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The 26:th of October 1653.
Examined upon … The 26:th of October 1653.
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd<br />
Claymers
The clayme of Colonell Thomas Pride and the rest}<br />
of the victuallers of the Navie of this Commonwealth}<br />
for beefe and porke put aboard the ''Sea fflower''}<br />
whereof Thomas Harris was Mr Clements}<br />
Budd)
'''1.'''
'''John Snowe''' of Bristoll in the County of<br />
Somerset Agent for the Victualers of the Navie of this Common<br />
Wealth aged 35 years or thereabouts a witness<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet
To the first second and third Articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that hee this deponent hath bin imployed by the arlate Colonell Thomas Proud<br />
and others the victuallers of the Navie of this Commonwealth, to furnish the sayd<br />
Navie with provisions of victualls as their Agent under them for these two yeares last and upwards and did by<br />
their order and appointment provide himselfe lade, and cause his this deponents ?source<br />
to lade on board the ''Sea fflower'' arlate whereof the<br />
arlate Thomas Harris was Master, (and alsoe reputed sole Owner)<br />
certayne hogsheads and barrells conteyning in them eleven thousand eight<br />
hundred and twenty, fower pounds peeces of beefe, and eleven thousand<br />
eight hundred and three, two pound peeces of porke, and caused the same<br />
soe to be laded and put on board the sayd shipp about the first day of<br />
may 1653 to be transported from Bristoll arlate to Portsmouth<br />
arlate for the use of this Commonwealth to victuall their Navie there<br />
therewith, and the sayd shipp departed therewith about the Month of<br />
May aforesayd with intente to transporte the same to Portsmouth<br />
aforesayd, the premisses hee the better knoweth for that hee this deponent<br />
bought all the sayd beefe and porke, and sawe the same loaded on board<br />
the sayd shipp at the publique key of Bristoll aforesayd, And saith that<br />
as hee this deponent hath bin certified by letters from the sayd Thomas Harris<br />
the Master of the sayd shipp and alsoe by letters from one mr Manley an<br />
agent alsoe to the sayd Colonell Pride and the other Victualers of the Navie<br />
aforesayd living at Plymouth (which letters hee beleeveth to be true) the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Sea fflower'' was in her Course towards Portsmouth mett with<br />
and seized by a dutchman of Warr with the said victuals on board her and by her carried to Saint Malloe in<br />
ffrance, and coming forth to Sea againe from thence with the sayd<br />
Beefe and Porke in her the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Sea fflower'' with her sayd victualls or a great part thereof<br />
on board her was retaken by the ''Saphir ffrigatt'' arlate and by her<br />
brought into Plymouth arlate where as this deponent beleeveth she<br />
still remayneth and the beefe and porke in her which was taken therewith [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose.rther to these articles hee cannot depose. +
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