particulars wanting, [?wherein] this deponent tooke a transcript, and<br />
saith the said skipper had at Inventary of the said shipps appurtenances before<br />
the seizure, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the last hee saith hee can write and read written hand, and sawe<br />
and tooke notice of all the goods aboard and of what was as aforesaid embeazeled<br />
and wanting, referring himselfe to this foregoeing deposition.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
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