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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
… To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad primum [?XXXXX] [?XXXX] negativa pro parte sua [?XX] alr nescit.
Ad 3um nescit.
Ad 4 negativa pro parte sua, et alr nescit.
Ad 5 negativa.
Ad ult referrsea ad predeposita sua, ubi et satisfaction.
[GUTTER ?Repetit coram] doctor Exton.
John Roo[?X] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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4th Octobris 1660./
[GUTTER ?XXXX Gellier predict./
Super Allone predicta Examinatus
'''2./'''
'''Johannes Row''' parochia Sancti Thoma Apostle London<br />
Mercator, aetatis 26. annorum aut de circiter testis<br />
in h[?XX] causa productus et juratus.
Ad 1. 2. 3. et 4um. Articles dicta Allonis deponit et dicit That this deponent in<br />
a fleet of English merchant men coming in the ship ''ffreindship''<br />
of London from the Canaries, bound for this port under conduct<br />
of the ''Marmaduke'' and the ''Nightingale'' frigots, that were then<br />
Convoyes, well knoweth that in or about the moneth of Janu=<br />
ary last, the said ffrigot the ''Nightingale'', whereof Captaine<br />
John Lightfoot was Commander off the Island la Palma, met<br />
with a Spanish ship (wherof Don ffrancisco de Morales<br />
was Commander) called the ''Peahen'' or ''Turkey'', comming<br />
from the Havana, bound (as her Company said) for Tene-<br />
riffe, and set upon and seizwed the said Spanish ship with her lading<br />
of hides; Logwoods; Jolle[?p] and some other goods, and some piggs<br />
of plate and other silver; and sayth that the said ship the<br />
''Peahen'' submitting, the said Captain Lightfoot desired this<br />
Deponent who was then casually aboard the ffrigot, and could speake<br />
Spanish, to goe aboard the said Spanish ship with some of his<br />
men, and to see that his men did not goe into the great<br />
Cabbin to plunder or purloine ought thence, and that this deponent<br />
went accordingly, and comming into the great Cabin of the ''Peahen''<br />
the said Don ffrancisco de Morales tooke his keys and opened the<br />
Chests of plate that were there, being foure in number, and shewed<br />
the same to this deponent and would have had this deponent to have taken<br />
the said keys, which he refused; but sayth that some while after<br />
(on the same day of the seizure) the said Captain Lightfoot came aboard<br />
the said ship the ''Peahen'' or ''Turkey'', and taking notice of the said<br />
chests, and the same being opened, he caused the plate and pieces<br />
of eight that were in one of them to be taken out and put in<br />
the other three, and also caused a chest of plate that was in<br />
the Hold to be brought up, and soe sent them asll foure aboard,<br />
his said frigot; And sayth that this deponent and the said Captain being re=<br />
turned into the frigot. the said Captain desired this deponent to cast up<br />
an account of the contents of the said foure chests, wherein he sayth<br />
were piggs of plate, and severall baggs of pieces of eight<br />
and the weight that was upon them casting up the amount of the whole<br />
found the pigs to extend and amount to the value of nine thousand and<br />
odde hundred pieces of eight, and the wrought plate and pieces<br />
ofhe wrought plate and pieces<br />
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