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2o. Octobris 1`660./. [CENTRE HEADING]
[? … 2o. Octobris 1`660./. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?XXXX] Scoti pro [?pXXXXs]}<br />
[?XXXX] Zealon cujus ffrancus de}<br />
[?XXXX] [?capte] the ''Nightingale''}<br />
[?Suckly Budd. Cheeke.}
Sup Allone ex parte dicti querelantis 28o. Septembris<br />
ult. data Examinatus
'''Rp. 1us.'''
'''Richardus Ely''' parochia Sancti Bartholomaei ppe Regale<br />
Excamnium London Mercator, annos agens 27. and<br />
eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus./
Ad primum, 2um, 3um et 4um Arlos [?dae] Allonis deponit et dicit That this<br />
Deponent comming from the Canaries in the ship ''Swallow'' in Company of a fleet of<br />
other English ships, whereunto the ''Nightingale frigot'' (John Lightfoot<br />
Comander) with another English frigot were Convoyes, well knoweth that<br />
in or about the moneth of January last the said fleet met with the ship<br />
arlate The ''Turkey'' or ''Pea-hen'' (in sight of the Island La OPalma) a<br />
Spanish ship bound, as her Company affirmed, for Teneriffe; And upon such<br />
meeting, the said Captaine Lightfoot and Company in the said frogt the ''Nightingale''<br />
set upon and tooke the said Spanish ship with her lading of hides, Logwood,<br />
sugar, and some other goods, and some pieces of eight. And sayth that upon the<br />
said seizure this Deponent saw a great Chest brought from the said Spanish ship<br />
aboard the said frigot the ''Nightingale'', And this Deponent being then aboard the<br />
''Nightingale'' saw the said Chest broke open by Captaine Lightfoots order and in his<br />
presence, and being so opened, this deponent saw severall bags of pieces of<br />
eight therein (as he concweiveth and verily beleeveth they were by the<br />
clinking and noise they made upon stirring and removall) and<br />
alsoe saw five or six pigs of silver (as he alsoe by the weight<br />
and fashipn conceived them to bee) wrapped up in Canvas.<br />
And then and there this Deponent saw the said Captaine<br />
Lightfoot take all the said bags with the contents, and barrs or<br />
piggs out of the said Chest, and put o dispose them into a<br />
place apart in his Cabbin. And sayth that on or about<br />
the same day this Deponent having spoken with Captaine<br />
ffrancisco de Moralis Commander of the said shipp the<br />
''Pea-hen'' or ''Turkey'', heard him say and affirme that<br />
there was in that chest in pieces of eight and barrs or<br />
piggs of silver to the value of fourteene thousand pieces<br />
of eight, and also that in abother chest that was (as he<br />
said) also seized in the said ship, there were pieces of<br />
eight to the number or value of betweene five and<br />
six thousand pieces of eight; and that the whole losse<br />
in silver only, by the said seizure in the said two Chests<br />
amounted to twenty thousand pieces of eight, or thereabouts<br />
And further he cannot depose, saying he doth not<br />
know the Claymer./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first and second he answereth negatively./
Ad 3um nescit rendere./
To the 4th and 5th negatively for his part. And further<br />
cannot answer./
Ad ult reddit causas scientiae sua et supra/
Richard Ely [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]t supra/
Richard Ely [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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