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there were present the Mayor of Swanzey an … there were present the Mayor of Swanzey and severall<br />
of the Aldermen and persons of good quality living at<br />
Swanzey or neere thereabouts.
Ad 3um dicit that the said Captaine Dowdall and Company<br />
did not take or seize any ships or vessells whatsoever after<br />
the Eighth day of may last nor upon that day to this deponents<br />
best remembrance./
Ad 4um dicit that there were at the time of the said seizure<br />
two Masters of two barques which the said Dowdall had taken about<br />
Eight dayes before the said Proclamation, which said Masters<br />
were soe kept by the said Dowdall in regard the said Barques<br />
were discharged, and they had agreed to pay some moneyes<br />
for them, and upon the said seizure of the sayd ffrigot thy<br />
were turned ashore as the said Dowdalls Company were<br />
but their names hee remembreth not./.
Ad 5. 6. et 7 respondet that the said Captaine Barker and<br />
Company came with the said ''Titchfeild ffrigot'' into Swanzey<br />
Roade (where the ''Henrietta Marya'' lay) with the English Colours<br />
flying, and the Company which were then onboard the<br />
''henrietta Maria'' (the Captaine and about tenn more being ashore)<br />
not knowing what shee might be, cut their cable and sailed<br />
upp to the Towne and there cast Anchor, but the ''Litchfeild'' followed<br />
her and firing at her her company to avoid seizure sailed<br />
about a mile higher in the River where shee was seized as<br />
aforesaid, And saith that some of the said Barkers men said<br />
that the said Barker had a Commission from the Parliament<br />
and this deponent beleeveth hee had soe, And saith that what<br />
money and plunder was seized in the said ship was before<br />
the said Eighth of May last taken from English ships and<br />
vessells, the money being given for the redemption of them.
Ad 8um respondet that hee referrs himselfe to the Act Interrate.
Ad 9. dicit that hee doth not knowe what hee is worth/.
Ad 10 dicit that hee expecteth to receive what he lost by the said<br />
seizure, or satisfaction for the same, if the said Dowdall prevailed<br />
herein, But expecteth nothing else./
Ad ult[?XXXdit] causa [?Scientiae] sua ut supra:/
Repetit coram Doctor Zouch:/
Christiannus = Tepffer [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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eodem die. [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup lilo predict Examinatus./
'''Rp. (2dus.'''
'''Owen Sullevane''' de Munster in Ireland<br />
Gener annos agens 27 aut eo circiter productus et<br />
Juratus.
Ad ja. et 2a. positiones dicti Libelli dicit et deponit, That hee<br />
well knoweth the ffrigott ''henrietta Maria'' for about Nine monethes<br />
before shee was seized by Captaine Barker as hereafter is mentioned<br />
(of as hereafter is mentioned<br />
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