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the Captaine and Company of the ''Santa Cr … the Captaine and Company of the ''Santa Cruse'' did saye and declare that<br />
they were resolved that though their sayd Spanish Commission were<br />
expired yet they would take all English shipp and their ladeing which they<br />
could light of And further to these arles hee cannot depose./
To the 8th article hee saith that the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her tackle and<br />
furniture and freight and [?stock] and provisions which shee had on board<br />
her at the tyme when shee was seized by the sayd Gennoa man of warr<br />
named the ''Santa Cruse'' was as this deponents Judgment worth five thousand<br />
pounds of lawfull English money and soe much hee beleeveth the arlate<br />
Swifte and other her owners were damnified by reason of her surprizall./
To the 9th article hee saith that the hundred and sixty Tonnes of Currans<br />
laden aboard the ''Lady ffrigott'' for Account of the Maria Company aforesayd<br />
her freighters, and aboard her at her seizure, were in hee this deponents<br />
Judgment worth fowerteene thousand pounds of lawfull English money And,<br />
soe much hee verily beleeveth they would have yeilded to the Owners of them<br />
if they had not bin seized in manner aforesayd./
To the 10th and 11th article hee saith that the arlate Captaine Hosyer and<br />
his Company of Mariners had goods and cloathes and money aboard the ''Lady''<br />
''ffrigott'' at the tyme of her seizure by the foresayd Gennoa man of warr<br />
worth a very considerable value, and accounting in this deponents<br />
Judgment to eight hundred pounds at the least of lawfull English money<br />
all which hee saith hee well knoweth was plundered and taken away from<br />
them by the Captaine and Company of the sayd Gennoa man of warr who<br />
after they had taken the same kept the Captaine and Company of the<br />
''Lady ffrigott'' for some tyme prizoners in chaynes, and at length turned<br />
them a shoare in the Island of Chephalonia<br />
to shifte for them selves giving them only one smale basket of<br />
Rusks but noe money, And further hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
The marke of the sayd<br />
John [MARKE] Cock [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 6th of May 1659: [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the said Allegation
[?XXXX] against Grove)
'''Rp.3:us'''
'''Captaine John Rand''' of Ratcliffe Marriner aged<br />
40 yeares or thereabouts sworne and Examined.
To the 9th article of the said Allegation hee saith and Deposeth that<br />
for that hee hath used the sea for theise Eight and twenty yeeres<br />
last as a Master and Mariner; and used to saile to the Island<br />
of Barbadoes, for theise Nine yeeres last as Master thereby well knoweth<br />
that it is a very Common, and Usuall thing for ships to miss<br />
the Island of Barbadoes, by reason of hurricanes, which put them out<br />
of their Littitude (sic), and saith that by reason of the said<br />
Hurricanes this Deponent hath missed the sayd Island twice, and one of those<br />
times was when the arlate ship the ''Peace'' (Thomas Grove Master)<br />
missed it, and then the hurricanes were very Great and as this Deponent hath bin Credibly Informed<br />
severall shipps did then misse the said Island of Barbadoes, and went<br />
to the Leoward Islands. And further hee Cannot depose saving<br />
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