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The 16th of August 1659
On behalfe of mX … The 16th of August 1659
On behalfe of mX the warren touching? (LH SIDE)<br />
the Alice and Mary (LH SIDE)
Edward White of Tower hill London merchant<br />
aged 19 yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the said Judge and Examined as aforesaid
To the first he saith that hee this Deponent well knewe the<br />
Interrate ship the Alice and Mary (whereof John Sandall<br />
was master at the time Interrate. And saith that in or about<br />
the latter end of January 165X the said ship was at plymouth<br />
where this Deponent then sawe her, And saith shee was<br />
bound from thence to Saphia upon the Coast of South<br />
Barbary, And saith hee this Deponent was then one of the<br />
Supra? cargoe of the ship Judah Robert Ellis master when?<br />
went from plymouth about the same time the said ship<br />
Alice and Mary went thence, and arrived at Saphia<br />
the same day the Alice and Mary arrived there, And<br />
further cannot depose.
To the second and 3rd hee saith that the said ship the Alice and Mary<br />
arrived at the Saphia the said voyage, on the Eighth of march<br />
last, and saith that During such time as shee lay there<br />
this Deponent sawe, a Considerable Quantity of wax laden<br />
on board, such was so laden upon and for the ropper accompte<br />
of master? Thomas warren of London merchant as this Deponent<br />
verily beleeveth. And saith that one Thomas Baleffartor<br />
of the said warren laded the same on board the said<br />
ship, And saith that on or about the 24th of march<br />
last the said Alice and Mary set saile from Saphia<br />
with the said wax on board her, for Santa Cruze, in Barbary<br />
where shee arrived (as this Deponent beleeveth) on the 26th<br />
of march aforesaid, And saith the said ship the Judah departed<br />
from Saphia on the 25th march aforesaid in the Evening<br />
and on the next morning was XXXXh and seized by a<br />
St Sebastians man of warr called the St Thomas commanded<br />
By one Captain Michael de Braisa, which said man of warr<br />
carried the Judah and this Deponent and all the rest of her Company?<br />
within three leagues off Santa Cruze in Barbary and then the<br />
said man of warr went into the Xoeds of Santa Cruze<br />
and seized the said ship the Alice and Mary, and the said<br />
wax and other things that she had in her, and this Deponent<br />
was then in the said man of warr and sawe the said ship<br />
soe made, And saith the said Man of warr carried (GUTTER)<br />
the said prizes and ladings to Santa Cruze in the<br />
Canarys, and there tooke out the Alice and Maryes lading<br />
And put most of it on board the Judah and the rest on board the man of warr and carried<br />
the same to St Sebastans where it was made prize, but<br />
the ship Alice and Mary was Condemned? and sold at Santa<br />
Cruze in the Canarys, And by means of the said seizure the<br />
said master warren is Deprived of his said goods. And saith…(GUTTER)<br />
Deponent was Carried in the man of warr and Judah from…(GUTTER)<br />
…And further cannot depose, saving the…(GUTTER)<br />
was seized on or about the 25th of march aforesayded on or about the 25th of march aforesayd +
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