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28 March 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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597 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 28/03/2013 +
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| Transcription
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loose his Cloathes and instruments which w … loose his Cloathes and instruments which were of considerable<br />
value but what to estimate them at hee knoweth not And saith the<br />
sayd shipp and all the sayd goods and other things soe seized were by the<br />
sayd captaines Vandimon and [?Goorner] and their Companyes carried<br />
to Brest and there deteyned from the arlate Nevin Kerr and Company<br />
and the sayd Kerr and this deponent and the rest of the<br />
shipps company were pillaged and thrust out of the sayd shipp at<br />
Brest and after a while sent away to Morlaix And further<br />
to this article (saving his foregoeing deposition) hee cannot depose saving<br />
hee saith that while hee this deponent stayed at Brest hee sawe<br />
some of the ffrench Kings officers there (notwithstanding the peace<br />
betwixt England and ffrance) take some of the foods seized in the<br />
sayd shipp for the ffrench Kings tenths of the sayd shipp and<br />
goods./
To the 4th hee saith hee beleeveth that the arlate Neaven Kerr and<br />
Company besides their shipp and goods lost as aforesayd did suffer<br />
much other dammage by losse of Markett in what profitt they might<br />
have made of the goods seized and in want of the proceeds of them to imploy<br />
in their Merchandizing affayres and by want of the sayd shipp to use<br />
alsoe in their affayres, but what to value their sayd losse at hee knoweth<br />
not. And further saith hee experimentally knoweth being one of the Company<br />
that the sayd shipps Company in generall suffered great miserie by<br />
being pillaged after their seizure and through want of necessaries to<br />
supplie them at Brest and in their passage to Morlaix in soe much that one of them<br />
named hunter dyed by reason of the want and misery hee<br />
suffered by the meanes aforesayd, this hee the better knoweth for that<br />
hee helped to burie the sayd hunter, hee dyeing presently after his getting<br />
into England, by reason of his weakness by his evell usage. And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
the marke of the sayd [MARKE, RH SIDE]<br />
John '''O''' Smith
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The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''Rp. 2'''
'''John Watson''' of Ayer in Scotland Mariner<br />
aged twenty two yeares or therabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
To the first article hee saith hee this deponent was one of the<br />
Company of the ''Speedewell'' the voyage in question, and know<br />
the sayd shipp from her first building in Eyre which was about<br />
sixe or seaven yeares last past and saith that from her building till<br />
her seizure hereafter specified the arlate Kerr and one Theophilus<br />
Rankin both of Eyre aforesayd were commonly reputed lawfull<br />
Owners of her and her tackle and furniture each of them of an equall halfe<br />
thereof and the sayd Kerr was also Commander of her for the<br />
voyage in question./
To the 2 article hee saith hee being one of the Company as aforesayd<br />
knowethe Company as aforesayd<br />
knoweth +
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