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The first of October 1657.
Thomas Cowell … The first of October 1657.
Thomas Cowell and company}<br />
against the Tobaccoes brought to}<br />
this port in the ''Successe''.}
'''Rp.'''
'''Richard Harris''' of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate<br />
London Mariner, aged 27 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that there were certaine<br />
tobaccoes amounting to about fourtie or fiftie thousand weight (as hee<br />
estimateth the same) brought to this port of London from Jamaica in<br />
the shipp the ''Successe'', whereof Captaine Zachary Browne was commander<br />
which hee knoweth being Purser of the said shipp and comming from<br />
Jamaica hether in her with the said tobaccoes. And saith the said<br />
Tobaccoes were of the Growth of the West India's under the power<br />
of the king of Spain, and were brought thense to Jamaica in a<br />
Spanish vessell, and there taken out of the said Spanish vessell and<br />
landed in expence, taken and put aboard the said shipp the ''Successe''<br />
to be brought for England, all which this deponent being<br />
then at Jamaica saw donne, and saith the said tobaccoe was really<br />
belonging to Spaniards as hee that brought it to Jamaica<br />
confessed often times in this deponents heareing, and of it, there were<br />
three Manoco's of cherie tobaccies which were for á present for<br />
the Vice Roy of Cartagena, to which place the said vessell was<br />
designed, which Manoco's were alsoe landed at Jamaica, And<br />
saith that by the make of the said tobaccoes, they are clearly knowne<br />
to such as are acquainted with that commoditie (as this deponent saith<br />
hee is) to be of the privity and make of the Spanish West Indias.
To the second hee saith that after the arrival of the said tobaccoes<br />
in the said shipp the ''Successe'' in this port, they were seized by the<br />
interrogated Captaine Consell, who as hee said had a Commission from<br />
this Court for seizure of the goods of the Subiects of the king<br />
of Spaine, And otherwise hee cannot answer.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Richard Harris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The first of October 1657.
On behalfe of the owners of}<br />
the shipp ''Patience''}
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''Hendrick Hendrickson''' of Larwick in Norway mariner<br />
aged 32 yeares or thereabouts, and '''Tomis Barents[?e]''' of Skane<br />
in Norway Mariner aged 37 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges<br />
of the high Court of the Admiraltie of England say and<br />
depose respectively by vertue of their oathes being examined<br />
upon an Interrogatorie, as followeth videlicet
That they very well know the shipp the ''Patience'' interrogated<br />
whereof hee this deponent hendrick hendrickson is master and this deponent<br />
Tomis Barentsen Stiersman, and have soe donne ever since shee was built<br />
which was at Larwick about tenn yeares since, and that shee is of the<br />
burthen of fiftie lasts, or thereabouts, and hath noe guns, And say<br />
thatnd hath noe guns, And say<br />
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