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The seaventh of ffebruary 1656.
On the be … The seaventh of ffebruary 1656.
On the behalfe of George Burrard}<br />
of Plimouth Merchant touching}<br />
a losse in the Industrie.}
'''Rp. X XXX. .1.us'''
'''Robert Weyman''' of Plimouth Merchant, aged 29<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of<br />
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
and exámined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the behalfe of the said Burrard saith as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the goods shipp the<br />
''Industrie'' of Plimouth interrate whereof William Evans was master<br />
at that time of her last being at Bordeaux in the Realme of ffrance,<br />
from whense hee saith shee departed in or about the end of November last<br />
bound for Plimouth, which hee knoweth being masters mate of her<br />
and then on board her.
To the second third and fourth Interrogatories hee saith hee well<br />
knoweth George Burrard of Plimouth Merchant, and saith the<br />
said Burrard was whole or part freighter of the said shipp the said<br />
voyage, and sent his factor one mr Smith from Plimouth to Saint Ives in<br />
Cornewall to see there to her lading with fish for Bordeaux; And<br />
saith there were the said voyage while the said shipp was at Bordeaux<br />
laden aboard her by a factor there (whose name hee remembreth not)<br />
fourteene tunns or thereabouts of wine, two tunns and a halfe or three<br />
tonnes or therabouts of brandewine and about seaven tunnes of prunes,<br />
all to be transported in the said shipp to Plimouth and thense to be<br />
delivered, and saith that in as much as mr Burrard was freighter<br />
and soe sent his factor to see to the said shipps outwards lading, this<br />
deponent conceiveth the said homewards lading taken in at Bordeaux<br />
to be belonging to him or a good part thereof, but this examinate<br />
cannot speake positively of his interest therein, not seeing or signing the<br />
bills of lading, nor knowing further thereof than as aforesaid.<br />
And saith the said shipp soe as aforesaid departing from Bordeaux<br />
and prosecuting her voyage with the said goods for Plimouth,<br />
comming within tenn leagues or thereabouts of Plimouth, was on<br />
or about the sixth of december last met with set upon and<br />
forcibly seized by an Ostend man of warr, and carried with the said<br />
wines, brandewine and prunes to Ostend whether shee came<br />
on the tenth of the same moneth, and soe all the said merchandize<br />
were and are utterly lost to the said mr Burrard or to whomsoever the<br />
same were belonging, and the said shipp was alsoe lost by the said<br />
seizure, all which hee knoweth, being masters mate of the said<br />
shipp the ''Industrie'' and aboard her at the time of the said seizure<br />
And saith the said shipp of warr of Ostend was by her<br />
company called the ''Josas-Maria'', and commanded by Claus<br />
[?Grittuou], as Captaine of her.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Robert Wayman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lphin.
Robert Wayman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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