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27o May 1635.

4s. Caseneva et al)
nave the Saint Barbara)

Arthurus Bassett of Tehedy in Comitatu Corumbia
armiger annos agens 34 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit et depoint provt
seguitur

Ad sextum et septimum articulos alluis exaite Casineva secundum Sess Ter in
Pascho ultimum et amplius datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That
this examinate havinge notice that a prize taken for the
Spaniard by the dutch having aboard her sugers and other
commodities was at Owavers lake in the bay of Pensance,
wente thither to see yf hee could buy sugers or
other commodities at a reasonable rate out of her and uppon
New yeares day last paste or therabouts in a boate went aboard the
said shippe called (as those aboard her said) the Saint
Barbara then rideinge at an anchor in safety in
Owavers lake aforesaid, and then founde divers
Hollanders in the said shippe who had the
commannd of her, and amongste them some Spaniardes
and at that tyme this examinate by discourse with
a dutchman who was said to bee Leiutenant of the said
shippe and some other dutchmen of her company, this
examinate was informed that the said shippe had bin taken
at sea by two Holland men of warr and that at sea by
storme shee was separated from those menn of warr
but hee remembreth not whether they tolde
him that shee was by extremity of weather and crosse
windes driven into the harbour or Porte of Pensance
or into some other Porte in or neere the County of
Cornwall or not, and haveing by aboard her aboute
halfe an houre in Owavers lake aforesaid this examinate
with his boate returned a shoare, and fower or five
of the Spaniardes which hee founde aboard the said
shippe as aforesaide when this examinate came out of the
said shippe the Santa Barbara, came alsoe out of her
with this examinates boate to goe ashoare, and this examinate
in his boate sett them on shoare at Newland in the
County of Cornwall neere to the said shippe
where they desired to bee landed, and soe this examinate
returned home about thirteene miles from the said
shippe and within some few dayes after, a messinger
came to this examinats brother master ffrances Bassett the
Viceadmirall of the North of Cornwall and
advertized him that the said shippe the Santa Barbara
was in distresse and a grounde in the bay of
Pensance, and that the Country people were ready
to pillage her, And thereuppon this examinate and his
said brother with some others went forthwith to the
bay of Pensance and there founde the said shippe
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the Santa Barbara driven a shoare and suncke uppon the
Rockes in the said bay of Pensance soe that every highe
water, the sea flowed over her deckes and they were inforced
both by the company of the said shippe, as alsoe by
the Inhabitants of in those parts that by extreamity
of weather her Cables by which shee was moored
brake, and soe shee drove uppon the Rocks and suncke
and shee was made unserviceable and
unfitt for any further voyage at sea And this
hee affirmeth to bee true, Al aliter ad humior
articulos nescit deponere, Saveinge that when this
examinate was aboard the said shippe on or about New yeares
day as aforesaid hee was informed
that the Captaine was gon to Plymouth to gett menn
of warr to convey her to fflushinge in Zealand,
and when this examinate came to her
uppon notice of her sinckeinge as aforesaid
hee sawe two shippes Holland shippes rideing by her
which had (as yt was said) divers goodes aboard
them which were taken out of the Sta Barbara
after shee came into the bay of Pensance before
shee was driven uppon the Rockes aforesaid,
and those shippes with the goods in them were
since (as hee hath heard) arrested at Plymouth, soe that hee
beleeveth that all the goodes in this cause
arrested sequestred were in the Saint Barbara
when shee came firste into the bay of Pensance
because those shippes were not then there when
as this examinate went firste aboard the Sta Barbara
in that bay as aforesaid and hee beleeveth that all the wett goodes
arrested and sequestred were in her when shee
was driven uppon the Rockes and suncke as
aforesaid, but beleeveth that the goodes arrested in
the said two shippes at Plymouth xx that were drye
and some hides delivered which Captaine Polkin Horne had to
the number of (as Captaine Polkin Horne said to this
examinats best remembrance) of one hundred hides
or therabouts and a small loafe of sugar, as alsoe
for which Captaine Polkin Horne disbursed monies
of furnished victualls for the xx xxx of the Hollanders in the Sta Barbara
as this examinate as this examinate heard some of those
Hollanders as alsoe Captaine Polkin Horne himself
say and 2 horses, and were landed taken out of the
Santa Barbara before shee was driven uppon the Rockes
and suncke as aforesaid, as also alsoe 32 paper fanns
given to this examinate and John Dunckin,/
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vertue of a Comission out of this Courte XXXhe
some of those goodes in the Sellers at Pensanse
and did Inventary and put those goods in severall
parts, soe that hee beleeveth they did seize
arreste and sequester the same, and by her
soe driveinge a shoare shee was made unserviceable
and unfitt for any further voyage to sea, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true, Al aliter nescit
Saveing that before and after shee was suncke as
aforesaid, this examinate sawe in the Towne
of Pensanse of in Cornwall three or fower
menn, which were said to bee Spaniardes, and
did a (as yt was come thither (as yt was said)
in the said spanishe Gallioone,/

Ad duodecimum nescit depanere qua prius/

Ad tertio decimum nescit depenare akr qua prius./
Super reliquis arlis non examinate ex direccon/

Ad interrogate;/

Ad decimum respondet That hee beleeveth that the Hollanders
were in possession and quietly possessed of the
said Gallioone and her owners ladeinge at the
tyme of her arrivall at Pensanse because
hee sawe the Holland Captaine come a shoare out
of her at Pensanse and heard him say that she
was his prize, and sawe him beate some of his
menn that laye drinckeinge a shoare at
Pensanse for not stayeing aboard her, and
sawe divers Hollanders at Pensanse which were
said to bee of the Company of that Gallioone
to the number as hee thincketh of twenty
or thirty, At aliter nescit/

Ad duodecimum respondet, That hee beleeveth that the Hollanders
in the said Gallioone did wholy comannde her
untill shee came into the said bay of Pensanse
and that the Hollanders in her did farr exceed the
number of the Spaniardes that came in her
thither, and that yt was in the power of the
Hollanders to have removed all the Spaniardes out of
the said Gallioone, and that the Hollandrs kept
those Spaniardes under their power and comannde
as their prisoners. because hee heard that the Hollanders
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after they came to Pensance sent the Spaniards
away for their owne Country and gave them somethinge
to beare their chardges in their way homewardes,
At aliter nescit/

Ad tertio decimum respondet That hee beleeveth that the
Hollanders after their entrance into the said
Gallioone did bend their course and saile for
Hollande, and that the Spaniards in her coulde
not make any resistance or hinder the
Hollanders in their course, and that yt was
tempeste and casualtye that occasioned the
Company of the said Gallioone to come
into Pensanse, and hee beleeveth that without
that tempeste and casualty the said Gallioone
had nin carried directly to Holland, reddens
reconem creden sua, because hee heard that
the Hollanders had taken and mastered
the said Gallioone./

Ad quartodecimum respondet That one of Pensanse that spake
spanishe talked with a Spaniard that was said
to bee one of the company of the said Gallioone
in this examinats presense, and that mann of
Pensanse told this examinate that that Spaniards
did relate to him that hee had lived longe not
of his Country and had gotten meanes about
him and was goeing home to his Country
and that the Hollanders had taken all from him
and by signes which that Spaniard made this
examinate conceiveth that the Spaniardes in the
said Gallioone did yeeld and submitt themselves
to the Hollanders and were under their power and
remained, At aliter nescit/

Ad quintodecimum nescit respondere, Saveing that yt was
generally reported at Pensanse that the Hollanders
after the said Gallioone came into Owavers
Lake aforesaid tooke out of her what goods they
pleased and put into one a Holland mann of
warr there untill shee was suncke, and that then
they compounded with hentlemen in the Country
to save what goods they coulde out of her, her

Ja: Pollin Horne
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xxxo Maij 1635

Willmus Ruddiard poa sancti Michis in Cornehill
London Leatherseller aetatis 36 annorum aut circiter testis in
hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./
Mansbridge contra Leister/

1s

Det master Jackard/

Rp J m/

Ad primum secundum et reliquos article libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That in the moneth of November last past this deponent
(beinge a Stationer by profession) at the requeste of one master
Chancye dwellinge in Henwich yard neere Dukes place London
went to viewe certayne Venice paper then lyeinge in
a warehouse or stable neere to the sayd Chancyes dwellinge house
aforesaid where being come he sawe some fower chests and
fifty two bundles of Venice paper lyeinge by the said chests each bundle conteyning two Reames of paper most of which paper was wett and dampnifyed but he tooke noe notice of the marke and number
uppon any of the sayd chests, in the viewinge of which paper and sortings
and seperatinge of the wett paper from the drye this deponent spent
all most three dayes, and after he had soe seperated the same, he this
deponent requested a ss one master Samuel Gibbs a ffrench merchant which deales
for the most part in pape to viewe the said pap, and sayeth that the
sayd paper was dampnifyed and lesse worth to be sould by reason
of the sayd wett to the somme of three shillings at the least in every of
the sayd fiftye two bundells amountinge in all to the somme of seaven
pounds sixteene shillings, which wett and dammage he verilye beleiveth
happened to the sayd paper by salte water abord some shipp for that
the chests in which laye by the sayd paper (in which as he was tould and beleiveth the said pap came) was stayned with wett, and
there stucke some of the out side of the said paper unto the inside of the
the paper which laye next unto the place stayned places in the sayd chests
but some parts of the sayd chests
were drye and lookt fresh and were not stayned, The premisses
he knoweth to be true for that he is a stationer by trade and selleth
both Venice and all other sorts of writinge paper and well knoweth the
the vallue and condition of paper, havinge kept a stationers shopp for these
eighte yeares last past and before that tyme was apprentice to that
profession by the space of seaven yeares. Et aliter nescit deponere
Idem super interrogate

Ad primum quoad picula puirij fit quod petitur, Et respondet That he cometh to
testify in this cause at the request of the foresayd master Chancye, and that he
favoreth neither of the partyes in this cause, neither did he knowe either
of the said partyes litigant but bee untill that day that he was sworne either
a witnes in this cause, at which tyme mres mansbridge the producent went
with him to the Court to see him take his oath, and that he wisheth that right
may take place./

Ad secundum respondet That he was none of the company of the interrogate shipp the
Dilligence neither did he see the paper aforesaid whilest it was abord the
sayd shipp Et aliter ideo nescit respondere.

Ad tertium nescit respondere/

Ad quartum respondet That the fower chests in which this respondent sawe the paper
which stood by
aforesaid seemed to have by the stayne and color of them to have taken wett

Ad quintum
and soe much did plainely appeare by the wett pap which xxxxxxx unto the stayned places
stucke
⁁ Et aliter qua prius nescit respondere./
the said chests as aforesaid

William Rudierd
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dco die

Clarke contra Berke/

4s

det/

Rs J m

Evanus Ellis parochia omnium Sanctorum Barkinge London Lighterman aetatis
34 annorum aut circiter testis in that parte productus iuratus et exaiatus
datus atempa damni controverse face bene novitet Willum Berke
re partem contra quam pructr per idem tempus ex visa tantu novit
ut dicit/
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tyde gave leave and over whelmed all her wynes in hould, it beinge then when she was first bilged almost lowe water
and at the next tyde of floud at high water, the water came in at her
port holes and over her lower decke, and by that meanes most of the said
shipps ladinge of wynes then remayninge abord her were much dampnifyed,
The premisses he knoweth to be true, for that he was abord the sayd shipp
the Expedition when she was suncke as aforesaid and imediatlye after she
was suncke, he sawe the company of all the shipps which ride neere the
sayd shipp the Expedition under run their Cables, and therby it
appeared that there was noe anker belongeinge unto any of those
shipps that laye neere unto the place where the sayd
shipp the Expedition was suncke as aforesaid but the anchor which belonged
unto the sayd Becks shipp, and about an houre after the
sayd shipp the Expedition was weighed from the place where she was first
suncke, at the first still of a Lowe water the topp of the sayd buoye appeared
above water and then the sayd William Giles rowed to the sayd buoy and
tooke hould therof but could not weigh or putt all the said buoy above
water, neither could he pull any part of the buoy rope above water, and
then lett goe the his hould of the said buoye and presently after the tyde
of floud came the sayd buoy suncke agayne and could not be seene to
appeare above water, Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that
about two houres and halfe after the sayd shipp was weighed from the
place where she was first bilged the company of the sayd
Becks shipp under runn their Cable, and weighed the anchor uppon
lyeinge in the same place from where the said shipp was soe weighed
bilged and suncke as aforesaid and caryed the said anchor abord the sayd
Becks shipp, and it did then appeare that the stocke of that anchor
was lost and that the the Nutttherof was bent

Ad undecimum affirmat That the sayd Thomas Clarke did hire some tymes nyne
sometymes ten and some tymes twelve or thirteene, and some tymes fourteene
lighters in one tyde, in to helpe weigh the sayd shipp and her ladinge
videlicet in one tyde there were three lighters belongeinge to Thomas
Stephens, two lighters belonginge to Tilbury Strange, one of master lighter
belonginge to one master Guy, two belonginge to Giles Toye, two lighters
belonginge to John Hearne, two of master Burrells lighters two lighters belonginge
to John Voyles one lighter belonging to Mathewe Tanner and one belonginge to one George Sankoll, which shipp
was in weighing by the space of six or seaven tyds (to his best then rembrance) and the sayd
Clarke hath and must pay for the use and assistance of the said lighters in that
behalfe, fourteene and fifteene shillings a tyde for
the biggest of the sayd lighters, and for soe for the use of one lighter
and for some lesse accordinge to the burthen of the lighters, and ten shillings
a tyde for the least of the said lighters, which he knoweth
to be true for that he was present when the said Clarke agreed with by
said lightermen, th alsoe the sayd Clacke hired three shipps to helpe
weigh the said shipp the Expedition and her ladinge videlicet the first tyde
after she was suncke he hired a shipp of one master fflawe of the burthen of
about eleaven or twelve store tonnes and another Scotch shipp, and that
the sayd fflawes shipp was imployed in that behalfe at the least five
tydes, and another but howe many tydes the other two shipps were used he
remembreth not, alsoe there was a great quantitye of Cordage some
and halzers some newe and some ould spent for and many rings and boults
sp imbloyed spent and broken in the weighinge of the said shipp but the
charge therof or of the hiringe of the said shipps he cannott estimate
Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 12 affirmat That all the whiles this deponent was abord or in a lighter
by the side of the sayd shipp there were continually a great many of her
company abord her, which behaved themselves well and soberly all and none
of them were distemped with drincke (for ought this deponent could pceive
and like honest and carefull men Et aliter nescit deponere./
but behaved themselves

Ad reliquos articulos dco libelli non examinate./
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Idem super Interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondent negative./

Ad secundum refert se ad predeposita/ Et aliter nescite rrendere./

Ad tertium nescit respondere aliter quam prius. savinge he sayeth that he never
heard that the sayd master Becks shipp or her anchor did any damage
to any shipp goeinge or cominge up and downe the river of
Thames savinge the damage in question./

Ad quartum refert se ad predeposita per eumm / Et aliter respondent ngative./

Ad quintum respondet quod nescit nec audivit aliquid de contents in huioru
interrogate./

Ad sextum respondent That he this respondent did never call to the sayd master
Becks company to remove their anchor neither did he knowe that there
lay any anchor in the place aforesayd untill after the sayd shipp was suncke
and weighed agayne Et aliter necit respondere./

Ad septium respondet quod nescit nec audivit aliquid de contents in huioi interrogate./

Ad octavum nescit respondere al qua prius./

signum die Evain [MARKE] Ellis [MARKE, CENTRE]
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ultimum Maij 1635

Willimus Giles parochia sancti Olavi in Southwarke waterman
aetatis 57 anoru aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Thoma Clarke partem
producen a tempore damni controversi facti bene novit, sed
Willmu Becke partem contra qua producitur non novit ut dicit./

Ad 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit Tht uppon a wednesday in the moneth of ffebruarye or March last
past (the tyme more cetaynly he remembreth not) he this deponent roweinge
downe the river of Thames to looke for anchors that lay without buyes
to them, and beinge abord Captayne Ellis his shipp was there
tould that there was a shipp laden with Canaryes wynes suncke that morninge and
thereuppon this deponent rowed abord that sunckt shipp beinge the articulate
shipp the Expedicon of Ipswich (wherof Thomas Clarke was master)
and beinge abord her the sayd Clarke understandinge that he this
deponent was one of the officers of this Court appoynted to looke to
anchors that laye without buoys intreated him to staye abord the sayd
shipp untill she was weighed to see whither the anchor uppon which the
sayd shipp was bilged and suncke had any buy to it, and
promised him satisfaction for the losse of his tyme, and when this deponent 
came first abord her it was younge floud, and there was a great shipp
and some lighters fastened to her to weigh her, and she was weighed
and removed that tyde from the place where she was first bilged
about two shipps length neerer to the shoare but before she
was weighed from thence this deponent rowed rounde abord her
to see if he could espye any buoy or beacon neere unto her but could finde none but presently
after she was weighed from that place, at the first still of the floud
and before the course of the tyde did bend upwards, by reason of a great fresh that then was, this deponent prceived a buoy floatinge aboce water in the same place
where the sayd shipp was weighed, and then this deponent rowed to the sayd
buoye, and indeavoured twice to take up the sayd buoy into his boate but the buoy rope was
soe short that he could not pull the sayd buoy all out of the water, nor
higher up from the water then it shewed itselfe wherof
at that tyme shewed it selfe about a foote above water, but assoone
as the current of the tyde of floud did bend upwards the sayd
buoy was under water agayne and noe part therof could be seene,
to beare or floate above water, and that the sayd buoy and buoy rope
was not sufficient for tio tye in that place, for that the tyde
at high water did flowe at least a fathome above or over the sayd buoy
(and lace
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and the anchor to which the said buoy was fastened laye in about
the middle of the Channell of the river of Thames
righte against Shadwell, and the sayd shipp the Expedition when this deponent
came first abord her before she was weighed was moored
sufficiently with two Cables and anchors in the place where the sayd anchor
buoye floated, which place he sayeth was and is a convenient place for shipps
to ride, in, and that he hath often seene shipps which have bene of as great or
greater a burthen then the said shipp the Expedition and which have bene as deepe
rode at anchor in the same place in in safetye in deepely laden, And
he alsoe sayeth that the anchor which to which the sayd buoye was fastened
did belonge to a shipp which laye then on shoare at Shadwell, wherof as
he hath heard by divers one Beckes was master, and one who (as he himselfe acknowledged)
was the sayd Becks Boatswayne, at the same tyme when this deponent was indeavoring
to take up or pull up the said buoye as aforesaid, did likewise take hould
of the sayd buoye, but could not pull it out of the anchor water, and
and laye right under the sayd buoy
did confesse that the anchor to which that buoy was fastened ⁁ did belonge
unto the sayd Becks shipp, and of this deponents sighte and knowledge he
sayeth the b Cable to which that buoy was fastened belonged was did
reach or to and came from the sayd shipp which laye on shoare at Shadwell
as aforesayd, and was fastened abord that shipp, and Et aliter nescit deponere
savinge he sayeth that for they reasons before menconed, and for that the
there was noe other anchor could be found or discerned to lye in or neere the place where the
sayd shipp the said Expedition was bilged and suncke as aforesaid
but only the anchor belonginge unto the said Becks shipp
he verilye beleiveth that the said shipp was bilged uppon the said
Becks anchor, and savinge he sayeth that at the tyme when this deponent came
abord the sayd shipp the Expedition after she was bilged, there were
abord her as he guesseth eighteene or twentye men, who were all
dilligently at worke, and who behaved themselves like honest men and did use
their best indeavors for the preservation of the said shipp and her ladinge
and that not one of them (for oughte this deponent could perceive) was
distemped with drincke /
Idem sup interrogate./

Ad primum respondet negative pro parte sua./

Ad secundum nescit respondere for that he came ast abord the said shipp the Expedicon
before she was bidged ⁁ and when she sinckinge

Ad tertium nescit respondere./

Ad quartum refert se ad praedeposita Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quintum nescit respondere./

Ad sextum nescit respondere aliter quam prius./

Ad septimum nescit respondere./

Ad octavum nescit respondere aliter qua prius./

William Gyles
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5o Junij 1635

Thomas Shinne of Colchester in the County of Essex Miller aged about
thirty yeares sworne before the worshipfull William Sames Doctor of Lawes
Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of the highe Courte

That
of the Admirallty beinge examined saieth and deposeth as followeth
hee this deponent by beinge imployed by master Richard Swifte master Ashe and
merchants and adventurers in a certaine shippe called the Hopewell lately cast away uppon a sand called the
divers others merchants of London, was by them sent downe to Harwch with a
Commission of Inquiry and restitution beareinge date the fifte day of May
last
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5o Junij 1635

Thomas Shinn of Colchester in the County of Essex miller aged
aboute 30ty yeares sworne before the worshipfull Willmj Sames Surrog Doctor
of Lawes Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of the highe
Courte of the Admiralty being examined saieth and deposeth as followeth videlicet
That uppon or aboute the 22th day of May last past hee this deponent
beinge imployed by master Richard Swifte and divers others of London merchants
and adventurers in a certaine shippe called the Hopewell late cast away
uppon the sands called the East barrowes neere Colchester in
the County of Essex, did by vertue of a Comission of Inquiry and
restitucon grannted out of the highe Courte of the Admirallty under the greate seale thereof beareinge
date the 5th of Mary last pa aforesaid and togeather with a letter of
assistance from the Lords Comissioners for the Admiralty under divers of
theire hands dated the nyneth of the said moneth of May goe to the one
master Walter Stanly then and nowe Mayor of Harwich and shewed
him the said Mayor his Comission and letter of assistance aforesaid
whoe after the perusall thereof delivered them backe againe to him this
deponent, And then hee this deponent required the assistance ayd
and assistance of the said Stanly the Moyer in the execucon of
the foresaid Comission, whoe comannded one George ffoster the
Connstable to goe alonge with this deponent to search and inquire for
cast away the said shippe
the foresaid goodes, whoe thereuppon went alonge with this deponent
to twoe or three houses in Harwich and a comeinge to the house of one
John Withers of Harwich seaman hee this deponent and the said
Connstable founde out certaine of the said goods menconed in a schedule
annexed to the foresaid Comon cast away in the foresaid shippe the
Hopewell belonginge to the said merchants Swifte and Company and by
vertue of the foresaid Comission required the said goods of the said Withers but
the said Withers refused to deliver the same and would not deliver them
to him this deponent, And then this deponent requireinge the assistance of
the said ffoster the Connstable then present, the said Connstable
refused to assiste him this deponent without a warrant from the Mayor, and then this
deponent and the said Connstable went both to the said Mayor and
desired his warrant for the said Withers or drie but the said Mayor
refused to give the Connstable any warrant nor any direccons what hee
should doe, and sayd that hee would neither meddle nor make with the
busines and that if hee the said the Connstable would doe any thinge in it hee
mighte, but at his owne perrill, And thereuppon the Connstable
beinge a very poore man told this deponent hee dirst not doe any
thinge more without the said Mayors warrant or direccon, and further
this deponent saieth that hee haveinge founde out some more of the
foresaid goodes in the house of one John ffarlye of Harwch seaman
hee this deponent demannded the said goodes of the said ffarlyes wife
(the said ffarly beinge not at home) but shee the said fforlyes wife refused to
deliver the same, but went alonge with this examinate deponente to the foresaid
Mayor and acquainted him with the premisses and then this deponent
againe in the presence of the said Mayor demannded the said goodes againe
of the said ffarlyes wife and desired the assistance of the said Mayor but
the said Mayor refused to assist him as aforesaid, sayeing if shee will
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deliver shee may if shee if not shee may keepe them for that hee
would not meddle nor make therewth moreover hee this deponent saieth
that hee beinge informed that the said Moyor, had some of the said goodes
in his owne house, desired acquainted the said Mayor therewth and desired
to search his house to see whether it were soe or noe, which the said Moyer
refused to doe but told this deponent that if when hee had nothinge ells to
doe then hee should search his the said Mayors house And this hee saieth
is true by vertue of his oath./

'T' [MARKE, CENTRE]
----
8o Junij 1635

Clarke contra Becke./

6s/

det master Clarke/

Willmus Wood parochia sancti Olavi in Southwarke lighterman
aetatis 31 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Thomam Clarke partem
producen per 3 annos et amplius aut circiter bene novit et partem
contra quam productis per articulum et amplius ex visa tantum novit et
dicit./

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos article libelli in hac parte dat et oblat dicit
et deponit That shortly after Christmas past uppon a Munday aboute
noone (the tyme more certaynlye he remembreth not) this deponent
wet with a lighter abord the articulate shipp the Expedition of Ipswich
whereof Thomas Clarke as master) to helpe deliver the sayd shipps ladinge
of wynes, and at that tyme the said shipp was fast moored with 2 Cables and anchors in the river of
Thames about the middle of the Channell right over against the George
in Shadwell, and that the said ship is of the burthen of two hundred
tonnes or therabouts and he hath seene shipps of a greater burthen
and which drewe more water then the sayd shipp the Expedition then rode, as namely the shipp
where the sayd shipp the Expedition then rode in safetye as namely the shipp
the Pearle of London (wherof Luke Whetstone was master) beinge of the
burthen of three hundred tonnes or therabouts with parte of her ladinge of sugers and
other goods abord her, and the shipp the Planter of London beinge
of the burthen of two hundred and fiftye tonnes or therabouts laden with suger synamon and that
he this deponent was abord the sad shipp the Expedition from Munday
noone untill Munday night, and the next morninge from about six
or seaven of the clocke untill about three of the clocke in the
afternoone, and in all that tyme the said shipp was never grounded for
ought this depy could pceive. neither did her company in all tha tyme
pumpe a stroke, and therfore he beleiveth that the said shipp was then
thighte and staunch, alsoe this deponent was on borde the said shipp about sixe of the clocke of the
wednesday morninge before she was sunck, and stayd abord her and
in his lighter by the said shipps side by the space of two houres or
therabouts before she was suncke, and she then likewise continued fast
moored, in or about the middle of the Channell aforesaid, but about eight
of the clocke of that wednesday the said shipp strooke and was suncke the
water came into her as high as her upper decke within a quarter of an
houre after she strooke, and presentlye after the sayd shipp was suncke his
prcontest William Giles rowed rounde aboute the said shipp and but (as he sayd
could not see any a buoy appeare above water neere unto the said shipp but and after she
was weighed agayne, at the first still of lowe water there appeared
a buoy abov a little above water, and then the sayd Giles rowed unto the
buoy and in this deponents sight indeavored to pull it into his boate but
the rope by which it was fatened was soe short that he could not pull
into it all out of the water, and the said buoy seemed to be made of the small ende of
a shipps mast, and that after the sayd shipp was suncke, and before she was
weighed, the company of the sayd articulate shipp the Anne and Elizabeth (wherof
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William Becke was master) under run their Cable fastened abord
the sayd shipp the Ann and Elizabeth, and therby founde that one
end of their cable laye in the reached into the midle of the Channell
and was fastened to the an anchor belonginge unto the sayd Becks shipp
which anchor laye under the sayd shipp the Expedition where she then
laye suncke, and after the sayd shipp was weighed agayne, the sayd
Becks company in this deponents sight weighed their anchor from the
same place where the said shipp lay suncke, and it caryed it abord
the sayd Becks ship, and the stocke of which anchor was broken off
and the shanke of the said anchor neere unto the nutts where the stocke should
be. was bowed, and for the reasons aforesaid he verily beleiveth that
the sayd shipp the Expedition was bilged and suncke uppon that
anchor, Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that his this deponents master,
Thomas Stephens had and was to have of the said Clarke for the use of three lighters
which helped to weigh the sayd shipp, eighte pounds sterling, and savinge
he sayeth that there were abord the said shipp on the Munday aforesaid
when this deponent came first abord her, twentye men or upwards
and on the wednesday morning before she was suncke and at the tyme
of her sinckeinge she had abord her three or fower and twenty men or
therabouts of her company and other hired men which were all sober (for
oughte this deponent could perceive) and were all at worke in deliveringe
of wynes, and after the said shipp was bilged and suncke did their
best indeavors to preserve the wynes abord her, and both before
and after the sinckeinge therof did deliver many of the wynes out
of her
next after the sinckeinge of the said shipp her company and
other hired men (wherof this deponent was one) wrought all nighte longe
in preservinge and deliveringe of the wynes aforesaid and savinge he sayeth
that the said Becks shipp lay on shoare at a Carpenters key in Shadwell to
be graved of this Idem sup interrogate deponents sighte two or three dayes
befor the said Carks shippe and up and 2 or three dayes after she was suncke

Ad primum respondet that he was one of the company of the said shipp
the Expedition and that he shall neither loose nor gayne any thinge
wheither the said Clarke doe prevayle or be overthrowen in this
suite./

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9o Junij 1635./

Pro navicula the)
William./

1s

det

David Addamson dwellinge in King street in Westminster merchant aged
about 48 yeares sworne before the worshipfull William Sames doctor of
lawes Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte
Judge of his Majestyes high Court of the Admiraltye , sayeth and
deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet

That in the moneth of November
last past this deponent and his contest William Lermouth and others were
hired and imployed by Sir William Belfore knighte Lieutennant
of his Majestyes Tower of London, to goe to Dunkirke to fetch
over from thence a herringe Busse, since called the William of London
which was lately boughte there for his use by Munger Scott
and accordinglye this deponent with the sayd Lermouth and others went
over to Dunkirke and there stayd till the sayd Busse was riggd
and made fitt to goe to sea by the space of five weeks or therabouts
and afterwards brought her over from thence into the river of
Thames where she nowe remayneth, and sayeth that the sayd Busse
is about fiftye eighte foot longe in the rule from stemme to sterne
and about nyne or ten foote deepe in houlde, and doth nowe properlye
and solelye belonge to the foresayd Sir William Belfore, and that she is nowe
fitted at the charhe of the sayd Sir William Belfore to goe to sea to fish for herrings, and that one Thomas
Groate is to go master of her and one James Ennis is to goe merchant
of her in the sayd voyage. The premisses he knoweth to be true for
that he hath bene imployed by the sayd Sir William Belfore,
to buy and did buye part of the provision of the sayd
Busse for the sayd voyage And this he affirmeth uppon his oath
to be true/

David Adamsone [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
doc die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

William Lermouth of Saint Andrewes in Scotland mariner aged about
36 yeares worne and examined as aforesayd sayeth and deposeth
uppon his oath as followeth videlicet

THat in or about the moneth of
October last past this deponent and his precontest David Addamson
and dives others were hired and sent over to Dunkirke by Sir
William Belfore knighte Lieutennant of his Majestyes tower of
London to fetch a heringe Busse which was then latelye bought
there by one Munger Scott for the use and imployment of the
sayd Sir William Belfore, and that about a week before
Christmas last past the sayd Busse was by the Scott and this
deponent and others brought from Dunkirke into the river of Thames
where she hath remayned ever since, and that since her arrivall
into the Thames this deponent measured her and found her
to be about fiftye eighte foote longe accordinge to the English
rule from stemme to sterne, and (to his nowe best remembrance) she
is about fifteene foote broade, and that the sayd Busse is nowe fitted
to goe to sea on a fishinge voyage for herrings, under the commannd
of Thomas Groate who is to goe master of her, and James Ennys who
is to goe merchant of her, and doth properlye belonge to the sayd
Sir William Belfore knight and the sayd James Ennys both subiects of his Majestye of England in halfes
and is sett forth by them, The premisses he knoweth to be true for
that he is to goe forth boatswayne of her in her next intended
fishinge voyage And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true./

William Loemoth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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11o Junij 1635

Totton contra Sherington)

Georgius Willan parochia Sancti Edidij Cripplegate London mercator
aetatis 20 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus./

13o Junij 1635

Harbert et Gough contra Southwood/

1s

det master [?Wirson]

Tristramns Mogridge de Kilsentenan in Comitatu Clare
in regno Hibernia mercator aetatis 26 annorum aut circiter
testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus/

[ADD DATA]

Ad tertium articulum dicit et deponit That betweene the second and the 14th days
of the moneth of May 1630 aforesayd there was foule weather
severall dayes and by reason therof some of the sayd
dayes the water was soe rough that noe boate could rowe abord her
without great damage to the sayd goods, soe that she could not take in all her ladinge untill
sayd fourteenth day, and a day or two after she had all her ladinge and was discharged
by this deponent from further stayeinge in the sayd river of Limbrick the sayd Correll rge master of the sayd shipp tooke in his provision of bread
without which (as the sayd Correll affirmed) she could not goe to sea, Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad quartum affirmat That before the sayd shipp came into the river of
Limbricke as aforesayd she lay (of this deponents sighte) on shoare in the harbor of
(Dungarvan
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Dungarvan in Ireland, as a wracke, and had not any sayles tackle and furniture
abord her but a fewe small ropes that were serviceable, but most of them were at pawne, and
she had noe victualls abord her, soe that the sayd shipp could not
possiblye have proceeded to sea on the voyage in question unlesse
this deponent or some other had furnished the sayd Correll the master of her with monyes to
buy provisions and other necessaryes for her, and to redeeme those things which
were at pawne as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quintum affirmat That in about the moneth of ffebruarye 1629 this
deponent came from Ireland to the the Port of London in company with William Worlidge
then late master of the articulate shipp the Pilgrym, and about two
monethes after he soe came to London he returned from London
to Ireland in company of the foresaid John Corell, who was
then appoynted by the articulate Thomas Gough one of them then
reputed owners or imployers of the said shipp the Pilgrym to goe master of the
said shipp (as the sayd Gough then tould this deponent) and that before
the sayd Correll went over for Ireland to goe master of the sayd
shipp the sayd Gough gave order to this deponent and did desire him
to furnish the sayd Correll with such monyes and provision as he
should want for the furnishinge of the said shipp and to make her fitt
for the performance of her then intended voyage from Ireland for
London and promised to allowe the same agayne uppon accompte
of fraighte for the said voyage or to that effecte. Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad sextum affirmat That he this uppon the order aforesaid of the sayd Thomas
Gough, and alsoe by the order and direction of the sayd John Southwood
who gave this deponent order to before his returne into Ireland
with the sayd Correll the tyme aforesaid, to furnish the said Correll
with such moneys and other necessaryes as he should want for makinge
of the said shipp fitt to goe to sea and to buy victualls, did
deliver unto the said Correll and otherwise disburse for the said
shipps use in all the somme of one hundred thirtye five pounds
thirteene shillings, the perticulers wherof are as followeth videlicet.
Imprimis payd and delivered to the sayd John Correll at severall
tymes to buy provisions and other necessaryes for the said shipps use
for which the said Correll gave him a receipte under his hand which is nowe or in
latelye was remayninge in the Custodye of the said John Southwood
appeareth the somme of one hundred and eleaven pounds thirteene
shillings six pence. Item for three barrells of Bristoll beere
sent abord the said shipp after she was cleered two fourty eight
shillings Item payd to one John ffoster for a sacke which was sent abord
the shipp with bread and not returned on shoare agayne three shillings
Item for two emptye hogsheads six shillings Item paid to Bastian
Bayes the Pilott of the said shipp in part of his wages three pounds Item
spent and disbursed by this deponent for horse hire in travellinge from twice
from Limbricke to Dungarvan beinge about fourtye eighte myles, and in
twice from Limbricke to youghall beinge thirtye six shillings
miles, and in travellinge to other places to provide necessaryes for the said
shipp, and to assiste the said Correll to gett such things as he
wanted for the said shipps use the somme of five pounds foure shillings
Item payd to procure money and for sendinge messengers from
Limbricke to Mallo and other places and for the use therof foure pounds
Item this deponent craveth allowance for his paynes and provision about the said shipps
affayres foure pounds, Item delivered to the sayd John Correll to buy
for the said shipps use for which he had noe receite thirtye shillings Item for
one barrell of butter contayninge thirtye twoe
gallons

Trutra Mogridge [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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16o Junij 1635

Quereka Stephani Phelp et al)
pro nave the John de Preston et)
bonis in eadem propa Newton in)
oris marfittimis Northumbria
percltat)

ffs E: Brotpha. bill

James Phelp Secretary to the right honorable
the Earle of Starlinge his Majesties Secretary
for Scotland sworne before master doctor Wood
Surrogate he sayeth and deposeth uppon his
oath,

That the letter now shewed unto him at
the tyme of this his examinacon and the noate
thereinclosed, this examinate received about two
moneths since from James Phelps a
gentleman liveinge at Edenborowe, by which hee
is induced verily to beleeve that the goodes therein
mennconed at the tyme of the castinge away of the
shippe the John of Preston also in the said
letter specified, did belonge to Stephen Phelp,
John Scott, John Mackmillen, Jane Williamson
widdow, William Alexander, Patricke Baxter,
James ffalconner, James Riddell and John Smaill
of Edenburrowe, and one [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Thompson a silkman
of Leeth in Scotland, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true:/

James Philp [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
gallons or therabouts which was to be delivered to the sayd John
Southwood, but (as the said Correll acknowledged was
ever delivered but was spent abord the sayd shipp the
somme of two pounds thirtene shillings six pence; Item paid
by this deponent to James Sheers of Youghall, for dyett of some
of the company of the sayd shipp the Pilgrym fifteene shillings. Et
aliter nescit deponere./

Ad sepium nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that since the arrivall of
the sayd shipp to this port of London from the voyage in
question this deponent shewed unto the sayd John Correll two receipts
in the sayd master Southwoods booke of accomptes, the one for
twentye pounds and the other for fifteene pounds two shillings
six pence for the fraighte of the sayd shipp the Pilgrym in
the voyage in question and the sayd Correll did acknowledge that
he had received the sayd summes from the sayd Southwood and that
the sayd receipts were subscribed with his owne hand writinge./

Ad ultimum dict predeposita per eum esse vera./

Idem sup Interrogatoria./

pauper:/

Ad primum respondet That he is the naturall brother
of John Southwood one of the producents and the sayd Southwood marryed
the sister of Walter Bateman the other of the
producents, and that he was factor for them the voyage in question
but hath had noe busines to doe for them or either of them by way of factoridge for these
twelve monethes last past, and that he [?XXXX] the sayd Southwood as he is his brother
but in this cause he favoreth the partyes indifferently, and desireth
that every one may have his righte, and that he cometh to testifye
in this cause at the request of his sayd brother, and the rather because
he may have his owne accompts and disbursements for the voyage in
question allowed and cleered, betwene him this respondente and the sayd
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Southwood and Bateman which are not yet determined and agreed uppon betweene them

Ad secundum refert se ad predepoita per eu Et al nescit respondere./

Ad tertium respondet That for part of the monyes payd and disbursed by this
respondent as before he hath deposed, he had receipte unDer the hande of
the foresayd John Corell the master, but for the rest of the sayd
disbursements he had noe receipte, Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quartum respondet That he is noe partye in this suite, neither had he any share
or adventure in the goods brought home in the said shipp the voyage in
question, and that it wilbe noe dammage unto him in case the said Harbert
doe prevayle in this cause./

Tristra Mogridge [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
18o Junij 1635

1s

P.s.

Giles Wiggoner of Wivenhoe in the County of
Essex Marriner aged 45 yeares or thereabouts sworne
before the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knight Judge
of his Majesties highe Court of the Admiralty sayeth and
deposeth uppon his oath

That aboute Christmas laste
was twelve moneths this examinate did lett a storehouse
in his yard at Wivenhoe aforesaid to master Pully
to lay in certeine red wood which was brought from
a shippe that was lately before caste away neere
Little Holland in Essex, and in that storehouse
by the order of the said master Pully and other Comissioners
ymployed aboute that busines a greate quantity
of that wood was sequestred, and since soulde by
the Comissioners and delivered to the buyers thereof
and in the one end of that storehouse the same tyme
there lay divers sheaves of broome, under which
after the rest of the said wood was delivered to the buyers
and a great parte of the broome was spente, this examinate
founde eighteene or nyneteene peeces of the said
wood which weighed fowere hundred
weight or thereabouts, which hee conceiveth was hidd under
the said broome by some of the labourers that were
ymployed by the said Comissioners to take in yt into the
said wood into the said storehouse or to deliver the same
out to the buyers, and haveinge founde those eighteene
or nyneteene peeces of the said wood, this examinate in
June laste at Colchester when master Pully
there paid the monies for salvage of the goodes saved
out of the said shippe, did acquainte the said master
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had found a parcell of the said wood under some
broome in his storehouse as aforesaid, and thereuppon the
said master Pully willed him to keepe yt untill hee had
further order from him, since which tyme there hath
bin noe Courte kepte for the Town in those
parts, And hee sayeth That in this examinates absence
being then at sea on Saterday laste (as hee hath
bin informed by his wief and servants ) one Jonas
Legg of Colchester came to ths examinats house at
wivenhoe, and threatened to breake open the doore
of the roome where the said wood lay, and to arreste
this examinats wief yf shee would not deliver the
said wood to him, and by those threats gott the
said wood into his possession and carried yt
away from this examinats house and on Monday last
carried yt to Colchester, and detaineth the same,
And this hee affirmeth uppon
his oath to be true;/

Giles wigner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
18o Junij 1635/

Clarke contra
Delabarr/

1s

det Delabarr/

Johannes Garfield parochia omnium Sanctorum Barkinge London
Cooper aetatis 45 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus iuratus et examinatus / dicit quod
Johem Delabarr partem producen per 20 annos et amplius aut
circiter bene novit sed Willmu Becke partem
contra qua productis non novit et dicit./

Ad primum schedulum et reliquos articulos libelli in hac causa datus et
oblat dicit et deponit That in or about the moneth of ffebruary
last past (the tyme more certaynely he remembreth not) this
deponent was imployed by his contest Richard Rymell wynecooper
to take up one hundred and twentye tonne of Canarye wynes landed
at Custome house key which as he
hath heard were broughte to the port of London in a shipp
called the Expedition whereof one Clarke was master for the accompte of the articulate John Delabarr all which 120 tonnes of wynes
this deponent tasted at severall tymes as they were landed at the sayd
keye and sayeth that fourtye six pipes of the sayd wynes were
allmost full of water and did taste all of
water, and were not worth above foure pounds per pipe one with another in this deponents iudgment (who hath
used the trade of a wyne cooper for these thirtye yeares last past
and hath usually within that tyme taken up wynes for merchants and by that meanes hath
good iudgement in wynes and knoweth the Condicon and vallue of them)
and that nynetye six pipes more of the same wynes did
tast very much of water, and were much dampnifyed therby and were not worth to be sould in this deponents
iudgement above eighte pounds per pipe one with another,
but the other hundred pipes of the sayd 120 tonnes of wynes
were well conditioned and had taken very little dammage by reason that
the bunge holdes of them were well stopt, but syaeth that the sayd
hundred pipes of wynes last menconed although they were well condiconed
and very little dampnifyed, yet they were soe dispariged by
reasson that they came in the same shipp with the dampnifyed wynes before
menconed, that the sale of them was therby much hindred and preiudiced, whereas
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he sayeth the sayd 120 tonnes of wynes if they had bene all wel condiconed
and had bnot bene dampnifyed with water as aforeesayd wwould have yeilded
and mighte have bene sould for sixteene pounds per pipe one with another at
the least, the premisses he knoweth to be true for that Canaryes at the tyme
aforesayd which were wll conditioned were commonlye sould for sixteene, and sixteene
pounds ten shillings and seaventeene pounds per pipe. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Idem sup interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet negative pro parte sua./

Ad 2um respondet That he was never abord the foresayd shipp the Expedition Et
ideo nescit respondere./

Ad 3. 5. 5. 6. 7. et octavum nescit respondere/

Ad nonum nescit respondere./

John Garfeild [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
18o Junij 1635.

2s

det Delabarr./

Jeremias Warner parochia omnium Sanctorum Barkinge London Cooper
aetatis 55 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Johem Delabarr partem
productem per 4 mens et amplius aut circiter ex visu etiam
novit/

Ad primum secondum et reliquos articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus, dict et deponit
That in the month of ffebruary last past this deponent beinge
a wyne Cooper, was imployed by master Gilman, master Robert
Swinnerton, and one master Clement of London merchants who (as he hath heard) did assure the
articulate master John Delabarrs wynes in question, to see what
quantitye of wynes were broughte to the porte of London in the articulate
shipp the Expedition (wherof one Clarke was master) for the accompte of the sayd Delabarr and to
see the same taken up and to observe and note the Condicon of them, and
he alsoe sayeth that cominge abord the sayd shipp he found her lyeinge
on ground in the river of Thames righte against Shadwell Docke, and that
every tyde the water came in over her ladinge of wynes, then
remayninge abord her, at which tyme there was only eleaven or twelve
pipes of wynes or therabouts delivered out of her into a lighter which then lay by her
side, two or three pipes wherof belonged to the sayd master DElabarr
and that there were landed out of the sayd shipp under
the marks and for the accompte of the sayd master DElabarr in pipes
hogsheads and halfe hogsheads to the quantitye of two hundred and fourtye
pipes, and he this deponent tasted of every peece of the sayd wynes
two or three tymes
after they were landed at the
Customehouse key and likewise after they were putt into Sellers
that he might the better iudge of the Condition and vallue of the
sayd wynes, and sayeth that to the quantitye of fourtye six pipes of the sayd wynes
were much mingled and dampnifyed by water and were
worth lesse in vallue by reason of the water which was run into them the
somme of ten pounds sterlinge at the least in every of the sayd pipes one
with another, and to the quantitye of nynetye foure pipes more of the
same 240 pipes of wynes were dampnifyed by reason of water which gott
into them abord the sayd shipp by reason of the sinckinge of them as aforesayd
six pounds per pipe in everye of the sayd nynety foure pipes, and the remaynder
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of the sayd wynes beinge to the quantitye of one hundred pipes
on pipes hogsheads and halfe hogsheads had moste to them
received some water into them wherby they were dampnifyed
the somme of fourtye shillings in every
pipe one with another, reddens raconem scientia sue he sayeth that
the fourtye six pipes of wynes first menconed were not worth
above foure pounds per pipe one with another, and the nynetye
foure pipes before menconed were not worth avoe eighte pounds per pipe one with another, and the other hundred pipes of the
sayd wynes were not worth above foyrteene pounds per pipe one
with another, wheras he sayeth every of the sayd two hundred
and fourtye pipes aforesayd if they had bene well
conditioned and had not bene dampnifyed with water, as before
he hath deposed, would have yeilded and mighte have bene sould for
sixteene pounds per pipe one with another and soe Canarye wynes which were
good well conditioned and sound wynes were sould at that
tyme, The premisses he knoweth to be true for that he hath bene
a wyne cooper for these thirtye yeares last past, and for all or most
of the same tyme hath used to take up, buy and preserve
wynes for merchants and by that meanes is well experienced
in the Condition and vallue of wynes. Et aliter nescit deponere/
savinge he say the this deponent the tyme aforesayd when he was
abord the sayd shipp the Expedition whilest she laye suncke
as aforesayd sawe three pipes under the marke of the sayd
master Delabarr yeinge in the sayd shipp which were out end for
end./

Jeremy Warner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
20o Junij 1635.

Wilson contra Coltman./

2s./

Johannes Lapworth precinctus sancta Katherine prope turrim
London auta aetats 60 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum secundum et reliquous articulos libelli in hac parte datus et
onlat dicit et deponit That in or about the moneth of October last
past the articulate shipp called the Pearle
of London (wherof Luke Whetstone is master) with her
ladinge of sugers and other goods for the accompte of Richard Wilson Richard Middleton Thomas Hutchins and others of London merchants arrived and came to an anchor
in the river of Thames in safetye neere Shadwell, and after her sayd arrivall
all the sayd sugers and other goods were delivered out of the sayd
into lighters free from the tackle of the sayd shipp, drye and
well conditioned The premisses he knoweth to be true for that he
was masters mate of the sayd shipp the Pearle in the voyage
wherin the saydsugers and other goods were laden, and knoweth that the sayd
shipp continued  thighte and staunch all the sayd voyage, and was abord
the sayd shipp when most of the sayd sugers and other goods were delivered
out of her in the river of Thames Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he
sayeth he heard some of the company of the sayd shipp that went
up in one of the lighters wherin part of the sayd sugers
were caryed on shoare, saye that a lighter in
which part of the sayd sugers were caryed on shoare was leakye
and had about a foote and halfe water in it./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum quoad peicula er iurij fit quod petitur, Et respondet That he was
borne at Harbey in the Countye of Warwicje and hath lived for all the
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tyme interrogate within the precincte of Saint Catherine and that he is a mariner
and and liveth uppon his meanes and by goeinge to sea and that he knoweth none of
the parties litigant but Thomas Hutchins whome he hath knowen for these
twentye yeares last past, /

Ad secundum respondet negative./

Ad tertium respondet That he is a subsidye man Et aliter respondet quod credit se non
tener de nire ad respondend huic interrogate./

Ad quartum per respondet negative./

Ad quintum respondet that he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request of
the sayd Thomas Dutchins Et aliter respondet negae

Ad sextum nescit respondere savinge he sayeth that all the sugers and other goods.
broughte home in the said shipp the Pearle in the voyage aforesayd
were delivered out of her in the river of Thames in the moneth of
October last past, /

Ad septium et octavum nescit respondere./

Ad nonum decimum et undecimum nescit respondere

Per me John Lapworth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
20o Junij 1635

Robert Swinnerton of the parish of All Saints Barkinge London merchant
aged about 32 yeares sworne and examined as aforesaid.

To the first Interrogatory he sayeth That he hath latelye received divers
letters from his factor Timothy Hayward English merchant resident
of Bourdeaux in ffrance wherby the sayd Haywards did advise him that he had
caused to be laden at Bayon in ffrance for the accompte of him this
deponent twentye foure tonnes of wynes to be
brought from thence to the port of London but the sayd Hayward
did not by any of his letters advise him this deponent in what shipp he had
caused the sayd wynes to be laden, but referred him to a Charter partye
which should be sent in the shipp with the sayd wynes, and that he hath latelye
seene a Charter partye dated 17o Aprilis 1635 stilo nove sent over land from Bayon in closed in a letter to the interrogate
Martyn Plant or Robert Wheatly of London merchants, wherby it
appeareth that there was a laden abord the shipp called the Corbeau
als the Raven of Kilbeaufe (John Penturier master) for the use and
accompte of the sayd Martyn Planke, Robert Wheatley and of this examinate
seaventy two tonnes of Bayon wynes to be equallye devided in thirds
betweene them videlicet for each of them twentye foure tonnes. And further
he cannott depose. /

To the second he sayeth That he this deponent hath reallye payd and
satisfyed unto the sayd Timothye Hayward for the twentye foure
tonnes of wynes laden abord the sayd shipp for the accompte of him this examinate
videlicet he remitted unto the sayd Harward by a bill of Exchange
about Christmas last past one hundred and thirteene pounds sterlinge and about a moneth since the payd in London
by the order and unto the Assigne of the sayd Hayward in full satisfaction
for of the sayd twentye foure tonnes shipt as aforesaid for the accompte of him
this examinate the somme of nynetye six pounds sterlinge or therabouts which twentye
foure tonnes of wynes were and are this deponents owne proper goods and
noe part of therof belonginge to any subiecte of the Kinge of ffrance
or States of Holland

To the third he sayeth That it appeareth by the Charterpartye before menconed
the Corbeau alis the Raven of Kilbeufe
that the sayd shipp was taken to fraighte at Bayon in ffrance
on the behalfe of this deponent and the foresayd Martyn
Plante and Robert Wheatley to bringe from thence to London
the foresayd seaventye tonnes of wyne videlicet one third part therof
under the first marke in the margent for the use and accompte of the
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sayd Martyn Plant, one other third part therof under the second marke in
the margent for the use and accompte of the sayd Robert Wheatly and the other
third part under the third marke in the margent for the accompt of him this
deponent, And he alsoe sayeth that he this deponent and the sayd Robert Wheatly
are both naturall subiects of his Majestye of England, but the sayd Plant
(as this deponent hath heard him the sayd Plante himselfe saye) was borne at Bridges in
fflannders but this deponent hath knowne him a dweller in London for the
space of these twelve yeares last past or therabouts,

To the fourth he sayeth That he was advised and did understand by severall
letters received by him from his factor the foresayd Timothye Haywood
that there were laden at Bayon for the accompte of him this deponent
twentye foure tonnes of wyne some of which letters he soe received about
a fortnighte before he understood that the sayd shipp the Corbeau alias he
Raven with her ladinge of wynes aforesayd was taken by the Dunkirkers, alsoe
he was advised by the Charter partye sent from Bayon unto the sayd Roberte
Wheatly or Martyn Plant about a fortnighte before he understood of
the takinge of the sayd shipp and goods as aforesayd that there were
laden abord the sayd shipp the sayd seaventye two tonnes of wynes for
the accompts aforesayd, And he alsoe sayeth that about three weekes or a
moneth since this deponent and the sayd Martyn PLant and Robert
Wheatley fearinge that the sayd shipp and goods was taken because she
was not arrived at London accordinge to their expectation wrote a
ioynte letter unto Joos van Londegham a merchant dwellinge in
Dunkirke to inquire if the sayd shipp the Corbeau alias the Raven
with her ladinge of wynes aforesayd were not broughte into Dunkirke
and gave him directions if she were that hen he the sayd Van Londegham should lay
clayme to the sayd seaventye two tonnes of wynes for and in the
name of them the sayd Martin Plant, Robert Wheatly and him this
examinate Roberte Swinnerton, and about a fortnighte since they were
advised by a letter from the sayd Van Londegham that the sayd shipp
and goods was broughte into Dunkirke and that he had made clayme
unto the sayd seaventye two tonnes of wynes in their names accordinge to
their order and directions And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be
true./

Ro: Swinnerton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
22o Junij 1635.

Cranston contra Stephenson/

1s. Cranston

Willimus Coye de Dundee in Regno
Scotia nauta, annos agens 40te aut eo circiter testis er
sicit quoad Johannem Cranston partem producen per
septem annos ultimum et amplius novit et William Stephenson, una
partui [?XXXX] quas producitur per annum ultimum et amplius aut
eo circiter etaiam bovit et Robertum Stephenson
altera earn[?XX] partiu contra quas producitur per septem
annos ultimum et amplius etiam novit ut dicit;/

Ad primum articulum libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit et
deponit, That within the tyme articulate, the articulate William
Stephenson
sailed in the articulate shippe the James of Pettenwenne in
Scotland and was reconed to bee the cheife in that shipe

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shee being sett forth by his ffather, but the said William Stephenson
beeing a young man and not experienced in navigacon the articulate
Robert Stephenson beeing his uncle did the busines of
the master of the said shippe and was called the master of her
by her company, but William Stephenson received the
freighte and paid the wages, And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, who within that tyme served and sailed in the
said shippe as one of her Company, At aliter nescit

Ad secundum affirmat, That within the tyme articulate the articulate Robert
Stephenson hired this examinate to serve in the said shippe
the said voyage as a common sailor, which hee performed outwards
and homewards. At aliter nescit

Ad tertium affirmat. That in the said shippes homewards voyage
at Plymouth in lettinge fall an anchor for the safety of
the said shippe and goods in stresse of weather and to keepe
her cleere from othr shippes that were driveinge
uppon her, this examinats legg was broken by the said
anchor lett fall in haste and for wante of a
Chirurgeon in the said shippe, this examinats legg soe
broken festered soe that hee beleebeth that yf after the said
shipps arrivall at London hee had bin in danger
to have loste his legg, yf not his lief being very sicke and xxxxx when xxxxxxxx And this
hee affirmeth to bee true, At aliter nescit

Ad quartum affirmat That hee hath knowen the articulate John
Cranston for thse seaven or eighte yeares laste paste
and for all that tyme hee hath bin and still is reputed
to bee a sufficient Chirurgeon, and about eighte
yeares since this examinate sailed in a shipp with him to
Ginney, of which shippe the said Cranston was then
master Chirurgeon, And this hee affirmeth to bee
true;/

Ad quintum affirmat That aboute eighte dayes after the said
shippes arrivall from the voyage articulate the articulate John
Cranston (being not spoken to by this examinate or any
other by his direction, and therefore unexpected by this
examinate) came to this examinats lodgeings in Ratcliffe
and tolde him that the said Robert Stephenson had
sente him to looke uppon this examinats legg and to care
yt, and said that the said Robert Stephenson had
promised to pay him for the care thereof, and
the said Cranston then looked uppon this examinats said
legg broken as aforesaid, and hath since cured the same
soe that yt is now well and whole and hee sayeth that
hee this examinate was in care of his legg under the sayd Cranston there hath since heard the said Cranston
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came to him this examinate lyeinge in his bedd and told him that
Stephenson that hee sent the said
Cranston to this examinate to cure his leff, and that hee
the said Robert Stephenson had promised to pay
the said Cranston for the cure thereof, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true, Ac aliter
nescit./

Ad sextum affirmat, That such was the anguishe of this
examinates said legg that dureinge the tyme that the sayd
Cranston had him in cure, yt [?rast] him into a
bruneinge fever, and the said Cranston was avove
nyne weekes in cureinge and healeing yt, and
aboute five weekes of that tyme, the feaver by
meanes of the anguishe of his legg [?continued]
uppon him, and to take away the same (beeing sometymes very stronge) the sayd
Cranston gave him almost every day Physicke for three weekes togeather and
bestowed muh paines and many salves about
his legg beeing broken in peeces, but what the
same was worth hee cannott estimate, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true, Ac aliter nescit;

Super reliquis articulos non examinatur./

Ad Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet negative./

Ad secundum nescit respondere aliter qua prius/

Ad tertium respondit That hee did never heare the saud
William or Robert Stephenson speake to the said
Cranston about the said Cure, Ac aliter qua
prius nescit, Saving that when the saud
Robert Stephenson told this examinate as aforesaud
that hee sent the said Cranston to him and
had promised to pay him for his cure, there
were then present onely the said Robert Stephenson
and this examinate

William [?Colloyne] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
23o Junij 1635.

Clarke contra Delabarr./

3s 

det Delabarr./

Richardus Rymell parochia omnium Sanctorum Staynings London Civis et
Vietor London aetatis 42 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus, dicit quod Johem delabarr
partem producen per 20 annos et amplius et ultra et Thomam Clarke
partem contra quam producit a mens ffebrij ultimum et amplius bene
respective novit./

At primum articulum alluis ex parte dicti Johuis Delabarr in hac parte datus et
oblat, dicit quod necit deponere

Ad secundum et tertium articulos dicit et deponit That in the moneth of ffebruary last past
this deponent (beinge wyne Cooper unto the articulate master John Delabarr) went abord
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the articulate shipp the Expedition (wherof Thomas Clarke was master) that
beinge as anchor in the River of Thames neere the ballast wharfe in Shadwell to take up two
hundred fourtye three pipes of wyne broughte to the port of London in
the same shipp for the accompte of the sayd Delabarr, and at his cominge
abord her hee found her then newlye suncke, and all the wynes then
remayninge abord her were over flowed with water, at which tyme there were
only twelve or fourteene pipes delivered out of her, and all the amongst
which were out two or three pipes of the sayd master Delabarrs wynes and all
the rest of the said Delabarrs wynes were then remayninge abord
the said shipp, and some of them before they could be gott out of the sayd
shipp laye five or six tydes over in the sayd shipp over flowed with
water, by meanes wherof the whole quantitye of wynes broughte
home in the sayd shipp for the accompte of the sayd master Delabarr did
sayd made losse worth in vallue by reason of the water which came
were dampnifyed in all to the somme of one thousand two hundred twentye
the foure pounds sterlinge at the least, reddens racoem scientiae sue he
sayeth that fourtye six pipes of the sayd wynes were become almost all
water and were therby dampnifyed the somme of ten pounds per pipe one
with another amountinge in all to the some of foure hundred and sixtye
pounds, and nynety foure more pipes of the said wynes had taken
in much water and were therby dampnifyed at the least six pounds in
every pipe, and were not worth above eighte pounds per pipe, wheres
if they had bene well condiconed would have yeilded at that tyme
fourteene or fifteene pounds per pipe one with another, soe that there was
losse and damage in those nynetye foure pipes in all to the
somme of five hundred sixtye fower pounds sterlinge, and the remaynder
of the sayd master Delabarrs wynes beinge one hundred pipes had most of them likewise
taken in some water and were therby dampnifyed and lesse worth to bee sould at the least fourtye
shillings in every pipe amountinge in all to two hundred pounds sterlinge,
The premisses he knoweth to bee true for that he hath bene a
a wyne Cooper and used that trade as an apprentice and for himselfe
above these thirtye yeares last past, and and for there sixteene yeares
last past and upwards hath a taken up and boughte and sould a great quantitye of wynes, and
boughte and sould for merchants yearlye and by that meanes is well
acquainted with the bandell and Cable of wines and Et aliter nescit deponere
saving he sayeth that three pipe of the said were under the marke of the said
said deliver were out abord the sayd one Richard Bellion shipp and for
end with three pipes if they bene delivered in safelye full and well
condiconed mighte have as much bene worth fourteene pounds pipe
into them

Richard Tymell
----
23o Junij 1635

Molverstone et Ball
Middleton
is
3

Brianus Harrison parochia Sancta Maria Matsellon als Whitchappell London
nauta annos agens 44 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus dicit et deponit provt sequitur./

Ad primum articulum five prem alluis ex parte dicti Wolverston et Balli i
parte datus nescit deponere
saveinge hee saieth that after the beginning of his suite the articulate Peter Middleton did tell him this examinate that hee
was owner of three five eighte parts of the articulate shippe
the Unicorne and her tackle and furniture and that hee should have had another
eighte parte of her but that that eighte parte was recovered from him and
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26o Junij 1635:

Cranston contra Stephenson)

2s Cranston;)

det master ffish./

Maria uxor Allain Davison de Wappinge
wall nauta annos agens 34 aut eo circiter testis in
hac parte producta iurata et examinata, dicit
quod Johannem Cranston partem productem per
decem annos ultimum et amplius novit et
quendem [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Stephenson per annum vel
et amplius aut eo circiter novit et Robertum Stephenson ultimum
altera partia contra quas productitur per septum vel
octo annos ultimum et amplius etia novit;/

Ad primum articulum libelli in hac parta datus et oblatus
deponere, Saveinge that shee hath heard that
the articulate Robert Stephenson was master of a
Scotte shippe;/

Ad secundum et tertium nescit deponere salvis salsequeu;/

Ad quintum (sic) affirmat That to her knowledge the articulate
Cranston for these seaven yeares Laste past hath
bin a Chirurgeon, and for all that tyme hath and
still doth practise and professe that art, and
for such a one is commonly taken and reputed, And
this shee affirmeth to bee true who hath knowen
the said Cranston cure divers persons as
Chirurgeon within that tyme;/

Ad quintum affirmat, That since Christmas laste
videlicet aboute fower or five monethes since (as shee
remembreh,) tempus aliter non recolit, the said
Robert Stephenson came to this examinates husbandes
house at wappinge wall and inquired for the said
Cranston, hee usieing then to come to a mann that then
lay sicke in that house, and desired this examinate when
shee sawe him the said Cranston to speake to him
from him the said Robert Stephenson and to desire him
to goe to William Cowry to his lodgeinge at the
signe of the Cocke in Ratcleffe and to bee
carefull of him and hee the said Robert Stephenson
would see him honestly contented, sayeinge that
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in the shippe and was very till, and hee wished
this examinate that yf the said Cranston did
not come to her house to send her mayde to him
to desire him to goe to the said [?CXXX] to looke to him
as aforesaid, and within a day, or two after the said
Cranston comeinge to her husbands house aforesaid
then tolde him that the said master Stephenson had
bin there to seeke for him and did intreate him
one to William Cowry and bee carefull of him, and
for the said Steevenson would give him honest
content and the said Cowry hath since bin at her
house, and tolde her that hee the said Cranston did
cure his legg and that his legg was as were as ever
yt was And this shee affirmeth uppon her oath
to bee true, At aliter nescit/

Ad sextum nescit deponere./

Super reliquis articulos non examinatur
interrogate./

Ad primum respondet negative

Ad secundum nescit respondere aliter qua prius./

Ad tertium respondet That hee never heard the interrogate William
and Robert Stephenson speake to the said Cranston about
the said cure, but shee sayeth that about a weeke after
the said Robert Stephenson had willed her to speake to
the said Cranstonthat the same as aforesaid the said
Robert Stephenson come to her husbands house and
the said Cranston being then there, hee the said
Robert Stephenson spake to the said Cranston to
to get him to see the said Cowry telling him that
hee would give him halfe a dozen of [?Ale] at
Cowyes lodgeing, and sie they went togeather and this
respondent went with them to his the said Cowryes
lodgeinge to see him, but hee was gonn abroade, At
aliter qua prius nescit, Saveing that when the saud
Roberte Stephenson spake to this examinate to spake to
the said Cranston to goe to loolke to the said Cowy and to
bee carefull of him and said that hee woulde give
him content as aforesaid, there was present and heard
the same one James Dollin a master of a Scottish shippe
setting in her house beeing then sicke, but the said
Stephenson did not name any some that hee woulde
give the said Cranston for the same

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doc die;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

3s. Cranston:/

det master ffish

Alicia uxor Johannis Lowe Precinctus Turris London
Mercatoris, annos 30ta aut eo circiter testis se diri 
quod Johannem Cranston partem producen per annum
yult ataps novit;/

Ad primuym secundum et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
cicit et deponit That aboute a quarter of a yeare since
(as shee remembreth, tempus aliter non recolit) the articulate
John Cranston and this examinate
and a skipper whose name shee now remembreth not
and two other menn and her precontest Mary Davies
dyned togeather at the said Mry Davis her house,
at wapping wall and whilst they were there at dinner, a mann whose
name shee knoweth not, but thinketh his name
was Tinson who said himself that hee was master
of a shippe came into the same house to them
and said that hee had a mann hurte which lay at
the signe of the Cocke, and desired him the said
Cranston to make hast and goe alonge
with him to him, and Cranston therto replied that
hee shoulde give him leave first to dyne and after
dinner sittinge by the fires side the said
mann called (as shee thincketh) Tinson spake
to the said Cranston in the heareinge of this
examinate and used these wordes videlicet
I prithy master Cranston goe along and doe they
cure and I will see you paid, and there was then
presente in the same roome the said mann called
as shee thincketh Tinson and the
skipper aforesaid and this examinate
sittinge by the fires side, and Cranston then sate
behinde uppon the end of a little settle by the bedds
side, and hee often hastened him to goe along
with him, and after a while they the said Cranston
and the mann called as she thincketh Tinson, and
this examinate and the said mary Davies and some other
Company wente togeather to the signe of the
Cocke to see the mann that was hurte whose
name was called Cowy but hee was not then within, and
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After they came to the Cocke the said mann called as shee
thincketh Tinson spake againe to the said Cranston and prayed him to goe on with his cure, And this shee
affirmeth uppon her oath, Ac aliter ad humoi
articulos nescit deponere Saveinge that the said
Cranston is a Chirurgeon and doth cure and cured
this examinate of a Lamenes and is reputed to bee a
Chirurgeon, And the said Cowy hath since told
this examinate that the said Cranston did cure him and
that hee was perfectly
recovered

Ad Interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet negative./

Ad secundum nescit repondere aliter qua prius;/

Ad tertium nescit respondere aliter qua prius, Saveinge
that shee did not heare the said mann called (as
shee thincketh) Stinson (sic), say what sume or named
any sume of money that hee woulde give th
said Cranston for the cure aforesaid;/

Signum
dco 'A' Alicia
Lowe [MARKE, CENTRE]
----
29o Junij 1635/ [CENTRE HEADING]

1s Crossinge et
al)

Rep J.m.

Nicholas Bocking of the Citty of Exeter
Merchant aged 36 yeares or thereabouts sworne before
the worshipfull william Merricke doctor of lawes Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir
Henry Martin Knight Judge of his Majesties highe Court
of the Admiralty and examined uppon certeine Interrogatories,
ministred on the behalfe of Thomas Crossinge and others
Merchants of Exeter aforesaid and Totnes in the Cunty
of Devon, sayeth and deposeth thereto as followeth videlicet,/

To the firste Interrogatory hee sayeth That hee well
knoweth the interrogate Thomas Crossinge Christopher
Clarckem Phillipp Crossinge and Christopher Brodridge
James Tucker Christopher Brockinge, John Parr
Christopher Parr Richard Crossinge, John Clarcke
George Whitrowe, Lawrence Addams and Luke Serle
and sayeth that they all and every of them are Merchants
Inhabitants and dwellers in the Citty of Exeter and
Towne of Totnes in the County of Devon aforesaid
onely hee sayeth that the said George Whitrowe is
now atReamme in Normandy and was sent thither
from Exeter about a yeare since by the said Christopher Clercke to whom hee was then an apprentice
as his ffactor and now resideth
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at Roane aforesaid as a dealer for himself and
ffactor for other Englishe merchants
and was an Apprentice to the foresaid Christopher
Clercke untill aboute fower or five monethes
since, And all the said parties hee sayeth
are naturall and lawfull subiects of the Kings most
excellent Maiesty of England and for such all and
every of them are generally accompted reputed and
taken to bee And this hee affirmeth to bee true
whow as borne at Totnes aforesaid within twenty
Englishe miles of Exeter and hath used the trade
from Exeter to Roane aforesaid and hath bin
ffactor at Roane for divers of the parties aforesaid
and is very well acquainted with them all;

To the second hee sayeth That about the beginninge
of this instant moneth of June, this examinate
in the Customehouse of Exeter did enter as shipped
in the shippe then called the Greyhounde of
Topsham whereof John Poitevin was master, to
bee carried to Roane in Normandy, for
the use and accompte of this examinate five packs
or ends of Serges or perpetuanoes marked and
numbred with the first marke in the Margent

NB no. 36. 37. 41.
42, 49,/ [FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]

hereof, and fower packs or ends of cloth called
Devon dozens or kersies marcked and numbred with the
second markcke in the Margent hereof, and this

NB no. 44. 45. 46. 47. [SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]

examinate the same tyme did packe upp for the
use and accompte of the said Christopher Clercke
his ffather in Lawe twenty packs of Serges or
perpetuanoes contayneinge two hundred peeces
marcked and numbred with the third marcke in the
margent hereof, and those twenty packs of Serges

CC no. 75. 76. 77. 78.
79. 80. 81. 82. 83.
84. 85. 86. 87. 88.
89. 90. 91. 92. 93.
94. [THIRD MARKE, LH MARGIN]

togeather with his owne five ends or packs of Serges or
perpetuanoes and fower packs or endsof cloth aforesaid,
this examinate sent by horse
from Exeter to bee carried to Topsham the porte of
Exeter three miles distant from Exeter to bee there
laden in the said shippe the Greyhounde, which was
don acordingly as hee hath bin since informed, And
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hee further sayeth That at the same tyme hee sawe lye
in a Packe house at Exeter two Packs marcked and
numbred with the fourth marcke in the margent
hereof, and the aforesaid John Clercke this examinates
brother in lawe then and divers tymes before told this
examinate that those two packs did contayne twenty
peeces of perpetuanoes or serges, and that hee boughte
the same for the accompte of the said George
Whitrowe, and intended to send them to him to Roane
in the said Barcke the Greyhounde, And hee
sayeth that the goodes aforesaid under the first
second and third marckes and numbers aforesaid do are
all of Englishe makeinge and did and doe properly belonge
to this examinate and the said Christopher Clercke this
examinats father in lawe aforesaid, and noe subiecte to the
ffrench Kinge or any other Kinge or State, but the
Kinge of England hath any parte or interest in the
same goodes, Moreover hee sayeth That about the same tyme
this examinate sawe some packes of goodes delivered
out of the Packe house at Exeter where hee
packed parte of his owne goodes under the fifte
and sixte marckes in the margent hereof and the
master of that house tolde this examinate that those goodes
were to bee sente to Roane in the said Barcke the
Greyhound, and alsoe told this examinat that the goodes under the said
ffifte marcke did belonge to the said Thomas
Crossinge, and that the goodes under the sixte marcke
did belonge to the said Christopher Brodridge and this
examinate divers tymes hath seene goodes of theirs
under those marckes, and thereby knoweth that the
fifte marcke aforesaid is the usuall marcke of
the said Thomas Crossinge, and that the sixte
marcke is the usuall marcke of the said Christopher
Brodridge, and this examinate sawe parte o[?XXXXXXX] and
others of them loadinge uppon horses, at Exeter to bee
carried downe to the Topsham neere about
the tyme that hee sent downe thither his and his ffathers
goodes aforesaid and at the same tyme when this examinate
sent his and his ffathers goodes aforesaid from Exeter for
Topsham hee sawe uppon horse backe at Exeter
two packs of goods marcked and numbred with the seaventh
marcke in the margent hereof, and hee was tolde the same
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tyme by divers people that the goodes in those two packs
did belonge to the said Christopher Brokinge and
this examinate well knoweth the same
to bee his the said Christopher Brokinges usuall marcke
having divers tymes whilst this examinate received a
remained a ffactor at Roane received goodes from
the said Christopher Brokinge under that marcke
And about the tyme aforesaid, this examinate did see
lyeing in the Keyhouse at Exter fower packes
of goodes marcked with the eighte marcke in the
margent hereof, and hee well knoweth that to
bee the ordinary marcke of the said Luke Serle
and was tolde by another mann of Exeter that the
said Luke Serle had fower ends of cloth to bee
shippe for Roane in the said Barcke the
Greyhound; And this hee affirmeth
uppon his oath to bee true, and more to this
Interrogatory hee cannott depose, Saveing hee
sayeth, That this examinate hath procuration to
sue for and recover all the goodes specified in a
schedule now given by him into the Registry of
this Court under his hande which were said to bee laden in the said Barcke the Greyhound
videlicet from the said
Thomas Crossinge to recover ffor him
the goodes under the first marcke and numbers
expressed in the margent of the said schedule
from the said Christopher Clarcke to recover for
him the goodes under the second marcke and numbers
in that schedule from Christopher Parr to
recover for him the goodes under the third marcke and
number in that schedule, from Christopher
Brodridge to recover for him the goodes under the
fourth and fifte marckes and the numbers in that
schedule, from James Tucker to recover for him
the goodes under the sixte marcke and numbers in
that schedule, from John Clarcke to recover for him
the said George Whitrowe the goodes under the
nynth marcke and numbers in that schedule from
John Parr to recover for him the goodes under
the tenth marcke in the said schedule, from
Richard Crossing to recover for him the goodes
under the eleaventh marcke in that schedule
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from Christopher Broking to recover for him the goodes
under the twelveth marcke and numbers of the said schedule from
Lawrence Adams to recover for him the goodes under the
thirteenth marcke in that schedule and from Luke
Serle to recover for him the goodes under the 14th
marcke in the same schedule, and therefore hee verily
beleeveth that those goodes doe belonge to them
respectively./

To the third he sayeth That the said John Poytevin
the master of the said Barcke the Greyhounde about a
about two yeares since, did tell this examinate that hee bought that
Barcke from Dunckercke
and that hee would serve the Englishe Merchannts
with her betwixte Roane and Dartmouth
and the said Luke Serle told this
examinate that hee lent the said Poytevin monies
to buy the said barcke, and that to this day hee
oweth him monies uppon her And this ee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true

To the 4th hee sayeth that hee hath knowen the said
Barcke called the Greyhounde for these two or
three yeares last past to use to saile betweene
Dartmouth the port of Totnes and Topsham the port of Exter in England and
Roane in Normandy ffrannce in the ymploymt of Englishe
Merchannts of Totnes and Exeter carrieinge
their goodes to and from those parts of England and
Roane in Normandy, and to use noe other trade
which hee knoweth to bee true who within that tyme did
often tymes receive goodes out of her at Roane
for the accompts of Merchannts of Exeter and
Totnes, and since hee came from Roane which was
about twelve monethes received since hath
shipte goodes in the same Barcke at Dartmouth
and hath received goodes at Topsham out
of her consigned to him from Roane aforesaid, And
this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true:/

Nic:o Broking [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
----
dco die;/

2.s

Crossinge/

Rs J M

John Jordis aged eighteene yeares and a halfe or thereabouts
Servant and Apprentice to Thomas Crossing of Exeter merchannt
sworne and examined as aforesaid sayeth and deposeth
as followeth videlicet/
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To the first Interrogatory hee sayeth That hee knoweth
Thomas Crossinge Christopher Clarke Phillippe
Crossinge, Christopher Brodridge, James Tucker,
Nicholas Brookeinge, Christopher Brookeing, John
Parr, Christopher Parr, Richard Crossinge, John
Clarcke, and George Whiterowe, of Exeter Merchannts
hee th, and they are all Englishmen borne and subiects
of the Kinges Maiety of England, and soe accompted
reputed and taken to bee, and they all now inhabite and
dwell at Exeter aforesaid in England excepte the
said Whiterowe who was lastly an Apprentice to the
said Christopher Clarcke and was sente over by
him to Rouen in Normandy, where hee is now
resident as a ffactor for the said Christopher
Clarcke as hee hath heard, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true who hath bin an Apprentice
to the said Thomas Crossage and hath lived
with him in Exeter aforesaid for a yeare and a
half last paste;/

To the second hee sayeth, That aboute the
beginninge of this moneth of June there were
laden in the porte of Topsham in England for
the use and accompte of the said Thomas Crossinge
in the Barcke call then called the Greyhounde
of Topsham aforesaid whereof John Pooitevin

DC 1.2.3.4.5:6.7 8
9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15 [MARKEES, LH MARGIN]

was master fifteene packs of serges or perpetuanoes
marcked and numbred as in the margent heereof
of Englishe makeinge, which hee knoweth to bee true
for that hee sawe the said serges or perpetuanoes
packed, and sawe them put aboard the saied
Barcke at Topsham, and knoweth that they did
and doe still belonge to the said Thomas Crossinge
his master, and hee sayeth that the second marcke
in the margent of the foresaid schedule
given in under the hand of  his precontest
Nicholas Brokinge is the usuall marcke of the
said Christopher Clarcke, and hee sawe some packe of goodes
under that marcke putt aboard the saied Barcke
the Greyhounde at Topsham about the beginninge
of this moneth of June, and the said John
Poitevin tolde this examinate who went along with him a
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passinger from Topsham in the said Barcke bounde for Roane
that hee received into his said Barcke for the said
Christopher Clercke twenty packs or ends of goodes
under that marcke, and hee sayeth that the seaventh
and eighte marckes in the margent of the said schedule
is the usuall marcke of his preconteste
Nicholas Brokinge and hee knoweth that the
eleaventh marcke in the margent of the said
schedule is the usuall marcke of Richard
Crossinge this examinates Masters sonn, And
hee sayeth That this examinate goeinge passinger
in the said Barcke as aforesaid did see the
Cocketts of the said Barcks ladeinge which shee had
from the Customhouse at Exeter as alsoe the
Masters booke wherein hee sett downe what
goodes were laden at Topsham aforesaid in the
said Barque, and by those Cocketts and booke
yt appeared that there were laden at Topsham
aforesaid in the said barcke for the accompt
of the said Christopher Clercke twenty ends or packs
of serges or perpetuanoes under the second
marcke in the schedule aforesaid, and by the
same Cocketts yt appeared that there were
some goodes laden at Topsham in the said
barcke for Nicholas Barkinge under the seaventh
marcke in the Margent of the said schedule, as alsoe
that there were tenn ends or packs
containing one hundred peeces of serges or perpetuanoes
laden at Topsham in the said barcke for the accompts
of the said Richard Crossinge under the eleaventh marcke in the margent of the said schedule and this examinate
before hee wente from Exeter did coppy out the said
Richard Crossinges Invoyce for those tenn
packs of serges, hee beeing his Masters sonn
and hee sayeth that hee knoweth that the 4th and
fifte marckes expressed in the said schedule is the
usuall marcke of the said Christopher Brodridge
and hee hath often seene goodes come to Exeter for the
said John Parr under the tenth marcke in the
Margent of the said schedule Amd this hee
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affirmeth to bee true who liveinge at Exeter hath
seene goodes there received under the marckes aforesaid
by the servants of the merchants aforesaid Ac
aliter nescit, Saveinge that noe subiecte to the 
frenche Kinge or any other but the said Thomas
Crossinge hath any interest in the 15 packes
or ends of serges or perpetuanoes under
the marcke in the margent of
this his examinattion, and he sayeth that by the #

# Cocketts aforesaid
yt appeareth that
there were laden at
Topsham in the
said Barcke in
all one hundred
and twelve ends or
packs of goodes
all for Englishe
merchants

Ad tertium nescit deponere, Saveing that hee this examinate
beeing in the said Barcke the Greyhound when
the Dunkirckers tooke her with the said goodes
in her, did heare John Poitivin the Master of her
tell those Dunkirkers that hee bought the said
Barcke in Dunckircke;/

Ad quartum nescit deponere, Saveing that by letters
which this examinats said Master hath sent with goodes away
from Exeter to Dartmouth to bee transported
from thence to Roane in ffrance, in the
said Barcke the Greyhounde, yt
appeareth that his said Master within the said
twelve monethes laste past hath
divers tymes sent goodes by the said 
Barcke the Greyhounde from
Dartmouth for Roane aforesaiede,
soe that hee beleeveth that the said Barcke
hath used to carry goodes too and froe from
the west of England to Roane, and backe
from Roane to the west of England
aforesaid

John Prodie [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
28o Junij 1635

Tryon et alij contra)
becker)

1s Tryon

Daniel Vanderlake 
Precinctus Sancta Katherine prope Turrim London
Tallow Chandler, annos agens 50tie aut eo
circiter testis su

Ad 13um articulum alluis ex parte Tryon et soc Craston
[?JXXXX] 1635 datus et oblatus
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Ad [?XXum] nescit deponere Saveinge what within these two
meonethes this last past this examinate accidentally goeinge to the Customehouse
heere at London about some busines, there sawe
in the warehouse at the Customehousea foresaid
fower Rolls of Tobacco which were taken out of a
bagg wherein as yt was said there then remained two other
Rolls of Tobacco, and hee then heard some of the
Searchers of the Customehouse say, and heard the
articulate Henrie Necker then alsoe present confesse, that
those searchers uppon the survey of his the said
Beckers shippe dounde the said sixe Rolls
of Tobacco and brought the same out of his
shippe, And this hee affirmeth to bee true;/

Ad 15um nescit deponere, Saveinge that hee hath heard
the said Hannse Becker sinse his arrivall to this
porte of London with his shippe the Kinge David confesse
and sat that hee
had sould his twelve butts of sacke and after the
Merchants wynes were here dischardged this examinate
sawe twelve butts mof sacke in the said shippe;

Super reliquos articulos non examinatur ex dirrecon

Danel Vandar L[?XXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Peter Grollier parochia de Stepney nauta annos agens
26 aut eo circiter testis::

Ad secundum et tertium quartum et quintum articulum alluis pred dicit et deponit, That
uppon wednesday the 4thd ay of March laste paste
aboute tenn of the clocke in the morneinge (the wnde
beeing then neerest to west South west and a freshe
gale of wynde comeinge out of the sea, s Dutch
builte shippe a flute or pronnke of the burthen (as hee
guesseth of about eight score or two hundred
tonnes beeing without a head) did fetch up the articulate
shippe the Ann Mary of London whereof John Butler
was Master, and came into her company about eighte or
nyne leagues beyond and to the westward of Silly, and
comeinge upp there with the Mary Ann, some or
one of the Company of the Mary Ann aforesaid
haled her, and answere was made out of that shipp
that shee came from Saint Lucar and from that tyme
videlicet from about tenn a clocke in the morneinge the
4th of March aforesaide untill the sixte day of
the same moneth aboute fower of the clocke in the
afternoone, and all the way from aboute nyne leagues to the
westward of Silly, aforesaid untill they came off
Dartmouth or Torbay the said shippe kepte company
and sailed alonge with the said shippe, the Ann Mary
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and then, namely the sixte day of March laste aboute
three or fower of the Clocke in the afternoone off of
Dartmouth or Torbay they mett with some Statesmen
of warr that caused the said shippe to come by the lea
and sente a boate aboard her, and continued her by them
aboute an hower and a half, the Ann Mary all that
tyme followeinge her course alongst the Channell, and
some two houres afterwards the said shippe came againe
upp with the Ann ary, and then some of the company
of the Ann ary asked the company of the said
flute or fronnke, whether the Holamders
had taken any thinge from them or noe, and answere
was made out of that flute or pronnke that yt was
all well, all well, and off of Portland about three
leagues soe soone as shee came upp againe to the
Ann Mary after the said Hollanders lefte her as
aforesaide, the said dlute or pronnke beeinge a better
sailer then the Ann Mary gott a head of the
the Ann Mary and sailed from her, and they never
sawe her againe untill the ighte day
of March whe as passinge by Dover roade they
sawe the said flute or pronnke at an anchor 
off of Dover, and hee sayeth uppon his oath
That the tyme aforesaide in all the course of the
said flute or pronnke which said shee came from
Saint Lucar as aforesaide from aout nyne leagues to
to the westward of Silly untill shee came off of
Dartmouth or Torbay as aforesaid and untill the
said Hollanders mett with her and sente a boate
aboard her as aforesaid the said flute or pronnkke
did not meete with any Biskay mann or warr or
other shippe suniect [?XXXXX] that either pillage [?brard] or question
her, nor did any shippe after the Hollanders aforesaid
dismisse jer [?brard] or question her the said
flute before shee sailed from the Ann Mary
off of Portfland as aforesaid And this hee
affirmeth to bee true, who was Masters Mate
of the Ann Mary and in her all the tyme aforesaide
and sawe that all the tyme aforesaid that the said
flute was in company of the Ann Mary that
noe body questioned or pillaged the said
flute, Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that the sixte
day of March aforesaid whilest the said flute
was in the company of the Ann Mary as aforesaid
the Master of the Ann Mary sent his Mate called
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Nicholas Roope aboard the said flute to buy some Tobacco
and the said Roope and the Ann Maryes skiffs [?crue]
wente aboard the said flute and when they returned
againe to the Ann Mary the said Roope brought with
him aboard the Ann Mary about a pounde and a half
of Tobacco which hee said the Master of the flute gave
him for the Master of the Ann Mary, and said that they
had noe Tobacco to sell, and to this examinates
now best remembrance the said Roope when hee
returned aboard the Ann Mary from the said flute
did say that the said flute was called the Kinge
David and was laden with wines and other commodities and came from Saint Lucar and hee hath many tymes since heard the
said Roope say that her name was the Kinge
David and uppon Saterday laste this examinate sawe
the said flute lyeing on shoare at wappinge righte
againste the Shipp Taverne beeing newly graved
and the last nighte betweene seaven and eighte a

clocke this examinate
was aboard the said
flute lyeinge on
shoare at wapping
as aforesaid and
asked one of her company 
then aboard her what 
was her name and
her Masters mname
who said
her name was the
Kinge David and
her Masters name
was Hannse
Becker and
came from
Saint Lucars, and that
flut
soe called the
Kinge hee well
knoweth to bee
the same flute
pr pronnke that did
fetch upp and came
into the company
of the Ann Mary
about 9 leagues
to the westward
of Silly the 4th
of March laste
and kepte her
company as aforesaid/
Ac aliter nescit/.

Ad sextum nescit deponere Saveinge all the tyme that the
said flute kepte company with the Ann Mary as
aforesaide hee did never heare that the Master of
any of the company of that fflute did
make knowne or speake any thinge that they
had bin taken or had any thinge taken from them,

Ad octavum affirmat, That the said flute whilst shee was
in company of the Ann Mary as aforesaid was
an extraordinary swifte sayler, and shee comeinge
out of the sea overtooke the Ann Mary the 4th
day of March  aforesaid, notwithstandinge that the
Ann Mary used all the sailes that shee coulde
conveniently beare, and the said flute sailed away
from the Ann Mary with her foresaile onely abroad, and
coulde fetch uppon and overtake the Ann Mary at
pleasure, And this hee affirmeth to bee true, Ac
aliter nescit;/

Add 22um affirmat, That yt was and is impossible that the
foresaid fflute or pronnke shpoulde bee taken the laste
day of ffebruary 1634  within 3 or 4 eagues
of Silly for that the 4th of March followeing
which was but the 4th day after with a west south west
winde shee came out of the sea from the west South
westward and fetched uppon and overtooke the Ann Mary about
nyne leagues to the westward of Silly as aforesaid and
before that tyme the winde had continued westerly seaven
or eight dayes soe that the winde and weather that
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then was woulde not permitt her to come with in
3 or 4 leagues of Silly the last of ffebruary and
to goe backe to the westward of Silly wighte of
nyne leagues betweene the laste of
ffebruary and the 4th of March aforesaid
which hee knoweth to bee true beeing all that
tyme at sea in the said shippe the Anne
Mary commeing from the Canaries bounde
for London, And this hee affirmeth to bee true.

Ad aliter qua prius nescit deponere

Peter Grollier [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repetit coram doctore
Zouch parte W.B.
----

Ultimo Junij 1635

Pro Joos Vaindevord

1us

R E.B.

John Tredinham of feellye in the County of Cornewall gentleman aged
aboute 40 yeares sworne before the Right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knighte Judge
of the highe Courte of the Admiralty beinge examined saieth and deposeth

That by vertue of a Comission bareing date the 14th of ffebruary last past as this examinate remembreth graunted out of the highe Courte of the

Admiralty on the behalfe of Joose Vandevoord and others hee
this examinate and some others in the said Comission inserted did
seize uppon and attache fifty
one hogsheades or thereaouts of clarrett wynes as hee this examinate
beleeveth hee this Examinate having tasted of some of them [?XXXXXXX]
some to bee brackishe and taynted with salte water and hee
beleeveth that others of the said hogsheads are much impayred they having layen on the
sande neere the Sea shore by the space of ffive or six dayes or more as hee hath bine informed
by some or one of them what were imployed for the lookinge
too of the said wynes and hee beleeveth that ll or most parte
of the said wynes will perishe or become little worth except they be
sould or disposed of within some shorte tyme
many of the said hogsheads of wyne havinge bene taken upp floadtinge
on the sea as he hath bene informed This he saith by vertue of his
oathe to be true in such sorte as before expressed

Jo Tredinham [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
7o Augusti 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

1s pro nave the Santa)
Barbara/

det/

William Crosse of the Cittye of London merchant sworne before master
Humfrey Lloyd Surrogate to the eighte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge
of his Majestyes high Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath, as
followeth videlicet

That uppon the second day of January Anno Domini 1634 stilo Anglia this
deponent did by a private bill under his hand assure unto John de
Bleaker the somme of two hundred pounds sterling uppon the shipp the Santa Barbara and
her ladinge from the tyme of her talinge by Captaine Longe David and Captaine Cornelius
Beergeemaer and the leavinge of her at Sea by the said Captaine untill her safe arrivall in some port of Holland or Zealand and that
aboute the same tyme John Thierrye of London merchant did likewise uppon the like bill assure unto the
sayd De Bleaker the somme of three hundred pounds sterling uppon the same shipp and goods
and uppon the same Condicons, in both which assurances, Abraham Vandercouter and Jonas
de Peister of London merchants did each of them beare a fourth part, and this deponent
did likewise beare an adv enture with the sayd John Thiery a fourth part of the sayd 300li assured by
the sayd Thiery, and the sayd Thierrye did likewise beare a fourth parte of adventure
in the 200li assured by this deponent, And he alsoe sayeth that within five or six dayes
after the premisses the sayd Abraham Vandecouter did on the behalfe for
the accompte of himselfe of the foresayd John Thierrye, Jonas de Peister and this
deponent and with there mutuall consents anddirections assure uppon the same shipp
and goods the somme of six hundred pounds sterling, from Mountz bay (where as
they were advised shee was then arrived) to any port of Holland or Zealand, as by the
Pollicye of assurance made by the sayd Vandecouter in the Assurance office London to
which he referreth himselfe may appeare And
that the sayd de Bleaker since the Castinge away of the sayd shipp the Santa Barbara neere [?XXX]
hath renounced his interest which he had in the sayd prize by vertue of an eight [?XXX]
which he had in the sayd Captaine Longe Davids shipp and theruppon this deponent and the sayd Thiery have [?given]
him satisfaction for the sayd sommes of five hundred pounds assured by them as [TEAR IN MANUSCRIPT]
affirmeth uppon his oath to be true./

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laden abord the said shipp at the Newfoundland howe many kintalls
were taken in at the Newfoundland, and uppon the accompte received
from his said company he signed to the bills of Exchange on the behalfe
of the said Delabarr and accordinge to his order, charged uppon the
sayd Delabarr, and alsoe tooke an accompte from his company at Carthagena
and Barsolona howe much fish was there delivered out of her every day
Et aliter nescit nescit deponere./

Ad sextum affirmat That accordinge the sayd Delabarr before this deponent
went downe from Le forth on the voyage in question in question did send
downe to Lee to him this deponent a noate or directions in writinge wherby
heertofore exhibited into the Registrye of this Court, wherby the sayd
Delabarr did order him to receive of the factors of the sayd John Georgio
Romano at Carthagena for the fraighte of the sayd shipp foure thousand
peeces of eighte for the accompte of the sayd Delabarr, amountinge in
all to nyne hundred pounds sterling or therabouts, and he this deponent
after the arrivall of the sayd shipp at Carthagena and delivery of part
of the sayd fish there, did demannde of Augustine Capella the sayd
Romanoes ffactor there resident the said foure thousand peeces of eight
but the sayd Capella refused to a pay the same, because all the
and
said fish offred to pay this deponent soe much of the said fraighte as
the fish there delivered came unto after the said rate of foure thousand
kintalls for the whole quantitye of fish laden abord the said shipp a by the
said Delabarrs order at Newfoundland, which this deponent refused to accepte
of unlesse he could have had th all the said 4000 peeces of eighte
and theruppon the sayd Capella assigned him to receive the said
4000 peeces of eighte at Barsolana of the foresaid John Martine and
wrote to the said Martine to that effecte, and the sayd Martine
⁁ was readye and willinge to pay the same, befor but after the sayd
tould this deponent that he
shipp was cast away this deponent did not demannde the same of the said
Martine because he ⁁ could not tell howe to transporte the same or to
this
returne it for England. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad septimum nescit deponere salvis predeposits per eum savinge he sayeth he verily
by the order
beleiveth that all the fish laden abord the sayd shipp ⁁ for the accompte
of the sayd Delabarr at Newfoundland was for the accompte of the sayd
John Georgio Romano, and that the said Delabarr did cause the same to
be laden only as factor for the sayd Romano, for that the said Delabarr
appoynted him to receive 4000 peeces of eight of the said Roemano
his factor at Carthagena as before he hath deposed for the fraighte
of the sayd fish./

Ad decimum affirmat That he this deponent did receive of the sayd
John Martine at Barsolona in doubte pistoletts at fourteene shillings
three pence pence a peece the some of one hundred pounds sterling
in part of the fraighte due to the sayd Delabarr for the sayd
fish, which money he soe tooke up to pay for the sendinge of his company
home and to defraye other charges at Carthagena and Barsolona. Et aliter
shippinge from England to Newfoundland and from thence
nescit deponere/

Ad 11 affirmat That the fraighte of ⁁ fish transported from the
Newfoundland to Bar Carthagena and Barselona is worth in the
Common estimation of merchants foure pounds per tonne, and soe much is
commonly given amongst merchants of this deponents knowledge Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad ultimum dicit praedeposita per eum esse vera.
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Idem sup interrogate./

ad primum respondet That he was not prsent to any agreement made betwe
the sayd Sir Davids Kirke and company and the sayd John Delabarr neither
doth he knowe what agreement was made betweene them, but referreth himself
to the Charterpartye made betweene them for the voyage in question, Et aliter
nescit p respondere./

Ad secundum respondet That when the sayd Sir David Kirke and company first tooke the
sayd shipp the fraighte of this respondent they fraighted her to goe from
London to Canada and from thence to Newfoundland and from thence to any
port in the Straights or Spayne where they should appoynte, and that he
beleiveth that they would not have f taken her to fraighte but that they
intended she should have gonne to Canada and from thence to the Newfoundland,
and after she should come to Newfoundland that then she should taken in fish
there for the sayd John Delabarr and from thence to Carthagena and other
parts where the said Delabarr or his factor should directe and soe backe
for London. Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad tertium respondet That he hath heard that in anno dmi 1633. the sayd Sir
David Kirke and company did lett to fraighte unto the sayd John Delabarr
a shipp called the Saint George of London for (wherof Thomas Smyth was master
uppon a voyage after she had bene at Canada in the imployment of the sayd
Sir David Kirke and company ⁁ to come to the Newfoundeland, and there to
and was
in enter into the service and imployment of the said John Delabarr and to sayle
from thence to Barsolone and ther places Et aliter quam prius nescit respondere./

Ad quartum respondet That there was laden abord the sayd shipp the ffayth the
voyage in question at Newfoundland three thousand seaven hundred eightye
fower English kintalls p of good and merchanteable drye Newfoundlande
fish. Et aliter nescit./

Ad quintum respondet That the sayd shipp the ffayth uppon or about the xviijth day of
Dece September last past followeinge her course towards Carthagena
mett with a great storme neere the Westerne Islands, in which storme she
sprunge a great leake, and by that meanes she tooke much water into her
hould, but it came not above the seelinge of the said shipp nor unto any
of the fish abord her, by reason of which leake this rendents company were
inforced to plye the pumpe continuallye nighte and day to free her
from the sayd water and to keepe the fish from damage, untill her
arrivall at Carthagena videlicet untill the first day of October last past
Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad sextum respondet That by reason of the laboringe of the sayd shipp in the storme
aforesayd nyne and twentye kintalls of the sayd master Dellabarrs fish and not
above a kinitall more or lesse, was wett and dampnifyed by watter which came
into the said shipp a lofte but f wheither that wett fish were sould for lesse
then the rest of the sayd fish delivered in good condition he cannott exprsse
Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad septimum respondet That every English kintall of fish oughte to exceed the Spanish
kintall twelve pound weighte in every kintall, but after it was delivered
on shoare that and weighed by the Spanish weights at Carhagena, it did
not advance there above six pounds weight more then the Spanish
and at Barsolona it did advance above for pounds of or therabouts more then the Spanish kintall
kintall ⁁ by reason that they weighed seaven or eighte kintall togeither
not
and gave very great draughte to it when it was weighed on shoare, and because
much of the said fish was broken in caryeinge from the said shipp on shoare and
some part of it was snatched and stolne away in caryeinge it from the shoare
to the warehouse, and that the English kintall of lead or tynne doth accordinge to the usuall and
ordinarye accompte of merchants produce and amount unto twelve pound
and that ⁁ accordinge to that late of twelve per centum, xxx 3784 English kintalls should
5r
more in weighte then the Spanish kintalls ⁁ but fish doth wast and crumble
The
soe in weighinge and caryeinge of it, on shoare to the warehouse, and by inbeazellinge
therof as aforesaid that it will not by the ordinary accompte of merchants pduce above
sixe
pduce 4238 Spanish
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six per Centum above the Spanish weighte Et a and that accor Et aliter nescit./

Ad octavum satisficum est in deponious suis preden./

Ad nonum respondet That three thousand seaven hundred eightye foure kintalls
of Newfoundland fish doeth amounte unto two hundred and twentye tonnes or
therabouts accomptinge seaventeene English kintalls to a tonne, and the the
Et aliter satisfactum est prius.

Ad decimum respondet That he knoweth noe certayne fraighte for the transportation
of goods by the tonne from Allicant or Maiorca to the porte of London
neither did he ever lade goods at either of those places, but beleiveth that
if there be many shipps or there, goods may be brought from thence to
London for thirtye or fourtye shillings per tonne but if ther be fewe shipps
there and much goods to be laden it may be worth three pounds p tonne./

Ad 11 respondet That there were about fiftye English kintalls of the sayd
fish laden abord the sayd shipp at the Newfoundland which perished in the
sayd shipp when she was cast away at but knoweth not howe fish was
sould for either by the English or Spanish kintall in Spayne at the
tyme of the castinge away of the casting away of the said shipp Et aliter nescit./

Ad duodecimum respondet That by the order of the sayd master Delabarr this deponent
should have received at the Newfoundland foure thousand English kintalls of fish
but William Hoggett master of the Holligroce of Dartmouth fayled of his number
for by the appoyntment of the sayd Delabarr this respondent should have received
a thousand kintalls of fish ⁁ but the said Hoggett could not, nor did not
from him
deliver unto him for above foure hundred eightye foure kintalls, and therupon
this respondent made a protest against him the said Hoggett in the best manner he
could there, and sent it home to the sayd master Delabarr, and that he
received of John Hawlye of Dartmouth he received one thousand kintalls of Nicholas
Webber of Dartmouth one thousand three hundred kintalls and of Emanuel Harris
one thousand kintalls, Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad ultimum reddit raciones scientiae sue ut supra./

Thomas Brodrick
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23º Junij 1635

2s./

Willimus Skinner de Burstoe in Comitatu Surria yeoman aetatis
28 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus./

Ad primum et schedulum article alluis ex parte dcorum dm Kirke et alioru in hac
parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That after the arrivall of the
articulate shipp the ffayth at Newfoundland the voyage in question she was
there with laden with fish by the order as by the order of the articulate she
John Delabarr (as he heard) the company of the sayd shipp saye) but
howe many kintalls of fish were there laden abord her or from whome
the same were received he cannott depose, but sayeth that the sayd shipp with
her ladinge of fish safelye arrived at Cartagena where part of her ladinge
of fish was delivered and from thence she sayled to Barsolona and there
she delivered all the rest of her ladinge of fish in goods condition, (excepte
fiftye kintalls or therabouts by the accompte of the said John Brodcake the
Purser of the sayd shipp Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad tertium ث⁁ re affirmat That the after the arrivall of the sayd shipp at
et quartum
Carthagena she stayd there in delivery of part of her ladinge of fish
by the space of thirtye dayes or therabouts, but what quantitye of fish
was there delivered or unto whom the same was delivered he knoweth
not, and after the delivery of part of her ladinge at Carthagenashe sayled
from thence (by the order of the factors to whom that received part of the said
ffish at Carthagena) to Barsolona and there delive by the accompte of
the Purser delivered all the rest of her ladinge of fish belonginge to the
sayd
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but thirtye two barrells of the said Cloves, and that he wanted one of the
number which he should have received out of the sayd shipp, wheruppon this
deponent caused his comitatu acquainted his company therwth and caused them
to romage the sayd shipp, but the sayd barrell could not be found abord
the sayd shipp, and theruppon the sayd Scone did deducte uppon an
accompte from this deponent for the sayd barrell of Cloves which (as he pretended) was
not delivered, twentye five pounds sterlinge and upwards, uppon a Et aliter
nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that John Wilkye and the rest of the partyes of named
in this lible wheruppon he is nowe examined were of the company of
the sayd shipp the Pleasure in the voyage in question./
Idem sup interrogate./

Ad primum respondet That he this respondent doth followe this suite in the name
of the sayd Peard against the sayd Wilkye and companye and he
this respondent gave instructions to master Williamson for the draweinge of
the lible, and the hath disbursed and layd out all the fees due by
about this suite, and that if the sayd Peard obtayne sentente in
this cause against the sayd Wilkye and company then he this respondent expecteth
to receive the money backe agayne from the said Wilkye and company which they said Willye and company have received
out of the Registrye of this Court for which was stopt out of their
wages for the barrells of Clove in question because he hath already
the same.
make satisfaction to the said master Peards factor for the same./

Ad secundum respondet That the goods libellate were delivered by this respondents
order in the nighte tyme, and that the Boatswayne of the sayd shipp was by
his place to take notice of all the goods taken in and delivered out of
the sayd shipp the sayd voyage and at the tyme when the goods in question
were delivered out of the sayd shipp, this d respondent caused the sa
all the lights to be putt out because it should not be discovered
what they were then doeinge in reguard of the danger of the losse of
the said goods beinge prohibited to be caryed into Spayne, and
because there doe usually lye many custome house boats neere
unto shipps which that are laden to see that noe uncustomed or unfree
goods be caryed on shoare, but wheither this respondent did cause the said
boatswayne to helpe hand out the said goods in question he remembreth
not, but this respondent sayeth he never did dismisse the said Boatswayne
from keepinge an accompte of the said goods as they were delivered
out of the sayd shipp Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad tertium respondet That the goods in question were delivered out of the said
shipp about nyne or ten of the clocke at nighte, and that it is not
an unlawfull houre to deliver goods in those parts at any tyme when
the merchant sends for them, and that the said goods in question in were
delivered when the merchant sent for them and as he beleiveth all
mrs of shipps are bound to deliver goods at all tymes in the
nighte if the merchant doe send for them, and to doe the best
or
they cann to pleasure the merchant./

Ad quartum respondet That he this respondent never commannded the Boatswayne
of the sayd shipp that he should not goe forth of out of the said shipp
into the boate to number the said barrells of Clove delivered out
of the said shipp, Et aliter nescit respondere./
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out of the sea a dutch vessell shippe, aboute eighte or
nyne leagues in this examinates estimacon to the westward
and beyonde Silly did fetch upp and come into the company
of the arte shippe the Ann Mary of London whereof this
examinate was then and still is master, and thereuppon some
of this examinates company haled that shippe and
ask answere was made out of her that shee was of
Callice and came from Saint Lucar and beeing come upp
with the Ann Mary, that dutch shippe continued in her
company from aboute 8 or 9 a clocke the 4th of March
eighte or
aforesaid and all the way from aboute ⁁ nyne leagues
as hee guesseth to the westward of Silly untill they
carne of of Portland betweene Portland and the Berry
and there uppon the sixte day of the moneth of
March aforesaid aboute Noone they mett with three
Statesmen of warr which chased the said dutch
shippe to come by their lea, and sent one of their
boates aboard her, and those States men of warr kept
this dutch shippe by them aboute an hower and a half or
shee
two houres, and then dismiste her againe and soe ⁁ for there
sett saile and followed the Ann Mary which all this
tyme stood on her course and in two or three houres
after the said Statesmen of warr soe demissed her
the said dutch shippe fetch upp the Ann Mary
againe, and comeinge upp with the Ann Mary, this
examinates Mate Nicholas Roope in dutch (which this
examinate understood and some others of this examinats
company in Englishe asked spake to those in the
said dutch shippe and asked them how they came off or
gott cleere from the said Statemen of warr, and
thereto the master of the said dutch shippe replied, All
All well All well, and soe that dutch shipp sailed
by the Ann Mary and beeing the better sailer sailed
out of the sighte of the Ann Mary and they sawe
her more untill sonday the eighte day of March
aforesaid, and they passinge by Dover they sawe the
said dutch shippe at in Dover roade, And hee sayeth
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whilst the said Dutch shippe continued in company of
the Ann Mary as aforesaid, the said Dutch shippe
did not meete any Biskay mann of warr or other
shippe that did pillage her or did take any thing out
of her soe farr as this examinate (beeing all that tyme
in the Ann Mary did see or coulde heare of, neither
did the master or company of that Dutch shippe
complaine of or make knowen any such thinge
to this examinate or any of his company to his
knowledge, And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to
bee true, At aliter ad huinou articolos nescit deponere,
Saveinge that before they mett with the said
Statesmen of warr, this examinate delivered to
his Mate Nicholas Roope a Barbary duckett and
bidd goe aboard the said Dutch shippe to buy him
some Tobacco and yt being then faire weather
aboute nyne of the Clocke in the morninge the
said sixte day of March laste, the said
Nicholas Roope and some others of this examts
company in his skiffe wente aboard the said
Dutch shippe that kepte the Mary Ann company
as aforesaid to buy some Tobacco, and stayed aboard
her about an hower and then returned to the Mary
Ann againe, and the said Nicholas Roope told
brought this examinate aboute a pounde of Tobacco
which hee said was sent to this examinate by the master
of the said Dutch shippe but said hee woulde take noe
money for yt nor sell any, and about an hower
after this examinats Mate was returned into the Ann
Mary with the Tobacco afore saide the weather contynueing
faire, and the Ann Mary and that Dutch shippe beeing
within a Cables length of one of the other, this
examinate standeinge uppon the poope of the Ann
Mary and called to the master of that shippe then
walkeinge uppon the decke of that Dutch shippe
and thancked him for the said Tobacco and drancke to
him, and the master of that Dutch shippe then invited
this examinate to come to dinner to him, and they
were then soe neere togeather that this examinate
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could take and did take notice of the face and Countenance of
the master of the said Dutch shippe, soe that hee doth well knowe
him, and sawe him in the Admiralty when this examinate was
sworne a witnes in in this cause and sawe him this day
and knoweth that hee is the same many whose name (as
master Harborne tolde this examinate) is Hannse Becker and
yester nighte this examinate sawe the foresaide Dutch
shippe that came into the company of the Ann
Mary aboute eighte on nyne leagues to the westward
of Silly and kepte her company as aforesaid, then
lyeinge a shoare aboard of another shippe righte
against the shippe Taverne in Wappinge Taverne, and wente
aboard her and inquired of her Company the name
of her and her master, who tolde this examinate that her
name was the Kinge David, and that her masters
name was Hannce Becker, and hee well knoweth her
to the same Dutch shippe that came into the
company of the Ann Mary and kepte her
company as aforesaid;/

Ad octavum affirmat, That the said shippe the Kinge
David when shee came into the company of the Ann
Mary and kepte her Company as aforesaid was an
extraordinary swifte sailor, and made as swifte
way in the sea as or is possible for any other shippe
to doe in this examts Judgemt, and indeed shee was
of soe good saile and way that uppon the 4th of
March aforesaid comeinge out of the sea, shee overtooke
the Ann Mary as aforesaid notwithstandeing the Ann
Mary then used all the sailes that shee could convenienty
beare, and in the Channell whilst the Kinge David kepte
company with the Ann Mary as aforesaid, shee
hold some tymes onely her forecourse abroade and the
Lea Cluett garnet at that onely saile alsoe haled
upp and yet the Kinge David could fetch uppon and
overtake the Ann Mary at pleasure, and shee was then
soe swifte of saile that hee thincketh that yf shee
had but the forestart yt was ympossible for
any Biskay mann of warr or other shippe to fetch
her upp and take her by saileinge unlesse those that
bee  her and saile her bee willinge and consenting thereto,
And this hee affirmeth to bee true, At aliter nescit./
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Ad 22um affirmat, That yt was impossible
to be true that the said shippe the Kinge David
shoulde bee taken the Laste day of ffebruary
laste paste within three or fower leagues of Silly
for that fower dayes after that laste f
ffebruary with a southerly winde as aforesaid
shee came out of the sea from the southward
and fetched upp and over tooke the Ann Mary
about eighe or nyne leagues beyond and to the
westward of Silly as aforesaid, and for
fower or five dayes before shee fetch upp and
came into the company of the Ann Mary
eighte or nyne leagues to the westward
of Silly as aforesaid the winde continued
Southerly soe that shee coulde not bee
within three or fower leagues of Silly the
last day of ffebruary aforesaid and have
gotten eighte or nyne leagues to the westward
of Silly betweene the laste of ffebruary and
the tyme that shee came into the company of
the Ann Mary eighte or nyne leagues to the
westward of Silly as aforesaid, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true, Ac aliter nescit;/

Super reiquis asticulos non examinatur ex direccone producen;

John Butler [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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dco die;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

4s. Tryon:

Nicholas Roope de ratcliffe in Comitau Middlesex
nauta, annos agens 35 aut eo circiter testis se

Ad secundum tertium quartum quintum et sextum articulos alluis pred dicit et deponit That
uppon the 4th day of March laste paste the
winde then blowieinge fine easie gales at west
South weste out of the sea, the shippe called
The Kinge David her Master called |Hannce Becker
comeinge as her company said from Saint Lucars, aboute
eighte or nyne leagues short of Silly to the westward
thereof and beyond yt, fetcht upp the articulate shippe the
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Ann Mary and came into her company and sailed alonge with
her and kepte her company from about nyne or tenn a
clocke in the morneinge of the 4th orf March aforesaid
and from about eighte or nyne leagues to the westward
of Silley untill they came off of Portland the sixte
day of March laste, and the day about [?XXXX] they
mett with three Statesmen of warr who was [?caused] the
said shippe the Kinge David to strike and lye by the lea
and the Admirall of them sent her boate aboard her to
vesitt her, and after they had kepte her by them about an
hower and a half, those Statesmen of warr dismissed
the said shippe the Kinge David and shee sett saile
againe and about an houre and a half after fetcht upp the
Ann Mary againe still followeinge her course
but not out of sighte of the Kinge David aforesaid
and when the said shippe the Kinge David came upp 
againe to the Ann Mary after the said Statesmen
of warr [?XXXXXXXX] her as aforesaid, the Master
of the Ann Mary (and not this examinate) asked those
in the Kinge David how the Statesmen of warr had
dealt with them, and thereto the said Hans becker
dealt with them, and therto the said Hans becker
the Master of the Kinge David answered, All well
All well, and soe the Kinge David beeing better
of saile then the Ann Mary sailed away from
the Ann Mary out of sighte betwixte the Isle
ofighte and Portland, and uppon the 7th or
eighte day of March laste passinge into the Downes
they sawe the said shipp the Kinge David at an anchor
in Dover roade, And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to
bee true, who was one of the Masters Mates of
the said shippe the Ann Mary and in her all the
tyme aforesaid, Ac alier ad huminoi articulos nescit
deponere, Saveinge hee sayeth, That all the tyme
and way aforesaid that the said shippe the Kinge David
did keepe company as aforesaid with the said
shippe the Ann Mary, shee did not meete with
any Niskay mann of warr or other shippe that
did pillage or take any thinge out of her excepte the
Statesman of warr tooke any thinge out of her, and
hee further sayeth, That uppon the sixte day of
March aforesaid in the morneinge before they mett
with the said Statesmen of warr, this examinate by the
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order of John Butler the Master of the said shippe the
Ann Mary wente aboard the said shippe the Kinge
David t buy some Tobacco for him the said Butler
and there spake with Hannse Becker the Master of
her and had some conferense with him alone in
ghis Cabon aboard the said shippe the Kinge david
and desiered to buy some Tobacco of him the said
Hanns Becker, who thereuppon shewed this examinate
a small Roll of Tobacco of three or fower pounds,
and gave this examinate the one half of yt to gice to the
Master of the Ann Mary, and woulde take noe money
for yt and said that hee had noe more Tobacco in
his shippe, and at that tyme or any other tyme
dureinge his beeing in Company woth the said
shippe the Ann Mary neither hee the said Becker nor
any of his Company did ever make knowne
or speake any thinge to the said Butler or
this examinate or any of the Company of the Ann
Mary that hee the said Becker had bin taken by any Biskey mann
of warr or any other or had anye thinge taken from
him, but on the contrary, at the same tyme this
examinate asked the said Hanns Becker yf hee
had mett with any menn of warr, and hee said
Noe, onely off the Southerne Cape hee sawe
fower shippes which hee thought were Turckes
menn of warr, and that after hee parted from
the Southerne Cape hee sawe noe other shippe
before hee sawe the Ann Mary and another
shippe that was with her which was about 8 or
nyne leagues to the westward of Silly as aforesaid,
and at that tyme videlicet the sixte of March
aforesaide this examinate at his beeing aboard the
said shippe the Kinge David did looke into the
holde of the Kinge David, and sawe that her hold
was then full of goodes upp to the very hatches
and great sackes of wooll were stowed
upwardes in the houlde, and the said Becker
then tolde this examinate that hee had two hundred
pipes of wyne in his shippe under the woolls
soe that before that tyme hee is sure there were noe
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butts of wyne taken out of the holde of the Kinge
David, for that yf any such thinge had bin donn
there woulde have bin some roome empty in her
holde as then there was none to his sighte and
at the same tyme the said Hannse Becker
did tell this examinate that hee did not care yf hee had
mett with all the menn of warr in the sea beeinge
his shippe sailed soe well as shee did, and at the
firste haleing whe the Kinge David and Ann
Mary firste came togeather, the said Hannse
Becker beeing asked what menn of warr hee had
seene at sea, sayd that hee sawe not 
any, nor had bin [?XXXX] of ant or to that
effecte, And this hee affirmeth uppon his 
oath to bee true;/

Ad septium et octavum affirmat, That the said shippe the Kinge David
was and ia n extraordinary [?saiffe] sailor, and
maketh as swifte way in the sea as is possible
for any other shippe to doe as hee thincketh,
and in truth shee was of soe good saile that
uppon the 4th of March aforesaid commeinge out
of the sea shee overtooke the Ann Mary as aforesaid
notwithstandinge that the Ann Mary used all the
sailes shee coulde conveniently beare, and whilst
the said shippe the Kinge David continued in the
company of the Ann Mary as aforesaid, shee
sometymes had onely her fore course abroad
and the Lea [?OlaX] Garnett of that onely saile alsoe
haled upp, yet shee coulde fetch upp and overtake
the Ann Mary at pleasure, and in this examinats Judgment
the said shippe the Kinge David the tyme aforesaid
was of soe good and swifte a sayle that yt was
imposseble for any Biskay mann of warr or other to
to take her or fetch her upp by saileinge unlesse those
that bee in her and saile in her bee willinge and consentinge
thereto, shee beeinge the best and saifest sailor that
ever hee sawe in his dayes haveinge used the sea
these twenty yeares, And this hee affirmeth to bee
true, Ac aliter nescit:/
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Ad 22um affirmat, Thatyt was and is unlikely to
bee true that the said shippe the Kinge David should
bee taken the ;aste day of ffebruary laste
paste within three or fower leagues of Silly
for that fower dayes after that with
the winde at west South west shee came out
of the sea from the Southward and fetched upp
and overtooke the Ann Mary aforesaid aboute
eighte or nyne leagues to the westward and
beyond Silly and for
that hee the said
Becker tolde this examinate that hee had
seene noe shippe after hee causa,e from the
Southerne Cape before hee came upp
with the Ann Mary the tyme and [?XXXX]
aforesaid, and never complained to the Master
and company of the Ann Mary that
hee had bin soe takem, Ac aliter qua
prius;/

Super reliquos articulos non examinatur ex direccone

Nicholas:: Roope [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repetit coram doctore
Zouch p[?XXXX] Ed: B:
----
dcro die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

5s Tryon;

Johannes Shelford parochia Sancti Dunstani in orien
London Wyne Cooper annos agens 34 aut eo
circiter testis sed./

Ad 15um articulum alluis ex parte Tryon et al Co. Johis 1635
datus et oblatus dicit et deponit, That since the 
arrivall of Hannse Becker with his shippe the Kinge
David to this porte of London, this examinate did buy of
Benuamyne Sadler dwelling in or neere
East Smithfeild in [?XXXXXX] the said Hannse
Becker lodgeth th[?XXX XXX in XXXXXXXX]. which beeinge
filled upp did not make quite tenn butts of
sacke and those butts with sacke this examinate
sawe taken out of the said shippe the Kinge
David, and the said Sadler tolde this examinate
that the said twelve butts with sacke were
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Hannce Beckers and that hee soulde them for the use of the
said Hannce ecker, and that hee woulde not have taken
soe much paines but onely to gett his owne money in for
that hee said that Hannce Becker owed him
upwards of fifty poundes, and the steersman of the
Kinge David asked this examinate when hee wente aboard
the Kinge David to fetch away the said twelve
butts of sacke whether hee this examinate had bought
the Masters wynes, And this hee affirmeth to bee 
true, Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that the said
Sadler told this examinate that the said Hannce Becker
had given him order not to sell the said wines under
nyne poundes a butt, and said that Hannce Becker did say that
hee woulde rather drincke them out then hee would
sell them under nyne poundes a butt;/

Ad 16um affirmat, That about a fortnighte after this
examinate boughte the wynes aforesaid,
a youngeman came to this examinate and asked him
yf hee had boughte any wynes of Hannce Becker
and this replieinge that hee had bought some wynes
which were the said Beckersm that youngeman wente
away, and soone after returned againe with master Tryon
the Merchante and one other, who desiered to see the
marckes of those wynes, and thereuppon this examinate
tooke a Candle and wente downe into his Seller and
shewed them the caske of some of tose wynes
and the mar kes uppon the same, and the the said Tryon
desiered this examinate to goe to his the said Tryons
house to see his marcke uppon some wynes of
his, thereby to Judge whethere the marcke uppon
the said wynes hat this examinate boughte as
aforesaide was not counterfeeted, and within a
day or two after this examinate wente to the said master Tryons
house and there the said Tryon shewed this examinate
firste wynes in a seller under his owne house
and then wynes in a warehouse neere his owne house
all mrcked with the firste marcke in the
Margent hereof, to [?shew] that that was his usuall

'TF' [MARKE, LH MARGIN]

marcke, and hee verily beleeveth in his conscience that
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seaven of the said twelve butts wherein the wyne
was that this examinate boughte of the said Sadler
as aforesaid were originally and firste marcked
with the said firste marcke in the margent for that all that altered
the marcke uppon seaven of those butts from that marcked was
hackled cutt or raced with a knife or some
such instrument and [?XXXX], unproportionably
and imperrfectly donn, some of the bees beeinge
bigger at the bottome then the topp, and soe farr as
made the marcke uppon the said seaven
butts aggreeable to the firste marcke in the margent

[HB [MARKE, LH MARGIN]

of this his examinacon was straight
perfectly and handsomely donn with a marckeinge
iron as hee conceiveth, but by
hacklinge as hee conceiveth the same was
altered to the forme of the second marcke in
the margent hereof onely that ob some of them the [?X: X] on the topp did touch each other and the haher of the Citty
of London, and divers Coopers and all others
that have seene the said Caske did and doe
conceive and are cleerly of opinion that the
first marcke in the Margent hereof was
the true marcke that was first sett uppon 
the said seaven butts of wynes, and that that
which altered the said firste marcke to the
second marcke in the margent hereof was
falsified, and made uppon that first marcke
by defaceinge yt as aforesaid, and the rather
because there is a T on the topp of each
marcke uppon each of those seaven butts
which is noe wayes aggreeable to the name of
Hannce Becker, And this hee affirmeth uppon
his oath to bee true, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad 17um affirmat, That uppon one of the other
five butts wherein the sacke aforesaid was, there
was onely a little scratch, and noe marcke, and
uppon the other fower butts noe marcke at all
or signe of marcke that this examinate (who
earnestly looked them over too or three tymes)
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coulde descerne, And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to
bee true, Ac aliter humiou articulos nescit deponere Saveinge
that for the reasons deposed to the next precident
articles hee beleeveth that the said seaven butts
of wynes marcked as aforesaid were not the
said Hannce Neckers wynes, but the said master
Tryons;/

Ad 21um affirmat That the said Sadler soulde
the said wynes to this examinate or nyne poundes a butt
one with another filled upp ashoare, and hee
beleeveth that when this examinate bought them they
were well worth eleaven poundes a butt one with annother
to one that had had occasion to have boughy them to have drawen them out but this examinate
buying them to sell againe woulde not have given
more then hee did for them yest hath since soulde
two of them for 13li 10s a butt at
3 monethes day of payment and 4 at eleaven pounds a butt one at 11li 10s, and the rest is
yet in this Seller; And this hee affirmeth to bee
true, Ac aliter nescit./

John [?Shallfore] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
2o Julij 1635

Pro Drio Rego)

det/

John Ridley of Alnewicke in the County of Northumberland gentleman
aged about 27 yeares sworne before the right worshipfull Sir Henry
Marten knight Judge of his Majestyes high Court of the Admiraltye
and afterwards examined uppon certayne Interrogatoryes ministred to him
on the behalfe of his Majestye sayeth therunto as followeth videlicet./

To the first interrogatorye he sayeth That he hath heard that in
or about the moneth of ffebruarye last past there was a shipp
cast awaye at sea uppon the coast of Northumberland neere unto
Balme brough haveing in her at the tyme of her castinge away
(as he hath heard) two hundred weighte of Beaver wooll and upwards and
two or three barrells of nutmegg some lynnen cloath and
other goods And further he cannott depose./

To the second he sayeth that about one hundred and thirtye pound weight
of the sayd beaver wooll which (as he hath heard) came out of the sayd
shipp cast awaye neere Balme brough as aforesayd were sent up
to London by one Raph ffoster of Newcastle uppon
Tyne merchant to be disposed and sould for
the sayd ffosters use, all which beaver wooll came to the hands of
him this deponent and this deponent hath alreadye sould foure socre pound
weighte of the sayd beaver wooll for the sayd ffosters use, to Peter
Warren a Skinner dwelling in Gracious streete and William Borowes
(a
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a brasier dwellinge (as he thincketh) in Lothburye, for thirtye foure
shillings the pound and he hath the remaynder of the sayd beaver
wooll yet remayninge in his custodye, and he hath heard that the sayd
Raphe ffoster bought the sayd beaver of Nicholas ffoster of
Balmebrough Esquire Lord of the Mannor of Balmebrough and
that noe other goods but the sayd
beaver wooll before expressed came to this deponents hands or
disposinge except it were a handfull of nutmeggs or therabouts And further he cannott depose./

To the third he sayeth That he hath heard and beleiveth that the
sayd Raphe ffoster had a greate
Quantitye of the sayd beaver wooll then come to this deponents hands
as aforesayd but what greater quantitye he hath not heard,
alsoe he hath heard that the sayd ffoster had one Caske of nutmeggs
which came out of the sayd shipp out of severall barrells
which were broken to peeces and cast on shoare, but cannott guesse
at the quantitye or vallue of the sayd nutmeggs, and that he
hath likewise seene devers of the Countrye people and inhabitants
neere Balinebrough aforesayd have some a handfull and
some a hatt full of nutmeggs (which as he beleiveth) came out
of the sayd shipp, but cannott perticuler howe much any one
had of the sayd nutmeggs beaverwooll or other goods before
menconed, nor further depose to this interrogatorye then he hath
formerly declared And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to
be true./

John Ridltry [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
2o Julij 1635

Ex off.o/

Giles Curtis of Colchester say Maker aged 30ty
yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull Henry
Marteyn Knight Judge of his Majesties high Court of the

Admiralty sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath,

That this
examinate about a moneth before Midsomer
laste past was twelve monethes haveing occasion to
goe from Colchester to Dover wente to [?Rowhill] in
Essex to inquire for passage for Dover by
some boate and founde a Ketch about tenn or
twelve tonns called the John whereof
John Richardson was Master bounde as her Master said for
Dover, and this examinate imbarqued himself in her, and the
Master of her prmised to Land him at Dover and they
sett saile from Road[?hedge aforesaid and about wight
a clocke at nighte arrived at Mersey
in Essex, and there about tenn a clocke that nighte one Edward Legg [?XX] Colchester
Marchante, laded the sayd Ketch as full as
shee could sweim with bacon, fish butter, leather Raw hideas,
and ashes, but the perticuler quantity of each hee
cannott expresse, and with those goodes forthwith
after shee was laden the said Ketch sett saile from
Mersey, but the winde crossinge them, the said Ketch was
faine to put into Harty ferry in Kent neere ffeversham
and there officers came aboard her to seize the said goods
for the Kinge, but the said Richardson shewing them
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a Cockett which hee said hee had from the Customers at
Colchester to carry the said goodes to Dover, those officers
at Harty ferry dismissed the said ketch and her ladeinge
aforesaid, and therewith shee sayled directly to Callice in ffrannce
and never came to Dover at all and there delivered all the said
goodes to the said Edward Legg who himself wente a longe
thether in the said ketch, and there the said Legg and others ymployed
by himsould and disposed of the said goodes to the vallew of
one hundred poundes as hee thincketh, and hee heard Merchants
at Callice say that those goodes were worth 100li or 150li,
annd at Callice the said Edward Legg reladed the said Ketch with
soape, raysons, [?suiters] thredd and linnen cloth to bee brought
backe to Colchester, to the value as hee thincketh of
aboute one hundred poundes And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, who was carried in the said Ketch to Callice and
there sawe her outward ladeinge landed and sould and sawe
her there reladen by the said Legg, further hee sayeth that
after the said ketch was reladen at Callice this examinate tooke
other passage to Dover, and came backe to Colchester
before the said Ketch returned to Rowhedge, and this examinate
being returned to Colchester before the said Ketch  and
understandinge that shee was in Calme water, went downe
to Rowdge key to looke for some letters that hee expected
to bee brought from Callice by her and there in one nighte
sawe one John Hammon dwellinge
uppon a heath about a mile and a half beyond Colchester
carry away from there three loades of the goodes brought in her from Callice
and the said Edward Legg was then at the loadeing of those
goodes in that Cart, and hee hath heard one Anthony
Bland an officer of the Customehouse at Colchester say
that the said Legg had noe Cockett from thence for the
said goodes outwards or homewards neither paid any
custome for the same,;/

Signum [MARKE] Gyedij Curtis [MARKE, RH SIDE]
dco
----
2o Julij 1635./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Tokely contra Hendrix

1us. Tokely.

Rp Jm

Jacobus Hugason de Lingstedd in Comitatu Kantij
armiger, annos agens 50.ta aut eo circiter testis sua

Ad primum articulum Libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit
et deponit, That in the monethes of Auguste September
October, November, December, January, ffebruary
and March 1625, and from thense to the tyme and at the
tyme of his death which was in or about
October 1626 the articulate Corneluis Hugason deceased
was owner of the one moyety of the articulate shippe the
Seahorse and her tackle and furniture, and the articulate

Adrian Hendrix within the tyme articulate was
a parte Owner of that shippe as appeared by
accompts of disbursements and receits
for that shippe which this examinate hath seene, and
hee hath heard the said Corneluis Hugason
within the tyme articulate say that the articulate Robert Tokely
was within that tyme past Owner of the said shippe
and hath seene yt expressed in Corneluis Hugasons
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bookes of accompts that the said Tokely was a
part Owner of the said shippe within that tyme
And this hee affirmeth to bee true who
hath seene the said Corneluis Hugasons
accomptes expressinge him the saaid Corneluis to bee the Owner
of the one half of the said shippe
all the tyme aforesaid to the
tyme of his death, and hath proved in the
Chauncery that the said Corneluis Hugason
to the tyme of his death was the Owner of one
half of the said shippe;/

Ad secundum et tertium affirmat , That within the tyme articulate
the articulate shippe the Seahorse beeing at sea in his
Majesties service uppon the coaste of ffrannce
in a storme and stresse of weather loste her
mainemaste foremaste, and almost all her
rigginge, soe as for her new fittinge and
settings to sea againe there was laid out at
Dover five hundred and two poundes
or thereabouts which hee knoweth to bee true, for that hee
sawe the said shipp when shee retunred
into Dover haven out of the said storme
from the service aforesaid, and was acquainted
with most of the disbursements for the new
repaire of her and setting her to sea againe
and hath seene and hath now in his custody the
accompte of the said
disbursements which came to his handes as an

Administrator to the said Corneluis
Hugason, And hee
further sayeth, That for parte of the chardge
of the new fittinge and settinge to sea of the said
shippe the Seahorse after the storme
aforesaid, the articulate Robert Tokely
either by himself or some
other with his money which was due to him for
freighte of salte confiscated to his Majesty
out of the shippe the Bride, did pay
to William Rogers Saylmaker fifteene poundes
To Thomas [?Cull] Shipp Carpenter fifty sixe
poundes 13s 7d, To John Rogers blockmaker
17li 3s 3d To Thomas [?Cutter] 1li 12s 0pence and for
masts 50li which hee knoweth to bee true, for that
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hee sawe those monies paid out of the said Tokelies
freight monis aforesaid, Moreover hee sayeth that
when the monis aforesaid were paid, the said Tokely
did undertake to pay to one Clercke a Smith for iron
worcke don uppon the said shippe 29li 3s 1d, and hee
hath since heard the said Clercke acknowledge
that the said Tokely had paid him the same, and hee the
said Tokely the same tyme did either pay or undertake
to pay to one master Hopkins a Merchannt in London
for a bayle of Canvas ymployed about sailes
for the said shippe 18li in toto, 187li 11s 11s, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad quintum affirmat, That in a suite lately
dependinge in his Majesties highe Court of Chauncery betweene
this examinate as Administrator to the said Corneluis
Hugason deceased and the said Hendrix touching
moyety of the said shippe the Seahorse belonginge to the
said Corneluis Hugason and some other thinges
in defferense betweene, hee the said Hendrix in the
yeare 1633 did give to this examinate an accompte of the
tenor of the second schedule articulate excepting the
name of Bull for Oull, and hee the aid Hendrix did by that accompte pretend to have made good
or paid tto the said Tokely, for the moyetye of the
monies expressed in that accompte 93li 16s due
fgor the said Corneluis Hugasons moyety of the
said shippe the Seahorse, which this examinate was
willinge to allowe to the said Hendrix and woulde have
paid to him by way of defalcacon out of
monies that hee the said Hendrix had received since the death
of the said Corneluis Hugason
for the freights and earnings of the
Corneluis Hugasons moyety
of the said shippe which farr exceeded that 93li 16s
and all other due disbursements for the same moyety
of that shippe, And this hee affirmeth uppon
his oath to bee true, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad sextum nescit deponere, Saveinge that the said
Hendrix in the accompte aforesaid given to this
examinate did demannd interest for the said 93li 16s
amongst other disbursements after the rate of 8 per
Centum from the 20th of July 1627 to the yeare
1633;./

Super reliquis articulos non examinatur;/

James Hugessen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Pro Nathaniele Morris/

Rp J m.

Richardus Russell de Ratcliffe in Comitatu Middlesex nauta aetatis 42
annorum aut circiter testis productus iuratus et examinatus
dicit et deponit prout sequitur videlicet.

That in the moneth of March last past James Grolier merchant then
resident at Mallega did send twelve butts of wyne to the waters side
to be laden abord some shipp or other, and this deponent
supposinge the sayd wynes to be the goods of the said Grolier did by
his the sayd Groliers order cause them to e laden aboard the shipp
the Alice of London (wherof this deponent is master) alsoe the sayd Groliers servant broughte abord the sayd shipp a little box and a letter, and a barrell
of almonds, which were all the goods laden abord the sayd shipp by the sayd
Grolier, the voyage aforesayd, and after the ladinge of the sayd goods this
deponent signed a bill of ladinge for the delivery of the sayd twelve butts of
wyne unto the sayd James Grolier or his Assignes in this port of London
And this deponent alsoe sayeth that about a weeke after the
ladinge of the sayd wynes the sayd Grolier forsooke the house
where he formerly dwelled in Mallega, and as he hath heard
fledd to Port Royall in Spayne beinge a priviledged place, and the
next day after the sayd Grolier forsooke Mallega this deponent was clapte
into prison at Mallega, when his shipp had in all her ladinge and readye
to depart from thence for England, and was forced to deliver uppon
oath  what goods were laden abord the sayd shipp by the sayd Grolier
or any wayes did belonge unto him and theruppon this deponent did deliver
uppon his oath that the sayd twelve butts of wyne and barrells of almonds
boxe and letter aforesayd and noe more goods whatsoever were laden by and for the accompte of the sayd
Grolier, and before this deponent could be released out of prison
he was inforced to procure one Richard Buspetch an English merchant resident at Mallega to give security unto the Kinge
of Spaynes officers to satisfye unto them for the sayd wynes and almonds
laden by the sayd Grolier abord this deponents sayd shipp accordinge to the
price which the sayd Grolier should have payd for them and delivered them the box and letter aforesayd And he sayeth
by vertue of his oath that either the says Buspetch hath alreadye or
this deponent or the sayd Buspetch must make satisfaction unto the
Spaniards for all the sayd wynes and almonds accordinge to the true
and uttermost vallue of them there, at that tyme, And this deponent
alsoe sayth that uppon the ladinge of the sayd goods he at the
request of the sayd Grolier did lend unto him the saud Grolier
the ballue of two thousand ryalls in black money and hal;fe a barrell
of gunn powder for which the sayd Grolier gave him a bill of Exchange
charhed uppon his father for fiftye pounds sterling; which money or any
parte therof his sayd father refuseth to paye, And he alsoe sayeth that
the sayd shipp
with the sayd twelve utts of wyne and barrell of Almonds before 
mencioned and other the ladinge safely arrived in this porte of London
and the sayd twelve butts of wyne and barrell of Almonds were
remayninge in the custodye of this deponent and his Assignes at the tyme
when master Smyth one of the officers did attach whatsoever goods laden
abord the sayd shipp at Mallega by the sayd James Grolier And this
he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true./

Richd: Russell: [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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7o Julij 1635

Anderson contra Gibbs./

1s

det.

Alexander Robinson precinctus sancta Catherine ad turrim London
Waterman aetatis 22 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte dicti Anderson in hac parte datus et onlat dicit et
deponit That within the tyme in the voyage articulate the articulate John Gibbs
was master of the articulate shipp the Truelove and the sayd Robert Aderson
was his mate, and soe respectively accompted which he knoweth to be true for that he was one of the company
of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage.

Ad secundum affirmat, That in the voyage in question whilest the sayd shipp was at
Marcellis the sayd Gibbs in this deponents hearinge did threaten to lay the sayd
Anderson fast enough and it was henerally reported by the company of
the sayd shipp that the sayd Gibbs had [?feed] two Sargeants to arrest the sayd
Anderson, which caused the sayd Anderson (havinge notice therof,)
to keepe within dores at one Kings house untill such tyme as the sayd
Anderson had procured one master Codgill an English merchant resident at
Marcellis to pacifye the sayd Gibbs Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad tertium et quartum articulos dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the Truelobe in her
course between Marcellis and Ireland, homewards bound came to
an anchor neere unto Corke in Ireland within shott of the shoare, and at
that tyme the Chirurgeon and one Stickey were sicke
and when the sayd shipp was there moored in safetye the sayd Anderson
went on shoare to gett some refreshinge for those that were sicke and did
accordingly bringe abord the sayd shipp two henns a little baskett of eggs
and a glasse bottle of beere and then returned on shoare agayne and the next day the sayd Anderson comminge
to the saide of the sayd shipp in a boate the sayd Gibbs refused to
suffer him to come on bord, but tould the sayd Anderson that if
he did come abord it should be the worse for him, and then one George
Hicks[?XX] stept to the shipps side and tould the
sayd Anderson in this deponents hearinge that the sayd Gibbs jhad a sword readye drawen in the steeridge
and then the sayd Anderson requested the sayd Gibbs that if he would not
suffer him to come on bord to space him some of his
the sayd Andersons owne apparrell which he needed, and then this deponent in the
presence of the sayd Gibbs delivered the sayd Anderson a Cloake a payre
of shooes and some other apparrell which he asked for. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quintum nescit deponere./

Ad sexytum affirmat That in the sayd voyage the sayd shipp the Truelove
was forced to putt into the roade of Marvelis in the entrance of the straights by eight Turkish men of warr and whilest she was in that roade
the sayd Gibbs (but for what cause he knoweth not) tyed the sayd Anderson
to the Capsten and then this deponent and another of the company cutt the
rope, by which he was tyed, and the sayd Gibbs tyeinge him againe
to the Capsten by his armes the sayd Anderson slipt out one of his armes
and then the sayd Gibbs sayd that if he could not keepe faste his armes he
would keepe fast his necke and then putt a small Hamborough lyne
about his necke, and turned it over the Captsten barr, insoemuch that
the sayd Anderson lookt blacke in the face, and then the steward of the
sayd shipp asked the sayd Gibbs what he meaned to doe and wheither he
would hange the sayd Anderson, and then this deponent and the sayd 
Steward pulled the sayd Lyne out of the sayd Gibbs his hand and
lett it loose, and then the sayd Anderson beinge almost strangled fell
downe uppon the decke, and laye there, and when the
sayd Anderson came to himselfe agayne he rose up ad ran to the shipps side
amd would have gone overbord sayeing that he had rather drowne himselfe
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then live and be used soe like a dogge in the sayd shipp or to
that effecte, and would have gone overbord if this deponent and
some others of the company had not helde him, Et aliter nescit deponere./
saveing he sayeth that whilest the sayd shipp was at Marcellis
the sayd voyage the sayd Anderson tellinge the master that there was
not powder and shott enough in the sayd shipp, the sayd Gibbs caused
him the sayd Anderson to be made fast to the Capsten, and in the sayd
voyage the sayd Gibbs often called the sayd Anderson promooter and
Piratt./

Ad septium nescit deponere savinge he sayeth the sayd Gibbs lefte the sayd
Anderson on shoare at Corke and would not suffer him to come
on bord the sayd shipp as before he hath deposed/

Ad octavum affirmat That the sayd Anderson shewed this deponent a note
which hee tooke out of his chest in the sayd voyage longe before
he was lefte on shoare at Corke, wherby it appeared that the
sayd Anderson was shipt by the sayd Gibbs for three pounds per
moneth, Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad nonum et peticoeium et Cerij in eadem menconnat nescit aliter qua
prius/

Ad reliquos articulos dco alluis non examinatur./

Idem super Interogatorria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he this respondent did serve in the sayd shipp the
Truelove the voyage in question as a common man and that he
hath knowne the sayd Anderson but since the beginninge of the voyage in question, dureinge
which tyme this respondent did never observe him to be a
mutinous or quarrlesome man, or given to drinckinge Et aliter nescite respondere

Ad secundum respondet That when the sayd shipp was at Marcellis
the sayd voyage she laye close by the shoare soe that most of the
company went on shoare there at tymes Et aliter nescit respondere savinge
he hath heard that there were some angrye words past betweene the sayd
Anderson and the articulate Gilbert Angell, and that the sayd Angell
gave the sayd Anderson a box on the eare, But this respondent was not
present therat./

Ad tertium That whilest the sayd shipp remayned at anchor
neere Corke she stad there only for a fayre wynde, and was to
depart from thence with the first fayre wynde, and whilest she
laye there the sayd Anderson went on shoare to fgett some refreshment
for those that were sicke, and the same nighte after th
sayd Anderson had sent some eggs and other things abord he
returned on ahoare agayne and caryed Roberte Dampford the Chirurgeon of the sayd shipp with him
and stayd on shoare that night, and the next day the sayd
Anderson waved to the shipp for a boate to come on shoare to
fetch them, and uppon the say dwavinge the sayd Gibbs
went on shoare himselfe, but (as he hath heard) would not suffer
the sayd Anderson and Damford to come into the sayd boate, and
that he veleiveth that the sayd Anderson when he went first on
shoare at Corke went on shoare there of his owne accorde
for that the sayd Gibbs was then on shoare likewise, Et aliter nescit
respondere savinge he sayeth thathe doth not well remember who
was sicke the ty,e interrogated but the sayd Damford and one Stucklye
one of the quarte matsres and savinge he sayeth that the wynde
blewe very hard and the weather was tempestuous for the most
part of the tyme whilest the sayd shipp was moored at Corke, but to his
best remembrance the sayd Anderson was abord the sayd shipp when the
weather
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Ad quartum respondet That after the sayd shipp was forced into the
roade of Marveilis and kept in there by eighte Turks men of warr, the
sayd Robert Anderson, and Gilbert Angell the masters mates and Robert
Damford the Chirurgeon of the sayd shipp were sent on shoare by the sayd
John Gibbs, to desire the aide and assistance of the towne to defend
them from the sayd Turks men of warr, if need should require, which day
the sayd Anderson returned abord the sayd shipp about three or
fower of the clocke in the afternoone; and was not any wayes distempered
with drincke that this deponent could perceive, and this respondent stayed
on shoare a little while after the sayd Anderson was gonne abord for the
cominge of the sayd Angell and Damford to carrye them abord, and when
he returned abord he dound the sayd Anderson at the Captsen,
and after he soe came aborde he did not heare the sayd Anderson give
the sayd Gibbs any ill or uncivill language at that tyme or any other tyme duringe the sayd voyage nor drawe his knife
at him Et aliter nescit respondere. savinge he sayeth that the sayd Anderson
when he was at the Capsten in the extremitye of his torture tould
the sayd Gibbs that it was baselye donne to use him in that kinde./

Ad sextum respondet That he hath heard some of the company say that uppon
a complaynte proferred by the sayd Anderson to the Bord Deputye
of Ireland there was a Pursevant sent from Dublyn to
Waterford to fetch the sayd Gibbs to Dublyn but he hath heard that
there were meanes used soe that the busines went not
forward Et aliter nescit respondere/

Alexander Robinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

2s

Robertus Doves precinctus sancti Petri ad vincula London
nauta aetatis 19 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus

Ad primum articulum affirmat That within ye articulate the articulate John
Gibbs was master of the articulate shipp the Truelove and the articulate
Robert Anderson was masters mate of her in the voyage articulate which he
knoweth to be true for that he was one of the company of the sayd shipp
the sayd voyage./

Ad secundum affirmat That in the coyage in question whilest the sayd shipp
the Truelove was ar Marcellis the sayd Gibbs called to the sayd
Anderson to come on shoare to see the fish delivered into the
warehouse, and beinge on shoare some of the company espied
two baylliffe or officers which had the day before arrested Gilnert
Angell at the suite of the sayd Ginns, and because the sayd Gibbs had
then lately thretned to imprison the sayd Anderson, the sayd Anderson
seeinge the sayd officers ran away and gott into the house of one Kinge
an Englishman in Marcellis and there stayd untill he had procured
master Codgill the merchant unto whom the sayd shipps ladinge was
delivered to make peace betweene him and the sayd Gibbs, but
for what cause the sayd Ginns soe threatned to imprison the sayd
Anderson he knoweth not aliter deponere/

Ad tertium affirmat Tht the sayd shipp the Truelove in her course
betweene Marcellis and Ireland homewards bound came to an anchor
neere Corke within a flighte shott of the shoare, and at that tyme Robert
Damford the Chirurgeon and one Richard Stuckey one of the quarter masters
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of the quartermasters of the sayd shipp beinge sicke, the sayd Anderson
went on shoare to gett some refreshment for those sicke men, after
the sayd shipp was moored in safetye, and this deponent being on shoare
sawe when the sayd Anderson went about to houses to inquire for henns and
other things for the sicke men but this deponent was on shoare when the sayd
Anderson returned on board Et ideo nescit deponere/

Ad quartum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth he heard the sayd Gibbs tell
the sayd Anderson beinge come in a boate to the sayd shipps side
when she laye neere Corke as aforesayd that he should
not come abord the sayd shipp./

Ad quintum affirmat That after the premisses the sayd Gibbs coming on
shoare with his boate at an Island neere Corke, the sayd Anderson
watchinge there on shoare for the cominge of the sayd boate
desired the sayd Ginns for gods sake that he mighte come into
the sayd boate, and to goe abord with him and had a
letter to deliver to the master from the merchants factor in Ireland
and waded into the water of purpose to goe into the boate
but the sayd Gibbs tould him that he should not come into the
sayd boate and that he had sworne to the contrary, and tooke th
oare out of the hands of him that steered the sayd boate and
therwith putt off the sayd boate farther from the shoare
and caused his servant Robert Bray to wade in the water as high
as his middle to fetch the sayd letter The premisses he knoweth to be
true for that he was one of those which was in the sayd boat at that
tyme and helped to rowe her./ Et aliter nescit./

Ad sextum affirmat That the sayd shipp the Truelove the voyage
aforesayd beinge chaced by eighte Turks men of warr and
forced to putt into the roade of Marveiles, some of the officers
of the kinge of Spaynes Admiraltasgoe in this deponents sighte
rowed abord the sayd shipp, to knowe what she was and
what was her ladinge, but the sayd Gibbs (as he this deponent hath heard)
would not suffer them to looke into the hould of the sayd shipp
to see what she was laden with, wheruppon the sayd officers of the

Admiraltasgoe returninge on shoare seized uppon this deponent
and some others of the company that were then on shoare there and
would have caryed them to prison but that the Chirurgeon
of the sayd shipp who was then on shoare procured some of the
twne to intreate for their libertye and dismission, and afterwards
the sayd Anderson returninge abord the sayd shipp (as he
hath heard divers of the company saye) tould the sayd Gibbs
that he had donne very well to bringe his company in trouble
on shoare, and theruppon and for noe other reason (as he
hath heard and beleiveth the sayd Gibbs grewe very angry
with the sayd Anderson and caused him to be broughte to
the Capsten, and when this deponent reyturned on board
the sayd shipp at Marvellis this deponent
found the sayd Anderson made fast to the Capsten, and
whilest he was soe made fast to the Capsten the sayd Gibbs
putt a small rope about his necke and had almost strangled
him, and (as he beleiveth) would have strangled him if his precontest
Alexander Robinson had not cutt or loosened the rope, and at
anther tyme the sayd voyage the sayd Gibbs caused his mate
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the sayd Anderson to be broughte to the Capsten when the sayd shipp
(was him the Islands of Marcellis for sayeinge that there was not
powder and shott enough abord her, and he alsoe that in the voyage
aforesayd whilest the said shipp ridd at anchor at Passage neere
Waterford in Ireland the sayd Gibbs cominge abord the sayd
shipp about twelve or one of the clocke at nighte, because there
were not men enough are in readines by the sayd shipps side to
hand him into the shipp, begann to rayle at one of his mater
named Gilbert Angell and asked where that ould rogue Angell
answer beinge made that he was in his Caben the said Gibbs
and ould Rascall, and askted if he could not wayte till he came abord
wheruppon the sayd Angell (havinge bene an antient commannder
hearinge the sayd Gibbs soe rayle at him, came out of his Cabon
and to the said Gibbs and ioustled him, and then the said Gibbs
gave him three or fower blowes with his fiste, and afterwards
catched hould of a handkercher which the sayd Angell had about his
necke, had almost strangled him, and then this deponent called to one of
the company for a knife to cutt the said handkercher which was donne
accordingly withall speed but never the lesse the said Angell was
soe amazed and astonished that he was not able to stand and would
have fallen over boad, (as this deponent beleiveth) if he this deponent
had not helde him, and the said Gibbs comannded this deponent not to
hould him, and then this deponent sayd that if he should not houlde him
he would fall over bord whereuunto the said Gibbe replyed lett
him goe and be hanged and called to his boy for his sword and
pistoll and sayd that the he would pistoll the said Angell and
run him through, and he further sayeth that the said Gibbs is a
very envious and malicious man and will remember an ould grudge
alonge tyme after, and the voyage in question the said Gibbs was
a very severe and harsh men to his company and would panish any
of them when he pleased without any iust cause, and would
likewise abuse and punish their bellieswhen the
sayd shipp was in Corke where there was plenty of victualls to
bee had, at an easye rate, the said Gibbs would allowe
but about halfe a pound of bread to a man for a whole day and
a peece of beefe of not above one pound weighte to
foure men for a whole day, and the allowance was noe greater abord
the sayd shipp for the space of foure monethes in the voyafe
aforesayd whilest the said shipp was in the streights And this
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3.s Anderson contra Gibbs./

Rp J m.

Johannes Jinkin Precinctus Sancta Katherina prope
Turrim London nauta annos agens 28 aut eo circiter testis
in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod
Robertum Anderson partem prodcutem per octo annos
ultimum et amplius novit et Johannem Gibbs partem contra
quam producitur per 14. menses ultimum et amplius etiam
novit ut dicit:

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte Anderson in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That within the tyme articulate in the shipp and voyage
articulate the articulate John Gibbs was Master and Robert Anderson,
his Mate Which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee was
Boatswaine of that shippe in the same voyage;

Ad secundum nescit deponere Saving that at Marcellis
the voyage articulate this examinate heard the said Gibbs the Master
say that hee had a warrante to clapp upp in prison
the said Anderson his Mate and some others of his
company./

Ad tertium affirmat That homewards bounde from Marcellis
the said voyage, the said shippe arrived uppon the coaste
of Ireland and came to an anchor there within the harbour
of Corcke within shott of the shoare, and at that tyme
three or fower of her Company were sicke
and aboute three weekes after the said shippe
came there to anchor one nighte the said Anderson
the Masters Mate in a strange boate that was
aboard the shipp the Truelove went (as yt was
said) a shoare there, which this examinate beleeveth to bee
true for that when this examinate went to bedd that night
in that shippe, the said Anderson was in her and the
nexte morneinge this examinate missinge him, asked
where hee was, and the watch tolde him that the said
Anderson wente on shoare with the Chirurgeon
of the shippe that night about tenn a clocke
and was not returned aboard againe and at that
tyme three or fower of the said shippes company
were sicke whereof the Chirugdon was one, and
Anderson hath since said in this examinates heareing
that hee went on shoare as aforesaid to buy
freshe victuall for those sicke menn and the nexte
day iin the afternoone the said Gibbs the Master
in his boate rowed neere the shoare at
an Island in Corcke harbour to speake with one Captaine
Crippes and to receive a letter from him the said
Crippes, and the water beeing there shoalde soe that the
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boate could not [?fleete] close to the shoare, the said Ginns
caused his mann to wade on shoare to fetch the letter
and the said Anderson beeing then on shoare there desired
the said Gibbs to lett him goe a board the said shipp
in his boate, and waded towards the boate to come into her
but Gibbs tolde him hee shoulde not come into his
boate nor come aboard his shippe againe and his
mann beeing returned with the letter into the boate
the said Gibbs tooke an oare and shuffed of his
boate, that Anderson might not come into her, and badd
him walke and meete him at divellinge and soe
Anderson returned backe for that tyme to the shoare
and there remained all the nexte nighte, And this
hee knoweth to bee true who was the same tyme
in the said boate with Gibbs the Master. At aliter
nescit;/

Ad quartum affirmat That the nexte day followeinge the said
Anderson in a strange boate came to the side of
the said shipp: the Truelove, and the said Gibbs the
Master seeing him, forbad him to come aboard the saif
him, and the Gonner did watch uppon the decke to see
yf Anderson offered to come aboard the said shipp
And this hee affirmeth to bee true of his sighte
and knowledge beeing then in the said shippe the Truelove
Ac aliter nescit./

Ad wuintum nescit deponere aliter qua prius;/

Ad sextum affirmat That in the said voyage, the said shippe the
Truelove was put into Marvelis by Turcksmen of 
warr that chaced her, and the second day after they
came thither

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clocke in the forenoone the third day after their arrivall there the said Anderson and Angell
the two Masters Mate wente on shoare there (as yt
was said) to desire the Captaine of the Castle at
Velis to ayde the said shippe the Truelove yf the
Turcksmen of warr shoulde come betweene her 
and the shoare, and they came not aboard the Truelove
againe untill fower a clocke that afternoone, and
soone after they were returned aboard the Truelove
againe, Gibbs the Master called to this examinate for
Lynes to bringe the said Anderson to the Capsten, and
thereuppon this examinate heaved downe a peece of Lyne and
wente out of the way not beeing willinge to meddle
therein and then the said Gibbs himself with two or three 
of his quarter masters tied the said Anderson to
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the Capsten, but for what cause hee cannott expresse And
this hee affirmeth to bee true of his sighte and knowledge
Ac aliter hum[?XX] articulum nescit deponere Saveinge
that afterwardes within the Islandes of Marcellis the
said voyage hee the said Gibbs did cause the said
Anderson his Mate to bee brought againe to the Capsten
but for what cause hee knoweth not, onely hee sayeth
that at the same tyme the said Anderson founde
fawlte and tolde Gibbs that there was not powder
and shott enoughe in the shippe to furnishe her Gonns
and thereuppon Gibbs and hee [?grewe] to some wordes
which this examinate cannott expresse beeing then
busye in the voate fetchinge a Cable aboard
but heard them scholeing, and before hee went
into the boate heard Anderson tell Gibbs that
they wanted powder and shott and heard them at
variance about the same, and when this examinate
returned with the boate afaine aboard the shipp
founde the said Anderson at the Capsten, And
hee sayeth that the said Gibbs is a mann of
malicious and envious disposicon and whilest the said
shippe was in the roade of Corcke, one day the
said Gibbs wente aboard a dutchman to buy beanes
and returned aboard agaone about seaven a clocke at night and
those that rowed him came aboard very wett
yt beeing then rainy weather, and about tenn a clocke
that nighte the said Gibbs called to have the
watch sett, which was an unseasonable tyme most
of the company beeing then a sleepe, the watch using
to bee sett about eighte a clocke, and seeing but few
menn come uppon his calle, the said Gibbs tooke a
Candle and lanthorne and wente downe to looke for
them, and there findinge one William Sambrowe one of
those that had rowed him aboard the dutchman
(who came wett and weary aboard but two houres
ebefore) asleepe fell uppon the said Sambrowe
and beate him with a Crabtree cudgill and broke his
head and beate him with his cudgill uppon the
bare leggs and made his shinns bleed, and beate his
armes blacke in a most cruell way for noe
other cause or reason (as this examinate [?XXXXweth] pr
ever heard of, but for beeing asleepe as a foresaid

Ad septium nescit deponere, Saveing that the said Anderson
came not from Ireland in the said shippe ye Truelove
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Ad octavum affirmat That the said Anderson before Gibbs
refused to lett him come againe into the Truelove in
Ireland as aforesaid, had served in her aboute
twelve monethes, which hee knoweth to bee true
for that hee this examinate had then served in the
said shippe about soe longe Ac aliter nescit

Ad nonum et [?XXXX] in eod mentionat nescit deponere, aliter
qua prius, Saving that hee knoweth that there were
no victualls in the said shipp fitt for sicke menn
when the said Anderson went on shoare at Corcke
as aforesaid to buy (as hee hath since said)
victualls for them, and the nexte day the said
Captaine Cripps and Anderson and the
Chirurgeon of the said shippe stood uppon the
shoare uppon the Island in the harbour of
Corcke haleinge the Truelove (as
hee guesseth about fower houres
before Gibbs with his boate went off towardes
them as aforesaid, they in the shippe not
knoweing what they were the Truelove
rideing all that tyme within ffallcon shott of them,
and then both Anderson and the Chirurgeon desiered to
goe aboard the shippe in that boate and Anderson
waded upp to the knees to come aboard her and Captaine
Cripps desiered the said Gibbs to take them in
but Gibbs refused and said that hee would
not take them in, and then this examinate sawe the
Carpenters Mate throwe a purse with money
out of the boate uppon the strand to the said
Anderson;/

Super reliquos articulos non examinatur;/

Ad Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum nescit respondere aliter qua prius;/

Ad secundum nescit respondere./

Ad tertium respondet That the said shipp the Truelove
stayed at Corcke whilest shee remained there onely for a winde to bringe her
from thence, and the weather was then foule and tempetuous
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(as hee as tolde) Anderson and the Chirurgeon wente on shoare
the nighte aforesaid togeather at Corcke and they were suffered to
come noe more aboard the said shippe to his knowledge, and at
that tyme one Stucky, and the Cooper, and the
Chirurgeon, and one Mellett were sicke as they
saied, and hee heard Stucky often tymes speake to others of the shipps
company to buy him freshe victualls and hee heard
the Chirurgeon the Eveninge before hee went
on shoare at Corcke, say that hee would goe on
shoare there to buy him some freshe victualls/

Ad quartum nescit respondere aliter qua prius in depoibus suis
continettur, Saveinge that after the said Anderson came
on board from Velis before hee was brought to
the Capsten as aforesaid, this respondent heard him
and the Master schoolinge togeather, but did not heare
what wordes passed betweene them, and whilest
Anderson was at the Captsen there, this respondent
heard him utter some oathes, and sweare that hee
would bee even with them that brought him to
the Capsten,

Ad quintum respondet, That the said voyage, this respondent
oftentymes heard Gibbs and Anderon
in scholl and revile one the other in ill termes and
epeeches, and names, but how many tyme, with what
termes and speeches, and in what severall place or
places hee cannott expresse;/

Ad sextum respondet, THat hee hard some of the company
of the said shippe say, that the Lord Deputy of
Ireland sent his Pursevant to waterford to
fetch Gibbs the Master to Dublin to answere a
complainte made to him by Anderson and the
Chirurgeon, and that their Marchant had stopt
the Parsevant, Ac aliter nescit:/

Signum
ci  'IG' Johis Jinkins; [MARKE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

4.s Anderson/

Rp J m

Robertus Barcker de Lymehouse in Comitatu Middlesex
nauta, annos agens 30ta aut eo circiter testis in hac causa
productus, iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Robertum Anderson
partem producen per 14eum menses ultimum et amplius aut eo
circiter novit et Johem Hibbs partem contra quam
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Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte Anderson in hac parte
datus et oblatus dicit et deponit, That within the tyme
articulate, the articulate John Gibbs was Master and Robert Anderson
his Mate in the shippe and voyage articulate which hee knoweth
to bee true who was one of the quarter masters
of that shippe in the said voyage;/

Ad secundum nescit deponere;/

Ad tertium et quartum affirmat That the articulate shippe the Truel;ove
homewardes bounde the voyage articulate from Marcellis
arrived in the harbour of Corcke and there came
to an anchor within ffallcon shott of the shoare,
and about three weekes after the said shippe arrived
there, and whilest shee lay safely moored in that
harbour not above a muskett shott from the shoare,
the said Robert Anderson, and Robert Danford
the Chirurgeon of the said shippe (as this
examinate, beeing then at his reste in his Cabon was
tolde by othes of the company of that shippe)
aboute fower of the Clocke one morneinge
wente togeather on shoare at Corcke in one
Captaine Coxe his boate, but for what cause they went
then on shooare this examinate knoweth not, but
sayeth that at that tyme the Chirurgeon aforesaid
as alsoe one Stucky one of the quarter
masters of the said shippe were sicke, and
hee sayeth that the same day betweene twelve and
one a clocke the said Anderson and the Chirurgeon
and one Captaine Cripps came downe uppon the
Island about ffallcon shott from the said shippe
the Truelove and there stood and haled her, and yet
the Master would not lett his boate goe from his shipp
untill about fower of the clocke that afternoone
and then the said Gibbs himself with this examinate
and others of his Company in his boate rowed
neere the shoare where the said Captaine Crippes
Anderson and the Chirurgeon were to sea yf they
had brought an answere of a letter that the
said Gibbs the Master had sent to his Marchant
to Dublin, and commeinge neere the shoare the boate
not being  able to fleete drye by reason of the
[?suffe] of the sea, the said Anderson waded upp
to the knees in the water and came to the side
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of the said boate and asked Gibbs the Master yf hee shoulde
goe aboard with him, and Gibbs tolde him noe for that
hee hd sworne the contrary, and Gibbs had then an oare in
his hande to keepe the boate from the rocks as hee conceiveth
and soe Anderson returned backe againe and both
Anderson and the Chirurgeon, and Captaine Cripps on
their behalf, did earnestly intreate the said
Gibbs to carry them the said Anderson and the Chirurgeon
aboard with him, but Gibbs refused to take them
in but sent his man a shoare to Captaine Cripps
for a letter which his mann brought to him, and then
Gibbs returned againe aboard his shippe
leaveinge the said Anderson and the said Chirurgeon
bhinde him a shoare, and the nexte day the said
Anderson in a boate came to the side of the said
shippe, but this exa,inate beeing then in the Cockroome
of the Truelove did not heare what Anderson
spake to Gibbs the Master or Gibbs to him, but was
tolde by others of that shipps company that
the said Anderson [?seered] to come aboard the
said shipp, and that Gibbs the Master denied him soe
to doe, but said that hee shoulde have any
thinges that he had in the shippe, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true, Ac aliter ad humopi articulos
nescit deponere;/

Ad sextum affirmat That in the said shippes voyage aforesaid
at Marcelis, the said Gibbs and Master and some of
his company brought the said Anderson his
Mate to the Captsen and there tied him, but for
what cause hee knoweth not, and afterwardes in the
said voyage betweene Marcellis Islandes, the said Gibbs the Master caused the said Anderson his
Mate to bee tied againe to the Captsen, and at
that tyme faulte was founde by all the company
of the said shippe that shee had not powder and shott
enoughe aboard her for her ordnannce and the said
Anderson then spake to the said Gibbs that they
might have more powder and shott provided and 
about the same the said Gibbs and Anderson fell out and badd wordes
were given on both sides which this examinate now
remembreth not, and thereuppon the said Gibbs caused the said Anderson to bee broughte to
the Captsen, and hee sayeth that the said Gibbs is
of a very hasty and colericke disposicon, and
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hee sayeth that whilest the said shippe lay in the harbour
of Corcke the said Gibbs the Master with some of his
company wente to a place called the Passage in
the same harbour to buy a hogshead of beanes and
returned againe wett (the weather beeing rayny)
betweene seaven and eighte of the clocke that
Eveninge, and the same Eveninge about tenn
of the Clocke the said Gibbs the Master called to
sett the watch which was an unseasonable tyme
for the doeinge thereof, the watch iseinge to bee
sett constantly about eighte of the clocke in the
Eveinge, and divers of the menn beeing then gon
into their Cabbins to thei reste, and not commeing
soe soone as hee called, the said Gibbs called for
a Candle and Lantherne and with a Crabtree cudgill
wente downe betweene the decks, and there finding
William Sambrowe one of his Company that
came wett aboard with him from Passage in his
Cabon, the said Gibbs fell uppn him with his
said Cudgill and beate him and broke his head, and
beate him aboute the bare leggs and made then swell
and beate his armes blacke and blew, and after hee
came uppon the decke fell uppon him and
beate him againe wirh the same Cudgilll
in a cruell manner, for noe other cause, to this
examinats knowledge, but for not commeinge, to sett the 
watch when hee called as aforesaid, and hee the
said Gibbs in the said voyage did bringe nyne
or tenn others of his Company to the Capsten
but for what cause hee knoweth not And
this hee affirmeth to bee true who served in
the said shippe all the voyage aforesaid, Ac
aliter nescit./

Ad septium nescit deponere, Saveinge that the said
Anderson did not come from Ireland in the said
shippe the Truelove;/

Ad octavum affirmat That the said Anderson,
before hee was kept out of the said shippe at
Corcke as aforesaid, had served in her twelve
monethes, and hee heard Gibbs the Master day
that hee must pay the said Anderson three
poundes a moneth for his wages that voyage, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true who served in that
shippe and voyage all that tyme, Ac aliter nescit;/
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Ad nonum et schedulam annex nescit deponere aliter qua prius, Saveinge
that whilst the said Captaine Cripps, Anderson and the
Chirurgeon stayed on shoare haleinge the Truelove
as aforesaide, the said Gibbs and his company did see
and heare their, but knewe not who they were, and wente
not to them untill about fower houres after they firste
haled her, shee beeing within ffallcon shott of them
and after the Master refused to take them into his boate
the Carpenters Mate threwe some monies in a
little Canvas bagg to Anderson uppon the strande.

Ad Interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum nesci respondere aliter qua prius;

Ad secundum nescit respondere, Saveinge that hee hath
heard by some of he said shippes company that
the interrogate Anderson and Angell were togeather
by the eares at Marcellis, and at one tyme in the
said voyage at Marcellis or Talloone
aboard the said shippe, the said Angell and Anderson
were togeather by the eares and changed a bothe or
two, and the said Gibbs the Master and this respondent then
parted them, and yf the said Angell and Anderson
had then and there killed one another, hee beleeveth
that the said shippe and goodes had bin there
loste and confiscated;/

Ad tertium respondet That whilst the said shipp the Truelove
remayned at an anchor at Corcke, shee stayed there
onely for a winde expectinge every houre a faire
winde to bee gonn and for the most part of the
tyme that the said shippe there stayed the weather
was very foule and tempestuous, and hee sayeth that
hee doth not knowe that the said Anderson and the
Chirurgeon or either of them ever came aboard
the said shippe after Gibbs refused to take then
in as aforesaid, and when they went on shoare
at that tyme, the Chirurgeon and one Stucky
were sicke, Ac aliter qua prius nescit/

Ad quartum affirmat, That whilst the said shippe was
at Marvelis the voyage aforesaid and whilst
shee was kepte in there by eighte Turckes menn
of warr that lay within saker shott of her or shortly after the [?XXXXXXX]
said Anderson wente on shoare and was absent from
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the Truelove three or fower houres, and when hee
came aboardher againe was some thinge in
drincke, and at that tyme Gibbs and Anderson
quarrelled one with the other, and this respondent did then
heare Anderson sweare an oath or two, but what oaths
they were hee cannot now remember Ac aliter
nescit./

Ad quintum respondet, That at Marcellis Islandes when
they fell out about the powder and shott as aforesaid
the said Anderson called the said Gibbs once or twice
out of his name, but what the wordes were hee
now remembreth not, Ac aliter nescit:/

Ad sextum nesctit respondere Saveinge that hee heard
the said Anderson say that there came a Pursevant
from Dublin to Waterford sent by the lord
deputy to bringe Gibbs the Master upp to Dublin;

Signum
dro 'RB' Roberti Barker;/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
----
9o Julij 1635

8s Tryon et al/

Johes Bryan parochia Sancti Andree Undershafte Civitats London wyne
Cooper aetatis 46 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iruatus et examinatus./

Ad 16um articulum allegaconis ex parte dicti Tryon et socioru in hac parte datus et
on;at dict et deponit. That about eighte dayes since this deponent at
the request of the articulate ffrancis Tryon went to the house of John Shelford
a wyne cooper in Tower street London to viewe certayne butts of wyne then
remayninge in the Custodye of the sayd Shelford and to viewe and obserbe
the marks on the sayd butts, where comminge this deponent found in the sayd
Shelfords Cellar foure butts of Shery scaks, marked as in the margent

'TB' [FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]

and in his shipp another butt of the same marke havinge very well marked and observed
the sayd markes, he sayeth that it playnelye appeareth by them, that the
sayd butts were primarilye marked with the second marke in
the margent, with an Iron which coopers use to marke caskes

'TF' [SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]

withall, but the B added to the sayd first marke seemeth to bee
cutt with a knife, and is hackled in and out and defaced and not
halfe soe perfecte proportionable and well made as the second marke in the
margent beinge (as he verylye veleiveth) the true marke wherewith the
sayd butts were first marked, but the sayd B added to the
sayd marke is cutt deepe in some places and in the sayd butts, but it is
cutt uneven and ragged and not like the impression or makinge
of the sayd second marke in the margent, but the sayd second marke
in the margent is proportionably made and cutt cleare and not ragged
in any places, but all of one depth, and that the sayd second marke
is the usuall marke of the sayd ffrancis Tryon whereith
all his goods shipt by him or sent home for his accompte are
usually marked, and that he never sawe the sayd Tryon use any other marke
havinge bene his weighter and knowne his sayd marke for these fourteene
(yeares
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yeares last past, Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the
sayd Shelford tould this deponent that he bpoughte of the articulate Hance
Becker master of the articulate shippe the Kinge David the five butts of wyne
before menconed marked with the sayd first marke in the margent, and
seaven other butts two whereof were under the same marke which he had sould agayne,

Ad 17um nescit deponere./ savinge he sayeth that he this deponent did at the
instance of the sayd Hance Becker hoope one butt of sacke abord the
says shipp the Kinge David, which butt was without any marke and as he
hath heard the sayd John Shelford acknowledge was one of the butts
of wyne which he boughte of the sayd Becker./

Ad 21um affirmat That the sayd Hane becker did sell the sayd
twelve butts of wyne unto the sayd John Shelford (as the sayd Shelford
tould this deponent) for nyne pounds per butt one with another, and the sayd
Shelford, as he likewise tould this deponent sould two of the same
butts of wyne agayne presently before they were rackt, for twelve pounds 
ten shillings each butt, And this deponent alsoe sayeth that he tasted of every of the foure butts
before menconed which laye in the sayd Shelfords seller which wynes he sayeth
were very good and sound wynes, and were well worth in
this deponents iudgement as they then were; twelve pounds per pipe, but
(to his nowe best remembrance) the sayd Shelford tould him that he
had filled up those foure butts with some other wynes,/ Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Super reliquis arlis dco allegaconis non examinatur ex direccone./

Idem super Interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum et secundum respondet That he knoweth npot the Interrogate shipp called the Anne
Marye../ Et ideo ad hec interrogate nescit respondere./

Ad tertium, quartum, quintum, sextum, septium et octavum nexcit respondere./

Ad nonum refert se ad predeposita per eu Et aliter nescit respondere savinge he
sayeth that he hath seene twentye three butts of the wynes broughte
to the port of London in the sayd shipp the Kinge David all which 23
butts were marked as in the margent, some of which butts this
respondent sawe when they were delivered out of the sayd shipp and sawe
all the sayd butts some of them lyeinge in a Seller under his the sayd Tryons house and the rest in a warehouse
within two or three dores of the sayd house./

Ad decimum refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere savinge he
sayeth that part of the marke with which the fower butts of wyne
which this respondent sawe in the sayd Shelfords Seller
were marked videlicet soe much therof as is the sayd Tryons
marlke seemed to be made with a Coopers markinge iron but the
rest of the sayd marke seemed to be made with a knife and was cutt deepe
in some places and did dcarce touch the word in other places and was ragged and
cutt in and out and not like unto the rest of 
the sayd marke;/

Ad 11 nescit respondere./

Ad 12 respondet That he knoweth the goodnes and worth of wynes havinge bene a
wyne cooper and house keeper for these sixteene yeares last past and
within that tyme havinge dealt much in buyeing and sellinge of
wynes./ Et aliter qua prius necit respondere./

Ad 13um nescit respondere./

Signum dicti [MARKE] Bryan [MARKE, CENTRE]
----

decimo Julij 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

10s Tryon et al./

Henricus Smith parochia Sancti Edmundi regis in Lumbard street
London Civis et Grocer London aetatis 27 annorum aut circiter
testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad 12um articulum allui in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That about six
(weeks
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weeks Since this deponent beinge tould by a friend that the articulate Hance Becker
had certayne rolles of Verina Tobaccoe to be sould, this deponent went with
his said friend to an Alehouse in Saint Catherines where (as was sayd)
the sayd becker lodged where cominge the said Beckers hoste where he laye shewed him hree
rolles of Verina Tobaccoe in the presence of the sayd Becker and the sayd Becker tould him that he had sixe rolles more
of the ame sort of Tobaccoe belonginge into him which laye in his majestyes
CustomehouseLondon, and that he would not sell this deponent the sayd three rolles
which were shewed him unlesse he would buy those six rolles likewise which were in the
customehouse, and the sayd Becker affirmed that he would warrant those
six rolles of Tobaccoe which were in the customehouse to be as good Tobaccoe
as the sayd three rolles, but this deponent replyed that he would not buy theose
in the customehouse before he had seene them, but offred the sayd Becker
five shillings per pounde for those three rolles of Tobeccoe which he shewed
him and that if those six rolles which were in the customehouse were as good
he would give as much for them likewise, but the sayd Becker sayd that he
would sell the sayd three rolles and the other six in the cistomehouse togeither
and not otherwise for five shillings per pound, whereuppon this deponent appoynted
another tyme to goe to see the sayd six rolles which were in the customehouse
and accordinglye within two or three dayes then next followeing this deponent
came agatyne to the sayd Beckers lodginge, and the sayd Beckers hoste
wente with him to the customehouse to shewe him the sayd Tobaccoe, where
cominge ad demanndinge for six rolles of Tobaccoe belonginge to the sayd Becker
one of the officers who had the custodye of that Tobaccoe, went with
them into an upper roome of the custome house two payre of stayres high, and
there the sayd officers shewed tem a bagge in which there were six rolles of
Verina Tobaccoe, of the same sorte of Tobaccoe (in this deponents iudgement) whereof the sayd three
rolles were which this deponent sawe at the sayd Beckers lodginge, but sayeth those six
rolles were cutt and mangled and were not soe good for whole sale as the sayd
other three rolles, but the sayd Beckers hoste sayd he could not make
an absolute bargayne with this deponent for the sayd Tobaccoes
untill he had spoken with the sayd Becker, and shortly after the
premisses this deponent understandinge that the ayd Becker was in trouble
for the same Tobaccoes, this deponent went noe more to agree with him for
the same, but about a moneth since this deponent at the intreatye if the
articulate William Harborne went to the sayd Harbornes house to see
6 rolles of Tobaccoe which hee had out of the custome house, and this deponent
did there see the same six rolles of Tobaccoe and in the same bagge,
which this deponent sawe at the custome house as aforesayd, Et aliter nescit
deponere saving he sayeth that the tyme aforesayd when this deponent was at
the sayd master Harbornes house the sayd Harborne shewed him some other
rolles of Verina Tobaccoes which (as the sayd Harborne sayd came in another shipp which this deponent compared with those six rolles
of tobacco before menconed and tasted of them and likewise of the sayd
six rolles, and sayeth that both by the viewe and by the bignes of the wrethes and by the cuttinge and tast the sayd six rolles
abd the other rolles which the sayd Harborne shewed him, and likewise
the three rolles before menconed which this deponent sawe and tasted of
at the sayd Beckers lodginge were (in this deponents iudgement, all
of one sort of Tobaccoe./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

As primum secundum tertium quartum quintum sextum septium octavum nonum decimum 11. 12. et 13 interrogatoria respondet quod refert se
ad predeposita per eu Et aliter nescit respondere. saving he sayteth that
Tobaccoes laden abord a ship or shipps for severall mens accompts may
be as good one as another and may both by the viewe and tast be soe like
one another that noe man can make a certayne difference betweene
them or destinguish of the tast therof./

Henry Smith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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53

11o Julij 1635

Mann et alij contra}
Becker}

4 Mann;/

Beniaminus Sadler de Eastsmithfeild infra
parochiam Sancti Biotolphi Algate London yeoman, annorum
agens 42 aut eo circiter testis sua./

Ad 13um affirmat That since the arrivall of the articulate
Hannce Becker and his shippe in this porte of London
there was brought into this examinats house in East Smithfeild
where the said Hannce Becker lieth a quantety
of Tobacco in about (as hee beleeveth) twenty Rolls
brought thither (as hee beleeveth) out of the said
Beckers shippe becaue some of his the said
Beckers shippes company croughte the same
to this examinats house as foresaid, and after the
same qquantety of Tobacco was brought to this
examinats house, the said Hannce delivered to
this examinate three Rolls thereof to sell for the
use of him the said Becker, which this examinate
and the said Hannce Becker beeing then in his
company offered to sell to one in Lumbard streete
whose name as hee thincketh is Smith, to
whom the sid Hannce Becker alsoe offered
to sell sixe other Rolls of Tobacco then lyeinge
in the Customehouse, but they coulde not aggree
uppon the price thereof, and soe this examinate
delivered backe the said three Rolls
of Tobacco to the said Hannce Becker, and what
the sayd Becker hath since don with the same or
other of the Tobacco aforesaid this examinate
cannott expresse, but sayeth that after the
foresaid quantity of aboute twenty Rolls of
Tobacco was brought as aforesaid to this examinats
house, there was alsoe brought thither by some
of the said Beckers shippe a barrell
which this examinate hath tumbled to and froe, by the
Russellinge and smell of yt this examinate beleeveth, that
which was then in yt was Tobacco and the barrell
was almost full, and that barrell is still in this
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examinats house but what is now in yt he knoweth not And
this hee affirmeth yuppon his oath to bee true, Ac aliter
ad dumoi articulum nescit deponere Saveinge that hee
this examinate is noe grate Tobacconesse, yet accordinge
to the beste of his Judgment
haveinge tasted some of the said Tobacco beleeveth
that that which hee tasted was Spanishe
Tobacco, and by the outward view beleeveth that
all the said Rolls of Tobacco were of one sorte,

Ad Interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet Thta hee was not in the Ann Mary, Ac
aliter nescit./

Ad secundum et tertium nescit respondere Saveinge that hee hath
heard the said Hannce Becker say that hee was
taken at sea by a Biskay mann of warr,/

Ad quartum nescit respondere, Saveinge that hee
heard yt spoken and reported that the said Hannce
Beckers shippe the Kinge David is a swefte
sailer;/

Ad quintum sextum septiumm octavum nonum decimum 11 et 12um nescit respondere,/

Ad 13um nescit respondere aliter qua prius Saveinge that
the said Hannse Becker gave this respondent a
peece of the said Tobacco and soe hee came to
taste of yt, and hee beleeveth that Tobaccoes laden
aboard for the accompte of severall menn may
bee one as good as another and may have one and
the self taste, and aggree in the taste soe well
and neerly that noe man cann make a certaine
difference betweene them,

Beniamyn Sadlar [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Iluc computavi./

J m/

----
23o Julij 1635.

Kilner contra Greenewell

1s

Rp J m./

Willimus Reynoldes de East Smythfield infra parochiam 
Sancti Botolphi Algate London mercator aetatis 40 annorum
aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus./

Ad septum articulum libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus et schedulam
in eadem menconat, dicit et deponit That the schedule or letter of
Atturney menconed in this article was on the say of the date therof
signed with the proper hand writinge of the articulate Maurice Carstiens
and sealed and delivered by him as his acte and deed unto the
articulate Nicholas Kilner at a Scrivenors shopp neere the
Royall Exchange London and all things were soe had and donne as
in the sayd Schedule is contayned The premisses he knoweth to be
(true
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true for that he was present at the sayd scrivenor shopp all the
tyme of the writinge of the sayd letter of Atturney and after the writinge 
and before the sealinge and delivery therof by the sayd Carstiens thi
deponent did truely declare and deliver in dutch unto the sayd Carstens
the effect and substance of the sayd letter of Atturney and theruppon the
sayd Carsteins did signe seale and deliver the same as aforesayd there
beinge then and there present the Scrivenors servant who wrote the
same, who togeither with this deponent subscribed their names as witnesses
therunto./

Super reliquis arlis dicti libelli non examinatur ex directione./

Will Reynolds [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Pro duo Roge./

1s

George Bradbridge of Rye in the Countye of Sussex mariner aged about 60
yeares sworne before the worshipfull Thomas Ryves doctor of lawes Surrogate
to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Majestyes high
Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth
videlicet.

That uppon Tuesday last was sennighte this deponent cominge from
Deepe in ffrance in a barke called the Guifte of god of Rye
(wherof this deponent is master) with goods and passengers in her bound for
London, mett with a Hollandman of warr, off of Newhaven  in Sussex
the company of which man of warr hayled this deponents sayd Barke
in English and asked them of whense their Barke was and from whence
they came and wheire they were bound, wherunto this deponent replyed
that his Barke belonged to Rye, and then came from Deepe, and was
bound for London, and then the company of the sayd man of warr commannded
this deponent to come abord their man of warr, but this deponent  replyed that
he could not come abord them for feare of castinge away his barke
and then they commannded this deponent to heave out his boate and come
abord them that they mighte seach the sayd Barkem, wherunto this deponent
replyed that he had but fower or five men and could not heave out
jis boate becaue the wynde was soe highe, and then the company of the
sayd man of warr threatned this deponent and his company that if they
would not heave  out their boate they would make them doe it,
and theruppon there was a muskett shptt made to this deponents sayd Barke
and then this deponent and company were inforced to hoyste out their boate
and sent his mate and another of his company abord the sayd Hollan man of
warr, where his mate was detayned by the space of an houre or
therabouts, and one of the sayd man of warrs company returned in this deponents
boate and came abord the sayd Barke and searched her, and afterwards
returned abord the sayd man of warr and then this deponents mate was dismissed
and sent abord this deponents barke againe And further he cannott depose savinge
he sayeth that the sayd Holland man of warr had noe Bowe head,
and had two sloops in her company which (as he hath heard) her company
confesse were two Dunkirke Sloops which they had taken as prize
and saving he hath heard his mate saye that the company of the say
man of war gave him three or fower blowes with a ropes end when he came first abord the sayd man of warr and
asked him why they did not strike for the Prince of Orange; But the
name of the sayd man of warr or her Captaine or to what place she
belonged he knoweth not neither hath he hward, And this he affirmeth
uppon his oath to be true./

Signum dicti 'XX' Bradbridge./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

2s Per duo Rege

Timothy Hayward of the parish of Saint Dunstanes in the East London
Servant to master Robert Wheatly of London merchant aged about 23
yeares sworne as aforesayd sayeth and deposeth uppon
his oath, as followeth, videlicet

That uppon Tuesday last was sennighte
a Barke of Rye wherof his contest George Bradbridge was master
cominge from Deepe in ffrance with some bottles and Canvas abord her
bound for London, mett with a Holland man of wwarr,
off of Brighthelmston in Sussex, the company of which man
of warr hayled the sayd Barke in English and asked her of whence she was and
from whence she came and wheither she was bound, wherunto the company
of the sayd Barke replyed that she belonged to Rye and came from Deepe
bund for London, and then the company of the sayd man of warr commannded
them to hoyste out their boate and to come abord, wherunto the master
of some of the copany of the sayd Barke replyed that they had but
fower men and a buoy belonginge to the sayd Barke and therfore could not
hoist out their boate, an dthen the company of the sayd man of warr
threatned them that if they would not hoyste out their boate
they would inforce them soe to doe, and then made a shott unto the
says Barke, and theruppon the company of the sayd Barke hoysted
out their boate, which was rowed by three of her company
abord the sayd man of warr, where te masters mate of
the sayd Barke beinge one of those who went abord the sayd man of 
warr was detayned and one of the sayd man of warr
came abord the sayd Barke and searched her and then returning
the masters mate togeither with the sayd Barke were dismissed
from further detention, The premisses hee knoweth to be true for
that he came a passenger in the sayd Barke from Deepe to Bright
=helmeston, and further he cannott depose savinge he sayeth that the
masters mate of the sayd Barke at his returne abord the sayd Barke
from abord the sayd man of warr did affirme that when he
first came abord the syd man of warr her company beate him with
a ropes end because the company of the sayd Barke did not obey
the commannd of the company of the sayd man of warr in hoystinge out
their boate at their first commannd, andasked him wheither he did
not knowe the Prince of Orange, ans savinge he sayeth that one of the
sayd man of warrs company whch came abord the sayd Barke to search
her as aforesayd did affirme that the sayd man of warr belonged
to Holland, and that a shipp and a sloop which were then in her
company were her prizes, And this he affirmeth uppon his
oath to be true

Timothy Hayward [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

25.o Julij 1635.

Per Pryn

1.s

Rs E: B.

Richardus Ell iuratus et examinatus super Interrogatoryes
ex parte Couch et al ministrat dicit et
deponit prout sequitur/

To the first Interrogatory hee sayeth That there were laden
aboard the shippe the Increase of London at Virginia
nyne pipes pf Virginia leafe Tobacco
for the accompte of Captaine John Prin
and this examinates boateswaine tolde him that there were there laden,
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for the same accompte forty nyne hogsheads, of Virginia
Tobacco and gave the examinate a noate thereof and uppon the
creditt which hee gave to his Boatswaine and uppon the affirmacon
this examinate signed a noate for the receite of
nyne pipes and 59 hogsheads of Virginia Tobacco
for the accompte aforesaid, and the nyne butts and
40 of the hogsheads of Tobacco aforesaid were
brought safe to this port of London but whether the
other nyne were laden or not, or what is become of them
he knoweth not; Ac aliter nescit./

To the 2d hee sayeth, That there were received aboaard
the said shippe for the use and accompte of this examinate
thirty sixe hogsheads and one pipe of Tobacco
thereof of which hogsheads of Tobacco were defective 2
and
this examinate asked his Boatswaine
why hee did not take notice of his Tobacco as the reste and his Boatswaine
told him that hee this examinate tooke notice
of himselfe or used wordes to that effect and
the Boatswaine did not enter them in the
paper where hee enetered other menns Tobacco
hee keepinge noe booke to this examinates knowledge
onely this examinate since hee came home entered 32
of the said hogsheads in the Boatswaines paper
and this examinate did tell the Boatswaine and master Stagg
Captaine Prynns ffactor and Daniel Butcher Prynns
mann, that hee had laden in the said shipp 32:
hogsheads of Tobacco for his owne accompte and
all the rest of that
shippes company which belonged to the holde knew
of the ladeing thereof moreover hee
sayeth that one John Captaine Prynns man, and five
others of the sayd shipps company whose names hee
now remembreth not, did helpe to packe the other
three hogsheads of defective Tobacco
in one master Harewoods house in Virginia of whom
this examinate boughte the same, and the said Stagge
sawe the same Tobacco put into  the hogsheads
and all the boates came and Stagg saw them brought
aboard the said shippe and came in the boate aboard
the said shippe with those 3 hogsheads of Tobacco
and this examinate tolde him that yt was his Tobacco,
but hee remembreth not that hee spake or made
knowen to any body that hee had a pipe of
Tobacco in the said shipp, hee puttinge that Tobacco
into the pipe after yt came aboard the said 
shippe, neither doth hee remember that hee made his
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Boatswaine acquainted with the sad 3 defective
hogsheads of Tobacco, and hee doth now challenge
or claime noe more then hee made knowen as
aforesaid save onely the said pipe of Tobacco,
and hee now claimeth 33: hogsheads and a pipe
of Tobacco, and about 55 rolls of Tobacco
containing (as hee guesseth) about twlve hundred
weighte, and those Rolls of Tobacco are at home
in his house all but about 16 Rolls thereof
which hee hath sould, and the hogsheads of Tobacco
are some aboard his shippe and the rest in the
Customehouse unsould; Ac aliter nescit/

Ad tertium affirmat, That at sea hee caused some Tobacco
to bee taken out of some of his hogsheads of
Tobacco aforesaid which stood in the houlde, and
mingled the same with some of his defective
Tobacco aforesaid and made yt upp into Rolls
but did not take the caske out of the houlde to his remembrance and those
which tooke that Totabbo out of the Caske
said that they lefte the hogsheads of good Tobacco out of which they tooke the same half full,
or thereabouts and some more then half full
that they tooke to mingle as aforesaid almost all the Tobacco out of
one or two of the
hogsheads of
defective Tobacco
aforeaid, and hee now claimeth but the same caskes and
noe more or other; Ac aliter nescit;/

Ad quartum respondet nagative

Ad quintum respondet negative;/

Ad sextum respondet, That there were none in the said
shippe when this examinate opened her houlde but
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their names were Peter and Bartholomew, and three of the
Kings wayters aboard; and two other [?of] the Kings
wayters in a boate lyeinge at the shippes starne, and the
names of two of those wayters aboard were
Beniamyne Rives and Robert Buckingham, and this
examinate disposed of things there without makeinge the
Boatswaine acquainted therewith, hee haveinge lefte the
shippe 3 weekes or a moneth before or calling ant
to testefie what hee did, the wayters aforesaid beeing
there ready to see what hee did Ac aliter respondet netaive/

Ad septium respondet, That hee this respondent hath received (to his best remembrance) and is to receive
about nyne pounds for freight of about two tonns and
a half of Tobacco for which hee is to accompte to Captaine
Prynn, and soe neere as hee cann guesse, not beeinge
acquianted with the contracte made for the freighte,
there is not above threescore pounds or thereabouts to bee received
for the whole freighte of all the goods brought from
Virginia in the said shipp besides Captaone
Prynns owne goods, accomptinge therein the said 9
and the freight for this examinats goodes and the freighte of
his owne goodes cometh to 21 or thereabouts at 40s as Stagg aggreed with him for the same and besides
what hee this examinate hath already receive, there is to bee accompted
to Captaine Prynn freight but for 28ty tonns or
thereabouts, and the freighte which hee hath already received
was some at 4li some at 3li 10s and some at three pounds a tonn,
accordinge as Stagg had aggreed for the same, Ac aliter
nescit./

Ad octavum respondet, That there came home in the said shippe sixe
passingers and some of them gentlemen of good qquality
and this examinate had and received for the passage and dyett of
Sir John Zoucj, Captane Button and Sir John Zouches mann
18li and for freighte of a little beaver 5s, and
Sir John Zouch lefte with this examinate for
the Chirurgeon and some ofther of
the shippes company 45s or 45s 6d which this
examinate hath destrebuted to them to those to whom hee
directed the same to bee given, Ac aliter respondet negative

Ad nonum respondet, THat soe neere as hee can reckon there
were 9 monethes and a half or thereabouts from the settinge
out of the said shippe to the comeinge of her into the
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Ad 14um respondet, That hee hiered one Bartholame Ellis
a Marriner to goe in the said shipe and promised to
pay him his wages, at the rate as hee remembreth
of 26 or 27s a moneth, and to his best remembrance
hee hath nin in the said shippes service sixe monethes
and a half or thereabouts, and for soe longe tyme hee
beleeveth wages is due to him at the rate aforesaid.
Ac aliter nescit./

Ad 15um respondet, That hee hath received
satisfaccon for 18li in part of payment for his
freighte from Captaine Prynn and is to
accompte to Captaine Prynn 6li for the
passage of onee to Virginia which this
examinate tooke in after hee parted with Captaine
Prynn, as alsoe
about 10s for the freight of 4 quoiles of
roapes., and for the freighte of a returned
[?XXXX] 20s, Ac aliter respondet negative

Per mee Richrd Ell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Primo Augusti
1635/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Offm dui promot per Bredcake)
contra Dawson./

1s

det master Wannerton./

WIllimus Skinner parochia sancta Marie Magdalene London Nauta
aetatis 28 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus dicit quod partes in hac causa litigan per annu et
dimidiu aut circiter bene respective novit./

Ad primum et schedulam articulos in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit
That within the tyme articulate, the articulate Thomas Bredcake was master of the
articulate shipp the ffayth, and was reputed to be parte owner of the same shipp
and the articulate John Dawson served in her within the same tyme as Carpenter
which he knoweth to be true for that he this deponent served in the sayd shipp in a voyage
made by her within the same tyme./ Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad tertium quartum et quintum articulos dicit et deponit That within the tyme articulate the sayd
shipp the ffayth departed from the porte of London on a voyage for Canada
which voyage for Canada beinge given over she sayled to the
Newfoundland and from thense to Carthagena and thence to Barselona in
the Kinge of Spaynes dominions, and there arrived in safetye, and after
her arrivall in the sayd porte of Barselona the saud John Dawson
uppon some fallinge out betweene him and the sayd Breadcake forsooke
the sayd shipp by the space of ten dayes or therabouts before she was cast awaye and caryed away his Clothes and mmost of his tooles, and sayd that
he would not goe home in the sayd shipp, and after he had soe forsaken the
sayd shipp, and before she was cast away he the sayd
Dawson commenced a suite against the sayd Breadcake at Barselona for
wages for the tyme that he had served in the sayd shipp, and theruppon the
sayd Bredcake before he could be freed from the sayd suite (notwithstanding the sayd Dawsons runninge away from the sayd shipp) was inforced
to give the sayd Dawson a writing under hand and seale to pay the sayd Dawson
wages for all the tyme he had served in the sayd shipp, at her returne into 
(the
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the porte of London or in case the sayd shipp should be cast away
before her returne there, then within eighte dayes after certayne
newes therof uppon the Royall Exchange London at
the sealinge and delivery of which writinge this deponent was present
and subscribed his name as a witnes therunto. Et aliter nescit deponere/
saving he sayeth that shortly after the sayd Dawson forsooke the sayd shipp at Barselona
one Thomas Hancks the
Cooper of the sayd shipp
forsooke her likewise./

Ad sextum affirmat That he hath heard divers Seamen saye that by the Lawes
of Barselona if an Englishman be found to transport any money in
a shipp from thence if he be knowne soe to doe, and that the sayd
money be found abord his sayd shipp, the sayd shipp is forthwith confiscated
and the master of her to be hanged or condemned to the gallyes Et aliter
nescit deponere/

Ad septium nescit deponere/

Ad octavum dicit et deponit That whilest the shipp rode at
anchor in the moulde of Barselona and after the sayd Dawson had
forsaken her as aforesayd there came some abord her
to search her, but wheither they searched for money or uppon the informacon
of the sayd Dawson he knoweth not./

Ad nonum refert se ad predeposita per eu et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad decimum et undecimum nescit deponere saving he sayeth that he hath heard it reported
by divers that it is prohibited at Barselona to cary any English bibles
or other protestant books on shoare./

Ad 12 nescit deponere/

Ad 13 nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that after the Cables of the 
sayd shipp the ffayth were cutt by the commann of the articulate Duke
of ffernandina the sayd Dawson came not abord her, neither did he
indeavour or helpe to save the sayd shipp from ruine./

Ad 14um nescit deponere/

Ad 15um et schedulam in eadem menconat nescit deponere

Ad reliquos articulos non examinatur./

William Skinner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

2s

det master Wannerton

Morganus Marichurch de [?Mormerbere] in Comitatu Pembrochia
Navigator aetatis 22 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatis dicit quod Thoma Bredcakepartem
producen per 6 annos et amplius aut circiter et Johem Dawson
partem contra quam products per annum et amplius et ultra bene
respective novit./

Ad primum et secundum articulos dict et deponit That within the tyme articulate the
articulate Thomas Bredcake was master and reputed to be parte owner of
the articulate shipp the ffayth and the articulate John Dawson served as
Carpenter of her in a voyage made by her from the port of London to
the Newfoundland and from thence to Carthagena and Barselona
the premisses he knoweth to be true for that he was one of the company
of the sayd shipp in the same voyage Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad tertium et quartum articulos dicit et deponit That after the arrivall of the sayd
shipp the ffayeth at Barselona in safety the sayd Thomas
Bredcake findinge faulte with the sayd John Dawson for neglectinge
his service and place abord the sayd shipp (beinge the shipp
Carpenter) and for stayeinge on shoare at Barselona, and tellinge
the sayd Dawson that he thoughte that he must chayne him abord
to his worke, the sayd Dawson without any other cause given him by
the sayd Bredcake or any other (to this deponents knowledge) forsooke
the sayd shipp and his service and imployment abord her, and
afterwrds broughte some of the kinge of Spaynes officers abord her and fetcht away his clothes
(and
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and tooles and carryed them on shoare, and in this deponents hearinge sayd
that he wouuld goe noe more in her, neither did he come any more on
bord her after he had fetcht away his clothes and tooles, but wholy
neglected his service and place in the sayd shipp Et aliter nescit deponere
savinge he sayeth that the next day after the sayd Dawson forsooke
the sayd shipp, one Thomas Hancks the Cooper of the sayd shipp forsooke
her likewise./

Ad quintum nescit deponere saving he sayeth that whilest the sayd shipp was
at Barselona and after the sayd Dawson had forsooke the
sayd shipp and his service in her, and before the sayd shipp was cast away
the sayd Dawson meeting with this deponent on shoare at Barselona
tould him that if he could meet the sayd Bredcake on shoare there
he the sayd Dawson would cause him to be layed fast enough
untill he had paid or given him satisfaction for his wages
or to that effect

Ad sextum nescit deponere./

Ad septium et octavum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that after the sayd Dawson
forsooke the sayd shipp at Barselona there came some of the officers
of Barselona to search for moneys abord the sayd shipp./

Ad nonum nescit deponere./

Ad decimum nescit deponere saving he sayeth that by the generall report of
most of the company of the saYd shipp it was prohibited yppon
payne of imprisonment for any man to carrye an English bible or
other Protestant books on shoare at or neere Barselona./

Ad undecimum affirmat That whilest the said shipp was at Barselona the
sayd Dawson in this deponents ighte had an English bible in his hand
and was goeing over the shipps side with it to carrye it on shoare
but the sayd master Bredcake and a Scotch Captaine whose name he knoweth
not beinge then abord and seeinge it would not suffer the sayd Dawson
to carye the sayd bible on shoare there at that tyme. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad duodecimum nescit deponere/

Ad 13um nescit deponere saving he sayeth that the sayd Dawson at the tyme
when the Cables of the sayd shipp the ffayth were cutt by the Duke 
pf ffernandina, was not abord the sayd shipp but had forsaken his
service and place in her foure or five dayes before that tyme neither did he any wayes indeavor to preserve
the sayd shipp from ruine./

Ad 14 nescit deponere/

Ad 15um et schedulam in eadem menconnat nescit deponere./

Super religuis arlis non examinats./

Morgan Marichurche [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
4o Augusti 1635./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Harbert contra Southwood

2s./

det/

Josephus Jordayne servus Johuis Southwood parts producen
aetatis 23 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iruatus et examinatus, dicit quod Johem Southwood et
Walterum Bateman partes producen per sectum annos et amplius et ultra
et Tichadum Harbert unum partes contra qua productitur per quintum
annos et amplius aut circiter bene respective novit sed Gough alterum
partium contra qua producit et non novit ut dicit./

Ad primum secundum tertium et quartum articulos alluis ex parte dicti Southwood in hac parte datus et
oblat nescit deponere./

Ad quintum et sextum articulos dicit et deponit That in anno domini 1629 or 1630 (the tyme
more certaynely he remembreth not) the articulate Richard Harbert did
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write a letter unto the sayd John Southwood therby desiring the
sayd Southwood to give order unto his factor in Ireland to furnish
the articulate John Corell the master of the articulate shipp the Pilgrym with twenty
pounds or such other monyes as he should have need of
for the sayd shipps use, and for the furnishinge of the sayd shipp with such
provisions and necessaries as she wanted to make her fitt for her then
intended voyage or to that effecte; which letter beinge since shewed unto
the sayd Herbert in this deponents presence, the sayd Harbert acknowledged
to be writtn by him. Et aliter nescit deponeres saving he sayeth that the
articulate Tristram Mogridge did in the presence of this deponent
shewe unto the foresayd John Corell an accompte of moneyes
delivered unto the sayd Corell in Ireland and otherwise disbursed by
him for provisions and necessaryes for the said shipps use, the
somme of one hundred thirtye five poundes foure shillings six pence
the receipte and disbursement of which moneys for the sayd
shipps use, the sayd Corell did acknowledge uppon the accompte of
fraighte for the voyage in question./

Ad 7 affirmat That in the monethes of June and Julye Anno
domini 1630 this deponent at two severall payments did pay unto
the articulate John Vorell by the order of the sayd John Southwood
for fraighte of the sayd shipp the Pilgrym in the voyage in question
the somme of thirtye five pounds two shillings six pence the 
receiptes made for which moneys were not made either in part or in
full, but onlye for fraighjte, and that it was not expressed in
either of the sayd acquittances either in full or in part of
the sayd fraighte. Et aliter nescit deponere. savinge he sayeth that this deponents
master the sayd Southwood gave this deponent order to take of the sayd Corell

uppon the last of the
sayd payments an acquittance
in full for all fraighte due by
the sayd Southwood for the voyage
in question, but this deponent not
then remembringe his sayd masters
order, tooke the sayd acquittance
neither in full nor in part but
onlye for ffraighte as the first
of the sayd acquaittances was./

John Jordan [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]

Ad ultimum dicit predeposita per eu ea bera./

Joseph Jordan [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
3o Augusti 1635

Robert ffoote of the parish of Saint Dunstans in the East London Grocer
aged about 57 yeares worne before theworshipfull Thomas Ryves doctor of lawes
Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Majesties
high Court of the Admiraltye

To the first Interrogatorrye he sayeth That he well knewe the sayd
Samuell Gott and that he is an Iremonger dwellinge at Dice Key in
the parish of Saint Sunstans in the EastLondon and a subiecte to his Majestye of England alsoe he knoweth
the interrogate Henry Streater by sighte and sayth that he is an Englishman
and subiecte to his Majestye of England, dwelling (as he hath heard)
in Hampshire, but the interrogate Henry Keeble he knoweth not./

To the second Interrogatorrye he sayeth That about six monethes since the
sayd Samuell Gott in his owne shopp at Dice Key aforesayd in this deponents presence and hearinge did
buy of one Henry Pinfould dwelling at Kirford in Sussex five
tonne of barr Iron to be delivered abord some shipp of Vessell in the
porte of Arundell and to be broughte from thence for London for
the use and accompte of the sayd Samuell Gott, and that about twelve
or fourteene dayes since the sayd Pinfould comminge agayne to the
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sayd Gotts shopp in this deponents presence tould the says Gott that he the sayd Pinfould
had caused the foresayd Henry Streete to lade the foresayd five
tonne of barr Iron in the port of Arundle abord the interrogate shipp
called the Adam and Eve of Harwich to be brought in the sayd shipp for
London for the accompte of the sayd Gott, with certayne timber and woodden
stuffe which the sayd Streeter had laden abord the sayd shipp for the
accompte of himselfe and others and that of this deponents knowledge the sayd Gott did pay and
satisfye the sayd Pinfould for the sayd five tonnes of Iron two monethes
since at the least. And further he cannott depose/

To the third

To the fourth

To the fifth

Per me Robert ffoote [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Thomas Buckeridge of the parish of Saint OLave in Southwarke Cooper aged
about 38 yeares sworne and examined as aforesayd sayeth anddeposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first interrogatorye he sayeth That he hath knowne the interrogate
Henry Streater for these twelve yeares last past and hath often boughte
woodden ware of him within that tyme and that he the sayd Streater dwelleth
neere ffarneham in Hampeshire, and is a naturall subiecte of his
Majestye of England, alsoe he sayeth he hath knowne the interrogate Samuell
Gott for these six or seaven yeares last past and that
he is an Iremonger and hath dwelte neere Dice Key in
Thames street London for all the same tyme, and is likewise a subiecte
to his Majestye of England, but the interrogate Henry Keeble he knoweth not/

To the second and third interrogatorryes he sayeth That about a moneth since this
deponent beinge at Arundle in Sussex to lade certayne barrell bords
which he had there boughte and provided abord a hoye (wherof William
Picknall is master) and abord another hoy (wherof John Overy is master) to be
brought from thence to this port of London, he was there tould by Captaine
Hobbs the Maior of Arundell (with whome he hath bene well acquaynted for
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for thes seaven yeares last Last) that about foure dayes before
this deponent came thither, there were laden abord a barke called the

Adam and Eve of Harwichm by the foresayd Henry Streater
to be delivered at London about twentye loade of woodden stuffe for his owne accompte and five
tonnes of barr Iron for the accompte of the foresayd Samuell
Gott, and that he the sauyd Maior supposed that the sayd
Barke would be arrived at London before this deponent returned
home for London, and at the same time this deponent sawe the entrance
of the sayd barke and her ladinge in the Custome house
of Arundle, wherby it appeared that all the Iron and other hoods
laden abord the sayd barke were to be discharged out of her in the
porte of London. And further he cannott depose/

To the fourth he sayeth

To the fifth he cannot depose/

Thomas Buckeridge [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Allen contra Girlinge/

2s/

det master Wannerton./

Richardus Spiller de Colchester in Comitatu Essex nauta aetatis
32 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus./

Ad primum secundum et reliquos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
et schedulas in eisdem menconnat dicit et deponit That in winter last
was twelve monethes


their arrivall at Colchester there came a ffisher boate or ketch laden with
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Rye which (as the company who came in the sayd ketch affirmed) was laden
into the sayd ketch out of the sayd Girlings shipp in the river of Ipswich
Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that some of
the sayd Corne brought up in the sayd shipp was very wett and much
dampnifyed, but what quantitye theof was soe wett or what the
damage therof was he cannott estimate./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he is a mariner by profession and goeth master of a ketch
called the Speedwell of Colchester, and likewise keepeth an Inne at the
Hithe neere Colchester and therby and by goeing to sea maintayneth
himselfe, and that he hath knowne Phillipp Allen for these twentye yeares
last past

Ad secundum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request of
the sayd John Norden and Phillipp Allen. Et aliter respondet negative./

Ad tertium salvis predepoits per eu respondet negative./

Ad quartum respondet negative./

Ad quintum nescit respondere aliter qua prius./

Ad sextum pro parte sua respondet negative./

Richard Spiller [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

3s

pro nave ye Adam and Eve

Rp J m.

William Picknall of Little Hampton neere Arundle in ye County of Sussex
mariner aged about 36 ueares sworne and examined as aforesayd./

To the first interrogatorrye he sayeth That he hath knowne the interrogate Henry
Streeter for these three yeares last past and Samuell Gott for these
seaven yeares last past

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should be delivered in the porte of London and to returne a Certidicate
to the Customers of Arundle under the hands and seale of the Customers
for the port of London, testifyeinge the discharge of the sayd goods in
the porte of London, And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true And
further he cannott depose./

To the fifth he cannott depose./

Signum dicti 'WW' Picknall [MARKE, CENTRE]
----
dco die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

4s./

Rp J m

John Overy of Arubdle in the County of Sussex mariner aged about
30 yeares sworne and examined as aforesayd./

To the first interogatorye he sayeth That he hath knowne the interrogate Henry
Streater for these eighte or nyne yeares and Henry Keeble by sighte
for these five weeks last past and that the sayd Streater dwelleth in
Hampeshire about thirty miles from Arundle aforesayd and the sayd
Keeble as he hath heard dwelleth in Harwich and the sayd Streeyer and
Keeble are both English men and as he beleiveth subiects to his
Majestye of England, and that he knoweth not the interrogate Samuell
Gott but hath heard that he is an Iremonger dwellinge neere Dice
Key in London./

To the second third and fourth articles he sayeth That about five or
six weekes since there were laden abord the articulate shipp called the

Adam and Eve of Harwich (wherof the foreayd Henry Keeble was master)
twentye loade of plancks barrell Bords and other woodden stuffe
for the accompte of the sayd Henry Streater and company and five
tonnes of barr Iron for the accompte of the aforeayd Samuell
Gott, and all the sayd goods were to be transported in the
sayd shipp to the porte of London, and there delivered to the sayd
Streater and Gott or their Assignes, The premisses he knoweth
to be true for that he dwellinge in Arundle was present when the
sayd goods were laden, and two of this deponents company did helpe to lade
the same and for that Henry Penfould a merchant dwelling at Kirford in Sussex (who sould the sayd five
tonnes or Iron had agreed with Richard Bridger
the owner of a hoye called the Elizabeth of Arundell
wherof this deponent goeth master) for the transportation of the sayd five tonne
of Iron to London in the sayd hoye, but because the sayd hoye could not
be made readye assoone as the sayd Keebles shipp it was laden abord
the sayd Keebles shipp, And that when this deponent came to enter his
hoye and her ladinge in the Custome house of Arundlell he found by
the entrance in the sayd Custome house booke that the sayd shipp the

Adam and Eve and her ladinge aforesayd were entred
in the name of the sayd Streater bound for the port of London and that
the sayd Streater and Keeble the master of the sayd shipp had given
bond in the penaltye of two hundred pounds to the Customer and
and Controller of his Majestyes Custome house at Arundle thatthe 
sayd goods should be transported to London and there delivered, and
to bringe a Certificateto the Custome house of Arundle
under the hands and seale of the Collectors or officers of his Majestyes
Customehouse London, testifyeing the discharge of the sayd goods in
the port of London, and this deponent uppon the entrance of his owne hoye
was inforced to give the like bond in the ame  penaltye and to the same
effected. And this he affirmeth uppon hs oath to be true And further
he cannott depose.

To the fifth he cannott depose./

Signim dicti [MARKE] Overye [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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Edward Marriott of Wappinge in the Countye of Middlesex mariner aged about
27 yeares worne before the worshipfull Thomas Ryves doctor of lawes Surrogate
to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Majestyes High
Court of the Admiraltye and afterwards examined on the behalfe of Ellis
Sotherton sayeth therunto as followeth videlicet

To the first Interrogatorye he sayeth that he this deponent was master of the articulate
shipp the Suzan in a voyage made by her to the Canarye Islands in
Anno domini 1633./

To the second he sayeth That at the Canarye Islands the voyage aforesayd
there were laden abord the sayd shipp in all one hundred and thirtye
pipes of wynes to be transported in her for London, all which
he knoweth to be true for that this deponents owne servant kept
a note in writinge of the severall pipes of wynes with their marks which were
laden abord the sayd shipp at every severall port in the Canaryes, which
note this deponent used at the tyme of his examinacon./

To the third he sayeth that eighteene pipes of the sayd wynes were laden by
a ffrench man, and all the rest of the sayd wynes were laden by master
Marmaduke Royden to whom the sayd shipp was consigned:/

To the fourth he sayeth That he knoweth not to whome any of the sayd
wynes were consigned, but after the castinge away of the sayd shipp in
her homewards voyage master Nathan Wrighte came and demannded
thirtye three pipes of wyne under the marke in the margent as
laden abord the sayd shipp in the Canaryes for his accompte, of which
marke there was only one pipe and a halfe saved, which were delivered
to the sayd Wrighte, and all the rest of the wynes saved were
claymed by and delivered unto master Henry Crone the merchant
who freaighted the sayd shipp the sayd voyage.

To the 7th he sayeth that there were saved out of the sayd shipp after her
casting away only twenty pipes 2 wherof were delivered to the
said master Wright and the other eighteene to the sayd master Grove.

Uppon the rest he is not examined by direction

Edmond Mariott [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Nicholsa Gouge servis Johuis Marzo parochia sancti Michis in Cornwehill
London Scriptoris aetatis 22 annorum aut ecirciter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Nicholam Kilver
partem producen per duos annos et amplius aut circiter sed Johem Greenewell
partem contra quam productis non novit/

Ad sextum et septiu, articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus et schedulam in dicti septium articuolos menconat dicit et deponit That uppon the fifth day of July Anno
domini 1634 the arlticulate Nicholas Kilner and Mawrice Castiens came to this
deponents masters hopp a little above the Royall Exchange London, and the sayd Kilner gave this
deponent directions for the makinge of a letter of Atturney to
the effecte of the schedule articulate and theruppon this deponent wrote the sayd
schedule, and after the writinge therof the sayd Maurice Castiens
tooke the sayd schedule articulate aNd perused the same, and this deponent likewise
read the same unto him, and afterwards the sayd Castiens in the presence of
his precontest William Reynolds and of this examinate sealed and signed
the same and delivered it as his acte unto the sayd Kilner and then the
sayd Reynolds and this deponent subscribed therunto as witnesses Et aliter nescit deponere

Nich; Houge [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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12o Augusti 1635./

2s pro mro Sotherton.

Rp J m

Nathan Wright of the Cittye of London ahged 42 yeares or therabouts
sworne before master Rowland Jennings Clarke Surraogate to the right worshipfull
Sir Henry Marten Lnighte Judge of his Majestyes High Court of the Admiralty
and afterwards examined uppon certayne interrogatoryes
ministred on the behalfe of Ellis Soherton sayeth and deposeth therunto as
followeth videlicet./

To the fifth interrogatorye he sayeth, That (as he was advised by
his factor Marmaduke Royden) there were consigned unto this deponent
thirtye fower pipes of wyne which were laden abord the shipp the
Suzan of London (wherof Edward Marriott was master) at the Canarye
Island in anno domini 1633 stilo Anglia, but what wynes were sent
or consigned unto other men he knoweth not./

To the sixth interrogatorye he sayeth That the thirtye fower pipes of
wyne aforesayd were consigned into this deponent by the sayd
Marmaduke Royden (who asaccordinge to his letters laded the same) for the
accompte of this Deponents brother Beniamyn Wrighte And this
he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true. And further he cannott depose/

To the rest of the interrogatoryes hee
is not examined by direction./

Nathan Wright. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
17o Augusti 1635. [CENTRE HEADING]

Pro navicula the Richard)
de Lyne./

1s

Rp J n

Abraham Hiatt of Lyne in the Countye of Dorsett mariner aged
40 yeares or therabouts sworne before master Hymfrey Lloyd Surrogate to
the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Majestyes
High Court of the Admiraltye, sayeth and deposeth uppon his oah
as followeth videlicet.

That in the moneth of Julye last past this
deponent by the order and for the accompte of ffrances Harvye of
Lyne aforesayd merchant did buy at Dunkirke of one JOhn Aerdens an English merchant dwellinge there a ffrench buylt barcke of the burthen
of twentye five or thirtye tonnes nowe called the Richard of Lyne (wherof this deponent is master) and
after the buyeinge therof this deponent sawe the same
measured at Dunkirke and sayeth that she is about fourteene foote broade
and seaven foote and odd ynches deepe in hould, but the length therof
from stemme to sterne he remembreth not, And that the sayd Narke
and her tackle and furniture doe nowe solely and properly
belonge unto the sayd ffrancs Harvye who is a naturall subiecte
of his Majestye of England and was borne in Lyne aforesayd And this he
affirmeth uppon his oath to be true./

Abraham Hiat [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
18o Augusti 1635

1s Edwards pro bonis suis)
in nave the Revenge./

Nicholas Woodcocke de Wappinge in Comitatu Middlesex nauta
aetatis 50 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus

Ad allegaconem ex parte dicti Edwards 14o Augusti 1635 apud acta
huis Curie fact, et schedulas in eadem menconat, dicit et
deponit That in the moneth of May last past in James River in
Virginia, there were laden abord the shipp the Revenge of
London (wherof this deponent was master) by one
Richard Bennett twentye three hogsheads of Tobacco marked
and numbred as in the margent of the sayd schedulas to be
trasported in the sayd shipp to this port of London and to be
delivered to Edward Benneyy one of the fraighters of the sayd shipp
the voyage in question, and company, but who were his company this
(deponent
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deponent knoweth not, and he alsoe sayeth that one of the sayd schedules
is the true and originall bill of ladinge for the sayd
goods and is subscribed with the proper hand writinge of him this examinate
and that all things were soe had and done as in the same is contayned.
But wheither the other of the sayd schdules be written or subscribed
with the hand writinge of the sayd Richard Bennett the lader of the sayd
goods or the weight of any of the sayd hogsheads of Tobaccoe he
cannott declare because he tooke them in not by weighte./

Idem super Interrogatoria:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

recod [?postia] ex
[?XXXXX] Bennett.

Ad primum respondet quod eqe favet partibus in hac causa litigan et optat
victoria ius habenti./

Ad secundum respondet That he refereth himselfe to the bills of ladinge signed
by him uppon the ladinge of the severall goods in question, and to the
Charterpartye mde for the voyage in question, and that he knoweth not
who were interessed in the sayd Charter partye, and sayeth
that (to his knowledge) there were noe other goods laden abord the
sayd shipp in Virginia for the accompte of the interrogate John Stoner
Edward Bennett and Jonas Hopkins, but the 23 hogsheads of
Tobaccoe before menconed consigned to be delivered unto the
sayd Edward Bennett and company./

Ad tertium refert se ad predeposita/ Et aliter nescit respondere./

Nic Wodcock [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die [CENTRE HEADING]

1s pro duo Lawrence./

E: B. Rp.

Idem Nicholaus Woodcocke./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad allegacon ex parte dui Johannis Lawrence milits et Baronetti
14o Augusti instan apud acta fraud et schedulam in eadem menconat, dicit
et deponit That in the moneth of May last past at James river in
Virginia there were laden
abord the sayd shipp the Revenge of London (wherof this deponent
was master) by Richard Bennett twelve hogsheads of Tobacco marked and
numbred as in the margent of the sayd schedule,
to be transported in the sayd shipp to the porte of London and there
delivered unto the sayd Sir John Lawrence of his assignes and
that the sayd schedule is the true and originall bill of ladinge of the sayd goods and is signed with the

proper handewritinge of
him this examinates and

all thngs were had and donne as in the sayd schedule is contayned

Et aliter nescit deponere
----
dco die [CENTRE HEADING]

1s Pro Willmus Penryn/

E: B. Rp

Idem Nicholaus Woodcocke./ [CENTRE HEADING]

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22o Augusti 1635.

Anderson contra Gibbs

1s

Rp J m

Jacobus Bensly de Southampton nauta aetatis 40 annorum aut
circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit
quod Johem Gibbs partem producen per quintum annos et amplius aut direcon
et Robertum Anderson ab initio viagii controversi bene respective
novit./
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Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Signum dicti 'B' Benslye [MARKE, CENTRE]
----

24o Augusti 1635:

Edwardus Bennett parochia Sancti Olavi Hartstreete
London mercator annos agens 55 aut eo circiter
testis pro parte dui Johannis Lawrence
ministrat et allioru productus iuratus sed
super Interrogatoryes ex parte ffletcher et aliorum
ministrat [?tantu] examinatus dicit et deponit
prout sequitur;/

Ad primum interrogatoria respondet quod favet partibus huicinde
indiffernter et optat victoria ius habenti;/

Ad secundum affirmat That hee beleeveth, That the goodes
interrogate claimed by Sir John Lawrence, William Penryn, Ambrose
Harmer and Nicholas Raynberd doe belonge unto them
for that Richard Bennett the ffactor for this
examinate and company the freighters of the shippe the
Revenge
did not
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advise this examinate any thinge concerneinge those goodes
claimed by the said Sir John Lawrence Penryn Harmar
and Raynberd, and Sir John Lawrence sent out goodes that
voyage in the same shippe to Virginia and consigned
them to the said Richard Bennett and this respondent on
the behalfe of the said Sir John Lawrence writt to the
said Richard Bennett being this examinates kinsman to
sell those goodes carried outwarde for him the said
Sir John Lawrence, and to make a returne thereof
in Tobacco to the said Sir John and therefore hee
beleeveth that the goodes claimed in this cause by the
said Sir John Lawrence, are part of the returne
made to him for his outward adventure aforesaid,
and about a yeare since the said Penryn sente and
adventure for Virginia consigned to the said Richard
Bennett, and this examinate on the behalf of the said
Penryn wrott to the said Richard Bennett as hee
did for Sir John Lawrence and therfore beleeveth that
the goodes now claimed by the said Penryn are a
returne for his the said Penryns outward adventure
aforesaid, and hee hath seene letters under the
hand of the said Richard Bennett declareing that the
goodes aforesaid claimed by the said Sir John Lawrence
and Penryn doe belonge to them, and hee sayeth
that they the said Sir John Lawrence and William Penryn
as alsoe the said Harmar and Raynberd were noe wayes
interessed in the freighting of the said shippe and
the one half of the goodes claymed by Edward Robins
(as the said Richard Bennett hath advised this examinate)
doth belonge to the said Robins, and the other half to
this examinate and company the freighters of the said shipp
for the freighte of the other half, and hee further sayeth
that the bill of ladeinge and Invoyce exhibited in this
cause on the behalf of Thomas Edwards, this respondent
received in a letter from the said Richard Bennett his
ffactor from Virginia by the said shippe the Revenge

shippe the Revenge And this hee affirmeth to
be tru, Ac aliter nescit Saveinge that by a bill of
Ladeinge which this examinate hath seene there was certaine
Cotton wooll and Tobacco brought from Mevis in the
said shippe the Revenge for the accompte of the
freighters of the Revenge who were this respondent, John
Stoner, and Jonas Hopkins;/
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Ad tertium respondet, That the interrogate Edwards was partner with
this respondent John Stoner and George Orme in the
freightinge of a shippe called the Ann and Elsabeth in
a former voyage to Virginia equally each of them a
fourth, and they sent out a ioynte adventure to
Virginia in the said shippe the Ann and Elsabeth
in equall shares each of them a fourth and consigned
the same to Richard Bennett and George Orme who
went himself in person in that shippe that voyage
and part of that Adventure the said Orme
Lefte at Virginia with the said Richard Bennett
when the Ann and Elsabeth came from thense
as the said Richard Bennett hath advised this
examinate soe that this examinate beleeveth that the
three and twenty hogsheads of Tobacco claymed
by the said Edwards are a returne for the
ioynte adventure aforesaid of this examinate John Stoner
George Orme adnd the said Edwards  sent for Virginia in the said
shippe the Ann and Elsabeth, for that in the
bill of ladeinge they are consigned to this examinate
and company, and in the Invoyce aforesaid under the
hand of the said Richard Bennett they are
expressed to bee for the accompte of this
examinate Anthony Edwards, John Stoner, and George
Orme, which were the freighters of the said
shippe the Ann and Elsabeth onely Anthony
Edwards in stead (as hee conceiveth) of Thomas Edwards in that
Invoyce was expressed which this examinate
since the receite of that Invoyce hath
amended and made Thomas conceiveinge yt
to bee and error, soe that hee beleeveth that
the said 23. hogsheads of Tobacco claymed
by the said Edwards doe belongeinge ioyntly
to this examinate Thomas Edwards, John Stoner and
George Orme to each of them a fourthe parte
of the same, but sayeth that Edwards is indebted
to the accompte of the Ann and Elsabeth which was
layd out by the said John Stoner and this examinate (as
Stoner hath made upp that accompte which this examinate
haveinge amended yt in some few perticulers hath allowed and beleeveth to bee a true accompte, beyond
the value of the 4th of those 23 hogsheads of Tobacco
as hee beleeveth;/

E Bennett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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24o Augusti 1635

Nicholasus Godfrey de ffreshwater in Insula vertis
nauta annos agens 46 aetatis circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Johanem Gibbs partem
producentem per quinq annos ultimum et amplius bene novit et Robertam
Anderson partem contra quam productitur per octoverem mensies
ultimum et amplius aut eo circiter etiam novit ut dicit;/

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte de Gibbs 18p Augusti instan
datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That the articulate Alexander Robinson 
served the Last voyage as a common mann in the shippe the
Truelove of London whereof the said Gibbs was
Master, and in that shippe and voyage hee the said Robinson did
misbehave himself, and the said Gibbs caused
him to bee brought to the Captsten and punished for the
same, Ac aliter nescit;

Ad secundum affirmat, That the articulate John Jenkins is a marriner
and was Boatswaine of Gibbs his shippe aforesaid in her
last voyage, and Alexander Robinson was a common sailor
in her the same voyage, and in that voyage at Telloone
the said Jenkins went on shoare with the Master and others of
the said shipps company in her boate and came not
aboard againe the same day, and the nexte day the shipps
boate wente on share there againe with some of Gibbs
his company who said they soughte there for the
said Jenkins but coulde not finde him soe that
the said shippe sett saile from thense to Marcellis
without the said Jenkins who by lande two or three
dayes after came to Marcelles and there came aboard
againe, and he sayeth That at Waterford in Ireland
the said Alexander Robinson beeing on shoare
drnckeinge in a house the said Gibbs the Master
(as his Pilott tolde this examinate) wente to the said
Robinson and willed him to goe aboard, and theruppon the
said Robinson (as the Pilott said) beeing in drincke
offered to strike the said Gibbs with a Pott,
for which Gibbs afterwards punished him at the
Capsten, And this hee affirmeth to bee true,
who was Coque of the said shippe that
voyage, Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that in the said
voyage he hath seene the said Robinson sometymes
a shoare merry in drincke, and hee some nights did lyeon
shoare in the said voyage, and the said Jenkins and Robinson and
others did forsake the said shippe the voyage aforesaid
at waterford in Ireland because the said Gibbs the Master
would not pay them their wages there, soe that Gibbs was
inforced to hyre other men in their roomes to carry his
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shipp from waterford to Corcke to which lace the said
Jenkins and Robinson and the rest aforesaid came by lan
from waterford and there Gibbs entertained them
into his shippe againe, And this hee affirmeth to
bee true;/

Ad tertium affirmat That whilest the articulate shippe the Truelove
remayned at Marcellis the voyage articulate the said Robert
Anderson and Gilbert Angell did there
goe on shoare, but whether they did soe with or without the
Masters Leave or not hee knoweth not, and they
stayed a shoare above half a day, and then
returneinge againe aboard the said shippe they the said
Anderson and Angell fell out aboard the said shippe
and fell togeather by the eares in the said
shippe, and this examinate did perceive by them that they
had bin drinckeinge a shoare, and this examinate
hath bin tolde by the Companies of other Shippes
(who said they had knowen the Like) that yf
two menn fighte a shippe at Marcellis, and
one of themm kill the other, the shippe
wherein they fought and the goodes in her are confiscated
And this hee affirmeth to bee true, who sawe
the said Anderson and Angell fighte aboard the
said shippe as aforesaid, Ac aliter nescit;/

Ad quartum affirmat, THat whelst the said shippe the
Truelove remained at Corcke in Ireland
expectinge a faire winde at eighte a Clocke
one nighte this sawe the said Anderson  there
aboard her, and the nexte morneinge hee was not
aboard her soe that that nighte hee
the said Anderson wente a shoare, and Gibbs the
Master said that hee did not knowe of his goeinge
a shoare, nor gave hhim any Leave soe to doe,
and the same nighte one Robert Dampford the
Chirurgeon of the said shippe wente on shoare
at Corcke aforesaid, as hee conceiveth with the
said Anderson, and Dampford never offered to returne to the
said shippe againe to this examinates knowledge but about two dayes after
the said Anderson with Dampford came to the
waters side at Corcke about a muskett shott from
the said shippe and the Trueloves boate beeing
then at the waterside, the said
Anderson (as those in the said boate reported)
offered to come aboard her to returne to the shippe
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but Gibbs the Master (as the boates company said) refused to Lett him come into the
boate in regard the said Anderson had soe much
abused him in the voyage and told him that he should  come aboard the shippe noe more And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, Ac aliter ad humoi articulum nescit deponere
Saveinge that when the said shippe the voyage aforesaid
was uppon the coaste of Ireland, all the company of
that shippe excepte one that was Lame were in health
and had noe want either of victualls or any thinge ells
that was fittinge for them;/

Ad quintum affirmat. That the said shippe the Truelove the
voyage aforesaid was chaced into Marselis by eighte
Turcks menn of warr, and by them kepte in there
by the space of two dayes and two nights, and then and there
the said Anderson did goe on shoare, and the said
Gibbs the Master said that hee did not then give him
Leave to goe on shoare, and this examinate beleeveth that
the said Gibbs did not then give the said Anderson
Leave to goe on shoare for that they were not then
frendes, and at Marvelis the tyme aforesaid the
said Andersn wente on shoar as jee guesseth
betweene sixe and eighte of the clocke in the morneinge,
and to this examinates best remembranse returned
aboard againe, about one or two of the clocke in the
afternoone, and when hee returned againe the
said shipp at Marvelis this examinate did perseive that
hee the said Anderson was in drincke, and then Anderson
quarrelled with the said Gibbs the Master and swore
many profane and horrible oaths and miscalled the
said Gibbs the Master callinge him cheate, coseninge knave
dogg, and other such like names, and thretened to confiscate
shippe and goodes, and drew his knife and said that whatsoever
hee was that shoulde lay handes on him to bringe him
to the Capsten, hee would thruste  his knife into
him whereuppon Gibbs the Master stepte within him and
tooke his knife from him and threw yt overboard, hee
the said Anderson beeing then heat in drincke
as this examinate pperceived by him, And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, who was an
eye and eare witnes of the premisses, Ac aliter nescit,

Ad sextum affirmat That the said Robert Anderson
dueringe the said shippes voyage in this examinates heareinge did dives and sundry
tymes revile miscall and by wordes abuse the
said Gibbs the Master, and did often tymes in divers and sundry
places goe on shoare, and came aboard the shippe againe
merry with drincke And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, who was Cooper of the said shippe all the said
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voyage excepte the first seaven weekes, and for that
tyme was one of her quarter masters, Ac aliter nescit

Ad septium nescit respondere Saveinge that the said
Gibbs the Master did tell this examinate that there was a
Pursevant sent from Dublin by the Lord Deputy of
Ireland for him the said Gibbs to come to
Dublin to answere a complainte made there
by the said Anderson and Dampford;/

Ad interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet quod partibus huicinde equa, et optat
victoria ius habenti;/

Ad secundum respondet  est supra , Saveinge that this
respondent now worketh aboard the said Gibbs his
shippe to helpe to take goods into her and Gibbs hath
spoken ti him to goe to sea with him againe but did not tell
him in what place, and this respondent is minded
to goe to sea with him againe yf they cann
aggree for wages, but they are not yet ahhreed
for wages nor in what place hee shall serve
but this respondent is resolved to goe a quarter master
or not at all;/

Ad tertium respondet negative;/

Ad quartum nescit respondere aliyer qua prius;/

Ad quintum nescit respondere;

Ad sextum respondet That at Marvelis the said
Anderson called the said Gibbs cheating knave, dogg
and coseninge knave and such like wordes which this
respondent cannot now perticulerly remember, and there
uttered those wordes in the said shippe abafte the
maste in the presense of this respondent, William
Samburroughe William Smith, Robert Bray, Robert
Blacker, and the moset parte of the rest of that
shippes company whose names he cannott now
perticulerly expresse, but uppon what occasion
hee spake those wordes this respondent cannott
expresse, but syaeth that for the most part of
the voyage there was difference betweene the
said Gibbs and Andersn, soe that Anderson could
scarce offared Gibbs a good worde and
Anderson spake those wordes
at that tyme before hee was
brought to the Capsten and whilest hee was at liberty as alsoe whilst hee was at the
Capsten and at divers other  tymes in the voyage the said
Anderson aboard the said shippe hath given ill wordes to Gibbs the Master
in the presence of this examinate and Robert Barcker
and others of the shipps company when Anderson hath
bin at Liberty. Ac aliter nescit./
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Ad septium respondet negative, quod noticia suam;/

Ad octavum respondet ngative, Saveinge that in the said shippe and
voyage, hee sawe the said Gibbs two or three tymes
merry in drincke, but at those tymes hee did not
curse or sweare or misuse any of his company,

Ad nonum nescit respondere aliter qua prius;/

Signum dicti [MARKE] Nicholai Gdfrey;/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

25o Augusti : pred : [CENTRE HEADING]

3.s Gibbs:

Robertus Bray de Plimouthe in Comitatu Devonia nauta
annos agens 22 aut eo circiter testis dicit quod Johannem
Gibbs partem producentem per tres annos ultimum et amplius se
bene novit et Robertum Anderson partem contra qua
producitur per septendecem menses ultimum etapsetia novit ut
dicit;/

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte Gibbs 17o instantis Augusti
in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit et deponit, That the
articulate John Jenkins was for the most part of this laste
voyage Boatswaine of the shippe the Truelove of London
whereof the said John Gibbs was Master, and Alexander
Robinson was a common sailor in the said shippe and voyage
and in that voyage the said Robinson did partake with
the said Robert Anderson who was an adversary to Gibbs
the Master, and this examinate in that voyage often heard the
said Robinson tell tales to the said Anderson againste
Gibbs the Master which occasioned much discontente 
betweene the said Anderson and Gibbs, and hee the
said Robinson in wordes woulde controll Gibbs the Master
as yff hee had bin his fellowe, soe that this examinate
conceiveth that in the said shippe and voyage hee the
said Robinson did not beare any good will to the
said Gibbs the Master, And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, who was Boatswaines Mate of the said
shippe all the voyage aforesaid, Ac aliter nescit,
Saveinge that the said Robinson is a waterman, and this
examinate never heard of any meanes that hee hath, neither
hath hee ever heard of any meanes that the said
Jenkins hath;/

Ad secundum affirmat, That the said Jenkins in the voyage
aforesaid was much given to drinckeinge, and in that
voyage at Marcellis wente a shoare and was absent from
the said shippe aboute 24 houres and was absent from her when shee sett
saile from the Towne of Marsellis, yet came aboard
her againe where shee stopt about three miles from
Marcellis, and afterwardes at Telloome in the said
voyage, hee the said Jenkins wente on shoare againe
and whilest the said shipp remained at Telloone was
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wanting from her a day of two, and was absebt from her
and when the said shippe was ready to sett saile from thence
the Master desiered the Consull there to looke for
the said Jenkins, and the Consull came aboard the
said shippe and in this examinates heareinge tolde the said
Gibbs the Master that hee coulde not finde the said
Jenkins, and thereuppon the Master gave the Consull a
hundred of fishe, halfe a cheese and 3s in money
for his paines taken in lookeinge for the said Jenkins, and
soe the said shippe sett saile from Talloone to
Marcellis leaveing Jenkins behinde, and about three
or fower dayes after the said Jenins came by
land to Marcellis and came the aboard the said shippe
againe and afterwards at Mayorcka the said
voyag, hee the said Jenkins wente againe a shoare
in an fternoone with this examinate and
some others of the said shippes company, and when
they returned againe aboard their shippe that
Eveninge, this examinate and the rest looked in the
Towne of Mayorcka for the said Jenkins to
have hadd him abord with them, but coulde not
finde him , and early the nexte morneinge the
winde commeinge fine, the said shippe sett
saile from Mayorcka leaveinge the said Jenkins
behinde there, and hee followed her in annother
shippe which the next day after overtooke the
Truelove and then Jenkins came aboard the
Truelove againe, and afterwardes at Waterford
in Ireland the said Jenkins and
Robinson and some others of the aid shipps company
wente on shoare on a saterday, and Gibbs the Master
that saterday in the Eveninge wente on shoare and
spake to the said Jenkins and Robinson and the
rest, and wished them to come aboard his shippe to
cary her to Corcke where shee was to take in
her ladeinge, the winde and tide beeing then faire
to cary the said shippe from Waterford to
Corcke, but they answered him that they woulde
not come aboard unles they might have security
for their wages, and the Master theruppon tolde them
that when hee came to Corcke hee and his Merchants
mann woulde give them security for their wages, but they
refused the same and woulde not come aboard, and
soe the said Gibbs the Master hiered new menn at
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Waterford and the monday morneinge early sett saile from
thence leaveinge the said Jenkins, Robinson and some others
of his company behinde him therem who about a weeke
after by land followed the said shippe to Corcke abd
and there cae aboard her againe And this hee affirmeth
to bee true who was the said Jenkins his Mate
all the tyme that Kenkins was Boatswaine of the
said shippe; Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that at their
beeinge on shoare at Mayorcka the time aforesaid this
examinate sawe the said Jenkins theire druncke, And hee
further sayeth that the said Alexander Robinson was
in the tyme that hee served in the said shippe, and
voyage of a quarrelsome and mutinous dispositcon, and
much given to drinckeinge and quarrellinge, and at
Marcellis the said voyage lay on shoare some nights, and
at divers tymes and places in the said voyage went on shoare
and came aboard againe in drincke, and when the Master at
such tymes spake any thinge to him hee the said
Robinson woulde five him crosse language, and this examinate
heard Robinson himself confesse that, at Passage in
Ireland hee tooke a pott and offered to strike the
said Gibbs therewith and hee the said Robinson in the
said voyage was of an uncivill and debaucht carriage
and behavior oftentymes utteringe in this examinates heareinge
profane oathes./

Ad tertium affirmat, That whilst the said shipp the Truelove
remained at Marcellis the voyage articulate the articulate Robert
Anderson and Gilbert Angell did there goe on shoare
from the said shippe, and there this examinate sawe them
drinkeinge togeather a shoare, and hee heard some others
of the Trueloves company saye, that they the said
Anderson nd Angell on shoare at Marcellis quarrelled
and foughte togeather, and hee alsoe heard soe of the
company of the Truelove say, that after theythe saied
Andesron and Angell came aboard her againe at Marcellis
they wuarrelled and foughte togeather aboard her, but this examinate
sawe not the same, And this hee affirmeth to bee true,
Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that hee hath hear divers
Marriners say that yf two menn fighte in a shippe at
Marcellis and one kill the other, the shippe wherein they
foughte and killed one the other and the goods in her are to
bee confiscated;/

Ad quartum affirmat, That whilst the said shipp the Truelove
the voyage aforesaid remained at Corcke expectinge
a faire winde to carry her for Waterford , the said
Anderson went on shoare there, and remained there on shoare
all day, and about eighte of the clocke that eveninge
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came aboard the said shippe againe, and within a littke
space after, hee the said Anderson (as this examinate was
tolde by some others of the said shippes company hee
this examinate beeing then gon with the Trueloves boate to sett
some gentlemen a shoare that were aboard the
Truelove) with one Robert Dampford the
Chirurgeon of the said shippe did goe on shoare
againe at Corcke, and came noe more aboard the
said shippe againe, And this hee affirmeth to bee true,
who was then Boatswaines Mate of the said shippe
Ac aliter nescit, Saveinge that when the said shipp
the Truelove was uppon the coaste of Ireland all her
company excepte one mann were in health and had
noe wante either of victualls or any thing as fitting
for them;/

Ad quintum affirmat, That in the sais voyage the said shipp
the Truelove was chaced by 8 Turckes men of warr
into Marvelis, and there kepte in by them b the space
of two dayes, and then and there hee the said
Anderson did goe on shoare in the morneinge and
staied there on shoare untill towardes the afternoone
and then returned aboard the Truelove againe
beeinge druncke and overcome with drincke, and hee
quarrelled with the said Gibbs the Master and swor
many prophane and horrible oathes, and miscalled
Gibbs the Master, callinge him in this examinats heaareing
coseninge knave, doff, cheateinge knave, roague
and such like names, and threatened to confiscate 
the shippe and goodes, and the Master threateninge to
bringe him to the Capsten, hee the said Anderson
swore that hee woulde stabb hee that shoulde
lay handes on him to bringe him to the Capsten and
put his hande into his pockett and tooke out his
knife and offered to drawe yt, but the Master stepte in
to him, and tooke his knife from him and threwe it
overboard, And this hee affirmeth to bee true of
his sighte and knowledge, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad sextum affirmat, That after the said shippe came
from New England the voyage aforesaid there was 
a continuall defference betweene the said Anderson
and Gibbs, and Anderson did divers and sundry tymes
revile miscall and in qordes abuse the said Gibbs the Master
of the said shippe, and did oftentymes give him the
said Gibbs base and foule speeches and Termes
and did oftentymes, at at every place where they came
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goe on shoare, and at Corcke in Ireland this examinate
sawe him drincke a shoare, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, who was Boatswaines Mate of the said
shippe all the said voyage, Ac aliter nescit,/

Ad septium affirmat, That hee heard some of the company
of the said shippe the Truelove say that there was a
complaine made to the Lord Deputy of Ireland by
Anderson and Dampford againste Gibbs, and that
thereuppon a Purseuant was commeinge from
Dublin to waterford to fetch Gibbs to Dublin, but
was stopte by the Merchants mann, and at waterford
this examinate was examined by the Mayor aboute
Andersons beinge lefte a shoare at Vorcke, but
what ells was don there hee knoweth not, Ac aliter
nescit;/

Ad Interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet quod favett partibus huicinde eque, et optat
victoria ius habenti./

Ad secundum respondet That hee is now to goe with Hibbs on this
voyage, and to bee Boatswaines Mate as hee was in
the former voyage;/

Ad tertium respondet negative;/

Ad quartum nescit respondere Saveinge that at Marvelis
Ginns the Master bidd Angell goe on shoare to speake to the
governor of that Towne to ayd and assiste the Truelove
yf the said Turcks men of warr shoulde come
in thither to doe her any hurte;/

Ad quintum nescit respondere Saveinge that at Marvelis
some of the Kinge of Spains officers came aboard the
said shippe and searched her, shee beeing flemishe builte,
and one or two of her company beeing habitted like
dutchmen and beeing on shoare at Marvelis were (as
they said) supposed to bee dutchmen and soe put in prison
there;/

Ad sextum respondet , That at Marvelis uppon the decke of the
said shippe the Truelove, the said Anderson did call the
said Gibbs roague, cheatinge knave, base fellowe, dogg
and such like wordes which this examinate cannott now remember,
in the presence of this examinate Gilbert Angell
James Besly, Richard Salter, Nicholas Godfrey
Leonard fforde, Robert Barcker, William Wills, Christopher
Radner, George Hicks and Thomas Hogman and divers others
of the shipps company whose names hee cannott nowe
perticulerly expresse, but uppon what occasion those
wordes were spoken hee knoweth not, but sayeth that the
said Anderson spake he same wordes whilst hee was
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at liberty, as alsoe whilst hee was at the Capsten and
afterwardes at Corcke in Ireland
whilst the sais shippe the Truelove lay there one
day there stood some uppon the strande waveinge to the
Truelove, and thereuppon Gibbs with this examinate and
sixe others of his company n his boate rowed
to the strand to see what they were and what they
would have, and found them to bee one Captaien Cripps and
the said Andersona nd Dampford the Chirurgeon, and
Captaine Cripps telling Gibbs that hee had a letter
for him, Gibbs caused this examinate to goe a shoare
for yt but Anderson tooke the letter of Captaine
Cripps and said that hee woukde carry yt to r
Ginns and then Anderson came close to the waters
side

Ad septium nescit respondere;/

Ad octavum respondet negative quad noticia suam

Ad nonum nescit respondere aliter qua prius, Saveinge that
yt was tow or three dayes after the said Anderson went
on shoare at Corcke as aforesaid, before hee
f=desiered to come into the boate as afresaid;/

Robert Braye [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
received for them
22:s/

Memorand to reckon here for eleaven deposicons taken in
papers for Oxwicke killner and others, every one a
first witnes to the Judge and Register;/
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18. Septembris 1635:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Alexander Scott of Wappinge in the County of Middlesex
Marriner aged 34 uears or thereabouts sworne before the worshipfull
Thomas Rives Doctor of Lawes Surrogate to the right worshipfulll
Sir Henry Marten Knight Judge of his Majesties high Courte
of the Admiralty, sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath,

That
aboute five weekes since, at Dunckirke in fflannders

Alex sander Scot [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
18o Septembris 1635./

1sSlaney et Crispe

Paid/

John Blake of Redriffe in the County of
Surrey Marriner aged 55 yeares or thereabouts, sworne
before the worshipfull Thomas Rives doctor of Lawe
Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knight Judge
of his Majesties high Court of the Admiralty and examined
uppon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the oarte and
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behalfe of Captaine Nicholas Crispe and Humphrey Slaney of
London Merchannts sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath

That this
examinate was Master of the shippe called the Crispina and Captaine
Nicholas Crispe, Humphrey Slaney, Thomas Mead, Jonas
James and this examinate (who are all naturall subiects to the
Kinge of England) were Owners of the same shippe
and in October Anno 1632 the said Captaine Crispe and Humphrey
Slaney tooke the same shippe to freighte of the rest
of the Owners aforesaid and sent her out from this port
of London in that yeares 1632 to trade uppon the
coaste of Ginney and Binney, and the same shippe that
voyage tradeinge uppon the coaste of Ginney by the violence
of a storme sprunge a leake, and to stopp that leake and to
provide freshe victualls to releeve her company beeinge
many of them sicke and some of them thereby in greate
misery, was forced to put into Saint Michaells Island
the winde beeinge also then contrary to her intended cours
and soe soone as the said shippe the Crispina came to an anchor in
the roade of Saint Michaells the visitt boate came aboard her and
de,annded whense shee came, and this examinate tolde them that shee
came from Ginney and put in there to stopp her leaks and to
gett freshe victualls which shee much wanted, and thereuppon
those visitors bidd hem welcome and said that they shoulde bee
furnished with any thinge that the Country woulde affoard
but said that their Governor had a brother that was a Governor
in Ginney, and that hee desiered some conference with this
examinate aboute his brother, and therefore willed this examinate to
come a shoare to the Governor and thereuppon this examinate sent
one of his Mates with his skiffe a shoare to the Governor at
Saint Michaells to desire him to lett them have some
refresheing from the shoare, but that night this examinats skiffe
and menn returned aboard againe and told this examinate that the
Governor did detaine his Mate and willed this examinate to come
a shoare himself, and the nexte day this examinate sent his skiffe
againe for his Mate but shee returned without him, and told this
examinate that the Governor would come himself aboard to see
the said shippe, and about noone the next day two English merchants
came aboard the Crispina and said that they came from the
Governor to desire this examinate to come a shoare to him, but
this examinate tolde them that hee had a greate chardge in his shipp
and therefore woulde not goe out of her but by the advise and at the
intreaty of those two Merchannts sente another of his Mates
that most resembled this examinate to personate this examinate and
goe to the Governor to knowe what hee woulde have, and hee was
alsoe detained a shoare and those two English Merchants (one
of them beeing the Englishe Consull at Saint Michaells) commannded this examinate
to weighe once in fower and twenty houres accordinge to the custome
there or otherwise hee shoulde bee subiect to pay custome, there
for his ladeinge, and this examinate afterwards weighinge accordingly
the Castle there shott a peece of ordnannce close under the
Crispinaes sterne, but shee gott out of commannde, and
anchored againe out of commannd and afterwards this examinate and
some of his company goeing aboard a west Country
shipp to heare what the Governor intended to doe with the
menn, two great boats manned with about 40 musketeers [?XXXX]

boate indeavoured to intercepte this examinate and his company betweene the shipp and his [?XXXX] and pursued them and
shott at them divers small shott And afterwards a second tyme a Carvell and a boate manned
indeavoured to have taken this examinats skiffe [?XXXX] goeing againe aboard the west Country shippe to heare what became of
their menn and [?XXX] a letter to the Governor to desire him to release them
and soe this examinate with his shipp was inforced to come from[?XXXXX] without his two Mates who are not yet come home to [?this] [?day] or lose of shipp and goods for want of
And this hee affirmeth to bee true who was Master
of the Crispina all the said voyage, And hee further sayeth That hee hath heard a Pattent under the great Seale of
England read whereby the said Crispe and Slaney had power grannted them to trade uppon the coast of Ginney;/ [AT 90 DEGREES IN LH MARGIN]

Per me John Blake [SIGNATURE, BOTTOM LH CORNER OF PAGE]
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D

8o Julij 1635

White et alij contra fflute./

1s

Rp J M

Paulus Lane de Wappineg in Comitatu Middlesex nauta aetatis 28 annorum
aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum articulum allegaconis ex parte dicti fflute in hac parte date t oblat
dicit et deponit That about Whit sunday last was twelve monethes at the Islands
of the Trereraes and Saint Michaels therre were laden aboard the sayd shipp
the Jeremy of London divers chests of sugers to be transported in the sayd shipp partlye to Leghorne
and partlye to Venice for the accompte of certayne Jewes and
Portugalls the premisses he knoweth to be true for that he was one of
the company of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage./

Ad secundum et tertium articulos alluis pred dicit et deponit That at Leghorne there were
delivered out of the sayd certeyne chests of suger and after the
delivery of them there was one cheste of Panneale sugers sent abord the
sayd shippe and the Purser of the sayd shipp tould the Boatswayne that
the sayd chest soe broughte backe was mistaken and that t should have
bene delivered at Venice (and not there at Leghorne) and that there should be a chest of white suger
under the same marke that the sayd chest of blacke sugers was marked with
delivered on shoare for the sayd chest of Panneale suger, and
theruppon the sayd Boatswayne did send a chest of white suger on shoare
and this deponent and two others of the company of the Jeremy
caryed the sayd chest of suger in safetye to the key of Leghorne
and after the bringinge therof to the key, the Purser of the sayd shipp
hired porters to helpe hoyst out the saud chest of suger out of the boate
uppon the sayd key and accordingly those porters with the helpe of this
examinate and the two others which were in the boate hoysted the
sayd chest of suger out of the sayd boate uppon the key where
the sayd porters stood, and when it was cleare out of the boate and uppon
the sayd key the sayd porters lett the sayd chest of suger fll from the
key into the water by which meanes the sayd sugers were wett
and dampnified but this deponent and the other two of the Jeremy
her companye were not the occasion of the sayd damage nor of the
fallinge of the sayd chest into the water for that the same
was delivered safely out of the sayd boate uppon the key and out of
the reach of the Jeremyes company which were in the sayd boate, but
the same was soe damnifyed by the faulte and negligence of the porters
that stood uppon the key in not takinge better hould of it when it was uppon
the key out of the reach of the Jeremys company as aforesayd Et aliter necit deponere/

Ad quartum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that at Leghorne the voyage in question
dollers were worth foure shillings six pence per peece and noe more; and at that
rate the sayd [INK BLOT] the master of the sayd shipp offred to paye this examinate and
the rest of his company their wages in dollers
to accepte untill they came to Venice

Ad quintum nescit deponit savinge hee sayeth that there are yet remayninge due
and unsatisfyed unto this deponent eleaven moneths wages for his service in the
sayd shipp in the voyage aforesayd./

Ad ultimum dicit predeposita per eu eo vera//

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That there were three of the company of the sayd
shipp the Jeremy in the boate when the chest of suger in question was dampnifyed
of which this respondent was one as before he hath deposed Et aliter satisfet
est prius./
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Ad secundum respondet That when the Purser of the sayd shipp brought order to the
boatswayne to send the chest of suger in question on shoare, he
likewise gave him order to send up in the boate with the sayd chest two of the
sayd shippes company, but the boatswayne sayd that he would not
commannd any of the company to goe up with the sayd chest unlesse they
would themselues, and at the first all the company seemed unwillinge
to goe up with the sayd chest of suger for feare of damage which mighte
happen unto the sayd suger betwixt the shipp and shoare, and then the sayd Purser undertooke
that they should only rowe the sayd cheste of suger from the shipp to
the shoares side and then take noe further charge therof./

Ad tertium respondet That the sayd chest of suger was safelye broughte to the
shoareside in the sayd boate and there remayned in the sayd boate by the space of
two houres or therabouts before any bodye came to demannde the same, and
at length the sayd Purser came and commannded the company in the sayd
boate to heave the same on shoare, which they refused to doe, sayeinge that
they would not meddle therewith unless they had a rope to trice it up
withall and theruppon the sayd Purser went and hired porters to heave
the sayd cheste out of the sayd boate on shoare, Et aliter referend se ad
predeposita nescit respondere./

Ad quartum respondet That presentlye after the fallinge of the sayd
cheste into the water the Purser of the sayd shipp and the porters
which he hiered as aforesaid run awaye and lefte the sayd chest of suger in
the water, but this respondent and his contest William Blacke leapte into
the water and were up almost to the arme pitts in water and with theur
hands buoyed up the sayd chest as much as they could above water
to keepe the sayd suger from damage as much as in them laye
and after they had stood in the water buoyeinge up the sayd chest by the
space of a quarter of an houre or therabouts an English merchant passinge
by and seeinge them procured some porters to helpe heave the sayd
chest out of the water upon the shoare, and by the industrye of this
respondent and his sayd contest and of those porters there was as much
suger remayninge un washed in the sayd cheste as (by the confession
of the sayd fflye the master made in this respondents hearinge) the sayd fflute
sould for fourtye dollers amountinge to nyne pounds
sterlinge at 4s 6d per doller. Et aliter referend se ad predepoita
necit respondere./

Ad quintum respondet That he verily beleiveth that if the sayd Purser and the
porters which were hired by him had lent their ayde and assistance to
receover the sayd chest of suger ymediatly after it was fallen into the
water they might have prevented the greatest parte of the sayd dammage
which happened to the sayd suger, and by the report of some who stood by
and sawe the same they might have recovered the ame before
it had bene dampnifiyed to the vallue of fourtye shillings  and soe much this respondent doth verily beleive Et aliter necit

Ad sextum necit respondere/

Ad septium nescit respondere/

Paule Lane [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
9o Julij 1635

Petrus Clungeon de Southampton mercator aetatis 35 annorum
aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus/

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte dicti Thoma fflute in hac parte datus et
oblat dicit et deponit That in the voyage in question at the Island of
the Treraes and Saint Michaells there were laden abord the articulate
(shipp
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shipp the Jeremy of London certayne chests of sugers to be transported
in the sayd shipp partly to Leghorne and partly to Venice for the
accompte of certayne Portugall merchants the premisses he knoweth to 
be true for that he did exequute the place of a Purser in the sayd
shipp the sayd voyage

Ad secundum affirmat That at Leghorne the voyage in question in the
unladinge of the sayd sugers that were there to be delivered
by the error and mistake of the boatswayne quarter masters and others
of the company of the sayd shipp which wroughte in houlde there was
a chest of Panneale sugers sent on shoare thre, which should have
bene delivered at Venice, and there was detayned abord the sayd
shipp a chest of white sugers which should have bene delivered at
Leghorne, under the same marke that the said chest of Panneale suger
was of, but of a different number, which he knoweth to be true for
that he this deponent did send nots to the boatswayne
with the numbers and marks of such goods as were to be dlivered
out of the sayd shipp at Leghorne the sayd voyage Et aliter nescit./

Ad tertium affirmat That this deponent by the order of the sayd Thomas fflute
gave order to the Boatswayne of the sayd shipp, to send the righte
chest of suger which was to be delivered at Leghorne, and to bringe backe
the other mistaken chest which was not there to be delivered, but at Venice, and that the
sayd chest was safelye brought in a boate to the side of the key and
after it had layen in the sayd boate by the keys side by the space of two
houres or therabouts, this deponent hired three or fower porters to helpe
them which came up in the said boate beinge but three of the company of
the sayd shipp the Jeremye, and then two of the Jeremyes company indeavored to
heave the sayd chest uppon the key and the other of the Jeremyes
company stood on the sterne of the boate to kkeepe in the same to the side
of the sayd keye/ and as they were heavinge the sayd chest of suger out
of the sayd boate uppon the key, the sayd boate beinge not made fast to
the key, with the weighte of the sayd chest of suger in thrustinge
it uppon the key, the partye who stood uppon the sterne of the
sayd boate was not able to hould in the sayd boate, and by the goeinge
away of the sayd boate from the key the sayd chest of suger beinge not
quite uppon the key fell downe into the water betwixte the
key and the sayd boate and therby the sayd chest of suger was much
wett and dampnifyed by the faulte and negligence of them which were in the sayd boate in not makinge the
sayd boate fast to the key
The premisses he knoweth to be true for that
he was present and sawe the passages aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartum affirmat That the merchant to whom the sayd chest of suger
was consigned to be delivered at Leghorne did refuse to accepte
therof beinge soe wett and dampnified, and theruppon the
sayd fflute was inforcedto make satisfaction unto the sayd merchant for
the sayd chest of suger by deduction of the vallue therof at Leghorne out
of the fraighte which he was to paye te sayd fflute for other godes
but the iust somme which was deducted from the sayd fflute for the
sayd chest of suger he remembreth not Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he
sayeth that he this deponent sould the wett suger remayninge in the
sayd chest for fourtye dollers each doller being then worth at Leghorne
foure shillings six pence or therabouts./
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Ad quintum

Ad ultimum disit predeposita per eu ea vera./

Idem super Interrogatoria,. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he this respondent came in the boate with the sayd
chest of suger to the shoare with three others of the Jeremyes company
which three others were in the sayd boate when the sayd chest fell into the
water but this respondent was then uppon the ley. Et aliter satisffecum est
supra./

Ad secundum respondet That the company of the sayd shipp at first seemed unwillinge
to carrye the sayd chest of suger on shoare whereuppon this respondent tould
them that if they would not doe it they should choose, and that he never tould
them that they should only rowe the ame to the shoares side and then take noe
further charge of it, as is interrogate./

Ad tertium respondet That the sayd boate safely arrived at the shoare side with
the sayd chest of suger, and after it had layen in the sayd boate at the
key side by the space of two houres or therabouts, this respondent c ame to them
in the sayd boate and by the sayd ffluts order commannded them to heave the same uppon the key
but they in the sayd boate replyed that they wanted more hands
wheruppon this respondent called three or foure porters to helpe them as
before he hath deposed Et aliter quam prius nescit respondere./

Ad quartum respondet That the sayd chest of suger before it fell into water rested
partly uppon the key and partlye uppon the sayd boate uppon two
thoughts, and when the company of the sayd shipp the Jeremy which were in the
sayd boate thrust the same out of the boate more uppon the key
the sayd boate beinge not made fast nor helde fast to the key,
drove out bu the thrustinge of the sayd chest, and by that meanes the sayd
chest dropte downe into the water betwixte the sayd boate and the key
and after the sayd cheste was fallen into the water this respondent spoake
to the company in the sayd boate to goe into the water to weigh or
lifte up the sayd chest of suger, which they grudginge at, and beinge not
willinge to doe, this respondent and the porters hired by him went away and
lefte the sayd chest in the water, Et aliter referend se ad predeposita
per eum nescit respondere./ 

Ad quintum respondet That he beleiveth that if the Jeremys company which were
in the boate had stept into the water presently after the fall of the sayd
chest of suger, and donne their indeavors to preserve the sayd suger the porters hired by this respondent would have putt their
helping hands therunto likewise, but this respondent and the sayd porters seeing
those in the boate soe careles of the sayd sugers and that they would not wett
their foot to save the same, went away, and that he beleiveth that if they
in the boate and the sayd porters had donne their best indeavors presently after
the sayd cheste fell into the water, they might have receaved it before it
had received much dammage Et aliter nescit./

Ad sexteum respondet That he was not present when the sayd fflute payd any money
for the sayd Cheste of suger unto the merchant or owner therof, 
but he was tould by master Read the English Consull at
Leighorne that he sayd fflute was inforced to pay the owner the full
vallue of the sayd chest of suger Et aliter nescit respondere

Ad sepptium nescit respondere./

Pet: Clungeon [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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10 Julij 1635

2s//

Rp J m

Willimus Blacke de Libawe prope Lubecke nauta aetatis
24 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus./

Ad primum articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblate dict That about a yeare
since at Saint Michaells and the Trerera Islands here were laden
abord the articulate shipp the Jeremy of London wherof Thomas fflute
was master certayne chestes of suger for the accompte of certayne
(Portugall
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Portugall merchants part of which sugers were to be delivered at Leghorne
and part at Venice, The premisses he knoweth to be true for that he was
one of the company of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage./

Ad secundum articulum dicit et depont That
in the deliveringe of the sayd sugers at Leghorne
there was one chest of suger sent on shoare there, which (as it was reported)
should have bene delivered at Venice, and there was another chest
remayninge abord the sayd shipp, which (as it was sayd) should have bene
delivered at Leghorne instead of that other chest, Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad tertium dicit et deponeit That the Purser of the sayd shipp came to the
Boatswayne and company and desired them to send the righte chest f suger
on shoare which the company refused to doe sayeing that they would deliver
the sayd chest into the boate free from the tackle of the sayd
shipp, but would not rowe the same on shoare, but the sayd Purser
tould them that they should not goe above two or three into the boate to
rowe the same on shoare, and when theyc ame to the shoare he would
gett more hands to helpe the sayd chest on shaoare, and then this deponent
and two others of the Jeremyes company rowed the sayd chest to the
side of the key, and after the sayd chest of suger had layen in safetye in
the sayd boate by the side of the key by the space pf two houres or therabouts
the purser came and commannded this deponent and the other two which were
in the sayd boate to heave the sayd chest on shoare, but this deponent
tould the sayd Purser that he should provide a rope to heve the same
on shoare, but the Purser replyed that it was noe matter for a rope but
he would gett porters to helpe lande the sme and the Purser did
accordingly fetch p[orters to helpe to land the sayd chest of suger,a nd
those porters came into the sayd boate and
with the helpe of this deponent and two other of the Jeremyes company
heaved the sayd chest clearlye out of the sayd boate almoste uppon the key and
then the sayd porters before it was quite uppon the key leapt out of the
sayd boate uppon the key and presently as they leapt on shoare the sayd
chest being not well setled on the shoare dropte downe into the
water betwixte the sayd boate and the key notwithstandinge this deponent
and another of his partners did their best iindeavours to thrust the same more
fullye uppon the key but had not strength enough to stand under or performe
the same, which chest dropt into the water for want of the helpe of
the sayd porters who went awaye before it was quite setled
uppon the key as aforesayd Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad quartum necit deponere

Ad quintum affirmat That the sayd Thomas fflute hath payd this deponent all
his wages due to him for the sayd voyage excepted 20s, which he detayneth
for the samage of the sayd chest of suger Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad ultimum dicit predeposita per eu ea vera./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum satisficum est supra./

Ad secundum et tertium respondere aliter quam prius./

Ad quartum respondet That the sayd Purser and the porters hired by him assoone
as the sayd chest was fallen into water run away and left the same in the
water, but this respondent and his precontest Paule Lawe leapte into the water
presentlye after the fall of the sayd chest, a nd did
keepe the same as much out of the water as they could by the space
of an houre or therabouts before any bodye came to helpe them, and did their best indeavour
to preserve the sayd sugers Et aliter referend se ad predeposita  nescit respondere
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Ad quintum respondet That he verilye beleiveth in his conscience that if the
sayd porters had leapt into the water with this respondent and his sayd
precontest oresently after the sauyd chest fell into the water,a nd had helped
to preserve the sayd sugers there would not be a third part of the
damage donne to the sayd sugers but a great parte of the sayd
dammage mmighte have bene prevented./ Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad sextum nescit respondere

Ad septium enescit respondere./

Signum 'WW' Blacke [MARKE, RH SIDE]

Huc computatavi J. m.

Abr: Der Kinder 1635 [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
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29o. Augusti 1635

Swift et alij contra Wilkinson:/

6s/

det master wilson./

Clemens Harrison de Offencheney in
Comitatu Huntingdonia Silkweaver, annos
agens 29 aut eo circiter testis su dicit quod
Richardam Swifte, Jacobum [?ffreese] Danielem
Dobbins et ffranciscum Ashe per octo menses utl et amplius
aut eo circiter ex visa respective novit et Phillippam
Colly per quatur annos ultimum et amplius bene novit, sed
reliquos partis producen non novit ut dicit et
Willmum Wilkinson partem contra qua [?XXXXX]
per annum ultimum et amplius aut eo circiter etiam novit ut
dicit./

Ad primum articulum libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus nescit
deponere,/

Ad secundum nescit deponere;/

Ad tertium et quartum affirmat That within the tyme articulate the
articulate Thomas Harte by the relacon of himself, and by
the confession of the articulate William Wilkinson and all the
rest of the company of the articulate shippe the Hopewell
was appointed to bee Master and was Master of that shippe,
and at Archangell the said Wilkinson and the articulate John
Waites did annswere to the name of Masters Mates
of that shippe
, and were called Masters Mates of that
shippe
but hee
sayeth that after they had weathered the North Cape
homewardes bounde from Archangell aforesaid, this
examinate (uppon a controversy that did arrise
betweene the said Hart and Wilkinson) did heare the
said Wilkinson tell the Marriners of the said shippe
that hee the said Wilkinson was master of that
shippe, and that they must bee ruled by him for hee
must pay them their wages, and from that tyme the
Marriners of that shippe called the said wilkinson 
Master, and wilkinson from that tyme tooke uppon him
the name power and place of master of that shippe the
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said voyage and from that tyme hee the said wilkinson
would not bee ruled by the said Harte nor followe any direccons
that the said Hart gave him, but when Hart at any tyme
gave him any direccons hee would bidd him goe into his
Cabon, Hart tellinge wilkinson in this
examinates heareinge that hee would over throwe the voyage
the said wilkinson replied that hee cared not, and the
Marriners after the fallinge out aforesaid did obey the
commannds of the said wilkinson as Master of the said
shippe yet did acknowledge the said Hart to bee cheif
in the said shippe and [?XXXXXXXXXXXX] was did
alsoe obey him the said Hart as Master of the said shippe and did followe his
commannds, and when a guste of
foule weather came they did followe the commannds of both
the saId Hart and wilkinson togeather, but
at other tymes when yt was not within the tyme of
Harts watch nor gust or foule weather, the Marriners
did onely followe the commannd of the said wilkinson
and wilkinson neither did nor woulde hearken to the said
Harts direccons in any thinge but bidd him
meddle with that hee had to doe And this hee
affirmeth to bee true, who came a passinger in the
said shippe from Archangell the said voyage, and
was sett a shoare out of her at Bamboroughe Castle in the
North of England thinkeinge to have gon aboard
her againe at Newcastle, Ac aliter necit;/

Ad quintum nescit deponere aliter quam prius Saveing that
in the said voyage homewards bounde from Archangell
some tymes this examinate hath heard the said Hart
bidd the Marriners of the said shippe at the helme steere such
a course, but wilkinson would not bee ruled by
him and commannded the menn to steare as hee the said wilkinson
bidd them, in soe much that Hart tolde him as aforesaid
that hee woulde overthrowe the voyage, and wilkinson
said hee cared not, And when the said shippe came
uppon the North coaste of England and was within
halfe a league of holy Island about eighte leagues
beyond Newcastle, the said Hart spoke to the said
wilkinson to cause the said shippe to putt into that
Island to take in menn and provision, but wilkinson
woulde not, insoemuch that the said Hart knelte downe
uppon his knees in this examinats sighte to the said

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wilkinson and desiered him for gods sake to put in for
holy Island with the said shippe, but wilkinson in this
examinates heareinge bidd the said Harte goe into his Cabon
or else hee woulde nayle him upp, and woulde not
nor did put into Holy Island with the said shippe the
Hopewell as Hart desiered, but brought the said
shippe to the stayes, and caused her longe boate to bee
launched, and therin hee the said wilkinson, and seaven
of the passengers (whereof this examinate was one)
went on shoare at Bluboroughe Castle to buy
victualls, but because they could not bee there
well furnished with victualls, this examinate and the
other sixe passengers went from thense by land
to Newcastle where wilkinson promised to take
them in againe, but came not thither accordinge
to that his promise And this hee affirmeth
uppon his oath to bee true;/

Ad sextum affirmat, That there were tenn passingers taken
into the said shippe the said voyage at Archangell in
Russia to bee transported from thence to England,
aof which this examinate and his wief were two, and the
said wilkinson onely aggreed with this examinate for
the dyett and passage of him and his wief in the
said shippe from Archangell for England for
eighte and twenty Reex dollers which this examinate paid
him at Archangell, but the said wilkinson was
then reputed to bee but Masters Mate of the said
shippe, yet tolde this examinate that hee had the
keepinge of he victualls in the said shippe, and that
hee this examinate nor his wief shoulde wante any
and hee the said silkinson might have supplied the
said shippe with victualls at Archangell aforesaide
at an esia rate, and this examinate sawe some of the
said passingers pay the said wilkinson at
Archangell for sixe weekes dyett and passage in
the said shippe from thense for England after the
rate of eight shillings a weeke a mann, and made heir
bargaine with him yf they were longer time in
cominge from thence for England to pay him after that
rate for soe longe tyme as they should bee in that shipp
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over and above sixe weekes yf they were less tyme to have
an abatement  proportionably, And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, At aliter nescit./

Ad septimum affirmat, That hee sawe about fower or five peeces of
beefe brought aboard the said shippe at Archangell by some
of that shippe, and this examinate afterwardes in the said
homewardes voyage heard those passingers demannd
their beef againe of the said Styward and he told them
in this examinates heareinge that the said Wilkinson had
give him order not to deliver yt to them but in their
allowance of victualls, And this hee affirmeth to
bee true, At aliter nescit;/

Ad octavum affirmat, That after they came on this side the
Northerne Cape, and by space of about a moneth before they arived
at Bamboroughe Castle as aforesaid, the said Wilkinson
then pretendinge himselfe to bee Master of the said shippe
and havinge the keeping of her victualls did proportion and
allowe the Company and passingers in the said
shippe a very smale portion and allowance of victualls
especially the passingers, but some tymes hee gave the
Marriners betweene meales and after the passingers
were in bedd some  drincke and of the last of their bread gave each of his company five bisketts and each passinger but one biskett and whilest they were
putt to such small allowance being uppon the coaste of
Norway, the passingers desired the said Wilkinson
to put them on shoare there tellinge him that they coulde
not subsiste with that shorte allowance, which hee the
said Wilkinson tolde them that hee would not put them
on shoare before hee came to England, and that
hee woulde make them sucke their Clawes before
they came into England, and that hee cared not for
them yf hee coulde save save but three or fower alive to
steere his shippe, And indeed the said Wilkinson
for want of provideinge more water and bread in
Russia where hee mighte have had plenty thereof at
very easy rates, did bringe the Company and passingers
in the said shippe to extreame want, soe that by the space of about thirty dayes togeather hee
allowed them but two silver spoonefulls of water
to each mann for a day, and noe other liquor soe that
this examinate and his wief and all the reste of the said passingers and
some of the seamen in this examinates sighte were inforced
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to drincke their owne water mingled with salte water
many tymes within those thirty dayes, and for eleaven dayes
togeather they had noe bread at all to this examinats
sight or knowledge, soe that they were inforced to
eate parched pease in stead of bread and those
pease were soe dry that they coulde not gett them
downe for wante of water, and whilst they were in
that extreame want of water and drincke, when
yt rained one tyme, the said wilkinson
kepte the passingers downe and nayled downe the
hatches uppon them and kepte them under hatches from
the Eveninge untill the nexte day about twelve a
clocke, soe that they coulde not come to save any
of the raine water, but were inforced to buy some of
yt of the Marriners and this examinats wief was 
soe extreame dry, that shee gave one of the
Marriners of the said shippe three Reex
dollers, which is fifteene shillings sterlinge for
a quantity of raine water not avove a quarter of a pinte that that Marriner
had saved, and whelst
they were in such extreame wante of water and
drincke, the said wilkinson allowed them noethinge
but salte meates, which they coulde not eate for
want of water or drincke, and at that tyme the sayd
wilkinson had cheese which was not soe salte
as the other meates and some sweete meates and gammons
of bacon which were fresher then the salte beef
and salte fishe, and kepte upp the same and would
give them none, but soulde the same to this
examinate and other the passingers aforesaid
notwithstandinge they paid him for their passage
and dyett as aforesaid annd in that extreamity hee the
said wilkinson had twenty Reex dollers of this
examinate for cheese, sweete meates, and bacon
which this examinate bought of him for him and
his wief, and onece in the tyme of that extreamity
in an Evenninge yt snowed, and the Marriners gott
the snowe and woulde give them the passingers none
fore they did helpe to pumpe the shippe drye
And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true
Ac aliter nescit./
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Ad nonum affirmat, That in the said voyage homewardes bounde
this examinate did see the said wilkinson beate the Carpenter of
the said shippe soe that hee bled at the nose or mouth and sawe
him beate one of his owne Apprntices, and the said
wilkinson caused the hatches of the said shipp to bee
nayled downe whilst the passingers in her were betweene
the decks, and notwithstandinge they cried unto him on
their knees to lett them come upp to take the benefitt of the
ayre and the raine, hee inhumanely annswered that they
should not come upp neither for gods sake nor manns
sake and one of the said passingers whelst they were in
such want of bread and water as aforesaid died for
hunger and thirste as this examinate beleeveth and the
same morneinge that hee died and not longe before hee died that passinger did in this
examinats heareinge intreat the said wilkinson for gods sake
to give him a little water, but wilkinson woulde not  give
him any, And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to
bee true, who was one of them that was nayled downe
betweene the hatches as aforesaid, Ac aliter nescit;/

Ad decimum nescit deponere;/

Ad nonum nescit deponere aliter qua prius Saveinge that the people a shoare
att Bamboroughe where this examinate and others of the passingers
were landed as aforesaid did tell this examinate that the winde
was faire the same day to csarry the said shippe
into Newcastle, but shee never came in to Newcastle
to take those passingers in there as wilkinson promised
shee shoulde;/

Ad duodecimum 13 14 15 et 16um nescit deponere;/

Ad 17um nescit deponere aliter quam prius, Saveing that
the company of the said shippe were weake and feeble
for want of victualls and drincke before this examinate
went out of the said shippe at Bamboroughe as aforesaid,
which was occasioned by the said wilkinsons faulte not 
provideinge more bread and water in Russia where
hee might have had plenty thereof, at easy rates./

Ad 18. 19. et 20 nescit deponere;/
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Ad 21 affirmat, That this examinate (when hee was landed
at Bamboroughe Castle uppon promese made unto him
and the rest that went on shoare there by wilkinson that
they shoulde bee taken in againe at Newcastle as aforesaid
Lefte in the said shippe the Hopewell a Crosby Locked and in
yt in money one hundred and twenty Reex dollers
a dagger, a paire of knives, as much Linnen
as coste him eight poundes sterlinge in Russia
and two or three dozen of selver buttons, and one James
Higgs another of those passingers lefte in the same
shippe when hee went on shoare at Bamburrowe
a Crosby and in yt some monies, and many good
clothes And hee the said wilkinson hath confessed
to this examinate  before one John Skingle that after
this examinate was landed at Bamboroughe Castle hee fetched this examinates said
Crosby out of the Gunroome into his the said
wilkinsons Cabon aboard the said shippe and that
hee the said wilkinson had given the said dagger
and knives belonging to ths examinate to one Bewly on of
the company of the said shippe, And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad 22. 23. 24. 25. et 26um nescit deponere

Ad 27 nescit deponere/

Ad 28 nescit deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad ultimum dicit predepoitsa per eu esse vera;/

Ad Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet, That hee was borne at Offenclaney in the
County of Huntingdon, and is by profession a silkeweaver, and 
now liveth in Oleane Ally in Southwarcke, and came
from Russia in December laste and ever since hath lived
in London and Southwarcke,
about half a yeare thereof in Elbow Lane London, and
the rest of that tyme in gleane Ally in Southwarcke,
and before hee came from Russia hee served
the Emperor of Russia in his warres as a souldier three yeares and
upwardes, and before hee came to Russia served the
Kinge of Sweden in Germany as a souldier neere
uppon fower yeares, Ac aliter necit./

Ad secundum respondet, That hee commeth to testifie his knowledge
in this cause at the request of master ffrannces Ashe
of London Merchant and one watkin the sollicitor and
without compulsion, and they willed him to testifie what
hee sawe and knewe, betweene master Hart and Wilkinson,
Ac aliter respondet negative./
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Ad tertium respondet, That hee firste came acquainted with the said wilkinson at
Archangell in Russia about twelve monethes since uppon
the occasion of gettinge passage from thence for England
in the said shippe the Hopewell, Ac aliter nescit/

Ad quartum respondet, THat hee came firste aboard the said shippe the
Hopewell at Archangellin Russia to take passage for him
and his wief in her from thene for England, Ac aliter respondet
negative;/

Ad quintum sextum septium octavum nonum decimum 12, 13, et 14um nescit respondere./

Ad interrogatoria 2o, loco:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet negative:/

Ad secundum nescit respondere./

Ad tertium nescit respondere;/

Ad quartum nescit respondere, Saveinge that in the said shippes
homewardes voyage from Russia, there happened much
foule weather, by meanes whereof the said shippe (as her
Marriners said) could bare noe other sayle but her
mayne course to keepe her above water, by the space of about
a moneth;/

Ad quintum nescit respondere Saveinge that in the foull
weather before they came to the North Cape, the said wilkinson
did cause the mayne top mast and saile to bee taken downe the
sprit saile top saile, and those sailes were never hoisted
againe all the voyage whilst this respondent was in the
said shippe, althoughe hee sawe two other
Englishe shippes that overtooke and passed by the
Hopewell after those her sailes were taken downe,
or lowered ware their maynetopsailes, foretopsailes and
sprit sayle top sailesand all the rest of their sailes
hoisted and spread . but hee sawe noe other shippes passe neere
her that voyage soe that hee could see what sailes they had;/

Ad sextum nescit respondere./

Ad septium nescit respondere/

Ad ocatvum et nonum nescit respondere;/

Ad interrogatoria 3.o loco./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum nescit respondere;/

Ad secundum necit respondere;/

Clement Herison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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29.o Augusti 1635. [CENTRE HEADING]

1s per Slany Crespe/
et aliorum/

Pd

Manuel Barbosa of Viana Portugall Merchant
aged 25 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the
worshipfull william Merricke doctor of Lawe Surrogate
to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knight Judge of
his Majesties highe Court of the Admiralty, and
examined by the Interpretacon of Thomas
de Watyr Notary publique speaking both the Englishe
and spanishe language sayeth and deposeth as followeth

To the first and second and third Interrogatoryes hee sayeth, That
a small English Patach or Pinnace, in September
Laste paste arrived at Saint Thome, where this examinate
was then a shoare, and hee came thither in a
Portugall shippe belonginge to a Preiste called Pedro
Alphonso Minister of the Catholique church
at Saint Thoma, then lyeing in the harbour of Santa
Thoma as a Passinger in that
shippe to trade as a Merchant, and the Master and Marriners of that
English Patach or Pinnace did say that they
came in thether to furnishe her with wood and
water which shee wanted, and
hee sayeth, That when the said Pinnace or
Pattach arrived at Saint Thoma there rodd at anchor
in the harbour of Sint Thoma an Englishe shippe called
the Dragon, tradeing there, And this hee affirmeth
uppon his oath to bee true, and more to these
Interrogatories hee cannott depose, Saveinge that
about eighte dayes after the said Englishe Patach or
Pinnace arrived at Saint Thoma, this examinate departed
from thence in the said Portugall shippe bounde
for Angola, and sixe dayes after was taken by
Hollanders and brought backe and landed at Saint Thoma
and about five or sixe dayes after hee came backe to Saint
Thoma, an Englishe shipp called the William arrived there
as her Master and company said to looke after the said
Englishe Pinnace or Patach and in that shippe the
william beeing bounde for England, this examinate
imbarques himself, and came a passinger
in her to London and the Master and company of that
shippe the william tolde this examinate that shee with the
said Pinnace were sett out togeather from London to trade
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uppon the coaste of Ginney, and they alsoe tolde this
examinate that that Pinnace was sett out by Captaine
Crispe and master Slaney Englishe Merchannts of
London rge owners thereof;/

To the 4th hee sayeth, That hee heard
Portugalls liveinge at Saint Thoma say, That after the
said Patach or Pinnace arrived there, the Master
of her wente to the Governor of Saint Thomas
and desiered him to furnishe him with wood and
water, Ac aliter nescit;/

To the fifthe hee sayeth, That the Governor of Saint
Thoma, did committ the Master of the said Pinnace and some of his company
to prison at Saint Thoma, and then manned out a
Barcke, and broughte the said Pottach or
Pinnace close to the shoare, and tooke all the rest of
her company excepte one or two out of her and committed them to
prison, and the common voyce at Saint Thoma was
that the said Governor imprisoned the Master and
company of the said Patach and seized that
Pattach as Piratts, and that Governor tolde this
examinate that the Master and company of that Patach
or Pinnace were Piratts, and not the Kinge of
Englandes subiects, and that hee did imprison them
as Piratts, and that Governor did sell the said
Patach and the goodes in open markett at Saint THoma,
in the name of the Kinge of Spaine before
this examinate came from thense, And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, Ac
aliter nescit;/

To the sixte hee sayeth, That hee sawe some clothes
of Binney and some Englishe stuffes and other goodes,taken out of he said Pinnace at Saint Thoma but the quantety or value thereof, or the value of the
said Pinnace hee cannott estimate;/

To the 7th hee sayeth, That after the said shippe the william
arrived at Saint Thoma and founde the Master and company
imprisoned, and the said Pinnace seized, the Merchant
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of the said shipp the william called Humphrey Davis caused this examinate to make
a declaracon in writeinge written in the Portugall language
directed to the Governor at Saint Thoma the [?Ovedore] there
sheweing that the said Pinnace and her ladeinge did belonge to
the Kinge of Englands subiects, and the Master and company
of her were Englishmen and the Kinge of Englandes
subiects, and therefore desired restitucon of the said Pinnace and
her goods and the release of her Master and menn, and that
writinge the said Davies delivered to one to carry to the
said governor, but what answere the Governor gave
thereto hee hath not heard, but heard him that was
sent with the said paper say that the ovidore said that
hee would not deliver the papers that were founde in
the said Pinnace unles hee mighte have two
poundes of golde, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, Ac aliter nescit

Mannal '+' barbosa [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Tho: de: Weihter [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
----

dco die. [CENTRE HEADING]

2.s/

P.d/

Walter Deeringe of the Precinct of Saint Katherines
neere the Tower of London Marriner aged 50.ty yeares
or thereabouts sworne before the said master Doctor
Merricke, and examined, sayeth and deposeth as followeth;/

To the firste , second, and third Interrogatories hee sayeth That hee knew
the Pinnace called the Intelligence of London , and hee
hath heard that the said Pinnace the Intelligence
did belonge to Captaine Crispe and master Slaney of
London Merchannts who are Englishemen and subiects
to the Kinge of England, and neere uppon two yearessince the aid Pinnace togeather with a shippe called
the william to which the Intelligence was Pinnace,
was sett out by the said Captaine Crispe and master Slaney (as yt was said) from this port of London, to trade (as
yt was said) uppon the coaste of Ginney and
Binney, which hee knoweth to bee true for that the
shippe called the Dragon of London was sett out the same
tyme from this port of London to trade uppon the same
coasts, and presently after the said shippe the William
and the Pinnace the Intelligence came to Gravesend outwardes bounde
the said voyage, the Dragon sett saile from thense outwards
bounde the ame voyage, and they came in company together
againe the same voyage outwardes bounde at Capa de
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Verde, and the said Pinnace the Intelligence and the shippe
the Dragon happened afterwardes in company togeather
at Castle de Maine uppon the coast of Ginney
and Binney, and from thense the Dragon sailed to Santa
Toma under the government of the Kinge of Spaine
and there traded and one Robert Addams was then Master of her and whilst the Dragon was soe tradeig
at Saint Thoma, the said Pinnace the Intelligence
arrived there, and came thither (as her Master and company
said) to furnishe themselves with water and wood and
some refresheinge which they said they wanted, And
this hee  affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true;
who was one of
the quarter Master of the Dragon the said voyage;/

To the 4th and 5th hee sayeth, That after the said Pinnace the
Intelligence arrived at Saint Thoma, the Master
of jer and fower of his company wente on shoare
there, to desire the
Governor to furnishe them with water and wood and
such thinges as they wanted as they said and hee hath heard the
Master of that Pinnace say that when they came
on shoare, the Governor sent for him and examined
them from whence they came and what goods or gold they
had aboard and uppon what occasion they came thither
and that they told the Governor that they were
Englishemen and came from Binneene
amd had Binneen cloth and some golde,a nd came to
gett some wood and water and provisions which they did
want, and that they woulde pay for the same yf
they mighte bee suffred to have any, but the
Governor forthwith sent the Master and the fower of his
company that were a shoare with him to
prison, and manned a boate with souldiers and
seamen, and fetched the said Pinnace within
commannd, and then put the rest of her company
in prison and the speech at Saint Thoma was that the
Governor thought them to bee Piratts or some
mann of warr which lay too and againe takeinge the
Portugall vessells, and therfore committed them, and
sould and desposed of the said Pinnace at an outcry as [?XXXX]
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the goods in  her as yt was said And this hee affirmeth to bee
true , who sawe the Master and company of the said Pinnace
in prison at Saint Thoma and sawe jer and some goods which came out of her as yt was said there
sould in the Streets of Saint Thoma at an outcry;/

To the sixte hee sayeth hee sawe at Saint Thoma some
Linnen and woollen and Binneen clothes which came out
of the said Pinnace (as yt was said) sould at
Saint Thomea, but the quantity or value of the goods
that were in her hee cannott expresse, but sayeth
that the Carpenter that builte that Pinnase
said shee coste eighte score pounds the buldinge and hee
beleeveth that shee and tackle and furniture were
worth two hundred poundes sterlinge, and the
Company in that Pinnaec and the ffactors in
Ginney did say that shee and her ladeinge seized at Saint Thoma were
worth two thousand pounds sterlinge;/

To the 7th hee cannott depose;/

waltar dering [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

dco die;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

3.s

P.d/

Edward Mintenne of Wappinge wall Marriner
aged 37 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined as
aforesaid sayeth and deposeth as followeth;/

To the 1. 2.d 3.d 4. 5. 6. and 7th Interrogatories hee sayeth, That
hee well knoweth the Pinnase called the Intelligence
of London, and hee hath heard that Captaine Crispe and
master Humphrey Slaney Merchannts of London and
subiects of the Kinge of England were owners
of that Pinnace and neere uppon two yeares 
since the said Pinnace the Intelligence was
sett out from this porte of London (as hee hath
heard) by the said Captaine Crispe and master Slaney
to trade in Ginney and Binney with annother shippe
the william sett out about the same tyme which as
yt was said was Admirall of that Pinnace, And hee
sayeth, THat about the same tyme the shippe the
Dragon of London whereof this examinate was Gonner
was alsoe sett out from this porte of London to trade
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uppon the coaste of Ginney and Binney, and the said
Pinnace and the shippe the william were
provideinge in this porte of London as yt was said
for the voyage aforesaid when the Dragon wente
from London , and that Pinnase the Intelligence
gott to Capa da Velea the said voyage before
the Dragon arrived there and there the Dragon founde
her, and afterwardes the said Pinnase the
Intelligense and the Dragon happened in company
together againe in Cormantine roade uppon the
coaste of Binney, and afterwardes the Dragon came
to Saint Thoma under the Dominions of the Kinge
of Spaine Robert Addams beeing then Master of her and whilst the said
shippe the Dragon was tradeinge at Saint Thomea
the said Pinnace the Intelligence came within
sighte of Saint Thomwa and made in for the harbour of
Saint Tomea, and the Master of her and some of his
company in their boate wente on shoare at Saint Thomea
and lefte their Pinnase under saile makeing in
to that harbour, and soone afterm this examinate heard by
some of the company of the Dragon that had bin
a shoare at Saint Tomea that the Master and company
of the said Pinnase were ymprisoned at Saint
Tomea by the governor and presently a boate was
manned out most Portugalls who wente and
brought the said Pinnase presently with in the
harbour of Saint omea, and soone after this examinate
sawe some goodes which (as yt was said) were taken out of the
said Pinnase sould publicqly in the markett
at Saint Tomea at an outcry, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true who was at the same
tyme at Saint Tomea in the said shippe the
Dragon, ffurther addinge, that hee hath heard
the Master and company of the said Pinnase the
Intelligence say that they came to Saint Tomea the
tyme aforesaid to furnishe themselves with
wood and water which they wanted, and to drive 
trade for their Admirall the william which was to
come thither, and hee hath heard yt spoken either
by some of the company of that Pinnase or some
of the company of the Dragon, that the governor
tooke them for spies, and this examinate sawe Binneen
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clothessoulde in the marckett at Saint Thomea which were
taken as yt was said out of the said Pinnase the
Intelligence, and hee hath heard that shee had in her when
shee was there seized Elephants teeth and golde,
And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee
true Ac aliter nescit;/

Edward mintereai [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
ultimum.o Augusti 1635: [CENTRE HEADING]

1.s Wyntowne/

P.d

John Wintowne of London Marriner aged 28 yeares
or thereabouts sworne before master Humphrey Lloyd Surrogate
to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knight Judge of his
Majesties high Court of Admiralty sayeth and deposeth uppon
his oath,

THat in June laste paste John Johnson of
London Merchant did aggree with this examinate beeing
the Master of a Ketch called the Thomas of London of the
burthen of twenty tonns or thereabouts, to take in
here at London his said ketches full ladeing of Rye
and to carry the same to Dunquercke, and there to deliver
that Rye to Lewis Lambreht, and after that aggreement
was made, the said John Johnson did cause to bee
here laden in the aid Ketch which was shott aboard out
of sackes as much Rye as by this examinats computacon
(yf the sackes did containe soe much as the Porters
that brought them to the saiad Ketch said they did)
did amounte to one hundred and five and twenty quarters
London measure, to bee delivered to the said Lewes
Lambrecht at Duncquercke by the [?Raizeepe], and the
said Johnson did aggree with this examinate that the said
Lewes Lambrecht at the receite of the said Rye at
Dunquercke shoulde pay to this examinate for the
freighte thereof a Gilder for every Raizeere
of tha Rye with primage and averidge acustomed,
And hee the said Johnson caused to bee laden as aforesauid
in the said ketch here in this port of London was delivered
to the said Lewes Lambrecht at Duncquercke drye and
well condiconed for ought this examinate knoweth And this hee affirmeth uppon his
oath to bee true who was Master of the said Ketch the voyage
aforesaid and sawe the ladeinge of the said Rye in
this port of London, and the delivery thereof in Dunckercke
and kepte and accompte thereof, and coulde not see or
descerne that after the ladeing thereof here at London
the bulcke was broken or any of the said Rye conveyed
away or taken out of the said Ketch before the same was
delivered to the Lewes Lambrecht or his assigne at Duncquercke

John Wintton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Dco die:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

2.s Wyntowne:/

P.d

Alexander Scott of Wappinge in the County of
Middlsesex Marriner aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne
as aforesaid sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath,

THat
about tenn weekes since in this port of London, John
Johnson of London Merchante did lade in a Ketch
called the Thomas of London (whereof his
precontest John Wintowne was Master) a quantety
of Rye, which was carried to Duncquercke, and
there delivered to one Lewes Lambrecht, And 
hee sayeth uppon his oath, That all the Rye, which was
laden here in this porte of Londom in the said Ketch by the said
John Johnson was delivered drye and well
condiconned in the port of Duncquercke to the 
said Lewes Lambrecht, without diminution of any
part thereof which hee knoweth to bee true
for that hee was one of the company of the
said ketch the said voyage, and did helpe to deliver yt out of
her at Duncquercke and never went out of the
said ketch out of sight of her after the same was dischardged
out of her at Duncquercke, and thereby knoweth
the premisses to bee true;/

Signum dicti 'AS' Alexander
Scott [MARKE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

3.s. Wyntowne./

P.d/

Bartholomewe Hutchinson of London sailor
aged 21 years or thereabouts sworne and examined
as aforesaid, sayeth and deposeth uppon his oatth

That about two monethes since the Ketch called the
Thomas of London (whereof John Wynton
was Master) laden with Rye departed from the 
port of London and sailed to Duncquercke
and there delivered all the Rye which shee
carried from London drye and well condiconned
to a Merchant of Duncquercke whose name
hee now remembreth not who was one of the
company of the said Ketch that voyage and
sailed in her that voyage from London to
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Duncquercke, and did gelpe to dischardge and unlade the
said Corne there, and knoweth that whilest hee served
in the said Ketch there was noe Rye conveyed or taken out
of her, but what was delivered to the said Merchant
but sayeth that hee knoweth not who laded the
said Corne here at London, for that the same
was laden in the said Ketch before this examinate
was here entertained into her.

Bartholomew Hutchinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

3o Septembris 1635. [CENTRE HEADING]

hegotiu examinaconis testa}
ad perpetua rei memoria)
ex parte Henrici Saint John)
et socioru.)

1us

Rs. E. B.

Raph Highway of Bristoll in the County of
Glocester marriner aged about 33 yeares sworne before master Humphry
Lloyd Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knighte Judge of the
highe Courte of the Admiralty beinge examined uppon certaine interrogatories
on the behalfe of the said Henry Saint John and Company saieth thereto
as followeth videlicet:/

To the first Interrogatory hee saieth That uppon or aboute the nynteenth
of March last past the shippe the Elsabeth of London in the interrogatory
menconed departed from Gravesend bound forth uppon a voyage to the
Islands of the Matheraes and certaine other places beyond the Seas within the
Kinge of Spaines Territories under the Commannde of Roberte Mott master of her which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee this
examinate was hired to aile in the said shippe the said voyage and did saile
in her as Masters Mate of her from Gravesend aforesaid to the Maderaes, and from thence to Teneriffe, and
backe againe from Teneriff to the Maderaes, and from thence to Saint
Maires and from Saint Maries to the Islamd of Saint Michaells.

To the second hee saieth That in July last past (the day of the moneth
hee remembreth not) the said Roberte Mott and all
his Company arrived at Saint Michaells Island in the said shippe togeather with all her ladeinge
and shippes furniture, and stayed there by the space of nyne or teene
dayes, and did whilest shee stayed at Saint Michaells aforesaid deliver there
to his best remembrance about forty pipes of wynes which shee had taken in
at the Maderaes

To the third hee saieth That whilest the said shippe the Elsabeth
remained at Saint Michaells aforesaid untill the 25th of July last past when as shee sett sayle from Saint Michaells aforesaid and was carried away by some of her Company most
of all the said shipps Company went on shoare some at one tyme
and some at another but hee saieth That uppon the 25th day of July
aforesayd there was none of them on shoare save onely Roberte Mott
the master of her and one Daniell Billiard the Boatswaine

To the fowerth hee saieth that uppon the 25th of July aforesaid when the
said Roberte Mott the master and the said Billiard the Boateswaine
were on shoare as aforesaid there was then lefte aboard the said shippe
to the number of fowerteene marriners, and seaven of those marriners then
aboard the said shippe beinge of her owne Company and another of one master Stones shippes Company
called George Pearson then alsoe aboard the said shippe the Elsabeth did
rise upp in a mutiny and in a rebellious manner boare upp the Helme
and carried away the said shippe the Elsabeth from Saint Michaells aforesaid
by force and without the Consent or likeinge of the Master of her and some
others of her Company whoe were alsoe then aboard her as hee verily beleeveth for hee saieth
That
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that the Carpenter of the said shippe seeinge in what a mutiny they
were in came to this examinate then uppon the quarter decke and said master
Highway if ever you meane to save the shippe
save her nowe; for some of our Company are goeinge
to carr her away, and thereuppon hee this examinate rann presentely into the
round house and fetcht out the masters sword and drewe it and
came foreward and asked what Rogues were they that
would carrie away the shippe and thereuppon Nicholas Mott
whoe was this examinats mate sayd it was hee that will carry her
away and then this examinate cryed out and sayd gentlemen is there
noebody here that is on my side noe body that this examinate sawe did
offer to lifte upp his hand againste him the sayd Mott and presently the mayne tack
flewe upp which this examinate seeinge gave his sword to the
Carpenter to hold and ran to hall downe the mayne tacke againe
and did hall downe the same and belayd it fast and came back
to fetch his sword againe which hee left with the 
Carpenter but the Crpenter hee saieth had it not and then
some other of the said Motts Consorts made at him this examinate with
half pikes and a rapier which one of them had and one of them runn
him this examinate into the arme, and forced him to runn into the rounde
house to save his life and assoone as hee was in the rounde 
house they nayled upp him this examinate in the rounde house and
then carried away the said shippe, intendinge as hee hath heard
and as some of them sayd to carry her to Cape de Vard and
from thense to the Isle of May and there to gett a better shippe
if they could, and the names of the said Motts affociats
which rose upp in a mutiny as aforesaid are Israell Gabbons
John Goldingesmith John SEa, George Parson, Richard Pearse
John Dart but the other mans name hee doth not nowe
remember, and there was in the said shippe some Jests to the
quantity of seaven or eighte tonnes worth as hee conceiveth betweene
three and power pounds a tonn, two quarter Casks of wyne
worth betweene three and four poundes A baskett of
almons which were sent to Gratiosa for a token but what the
same were worth hee knoweth not, and divers other small things
which hee nowe remembreth not, and the said shippe and her tackle
munition and furniture which shee had then aboard her togeather
with eight peeces of ordinance which were alsoe aboard  her hee saieth
hee beleeveth ewere all worth a thousand pounds sterlinge and hee
beleeveth the said Nicholas Mott and his associatts have the said
shippe still in theire possession and hee saieth that
when they carried away the said shippe as aforesaid hee this examinate Roger Greenewell
Roberte Tuck, and Steeven Tayler were aboard her but fter they came off of Saint [?Martes] they gave
him this examinate and the other three aforesaid the shippes boate, and turned them goeing and
this examinate and the other three
aforesaid gott a shore at the Island of Saint Maries,
and there gott passage with one master Church master of a small
shippe of Weymouth for Saint Michaells where the said boate was
afterwards sould by master Roberte Mott master of the sayd shippe the
Elsabeth . Ac aliter nescit./

Rafe Hiway [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
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4.o Septembris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Roberte Mott of Wappineg in the County of Middlsex London marriner
aged aboute 50ty yeares sworne and examined as aforesaid saieth and
deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first Interrogatory in this behalfe ministred hee saieth That uppon the
17th day of March last past the shippe called the Elsabeth of London

To the second interrogatory hee saieth That uppon the 17th of July last

To the third hee saieth that uppon the 25th day of July aforesaid

To the 4th hee saieth That whilest hee this examinate and the said Billiard
the Boatswaine were on shoare at Saint Machaells aforesaid there arose
a storme and the wether grewe soe foule and the wynde out at sea
that the said shippe the Elsabeth was forced to lett slipp her Anchors and put out to sea for her
safeguard and when shee put forth to sea as aforesayd there were fowerteene
of her owne men and as hee hath heard on more
called George Parson belonginge to a shippe of Colchester, aboard her, and
the nexy day hee this examinate sawe the said shippe as hee conceiveth
laboureinge to gett the road and the 27th shee had almost recovered it but
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hee never since heard of her untill aboute fower dayes after, when as
his Mate Ralphe Highway, George Greenewell, Roberte Tucke and
Stephen Tailor fower of those which were in her when shee was putt
forth of the roade of Saint Michaells aforesayd whoe as they said were
turned a shoare in the shippes boate at Saint Maries, came and told him
what was become of her and howe the rest in her had conspired together
to carry her away and hee saieth they told him this examinate there was
a mutiney amongst her Company the third night after they were
driven out of the road of Saint Michaells aforesayd and hee saieth there was in
the sayd shippe when shee was put forth from Saint Michaells aforesayd tenn
tonns of jests worth neere threscore pounds sterlinge, tenn barrells of greene
ginger worth neere 20ty pounds sterlinge twoe tearres of wyne and certaine
other small things belonginge to her merchants in all worth fower pounds
sterlinge, a lettle deske but what was therein hee knoweth not, and in
his this examinats truncke which was his owne money twenty five pounds 
sterlinge in ready money  and divers other small thing
as his clothes, linnen, instruments and such like things
to the value of tenn pounds, and the said shippe muniions, tackle and furniture hee saieth
as hee beleeveth were really worth when shee was sett
forth to sea this voyage one thousand and sixty pounds sterlinge and
is still detained and kept away by her Company aforesayd Ac aliter
nescit./

per me Robearte Motte [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dicto die [CENTRE HEADING]

Roger Greenewell of Saint Katherines neere the Tower of London
marriner aged aboute 37 yeares sworne and examined as aforesayd
saieth and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first

To the second

To the Third interrogatory hee saieth that most parte of the said shippes
Company
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To the 4th hee saieth that after the shippe the Elsabeth was drawen out
of the roade of Saint Michaells by stresse of weather (which was aboute the
25th or 26th day of July last past as hee remembreth,) whilest the master
of her, and her Boatswayne aforesaid were on shoare at Saint Michaells
there were thirteene or fowerteene men
and a boy left aboard her and the second day after shee was borne out after they had used all the endeavour and
meanes they could to bringe her in againe, at night they espied
a boate at sea a drifte as they thought but after that boate came
neerer to them they espied one man in that boate and found him to
bee an Englisheman they tooke in theire top gallon sailes and layd theire
foresaile on the backstayes and staied to take him into theire shippe;
and haveinge taken him into theire shippe they made
saile againe to recover the roade and standinge further in theire came
a portugall boate within an hower after they had taken
the said man into theire shippe) with the masters mate (as they in that
boate said hee was) and some others of the shippes Company unto which (that
man as they said which they had formerly taken into theire shippe) did
belonge, and tould them that that man was ran away from theire
shippe with the boate, and therefore desired to have him againe
aboard with them, but that man was unwillinge and would not goe
with them that came for him, which some of the Elsabeth
Company heareinge of said hee should not goe with them that
night, but this examinate bid them take him with them and told them that
they could not keepe him from them, and beinge a good way from
the roade of Saint Michaells, they in the Elsabeth still stoode in for the roade
and carried them in the said Portugall boate and that other man alonge
with them in theire shippe, but the winde beinge contrary they could not
recover the roade that night, whereuppon those which came aboard the said shippe in the said portugall
boate lefte the said shippe the Elsabeth and that other
mann which they first tooke in aboard her, and went away and presently
after they were gone theire shippe beinge tack aboute and her sailes to trimme one of the masters mates of the Elsabeth cried
out port, and the other starboard, and hee this examinate beinge at the helme lefte
the helme and ran uppon the decle and seeing Ralphe Highway
the cheife mate stand uppon the quarter decke with him, and wonderinge
at soe sudden an uproare as there was, the said Highway castinge
downe his sword, hee this examinate tooke it upp: but could not tell what was
the matter, and presently after this examinate had taken upp
the said sword in his hand, one Gibbons with a halfe pike ran
after Ralphe Higheway and drove him and the Carpenter before
him and forced them into the rounde house (they haveinge noething that
this examinate sawe to defend themselves with all) and there nayled them fast
upp : in the rounde housem and the said Hibbons creinge out
and sayeinge that the said Highewy and his confederates would
run awaay with the shippe hee this examinate not knoweinge howe the
uproare first begane supposeinge them to bee the cause thereof ran
presently into the greate Cabbin to keepe
them from commeinge downe a scuttle which came out of the rounde house
into the greate Cabbin; And the Cooper with a nother sword
in his hand seekeinge to enter the Cabbin where this examinate was
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this examinate seeinge him uppon the quarter decke with the said higheway
supposeinge him to bee one of Highways confederats closed in with him as hee was enteringe the Cabon and tooke his
sword from himwhoe cried out and said hee did not seeke to doe him this examinate
hurt, and this examinate haveinge then twoe swords went uppon the
decke, and seeinge noe body then perceivinge the Cooper
entreated this examinate to goe backe againe into the Cabbin and looke
to Highway and the Carpenter, and hee this examinate was noe
sooner gon into the Cabbin but presently after followed him the
Cooper and the Chirurgeon with each of them a pistoll in his
hand and comeinge into ye Cabbin hee this examinate suspecteinge noethinge
one of them catcht hold uppon one of his handes and the other uppon
the other and
endeavoured to take the swords away from him which hee perceiveinge
cried out to master Mott the under mate to come and helpe him but master Mott the under
mate came not to him untill they had gott way both his
swordes, and when hee did come in, hee the sayd Mott called for
fower men to bind him this examinate but those whom hee had called
to bind him told the said Mott that hee this examinate had don
noethinge againste the said Mott whereuppon they lett him foe
at Liberty and hee this examinate beinge walkinge uppon the decke with the said Mott
asked of him what hee intended to doe and hee the said Mott told
this examinate that hee intended to carry away the shippe whereuppon
this examinate then desired the boate to carry him a shoare for that
hee did not like that course, and then the said Mott told him
hee should have the boate, and that hee would detaine noe man
againste his will, but afterwards hee the said Mott and his
confederates did use all the meanes and faire words they could to
gett him this examinate to stay and told him hee should have what
preferment they could preferr him to and that if they were taken
they would use the best meanes they could to save his
this examinats life but this examinate still refused, and the night draweinge
on hee this examinate beinge not suffered to goe to his owne Cabon
lay uppon the decke in another mans Cabon, where hee was noe
sooner layd downe but presently they nayled him in, and the next day after
many persuasions which they used to seduce him this examinate when they
sawe that hee would not bee seduced by them, they put him and
three others videlicet Ralphe Highway, Roberte Tucke, and Steeven Taylor
into the shippes boate aboute a league from the Island of Saint
Mries and sailded away South east with the shippe with an intent
soe farr as this examinate could understand by them to saile to the Isle of
May and the names of the said Motts confederates
were Israell Gibbons, John See, John Dary, [?XXX]
Goldsmith, Richard Pearse; and another man (his name hee remembreth
not) and they carried away in her seaven tonnes as hee guesseth of
jests tenn barrells of greene ginger, twoe quarter Vaskes wherein
was wyne, fower or five iarrs but what was in them hee knoweth not, a [?XXX]
Deske, but what was in it hee knoweth not, a sugar loafe a baskett
with Almonds belonginge to the merchants and divers other goodes and clothes and money belonginge
to the master and Company but to what value hee knoweth not and the
(shipp
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tackle and furniture as hee this examinate hath heard the master saye
which they tooke away was worth at lest a thousand pounds sterlinge
Ac aliter nescit./

Roger Greenewell [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
dco die [CENTRE HEADING]

4.us

Rs E: B.

Daniel Billiard of Dover in the County of Kent marriner
aged about 21 yeares sworne and examined as aforesaid saieth
and deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first interrogatory in this behalfe ministred hee saieth that the
shippe the Elsabeth of London uppon the 17th day of March last past
sett sayle from this porte of London uppon a voyage to the Maderaes
and certaine other ports and places within the Kinge of Spaines
Territories and Dominions beinge laden with bales and pipe staves and certaine
other goodes, and roberte Mott went master
of her which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee this examinate was
hired to sayle in her and did serve as Boatswaine of her the said
voyage.

To the second hee saieth That aboute the
17th or 18th day of July last past as hee remembreth the shippe the Elsabeth with her
ladeinge of wynes and other goodes which shee hd taken in at the
Maderaes where she dischardged her outward ladeinge) arrived safely
at the Island of Saint Michaells and stayed and remained there in
deliveringe of wynes and other goodes which were there consigned to bee delivered by the space of fower or five
dayes./

To the third interrogatory hee saieth That uppon or aboute the 22th
day of July aforesaid the winde beine Easterly and bloweinge very hard the said shippes
anchors comeinge home and the
road beinge very dangerous shee was forced out of the roade of Saint
Michaells and from the tyme of her first arrivall there iuntill
that very day that shee was forced out as aforesaid most of her
Company excepte the Carpenter the Coke and the boy were
some tyme or other on shoare at Saint Michaels And
hee saieth that that day shee was forced out as aforesaid fower
of her Company whoe carried him this examinate and the master a shoare
aboute busines were a little while a shoare but not above an
hower or twoe at the moste and came a shoare as hee conceiveth for
to carrie twoe hogsheads of water aboard which they did carry aboard
with them

To the 4th hee cannott depose saveinge hee saieth that after the
said shippe the Elsabeth was driven out to sea which was whilest
hee this examinate and the master of her were on shoare after
those fower men which brought them on shoare as aforesayd were
gon a shippboard againe there were thirteene men and a boy
aboard her and as hee hath heard some of those man then aboard
her within twoe or three dayes after the said shippe was driven
to sea did rise up in an uproar and made a mutiny in the said
shippe and carried away the said shipp
tackle and furniture (all saveing twoe Cables and Anchors) and the
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appurtenances belonginge to the same which by reason of the weather they were forced to lett slipp and some parte of
the said shippes ladeinge which they brought in her to Saint
Michaells, and as hee hath heard the Chirurgeon of the said
shippe master Mott the masters sonn and the Cooper were the first that
began to bee mutinous in the said shippe the Elsabeth and
hee was told soe by a man of one Mrs Stones shippe of
Colchester whoe was aboard the aid shippe the Elsabeth
to fetch one of theire men off, which had runn away with theire
boate but the name of that Stonnes man hee doth not
remember, and hee beleeveth the carried away the said shippe
and goods without the consent and good likeinge of the said
Mott the master of her for that hee the said Mott after hee
sawe that the came noe more againe grewe very sick and
was like to die for greife as hee conceiveth and moreover hee
saieth that hee was told by his precontest Roger Greenewell
that Nicholas Mott the masters sonn one of the masters mates of the said shippe
wished hee had runn a sword through himselfe before hee had don
what hee did, and was very sorry for what hee had done
and hee saieth that there was in the said shippe when
they ran away with her as aforesayd five or six tonnes of
jests, twoe tearses of wyne, a small baskett full of Almonds and
swweete meates but noe othe goodes to his best
remembrance, and what those goodes were  worth which they
carried away hee knoweth not, but the shippe and her tackle
and furniture might well as hee conceiveth bee worth neere
uppon eight hundred poundes at the least shee beinge of one
hundred tonns and not aboe a yeare and a quarter old and had
in her eight peeces of ordinance Ac aliter nescit./

Danell Bileard [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
10 Septembris 1635

Ex officio

1sus

John Brewster of Halstowe in the County of Kent Seaman
aged aboute 30 yeares worne before master Humphry LLoyd
Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Martyn Kinghte Judge of the high
Courte of the Admiralty beinge examined saieth and deposeth as followeth
videlicet

THat uppon Tuesday last was a fortnight hee this deponent
beinge at Dunckercke in a small Ketch of Halstonwe in Kent which went
over theither with oringes, and lemons, a certaine Ketch called the
Hopewell of London whereof one Anthony Thompson was master
came in theither, and that Ketch as her Company said
came from a place called the Tees in Northumberland and was
laden with butter and Coales and had in her to the quantity of six [?hundred]
firkins of butter or thereabouts and aboute fower Chaldron of coales, and
that butter hee saieth was unladen out of the said Ketch
at Dunckercke, and there sould and disposed of by the said Anthony
(Thompson
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Thompson the master of her

Signum dn Johes [MARKES] Brewester./ [MARKES, CENTRE]
----

dco die. [CENTRE HEADING]

2.us Ex offico

Robert Robinson of Halstowe in the County of Kent
sailer aged aboute 40 yeares

Signum dn Rbte [MARKE] Robinson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
----
13o Septembris Anno 1635 [CENTRE HEADING

Stephanus Barge parochia omnium Sanctorum Barkinge London
nauta annos agens 37 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit et deponit prout
sequitur videlicet./

Ad primum
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Ad secundum

Ad tertium

Ad quartum affirmat That the friday next after they departed from
the Thees aforesaid and were driven out to sea by the
violence of the foresaid strome and driven uppon the Coaste of
Callice, saileing alongst the coast and bareinge towards the shoare
beinge not certaine where they were a holland man of warr
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butter out of the said Ketch the Hopewell and then sent her master aboard
her againe and dismissed them, they beinge not above five or six miles
off of Dunckercke when the said Holland man of warr dismissed them
and hee saieth the said Holland man of warr told them that theire best
wayes was to putt within the Splinter which hee saieth is a harbour aboute twoe miles
on this side Dunckercke, and shewed them which way they should goe in
theither, and thereuppon , they in the said Ketch the Hopewell for
safeguard of theire lives and preservacon of theire Ketch and her ladeinge
shee beinge very leakie) did put within the Splinter and gott in
theither that night and did ride there within comannde of a
fforte there, and close by a Dunckercke man of warr, Ac aliter nescit

Ad quintum affirmat That the foresid Ketch the Jopewell came
within the Splinter aforesaid and all the tyme shee rodd there all her
Company excepte the articulate Anthony Thompson the master of her all
that voyage but five men and a boy and shee had noe
ordnance or gunns or any other offensive or defensive weapons aboard her
the sayd voyage more then knives which they used to cutt theire meate
with and one hatchett to cutt wood for the fire, and the cheifest cause of theire
puttinge in within the Splinter and their anchoreinge there was repayre
and amend theire Ketch and stopp her leakes and to refreshe
and victuall them selves and then to proceed for London (the foresaid Holland man of warr haveinge eaten upp
and drancke out most of theire victualls and beare)
, and the second day after they came within the Splinter aforesaid which was Sondat to his best remembrance
whilest they rodd there at anchor
there came out
of Dunckercke a small pincke fflemishe builte, bound for London, and
one of the said Ketches Company called John Seaman beinge then
very sicke and weake gott leave of the master of the said Ketch
the Hopewell to come home for England as a passinger in the said fflemishe builte
pincke, and the said master of the Hopewell gave him leave in
respecte of his sicknes, and hee saieth the said master did then cause
a letter to bee written to his owners here at London where the said Ketch
the Hopewell and her ladeinge were, and howe and in what manner
they came in theither and sent the said letter over by the said
Seaman in the foresaid Pincke which hee knoweth to bee true for that
hee this examinate did see the said Letter written 
and heard the same read over Ac aliter
necit./

Ad sexteum
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Ketch had nt resisted them, and after they had amended theire
said Ketch the Hopewel and replenished her with victualls

Ad septium

Ad octavum

Ad nona

Ad decima

Ideam ad interrogatoria [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum

Ad secundum

Ad tertium

Ad quartum
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Ad quintum respondet That the said ketch the Hopewell stayed within the
Splinter aforesaid for the reasons before by him expressed, from Satterday

Ad sextum

Ad septium

Ad octavum

Ad nonum

Ad decimum respondet that it is notorious for all the tyme articulate there
hath bin and still is warrs betweene Holland and Dunckerke and
befre this voyage hee never heard of any Hollaner that did persuade
any shippe laden with butter or victualls to goe into Dunckercke or any
Dunckercker persuade any such shippe to goe into Holland but hee saieth
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Ad unodecimum

Ad duodecimum

Ad 13

Signum dco  [MARKE] Barge [MARKE, RH SIDE]
----
14o Septembris 1635

Johannes Cooper de Gipswico in Comitatu Suffolk nauta
annos agens 27 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus et cetera

Ad primum articulum alluis in hac parte ex parte dicti Hawes et socioru
datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That for all the tyme articulate the articulate master Eldered
and master Harris and some others whose names hee nowe remembreth
notm theire parners were and at this present are reputed and
accounted to bee owners and proprietors of the articulate Ketch the
Hopewell and her tackle and furniture which hee knoweth to
bee true for that hee this examinate  hath belonged unto her above
thse three monethes laste past and sailed in her this last voyage Ac aliter necit./

Ad secundum affirmat That aboute five weekes since the tyme
more certainely hee remembreth not there was laden aboard
the articulate Ketch the Hopewell (shee then rideinge in the River pf
Tees articulate under the comannde of the articulate Anthony Thompson
the master of her aboute five hundred sixty and eight firkins
of buttre little more or lesse, but the huste quantity
thereof hee knoweth not for that hee kepte noe accounte
thereof, for the accounte and adventure of the foresaid master Harris
master Eldred and some other merchants of London theire names hee
remembreth not, and that butter hee saieth was to bee transported
in the said Ketch the Hopewell from the Tees aforesaid to this
port of London and to noe other place and here to be delivered to the said [?Lloyed] and company which hee knoweth to bee
true for that the said shippe or Ketch was sent theither on
purpose to fetch butter for London and further hee saieth that
hee was told by the master of the said Ketch that the ffactor
that bought the said butter and caused the same to bee laden
abord the said Ketch the Hopewell had given bond at Stockton
uppon Tees that the said butter should bee transported to London
and not to any other place, and one of those that were security
for the said ffactor at Stockton aforesaid did send a firkin of salmon in
(the
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the said Ketch the Hopewell to bee delivered here in London but to whome hee
knoweth not Ac aliter nescit saveinge hee saieth that whilest the
butter was provideinge for to lade the said Ketch the Hopewell
shee went to Newcastle and there tooke in some coales but
what quantity hee knoweth not for that hee this examinate when the
said Ketch went to Newcastle did lye sicke on shoare at
Shoells, and when the said Ketch came downe from thense againe
shee tooke him in againe and afterwards went into the
River of Tees where shee tooke in her ladeinge of butter aforesaid./

Ad tertium

Ad quartum affirmat after the said Ketch was put forth to sea as
aforesaid shee was driven uppon the coast of Callice, and
saieleinge alonge that Coast not knoweinge where they were
they mett with a Holland man of warr supposeinge her at first to
bee a merchant man when they first espied her they made upp
to her to enquire of her presently where they were and presently howe they might bringe theire said Ketch
for England and that Holland man of warr had in her six
peeeces of ordnance and aboute seaventy or eighty men and when
the said Ketch came neere her the said Holland man of warr
shott some musketts at the said Ketch the Hopewell and cause her
to stricke saile, and after shee strooke saile the said Hollander manned forth a boate and putt twelve of his men abord the said Ketch the Hopewell
and these twelve men hee saieth stayed aboard theire said Ketch
from morneinge till nighte, and that boate and the rest of the men
in her [?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] carried the master of the said Ketch the Hopewell and
all her Cocketts and letters and one master Robinson a merchant
then in the said Ketch aboard the said man
of warr, and in the afternoone there came some againe from the
said man of warr and tooke out of the
said ketch twoe firkins of butter which they said the
Master of the said Ketch whoe was then aboard the Hollender sent
them for, and those twelve men after they had eaten and druncke
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upp most of their provision of victuall and beere aboard theire Ketch fell o
romageinge the said Ketch and did remove mant of
the firkins of butter in her to looke for better
beere as they said, and that eveninge aboute six of the Clocke
the said Holland man of warr sent the master of
the said Ketch and the said Robinson aboard her againe and tooke away the foresaid [?12]
men and lefte the said Ketch the Hopewell and
the rest of her ladeinge and then the said Anthony Thompson the
master most of his men beinge very sicke and theire Ketch
very leakye [?XXX] desired the said man of warr to tell them
which way they should steere with Dunckercke for to
repaire theire Ketch and refreshe theire men, the winde
beinge then contrary to bringe them for England and the said
man of warr told them which way they should steere in for
the land and howe secure they might ride within the Splinter
which hee saieth is a fort of Dunckercke and under the
Comannde of the Kinge of Spaine, And thereuppon they did
putt in for Dunckercke for safegard of theire shippe and
goodes and the mens lives and that night gott within the
Splinter./

Ad quintum arrirmat that all the Company of the said Ketch the
Hopewell excepte the articulate Anthony Thompson the master of
her and one or twoe men were very sicke and weeke when they
put in for Dunckercke and came to an anchor within
the Splinter aforesaid and soe soe continued all the tyme they stayed
there and hee saieth there was not above six persons aboard
her all the voyage and one of those six was but a boy and
they had noe ordnance goinge or other weapons abord her the
said voyage, and the reason whie they put in for Dunckercke
aforesaid was for that when the  the Holland man of warr lefte them (it being
night, and theire shippe or ketch being leakye and morst of there
men sicke, and they all ignorant and unskillful of that
coast) was to gett helpe to bringe for them for England
and to amend and repaire theire shippe and to refreshe theire
men which were sicke, and renewe theire store of beere which the said
Hollenders men had drancke out and partely to receive money
for the twoe firkins of butter which the said Holland man of warrs
me had taken from them, (the Captaine of the said man of warr
haveinge given the master a noate to receive mony for the
same of one in Dunckercke called Sergeant maior) and hee saieth that whilest the
said ketch road at anchor within the Splinter aforesaid there
came a small shippe or Pincke forth from Dunckercke boud
for London and one of the Company of the said Ketch the
Hopewell (called John Seaman) beinge sicke and weake desired
(the
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the articulate Anthony Thompson the master of the Hopewell to
give him leave to come for London in the said Pincke
and the sayd Thompson hee saieth did give him leave and sent
a letter over with him the said Seaman to London to his owners
here to give them notice where hee and his said Ketch the
Hopewell and her ladeinge of butter and coales were and howe
and in what manner they came into Dunckercke

Ad sextum affirmat That whilest the articulate Seaman was aboard the
said Ketch the Hopewell there beinge onely hee and three or fower
more abord the said Ketch whereof one master Robinson was one the rest beinge gon a shoare at
Dunckercke to sell salmon, there came some soulders aboard the
said Ketch the Hopewell but how many hee knoweth not hee
beinge then a shoare, and those souldiers as the said master Robinson and
the rest abord the said Ketch said tooke out of the said Ketch
one firkin of butter, and would have taken away more had not the
said Robinson resisted them, and those souldiers carried the
said firkin of butter away with them and when the master of the said
Ketch the Hopewell came aboard his said Ketch againe and heard
in what manner the souldeers had taken away a firkin of butter out of
the said Ketch as soone as the tyde served hee went in neerer
the Towne of Dunckercke with his said Ketch and her ladeinge supposeinge to bee more secure there then where
hee was when the souldiers tooke away the said firkin of butter and
withall to complaine of the said souldiers and to gett releife and
recompense for the same and after the said Ketch was putt in neerer the Towne
of Dunckercke, the Dunckerckers put a souldier abord the said
Ketch the Hopewell but to what purpose hee knoweth not unlesse it
were to looke that they should not goe away for hee saieth that
after the said souldiers was putt aboard the said Ketch and whilest shee
lay without the Boome there came a Billaner abord the said
Ketch and would have taken the butter out of the said Ketch the Hopewell if they in the said
Ketch would have given him leave, and whilest hat Billaner laye
by the Hopewells side
two of
the Linge of Spanes officers at Dunckercke which stoode a shoare
called out to the Company of the Hopewell and willed them to deliver
that Billaner theire butter but they made answere and told them they
durst not, and then those officers would have had them to have
brought theire boate and fetcht them aboard but they refused
to fetch them aboard, and then those officers gott aboard theire said
Ketch the Hopewell in a ferry boate, and after they came aboard they
began to beate him this examinate because hee
refused to deliver the butter aboard the Billaner and to fetch theire anchor
aboard and bringe theire shippe and those officers after they came
aboard the Hopewell called out to a boate which they had five or six men
(in her
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her to come and helpe them to carrye the anchor of the Hopewell

Ad septium

Ad octavum

Ad nonum

Ad decimum

Ad unodecimum dicit predeposita oer eum esse vera,/

Ad interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum

Ad secundum

Ad tertium

Ad wuartum pro parte sua respondet negative et aliter nescit respondere
saveing hee saeth hee heard that the butter in question was sould
after the rate of 28s a firkin./

Ad quintum refert se ad predeposita et aliter nescit respondere saveinge
hee saieth that the said Ketch the Hopewell stayed at and neere
Dunckercke aforesaid by the space of three dayes before her butter and
coales were taken out of her and landed by the officers of Dunckercke and
aboute tenn dayes after the same was unladen, and the second 
day and part of the night followeinge after they came within the Splinter aforesaid
the winde served faire to have brought them for London and in case theire
men had
bin able to have brought the said
shippe the Hopewell hence and in case they might hace come
freely out of the harbour where they were,/
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Ad sextum

Ad septium

Ad octavum

Ad nonum

Ad decimum respondet for these 4 or 5 yeares last past  there hath bin warrs and still tis warrs betwixte
the Hollanders and the Dunckerckers, and before this voyage hee
never heard of any Hollander that did perswade or suffer any shippe
laden with butter or other victualls to goe into Dunckercke

(Ad unodecimum
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Ad unodecimum

Ad duodecimum

Ad 13

signum
----
17p Septembris 1635

3us

Pro Hawes./

Anthonius Thompson de Wivenhoe in Comitatu Essex nauta
annos agens 30 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus dicit et deponit prout sequitur./

Ad primum
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Ad secundum articulum affirmat that in thye same day they came out of the River of Tees
and were put forth to sea the wynde blewe hard and the sea was
very rough, and the said Ketch the Hopewell saileing on her dircte
course for London and beinge come as farr on her way for London as fflamboroughe#
head the wynde then encreaseinge and the sea waxeing
rougher, they were driven out of theire way and enforced to put out into the [?mayne] for sauegard of theire
lived and preservacon of theire Ketch and her ladeinge for hee saieth the
sea was soe violent and tempestuous and the said Ketch did
shipp soe much water soe longe as they strived to keepe to the shoare that they were in greate dannger every
minute of beinge foundred in the sea
; and further hee saieth the said Ketch beinge a newe builte Ketch and
some of her timber greene and beinge oppressed with wynde and weather her
upper worcks beinge not well caulked shee proved very leakye
and had at the least three foote water some tymes in her hold
At aliter nescit/

Ad quartum

most of them beinge very sicke and his Ketch very leakye told this
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Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte parte Merriall hesterno die in hac
parte dat et onlat nescit deponere;/

Ad secundum tertium et quartum nescit deponere, salvis infra scriptis,

Ad quintum affirmat That whilest the articulate shippe the
Dolphin was unladeing her wynes the voyage articulate in this
port of London in the absence of the said Merriall the
Master of that shippe, and whilst the rest of her company
were at dinner aboard her, the wief of the articulate Narrett
came aboard that shippe and brought with her a
rundlett of the contents of about five gallons and
delivered the same to the said Barrett her husband
and hee went downe into the houlde of the said
shippe where laye then dives of the Merchannts wynes
as alsoe some wynes belonginge to her company
and there the said Barrett filled that rundlett
with wyne and handed yt upp, and his preconteste
Nicholas Terricke seized yt and tooke out the
wyne and staved the rundlett and threw yt overboard
And this hee affirmeth to bee true who was Boatswaie of the said shipp that voyage Ac aliter nescit

Super reliquos articulos non examinatur ex direccone./

Ad interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

ddeb: Creshe

Ad primum nescit respondere Savinge that yt hath in and is
the custome for Marriners epecially any officer to have the
Liberty to bringe home in the shipp wherein hee or they
serve some runletts of wyne or some other merchandize
of small quantity:/

Ad secundum respondet That hee did not see the said Barrett drawe
the wyne in the said rundlett, nor knoweth out of what
caske hee drewe the same, and therefore doth not
knowe whether hee drewe the same out of his owne
wynes or the Merchannts wynes, but sawe him
hand yt out of the holde, neither doth hee knowe
whether hee had any wynes of his owne or that hee had
priviledge or leave to lade, in the said shippe or
not, but sayeth that the same was Mallega wyne
and was about fower of five gallons and was worth
about 2s 6d a gallon as hee thincketh Ac
aliter nescit:/

Ad tertium nescit respondere;/

By me Richard Chambers [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Nicholas Terricke ad interrogatoria;/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Merriall:

Ad primum respondet, That the said Barrett had in the said shipp
and voyage of his owne adventure about two or three
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rundletts of wyne and some fruite, and yt is the custome
of Marriners especially any officer of a shippe
to have the liberty tobringe home in
the shippe wherein hee or they serve some rundletts
of wyne or some other merchandize of small
quantitye;/

Ad secundum nescit respondere aliter qua prius Saveinge
that the wynes aforesaid drawen by the said Brrett
as aforesaid were Mallega wynes, and were worth
about 2s 6d a gallon:/

Ad tertium nescit respondere, Saveinge that some others
of the Marriners of the said shippe were susupected
for conveyeinge wynes out of the said shippe to
the quantity of a butte of soe;/

Nicholas Tericke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
19o. Septembris 1635.

2.s Pro nave the Dove./

P.d/

John Winton of the parishe of Allhallowes Barking
London Narrinber aged 28 yeares or thereabouts worne
before the worshipfull Thomas Rives doctor of Lawe
Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knight
Judge of his Majesties highe Court of the Admiralty
sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath,

That about the
Latter end of August laste paste this examinate and
william Stone of London Marriner,
beeing then at Duncquerrque in fflannders
did there buy of the officers of the Admiralty there
a small  vessell a smacke of the burthen as hee
guesseth of thirty sixe tonns or thereabouts, which
was there exposed and put to publique sale, which they
bought for their owne accompts videlicet for each of
them a half of her, and paid there for her the
firste penny fowerscore and thirteene poundes and
tenn shillinges sterlinge besides they bought
her Cables and other provisions there, which, with the
chardges of bringing her from thence to
London and the money aforesaid firste paid for
her coste them and did amounte to aboute one
hundred and twenty poundes sterling, and since the
buyeing of that smacke, this examinate soulde
a quarter part of her to his precontest Alexander
Scott the now Master of her, and hee hath heard the
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said william Stone say that hee soulde abbother quarter
parte of the same smacke to Thomas Stone his
brother, and that Smacke is now in the river of
Thames and is called the Dove of London and is now
bunde out uppon a voyage for Roane in Normandy
and this examinate is still a quarter part owner of her
and the said william Stone, Thomas Stone and
Alexander Scott each of them a quarter, and they
the said william Stone, Thomas Stone and Alexander
Scott this examinate well knowethand sayeth uppon
his oath, that they, as alsoe this examinate, are all
dwellers and inhabitants in or neere London, and
are all naturall subiects of the Kinges
Maiesty of England, And this hee affirmeth
uppon his oath to bee true;

John Winton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
22o Septembris anno 1635.

pus Pro nave the Grace de)
Weymouth)

1us.

Rs E: B:

Walter Knight of Burton neere Waymouth in the County of Dorsett sayler
aged 28 yeares or therabouts sworne before the worshipfull William Merricke Doctor
of lawes Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knighte Judge of
hie Majesties High Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath

that
the shippe called the Grace of Waymouth haveinge broughte a fraighte ofstones
from Portland to London for therepration of the Church of Saint Paul in London, and
returning e from London laden with Coales which she was to deliver at Limmington neere
the Isle of Wighte, was mett withall at sea neere Hastings in Sussex by a ffrenchman
of warre uppon Wednesday the 29th day of July last, and uppon the first sighte
of that ffrench man of warre the said shippe the Grace putt forth and displaied
the English colours, hopeinge, that the ffrench shipp would likewise have
putt forth her colours, whereby they might have knowne of whence she had beene
but the ffrench shippe not putting forth her colours, the shippe the Grace
made from her as fast as she could and the ffrench shippe chaced her by the
space of an houre and a halfe and then fetcht upp the said shippe the Grace
and halfed her and bidd her a maine for the kinge of ffrannce, and commannded
her to hoyse out her boate, and come aboarde the said ffrench man of warre
which they refused to doe because they feared they came to robb them in respected
they did not shew their colours, and then they shott divers small shott at
the said shipp the Grace and therby inforced her to strike her sailes
and then with their shippe the frenchmen laid aboard the said
shippe the Grace and about twenty of them [?XXXX] entered her
but the Master and company of the shipp the Grace betooke
themselves to their close fight and dischardged divers small
shott at those that had soe boarded their shippe and thereby
put them off againe all but three, and then the said frenchman
of warr fell to Leeward if the Grace, but soone after
came upp with her ahaine and then shott a peece of
Ordnnance at the said shippe the Grace and that shott
went throughe her upper decke and through her maynemast
neere the place where theMaster and company of the Grace
then were so that hee beleeveth yt was the purpose of him
that dischardged that shott to have killed the Master and company
of the Grace or some of them with the same, And
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presently after that shott was dischardged the said
frenchman of warr laid the Grace aboard againe and
entred divers of her menn, and some of them cutt downe
the Graces sailes and others of them cutt upp her hatches
and then tooke the Master and company of the Grace (all but a
boy that hidd himsellfe) out of her into the said frenchman of
warr, and there detained them about fower houres and a half
and in the meane tyme the Vompany of the said
frenchman of warr rifled andpillaged the said shippe the
Grace, and tooke out of her and carried aboard their mann
of warr a new saile, sixe or seaven coyles of roapes
her flagg and Ensigne, her kettle and platters, sixe
musketts, abut twenty five poundes of powder, her
tackle hooks, a crow of iron, and many other things which
hee cannott now remember, besides all her victualls
excepte a little bread and beere, and tooke out of her all
her Master and companies clothes excepte those on their
backes, and from two or three of them they stripte
their Jerkins from their backes, and in perticuler they
tooke from this examinate a new wastcoate which hee bought
for his wief a table cloth, to the value of
sixe shillings in stronge waters, seaven shillings and
eighte pence in ready money, two Coates and other clothes
and beddinge, soe that this examinate had taken from him
by those frenchmen of hi sowne goods to the value of
five pounds sterleinge, ffurther hee sayeth uppon
his oath, That the owners of the said shippe the
Grace are John Beere, Henry Beere, Silvester
Miller and this examinate of Burton aforesaid, one
[BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Bishopp a widdowe of [?Pamnole] in the
County of Dorsett and one [BLANK IN MANUCRIPT] Goodyatt of
Limmington in th Isle of Wighte, and they are all
Englishe and subiects to the Kinge of Englande, And
hee sayeth that the said shippe that boarded and
pillaged the said shippe the Grace was french builte
of the burthen of about three score tonnes, builte in the
forme that the french busses use to bee builte in
without a head, and had in her sixe peeces of ordnannce
and her company when shee first hailed the said
shippe the Grace said that shee was of Diepe in
ffrannce, And this hee affirmeth uppon his
oath to bee true, who was Masters Mate of
the said shippe the Grace, and in her when shee
was surprized and taken by the said frenchman of
warr as aforesaid;/

Signum '+' Waleri Knighte;/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
dci
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John Beere of Burton in the County of
Dorsett Marriner aged 42 yeares of therabouts sworne as
aforesaid sayeth uppon his oath,

That this examinate with
the shippe called the Grace of Weymouth havinge
delivered here at London for the use of his Maiesty and the
reparacon of the church of Saint Paul in London a freight of stones and
returneing laden with coales to bee
delivered at Lymington neere the Isle of wighte, off
of Hastings in Sussex espied a small shippe mmakeing
towards his said shippe the Grace uppon the 29the
day of July laste paste, and espieinge her to
bee a mann of warr and to make towards the said
shippe the Grace this examinate cause the Englishe
colours to bee putt firth and displayed uppon the Grace
and after about an houre and a halfes chace that shippe
beeinge a frenchman of warr fetched upp the said
shippe the Grace and hailed her and asked of whence
shee was, and this examinate answered that
shee was of Weymouth, and asked of whence that
mann of warr was, and her company answered that
shee ws of Diepe, and then they bidd the Grace
amayne for the Kinge of ffrance and hoiste out her
boate, and thereuppon this examinate told them that hee
was ymployed by the Kinge of England and that hee
knewe noe reason why hee shoulde hoiste out his
boate for them, and that hee feared that they were
Roagues because they shewed noe colours, and thereuppon
that french shippe forthwith dischardged some small
shott at the said shippe the Grace, boarded her and
entered some menn into her, but this examinates
company dischardgeinge some small shott at them affor they
were entered, they returned all into their owne shippe
againe except three and then the french shipp fell
off to Leeward, but soone after came upp to the said
shippe the Grace againe, but moste boardeinge and soe
fell off againe to Leeward, and there lay half an hower
at leaste, and in that tyme this examinate had conference
with the three men which the french shippe had lefte
aboard the said shipp the Grace, the one of them (as
hee himself and others said) beeing the Captaine of
that french shippe, and another of them the Boatswaine
of her, and this examinate tolde them that yt was contrary to the
articles of peace betweene the two Kings that they should
soe use him beeing ymployed in the Kings service
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and thereuppon those three french Men intreated this
examinate not to hurte them, but that they might peaceably
ge aboard their owne shippe againe, and often swore
and protested uppontheir salutacons that they woulde
not wronge him nor any of his company to the value
of a farthinge, and thereuppon this examinate and his
company layd by their armes and consented that the
said french shippe shoulde peaceably board the said
shippe the Grace aand take those three men out
of her, and then the french man aboard the Grace
who said hee was Captaine of that french shippe
called to the french shippe and willed her to come
to take them in, tellinge her company that this
examinate had promised that they shoulde come and goe
peaceably, and thereuppon that french shippe
came and rann stemlinge aboard the said shippe
the Grace and entered most of her company
into the Grace, who beate this examinate and comannded
him to goe downe betweene the hatches and kickt aand
footed him as hee was goeing downe, and then that
french shippe dischardged a peece of ordnannce at the
Grace lyeing board and board her, and thereby cutt off her
gunwell and a new missen yard and that shott
cutt a way in hher upper decke and soe run
throughe her maynemasTe and this examinate therby is
induced to beeeve that they purposed with
that shott to have suncke the said shippe the
Grace and this examinate and his company in her,
amd then those menn that entered cutt dowwne the
sailes and cutt pen the hatches of the said shippe
the Grace, and then tooke this examinate and his company
into the mann of warrr, and there detained them
fower or five houres and in the meane tyme pillaged
and rifled the said shippe the Grace, and tooke out
of her of the shippes stocke in ready money seaven
poundes and tenn shillings sterleinge in victualls to the value
of thirty shillings sterleinge, a new saile and
a tartt Pauleinge worth three pounds tenn shillings
sterleinge, a kettle and platters worth 20 s, five
hundred of Cordage worth eight poundes sterleinge
a crowe of iron a compasse, tackles, tackle hookes
and blocks worth thirty shillings, A flagg and Ensigne
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worth forty shillings sterleinge, sixe misketts and bandeleers
sixe pikes, and 24 pounds of powder worth sixe poundes
sterleing, a new maste worth twenty shillings, besides
the repaireinge of the main maste and other the dammages
that the french shippe and her company did to the said
shippe the Grace cost three pounds sterleinge, Moreover
they tooke out of her which belonged perticulerly to this
examinate in money, bookes, sea instruments, apparrell,
beddinge and other goods to the value of twenty
three poundes sterleinge, as alsoe forty shillings in
ready money which hee had received for one Thomas
Crowne of Barton aforesaid, besides they tooke
from his Company all their clothes excepte
some few on their backes, and stripte some clothes
from their backes, and tooke from them alsoe divers
goodes which they have estimated to bee worth
twenty five poundes sterleing, and this examinate
verely beleeveth the ame were more worth
And this hee affirmeth to bee true who was
Master of the said shippe the Grace when shee
was taken as aforesaid; ffurther hee sayeth that
the owners of the said shippe the Grace are all
Englishemen and subiects of the Kinge of England
and that shippe which tooke and pillaged her as aforesaid
was a french builte vessell like unto a french
Busse of the burthen of about sixty tonnes, and had
in her sixe peeces of ordnannce and two stocke
fowles and about sixty or seaventy menn, and had a
flaggg staffe uppon her foretopmaste, which shewed her
to bee Viceadmirall to some other shippe, and her
company said that shee was the french KInges
mann of warr;/  

John Beere [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
23.o Septembris 1635:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

3.s pro nave the)
Grace)

Selvester Miller of Barton in the County of
Dorsett sailor aged 25 yeares or thereabouts sworne as
aforesaid sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath, 

That
in June laste paste the shippe called the
Grace of Weymouth (whereof his precontest John
beere was Master) arrived in this port of London with
a fraighte of stones for the reparacon of the church
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of Saint Paul in London which shee brought from Portland
and in her returne wente to Newcastle and there tooke in her
ladeing of Coales and saileing therewith from Newcastle
towards Linington in Hampshire neere the Isle of wighte where shee
was to deliver those Coales, in the sea neere Hastings
in Sussex uppon the 29th day of July laste paste
they descryed a saile whcih they ceonceived to bee some
mann of warr, and therefore the said shippe the
Grace put forth the English colours, and because
that shippe shewed noe colours soe that
they coulde not discerne what shee was, the said
shippe the Grace made what way shee coulde
from her but that shippe beeing better of saile
then the Grace, after aboute and houre and a halfes
chace fetcht upp the Grace and hailed her and asked
of where shee was, and her Master answered, of
weymouth, and then that shippe bidd the Grace strike
for the Kinge of ffrannce, and said that they woulde
come aboard, and the Master of the Grace asked wherefore
and whether the league was broke betweene England
and ffrannce, and soone after that shippe came aboard the said
shippe the Grace and dischardged some small shott att her and entered some menn into her which 
the company of the Grace with their small shott
put off againe all bu three, and then the mann of warr
fell off againe to Leeward Leaveing three of her menn
in the Grace, one whereof (as they afterwardes
understood) was the Captaine of that mann of warr
and another the Boatswaine of her, and whilest the
mann of warr was soe fallen off to leeward, there
passed some speeches betweene the Master of the
Grace and those three menn lefte aboard her as
aforesaid, and this examinate heard him that was
said to bee the Captaine of that mann of warr
tell the Master of the Grace that hee
shoulde have noe wronge yf hee woulde lett them
goe aboard their owne shippe againe, and not longe
after, that mann of warr came aboard ythe said
shippe the Grace againe, and comeinge aboard,
shott off a peece of Ordnannce at her, and that
shott went throughe her upper decke and maynemasye
and hee beleeveth yt was shott purposely to spoile the
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Master and company of the Grace who were then betweene
decks, and comeing aboard the second tyme, the said mann
of warr  entered more menn into the Grace, who cutt
downe her sailes, and cutt open her hatches, and tooke the
Master and company out of her and carried them aboard the
said mann of warr, and there detained them aboute
fower houres and a halfe, and in that tyme pillaged and
rifled her, and tooke out of er all her companies
clothes, Leaveinge onely each of them a wastcoate
and a paire of breeches on their backs, and all the shipps
provision and victualls excepte her anchors, Cables and sailes and
a little bread and drincke, Namely they tooke out of
her, a new saile, a tarr paholeing, five quoiles of
roapes, sixe musketts, sixe pikes, her kettle and platters,
twenty five pounds of powder, tackle hookes and
blocks, and many other things which hee cannott now
remember, and eleaven cheeses, and some fishe, beefe and
butter, and a maste And in perticuler they tooke
from this examinate two suites of apparrell and other clothes
worth three pounds sterleing and twenty shillings in
ready money, And this hee affirmeth uppon his
oath to bee true, who was one of the Company of the
said shippe the Grace when shee was taken as
aforesaid, ffurther hee sayeth , That the owners
of the said shippe the Grace, are all Englishemen
and subiects of the Kinge of England, and the shippe
that surprized and rifled hher as aforesaid was
a french builte vessell with a square sterne like a
french busse, of the burthen of about sixty tonns
and had n her about sixty or seaventy menn which
were frenchmen, and when they firste hailed the
Grace they said they were of Diepe, and shee had
in her sixe peeces of ordnannce and two stocke
fowlers;/

Silvester meller [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die. [CENTRE HEADING]

Roberte Darby of Burton in the County of Dorsett sailer aged
about thirty yeares sworne and examined as aforesaid saieth and
deposeth as followeth videlicet

That the shippe called the Grace of Weymouth
whereof John Beere was master haveinge brought stones from the
Island of Portland to this porte of London for the reparacon and
(reedifieinge
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reedifieing of the Church of Saint Paule Lodnon, and haveinge
delivered her ladeing of stones and returneinge backe againe
the said shippe and her master and Company sailed to Newcastle to
fetch coales
and haveinge taken in theire ladeinge of coales at
Newcastle and bond therewith from thense to Limmington in Hampshire neere
the Isle of Weighte, and in theire course from Newcastle
aforesayd towards Limmington uppon or about the 29th day of July
last past aboute three leagues off of Hastings uppon the Coast of
Sussex they espied a shippe at sea aboute three leagues to the
windeward of the said shippe the Grace; amd
perceivinge that shippe to make towards them they in the
Grace kepte as neere to the shoare as they could, and when the
said shippe came within a league of then, the Grace putt
forth the Englishe colours, but the said shipp still sailed
upp neerer and neerer the Grce and when shee came within
a stones cast of the Grace they in ye Grace perceived her to bee a man of warr and those in the said shippe hailed the
Grace and asked them in Englishe of whense theire shippe was and bidd them amayne for the Kinge of ffrannse and they told them they were of Weymouth but did not strike saile
and then some of the Graces Company demannded of whense theire
shippe was and they told them of Deepe in ffrannse, and
then the Captaine of that shippe called out to the masster of the
Grace and bidd him hoyst out his boate and send it aboard his
shippe, and the master of the Grace askeinge him what his intente
was to desire his boate sayeinge I hope there is noe warrs betweene England and ffrannse the said Captaine told him hee msuts and
would come aboard theire sais shippe the Grace, but the Master
of the Grace tellinge the Captaine of the said shippe that hee would not
hoist out his boate, they beinge to windward of the Grace sheered
aboard the said shippe the Grace and came side by side with her
and shott twoe or three small shotts at her and put at the least twenty men aboard
her, and they in the Grace made on muskett shott at that shippe
iust as they were boardinge theire shippe, which drove all theire
men vacke againe excepte three who stayed aboard the Grace
whereof the Captaine and Boatswayne of that shippe were
twoe as they understood afterwards ad then that shippe or man of warr fell off to Leeward of the
Grace, andaboute halfe an hower after tackt abute againe and came upp with the Grace and would have boarded her but they shott at them againe
and beate the off and hee beleeveth [?hurte] some of the said man of warrs men and then the master of the
Grace and those three men which they had lefte aboard had some
talke togeather and hee saieth that hee this examinate did heare one
of those three men which did appeare afterwards to bee the
Captaine desire quarter and tell the master of the grace in broaken Englishe that if hee would suffer them
to goe aboard theire owne shippe againe they should receive
noe hurte at all by them, and the master of the Grace knoweinge that
there was peace betwene England and ffrance and not intendinge
to doe them any hurte or inurye told them they should and
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gave order to his Company not to molest or trouble them but to
suffer them to come quietly aboard theire shippe
and fetch away those three men aboard
her, and presently after, the said man of warr came upp with the
Grae againe and came close by her side
and the
Company of that mann of warr or most of them prest into the Grace and boarded her and with
axes and Cutlasses which they brought with them cut upp
the hatches of the Grace, and cut downe her mayne hailiers and
mayne tye, and shott one peece of ordinance at the Grace which
went throughe her maine mast and
spoyled most of theire sailes with the splinters thereof, and carried the
master of the Grace and all his company save onely a boy prisoners
aboard theire said man of warr, and kepte them there by the space
of fower or five howers at the least and in the meane tyme they
pillaged theire shippe the Grace and broake open theire chests
and tooke away all or most of theire clothes and goodes leaveinge them
noe more clothes then they had on theire backs, and hee saieth they alsoe
tooke out of the said shippe the Grace which was of the said shippes provision
as many newe roapes of severall sortes as cost nyne pounds sterlinge,
a newe missen sayle worth in this examinats judgement three pounds at the least six
musketts with their appertinances neere thirty poundes of powder, aboute
fifteene or sixteene poundes of shott, tenn greate
cheeses, and divers other things, to the vallue as hee guesseth of
seaven or eight pounds sterlinge; And the said shippe which tooke them
as before hee hath declared hee saieth was as hee guesseth of the burthen 
of aboute three score and tenn tonnes, builte in manner of
a ffrench Vusse, without a heade having one decle and had in her six peeces of ordnance
twoe stocke fowlers, and aboute threescore and tenn men and
hee that was accounted Captaine of her hee saieth was a short thicke
man betweene forty and fifty yeares of age in this examinats
opinion, black haired and full faced; And hee saieth that forty pounds
sterlinge (as hee beleeveth) will not make good all the dammage which the said
shippe the Grace, and her Master and Company have
sustained by reson of her takeinge as aforesaid, the premisses hee well
knoweth to bee true, for that hee was in the said shippe the Grace when
shee was taken as aforesaid and all the owners of her hee sieth
are Rnglishemen and subiects to the Kinge of England And this hee
saieth is true by vertue of his oath. ffurther hee sayeth uppon his oath that
in perticuler the company of the said mann of warr tooke from
this examinate of his owne goods one cloake and a coate fower suites
of clothes, three shirts, sixe bands, seaven paire of stockins, a rugg,
a new hatt. and other clothes and beddinge in all to the value of
sixe pounds sterlinge;/

Robert Darby [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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30.o Septembris 1635

Page contra Haselwoode

jus testis pro Page

Rs E. B.

David Guye [?XX] de Desert in Regno Scotia annos agens 22 aut
eo circiter testis in hac parte prodctus iuratus et examinatis dicit quod
Thomam Page partem producentem per octodecimum annos et ultra etaps
bene novit ut dicit, et Willimum Haselwood parten contra quam productir
a 4o Septembris instantis ex visa tanta novit ut dicit/

Ad primum articulum ;ibellate in hac causa ex parte dci Page dat et oblat dicit
det deponit That for all the tyme articulate intill the 4th of this
instant September this examinates Brother called George Guy and
the articulate Thomas Page and others theire partners all of Desert in
Scotland aforesaid merchants were accounted and reputed to be owners and
proprietors of the articulate shippe called the Unicorne and of her
tackle and furniture and of all the goods menconned in the articulate schedule excepte the bisketts and eggs and the [?XX] Companies clothes which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee
this examinate did see his brother when hee gave the articulate Thomas
Page money to goe over into Holland and buy her and hee saieth his
said brother did goe over with the said Page into Holland when hee
bought the said shippe there/ and at the tyme of the settinge frth
of the said shippe this last voyage hee ths examinate did see the accounts of her
Ladeinge cast upp but wheather the master had any money in the said
shippe in his cheste or noe this examinate knoweth (sic) Ac aliter nescit

Ad secundum affirmat yt uppon or aboute the 28th day of Auguste last
past the said shippe the Unicorne sett sayle and departed from
Desert in Scotland aforesaid bound for Rotterdam where shee was to
deliver her outwards ladeinge and there to take in other
ladeinge if they could procure a freight and therewith to proceede to Burdeaux in ffrannse
and hee saieth that the said shippe the Unicorne
was at the tyme of her setting out from Desert aforesaid victualled
and furnished with men and victualls and all the other things necessary excepte beere
for a twelve monethes voyage and the articulate Thomas Page was
appointed master of her which hee knoweth to bee true for that
hee this examinate did helpe to take in the said victualls and other necessaries
the said voyage, and was hired by the said Page to serve in her for
a twelve monethes voyage, and further hee saieth that the master
of the said shippe did often tell him this examinate that when hee came to
Burdeaux hee was then to undertake any voyage or voyages for the
space of a twelve moneth and then to returne to Deser againe Ac aliter nescit

Ad tertium affirmat That whilest the articulate shippe the Unicorne
remained at Desert aforesaid
there was laden aboard her for the accounte of the articulate
Thomas Page and the rest of the owners of her to the quantity of 450
rawe hides in the haire which hee saieth hee well knoweth to bee worth
twoe hundred and fifty pounds sterlinge, fower packs of fflannell but
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what those 34 packs of fflannell were worth hee saieth hee knoweth not
and a certaine quantitye of scottishe linnen but howe much or what the
same was worth hee knoweth not, sixty seaven dozen of greate scotts
coales, anmd Scotts coales such as they carried out in theire shippe this last voyage
hee saieth are worth in Scotland three pounds twelve shillings a dozen
but what was payd for those which were in theire shippe when shee was
suncke hee knoweth not, but beleeveth they would have yeelded and bin
worth at Rotterdam at the least three hundred pounds sterlinge, and the foresaid goodes hee
saieth were to bee transported in the said shippe the Unicorne from
Desert aforesayd to Rotterdam and there to have bin delivered and disposed of
and further hee saieth that there was alsoe laden aboard the said shippe at
Desert aforesaid to bee carried to Rotterdam for his this examinates owne accounte
five hundred of biskett which cost him fourteene poundes sterlinge and
hee saieth that there  was some other biskett in the said shippe belonginge
to her Company but what quantity hee knoweth not, and a certaine
parcell of eggs but what the same were worth hee knoeth mot And hee
saieth that all and singular the foresaid goodes were in the said
shippe at the tyme of her sinckeinge but what the same were worth
otherwise then before hee hath expressed hee knoweth not Ac aliter
nescit saveinge hee saieth that in his this examinats judgement hee
beeinge a seaman and haveinge belonged to the sea for these tenn yeares
last past and upwards and beinge acquainted with sippeinge the said
shippe the Unicorne with all and singular her tackle and furniture
and all her provision aboard her besides her ladeinge could not bee lesse worth then six
hundred poundes sterlinge at the leaste, and saveinge hee saieth that hee
this examinate for his parte lost to the value of eight poundes in clothes in
the said shippe when shee was suncke; and what damage others of the Company
of the said shipp have sustained by reson of her sinckinge hee
knoweth not but saieth they lost all their clothes save onely those which they had on theire
backs and a chest of his this examinats and another of his brothers which were saved.

Ad quartum affirmat That uppon the 4th day of this instante
September the articulate shippe the Unicorne with all and singular the
goodes before menconed in her, in her course from Desert towards
Rotterdam in Holland aboute a league off of Hasborough to the Northward
of North Yarmouth, aboute seaven or eight of the Clock in the
afternoone of the same day, the winde beine South Est and soe much against them
that they could not followe theire course for Holland put in for the shoare and comeinge in
espied a shippe called the Neptune of Ipswhich (sic) whereof one William
Haselwood was master a head of them comeinge out from the shoare, and they in the
Unicorne before they came neere the said shippe the Neptune bore
up the helme and called out to the Neptune to keepe a lease to
avoyade damage, of comeinge fould of another, and hee saieth the
Master and Company of the Neptune if they had pleased mighte have kept a loose
and have gon cleare of the said shippe the Unicorne, but hee saieth
they refused to keepe a loose but cried out to them in the Unicorne to
keepe a loose which they accordingly did and yet notwithstandinge they
(in
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they in the Neptune willfully and carelessly as this examinate conceiveth
when they might have escaped her,c ame foule of theire shippe
the Unicorne and ran full againste her midshippe and tore and broake downe
her side which lett the water soe fast into her that shee
withall and singular her ladeinge
aforesaid suncke downe presently in the sea and were all lost, excepte
a chest of this examinates and another of his brothers and another of another mans and his brother hee saieth
drowned in the said shippe, and most of her Company hee saieth
did escape drowneinge very narrowly Ac aliter nescit./

Ad quintum nescit se ad predeposita et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad sextum affirmat That the said shippe the Unicorne was of the
burthen of aboute nynty tonnes, and was victualled for a whole
yeare onely hee saieth shee wanted some beere; and shee was to have
made three or fower severall voyages or soe many as they could
within that tyme from Rotterdam to Burdeaux in ffranse and
from thense either to Rotterdam againe or some other parts wither in Holland
England, or Ireland accordinge as they could procure a freighte and
every voyage that shee should have made would have bin worth into
her 180li at the leaste which hee knoweth to bee true fr that the said
shippe would have yeelded forty shillngs a tonne in case they had
had a freighte from Burdeaux for England which was the least voyage
they intended soe that hee conceiveth the articulate
Page and Company by reason of the said shippes sinckeinge as
aforesaid with the goodes shee had in her at the tyme of her sinckinge
and the profitt that shee would have made in case shee had made
three voyages which they intended shee should have don at the leaste
have sustained losse and dammage to the value of twoe thousand
pounds sterlinge Ac aliter nescit/

Ad septium refert se ad predeposita et aliter nescit deponere ut dicit/

Ad octavum nonum et decimum dicit predeposita per eum esse vera et aliter nescit/

Ad interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]

debt pro interrogatorye Nixon

Ad primum respondet That hee comeeth to testifie the truth in this cause at the
rewuest of Thomas Page the party producent and fauoreth both parties alike
in respecte of his oath, but would give the victory to the said Page if it were
in his power because hee conceiveth hee hath had the wronge donn him Ac aliter nescit

Ad secundum respondet that hee lost in the interrogate shippe the Unicorne
when shee was suncke five hundred of biskett worth fowerteene pounds and some clothes to the vallue 
of eight pounds for which hee hopeth to receive satisfacon in case the
interrogate Page prevaile in this suite, and hee alsoe hopeth to receive
somethinge for his wages, but in case hee bee overthrowen hee is in
eleccon to loose all Ac aliter nescit/

Ad tertium respondet that neither the Neptune nor the Unicorne
had any advantage of the winde at all
of the other when the Neptune came fowle of the Unicorne, but hee saieth thatif they in the Neptune had
bin as carefull as they in the Unicorne were and had kepte a loose
when they called out unto them soe to doe
they had escaped each other
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102

Ad quartum respondet That when they in the Neptune called out to them in
the Unicorne to keepe a loose they did keepe a loose, but then the
Neptune kepte a loose to, and by that meanes came foule of the Unicorne
they both saileinge by a
[?XXX] winde ac aliter nescit./

Ad quintum respondet That hee beleeveth in his conscience that if they
in the Neptune had bin as willinge to have gone cleere of the
Unicorne as they in the Unicorne were to have gon cleere of the
Neptune they had gone cleere one of another but hee saieth that
which way soe ever the Unicorne steered the Neptune steered the
same way alsoe./ Ac aliter prius nescit/

Ad sextum respondet negative/ Ac aliter nescit

Ad septium respondet negative./ Ac aliter nescit./

Ad octavum respondet That all the sdammage that the Neptune received was
through her owne Companies faulte and not by any faulte at all of the
Unicornes/

Ad nonum respondet / that after the said shippe the Unicorne had
received the strike by which shee was suncke the master of her and
all his company excepte this examinates brother whoe was drowned in the
Unicorne came aboard the Neptune./ Ac aliter nescit./

Ad decimum pro parte sua respondet negative et aliter nescit respondere

Ad 11 nescit respondere./

Ad 12 respondet That the interrogate shippe the Unicorne suncke within halfe a
quarter of an hower after shee had received the stroke by the Neptune

Ad 13 respondet That there was one of the Unicornes company who was this respondents brother drownedin her
when shee was suncke Ac aliter necit./

Ad 14 necit respondere saveinge hee saieth that hee this respondent did
deliver his brothers chest to one of theire owne men whoe carried the same
aboard the Neptune, and that chest hee saieth is nowe in his this
respondents custody

David [?Gay] [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
----
Jacobus Boluert de Deserte in Regbo Scotia nauta
agens 40 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus juratus et examinatus
dicit et deponit quid Thomam Page partem producentem per viginti annos etaps novit
ut dicit et Willimum Haselwood partem [?XX] contra quam productur per
spacium viginti diem aut eo circiter ex visa tanta novit ut dicit./

Ad primum et reliquos articulos libellate in hac parte dat et blat dicit et
deponit That at the tyme of the settinge forth of the articulate shippe
the Unicorne from Desert in Scotland aforesaid which was to his
best remembrance aboute a moneth since Sir George Hamleton Knighte
David Simpson, Thomas [?Ruthin], George Guy the elder, George Guy
the younger, John Coen, John Dron and the articulate Thomsa Page
wereaccounted and reputed to bee owners of the articulate shippe the
Unicorne and of all and singular her tackle and furniture, and the
foresaid owners of her hee saieth did victuall and sett her out to sea this
last voyage and did furnishe her with men and victualls sufficient and
fittinge excepte beere for a twelve monethes voyage and hee saieth shee
was for oughte that hee could ever understand to goe from Deserte to Rotterdam and from thence whether the master of
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her pleased to carry her, and hee saieth there was laden and put
aboard the said shippe at Desert some scots coales, some eggs, some
biskett, some linnen cloth, fower packs of fflannell, some hides
but what quantity of each more then the 4 packs of fflannell 
or for whose accomte the same were laden hee knoweth not
and those goodes hee saieth were to bee transported in the said
shippe the Unicorne from Desert aforesaid to Rotterdam in Holland
but what the foresaid goodes were worth or cost or to whom they
did belonge hee knoweth not, and hee saieth that the said shippe
the Unicorne in her passage from Desert aforesaid towards
Rotterdam the third day after her departure from Desart aforesaid
aboute a league from the shoare neere Hasborough to the North 
of Yarmouth the winde beinge at South East and
hindringe theire passage for Rotterdam stood
in for the soare, and standinge in for the shoare and the articulate
shippe the Neptune whereof the articulate William Haselwood
was master comeinge then forth to sea from the shoare they in the Unicorne
before they came neere the Neptune bore upp theire helme and called out to the Company
of the Neptune and desired them to keepe a koosem , and those
in the Neptune when they came neere thise shippe the Unicorne bad them keepe a loose, and hee saieth they did
keepe a loose
and yet the Neptuen came foule of theire shippe the Unicorne
and ran iust against the Midshippe a little afore the maine tacke
and toare and brake a greate hole in the side of the
Unicorne soe that the water came soe fast into her, that shee
and all her ladeinge aforesaid and all and singular the goodes in her excepte three chests belonging to her company suncke downe presently in the sea
amd were utterly lost and one of theire Company called Roberte
Guy drwoned, and the rest hee saith escaped drowneinge very
narrowely, and the said shippe the Unicorne
hee saieth was of the burthen of aboute nynty tonnes and not
above fower yeares old in this examinats iudgement and had in her all
things necessary and fittinge and most of her rigginge hee saieth
was very firme and good, and the articulate Page hee saieth was
appointed master of her and had the comannde of her and hee
saieth that in his this examinats opinion and iudgement the said shippe tackle
and furniture togeather with all the goodes in her at the tyme of her sinckeinge and her
Companies clothes could not bee lesse worth then twoe thousand
pounds steringe but howe to estimate very thing perticularly
hee saieth hee knoweth not, Ac aliter nescit saveinge hee saieth that
although they in the Unicorne did use all the care and meanes
they could to passe cleere of the Neptune, yet they in the Neptune
as hee this examinate conceiveth did willfuly and carelessly runn against
and sincle theire said shippe the Unicorne and saueinge hee
saieth that hee was one of the Company his last voyage and in her
from the tyme of her settinge forth from Desart aforesaid untill the
tyme that shee was suncke and therefore knoweth the premisses to bee true And hee further saieth hee [?had] at the tyme of
her sinckeinge to the value of tenn pounds in clothes Linnen and woollen
which were lost and perished in the sea./

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Ad interrogatoria,/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That hee cometh to testifie the truth in this
cause at the request of the party producent and in respecte of his oath
favoureth the parties litigante indifferently but siaeth that if it were in
his power hee would give the victory to the party producent because
hee saieth hee knoweth that hee hath had then wronge don to him
Ac aliter nescit./

Ad secundum respondet negative saveinge hee saieth that in case the
interrogate Page prevaile in this suite hee then is in hopes to gett
some thinge for his clothes which hee hath lost and some thinge for his wages
and that if it goe againste the said Page hee shall loose noe more then hee
hath lost already/

Ad tertium responde That the interrogate shippe the Neptune had in this
respondents judgement the best of the winde of the shippe the Unicorne
when she came foule of the Unicorne and might if her Master and Company had pleased have gone
cleere of the Unicorne

Ad quartum satisfactum est supra et aliter nescit/

Ad quintum respondet That if the interrate shippe the Neptune had bore upp
the helme and gone so Leward when they called
unto the Unicorne and bidd them keepe a loose they might have gon cleere
of one another, but hee saieth they did not but lept a loose as the
Unicorne did and by that meanes came foule of the Unicorne and sancke
her as before hee hath declared Ac aliter nescit/

Ad sextum respondet That had not the Neptune kepte a loose too when they
bid the Unicorne keepe a loose they had gone cleere one of another./
Ad aliter quam prius nescit./

Ad septium respondet negative. Ac aliter nescit

Ad octavum respondet That the Neptune did breake her head against the Unicorne and did her selfe all the samage shee
received by comeinge foule of theire shippe the Unicorne Ac aliter 
necit./

Ad nonum respondet That presently after the Neptune had don the
dammage to the Unicorne by which shee suncke the master and
Company of the Unicorne all but one whoe was drowned came aboard
the Neptune to save theire lives./

Ad decimum pro parte sia respondet negative et aliter necit./

Ad 11um pro parte sua respondet negative et aliter nescit./.

Ad 12um respondet That the interrate shippe the Unicorne sancke downe
into the sea within a quarter of an hower after the Neptune came
foule of her as before hee hath declared./

Ad 13um respondet at the tyme of the sinckeing of the interrogate shippe
the Unicorne one of the Company called Roberte Guy was
drowned in her, Ac aliter quam prius nescit./

Ad 14um nescit respondere, saveinge hee saieth that the said Roberte
Guyes chest which was saved out of the said shippe the Unicorne
hee saith is nowe in the custody of his brother david Guy./

Signum [MARKE] Bolvert./ [MARKE, CENTRE]
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2.o Octobris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Johannes Hutchins de Desart in Regno Scotia annos agens
32 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatis dicit
et deponit quod testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit
et deponit quod Thomam Page partem productem per
spatium viginti sex annorum etaps bene novit, seet Willimum Haselwood
ex visa tanta a 3o bel 4o die mensi Septembris ultima etaps novit ut dicit./

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos libellate in hac parte dat et oblat
dicit et deponit That Sir George Hamleton Knighte David Simposn
George Guy senior, and Heorge Guy junior, William Simpson, Thomas
Richardson, John Coen, John Dron and the articulate Thomas Page
for these fower yeares last past and upwards and untill the 
tyme of her sinckeinge were comonly accounted reputed and
taken to bee owners and proprietors of the articulate shippe the
Unicorne and of all and singular her tackle and furniture unto
her belongeinge which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee this
examinate hath belonged unto her for these fower yeares last past and
sailed in her every voyage that shee hath made since the foresaid
parties came to bee owners of her, and that uppon or aboute the last
day of Auguste last past the said shipp beinge furnished with
all manner of necessaries and with men and victualls and all other provision excepte beere fittinge for a twelve monethes voyage
departed from Desarte, and the articulate Thomas Page was appointed
master of her, and hee saieth there was laden aboard the said shippe the Unicorne at
Desart aforesaid sixty five dozen of Scotts coales,
440 or 450li oxe and cowe hides in the haire, 4 packes of
plathinge cloth or fflannell, and some Scotts Linnen but howe
much hee knoweth for the accounte of the foresaid owners
of her, and twoe barrells and a halfe of hens eggs for the accounte of him this
examinate and fower barrells for the accompte of one Roberte Guy, and a certaine quantity of biskett but
howe much hee knoweth not for the accounte of David Guy
and all the foresaid goodes hee saieth were to bee transported in
her from Desart aforesaid to Rotterdam in Holland but what the
foresaid goodes were worth or cost hee saieth hee knoweth not onely
hee saieth the two barrells and a halfe of eggs which did belonge
to im this examinate cost and stoode him in twenty six pounds Scotts money
and as hee beleeveth would have yeelded him halfe in halfe profitt
att Rotterdam aforesaid in case they had come safe theither, and hee
saieth that the foresaid shippe the Unicorne with all and singular
her provision tackle and furniture and all and singular the
foresaid goodes wares and marchandizes in her in her course
from Desart aforesaid towards Rotterdam in Holland uppon the
third or fowerth day of September last past aboute twoe
miles and a halfe off of Hasborough twelve miles to the Northward
of Yarmouth betweene six and seaven of the Clocke in the
eveninge, the winde bloweinge South east and South East and by East
and hindringe theire course for Rotterdam standinge
in towards the land, and the articulate shippe the Neptune (whereof
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William Haselwood was master commeinge of from the shoare, they in the
Unicorne before they came neere the Neptune called out to the Company of the Neptune
above twenty tymes to keepe a loose but the said shippe the Neptune still kepte on her course [?whilste] not did not loose but after often calleinge
them to keepe a loose they in the Neptune when they came close to the Unicorne bidd the Unicorne keepe
a loose and thereuppon the master and Company of theire shippe the Unicorne
beinge desirous to goe cleere of the Neptune
perceivinge themselves in some dannger did presentlye keepe a loose
but before they could loose to gett cleare of the Neptune the
Neptune came foule of theire shippe the Unicorne and ran againste
theire midshippe and broe downe the broadsid of theire shippe the
Unicorne which lett the water soe fast into herthat shee and all her
ladeinge aforesaid and all and singular the goodes in her excepte three
belongeing to her Company were lost and perished in the sea, and one
of theire Company called Robert Guy hee saieth was drowned in the
said shippe and the rest escaped very hardly, and the said shippe hee
saieth was of the burthen of aboute nynty tonnes, and in his this examinats
iudgement the said shippe the Unicorne with all and singular her tackle
and furniture and the victualls and other provision and all the goodes
and her masters and companies clothes (which were aboard her at the tyme
of the sinckeing and which were suncke and utterly lost in her)
were worth neere twoe thousand pounds sterlinge Ac aliter nescit./

Idem ad interrogatoria [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum interrogatorye respondet That hee commeth to testifie in this cause at
the request of the party producent et favoret partibus indiffentur et optat
victoria nis habendi./

Ad secundum respondet negative saveinge hee saieth that in case the interrogate
Page orevaile in this suite hee hopeth to gett some satisffacon
for his clothes and for his tyme that hee served in the said shippe

Ad tertium respondet That the Neptune had a little the Advantage of the
wynde of the Unicorne when shee came foule of the Unicorne, and hee
saieth the Unicorne hee beleeveth had gon cleere of the Neptune had not they in
the Neptune called to the Unicorne to keepe a loose Ac aliter quam prius
nescit./

Ad quartum nescit respondere al quam prius in [?XXXXX] se [?XXXXXX]./

Ad quintum respondet That if they
in the Unicorne had not loosed at all but had bore upp as they
did before the Neptune called to them to keepe a loose came [?XXXX] of them, hee beleeveth they had
escaped the Neptune

Ad sextum respondet That the Neptune came foule of the Unicorne and
not the Unicorne of the Neptune: Ac aliter respondet negative

Ad septium respondet that the Neptune did not keepe theire loose at all not that
this examinate could perceive andeavor to come to her staies for hee saieth that
when shee came foule of theire shippe the Unicorne all her ailes were full
but the weight of theire shippe the Unicorne after shee came foule of theire shippe
turned her aboute, and brought her to her stayes Ac aliter nescit/

Ad octavum respondet That the Neptune comeinge foule of the Unicorne broake the
best of her head, Ac aliter nescit

Ad nonum respondet that after the Neptune had done the dammage to theire shippe
Unicorne by which shee sunck all theire Company save on whoe was drowned
came aboard the Neptune
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Ad decimum pro parte sua respondet negative Et aliter nescit/

Ad 11um respondet negative pro parte sua et aliter nescit saveinge hee saieth that
that man that kepte theire helme did not mistake but did as hee was
directed to doe as hee beleeveth./

Ad 12um respondet that the Unicorne was suncke within a quarter of an
hower after the Neptune came foule of her and had don her the
samage aforesaid/

Ad 13um respondet That that man which was drowne in the Unicorne
hee saieth was frowned in her when shee was suncke Ac aliter nescit/
Ad 14um nescit respondere saveinge hee saieth that the chest which
did belonge unto that man which was drowned as aforesaid hee saieth
is now as this examinate beleeveth in the custody of David Guy brother to
him that was frowned

Signum Johes [MARKE]
Hutchins [MARKE, CENTRE]
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8o Octobris 1635

Loveland contra Neave

Jeremias Loveland parochia Sancti Magnetis prope pontem
London mercator etats 29 annorum aut circiter testis in
hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte Johuis Loveland in hac parte
dat et oblat dicit et deponit That in or about the moneth of
October Anno domini 1632 the articulate John Loveland, John Brokeden
and William Giles did take to fraighte the articulate shipp the
Bonadventure of London (wherof Richard Bonner was master) for
a voyage to be made from London to Yarmouth and
from thence to Naples and other parts therabouts at the raye
of one hundred and twenty pounds,
per moneth The premisses he knoweth to be
true for that he was one of the owners of the sayd shipp the
tyme articulate and hath seene the Charter party for the sayd voyage
Et aliter nescit deponere salvis depombus suis subseqquenda/

Ad secundum et tertium nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the sayd John Loveland
John Brokeden and William Giles are the only partyes bound in
the Charter party articulate for the payment of the fraight for the
voyage aforesayd, and savinge that he hath heard the articulate Oliver
Neave confesse that he had an adventure with the sayd John
Loveland in the sayd shipp the Bonadventure the sayd voyage
and he this deponent hath seene a pollicye of assurance remayninge
uppon Record in the Assurance office London wherin the sayd
Neve hath caused himselfe to be assured the somme of
three hundred pounds sterlinge, uppon an adventure of Lead
and herrings in the sayd shipp the Bonadventure the voyage
aforesayd./

Ad quartum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the fifth part of
one thousand one hundred thirty eight pounds twelve
shillings and two pence, is two hundred twenty seaven
pounds fourteene shillings five pence and the fifth par of a
pennye/

Ad quintum et extum articulos dicit et deponit That he this deponent hath seene letters
written by the sayd John Loveland to the foresayd Oliver Browne,
before the arrivall of the sayd shipp the Bonadventure at Plymouth
the voyage in question advisinge the sayd Browne
that he and the foresayd BBrokeden and Mr Giles and company had laden abord the sayd shipp one hundred piggs of lead and eighte
hundred barrells of herrings, and that a fifth part of the whole Cargazoone
of Lead and herrings were for the accompte of the sayd Oliver Neave
(and

Quero reliquos partem huius deoms in Libro L./

Jeremy Loveland [SIGNATURE, BOTTOM RH SDE]
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1s Pro nave the)
Abraham)

John Bostwicke of the parishe of Saint Mary Matsellon
alias Whitechappell LOndon Marriner aged 24 yeares
or thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten
Knight Judge of his Majesties highe Court of the Admiralty
saieth and deposeth uppon his oath,

That uppon the
22th day of September laste paste the shippe the
Abraham of London followeinge her course from
Viana in Portugall for London laden with sugars
about 35 leagues from Cape ffenester 
was chaced and fetcht upp by a ffrench man of warr
and that man of warr comeinge upp neere to the
said shippe the Abraham this examinate beeing the Master
of the Abraham, wente uppon the Abrahams
poope and haled the ffrenchman to leeward
which the ffrenchman denied to doe, and then this examinate
asked of whence shee was, and hee said of Rochell
and asked of whense the Abraham was, and this examinate
answered of London, and then the ffrenchman bidd
her amayne for the Kinge of ffrannce, which this
examinate denied to doe and theruppon the said ffrench
mann of warr dischardged a peece of ordnannce
and a volley of small shott at the Abraham and
forthwith rann acoard her and entered about
forty or fifty menn uppon her forecastle, who
with their small shott and pikes put the Abrahams
company from her steeridge and cut holes throughe
ger decke, and thereby caused them to forsake her
fowercastle, and then cutt downe her hatches, and
lyeing board a board with her, shott divers great
shott into the hull of the Abraham, and shott her
danngerously betweene winde and waterm, and shott her
maynmaste very danngerously and carried away her
topsaile yard maste and saile, and tooke on another from
her bough and tookew away her Ensigne and broke downe
her head and cutt and spoiled many of her roapes
and did divers other dammages to the Abraham, and
remained aboard her by the space of three or fower
houres, and in that tyme wounded three of the
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Company with their ordnannce and small shott made
such a resistance that (as hee guesseth) they killed and
hurte most of the ffrenchmans menn, and in the
end findinge themse;ves weake, the ffrenchmen
returned into thei owne shipe leaveing behinde
them divers of their weapons, and soe fell off and
forsooke the Abraham, but hee beleeveth that
the makeinge of those things belongeing to
the Abraham which were shott and spoiled in
the said fighte good againe, will coste
about sixty or seaventy pounds sterleinge
And this hee affirmeth to bee true/
who was Master of the Abraham and in her
her (sic) in the said fighte, ffurther hee affirmeth
that the owners of the said shippe the
Abraham are Abraham Reynaldson of
London Merchannt
Edmund  Bostwicke of Wappinge
Marriner, and this examinate./

John Bastwecke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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dicto die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

2s/

Valentine Godwin of Wappinge in the Countye of Middlesex mariner
aged about 30 yeares sworne and examined as
aforesayd sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as foweth videlicet

That uppon or about the two and twentith day of September last
past a shipp called the Abraham of London (wherof John
Bastwicke is master) followinge her course from Viana towards the
port of London with her ladinge of sugers, netweene five and
twentye and thirtye leagues (as he guesseth) from Cape ffenester
was chaced and fetcht up by a ffrenchman of warr, and when
the sayd man of warr was come neere unto the Abraham the
foresayd John Bastwicke haled the company of the
sayd man of warr in ffrench and asked them of whence their shipp was
wherunto they replyed of Rochell, and then the sayd man of
warrs company hayled the Abraham and asked of whence
she was, and the sayd Bastwicke replyed of London and then
the sayd Bastwicke waved the sayd man of warr to the
Leeward, which her company refused to do, but
commannded the Abrahams company to amayne for the Kinge
of ffrance, which the Abrahams company denied to doe,
and then the company of the sayd man of warr gave
a volley of small shott to the Abraham and presently after borded
and entred thirtye or fourtye men abord the Abrahams
forecastle, and cutt downe the forecastle uppon their head and made them forsake
their steeridge wher uppon the Abrahams company went downe all betweene her
decks and betooke themselves to a close fighte, and
then the company of the sayd man of warr ripte up the Abrahams
hatches, and cutt holes through her decke, and laye bord and
bord with her by the space of three houres or therabouts, and
(within

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12o Octobris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Wolverton et Ball contra)
Middleton)

2us

Rs E. B.

Brianus Harrison parochia Sancta Maria Matsellon al Whitchappell
London nauta annos agens 48 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit et deponit prout sequitur./

Ad primum

Ad secundum

Ad secundum prem affirmat That at the tyme of the arreste articulate there
was remaineinge in the hands of him this examinate the sume of 25li 4s 9d
which was due to the said Simons for his interest in the articulate shiooe
the Unicorne and that 25li 4s 9d hee saieth was attached in his this
examinats hands at the suite of the articulate Wolverstone and Ball, but hee saieth
that after the said attachement the said Simonds did send a noate unto him
this examinate willinge him to pay whatsoever monies were due to him the said Simons
to the articulate Peter  Middleton for that hee the said Middleton had all
his interest in the articulate shippe the Unicorne, and accordingly hee this examinate
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did goe to the said Peter Middleton and told him what direccon
the said Simions had given him but withall tod him that the said
25li 4s 9d was attached in his hands at the suite of Mr Wolverstone and
Ball and that the said Simionds was indebted unto them the sume of
thirty three pounds odd money for  fishe and other provision delivered aboard
the said shippe the Unicorne and that hee would not pay the said 25li
4s 9d unto him unlesse hee the said Middleton would undertake to
satisffie the said Wolverston and Ball which the said Middeton did
undertale to do Ac aliter nescit./

Ad tertium

Ad quartum

Ad quintum

Ad sextum

Ad septium nescit deponere aliter quam prius./

Ad octavum dicit predeposita per eum esse vera./

Idem ad interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum

Ad secundum

Ad tertium respondet That the interrogate Thoas Simons was reputed to
bee owner of three eights of the interrogate Shippe the Unicorne at the tyme
of the delivery of the goodes in question aboard the said shippe, and that
after the goodes in question were delivered aboard the said shippe before
shee went to sea the owners of her came to an accounte aboute her
provision in furnishinge and setting her out to sea, and every owner was
allotted his proportion of payment accordinge to his parte and share in the said shippe
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Ad quartum respondet that uppon the castinge uppof the accounts the
interrogate Simonds was appointed to pay and satisfie the said Wolverstone
and Ball for he goodes in question, and hee saieth the said Simonds did
undertake to pay them for the sayd goodes,a nd did give them a noate inder
his the said Simonds his hand for the payment thereof, and uppon the delivery of
that noate from the said Simonds the said Wolverstone and Ball did dischardge
him this examinate. Ac aliter nescit.

Ad wuintum

Ad sextum

Ad septium respondet that after the delivery of the goodes in question the
interrogate Simonds did as hee hath heard and beleeveth pay and
satisffie divers debts, some whereof were due for settinge forth opf his parte of the
shippe the Unicorne, and that hee beleeveth hat if the said Simonds had
not failed in his estate the said Wolverstone and Ball would not
have demannded satisffacon from the rest of the owners of the said
shippe Et aliter refert se ad iura et aliter nescit/

Bryan Harrison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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dicto die. [CENTRE HEADING]

Jones contra Middleton)

2us tesis

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Anthony Jacob two trusses of cloth which were
laden by him in the said Jacob his shippe (as
the said Master [?lately] advised this examinate) dry and
well condicconed:

Ad quintum affirmat That the said two packes of clothes
contayneinge fower kentishe and twenty nyne
spanishe coloured clothes, before this examinate
received the same at Delph as aforesaid had
received wett, and all the said clothes when this
examinate received the same as aforesaid were wett
with salte water and thereuppon this examinate for
the better preservacon of them, sent fowerteene
of them which were more wett then the rest
to a Clothworkers at Delph presently after
the receite of them, and caused that clothworker
to washe the salte water out of them, and the
reste of those clothes hee dried in the sunn
but hee sayeth uppon his oath, That the colours
of the fourteene clothes beeing spanishe
clothes by the wett which they received by the
salte water as aforesaid were utterly spoiled
and the clothes much defaced soe that they were
not vendible at Delph, and therefore this examinate
was forced to send those fourteene clothes
backe for London to the said Mr Lawly to
bee here disposed of and the colour of all the
rest of the said clothes by the salte water
aforesaide was much spoiled and defaced 
by that meanes the sale of them was
much hindred, and yt was a longe tyme before
they could sell them, soe that this examinate verily
beleeveth that the said Mr Lawly by the meanes
that his clothes were wetted with salte water
asa aforesaid, in chardges for washeing out the salte
water dryeing againe and makeing upp the said
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fourteene clothes for London, in Losse in the sale
of all the said clothes, and interest for the money
that they coste for the tyme that hee kepte
those clothes longer then hee needed to have
don had they not bin soe wett hath sustained
losse and damadge in the said thirty three
clothes one with another to the summe of forty
shillings sterleinge in every cloth, in toto
the summe of sixty sixe pounds sterleinge
but what the iuste and ceteine dammage 
therein was, hee cannott certeinly declare
further then by huesse as aforesaid;/

Super reliquis articulos non examinatur;/

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125

the
howas

to the seller therof, and within two or three dayes or therabouts after the
departure of the sayd shipp from Dover roade towards Holland the
foresayd master Browne and one master Turges two of the fraighters of the
sayd shipp came to this deponent and tould him that the said shipp was
gone for Holland, and offred to give this deponent ten pence p pound
for the sayd fifteene hogsheads of Tobaccoe laden by the sayd
hogshead
Edward Wigge or to deliver him fifteene re barrills of other
Virginia Tobaccoe in this port of London, which this deponent refused
to accepte of for that the Tobaccoe laden by the said Edward Wigge
and did yeild more
in other yeares and broughte to the port of London was better by
two pence in the pounds then other mens Tobaccoe broughte from
Virginia. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad nonum nescit deponere./
super reliquis arlis non exaiatr ex direccone pts producen

idem super interrogatoria [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum quoad picula pirij fit quod petit Et respondet That hee
was borne at Milton Ear Erest in the County of Bedford, and that
he hath knowen dw the said Edward Wigge from his birth, and Thomas
Middleton ever since the beginninge of the voyage in question and that he
speaketh the trueth in this cause without favor or affection to either partye and
desireth that Justice may take place, Et aliter satisfcu est supra./

Ad 2 respondet That he is the naturall brother of Edward Wigge the producent

Ad tertium respondet That he this respondent was appoynted factor and Assigne
for the sayd Edward Wigge for the receivinge of the Tobaccoes in question
and that after the arrivall of the said shipp from Virginia uppon the
the sayd
that
coast of England and master Browne one of the fraighters of the said shipp
came to this respondent, and asked him wheither hee would not receive the
Tobaccoe in question heere in England or wheither he would ranne the
adventure therof into Holland and this de rendents answarr to him
was that he would not run the adventure therof into Holland and
that he desired that it should be delivered in the port of London
accordinge to the bill of ladinge, and did forbidd the carriage
therof into Holland, Et aliter qua prius nescit respondere./

Ad tertio decimum respondet That the foresayd Browne and Gurges th of the officers
offred this de respondent offer to deliver him fifteene hogsheads of the said
(as good Tobaccoe heare in this port of London as this rendents brothers
Tobaccoe in question was, if he would not runne the adventure therof
into Holland, wherunto this respondent replyed that he knewe not wheither
the Tobaccoe which they would deliver him would bee as good as his
brothers Tobaccoe for that his brothers Tobaccoe did hee was commonly
better and did out sell other mens Tobaccoe by two pence in the pound
Et aliter referend se ad predeposita respondet negae.

Ad quintum respondet That he doth sollicitt this suite on the behalfe of his brother
the p producent and doth laye out and expend both proctors advats
and all other kees incident to the same, and that his said brother we
is indebted unto him foure thousand weighte of Tobaccoe for moneys
Tobaccoe
which this respondent disbursed for him and
to 4000 weighte of
he said
had and
which hee what or in the he had bene brought
and should have received out of the Tobaccoes in question./
and had consayned the much in weighte
and delivered in this port of London accordinge to the bill of ladinge ⁁ and
that in case the said Edward Wigge doe prevayle in this suite this respondent
shall gayne soe much as the said fifteene hogsheads will were produce
above the some of fourescore and eighte pounds, in which some the said Edward
Neigge was indebted unto this respondent, and for which the said Edward Wigge was
and to returne him 400 weight of Tobaccoe, and untill this respondent receiveth
the
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the said Edward Wigge
the said 4000 weighte is debted to him for soe much, and that the sayd
was to
Edward Wigge did beare the whole adventure of the said Tobaccoe
in question, untill the delivery therof in this porte of London. Et
aliter nescit

Ad sextum respondet That this respondent is a Grocer by profession and hath
kill in Virginia Tobaccoe, and that he was offred ten pence p
pound in this port of London for the Tobaccoe in question as before
he hath deposed cleare of all charges after the departure of the said
Holland
shipp from Dover towards London, and that sayeth that the fraighte
of each pound is of Tobaccoe is a penny farthinge or therabouts and
and ther
the custome feare of the Customehom ffoure pence p pound, but
comonly the ffarners therof doe give bills of store for a great part
of the Tobaccoe, and they is a great are) allowed by the ffarmers
to the merchants more then the hogsheads doe comonly weigh Et
aliter nescit respondere./
and beleeveth

Ad septium respondet That he hath heard that the said shipp the Robert
Bonadventure and her ladinge were seized and caryed into Dunkirke
and are there yet detayned and noe reste resitation or satisfaction
therof made to the owners. Et aliter nescit respondere

Ad octavum nescit respondere

Ad nonum respondet That he hath heard master Thompson and others the owners
of the articulate said shipp the Robert Bonadventure and her ladinge
saye that his our Goverague Lord the Kings Matye and the
honorable Lords of his Counsell had in de by their lres sent
over to Dunkirke that the declared that they oughte not to
make prize of the said Tobaccoe the said shipp or goods, and w
Et aliter nescit respondere
that they had wrote for restitut other

Ad decimum respondet That he this respondent was to dispose of the Tobaccoes
that the
in question and as he pleased and this respondent would not
consent that the said Tobaccoes should be transported for Holland
unlesse but demannded twelve pence for it, a pound for it,
of the foresaid Browne and f Sharges, and they offred him but ten
thence as is prdeposed, and that he beleiveth that if the sayd
Tobaccoe had safely arrived in Holland the said and had there
arrived come to a good markett the sayd master Edward Wigge
would have disliked therof unlesse hee mighte have had in
accordinge to this rendents demannd
the pounds for it cleare of all charges ⁁ Et aliter nescit respondere./
will videlicet.

Tickly de Booke
----
dco die

1s

Thomas Trescoe de Shadwell in comitatu Middlesex nauta
aetatis 44 annorum aut circiter dicit quod Wm Tately
partem producen p annos et amplius et ultra bene
novit sed ptem contra quam producits non novit ut
dicit.

Ad primum non exaiate qua interrogate Rooke

dco die./

lias Jourdayne de Ratcliffe in comitatu Middlesex
Tot ley et al not./
nauta aetatis 36 annorum aut circiter testis in hac

parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit
quod partem producens p 8 annos et amplius aut circit
xxx upon
et ptem p qua pducit p 10 annos et amplius aut
circiter bene respective novit.
ad primum articulum alluis ex parte dicti Tokely in hac parte datus
non examinate quia fateth Rooke./

Ad secundum dicit et deponit That the articulate shippe the Bride
accordinge to the Charterpartye made betweene the articulate
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126

Robert Tobey and George both, and the rest of the partye articulate dates
the first day of January 163 1628: that the sayd shipp shee lay ente
entred into pay fish pay on or before the five and twentith day of the
same moneth of Januarye on which day the sayd shipp departed from
Portmouth or the voyage in question, and after the sayd five
twentith day of Januarye the sayd shipp was in the service and imploye
her
of the sayd Rooks and company the fraighters of the said shipp any untill
the xxijth day of June 1629 then next followeinge on which day
she was taken by five sayle of ffrench men of warr, The premisses hee
knoweth to bee true for that he was master of the said shipp the Grade the
voyage aforesaid/

Ad tertium articulum dicto alluis dicit et deponit That by the Charter partye made
for the voyage in question the sayd Rooks and company the fraighters of
the sayd shipp did covenant and agree to pay unto the said owners one
hundred thirty five pounds p moneth for the use and imploymt of the
sayd shipp in the said voyage, which he knoweth to bee true for that he
said agreemt and at
was present at the sealinge and delivery of the said Charter partye and
hath often pused the same, Et aliter referend se ad qua nescit deponere.

Ad quartum affirmat That at Portsmouth before the departure of the sayd
shipp on the sayd voyage there were laden abord the said shipp and be
for the accompte of the merchants fraighters of the said being her certayne
packe goods and with which she sayled to the port of Waxford in Ireland
and at Waxford the sayd shipp by the order of the sayd merchants
tooke in the rest of her ladinge of pipestaves, with which pipestaves
and packe goods she sayled to the Canarye Islands and there delivered
them to the merchants factor which went forth in the said shipp the said
voyage but the vallue of the said goods hee cannott expresse, but sayeth
that the sayd shipp was reladen at the Canaryes with the pritt wynes
and wood which (as the merchants factors did acknowledge) were bought
with the proceed of her outwards ladinge, and that there were twenty from
thousand ryalls left behinde at the Canaryes of the proceed of the
sayd outwards goods, the remainder of who proceed was xxx Et aliter
nescit deponere./

Ad quintum affirmat That the sayd shipp the Bride was in the service
imployment of the said master Rooks and company from the said five and twentith
day of January 1628. untill the fall discharge of her outwards ladinge
at the Canaryes by the full space of foure monethes and a halfe at
and for that the last of the said goods
the least, which hee knoweth to bee
factors order
the mens
out of the said shipp and putt abord anyth
eleaventh day of
here at the Canaryes uppon
were delivered and
June 1629./

Ad sextum affirmat That at the Canaryes the voyage in question there
were laden abord the said shipp by the said merchants factors to the
quantitye of foure hundred pipes or therabouts in wines and hogsheads
and a certayne quantitye of wood, to be transported in the sayd shipp
from thence to the port of London for their accompts and after the
ladinge of the said goods the sayd shipp and her ladinge were on or seaven
day of the sayd moneth of June 1629 sworne in her course towards
London surprized and taken by five ffrench shipps as before he hath
deposed.
1s

Ad septimum refert se ad praedeposita Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad octavum nescit deponere, savinge he sayd most ex retacon
super reliquis arlis non exaiate
idem super interrogatoria./
ad primum respondet That he is worth five and cannott estimate his estate because
he hath many adventures nowe at sea, and that he favoreth the parties in this
ause indifferently, and that he verily beleiveth in his conscience that the said
and put
Booke hath bene a gayner and noe looser by the voyage in question,
desireth that righte may take place./
~~~
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2s
det

Ad secundum respondet That he this respondent the voyage in question was owner
of one eighte part of the sayd shipp the Bride and her tackle and
furniture, and went master of her, but he hath since hould a sixteenth
owne and servan
part the of the said shipp tackle and furniture and the halfe of his wages
due to him for the said voyage with the halfe of all his adventure
and interest put in the sayd voyage unto the sayd master Rooks and
the other halfe of all his interest in the said shipp and voyage unto
the sayd Captayne Tolley and that he hath not nowe neither doth
the expecte any share or interest in the fraight of the said shipp
the voyage in question./

Ad tertium respondet That the sayd shipp was taken in her directe course
(as winde and weather would pmitt from the Canaryes towards
the port of London, and that the said shipp was not takeinge taken
by this rendents wilfullnes or negligence, and that he did not steere
but kept by his directe curse as wynde and weather did pmitt
or goe out of his way or directe course for London ⁁ Et aliter nescit
respondet negative

Ad quartum respondet That the sayd Robert Tokeley the voyage in question
was on by his was report owner of thirteene sixteene parts of
the sayd shipp the Bride and her tackle and furniture, and this respondent
was owner of two sixteenth and Nicholas Jacobson of the other sixteenth
Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quintum respondet That he hath heard the said Captaine Tokeley sayd
that he did assure some what uppon the said voyage but howe much
he assured or howe much hee received from the assurers, or
wheither hee did resigne over his in or remaince unto the sayd
assurers all his right in the said shipp and fraighte he knoweth not.

Ad sextum respondet That he this respondent did ensure uppon the sayd
shipp and his adventure in the said voyage the somme of one hundred
pounds which money soe ensured hee sould unto the said master Hooks
and the said master Rooke hath a payd him soe part therof but hath
not fully satisfyed him. Et aliter qua prius nescit respondere/

Ad septium respondet That the sayd master Rooke as this respondent hath heard
and beleiveth went twice into ffrance about the recovery of the
sayd shipp the Bride and her ladinge and hath bene at great charges
(as this respondent beleiveth) about the recovery therof
per me plicus London./
----
dco die

Thomas Trences de Shadwell in comitatu Middlesex
nauta aetatis 44 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte productus
iuratus et exaiatus dicit quod ptem producen p
annos et amplius et ultra bene novit sed ptem contra quam
producius non novit ut dicit./

Ad secundum articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That
shipp the Bride and entred into paye ⁁ with the merchants
the said
uppon the xxxth day of Januarye Anno did 16 1628 and was
in the service and imployment of the merchants that fraighted
her from the sayd 25th of Januarye untill the seaventeenth
day of June 1629 then next followeinge on which day shee was
taken by ffrenchmen of warr, The premisses he knoweth to bee
true for that he was Gunner of the said shipp the said voyage./

Ad nonum nescit deponere./

Ad 4 affirmat That within the tyme articulate there were laden abord
the sayd shipp at Portsmouth by Rowland Jens and master hinde
factors for who (as they themselves affirmed) were factors
for the merchants that freighted the said shipp, divers packe goods
and trusses with which goods she sayled to Maxford in Ireland, and the
the sayd shipp tooke in all the rest of her ladinge in pipestaves
and
~~~
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127

and then sayled with the sayd goods to the Canarye Islands, where there
were delivered on shoare to the sayd Rowland feaks and master hinde soe
many of the said pipestaves and other goods as reladed the sayd shipp with
with wynes and wood and the rest of the said goods were by the said factors
order delivered abord a fflemish shipp then at the Canaryes, Et aliter
nescit deponere./
1

Ad quintum affirmat That from the sayd 25th day of Januarye 1635
1628 untill the tyme of the discharge and delivery of all the sayd goods
out of the sayd shipp at the Canaryes, there was the full tyme and
space of foure monethes and nyne or ten dayes (to his nowe best
remembrance. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad sextum affirmat That by the s accompte of the Boatswayne of the
sayd shipp the said voyage there were laden abord her at the Canaryes
for the merchants, and contra master and company of the said shipp foure hundred
pipes of wyne or therabouts, and about tenn tonnes of sweet wood, to bee
transported in the sayd shipp from the Canarye to the porte of
London, and uppon the seaventeenth day of June 1629 the said shipp
with the said goods abord her followeinge her course towards England
as before he hath deposed
was surprized and taken by certayne ffrench men ⁁ Et aliter nescit./

Ad septium nescit deponere./

Ad nonum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth he was tould by master
Rowland Jeaks that the proceede of the remaynder of the goods
bre caryed in the said shipp the Bride to the Canaryes and lefte
was
there behinde unsould at her cominge from thence, were brought
home in wynes in a fflemish shipp called the Swann
super reliquis arlis non exaiatus./
idem super interrogatoria
ad primum respondet That he is worth fourty pounds in his goods, his debts
payd and that he favoreth the partyes in this cause indifferentlye
and wisheth the victory to him that hath most righte therunto. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad duodecimum respondet That he was gunne of the said shipp the said voyage. Et
aliter respondet negae pro parte sua./

Ad tertium respondet That the sayd Eas Jourdayne did not alter his course
but followed his directe course from f the Canaryes towards
London, as neere the winde and weather would pmitt Et aliter salvis
predepoits per eum respondet negae./

Ad quartum nescit respondere./

Ad quintum et 6 nescit respondere

Ad 7 nescit respondere savinge he sayeth he hath heard that the sayd
master Rocks went over into ffrance about the recovery of the said
shipp and goods the Bride and her ladinge taken by the ffrench

Thomas Tresco

2 Octobris 1635

and sellwood Georgus ffaro de Hughico in comitatu his
Has maste annos agens 27 aut eo circiter testis se
dicit quod Wm Hasewood partem producent
per to prem annos ultimum et amplius above novit sed
Thomam Page partem contra quam producitur
non novit ut dicit/

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte selves 20 in parts
~~~
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Octobris datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That
Unicorne a
the shippe the Neptune or plyeing for Yarmouth
roade in September laste and standeinge in for the
shoare neere harboroughe on the coaste of Norfolke
Crtune
shippe the Gunnes
came fowle uppon the arte
plyeing alsoe for Yarmouth roades by the negligence
faulte or elswnes of the master and company of the
said shippe the Unicorne for hee sayeth that at
that tyme the Unicorne the was in a Carpe was
and the advantage of the winde to have gon
cleere of the said shippe the Neptune, and of
deponent kepte the laste as ffalmight
master Parch
shee have donn, they of shee had pon cleere of
3
the Neptune, but in and of rainge the Unicon
ship in the said that
she came to are under by ther left
were bought hee same upon
said shipp the Hare stoppin and
Man and his hee are upp
hee with to bee true to his the same tyme in
the said shipp the Custome being Master master
p parte
Man and use the
examinate and soe of the Unicorne ment
shee left and
soe as hee in the or hee
hath is an
the shippe
company said shipp the James
the the
of
Pie were then

Ad 2. 3 et quartum affirmat That the said ship
Unicorne came tooke of the returne as aforesaid
about seaven or agree of the clocke in the being
the being of his
as hee guesse
faste the Neptune being the merly received from
same and the Rose Unicorne then soe in
said rest
he the
of the Unicorne the Martin and the
or the bee same to gave roughe to th
Corne because the was in the moste
resent which soe the
prised by and cleere of the Neptune of the master
~~~
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128

and company of the Unicorne and kepte their lefte as
seaven ought to have donn, but soone after the Nytune
soe bore upp to give way to the Unicorne those in
the Unicorne called out to them in the Neptune to
Neptune to keepe her laste
and his had
Neptune, but laye her helme a hee
thereuppon the
and lett goe her consent, and for braces, and soe shee came
a allipps whilest shee soe lay a stayes the
ye
and uppon and
sencorne came aboard her, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, reddens racoem scientiae sua ut supra
At aliter quam prius nescit deponere./

Ad quintum nescit deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad sextum affirmat That when the Unicorne rom
rann aboard the Neptune as aforesaid, which the force
of stroke the Unicorne brake the head and some
of the Neptune, and made her leake and thereby much
dampnified her, but the damage thereof hee sayeth
hee cannott estimate, At aliter qua prius nescit./

Ad septimum nescit deponere aliter qua prius, That the
Saveinge that the comeinge fowle of the said two
two shippes was not occasioned by any faulte
negligence or carelesnes of the master or company of
the said shippe the Neptune,/

Ad octavum nescit deponere aliter qua prius, Saveing that
yt was a wilfullnes or presse mistake for the
Je Unicorne after shee came neere to the Captaine
or to looke her selve haveinge before neglected to
for the shee came neere to the Nerame and
loste, after the Neptune was broughte to her
say as aforesaid, for by their lottinge yt was
moste of the Nation were
freed uppon the Neptune, but the the
he is
master and in for
hee was and her to the Rescue, and her
were the last aforesaid for the
bore upp the same./
he affirmat That after the Unicorne which that that
the money upon the or the said
same of the Unicons company came abord the
Peter, and in the the article and confesse
~~~
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2s husellwood
det.

in this examinate haveinge that yt was their owne fault
that the Unicorne came foule of the Neptune
that they might thancke themselves or used wordes
to that effecte, and that yf they x in the Unicorne
had kepte their liffe in tyme that they had never
come neere the Neptune, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, At aliter nescit./

Ad primum nescit deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad quartum nescit deponere, Saveing that he heard
some of the Unicorne company say that the
cheste of that mann of her company, which was
drowned was brought in the Neptune to London
1s

Ad duodecimum nescit deponere./
Unicon

Ad tertio decimum affirmat That the said shippe
after shee came and was foule of the signe as
aforesaid did lye by the space of the third
part of an hower as hee guesseth before soe
shee suncke, At aliter nescit./

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita per eu esse vera./
gen
quere p eus rons interrogate 20 or or Charter
dco die/
Johannes Grace or ford in comitatu Saint
nauta, annos agens 50ta aut eo circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Wm
a selwood partem producentem per novem annos
ultimum et amplius bene novit, sed Thoma Page
partem cona qua pducitur non novit is
and it visa

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte hiselwoodding hac
parte datus et allat did refert se ad infrastine
At aliter nescit./

Ad secundum affirmat That uppon the fourth of September
last paste about seaven or eighte of the Crooke in
the Eveninge on the coaste of Nortocke off of
aboroughe, the arte shippe the Neptune, beeing
and standeing off and
newly wended from the shoare
a
plyeinge for Narmouth Reades, the arte John
passelwood and company in the shippe the
Neptune espied the arte shippe the Unicorne
standinge in towards the shoare crosse the
Neptunnes forefoote, and at that tyme the Unicorne
had the advantage of the winde of the Neptune
~~~
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129

and Norfaine to weather her of the master and company
of her had soe pleased and kepte their loose, And this
hee affirmeth to bee true, who was one of the company
of the said shippe the Neptune and in her this
tyme aforesaid, At aliter nescit/

Ad quartum affirmat That the arte Rasselwood and company
uppon sighte of the Unicorne did beare up to
five way to the Unicorne, and did give hee
a
sufficient way and distance to have pasted by
and cleere of the said shippe the Neptune
of the master and company of the Unicorne had
bin soe pleased and woulde have bin carefull and
fighte their lefte as seamen ought to have donn
not in steed of looseinge, the master and company of
the Unicorne did beare upp with a quarter winde
uppon the Neptune, And this hee affirmeth
to bee true, beeing then at the helme of the
Neptune, At aliter nescit./

Ad quintum et sextum affirmat That the Unicorne contrary to all
reason, and the course of the sea haveing the winde were
as of the Neptune of the
to have passed shee parte at
had Uniorne had borne with her lefte neglected
to beare uppon her laste, but mised thereof did
her helme uppon the Neptune and called
beare up
to those in the Neptune to keepe their loose
and thereuppon the said Hoselwood and company
in the Neptune, which hee possible shee that they
were did loste, and brought the Neptune to
her stayes and the Neptune being at her stayed
those in the Unicorne in her of being the
were of the have one
to made uppon
the or hee
the Unicorne booke the had and tenn of the
Portune and made her very leaky, and her did hee
a very great damage, And this hee affirme
bee true, who was all this came at the same
of the said shipp the Neptune into Prince
came fowle of her as aforesaid, At aliter nes
~~~
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~~~
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130

2d

Ad tertium affirmat That the company of the said shippe
the Unicorne after they were come out of her into the
Neptune did all in this examts heareinge cause
Pd
and acknowledge that that mann of the Unicornes
company which was at her helme the tyme aforesaid
aforesaid, did mistake her helme and soe
brought the Unicorne foule of the Neptune, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true, At aliter nescit./
undecimum nescit deponere, Saveinge that hee heard
two which were said to bee anothers of that mane
of the Unicornes company which was drowned
in her and others of the company of the Unicorne
say that hee was soe drowned after the said
shippe came foule one of the other cand in
safety aboard the Neptune into her out of
hee the said shipp in the said hames of the Captaine
the Brande that a cheste, which was
broughte in the Neptune to London did belonge
to Genn that was drowned in the Unicorne

Ad duodecimum nescit deponere./

Ad tertio decimum affirmat That the said shippe the Unicorne
after shee came foule of the Neptune as aforesaid
did lye by the same of halfe an her before
or thereabouts before shee suncke, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true who was in the Neptune
and stayed by her all that tyme, At aliter nescit

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita per eu esse vera./

Ad interrogate./

the maine
reserve the tyme interrogate, At aliter respondet negative
Unicorne

Ad secundum respondet That as hee remembreth, and the
and the Nustome mett on fryday the ⁁ laste of
September laste, off of Hamborough aforesaid
close aboard the shoare and the company of the
Unicorne said that shee was of the burthen of about
soe sworne came to hindred to that of the Duncke
for score tonnes and was they bounde for Hollande, and the
Vane was then seing up for hath and
with they were, and the said shall be
et
~~~
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Matselwood
3º Haelwood
det

the stood of the shoare and the Unicorne then stood in th
the shoare, and before shee lefte as aforesaid the
Unicorne did beare upp her helme to avoyde and shee
the Restone as hee beleeveth, and some out of the
Unicorne did call to the company of the Neptune in this
rendents heareing to laste, which they did forther
accordingly without any neglecte, but the Georne
rann uppon the Neptune sterlinge and sincke
her selfe and her goods by that meanes, At aliter quod
John Powell
sua nescit /

Georgus ffor ad interrogate

Ad undecimum respondet That hee was Masters Mate of
Neptune the tyme interrogate. At aliter respondet negative/
R

Ad secundum respondet That the Unicorne and Captane mett on
a ffray nighte off of Harborowe in the height
sheth the
as hee thincketh of fifty two, and hee
soes
Neptune is of the burthen of about two hundred
the Company of the Unicorne said that shee was
then saileinge for Hollande, and when those two
shippes mett the Unicorne was saileinge towarr
Marmouth roades with a contrary winde, and the
winde then bee to his now best remembrance at
saith saith east, and the Neptune then came of the
shoare of the Unicorne in with the shore, and the
helme of the Unicorne was borne upp which was
and contrary was to runn the entrue, and some
out of the corne in this rendents heareinge
called to the company of the Neptune to
Luffe, which they forthwth did with out any neglecte
but coulde not abord the Unicorne by soe doeing but
the Unicorne ran her selfe aboard the Neptune
and suncke her selfe and goods by that meanes
about the third hurt of an hower after shee
sawe strooke uppon the Netorne, At aliter
George Charon
nescit./
----
23º Octobris 1635

Willimus Smarke de Wappinge in comitatu Middlesex
nauta, annos agens 40ta aut eo circiter testis se

Ad primum articulum allius refert se ad infrascripts at all
deponere./
~~~
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131

Ad secundum tertium et quartum affirmat That uppon a ffryday about 9
tenn weekes (as hee remembreth about seaven or 8 of the
toke in the eveninge off of harboroughe on the coaste
of Norfolke the shippe the Neptune being menly were
from the shoare and stayeinge
called a lyeing
or mouth
hee hath leare
reades espied hee arte shippe the Unicorne standinge
in towards, the shoare crosse the Neptunes forefoote
and that shippe the Unicorne had them the advantage of the
winde of the Neptune, and was faire to weather her
of her master and company had soe pleased and kepte their
light, and hee sayeth that the Neptune uppon sighte
of the said shippe the Unicorne did beare upp to
give way to her, and did give her sufficient way
distance to have passed by and cleere of the Nepte
yf the master and company of her, had soe pleased
had carefully kepte their affe as save ought to
doe, but in stead of keepinge of her laste, the
Unicorne with a quarter winde did beare uppon the Messane
And this hee affirmeth to bee true who was all the
tyme in the Neptune lookeing but being one of
her company, At aliter nescit/

Ad quintum et sextum affirmat That in fourth the master and company
of the Unicorne or to be and the passe of
the said haveing the were first paste ther of the
Peter which as are the laste
did not lefte of in said Mastinge did bee
in
of their laste
the master and hee are
the the Repetit came
with and the
Penn those he the nine
of being her as are came
were fruite
were the same are soe
the or the article hee sent
then was pre, and hee
the
then in hee
were the lest
ship soe
Unicorne then she came firste the same
when the last hee
John was bought the said said
deponent left bee parte have
~~~
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Unicorne had gonn cleere of the Neptune and never torne
her but hee conceiveth, and soe hee heard some
the Duncornes company since confesse, that the
Unicorne came foule of the Neptune by the
stocke of one of the suncornes company then at
the helme who kepte her life (when the share
after the some Neptune was brought to her
stayes, when hee shoulde have bore upp
Unicorne selves, and thereby the said shippe
came to bee dampnified, And this hee
affirmeth to bee true, At aliter nescit, Saveinge
that the said damage came not by any faulte
negligence or carelessnes of the master or company
of the said shippe the Neptune,

Ad nonum et decimum affirmat That after the New Unicorne
hee came foule of the Neptune as aforesaid some
of the company of the Unicorne came aboard the
Neptune, and in this examts heareinge confessed the
yt was their owne faulte that the Unicorne
came soe foule of the Nichage, and that they might
the
th
thancke themselves for yt
none had in tyme kepte her laste the Peter
would never have lett her uppon touched her
that hee that did then shee the morne
soe brought
and
were a noate of
a
did misters
Jon
Maniell did this hee
morne foule
ladeing confesse true, At aliter nescit./
affirmeth to bee

Ad undecimum affirmat That that mann of the Unicornes
company, which was drowned in her when shee
suncke, after hee came foule uppon the
Maties are soe came in lost at
and stood in safety the
Grigorne./
said shippe the Nepte
the chained of the Neptinge the did helpe to the
goods and his shipp was said to bee his hee
last of the in the
and this examt and the Coyne of the Neptune, and
alsoe stood uppon the Neptune paine, and to
ther most from
did receive goods from that and
that many, and havered them further into the
stone, and hee that many went aboard the said
come in this examts sight, which spake to this
to her abord her because his though shee were
suddenly sicke and might that mann was board
uppon hee suncke, and her in her and hee
~~~
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132

to bee drowned
and the cheste, which was said to bee his
was brought in the Neptune to London and delivered to
his brothers tooke possession of yt, And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, At aliter nescit

Ad 12 nescit deponere./

Ad tertio decimum affirmat, That the said said shippe the Captaine
Unicorne after shee came fowle and strooke uppon the
Neptune as aforesaid lay the third part of an
hower or water better before shee suncke, And
this hee affirmeth to bee true who stayed by
in the Neptune, untill shee suncke, At aliter
nescit/

Ad ultimum dicit pred dta per eu esse vera./

Ad interrogate./
and

Ad primum respondet That hee was a comon sayler in the said
shippe the Captune, At aliter respondet nega.

Ad secundum respondet, That hee guesseth that the said shipp
the morne was of the burthen of about six
tonnes, and hee guesseth that the Neptune is of the
of the company of
burthen of about 200 Tonns
the Unicorne said that shee was bounde for Holland
the the said shipp the
of the saieth are
at
and at ye in the
that iron of the
hee in the
the upper
her upp the
were hee
re in the
shippe
the
the
to at
2
are
hee said
he this
p nescit.
~~~
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Octobris 1635

Kilver contra Prise

Maria Aldermary London
Georgius Witham par
Mercator annos agens 52 aut eo circiter testis se dicit quod p
Pouse./
Pruse partem producente a mense and to bris Anno 1630
novit et Siller partem contra qua pducitur per de
tempus etia novit ut dicit

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte Purse in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That by letters from some of this
frendes from Lubecke, this examinate is advised that the
said arte Hanne Pruse is a Dutchman and a
and in October November and December
dweller in Lubecke
1632. hee the said Prase was a many at the
gevent all the Englishe languagle, and in that ye
hee the said Purse often came to this examinate both uppon
uppon the Exchange and at this house in London and still
to
conferred, which this examinate in dutch and never spake a
same of Englishe to this examinate soe that this
examt conceiveth that hee the said Prise was
then and mann allogather ment of the English
longinge, and hee beleeveth that hee the said Busse
is still gent in the English language because
hee ever more conferneth, with this examinate in Dutch
and this examinate hath taken acquittances of him in English
which hee firste read to him in English, and then nee
them to him in Engla dutch, because hee conceived
that hee did not understand them as hee read the
in English, And this hee affirmeth to bee true,
At aliter nescit /

Ad 2. 3. 4. et tertium affirmat That the said Hannce
Prinse, haveinge formerly laste with this examinate
bell allegation, by which the or fullner was bounde
Manne Pause the same of three hundred pound
for the remainder of the price of a shippe called
(as hee hath heard) the Saint Jacob, which the said Penny
had soulde to him the said Saner, and case a letter
of Aorne to receive the said goods of him the said
billier for the use of the said Prinse, and
the said Mrs soe wayes being to ye
Lubecke, this examinate advised the said Prise of
before hee wente away to bringe the said Killins
this examinate to confesse therebte, And about the
beginninge of December 1633 to this examinate now
best remembrance, tempus aliter non recolit vit
charge London, the said Pruse brought him
hee the
John
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133

alledged the
aforesaid

a
to
said Kilver to this examinate and then and ffore this examinate tolde the
said Killinner that the said Hannce Puse had lefte with him
the bill aforesaid, and a letter of Afferney to receive the money
due uppon the same in the absence of the said Pruse
and asked the said Killiner yf hee would pay the said
three hundred poundes, and ther to the said deliver in
is examinate
the said one
the presence and heareing
acknowledge that debte and did./
it did reply and say that
Wm Angell of London master
he said hee hundred
hee would pay to this exts
poundes when this examinate shoulde bringe him a
certificate from Lubecke accordinge to the condicon of
the said bill and Prinse himselfe was then present
to them, And hee sayeth, That this examinate told the
B
eighth hee said
with
did ship side the said lett
regard the Exchange of money was then highe at
Sambroughe, that hee woulde they pay the said Prise
and the said Prise
his said 3 heere in London
shoulde aboute the said Killne for the tyme
accordinge to the custome, and thereto the said Hollier
rested in the the said deponent
or with words to the same especte./
the said Prise hee said that whereof hee did at
was all one to whom hee came yt, but the tyme
have
uppon this examinate made that hee
hath hee
hee is not presse, And the
refert aliter nescit
to

Ad sextum affirmat That in October 1638, this a examinate
with the said Pruse went to the said Killiner, and this
damne did then present to him the said Biller a
certificate under the hands of the reste of the
nes of the said shippe, that they did allowe of the
saile of the said shippe made by the said Prinse to the
said Keene, but in heard that Conticate was not
the last hee said
dilliger and refuse to save the said Go but did not
sailed
therein the debt but said that when a Certificate
were eighte to the face aforesaid severall the
and in other aforesaid
Owners handes and the sale of the Bay of are hee
as the same
said
a
that they hee would pay
sed after to pay to the said on this examinate of
would went the sale of the said shippe but the Kinge when
an Al aliter nescit
hee made say after this xx
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22º Aco: 163

Paule et al contra Bladwell et

det

Richardus Miller de Sipsie in comitatu Suffolie Margus
aetatis 39 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus, dicit quod Thomam di in ptus
producen p 4 mens et amplius aut circiter bene novit sed reliquos
ptiu producen novit non novit et Abraham Essex visa
tantu p annu et amplius et ultra q novit sed reliquos ptiu contra
acquam producitur non novit ut dicit./

Ad 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. et 10 articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus non
examinat ex directione part

Ad 11 dicit et deponit That in all shipps and voyages ⁁ wherin this deponent hath
hath used the sea
served who for these eighteene yeares last past hee that is appoynted
to goe master of a shipp (unlesse her be a Captaine in the same shipp hath
had the whole command of the shipp and the voyage, and the rest of the
company that serve in her are and oughte to bee under his commannde
and to obey him in his direction of the shipp and orderinge of the
voyage, Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad duodecimum articulum dicit et deponit That the articulate shipp called the
fflowers of Yarmouth (wherof the articulate John Goodland was master)
in her late intended voyage towards Russia was sufficiently
victualled and prepared and furnished with all necessaryes and
and with mariners and saylers fitt able
provision for for the pformance of the sayd voyage and and that
there was noe defecte in the owners of the sayd shipp for want
to make
scient
of any thinge necessarye for her ⁁ in the sayd voyage for the pforman
of the sayd voyage, The premisses he knoweth to bee true for that
he was Carpenter of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage. Et aliter nescit
deponere

Ad tertio decimum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers beinge soe
fitted and furnished with all necessaryes departed from Gravesend
on the sayd voyage for Russia in under the command of the
foresayd John Goodladd, in the moneth of June last past and
followed and plyed her course towards Archangell as the sayd
Goodland gave directions, but in her course thitherwards was much
crossed and hundred by contrary windes, and foule weather, but
the weather was not soe stormy or tempestuous at any tyme
wherby she was in any danger of beinge lost or cast away. Et aliter
nescit deponere./

Ad 14 nescit deponere./

Ad quintodecimum dicit et deponit That by the reason the sayd shipp was soe
crossed and hundred by contrarye wynds and foule weather, it
to
was the two and twentith day of August last past before shee could
gett as high as Scittenborough nesse in Eagland which is short of
their designed port of Archangell one hundred and fifty or one
hundred and sixtye leagues or therabouts, notwthstandinge he sayeth
the master and company of the sayd shipp did use all expedition
and care they could to which and did neglecke noe tyme after their
departure from Gravesend to reach to the porte of Arleangell
as the winde and weather would pmitt, and on the sayd 22th day of
Arliber August the winde still continued contrarye to sayle towards
her sayd designed port. Et aliter nescit deponere./
118 et 1

Ad 16. et 17. articulos dicit et depont That uppon the sayd 22th day
of August last past the winde still contineweinge contrary the sayd
John Goodland findeinge that he was soe short of this designed porte
tould
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tould the company of the sayd shipp the fflowers that the season a
the yeare was to farr spent or was to goe for Archangell, and
that if he should strie to proceed thither they must winter they
to the hazard of mens lives, and therfore he the sayd Goodland comitatu
and caused
comanded his company to beare up the helme and to sayle but be
for England, wheruppon the articulate Thomas donne one of the
reputed part owners of the sayd shipp, beinge then abord her and
xxx the
beinge of the sayd Goodlands matts ⁁ were after after the company of the
sayd shipp did according to the sayd Goodlands command beaver
the said donne
the helme to returne for England ⁁ seeninge unwillinge to returne
give over the sayd voyage and to returne for England) commanded
the company to bringe the shipp to the stayes, and to bringe the
tacks abord agayne, uppon perill of loosinge their wages, which
was donne accordingly, and for a little while the comsayd donne and
they rest of the company did strive to proceed for Archangell, and
then the sayd Good lade agayne commanded the companye to beare
up the helme, and sayd that if they would not beare up the helme
then hee would lye and dye and rott in his Cabin, wheruppon the
company of the sayd shipp fearinge in obedience to the said Goodland
command, and the rather because none of the company of the
sayd shipp (but the sayd Good lade) was a were sufficient
enought neither would undertake to carrye the sayd shipp
to Anchangell) by did beare upp the helme and returned towards
England and by contrarye windes first putt into Yarmouth roade
and from thence came to the port of London, and there since
her arrivall all the merchants goods laden abord her were
delivered out of the sayd shipp into lighters which which were
sent to receive the same. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 20 dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers at such
tyme as shee bore upp the home for England, and reliquished
her further proceedinge for merchangell, was in noe wante
of any victualls or other provisions to pforme her sayd voyage
to Archangell and backe from thence for England, and that the
in all respects
sayd shipp was sufficient enough for the pformance of the said
voyage, but the cause of her not proceedinge for archangell which
was in the sayd John Goodland the master of as aforesaid
or in commanndinge
the company to beare upp the helme for England ⁁ which as he
pretended was for the safeguard of the merchants goods. Et aliter
quam prius nescit deponere./

Ad secundum nescit respondere deponere

Ad 12 dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers
departed from Gravesend xxx (to his nowe best removed
uppon the xxth or xith day of June last, and was did not
discharged of her ladinge in this port of London untill abord
a fortnighte since, Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth
that this respondent deponent wages for his serve in the sayd ship
doe amount to nyne pounds and money at the rate of the
p moneth as he was hired, but th hee remembreth not hee
longe hee was hired before the said shipp departed from Batson
on the sayd voyage Et aliter nescit deponere./
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England

Ad 23 et sched in eadem menconat nescit deponere

Ad reliquis non examinatr ex
idem super interrogatoria./
ad primum respondet That he was shipt to goe Carpenter of
sayd shipp the voyage aforesaid by the foresaid Thomas donne
who for xxs p moneths and the said donne promised to pay
him his wages and that hee expecteth to be payd his wages by the
sayd done or other the owners of the said shipp and all that all
his wages are yet whollye unpayd

Ad secundum respondet That he hath knowne the sayd John Goodland but
from the beginninge of the voyage in question, and that the sayd
donne tould this respondent that although hee hired him this respondent
and was to paye him his wages yet the said Goodlad was a the
master of the sayd shipp and that was to be acknowledged as master
Et aliter respondet negative./

Ad 3 nescit respondere./

Ad quartum respondet That he never sawe the sayd Captayne Goodland
in the company of any of the owners of the sayd shipp at Yarmouth
or else where but of the sayd done abord the said shipp the
sayd voyage. Et aliter ne and Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quintum nescit respondere./

Ad 6 nescit respondere./

Ad 7 nescit respondere savinge he sayeth that when the sayd Goodland
comanded the companye to beare up the home for England as
a heard the sayd Thomas donne tell the
before he hath deposed the said
sayd Goodland that hee had taken the said shipp to fraighte for
three pounds p tonne and that either the sayd Good laded acknowledge
a
that he had hired the said shipp for three pounds p tonne and that
the fraight should merchants must pay him the said donne his fraight

Ad octavum respondet That the sayd shipp the fflowers sett sayle out of
the rever port of London towards Gravesend on the seaventee
day of June last past and afterwards the sayd shipp sett sayle
in company of a shipp called the Ambrose of Ipswch wherof
Robert Church was master) and the sayd shipps the fflowers and
the Ambrose sayled in company togeither towards Russia
untill the second day of Julye last past and then by foule
weather in the night tyme lost the company of each other
the winde beinge then westerley, but neere what place
but thincketh they soe pted about haleborough uppon a cost of Northat
said shipps parted from each other he knoweth not. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 9 nescit respondere

Ad 10 respondet That the goods laden by caryed out in the sayd
shipp were packs or bales which (as it was sayd) contayned cloath
putt of the said shipp
and some Alla, and that at the delivery of the said goods that
respondent pceived that one of the said packs or bales had taken
in her course towards Russia and xxxxx
wett, and that the sayd shipp and about a dayes by
seale
selve was borne and for England seizinge a league in a knott
which leake was stopt agayne 23 dayes before shee bore upp the helme
in the needes of a plancke, but the said goods were not therby
dampnifyed but sayeth that in case the said goods were dampnifyed
by salte water the same happened by stresse of weather and
not by the insufficientye of the said shipp Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad ultimum reddit raciones scientiae sue ut supra./
Signum dicti Sir Mille
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2d

25º Octobris 1635

causa
Anthonius Swanson de Yarmouth in comitatu Norfolcie
mercator aetatis 21 annorum aut cicir tests in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod partes producen
p 9 annos et amplius aut circiter respective novit, sed partes
contra quas producitur non novit sed prt William Badwell
et Jacobum ffreese seene et non a plus undit

Ad sextum articulum alluis ex parte and Caule et socioru in hac parte datus et
oblat, dicit quod nescit deponere savinge he sayeth he was present
at Wappinge when the sayd articulate John Goodladd hired the articulate
shipp the fflowers of the articulate Thomas done one of her owners, and
shee hath since heard the sayd Goodland acknowledge that he had
or presented
given upp the sayd shipp (at a Court holde by the Russia company
as a shipp fitt for their service and imploymt this present yeare
1635 and that he the sayd Goodland was appoynted to goe master of
the sayd shipp by the sayd company

Ad 11 dicit et deponit That he hath never went in any Russia
voyage in before the voyage in question, but sayeth that he hath
used to goe to sea in divers other voyages within these five or six
yeares last past and in all those voyages and that he is appoynted
hath
to goe master of a shipp had the whole command of the sayd
shipp and orderinge and directinge of the course of the sayd shipp
and the company that serve in her are and oughte to bee under
his command, and to obey him in his direction, and soe had
the sayd Goodland the whole command of the sayd shipp the
fflowers and of all the companye that went in her the voyage
in question, Et aliter The premisses he knoweth to bee true for
that he was Purser of the sayd shipp the fflowers the voyage
in question. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 12 dicit et deponit That after the said shipp the fflowers was
hired by the sayd Goodland for the sayd Russia companyes use
of
and imployment in the voyages aforesayd the owners of the said
rigginge sayles Cables
shipp did prepare and furnish her
which
anchors and of victualls and other provision necessary and sufficient
for the pformance of the sayd voyage, and had for fourteene
men and a boy in her, accordinge to the Charter partye made for
the sayd voyage which Charter pty this deponent hath seene, Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad tertio decimum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp beinge fitted and
furnished with all necessaryes fitt for the pformance of the sayd
voyage by the sayd owners departed from Gravesend
under the command of the sayd John Goodlade on the neere
day of June last past and in the course directed by the said
Goodland the sayd shipp plyed and followed her voyage
towards Archangell but w in her course thitherwards was
much hindred and chessed by contrary winde continually for
the most part, and sometymes shee was hindred in her way by
foule weather, but shee was never in any damage of beinge lost
or cast away in the said voyage by reason of foule weather
tempests Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septimodecimum affirmat That by the Charler the made betweene the said at
and owners articulate for the voyage articulate it was agreed that the sayd
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shipp the fflowers should stay at Archangell to discharge
her outwards ladinge and to relade such goods at the merchants
factors should please to relade into her backe for England untill
the last day of August last past and not longer if winde
and weather should permitt and be convenient for her then
to depart from thence, which hee knoweth to bee true for that
he hath beene and perused the sayd Charterpartye

Ad 15 affirmat That the sayd shipp the fflowers by reason of
contrary winds and foule weather could gett noe higher then
Puganesound articulate by the 22th day of August last past which (as
appeareth by a plott of the Countrey of Lapland which this deponent
hath seene) is one hundred and seaventye leagues from
Archangell, and that from the departure of the sayd shipp from
Gravesend untill the sayd 22th day of August the master and
company of the sayd shipp did use all the care and diligence
they could and neglected noe tyme in any place to reach to the
sayd port of Archangell with the first opportunitye of winde and
weather Et aliter nescit deponere, savinge he sayeth that on the said
22th of August 1655 the winde still continued contrarye and
there blewe a stresse of winde./

Ad 16. 17. 18. et 19 dicit et deponit That uppon the sayd 22th day
of August 1635 the sayd John Goodladd the sayd appointed master
findinge that the sayd shipp the fflowers was then come noe further
then Pugansound and findinge the winde to bee still contrarye
toulde the companye that the season of the yeare was too farr spent
to goe to Archangell and that if they did proceed further to
goe thither they must winter there, to the indangeringe of all
their lives, and that some which had wintered there formerlye
had lost many of their men, and therfore hee the sayd Goodladd
commannded his company to beare up the helme and to sayle
backe agayne for England, and uppon the said Goodlands commannde
the company although they were unwillinge soe to doe, did beare
upp the helme for England, and after the sayd helme was soe borne
upp the articulate Thomas Donne one of the owners of the said shipp
who went the sayd Goodladds [?XXXX] in the said voyage, being
unwillinge to returne for England caused the company to bringe
the tacks abord agayne, and to proceed on their course towards
Archangell agayne by the space of two or three houres, and then
the sayd Goodladd came to the Boatswayne and commannded him
in this deponents presence to beare upp the helme for England, and sayd that if he would

not then he the sayd Goodladd would lye and dye and rott in his
Cabin and threatne the company
that if they did not beare upp the helme as he commannded them
then if there happened any damage to the merchants
goods by their not obeyeinge his commannde of by their pceedinge
on the sayd voyage for Archangell,
the sayd damage should lighte uppon them,
that they should make the sayd damage good or to that
effecte, wheruppon the company in obedience to the sayd
Goodladds commannd and the rather because one of them and would
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undertake to conducte or carye the sayd shipp to Archangell
without the direction and assistance of the sayd Goodlad did
agayne beare upp the helme for England, and arrived first INTO

Yarmouth Roade and from thence to came to the porte of London
where since her arrivall all the goods laden abord the sayd
shipp before her goeinge forth the sayd voyage by the sayd
in fish, mr Bladwell mr ffreese and mr Dobbins were
redelivered unto them or their Assignes, which he knoweth to
be true for that he was Purser of the said shipp as aforesaid./
aliter nescit deponere./

Ad vicesimum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers at such
tyme as shee bore up for England, and reliquished further
proceedinge for Archangell was in noe want of victualls or
provisions to performe the sayd voyage to Archangell and thence
backe agayne for England, and that there was noe faulte or
defecte in the sayd shipp or her owners that the sayd shipp
proceeded not on the sayd voyage, but the cause of the bearinge up of the
helme for England was in the commannde of the sayd Goodladd
because he was soe crost with contrary winds as aforesaid, and
he soe caused the helme to be borne upp as he pretended for
the goods of the merchants. Et aliter qua prius nescit deponere/

Ad 21 nescit deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad 22 dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers was in the
service and imployment of the merchants articulate in endeavoringe
to carye their goods to Archangell and in returninge from
for England by the said Goodladds commannd, and before all her
goods were discharged in this port of London by the space of
foure monethes compleat, and that the owners of the sayd shipp
did laye out for fittinge and furnishinge of the sayd shipp and
victuallinge of her in the sayd voyage the somme of one hundred
and sixtye pounds or therabouts, and that the wages of the
master and company of the said shipp for their service in the said voyage
doe amounte unto the somme of nynetye pounds or therabouts
which said some of 160li or therabouts for the preparinge victuallinge and furnishinge
of the sayd shipp the said voyage the sayd owners have alreadye
payd and satisfyed, and they are likewise to paye the said some of
nynetye pounds or therabouts for the companyes wages, besides the
weare and teare of the said shipp, and that her tackle and furniture
The premisses he knoweth to bee true for that he beinge since
of the sayd shipp did keepe the accompts of the charge
in for settinge forth and victuallinge of the sayd shipp and of the
mariners wages which accompts hee hath still in his Custodye
Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 23 et schedulam in eadem menconat nescit deponere.
super reliquis arlis non exaiatr ex directione./

idem super interrogatoria [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he was hired by the foresaid Thomas Donne
one of the owners of the sayd shipp to goe Purser of her in the sayd
voyage
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were for the the selling per moneth, and that the said one prise
to payed in his sayd wages, and that in his wages and yet rende
and unpayed, and that hee expecteth payment thereof from the sayd dome
and the rest of the owners./

Ad secundum respondet That he hath knowne the sayd John Goodladd but since
the begininge of the voyage in question, and that the sayd Goodladd
never sayle to him to goe in the sayd shipp her broughte him to the
owners to be hired by them, Et neither did the said owners ever tell the
him that the said Goodland was appoynted by them to goe master of the
sayd shipp in the said voyage
in

Ad tertium respondet That he verily beleiveth that the owners of the sayd
shipp or any of them did not before the sayd Goodladds booke the
sayd shipp to fraight of the said donne one of the said owners, speake
to or agree with the said Goodland to goe master of her, for that he was
present when the sayd Goodland came to the said donne to take
the sayd shipp to fraighte of him, and the said donne the beinge then
by one
demannded then present wheither he knewe the said Goodland or not
swore that (to his knowledge he never sawe him the said Goodladd
before that tyme, and for that about ten dayes after the fraightinge
of the sayd shipp by the sayd Goodladd, this p respondent was likewise
present when the sayd done agreed and promised to give the said
Goodland as much wages as other mrs use to have for the like voyage
Et aliter nescit respondere.

Ad quartum respondet That he never sawe the said Goodladd in company with
any of the owners of the said shipp at Yarmouth in or about the
monethes articulate but sayeth that it was about the beginninge of the
moneth of May the sayd Goodladd came to the sayd donne as then
standinge in one mr Benne way his ports in Wappinge and then
conferred with the sayd dome about the takinge of the sayd shipp
to fraighte for the voyage aforesaid. Et aliter salvis predepoits nescit
respondere

Ad quintum nescit respondere./

Ad sextum nescit respondere./

Ad septium respondet That he never heard the said merchants speake to any
of the owners about the takinge of the sayd shipp to fraight of them
ffor the voyage aforesaid. Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad octavum respondet That the sayd shipp the fflowers sett sayle from the port
of London the fourteenth day of June last past, and from Gravesend
the nyneteenth day of the same moneth in company of a shipp called
the Ambrose, and two dayes after their departure from Gravesend
the sayd shipps by foule weather in the nighte tyme lost the
company of each other off of fflamborough head, the winde beinge
then at Southwest./

Ad nonum nescit respondere./

Ad 10 respondet That the sayd merchants laded into the said shipp
outwards bound certayne bales of cloath and Alla and that he knoweth
of noe damage which came to the said goods abord the sayd shipp by
fatte water, or otherwise, but sayeth that the said shipp the fflowers
after shee departed from Gravesend sprunge a leake which was
stopte agayne within ten dayes then next followinge or therabouts, but
the sayd goods were not therby dampnifyed. Et aliter nescit respondere./
xxx ut supra.

Ad ultimum reddit raciones scientiae

John Transon
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26º Octobris 1635

Racharias Goody de Wappinge in Comitatu Middlesex nauta
aetatis 30 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod London Caule, et John
Richand per 5 hee domas aut circiter ex visa novit et Thom
donne 5 per 5 mens aut circiter novit sed Thoma Brada non novit
nec novit mercator partes contra quas pducits./

Ad 7 undecium articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit et
deponit That he was never in any Russia voyage besids the voyage
others
in question) but hath gonne to sea in ding voyages for these
fourteene yeares last past and for all the same tyme it hath bene the
use and custome in all shipps, and voyages wherin this deponent hath
served that he that is appoynted to goe master of a shipp hath the
whole command of a shipp and company and directinge of her course
and voyage, and soe had the articulate John Goodladd in the articulate
shipp the fflowers in the voyage in question. Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 12 dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the fflowers before her
goeinge forth from London on her intended voyage for Russia was
by her owners
well and sufficiently furnished with all necessaryes and victualls
fitt for the performance of the sayd voyage, and that there was
noe defecte in the sayd owners in that behalfe, The premisses
he knoweth to bee true for that he was Boatswayne of the sayd
shipp the sayd voyage, Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad tertio decimum affirmat That the sayd shipp beinge soe fitted and
furnished with all necessaryes fitt for the performance of the sayd
the voyage departed from Gravesend (to his nowe best
remembrance) uppon the nyneteenth day of June last past
under the command of the sayd John Goodladd, and plyed and
followed the course directed by the sayd Goodladd towards
Archangell but in her course thitherwards was much rested and
hundred by contrarye wynes, and she was likewise mett with some
foule weather, but with noe such extremitye of foule weather
wherby the said shipp was in any damage of fishinge in hee
sea. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 14 nescit and deponere./

Ad 13. 16. 17. 13. et tertium articulos dicit deponit That from the time
of the departure of the sayd shipp from Gravesend on her intended
voyage towards Archangell the sayd shipp did withall expedition
and diligence plye and followe her course towards her designe
port of Archangell untill about the seaventeenth day of which
August 1635 last past, on which day, and the sayd shipp beinge
about sixteene leagues short of the Northerne, Cape which Cape to
distant about two hundred and thirtye leagues or therabouts short
of archangell, and by reason of contrarye windes, the sayd Woode
because he winde then continued contrary commanded the said said
to beare up the helme to be beene and to returne backe for the
England and tould the company that the yeare was too fall
spent for the sayd shipp to proceed to mrchangell, and that there
was noe hopes of wileinge the gettinge or recoveringe the defend
for her staye the
port before the dayes kinted by Charter partye were express the
that
det
the
bee
were
noe
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that the merchants who were to lade the sayd shipp would be gone
upp to Master before the sayd shipp save only gott to the
Archangell, and that they must beforced to winter there if the
did proceed on the sayd voyage, which such did like in diswasion
and theruppon the company bore to the helme for England, and after
the ships hee was one up to the space of eighte home or
the winde still continueinge contrary to proceeded to last
therabouts Thomas Donne one of the owners of the said shipp
beinge one of the sayd Goodladds mate, came to the sayd Goodland
and asked him howe he should be payd his fraighte, wherunto the
sayd Goodland replyed that he should gett it aswell as he could
when he came backe into England, and uppon that answear the
sayd and donne caused the company to bringe the tacks abord
agayne and to plye and beate
of and downe towards their
wheruppon the said Goodladd tould the
as taken the staffe out
donne and the rest of the company that they
designed port, and after they soe beaten up and downe by the space
his hand and that if any
twelve there
Kinge came otherwise then
to the which goods of twentye fower houres or therabouts, the made came fower
the said donne and the rest her to proceed on her voyage for Archangell, the winde still
of the company should conser
bitt or to that effect contineweinge contrarye the sayd Goodladd came out uppon the
decke and commannded the company to beare upp the helme for
bore upp the helme and
England agayne, and uppon his commander the company ⁁ good
backwards towards England by the space of foure houres or
therabouts, and then the winde cominge fayre for the sayd shipp
to proceed for on her voyage for Archangell the sayd Goodladd
caused the company to take about agayne and to proceed towards
Exchangell and continued that course untill the two and twentith
day of August at which tyme the sayd shipp beinge gott as high
as to betenborough nesse, which is distant about one hundred and sixtye
leagues from the port of Archangell, the winde and contrarye
agayne and then the sayd Goodladd rand out uppon the decke an and
commanded them to beare upp the home agayne for England, and
tould them that if they would not, then he would no goe into his
there
Cabin and there would would never come out of it agayne, but have
lye and dye and rott, and that the said shipp and company should suncke
and goe to the dwell if they would, and theruppon the company
Th
in obedience to the sayd Goodladds comannde bore upp the helme for
England agayne, and th of by contrarye windes putt into Yarmouth
roads and there sayd winde bound by the space of eighte or ten dayes
and then came from thence and arrived in the porte of London uppon
or about the fifth day of this instant moneth of October, and begann
to deliver the goods unto the merchants which were laden abord her
said shipp
outwards bound, on the eleaventh day of the said moneth and was not
discharged of all her sayd ladinge untill the fifteenth day of the sayd
her
instant moneth of October The ⁁ hee that the sayd shipp was in the imployment
of the merchants in (accomptinge from the tyme of the first takinge
master of their goods untill which was about the eighte day of June Anno
domini 1638 untill the discharge of the sayd goods in the port of London
Th by the space of foure monethes or therabouts The premisses hee
knoweth to bee true for that he was Boatswayne of the sayd shipp
the sayd voyage. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad vicesimum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp at such tymes as
the sayd Goodladd comannded her company to beare upp the helme for
England was in noe want of victualls or provisions neither was there
any fault in the sayd shipp or in her owners but the only cause of
her
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on her said intended voyage
her not pceedinge who was in the commannde and direction of the
sayd Goodladd who commannded the helme to bee borne up
as aforesayd pretendinge that he did it for the good of the
merchants, and that the season was past to goe for Abrangell
and that if they should lye beatinge up and downe the sea it
losse the
said shipp and goods and their owne lyes Et
might indannger the
aliter nescit deponere./
a

Ad secundum nescit deponere

Ad secundum nescit deponere aliter quam prius./

Ad secundum et schedulam in eadem menconat nescit deponere./
super reliquis arlis dicto alluis non examinatr ex directione./

idem super interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum interrogate respondet That he was Boateswayne of the sayd
shipp the fflowers the voyage in question and was hired by the
fforesayd Thomas done to serve in her for thirty seaven shillings
p moneth, and that and the said done pmised to pay him his
wages and that as yet all his wages are behinde and unpayd and
that hee expecteth to receive them from the sayd doe./

Ad secundum respondet That he hath knowne the sayd John Goodladd but
a from the tyme when the merchants goods were laden abord the
sayd shipp in the river of Thames outwards bound, Et aliter respondet
negative savinge he sayeth that when the sayd shipp laye in Tilbury
Hope outwards bounde the sayd done tould this respondent and the
rest of the company that the sayd Goodladd was the master of the
sayd shipp, and that he they should over him in whatsoever hee
commanded during the sayd voyage./

Ad 3 nescit respondere./
ownest hee never sawe the sayd Goodland in company

Ad quartum respondet /
with any of the others of the sayd shipp in at Yarmouth or else where
in the monethes of May or James interrogate, excepte savinge he sayeth
he sawe the said Goodladd and Thomas Donne abord the said shipp
whilest the merchants goods were ladinge abord her, but remembreth
not that they had any conference togeither about the hiringe of
settinge of the said sayd shipp to fraighte. Et aliter nescit respondere./
savinge hee beleiveth that the said Goodladd) went master of the sayd
shipp by the consent of the said done one of the owners of her./
R

Ad decimum respondet quod nescit nec audutraliquid de contents in him interrogate

Ad 7 nescit respondere, savinge he sayeth he hath heard the sayd done
tell saye that the sayd sayd Goodladd came to him and sayd that he
understood that he the sayd done wanted a fraighte, and that after
helpe
he he could him to fraighte to goe for Russia and that he
should have as much by the some as ever any shipp had that
went that waye and theruppon the said Goodladd tooke the said
shipp to freight of the said Come

Ad octavum respondet That the sayd shipp the fflowers departed out of the
xxx port of London the fourteenth day of June last past master
company of a shipp called the Ambrose of Ipswich (wherof fower
hath is master) and that the sayd shipp went out of Yarmouth
roads togeither and the same might they sett forth from thence they hee
company of each other in the ty night tyme betweene Winterton and
of browne uppon the coast of Norfolked, and that the said shipp the
fflower fore in for the shoare the winde beinge at North west, and
the
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in the sayd Chary and company in the Ambrose stood of at sea, and by the
meanes the sayd shipps lost the companye of each other. Et aliter nescit

Ad octavum respondet That he hath heard that the sayd Charth and company in the
Ambrose xxx changell the xxijth day of August last past
which was the day next after the said Goodladd commanded his company
to beare up the helme for England

Ad quartum respondet That the goods laden abord the said shipp by the merchants
were bales of cloth and Alla, and that one bales of the sayd cloath
was wett, but wheither it were soe wett with salte water or fresh
John
he knoweth not but sayeth that the sayd shipp outwards bound was leakye
a shott
by the beatinge out of a knott in a plancke by the beatinge of the sea
which leake was stopt agayne within a moneth after it first sprunge
but sayeth that the goods were not wett or dampnifyed by reason
of that leake. Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad ultimum reddit raconem scientiae sue ut supra.

arte Hadder
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27º Octobris 1635

francis Giles de Wappinge in Comitatu Middlesex
Smith cona fferrius.
nauta annos agens 22 aut eo circiter testis se dicit/
s Sun
samein omitt partem producen per durs annos
six
ultimum et amplius novit et Henrica fferis partem contra qua pducit
part auta annos ultimum las etia novit ut dicit/
Pd
in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos
xxxx since whilste the said
et deponit, That about the
the Abraham of London (whereof Henry fformes was master
remayned at Saint Christophers, the articulate John Smith being
then a planter three did the William Carter the masters Mate
and this examinate
of that shippe at at one Ethias Barders house in the
Christophers there lay sixe Rowles of Tobacco belonginge
to him the said Smith, and divered the said Carte this
examinate being the Boatswaine and that shippe to from
the said sixe Rowles of Tobacco from the said Warren
horse, and to carry then aboard the said shippe, and desired
the said Master to which unto some of this detters which
sent him which came home in the said
shippe case of that Dutch, and carried the rest to
this the said side this hee saith hee would said
and to the his firste
wente to the said Browne posse and foresaid ofte
at
good shipp the Merchant
the Tobacco aboard that shippe
which hee said hee said which on the
boates come bought
there which abord the said shipp there
oyles
after the accompte of the said an at aliter
being the Goods came
about twelve monethes with sixe in all of
a peeces
said Smith was in the the
his booke in the
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dicto die/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Stephen Jay of Ratcliffe in the Countye of Middlesex mariner
aged about 36 yeares sworne and examined as aforesayd sayeth
and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet

That about the
latter end of the moneth of June last past Thomas Wyeth
Hunfrey ffox and mr Cutler of London merchants sent a
letter by this deponent unto Andrewe Yerstey an English merchant
resident in Dunkirke requestinge the sayd Yerstey to buy
a shipp there or at Ostend for their use and imployment
of the vallue of five or sixe hundred pounds or therabouts
to be approved and liked of by him this deponent and theruppon
the sayd Yersey did buy at Ostend a Holland
buylt shipp then and nowe called the Dragon of the burthen of
betweene nyne score and two hundred tonnes, or therabouts, and
after the sayd Yerstey had agreed for the price of
the sayd shipp, this deponent returned to London and advised
the sayd Wyeth ffor and Cutler what the sayd Yerstey had
donne, and theruppon the sayd merchants sent over by this
deponent a bill of Exchange and goods unto the
sayd Yersey, to make satisfaction for the price agreed
uppon for the sayd shipp, and after the sayd shipp was
payd for, this deponent by the order of the said mr Wyeth mr
ffoxe and mr Cutler fitted and furnished and victualled the
sayd shipp on a voyage from thence to Newcastle where shee
tooke in her ladinge of Coles and therwith about three weeks since came to the
port of London (where shee nowe remayneth about) And that
the sayd shipp doth nowe properlye and solely belonge
to the foresayd merchants and this deponent, videlicet one halfe therof to
the sayd mr Wyeth, three eighths therof to the sayd
mr ffox and mr Cutler and the other eighth therof
to this deponent who is nowe master of her, And this hee affirmeth
uppon his oath to bee true./

Steven Jay [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----

John Waytes./

Swifte et al conor London, And the sayd Wilkinson (as some o
of them did agree with them for eighte shillings and weeke
for their dyett, which he was to provided for them, Et aliter
enough
nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that in Russia the sayd
Wilkinson might have boughte and pvided victualls,
a very cheape rate for and company and passengers aforesaid

Ad 7 nescit deponere./

Ad octavum dicit et deponit That in the sayd shipps homewards voyage
and before shee came to the Northerne, save the sayd Wilkins
did behave himselfe as the soe master of the sayd shipps and did
proportion and allowe unto the company and passengers after
small portion and allowance of victualls, and after the sayd
shipp came on this side of the Northerne Cape, the sayd
Wilkinson standinge uppon the docke in the presente and
hearinge of this deponent and of divers others of the said shipps company
and
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demannded of the sayd Hart wheither he would undertake to conducte
the sayd shipp into Newcastle, and the sayd pHart replyed that he
was soe weake that he was not able to
undertake it, and then the sayd Wilkinson tould the said Hart that
hee was as well as hee the said Wilkinson was, wherunto the sayd
Hart replyed that he the sayd Wilkinson might be ashamed to
saye soe, and that he would give fourtye pounds on that condicon
he was as well as the said Wilkinson was, and theruppon the sayd
Wilkinson tould the sayd Hart if he would not hould his tongue
he the sayd Wilkinson would nayle him up into his Cabin,
and the sayd Wilkinson would not putt into Newca
notwthstandinge the winde and weather were
ffitt for the sayd shipp to steere for Newcastle. 
but steered off at sea East and by South and East South
East all the next nighte after shee touched at Bamborough Castle
but the next morninge the sayd Wilkinson bore upp the helme for
Newcastle and stood in for Newcastle untill about noone and
then the winde tooke him short, and there arose a storme, which
drove the said sayd shipp over uppon the coast of Holland, and
this deponent beinge demannded howe he knowe that the sayd Wilkinson
stood off at sea and steered the foresayd course all the night aforesaid
sayeth that he stood at the watch that nighte and sawe
and observed what course the sayd Wilkinson had sett and this
deponent by the order of the sayd master Hart gave order
to him that stood at the helme to steere a more Southerly
course but the sayd Wilkinson rebuked him this deponent for
doeinge soe, and asked him what he had to doe to directe the
sayd shipps course, and after the sayd shipp was uppon the coast of
Holland and the nighte before the sayd shipp gott in to Holland, the
sayd Hart dyed havinge longe before that tyme bene sicke and weake
for want of victualls and beere, but at that tyme when the sayd
water verye or bread at this hee
Hart dyed there was then noe want of water beere or bread for the
sayd Hart for that about a weeke before the sayd Hart dyed 
the sayd shipp the Hopewell off of Bamborough castle
mett with a Scotch shipp which scotch shipp the
company of the Hopewell hayled and made knowne unto
her master in what distresse and miserye they were for want of
beere or water and victualls, and theruppon the sayd Scotchman
spared them a barrell of beere and some course bread
and salt herrings and a bottle of Aquavita and at Bamborough the sayd Wilkinson
gott some bread and Ale, butthe 
soe longe without beere or water before that tyme was soe greadye of the
sayd Ale and Aqua vita and dranckeit drove him into a
scowringe and which made him soe weake that although there was
then beere water bread and other salte victualls enough, yet hee was soe
weake by reason of his scowringe and for want of beere
or water before the sayd shipp came to Bamborough that he could
not then eate any such victualls as were then abord, Et aliter nescit
deponere savinge he sayeth that 
one morninge this deponent beinge goeinge
up to the round house to see the sayd Hart, the sayd Wilkinson
(grumbled
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gubled at him, and asked him if hee had nothinge else to doe, and the
this deponent callinge the sayd hatt and he not answeringe, this deponent
cutt the stringe of his Cabin dore, and there found the said Harte dead

Ad tertio decimum affirmat That after the death of the sayd master Hart the sayd
Wilkinson beinge fullye possessed of the place of master of the sayd shipp
which hee had beinge before carped and by then lockt upp the sayd Harth
Cabin where his p goods and moneys lay by the space of fourteene dayes
or therabouts
or therabouts
and at fourteene dayes end ⁁ the sayd Wilkinson in this deponents presente
went into the sayd Hart Cabin and tooke out of the sayd Harth chest
fourty foure pounds nyne shillings and some writings, which money beinge
tould in this deponents presence the sayd Wilkinson putt it into his owne
Crebye, with some of the sayd writings, and the rest of the said writings
the said Wilkinson delivered to this deponent and he this deponent putt them into the
said Hors chests and lockt and nayled up his Cabin dore agayne, and a before
the said Mhin
the death of the sayd master Barke was
this deponent out of his place of beinge
and mate and putt him from the Cabin where hee used to lye and made
presendinge that he should there
as he the said Wilkinge afterwards sayd) hee
him tye in the gunn rope ⁁ Et aliter nescit deponere and commannded him
to lye there to looke to the merchants goods, and to search those that went
on shoare to see that they caryed away none of the merchants goods, Et
aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quartodecimum affirmat That in at or neere the Brill in Holland he the
an anchout man
sayd Wilkinson hired one master Cranbrooke who by the report of ye
that knewe him was a very able seaman, and a good mariner and the sayd
Wilkinson did never call the said Crambrooke mate, but never called him
(as this deponents hearinge nor
ye steemed of him soe but tould the said fell Cranbrooke
Pilott of Helford his
when she came but
that he did not take him for a Pilott but sayd that he knewe could
carrye the sayd shipp from thence to London aswell as he the sayd
Cranbrooke could, and that th hee alsoe sayeth that the sayd Cranbrooke
after the sayd shipp came from Helford Sluce tould the sayd Wilkinson
that if he would steere for his life for to the foresaid hee must steere
west South west, but the sayd Wilkinson refected the sayd Cranbrookes
Counsell, but pts and commannded and caused him that was at helme
to steere a contrary or different course Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad tertio decimum dicit et deponit That by the sayd Wilkinson rectinge the
sayd Crambrooks course and consell and steeringe of a contrarye
course as aforesayd the sayd shipp was forced to come to an anchor
to
amongst certayne hands breakinge round abord her uppon the backe
of the longs sands, where sheered from Tuesday about two of the
Clocke in the afternoone untill the Satterday morninge followeinge
where this deponent to save the said shipp and her ladinge did by the sayd
one
the Lord in a great
Wilkinsons order cutt downe the mayne mast
trarye course the
by the said Wilkinsons repectinge of the said Cana Counsell and steere
rooke (as he sayd and on the sayd Sattirday morninge the sayd shipp weighed anchor and
in the said shipp was at anchor
of the sayd sands knowthen this deponent went uppon the forewards to see if he could espye
and
where hee was said
any land at length espeed the Maseland and then this deponent
acquaintinge the sayd Wilkinson and Crambrooke her with the said Cra
kepte Came up and remaineing upon the fore throwds Cussell or
directed the said shipp untill she strooke aground, which hee
and are fraight way downe the said this deponent and the said
uppon a sand called the
as neere
Camberke whereupon the
infayre and weather
East borrowe head, neere unto the Spitch, and theruppon the sayd
then up fortunate man him
ast undoe
Wilkinson (speakinge unto the sayd Crandra he sayd the
me, and then the sayd Wilkinson sayd to his company sett which make
way to save our lives for the should shall loose any shipps and commanded
them to heave but the longe boate, and then this deponent and some others of
the company rowed about the sayd shipp and a good space from her on
every side, but would not finde any dep water and by wheither by that
tyme
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tyme the sayd this deponent and company in the said boate returned to
the sayd shipp the sayd Wilkinson and the rest which were then
or cloathes
abord the sayd shipp had made up andells of goods and threwe
the same into the sayd boate and then this deponent asked the sayd
Wilkinson howe much water was in hould and the sayd Wilkinson
which made this deponent as willinge to leave the said shipp as any of her
affirmed that there were three foote water in hould ⁁ Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad sextodecimum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that who this deponent imediatly
before he went into the longe boate founded the hould of the sayd
shipp and then found that there was about fourteene ynches water in
hould and not above fifteene ynches at the most

Ad septimodecimum affirmat That the company of the sayd shipp the Hopewell
at the tyme when she was run a ground as aforesaid were not then
very feeble or weake havinge before that tyme refreshed themselves
in Holland by the space of three weeks or therabouts, and were able
(as they conceived
to endeavor to bringe the sayd shipp from off the said of the had
bene any hopes therof, Et aliter referend se ad praedeposita per eum nescit
deponere./

Ad duodevicesimum affirmat That about a forting be an houre after the sayd shipp
came a ground as aforesayd the sayd Wilkinson, savinge made which
a fardell of goods and putt the same with a Crovye) wherin the sayd
master Harth money was putt, into the sayd longe boate and after the
sayd ffordell and Crobye were in the said boate one in Swall
desired
p from Holland, tould this
passenger which came in the sayd
deponent to fetch the sayd Wilkinson out of his Cabin into the sayd
boate, sayeinge that he would not come out unlesse he were fetch out
and then this deponent and two or three others of the company went to the
said Wilkinsons Cabyn and this deponent with a wate broken open
the Cabyn daye and caryed the said Wilkinson out of the his
into the steeridges
into the steeridge
Cabyn ⁁ and assoone as hee was brought out of his Cabyn the sayd
ye sayd longe boate and forsooke the
Wilkinson of himselfe went into
on
and a
aliter nescit deponere savinge hee
sayd shipp without skingeing man
this deponent demannded by him
sayeth that when this deponent was on shoare at Woodridge with the said Wilkinson
wheither there were three Ad 13 nescit deponere./
the next day
leake water in hould the
said Wilkinson answeare noe, Ad vicesimum affirmat That after the sayd Wilkinson and company forsooke
for
but they must lay soe for the
the sayd shipp this deponent there was newes brought unto the sayd
owne creditts and suffetye
in him at Woodridge in this deponents presence that the sayd
or to that effect
shipp was uppon a sand neere unto the Spitts, and that there
divers beste or boats
had bene in divers gone abord her pilladginge of goods out of her
(wheruppon the sayd Wilkinson presently lefte this deponents company
in ketch or other vessell
and sayd hee would gett a boate ⁁ to goe abord her, and wished
goe to London to certifye the merchants what
this deponent
up was so
at
hee appeared to the said shipp and goods. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad secundum affirmat That after the passengers which came in the sayd
shipp from Russia were putt on shoare at Hamborowe Castle as
before he hath deposed there was were certayne Crobyes and other
goods which the lefte abord the sayd shipp and after about two dayes
longinge unto
after the the sayd passengers were gonne on shoare there, the sayd
Watkinson tooke one Crebye of goods which was then overly bound
unto the articulate Clement as this
and was
afe and belonged as it was
with a goode ⁁ and the said Wilkinson tooke an Invery of
about
goods which were then in that Croby and putt that Invenly into it and
caused this deponent to mayle it fast and then lefte it lyeinge in the
gan borne, and the sayd Wilkinson tooke and another Crebye which
(as it was likewise reported) did belonge unto the sayd Clem
great Cable with some other goods belonginge
Harris, and caryed it into the name hee
unto some of the sayd passengers, Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth
that the said Wilkinson when the said shipp was on grounde, uppon the
Eastarrowes head gave a white danger with a knife or two belonged unto
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since
unto the articulate Richard Buly, which dayes and knowe the sayd Clement
harris did laye to be his, and sayd that the same daye was
one his the said Harris his Crebyes with his money. Et aliter nescit/

Ad secundum dicit et deponit That after this deponent and the sayd Wat Wilkinson
landed at Woobridge haven this deponent
which hee
demannded of the sayd Wilkinson
part had bequested by him this deponent
where the sayd master Harts money was ⁁ And then the sayd Wilkinson takinge
this deponent aside, and spake to him in these or the like words videlicet Thom
are a younge man and money will doe the good, heere is one and twentye
pounds for the and if the keepe the owne Counsell mes Hart
widd
(menninge the foresaid Thomas Harth wise shall never knowe it

Ad secundum nescit deponere./

Ad 424 affirmat That in the homewards voyage of the sayd shipp
from Rochia the sayd master Hart in his sicknes tould the sayd Wilkinson
in this deponents presence
once or twoe that he had over throwen the voyage, and the sayd
Wilkinson demanndinge him wherin the said Hart replyed in diveringe
contradictinge is of him or to the like effecte. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 25 nescit deponere./

Ad 26 nescit deponere./

Ad secundum refert se ad iura Et aliter nescit deponere
super reliquis arlis non exaiatr
idem super interrogatoria primo loco ministrat./
ad primum respondet That he was borne at Redriffe and there hath dwelte
all his life tyme who hee is not at sea. Et aliter satisfactum est supra.

Ad secundum respondet That he w cometh to testifye in this cause beinge broughte
in and served by a warrant of this Court, and that he was formerlye
examined before Sir Hugh Saersey about the passages of this voyage
in question, and did then depose some things tradinge to the purpose
of part of his precedent deposicons and hee was likewise questioned by
most of the merchants articulate and concerninge divers points expressed in
his precedent deposions.

Ad tertium respondet That he never knewe the sayd Wm Wilkinson before the
but
voyage in question and came first acquainted with him abord the sayd shipp
the Hopewell

Ad quartum respondet That he came abord the said shipp the Hopewell in the
river of Thames when she went forth the voyage in question, but
the said Cramrooke and her when shee was in Holland as before
his deposed.

Ad octavum nescit respondere aliter qua prius./

Ad 6 nescit respondere./

Ad septimum respondet That the sayd Crabrooke at the tyme when the said
shipp was run or ground at the East Barrowes, for the space of
some houses before or therabouts had the sale indance of the sayd
shipp and directed him which stood at home what course to steere Et
aliter nescit respondere./

Ad 9 respondet That when the longe boate was first heaved out of
the sayd shipp this respondent was one of the first that haved to
goe into her to sound pound about to doe water, but
that after the sayd Wilkinson would this
afterwards he came abord her agayne and was one of the last
for the the advise
det that there was three
gott water in hould sent out of her, did this respondent
was there was the company of the sayd shipp to leave the said shipp and to goe
fifteene ynches who
this deponentt wt or into the boate to save their lyves or he putt offer
into the boate, till
respondent because the Ad 9. 10. 11. et duodecimum respondet That he this respondent and Richard Bulye
would finde to doe
at the request of master Thomas Sayle went to fetch the sayd William
a
Wilkinson
a
~~~
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~~~
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HCA 13/52 f.149v

3º Octobris 1635

Lavericke contra Browne./

2

det. E. B.

Edwardus Surrick de Gipswico in Comitatu Suffolcie
nauta aetatis 40 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum non ex articulum libelli non exaiats quia fate Browne

Ad secundum ren affirmat That within the tyme articulate the articulate shipp
by two anchors
the Speedwell of Ipswich was safelye moored in the river of Thames
to within the betweene the Newe stayres in Wappinge and the
Armage, in a fitt and convenient place where shipps doe usuallye
ride in safelye, where she redd in safetye by the space of two dayes or
therabouts, the premisses he knoweth to bee true for that he was then
and master of the said shipp

Ad tertium et quartum articulos dicit et deponit That after the sayd shipp the
Speedwell had redd in safetye in the place aforesaid by the space
of two dayes or therabouts a shipp called the Bermitt of Susan
Woodridge came foule uppon the Speedwells and the articulate
shipp called the Siste of good of which (wherof the articulate Adam
Browne was master) came up the river of Thames in the night tyme
and came to an anchor by the broade side of the shipp the dragin of
Ipswich (wherof articulate John Essex was master) betweene the sayd
Essex his shipp and the best hee bower anchor of the sayd shipp
same
the Speedwell, and the sayd shipp the Gods guise the next tyde
after she came to an anchor in the place aforesaid cast parte
for came foule uppon the Speedwells best bower anchor aforesaid
and save uppon that anchor by the space of a tyde or therabouts
and by that meanes broake one flooke of the sayd anchor, and alsoe broake
the sayd anchor in the stooke thancke within a foote of the crosse
but sayeth he cannott estimate what damage the owners of the
sayd shipp have sustayned by the breakinge of the said anchors
aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quintum affirmat That the sayd best bower anchor of the sayd shipp
the Speedwell which was broken as aforesayd, with at the tyme
when the sayd shipp the Gods guilte came and sate uppon it, had
a sufficient buoy and buoy rope to it, which did beare the tyde./ all tymes of

Ad sextum dicit et deponit That whilest the sayd shippe the Goods goods
did fitt uppon the Speedwells best bower anchor aforesaid this deponent
company under ranne the buoy rope fastened to that anchor and
founde that the sayd shipp the Saint Goods giste sayd sale uppon
the sayd anchor, and then called unto the mrs mate of the sayd
an
shipp the Gods guite, and tould him that the said shipp save up
the Speedwells best bower anchor aforesaid, and the mrs mate of the
standinge upon her poope in this deponents herringe
said shipp the God quite answered that he could not helpe to
mende it

Ad septimum affirmat That after the sayd damage donne to the anchor
aforesayd and before the commencinge of this suite for the same
this deponent did conferre with the sayd Adam Browne master of the
sayd Browne at the first sayd hee would referreth
all satisfact
had that
sayd shipp the God gater about it) and
arbitration, but
afterwards sayd that
owners would not couse for it, and at the first hee the sayd Browne did saye hee and
pay for the sayd mouth but afterwards refused soe to doe gage
thit, but would referr
was
it to the sawe Et all
secundum nescit deponere. she her owner would not goe ⁁ perunto and unto that after the
super reliquis arlis non examinatus
idem super interrogatoria
~~~
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150

Ad primum quoad piculu prij fit quod petitr, and liveth uppon his
Et respondet that he
meanes and by goeinge to sea, havinge part of dias three shipps, and
this deponent
the he hath knowne his the sayd Edward Lawricke from his Child
the producents
and master hawe another of the producents for these two yeares last past
and the foresaid Adam Browne for these 15 yeares last past. Et aliter
satisfcu est supra./

Ad secundum respondet That it was about a moneth before xpmas last past
when the said shipp the Speedwell came to an anchor in the river of
Thames a little above the Newestayres in Wappinge Et aliter nescit

Ad quintum respondet That he this respondent for his parte never any righte
had
title or interest in the said shipp the Speedwell
the anchor in question.

Ad quartum respondet That it was impossible to bee ⁁ when the sayd shipp the
broake it
goods guite and foule uppon the said anchor and broake of one flooke
of it and in the shauke of it for that the said anchor laye under water
but he sawe when this rendents company under run the buoy rope
belonginge to that anchor and therby same found that the said shipp
the Guifte of good laye uppon that anchor, and sayeth that the sayd was
Anchor
stronge and sound, when it was deponent first dropte downe in the
as aforesaid
place where it was broken. Et aliter nescit./

Ad quintum respondet That since the beginninge of this terme this respondent
came to master Wyan procted for the partyes producents and did did
declare unto him howe the damage before menconed was donne
and other the premisses expressed in the sible given in this cause
were donne, which the said master Wyan did sett downe in writinge
this respondent
but ⁁ never payd him or the Advorate any fees Et aliter respondet
negative./

Ad sextum respondet That he is the naturall sonne of the foresayd
Edward Lavericke the producent, but bine Et aliter respondet negae

Ad septium respondet That he doth most affecte his ffather, but in this cause
favoreth one noe more then the other and desireth that right
may take place. And that he is worth foure hundred pounds sterling
his debts payd

Edward Sanrick
----
dco die./

son et socijs Bell./

Johannes well de Redriffe in comitatu Surria nauta aetatis
40 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus./

Ad decium articulum alluis in ex parte dicti Robson et socioru in hac parte datus et
oblat dicit et deponit That the measure nowe remayninge in the Registrye
of this Court (beinge shewed unto him at the tyme of his his examination)
or the contents there
in the usuall and ordinarye bushells doth agree in quantitye with the
bragen standard by which corne is usuallye and ordinarilye measured at
Morann articulate abor and by which all shipps that come to lade corne there
doe take in their ladinge, and by which the sayd master Bell corne in quest
was lade abord the articulate shipp the Blessinge of Rochest The
premisses he knoweth to bee true for that about two monethes since this
abord as
same measure and
deponent was at the sayd port of Moran and there laded to
called the Elizabeth and ffranch, wherof this deponent is master ⁁ and to avoyde
difference in at his cominge home, procured the measure aforesaid remayninge
of this Course
in the Registrye to be made, at Moran and sawe that it agreed in the
some of
content therof with the sayd brazen standard, and that the said measured
was measured with the said standard and in the presence of the officers of the
sayd towne and those officers after they had beene that the sayd measure ⁁ xxx
did
~~~
HCA 13/52 f.150v

2s
on

2s Lavericke
det et 8.

the comon
did agree with the sayd Slandard, they sett the seale of the sayd
downe (by which they usually marke their measures uppon it in
severall places therof, a And this deponent broughte the sayd
measure and home in his shipp from Moran to the porte of London
And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true
John
----
dco die

Johannes laste de Rockeste in comitatu Zanty Good
aetatis 27 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte
productus iuratus et exaiatus./

Ad quartum articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit et deponit That
after the arrivall of the sayd shipp in the port of Royall May
articulate beere were laden abord the articulate shipp called the
Blessinge of Rochester) in the porte of Mran articulate there
were laden abord the sayd shipp by the articulate Robert Bells
factor for the accompte of the sayd Bell, two hundred and
ten tonne of wheat accordinge to the measure of moran
two
accomptinge fourtye of the sayd measured to everye tonne, to
be broughte from thence to the port of London, of and to
be delivered unto the said Bell or his Assignes, The premisses
he knoweth to bee true for that he was one of the mrs mates of
the sayd shipp and kept accompte howe man tonnes of corne
were broughte in every gaber or lighter abord the sayd shipp

Ad quintum affirmat That after the ladinge of the sayd Corne the
sayd shipp sett sayle from thence to the porte of Rochell
where there were laden abord her by the said master Bells factor who
laded the sayd corne twentye bales of paper to be broughte
from thence to the porte of London for the accompte of the
said Bell. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad sextum nescit deponere for that he this deponent was discharged from
the sayd shipp after hee arrivall in this porte of London before
any of the goods were delivered out of her

Ad septimum respondet That fourtye two ffrench bushells by which the said
master Bells wheat was received into the sayd shipp the Blessinge
at Moran doth make a ffrench tonne, Et aliter nescit deponere and
of tonng
accordinge to that accompte the said wheat was laden abord
at moran
the sayd shipp ⁁ Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad octavum nescit deponere./

Ad 9 nescit deponere./

Ad decimum nescit deponere./

Ad 11. et 13 nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the sayd shipp
the Blessinge arrived in the port of London from Mor
the voyage in question about the beginninge of the moneth
of December Anno di 1634./
super reliquis arlis non exaiatr ex direccone./
dco die
John Basse
Johes Barnes de Sipswico in comitatu Suffolcie
nauta aetatis 45 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et exaiatus dicit quod Edr
Lovericke p parte producen p 20 annos et amplius et vera
et Robtum have alter ptie producen p q 15 annos
et amplius et Adam Browne, and 20 annos et amplius bene
respective novit./
~~~
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151

Ad secundum tertium et quartum articulos all libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et
deponent That about six weekes after Michaelmas in Tuod by 1633
last past the articulate shipp called the Shadwell of her such wherof
his precontest Edward Lavericke the yonge then was master) came by
an anchor in the river of Thames a little above the newe stayres
in Wappinge in a convenient place where shipps doe usuallye
ride, and there was safelye moored, and after she had red. At
anchor there in safetyes by the space of two dayes or therabouts
the articulate shipp called the Siste of God of Ip which were
came up
the sayd river in the nighte tyme and came to an anchor unto the
best bower anchor of the sayd shipp the Speedwell, and the next
tyde of ebb the sayd shipp the a Grifte of good came foule
by which shee was moored
an of the sayd shipp the Speedwells best bower anchor and sale
uppon at and with her ladinge of Coles and by that meanes broake
off one of the flooks of the Speedwells sayd anchor and likewise
broke the same anchor in the sharcke about a foote from the crosse
the Speedwell
therof, but what damage the owners of the sayd shipp have
sustayned by the breakinge of the sayd anchor he cannott estimate
Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the sayd anchor which
was broken did weigh about nyne hundred weighte and the
he premisseth hee knoweth to bee true for that he was mate
of the articulate shipp the Speedwell at the tyme when the
damage predeposed of was donne./

Ad quintum dicit et deponit That the best bowe anchor of the sayd
shipp the Speedwell at the tyme when the sayd shipp the
pmittee of god came to anchor neere unto it, and sate uppon
it, and a sufficient buoy and buoy rope fastened to it, which
buoy did beare and floate above water all tymes of the tide

Ad octavum dicit et deponit That after the sayd shipp the Guiste
of god her coming to ride neere the Speedwells best bowe
anchor aforesaid, the company of the sayd shipp the Speedwell under
runn the boye rope which was fastened to that anchor and therby
as priste and her ladinge saved upon
founde that the sayd shipp the To
hearinge
it
the sayd anchor and and then called unto the mrs mate of the
sayd shipp the Gods guiste and tould him that the sayd shipp
late uppon the Speedwells best bower anchor to which the said
mrs mate replyed that he could not helpe it Et aliter nescit.

Ad septium nescit deponere./

super reliquis arlis non examinatur ex direccone

idem super interrogatoria

culu pury fit quod petit Et aliter satisfcu est supra.
ad primum quoad and
bounde in Ipswich and to contayneth himselfe
savinge he sayeth hee was

Ad 2 nescit de respondere aliter qua predeposuit.
his bage./

Ad 3 respondet negative p parte sua./

Ad quartum respondet That he neither did nor could soe when the sayd
shipp the Guifte of good came foule uppon the said best bower
of the Speedwell and broake the same as aforesaid because the said
anchor boye under water but the next day sawe when the buoye rope
which was fastened to it was under runne as aforesaid and therby
found that the said shipp sate uppon that said anchor. Et aliter nescit

Ad quintum respondet negative pro parte sua

Ad sextum respondet negative savinge he sayeth he is nowe mrs mate of the said
shipp the Speedwell and goeth to sea with their goods her owners goods
~~~
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36
pson

Ad 7 respondet That he favoreth none of the partyes in this
suite, in in respecte of his oath, but would give the victory
to them that have most righte therunto if it laye in his
power, and that he is worth fourtye shillings his debts
payd

Signum dicti Hearnes
----
dco die

Jacobus Greenoway de Rocheste in Comitatu Lanty
nauta aetatis 32 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad 4. et quintum articulos ex parte Johns obson et socioru in hac parte
datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That after the ladinge
arrivall of the articulate shipp called the Blessinge of Rochest
in the porte of Moran in ffrannce there were laden abord
the sayd arr shipp by the measure of that towne, by the
factor of the articulate Robert Bells two hundred and tenn
tonnes of wheate to be transported in the sayd shipp to
the port of London for the accompte of the sayd Bell
and after the ladinge of the sayd wheat the sayd shipp
sayled by from thence to Rochell and there the sayd
master Bells factor did lade abord the sayd shipp twenty
bales of paper to be broughte in the sayd shipp fro to
the porte of London for the accompte of the sayd master
Bell The premisses he knoweth to bee true for that he
sawe the sayd wheat measured, but did not keepe any
accompte therof but sayeth that by the reporte of the Cabor men which
brought it abord the said shipp there were laden abord the
said shipp 210 tonnes of wheat and noe more, and accordinge to
the measure of the said towne of Moran. Et aliter nescit depon
about a fortnight

Ad 6 nescit deponere for that after the arrivall of the sayd
shipp with the said Corne and pap in the river of Thames
this deponent was discharged from the said shipp of before all the
said Corne was delivered

Ad 7 dicit et deponit That fourtye two ffrench bushells by
ffren
the measure of Moran doe make a tonne and att which he
knoweth because he sawe the said wheat laden there accordinge
to that accompte of tonnage and other shipps which were there
at the same tyme tooke in their ladinge accordinge to
that accompte Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 7 nescit deponere./

Ad 8 nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the said whe twentye
t bales of paper were delivered in the good condition unto
Assignes in the river of Thames before this
the said master
deponent was discharged from the said shipp

Ad 10 nescit deponere./

Ad 7 nescit deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad 12 affirmat That the said shipp arrived in the river of
Thames from the voyage in question about three weeks before
xpmas last past xx and all the said Corne was not delivered
out of her untill about seaven weeks after shee arrived into
the said river, Et aliter nescit.
super reliquis non exaiatr ex direccone
signum dicti master Greeneway
~~~
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152

pson

subtimo Octobris 1635

Johannes Bartholomewe de Strood in comitatu Zant
Navigator aetatis 25 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad quartu articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That
after the arrivall of the articulate shipp called the Blessinge of Rocheste
in the porte of moran in ffrannce there were laden abord the articulate
shipp by the factor of the articulate Robert Bell two hundred and tenn
tonnes of wheat accordinge to the measure of that towne, to be brought
in the sayd shipp to the porte of London for the accompte of the said
Bell, which wheat he sayeth was broughte abord the sayd shipp in
five gavers or lighters, videlicet three score tonne by the measure aforesaid
in one boate, gaver, fourtye tonnes a in each of two other gabert
fourtye five tonnes in another gaber and twentye five tonnes in
the other gave, which he knoweth to bee true for that he beinge one
of the company of the sayd shipp did keepe accompte when the said
corne was laden howe much was broughte abord in every gaved./

Ad quintum articulum dicit et deponit That after the ladinge of the sayd
a
wheat abord the sayd shipp in the porte of Moran the sayd shipp by
the order of the sayd master Bells factor sayled to the porte of Rochell
where she safely arrived and in the sayd porte there was laden abord
the sayd shipp by the sayd master Bells factor twentye bales of pap
for the accompt to be broughte from thence to the porte of London
for the accompte of the sayd Bell Et aliter nescit deponere visite relacone
Johns Cobson parts producen and

Ad 6 nescit deponere for that this deponent was discharged from the said
shipp in the river of Thames before the said wheat was delivered./

Ad 7 affirmat That at moran when the wheat articulate was laden
aboard the sayd shipp there were received fourtye two bushells of
the measure of that towne to every tonne, and
noe more, and soe many
were taken in
laded corne there
bushells to tonne and noe more other shipps that were at the same tyme
when the said shipp the Blessinge was there, did of take in their ladinge

Ad 8 nescit deponere./

Ad 9 nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that the twentye bales of pap were
delivered in good condition at Dove

Ad 10 nescit respondere deponere savinge he sayeth that the bushell re or measure
nowe remayninge in the Registry of this Court is sealed with the sale of
the towne of moran which hee knoweth to bee true for that he hath seene the
bushells att moran sealed part the same seale videlicet the fflower delive./

Ad undecimum nescit deponere aliter qua prius

Ad duodecimum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the Blessinge arrived at
and came to an anchor in the river of Thames neere Blackwall about
three weeks before xpmas last past, and that of all the sayd master
Bells corne was not delivered out of her untill about seaven or
eighte weeks after her arrivall in the river of Thames, which hee knoweth
to bee true for that within a fewe dayes after the delivery of the sayd
corne he this deponent was shipp to goe in another voyage in the same
shipp. Et aliter nescit deponere./
J M
in
~~~
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3
dco die

Canley dum et reladwell
Richardus London de Le frantage prope Mayninge
et al/
Neit hath 20 annorum aut circiter last in
parte
productus iuratus et exa examinatus./

4
2 Nove 1635

Askewe contra Moorer
Det part. 8.

2s

Robertus Clement de Ratcliffe in comitatu Middlesex Nauper
aetatis 43 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Thoma Askewe partem
producen p 20 annos et amplius aut circiter et Richardum Wood
Item contra qua productus p 25 annos et amplius aut circiter
bene respective novit./

Ad 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11 et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
deponit That he hath
et schedulas in eisdem menconat dicit
divers tymes heard the articulate George Andrewes ffactor for the
articulate Richard moorer) the voyage libellate confesse, that what
the articulate shipp the Peter (wherof the articulate Thomas Ashewe was
master) was at Gottenborough within the tyme articulate in the service and
imployment of the sayd moorer, hee the sayd Andrewes wantinge
ad
monyes to rescue the sayd shipp from thence for England for the
accompte of the said moorer, intreated the sayd Allewe to ingage
himselfe for the and the sayd shipp the Peter for the somme
of twenty six pounds sterling, for certayne masts, which hee was
and buyeinge of the one John Younge ⁁ merchant to Burgher of Gottenbary
eares
and theruppon the sayd Allowe at the request of the sayd under
home
did inhage himselfe and his she for the benefitt of the sayd
Moorer and because the sayd shipp should not come de without
a great part of her ladinge, did ingage himselfe and the sayd
shipp the ffletter with the sayd Andrewes unto the sayd yonge
for the somme of twenty six pounds, and did sett their hands
to a note or bill of Exchange of the tenor of the second schedule
articulate, which bill and was sent to this deponent to and receive the sayd
somme of xxij£ of the sayd moorer for the sayd John Dough use, and
after the returne of the sayd shipp to the port of London from
was wen
voyage in question, this deponent did present unto the sayd master
the sayd bill of and demannded of him the sayd xxij£ mencon
in the said bill of Exchange, and the sayd Moorer tould his accome
That there soe much money due to be payd by him for the goods
broughte home in the sayd shipp and for his accompte the sayd voyage
but sayd that the sayd Allewe owed him more money then the
some and therfore refused to pay the same, which and whereupon
this deponent because the said Moorer did refuse to pay the said
some did acquainte the sayd Ashewe and Andrewe therwth
demannded the same of them, which they likewise refusinge to pay
this deponent understandinge that the sayd Andrewes was goeing
Gottenborowe the next yeare videlicet him did and sent over the
bill of Exchange by one Henry Roch then master of the sayd shipp
the Peter then bound for Gottenborowe, unto the sayd John
and advised the sayd yonge that he had demannded the said master
of the sayd master moorer and that he refused to pay the same
that the sayd Andrewes was or would bee shortlye at Boston
and therfore wished him to the said yonge to take his course the
against the sayd Andrewes (for the same at Gottenborowe, but the
Day
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153

ffisher
some

(as the said Roch tould this deponent
Yonge havinge the sayd shipp bound for the sayd money did at
the sayd shipp for and a procured her to bee comannded for
the same money, and theruppon the said Roch before hee could
gett the sayd shipp released did paye unto the sayd Yonge
the sayd somme of xxx and uppon the paymt therof the sayd
Yonnge did deliver unto the sayd Rose the bill of Exchange
before menconed with the sayd Gough acquistance the rage
subscribed, acknowledginge the receipte of the sayd money
which bill and the receipte therunto this deponent hath in his custodye
And he alsoe sayeth that since the returne of the sayd shipp from
Gottenborough to the port of London in Amo di 1654, this deponent
ten
and his precontest Isaack Gould and John Water beinge ⁁ owners of
ashowe
the sayd shipp the Peter, did paye and ⁁ familye unto the sayd
henry Roche the sayd somme of xxij£, and the sayd Allew hath
were
and some others of the owners of the sayd shipp in Anno di 1638, save
since the arrivall of the sayd shipp from that voyage sould their
parts unto this deponent and the sayd Gould and water, and by the bills
of sale therof the sayd Ashewe hath undertaken and is engaged to
save this deponent and the rest which boughte the said Ashewes part harmeles
for from all debts, and incombraynes whatsoever before the said
therof and the sayd Askewe beinge since demannded the sayd somme
of xxx£ and greated to bee arrested for it, desired this deponent
and the said Gould and Water, to forbeare him untill hee had taken
course with said master Moorer for the same, by whome it was due
to be payd. Et aliter nescit deponere./
idem super interrogatoria
a
ad primum respondet That he is part owner of the interrogate shipp the Peter
by this cause doth noe way concerne him for that he hath accepted the said
and the rest of the late owners of xx£ in question, and he the
Afewe for payd for the said somme of to the said shipp the master and the sayd side
reste
sayd Alewe as to noe pay the said some unto this deponent
owners of a wheither he the said Ashewe recover it from the sayd moorer
or not, and that he favoreth the sayd moorer more then the sayd Allewe
for many respects, but would give the victorye in this cause unto the
sayd Allewe if it laye in his power because hee conceiveth he hath most
righte therunto Et aliter respondet negative/

Ad 3 nescit respondere aliter qua prius

Ad tertium nescit respondere savinge he sayeth he hath heard the sayd Andrewes
saye that the sayd shipp could not bee
a laden at Gottenborowe unlesse
the sayd Ashewe had ingaged himselfe and the said shipp for the said somme of
xxxijs before menconed./

Ad 4 nescit respondere

Ad 5 nescit respondere

Robert Clement
1

Ad sextum nescit respondere
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dco die/

Rosephus Bartly parochia sancti Michis in Comhill London
Sumpter aetatis 40 annorum aut circiter tests in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Richard ffisher
Item producen per 5 annos et amplius aut circiter et Thomam
Bidgman partem contra qua pducit per 8 annos et amplius et
ultra bene respective novit.

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That on or about the said
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6º Novembris 1635

Wigge contra Middleton/

1s

Rp J m

Gabriel Kinge servus et apprenticius William Wigge
parochia sancti Bendt Sheerigge Civitats London Groco
aetatis 18 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Edam Wigge parte
producen p 3 annos et amplius aut circiter et Thoma Middleton
anu et dum aut circiter bene respective nov

Ad primum 2 et reliquos articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit
et deponit That master of about the monethes of march or Aprill last
past the articulate Thomas Browne one of the reputed owners of the
articulate shipp the Robert Bonadventure came to the shipp of this
deponents master, William Wigge situate in Bucklers Berrye in London
and broughte a letter unto the his said master, from his brother the articulate
Edward Widge, and the sayd Browne then and there in the psence
and hearinge of this examinate, tould the sayd Sir William Wiggs
that hee supposed that the sayd shipp was tackle about for
Holland, wherunto the sayd Wigge replyed good speed her well
Tobacco
but he would not adventure the goods consigned unto him
for Holland, but sayd hee would have them brought for he
or satisfaction for it
London accordinge to the bill of ladinge and would by noe meanes
at that tyme and nor at any other tyme (to this deponents knowledge)
Tobaccoe in the said shipp
give consent that the said goods consigned unto him in should bee
transported for Holland. Et aliter nescit deponere/

Idem super interrogatoria./. [CENTRE HEADING]

recod [?cha] ff.

Ad primum quoad pericula perjurii fit quod petit Et aliter satisfactum est
supra sayinge he sayeth he was borne in Lumberstreet, and that
hee favoreth the said Edward Wigge more then the sayd Middleton, but
in this cause in respecte of his oath hee favoreth them alike and wisheth
that righte may take place./

Ad secundum respondet That William Wigge the brother of the said Edward
Wigge maryed this respondents sister. Et aliter respondet negative./

Ad tertium refert se ad praedeposita per eum Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quartum nescit respondere./

Ad quintum pro parte sua respondet negative

Ad sextum respondet, That in or about the moneth of March last past
the sayd William Wigge did give or pay unto on ffrancs Gaurney
eighte pence per pound for Virginia Tobacco besids the fraighte
and custome for the quantitye of seaven or eighte hundred weighte,
and that the fraight of Virginia Tobaccoe (as he hath heard) to
usually 2d per pound and the custome 4d per pound Et aliter nescit
respondere./.

Ad septium nescit respondere savinge he hath heard and beleiveth that the sayd
shipp the Robert Bonadventure and her ladinge in her course toward
Holland were seized and caryed into Dunkirke and there detayned and noe
restitucon or satisfaction for the same made to the owners for oughte
hee hath heard

Ad octavum et nonum nescit respondere savinge he hath heard that our Soveraigne Lord
the Kinge did write a letter to Dunkirke for restitucon of the said shipp
and goods./

Ad decimum nescit respondere./

Gabriell Kinge [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
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dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp J m.

Humfridus ffarley parochia sancti Stephan in Walbrooke London
Grocer aetatis 41 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus
iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Edmund Wigge partem producen
per 7 annos etaps et Thomam Middleton partem contra quam productitur
per 3 aut 4 annos et amplius bene respective novit./

Ad primum articulum alluis ex parte dicti Wigge in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That he verily beleiveth that the articulate Thomas
Browne, Symon Turges Maurice Thompson and William Willoughby
were fraighters of the articulate shipp the Robert Bonadventure in the
voyage in question for that this deponent beinge at Gravesend when the
sayd shipp was there outwards voyage bound, And then sawe
them makinge upp their accompts for the settinge
forth of the sayd shipp with the articulate Thomas Middleton who was to
goe merchant Purser and Pilott of the said shipp as this deponent was tould
Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad secundum nescit deponere./

Ad tertium et wuartum articulos dicit et deponit That in or about 5 moneth of Aprill last
past and before there was any newes (to this deponents knowledge) of the
takinge of the sayd shipp the Robert Bonadventure by the Dunkirks, the
sayd William Wagge and this deponent and others meetinge casuallye at
the three Cranes Taverne in ye Poultrey with the foresayd Symon
Turges and Thomas Browne, the sayd William Wigge takinge
occasion to speake of the Tobaccoe consigned unto him by bill of
ladinge in the sayd shipp, asked the sayd Browne and Turges what
satisfaction he should have for the sayd Tobaccoe, sayeinge that he never
gave consent that his sayd Tobaccoe should be transported to
Holland, neither would hee have any thinge to doe with any Holland
accompts, wheruppon the sayd Browne and Turges or one of
them tould the sayd William Wigge that he should make choyce
of fifteene hogsheads out of one hundred hogsheads of Virginia, forthe
fifteene which were consigned to him, which the sayd Wigge refusinge
the sayd Browne and Turges or one of them asked him what price hee
would demannde for his said Tobaccoe, wherunto the sayd Wigge
sayd he would have 12d per pound for his sayd Tobaccoe and
then the sayd Browne and Turges on or one of them uppon further
partlee about the said Tobacco offred the sayd Wigge ten pence
per pound, but who was to pay the fraighte
wheither the buyers or sellrd it was not expressed to his nowe
best remembrance but he conceiveth that the sayd Browne and
Turges did not intend to give the sayd Wigge tenn pence per pound
for every pounds consigned unto him, but they intended (as he
conceiveth) to make deduction for shrinckinge and other merchant like
allowances Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quintum nescit deponere./

Ad ultimum dicit predeposita per eum esse vera./

idem super interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum quoad pericula perjurii fit quod petitur Et aliter satisfactum est supra.
savinge he sayeth that he was borne in the Citty of Worcester, and
that he favoreth neither of the partyes in this cause more then other but
would give the victorye to him that hath most right therunto if it laye
in his power/
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Ad secundum respondet negative/

Ad tertium nescit respondere /

Ad quartum refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quintum respondet negative ad omnia contenta in eadem/

Ad sextum respondet That he hath a little iudgement in Virginia Tobaccoe
beinge a Grocer and trader therin, and sayeth that Virginia Tobaccoe
in or about the moneth of Aprill or last past was worth, six pence
seaven pence and some eighte pence per pound cleare of all charges
accordinge to the goodsnes of it, Et aliter nescit respondere. savinge hee
sayeth that the Custome and impost of Virginia Tobaccoe is 4d per pound and the
fraighte was about thirtye shillings per hogshead in the sayd shipp the
Robert Bonadventure (as he hath heard./

Ad septium respondet That he hath heard and beleiveth that the sayd shipp the
Robert Bonadventure and her ladinge was seized and caryed into
Dunkirke and her ladinge is there detayned and noe restitucon as yet made
to the owners thereof as hee beleiveth./

Ad octavum nescit respondere/

Ad nonum respondet That he hath heard and beleiveth that the said shipp
and her ladinge were unlawfully taken by the Dunkirkers and
oughte not to bee kept for lawfull prize, and that our Soveraigne
Lord the Kings Majestye and his honorable Lords of his comsell have
declared soe much and wrote over to Dunkirke for restitution.
Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad 10 nescit respondere./

per Humfrey ffarly/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
7o Novem 1635

3s. pro Wigge/

Rp J m./

Willimus Wigg parochia sancti Benedicti Sheerhogg London
Grocer aetatis 37 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum articulum alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit That
he hath heard the articulate Thomas Browne Symon Turges Mawrice
Thompson and William Willoughbye acknowledge that they were the
fraighters of the articulate shipp the Robert Bonadventure the voyage
in question and that they placed the articulate Thomas Middleton to goe
Purser of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad secundum affirmat That this deponent did never heare that the sayd shipp
the Robert Bonadventure was should goe for Holland untill
the sayd Thomas Browne came to this deponent and tould him that the
sayd shipp was tackte about for Holland. Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad tertio et quartum dicit quod refert se ad priorem deponem suam super libelli in hac
causa datus fram Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quintum affirmat That in or about the moneth of May 1635 the
difference betweene the sayd Edward Wigge and Thomas
Middleton was with the mutuall consent of the sayd Middleton
and of this deponent as the Assigne of the sayd Edward Wigge
referred unto arbitration unto Captayne Langham and Mr
Samuel Vassell, and the sayd Captaine Langham tould this deponent
that they the said arbitrators had agreed to give the said Edward
Wigge is 10d pound for his Tobaccoe in question, but the sayd
arbitration was not given up by them under their hands because this
deponent had not redd his Invoyce of the weight of the said Tobaccoe, Et
aliter nescit deponere./

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10º Novembris 1635

Delabarr contra Becke./

4s./

det G: S:

Willimus Giles parochioa sancti Olavi in Burgo de
Southwarke waterman etats 56 annorum aut circiter testis
in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod
[?XXXX] in hac causa litigan non novit./

Ad primum articulum libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus nescit deponere./

Ad secundum et tertium articulos dicit et deponit That within the tyme articulate
the articulate shipp the Expedition of Ipswich (wherof the articulate Thomas
Clarke was master) was well moored with two cables and
anchors in or neere the middle of the Channell of the river of Thames
righte against Shadwell in a convenient place where shipps doe
usuallye ride at anchor in safetye, The premisses he knoweth to bee true
for that he sawe the sayd shipp where she was moored as aforesayd
Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quartum et quintum articulos dicit et deponit quod refert se ad Recorda et ad nora
Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad sextum nescit deponere./

Ad septimum nescit deponere salvis deponitus suis subsequen./

Ad octavum et nonum articulos dicit et deponit That the same morninge the sayd
shipp the Expedition with her ladinge of wines was suncke this deponent
roweinge downe the river of Thames to looke for anchors that laye without
buoyes, (as he is authorized to doe by this Court) he
was tould that the sayd shipp was suncke uppon anchor, and theruppon
this deponent rowed abord the sayd shipp, and beinge come
unto her rowed round about her to see if he could see any buoy
floatinge above water neere unto the sayd shipp, but could not see any
and whilest thisdeponent was abord the sayd shipp he sawe the
company of the articulate William Becks shipp called (as he remembreth the Anne and Elizabeth 
beer shipps that laye neere unto her and under ranne their
Cables, to see if any of their anchors did lye neere unto the
sayd shipp the Expedition and it did therby appeare that there
was noe anchor within two shipps length at the least of
the sayd shipp but only an anchor of belonginge unto the
sayd shipp the Anne and Elizabeth
which anchor laye in or neere the middle of the Channell under the sayd shipp
the Expedition but the sayd Becks shipp laye on
shoare at Shadwell, And this deponent alsoe sayeth that he was abord
the sayd shipp the Expedition when shee was weighinge up from the place
where she was suncke, and presently after she was weighed up from
that place, there did appeare and flote above water buoye made
of the small end of the mast of a shipp which buoy was fastened unto
the sayd Becks anchor which laye in the place where the sayd shipp
was suncke, it beinge then about younge flood, but before it was
halfe flood the sayd buoy fastened to the sayd anchor by reason of the
insufficiencye therof and shortnes of the buoy rope thereto belonginge
was duckt and kept under water soe that it could not be seene
or discerned to appeare above water, which he premisses he knoweth
to bee true for that presently after the sayd shipp the Expedition
was weighed about halfe her length from the place where the
shee was suncke this deponent rowed in his boate to the buoye belonginge
to the sayd Becks anchor and indeavored to take the same into his boate
but the buoy rope therof was soe short that he and not able to pull
the said buoy out of the water, and presently after this deponent had endeavored
to pull up the sayd buoy into his boate, some of the sayd Becks company
came in another boate and indeavoured likewise to pull the
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sayd buoy into their boate, but could not by reason of the shortnes of
the buoy rope therunto belonginge, and after the weighinge of the
sayd shipp his precontest Tilbury Strange and others did sweepe
the river for anchors in and neere the place where the sayd shipp
was suncke, but could finde noe other anchor lyeinge
in or neere that places but the sayd anchor belonginge unto the sayd
Becks shipp, and for the reasons before menconed hee sayeth the said
shipp the Expedition was bilged and suncke uppon the sayd Becks
anchor. Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that some of
the merchants wyne broughte to the port of London were delivered out
of the sayd shipp before she was suncke, but all the wines which remayned
abord the sayd shipp at the tyme of her sinckinge were over whelmed
and covered with water, and this deponent tasted of some of the sayd
wynes and found that they were much spoyled and dampnifyed with water./

Ad decimum deponere aliter qua prius./

Ad 11 et 12 refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 13 nescit deponere aliter quam prius./

Sup ceteris arlis non examinatus./

idem super interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet negative ad omnia contenta in ead./

Ad secundum nescit respondere./

Ad tertium nescit respondere/

Ad quartum refert se ad praedeposita Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quintum nescit respondere/

Ad sextum respondet That he was never abord the said shipp the Expedicon
before she was suncke as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad septium nescit respondere./

Ad octavum nescit respondere./

Ad nonum nescit respondere./

William Gyles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Wilson et al Becke/

Idem Willmus Giles./

det G: S:/

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus
et oblatus dicit quod refert se ad dca et deponis sua ad
libelli ex parte dicti John Delabarr contra dcum Willimum
Becke in hac causa datus et aliter quam in eisdem continets nescit
deponere./

By me William Gyles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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14º Novembris 1635./

1s/

Edward Seras of Blechington in the County of Sussex gentleman aged
about 42 yeares sworne before the worshipfull William Sames doctor of lawe
Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knight Judge of his Majestyes
high Court of the Admiraltye./
sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet

That uppon
Tuesday last was senight a ffrench barke laden
with wynes by extreamitye of weather
was driven on shoare neere Newhaven in the Countye of Sussex and
there beaten to peeces, and at the tyme when the said shipp was driven on
shoare, there were in her five Dunkirkers who (as they
tould this deponent) tooke the said barke and her ladinge, from the
ffrench and intended to have carryed the same to Dunkercke, alsoe there
were in her, at the same tyme two
ffrenchmen, which (as they themselves affirmed) were of the company
of the sayd Barke before she was taken by the Dunkirks, and were
never out of possession of the said barke and her ladinge untill they betooke themselves to their boate and rowed on shoare at Newhaven
but those french men as hee beleeveth were under the
command of the said Dunbirjs, and (as those ffrenchmen did at likewise
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affirme) one ffrancis Cornell of Puintrue in ffrance and others subiets
of the ffrench kinge were owners of the wines and other goods in the
sayd shipp at the tyme of her drivinge on shoare at Newhaven, And further
hee cannott depose savinge he sayeth that the said five of Dunkirkers and two
ffrenchmen came safelye on shoare at Newhaven aforesayd.

Edward [?sURAS] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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17º Novem 1635

Coos contra Abbott./

Johes Mun prochia sancti Lawrentij in verteri Judiasue
London mercator aetatis 29 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus iuratus et exaiatus dicit quod Edrum
Abbet ptem producen p 12 annos et amplius bene novit sed
William Goose partem contra qua producits a tempe
viagii controversi ex visa tantu novit ut dicit./

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit
et deponit That this deponent was at Zepholonia in ano domini 1630
at which tyme the articulate shipp the Jonathan (wherof the articulate William
Goose was master) was there in the service and imployment of the articulate
mr Edward Abbott, and sayeth that the goods of the sayd
mr Abbott which were to be laden abord the sayd shipp in that porte were
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18º Novembris 1635

Bell contra Tucke./

1s

Rp J m.

Richardus Hutchins parocha sancti Salvatoris in Burgo de
Southwarke piscator aetatis 33 annorum aut ciciter testis
hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus, dicit quod parte
producen per 1 hebdomadas aut circia ex visa tantu novit sed
partem contra qua producitur non novit.

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit
et deponit That about a fortnighte or three weeks since (the tyme
more certainlye he remembreth not) this deponent and his contest John
Shaddocke beinge belowe London bridge, in a fisher boate, and beinge
roweinge up the river to goe through the sayd bridge, at the same tyme beinge
a lighter laden with Coales rowed by one of the servants of
the articulate Christopher Bell,
in the river of Thames belowe the sayd bridge with ther tide of flood and in a directe course to
goe through an Arch commonly called by the name of Saint Marye
Locke which is the usuall which for lighters to goe through bridge
with their ladinge and when the sayd lighter was come neere
unto the sayd arche a barke then lyeinge in the river of Thames
neere unto the bridge betweene ffresh wharfe and Botolph wharfe
(the name of which barke or of her master he knoweth not) sheered out into the
river from the key where she rod at the least fower tymes her
length, and by her sheeringe soe
farr out into the sayd river, she fell foule uppon the sayd lighter
of Coales and brake the rope by which a skiffe was fastened to the said lighter, and
from the Mary locke into
another little dangerous locke where noe lighters of soe great burthen use to
passe through and in her passage through that little locke
shee strooke against each side of the arche, which splitt her
sides and theruppon the sayd Bells servant in that lighter soe
perceivinge that the sayd lighter and her ladinge was readye to
sincke called unto this deponent and his sayd contest
John Shaddocke and desired them to towe the sayd lighter
unto the sayd Bells wharfe which they did with as much speed as
they could and by that tyme the sayd lighter was towed to the
sayd Bells wharfe shee suncke righte downes in the water and
was covered with water Et aliter nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that
the sayd damage happened to the sayd lighter and her ladinge of
Coales meerlye by occasion of the sayd Barks cominge fowle on her
and puttinge her from goeinge through Saint Mary locke
for that the sayd lighter was in a directe course to
goe through that locke before the said barke fell fowle of her of
as aforesaid/

idem super interrogatoria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the
request of the sayd Christopher Bell, and that he favoreth the
partyes in this cause indifferently and that in his iudgement the
owners of the barke and which came foule on on the sayd lighter as
aforesaid and oughte to make satisfaction unto the said Bell for the
damage aforesaid. Et aliter nescit./

Ad secundum respondet negative./

Ad tertium respondet That there was but one man in the sayd lighter when
the sayd Barke came fowle of her as aforesaid, which was one of the
said Bells servants.

Ad quartum respondet That the barke aforesaid which did the sayd damage unto
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the sayd lighter at such tyme as shee did the said damage was at
an anchor, but howe longe she soe rod at anchor he knoweth not, but
sayeth that all barks that come to wharfes neere unto
London bridge are inforced to come to anchor before they can
come to any wharfe and then they are lowed to the wharfes
by some ropes which are caryed on shoare from such barks,/

Ad quintum respondet That the sayd Bells servant which was in the sayd
lighter was able to guide the sayd lighter, and had broughte
her in a very fayre waye to goe through bridge at Saint Mary locke
aforesayd before the said barke came foule of her and through the locke one mann doth many tymes
conducte and ginde a lighter laden with Coles in safetye Et aliter referend
se ad praedeposita nescit respondere./

Ad sextum respondet That ther is noe other locke for lighters
of soe great a burthen as the lighter in question was, to goe
through, but the sayd locke called Saint Mary locke, excepte one
which is on Southwarke side through which lighters of the like burthen
doe sometymes goe at the topp of a high water, but
wheras there goeth one lighter through that locke there goe
tenn through Saint Mary locke, and that in reguard the sayd lighter
was on London side and soe neere unto London bridge it was
impossible if there had bene twentye men in the sayd lighter
the same caryed her crosse the Thames to the other locke on
Southwarke side. Et aliter qua prius nescit respondere./

Ad 7 respondet That it is an ordinarye thinge for barks of as great a
burthen as the barke was which did the damage aforesayd to
anchor as neere unto London bridge as the said barke did if they
have a warpe on shoare to keepe them from shearinge further
out into the river, but sayth that the barke which did the sayd
damage had noe warpe or fast on shoare to keepe her from
sheeringe off, at the tyme when she did the damage aforesaid./
aliter nescit respondere./

Signum dicti Rich '+' Hutchins./
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19º Novem 1635

3s

det.

Rp J m

Johannes Shaddocke parochia sancti Salvatoris in Burgo
de Southwarke piscator aetatis 37 annorum aut circiter
tests in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./
dicit quod partem producens per 3 hebdomadas aut circiter
not excis vit sed partem contra qua productus non novit
ut dicit./

Ad prumum et secundum et reliquos articulos alluis libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That about three weeks since a lighter this deponent
and his precontest Richard Hutchins cominge up the river of
Thames in a ffisher boate on London side to rowe through London bridge with a stronge
tide of floud about an houre before high water, at the same tyme
sawe a great lighter laden with Coales (wherunt the articulate Christofer
Bell layd clayme) cominge upp the same side of the ever to
through bridge at an Arch comonly called St Mary
which is the usuall locke for lighters and great vessells which come
up on London side to goe through and the sayd lighter with Coles
beinge come in a fayre and directe course to goe through
the sayd locke called at Mary locke, a barke which then lay at
anchor neere unto London bridge, betweene Botolph wharfe and
ffresh wherfe lyeinge foure tymes her length at the least from
(the
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the shoare, and havinge noe fast or warpe on shoare sheered out into the said ship
fell fowle uppon the after quarter of the sayd lighter, and forced and
drove her from Saint Mary locke, into another little locke to the Northward of Saint Mary locke where noe
lighters (excepte they be of a very small burthen) can goe through
without dannger, and by meanes therof the sayd lighter stroke
each side against the Arches of that little locke, which made a great
hole in the Bough of the sayd lighter, and the water came soe a
into her that shee was almost readye to sincke, which this deponent and his sayd
precontest perceivinge they stayd by the sayd lighter to save the man which
was in her, and at the request of the man which was in the said lighter
this deponent and his sayd precontest towed the sayd lighter and soe
ladinge to the sayd Bell wharfe, and assoone as the sayd lighter came
to the sayd wharfe shee suncke downe and was covered with water, which
damage he sayeth was occasioned only by the sheeringe out
of the sayd barke and cominge foule on the sayd lighter and drivinge
her from Saint Mary locke into the other locke when shee
was in a very way to goe through Saint Mary locke as aforesayd
but the name of the Barke which did the sayd damage or of her master
or what the repayringe of the sayd damage will amount unto hee
sayeth he knoweth not. Et aliter nescit deponere./

idem super interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request
of the sayd Christopher Bell, and that he favoreth the partyes in this
cause indifferently, but if it laye in his power he would give the
victorye to the said Bell who sustayned the damage in question./

Ad secundum respondet That he hath noe interest in the lighter or Coales in question
neither shall hee loose, or gayne any thinge wheither the said Bell
doe prevayle or bee over throwen in this suite,

Ad tertium respondet That there was onlye one man in the lighter in question
when the damage in question happened to her/

Ad quartum respondet That the barke which was the occasion of the damage
in question at the tyme when the said damage was donne laye at anchor
as all barks and vessells which come to any wharfe neere London bridge
use to doe if it be a stronge tyde for feare least they should be driven
against the bridge, but presently after they come to anchor there
they use to carye a warpe or rope on shoare to hawle those
barkes or vessells to the said sayd wharfes as fast as the came which but sayeth the barke
which did the said damage had noe fast or warpe on shoare at that tyme
to keepe her from sheeringe off further into the said river. Et aliter
nescit respondere./

Ad quintum respondet quod refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere
savinge he sayeth that he hath heard that the sayd Bells servant
which was in the lighter in question had divers tymes before and

twice or thrice since the damage in question happened caryed

the sayd lighter in safetye through London bridge att Saint Mary Rocke by him
selfe and without any helpe, and soe hee beleiveth hee would have done
the same tyme in question havinge brought her fayre for
that locke before the sayd barke drove her from as before he
hath deposed./

Ad sextum respondet That there are but two locks in London bridge through
which lighters soe great in burthen as the lighter in question was may passe
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through in safetye, videlicet Saint Mary looke on the North side of the river
and drawe bridge locke which is to the Southward on Southwarke side
and sayeth that it was impossible if there had bene never soe man
men in the sayd lighter the tyme in question in reguard of the
Swiftnes of the tyde to have caryed the said Lighter
crosse the Thames soe neere the bridge, through drawe bridge locke
or any other locke but Saint Mary locke aforesaid on which side
the said lighter then was. Et aliter nescit./

Ad septium nescit respondere aliter qua prius./

Signum dicti [ANCHOR MARKE] Shaddocke./ [MARKE, CENTRE]
----
dco die./ [CENTRE HEADING]

3s/

Rp J m

Christopherus Rome servus Christoferi Bell partis
producen aetatis 24 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus

Ad primum articulum libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit
That within the tyme articulate the articulate Christopher Bell was
owner of a certayne lighter called this Joane and twentye
fower Chaldron of Coles which were in her, which hee knoweth to
be true beinge the sayd Bells servant and usually goeinge in
that and other lighters belonginge to the sayd Bell./

Ad secundum et tertium articulos dicit et deponit That about three weeks or
a moneth since the sayd lighter called the Joane with twenty
fower Chaldron of Coles in her came up the river of Thames
belowe London bridge on London side with an intent to
carrye the said Coles above the sayd Bridge to the sayd
Bells wharfe, through one of the locks of the sayd bridge
called St Mary Locke which is the usuall locke for lighters
of soe great burthen which come up on that side of the river
to goe through, which hee knoweth to bee true for that he
was the lighterman which was bringinge the said lighter
through that locke./

Ad quartum et reliquos articulos dicti libelli dicit et deponit That
the tyme aforesayd this deponent cominge up with the sayd lighter
and twentye foure Chaldron of Coles in it, to goe through
Marye locke with the side of floud, and peceivinge a barke
which then lay at anchor at ffresh wharfe about three tymes her
length from the sayd wharfe to sheere further
out into the river in the course of the sayd lighter
to Saint Marye looke this deponent called unto the company of
that barke and desired them to take in part of their
Cable and to keepe the sayd Barke from sheeringe out
further in the sayd lighters way towards St Mary locke
which the company of the sayd barke mighte easilye have fone
if they would, but contrarylye they veered out more of the
Cable and by reason therof the sayd barke sheered
out further and as the sayd lighter with the sayd Coles
in her were in a fayre and direct course to goe through Saint
Mary locke the sayd barke sheered out fower or five tymes her length from the said wharfe and brake
away a skiffe which was fastened to the sterme of the sayd lighter
and came foule on the after quarter of the sayd lighter and
forced the sayd lighter from Saint Merch Locke into another little
locke which was to little for the lighter of that burthen to goe through
(and
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and by that meanes the sayd lighter was splitt in two places aged
the anchor of that little tocke, and was readye to sincke, whereof
this deponent called unto his precontests Richards Hutchins and John
Shaddocke, which were then newly gone through bridge in a fishing
boate, and procured them to helpe have the sayd lighter and to
newe her up to the sayd Bell wharfe, and presently after the

came thither shee suncke downe in the river and all her ladinge of coale were all over
with could water, and by reason of the premisses the sayd lighters
dampnifyed and made lesse worth the somme of foure pounds
at the least, and the sayd Coles were dampnifyed to the vallue
of twentye shillings at the least, and the sayd Bell did sustayne
damage for want of the use and imployment of the sayd lighter beinge
at the Carpenters to have the said damage repayred by the space
at the sea
on weeke the some of twentye shillings, Et aliter nescit deponere./
savinge he sayeth that within two houres after the sayd damage
was donne this deponent went to the sayd barke which did the damage
aforesayd and asked her company what her name was, and asked her
Company sayd that shee was called the Speedwell of Plymouth

Idem super interrogatoria

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause by the
meanes of his master the articulate Christopher Bell, and that he favoreth
the partyes in this cause indifferently in respecte of his oath and would
the said Bell who
give the victory to him put hath sustayned the wronge, if it lay in
his power, who

Ad secundum respondet negative p parte sua ad omnia contenta in hac interrogate/

Ad tertium respondet That he this respondent and noe other was in the sayd
lighter when the damage aforesaid happened./

Ad quartum respondet./

That the sayd barke the Speedwell was at an anchor when
she did the sayd damage, but howe longe shee had soe rod there hee
knoweth not, and that it is the usually for all barks and vessells that come to
ffresh wharfe to come first to anchor if the tyde be swifte stronge, to
keepe them from runinge against London bridge, and then the company
of such barks or vessells use presently to carye a rope on shoare to
Paule them in by the sayd wharfe but to and to keepe them from
heeringe out, but the said lake the Speedwell and the tyme aforesaid
(when shee caused the said damage had noe rope and faste on shoare.
Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertium respondet That he this respondent the tyme aforesayd
not standinge the witnes of the tyde was well able to guide
and governe the sayd lighter through Saint Mary locke if the Rose
sayd barke had not come fowle of her, and hath caryed her himselfe
with her ladinge of coles above twentye tyme by through the
same looke in safetye without the helpe of any other Et aliter referend
se ad praedeposita nescit respondere./

Ad sextum respondet That the is noe other locke the but Saint Marye locke
through which lighters of soe great burthen as the lighter in question
was passe without a great deale of damage, except and
docke which called drawe bridge locke which is on Southwarke side
but sayeth that his here had bene twenty men in the sayd light
they could not have caryed the said lighter beinge soe neere the said
Judge and on London side) through drawe bridge locke

Ad nonum respondet That some tymes barks of as great a burthen as the said
barke the Speedwell doe come to an anchor as neere the bridge as
the said barke was when the said damage was done but they doe not, nor
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that shipp was runn forth uppon the said voyage, the
said Mr Alderman Garroway made an accompte
of the chardges expended and due for the furnisheing
and setting forth of the said shippe the voyage
aforesaid and what ever owner of her was
to pay of the same, and gave assignements uppon
every owner of his for to pay to his parte
thereof unto severall menn of whom provisions
were taken upp for the settinge forth of the said
shippe, and accordingly the said Alderman
Garroway did assigne this examinate to pay in part of his proporcion for ye setting forth of ye said shippe to the
articulate Jones aboute the some of one hundred
poundes (the iuste some hee now remembreth
not) for provisions delivered by him for the
use of the said shippe, without expressinge 
what those provisions were, and after that assignement
was made the said Jones many tymes demannded
the said money of this examinate And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, Ac aliter
nescit/

Ad quartum affirmat, That after the premisses the
said Jones often demannded the summe aforesaid
of this examinate, and this examinate still tolde him
that hee woulde pay the same, and Jones seemed
to like well thereof, for that this examinate
conceiveth that hee the said Jones did accepte
this examinate for his payment of the said sume
and the rather because hee did never heare that the said
Jones did demannd the same sume of any
other the owners of the said shippe neither did
hee ever heare the said Jones say that yf
this examinate did not paye him that sume that
hee wanoulde goe to any other the owners of the
said shippe but hee sayeth that hee did never
heare the said Jobes say that hee did accepte
this examinate for his payment of the money
aforesaid; And this hee affirmeth uppon his
oath to bee true, Ac aliter nescit:/
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Ad quintum nescit deponere./

Ad sextum affoirmat negative./

Ad septium affirmat That 19 August 1631 this
examinate was a solvent mann, and to his now
best remembrance, hee paid and satisfied all the
rest of that hee was assigned to pay by the said
Alderman Garroway for goods and provisions
taken upp for the use of the said shippe
the royall Exchange excepte the [?sume] aforesaid, and the value of 20li or 30li more and for three or fower
monethes after the said assignement was made
the said Jones did not seeme to bee urgent
with this examinate for the monies aforesaid
but tooke him for a sufficient mann in his estate as
hee conceiveth And this hee affiremth to
bee true, Ac aliter nescit./

Ad octavum nescit deponere, Saveing that this
examinate verily beleeveth that yf hee had
not failed, the said Jones would never have
demannded the said sume of any the rest
of the owners of the said shippe;/

Ad ult dicit predeposita per eum esse vera;/

Ad Interrogatoria:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That hee commeth to testifie in this
cause at the request of the producent and sayeth
that hee favoureth the party producent most beeing
his kinsman, but in this cause favoureth the
parties indifferently, but sayeth that yf
yt were in his power, hee woulde give the 
victory therein to the party producent
because hee conceiveth the righte is on his
side; Ac aliter nescit./

Ad secundum nescit./

Ad tertium respondit That hee did never pay the
said Jones for the Cable interrogate./

Ad quartum nescit respondere, Saveinge that the
owners of the said shippe were the freighters
thereof in the voyage interrogate, and the freighte
went still uppon an adventure, as hee hath
heard in a Corne voyage the owners of that
shippe loste more then the freighte for the
whole voyage came to as owners of the said
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Ad quintum respondet, That hee never heard nor beleeveth that the said Jones
did ever give any release or dischardge to the interrogate
shippe the royall Exchange for the payment of the
monies aforesaid, Ac aliter necit:/

Ad sextum nescit respondere aliter qua prius, Saveinge
hee sayeth that  his three sixteenth parts of the said
shippe hee sould to the party producent in or
about November 1631 uppo an absolute sale
for monies paid to this respondent at the tyme
when hee made over the said party to the said
producent without any matter of [?truste], but the
some of money received for the same hee
cannott now remember;/

Ad septium respondet, That hee conceiveth that the said
Jones soughte in conscience and reason to bee paid
for his provisions aforesaid, and yf hee shall
not recover satisfaction for the same of the interrogate
shippe, hee muste expecte the same out of the
estate of this respondent amongst other his
creditors, as the estate will amount to
satisfie every one, but in what proportion
or when hee sall receive that satisfaction
this respondent  cannott decalre. Ac aliter nescit./

Ad octavum respondet negative:/

Ad nonum respondet, That hee is a prisoner, but knoweth
not for what sume, nor cann expresse
how much per Centum his Creditors are like
to receive of him, or when they shall receive
the same;/

Ad decimum respondet That he beleiveth that by
Indenture of bargayne and sale he this respondent was bound to saue the
sayd Richard Bateman harmelesse from all debts claymes and demannds
whatsoever but doth nowe remember what he hath done or undertoke
to that purpose/

Ad 11um respondet negative:/

Ad 12um respondet That hee conceiveth himself to
bee worth nothing his debts paid:/

Thomas Symonds [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
26o Novembris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Jones contra Middleton/

1s/

Thomas Symondes de Kensington in Comitatu Middlesex mercator
annos agens 43 aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus/

Ad primum et secundum articulos alluis ex parte dci Middleton in hac parte dat et
oblat dicit et deponit That in some of the monethes of the yeare lillate and at the tymes of the delivery in the monethes of June Julye August September
October and November 1631 this deponent was owner of three eighth
(parts
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parts of the articulate shipp the Unicorne and of her tackle and furniture and soe comonly
reputed Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad tertium affirmat That the articulate shipp the Unicorne in or about
the moneth of November 1631 whilest this deponent was par owner of her
went forth to sea uppon a voyage, and before her goeinge forth on the sayd
voyage this examinate with the mutuall consent of the rest of the owners
did make an accompte of the charges disbursed and to be disbursed in and
about the furnishinge and settinge forth of the sayd shipp, and uppon calculacon
of each mans share of the chardges of the settinge forth of the sayd shipp
this deponent did assigne unto him selfe and the rest of the owners to paye
their perticular parts of the sayd charges unto perticuler men of whome goods
were taken up for the provision and settinge forth of the sayd shipp
And amongst other things this deponent did charge himselfe for the payment
of fourtye or fiftye pounds for part of the goods in this cause libellated,
and did assigne some other of the owners (wghose name he nowe remembreth
not) to pay for the remaynder of the sayd goods libellate, and he
beleiveth that the articulate William Jones htah since received for part of
the sayd goods libellate of the sayd owners who were assigned to
pay the same. And that he this deponent did never acknowledge and confesse
that he was assigned, or allotted to pay for above fourtye or
fiftye pounds for part of the goods in controversye
Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad quartum articulum dicit et deponit That after the premisses this deponent tould
the articulate Mr Jones that he was to paye him for part of the goods
in question and the said Jones liked well therof and accepted him this deponent
for his paymaster for part of the sayd goods, and this deponent gave
the sayd Jones a note
or writinge under his hand
wherby he did acknowledge that he was
to paye the sayd Jones fourtye or fiftye pounds of the money
due for part of the goods in question, therbye likewise assigninge
him of whome he was to receive the rest of his money for the sayd
goods, and did by word of mouth promise the sayd Jones to paye
him the sayd Jones tto pay the sayd fourtye or fiftye pounds but
gave him neither bond bill or other note or writinge for the
payment therof, then is before expressed Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad quintum dicit et deponit That there was noe other dealings betweene this
deponent and the sayd Jones at the tyme of the delivery of the goods in
question but only for some goods by the sayd Jones for the use of the
shipp the Royall Exchange of London (wherof he this deponent was then
a prt owner) and that he this deponent never payd the sayd Jones any
money for any goods or commodityes, after the delivery of the goods in
this cause controverted, and that the sayd Jones did never send or
deliver unto this deponent any accompte or bill charginge him
this deponent with the payment for all the sayd goods. Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad sextum affirmat That he this deponent never payd the sayd Jones
any money for any part of the goods in question. Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad septium affirmat That at the tyme of the delivery of the hoods in question
this deponent was a man solvent and payd all others to whome he stood
ingaged or did assigne himselfe uppon the makeinge of the
accompte aforesayd to pay for goods and provision taken up for the use of the
sayd shipp, exceptinge the somme of thirtye one pounds or therabouts due to mr
Wolneston and mr Ball for fish, towards payment wherof he directed a note unto
mr Bryan Harrison the master of the sayd shipp to deliver unto one Peter Middleton

out of the fraighte due to him
this deponent for his part in the sayd
shipp

the somme of 27li or 28li in part of payment for the sayd fishe, and that the
(sayd

Quere in prox folio./

Thomas Symonds [SIGNATURE, BOTTOM RH SIDE]
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25o Novem 1635

Bell contra Tincke./

4s./

Rp J m.

Johannes Soare de Battersey in Comitatu Surria Nauepegus
etats 48 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus
et examinatus. dicit quod partem producen per 20 annos etaps
aut circiter bene novit sed partem contra quam productur non nescit/

Ad primum secundum tertium quartum quinteum sextum septium et reliquos articulos libelli in hac
parte dat et oblat dicit et deponit That abouta moneth since
the articulate lighter called the Joane of London (which lighter this deponent buylt about
two or three yeares since for the articulate Christofer Bell) was brought
to this deponents yard at the Nyne Elmes in the parish of Battersey
to be repayred and amended (she beinge then
broken downe and bruised on both her sids) and sayeth that he this deponent 
did repayre and amend the sayd lighter and the repayringe
therof with the stuffe nayles and other materialls and workemanshipp
bestowed uppon her in the repayringe of her doe amounte unto the
somme of fourtye one shillings and soe much the sayd Bell is to pay
this deponent for the repayringe of the same, and that notwithstandinge
the sayd damage is repayred yet he verilye beleiveth in his conscience
that she is at lest the somme of five pounds lesse worth then she was
before she was soe broken and bruised, for that she may complayne
of that damage seaven yeares hence, Et aliter nescit deponere./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request
of the sayd Christofer Bell and that he favoreth neither of the partyes in
this cause but desireth that righte may take place/

Ad secundum respondet That he shall neither gayne nor loose any thinge howsoever
the successe of this suite shalbe Et aliter respondet negative/

Ad tertium respondet negative pro parte sua Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quartum et quintum nescit resppondere./

Ad sextum non examinatur qua non depoosuit ad contenta in huioi Interrogatoria./

Ad septium respondere./

John Sore [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
Jones contra Middleton/

sayd Jones was not very urgent with this deponent for the money which he this
deponent was to paye him for part of the saud goods controverted untill about
three or fower monethes aafter the sayd shioo went to sea in the yeare
libellate, and untill that tyme (this deponent beleiveth) the sayd Jones did take
him for a sufficient able man in estate; and for his payment for part of the
sayd goods controverted Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad octavum affirmat That the sayd Jones did (as this deponent beleiveth) demannde
of him money for part of the goods in question within a moneth or two after
the departure of the sayd shipp to sea on the voyage in question but was
not very urgent with him for the sayd money untill this deponent fayled as
aforesayd, and this deponent verilye beleiveth, that if this deponent had not fayled
in his estate the sayd Jones would never have demannded the sayd
moneyes of the rest of the owners Et aliter qua prius necit deponere./

Ad ult dicit predeposita per eum eo vera./

Idem super Interrogatoria./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request
of Richard Middleton the producent, and that he favoreth the sayd Midleton as
he is his kinsman, more then the sayd Jones but in this caue he favoreth them alike
and wisheth that righte may take place./

Ad secundum refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere savinge he sayeth that the
(note
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note or writinge delivered by this respondent to the sayd
Jones, assigninge him where he shall receive his money for the goods
in question, was written by this respondent and there were noe witnesses  therunto

Ad tertium respondet, That he never payd the sayd Jones any money for any of the
goods in question./

Ad quartum respondet Tha he supposeth that the goods libellate were in the sayd
shipp in the voyage libellate but wheither they were used in that
voyage he knoweth not, and he beleiveth that the owners of the sayd shipp in
that voyage did receive the fraighte and profitt made with her in that
voyage Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quintum respondet That he hath heard that the sayd Jones did discharhe
and release the sayd shipp and the master of her from the payment for
the goods libellate Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad sextum respondet That he was owner of three eighth parts of the saud
shipp the Unicorne at the tyme of the delivery of the goods libellate
for her use, which three eighths he sould absolutely and not in trust to one Peter Middleton
for money but for what price or consideration he sayeth
he remembreth not./

Ad septium respondet That he conceiveth that in conscience and reason the sayd Jones
oughte to be payd for the oods in question, and if he shall not
recover satisfaction for them of the shipp he must expecte the same
out of the estate of this respondent amongst other his creditors as the
estate will amounte to satisfye every one, but in what proportion
or when he shall receive that satisfaction he cannott declare./

Ad octavum respondet negative./

Ad nonum resppondet That he is a prisoner but knoweth not for what some
nor can expresse howe much per Centum is creditors are like to
receive of him, nor when they shall receive the same./

Ad decimum respondet That he beleiveth that by Indenture of bargayne and sale
of this respondents partes of the shipp in question
he this respondent was bounde to defend and keepe harmeles the said
Peter Middleton, from all claymes and demannds whatsoever,
but what more he hath done or undertaken to that purpose
he cannott declare/

Ad 11 satisfficum est prius./.

Ad 12 respondet That he conceiveth himselfe to be worth nothinge
his debts payd./

Thomas Symonds [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
26o Novembris 1635. [CENTRE HEADING]

1.us Pro Clement

Lewes ffletcher of Wappinge in the County of
Middlesex Marriner aged 39 yeares or thereabouts
sworne before Mr doctor Sammes Surrogate
to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knighte Judge
of his Majesties highe Court of the Admiralty
examined uppon certeine Interrogatories ministred
on the behalfe of Gregory Clement and Robert
South of London Merchants sayeth and deposeth
thereto as followeth:/

To the firste and second Interrogatories hee sayeth
That he hath knowen the interrogate shippe the
London Merchant and James Prinse ever since
october laste was twelve monethes, and knoweth
that the said Prinse was Master of that shippe in her
last voyage from this port of London. And

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177

hee sayeth, That this examinate was the said Princes
Mate in the said voyage, and in that voyage the said
Prince would many tymes say that hee was sicke
and soe much was preceived by this examinate and others of the
company of the said shippe, and in the said
shippe outwards bounde the said voyage after the
11th or 12th day of November last past Anno
1634, this examinate had two severall tymes discourse
with the said Prince concereneinge his bodily
health and at those tymes the said Prinse complayned
that hee had a greate paine in his head soe
that hee coulde not reste, and said that hee gott
that sicknes or disease by a frighte the
11th or 12th of November aforesaid when as a
shippe of London whereof one white of Redriffe
was Master came foule uppon the London
Merchannt at sea in the nighte but
aboute what tymes in what place this examinate
had the discourse aforesaid with the said Prinse
hee knoweth not nor cann remember, and hee
sayeth that ever sinse the 11th or 12th of November
aforesaid unto the tyme of this examinates
laste beeing with him, which was about 4 dayes
before hee died, the said Prinse still complayned
of his head, and that hee coulde not bee in quiet
for the payne in his head, And this hee
affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, and more
to these Interrogatories he sayeth hee cannott
depose;/

To the third hee sayeth, That hee hath many tymes
heard the said Prinse since the 11th or 12th of
November aforesaid (which was after his laste
departure from England) say that hee coulde
not continue longe with that payne in his head
and those words the said Prinse used in the said
shippe, but when or about what tymes hee cannott
expresse, but hee sayeth that the said Prinse used
those words at such tymes as thi examinate hath asked
him how hee did and talked with him concerneinge his
health , and hee conceiveth that the said Prinse used those
words because hee was very ill and desiered that yt should
bee knowen, And this hee affirmeth to bee true, and more to
this article hee cannott depose;/
~~~
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To the 4th hee sayeth, that the interrogate Prinse
arrived in the bay of Smirna the next day of March
laste, and wente upp to the Towne of Smerna aboute
fower dayes after, and the generall opinion then was
that the said Prinse was a sicke weake mann
and soe much was Judged by Chirurgeons of other
shippes and others that came to visitt him at Smerna
and by relation and coference with the Chirurgeon of
the said shippe the London Merchannt, this
examinate whilst they remained at Smerna the
tyme aforesaid was induced to beleeve and did
beleeve that the said Prinse with that paine
which was in his ehead woulde not live
untill hee came into England, and the Chirurgeon
aforesaid at Smerna sayd that hee did beleeve soe much,
And this hee affirmeth to bee true, and more
to this article hee cannott depose;/

Lewis ffleatcher [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
27o Novembris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Pro mro Sotherton./

1s

det

Henry Croane of the Cittye of London merchant sworne before the
worshipfull Basill Wood doctor of Lawes Surrogate to the righte worshipfull
Sir Henry Marten knight Judge of his Majestyes high Court of the
Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet./

To the first Interrogatorye he sayeth That after the arrivall of the interrogate
shipp the Suzan into the Downes, the Chirurgeon of the sayd shipp came
up to London and gave this deponent and other merchants interessed
in the goods of the sayd shipp notice of her arrivall in the Downes
And that there was in her one hundred and fiftye pipes of wyne or
therabouts of which Mr Nathan Wright claymed thirtye odd pipes
(to his nowe remembrance) and a ffrenchman claymed twenty pipes
more of the same,
wheruppon and by other discourse with that Chirurgeon this
deponent did gather or conceive that he had nynetye two pipes of wyne in the
sayd shipp , but he doth not remember that did at any

tyme saye or declare that
he had but nynetye

two pipes laden abord her for at that tyme this deponent had not received any letter
or advise in writinge or otherwise howe many pipes of wine
were laden for his accompte in the sayd shippe more then he
collected by the discourse which he had with the sayd Chirurgeon and
the sayd mr Wrighte./

To the second he sayeth That after the discourse aforesayd this
deponent havinge some conference with some of the assurers that under
writt the pollicy of assurance made by him uppon his goods in the
sayd shipp, tould him that he conceived that onlye the seaven
first underwriters of the sayd policye should stand, and beare
adventure in the sayd pollicye, and that he
could question none of the rest untill he had received his accompt
and that in case there were but nynetye two pipes laden abord
the sayd shipp for his accompte, then all the other underwriters (as he
conceived) would fall out or to that effecte and not therwise./
~~~
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178

To the third he sayeth That shortlye after the sayd shipp the Suzan was cast
way this deponent did compound and agree with the seaven first underwriters f the sayd policye videlicet wIth mr Timothy Eman mr George
Pryor, mr Robert South, Mr Gregory Clement, mr John Hartye, mr
Bartholomewe Gilman and one more whose name he remembreth
for seaven hundred pounds assured by them, uppon the
wynes laden for this deponents accompte, he then conceivinge as before he
hath deposed, that he had but nynetye two pipes in the sayd shipp./

To the fourth he sayeth that (to this deponents knowledge) there were but twentye pipes full and
part full of the wynes laden for this deponents accompte saved which he boughte of the
sayd assurers (with whome he compounded as aforesayd) for fourtye nyne pounds
and this deponent was to paye the chargs of savinge of them, but for
what he sould them or to whome, he sayeth he beleiveth he is not bound
to give an accompte therof.

To the 5th he sayeth that he did compound with mr Massam one of the
assurers that underwritt his pollicye aforesayd before she came into the
Downes to discharge him such his assurance for ten pounds
but did not compound with any other of the sayd assuers, before she was
cast awaye./

To the sixth he sayeth that he received severall letters from Marmaduke
Royden the laders of this deponents wines relatinge howe many pipes of wyne
were laden abord the sayd shipps but
not howe many were laden after this deponents accompte, but when he
received those letters, or of what date they are, he remembreth not,
but will beinge all the sayd letters innto the assurance office the next Court
daye, and that he had the first notice of the ladinge of wines abord
the sayd shipp for this deponents accompte by the sayd letters received from
the sayd marmaduke Royden, longe before the arrivall of the sayd
shipp into the Downes./

Henry Crane [SIGNATURE, CENTRE]
----
28o Novembris 1635 [CENTRE HEADING]

Jobson et al contra Bell./

1s

det Wilson/

Radulphus Handson parochia omium Sanctorum Staynings London
mercator etats 58 annorum aut circiter estis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos alluis ex parte dci Bell in hac parte dat
et oblat dicit et deponit That uppon or about the
nyneth day of this instant moneth of November the articulate mr Robert
Bell came to this deponent beinge an accomptant and skilled in Arithmaticke
and delivered him a note in writinge subscribed by John Goodwyn
and Jeremy Sambrooke under the tenor of those words followingge
videlicet 10 tonne of wheat of Moran measure delivered abord at 52
bushells to the tonne:/

42 bushells of Moran is 37 31/64 bushells English.

The Quere is what the 210 tonne at 42 bushells Moran per tonne
in English tonnes accordinge to the former proportion at 40 bushells
English to the tonne./

To the which Question this deponent answareth by vertue of his oath. That two
hundred and ten tonnes, at fourtye two bushells per tonne is eight
thousand eighte hundred and twentye bushells. which is English accordinge
to the proportion of fourty two to thirty seaven 31/64 parts seaven thousand
eight hundred seaventye bushells English, which at fourtye
bushells English per tonne is one hundred nynetye six tonnes thirtye
two bushells English, And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true
And further he cannott depose./

Raphe Handson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
~~~
HCA 13/52 f.178v

dco die [CENTRE HEADING]

2s./

det Wilson

Johannes Goodwin parochia omnium Sanctorum Barking
London generosus etatis 41 annorum aut circiter testis in
hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum secundum et tertium articulos alluis ex parte dci Bell in hac parte dat et oblat dict
et deponit That two hundred and ten tonne of Maran measure accomptinge
fourtye two bushells of the sayd measureof a tonne, and
likewise
accomptinge those fourtye two bushells Maran measure to
make one thirtye seaven bushells

John Goodwin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dco die [CENTRE HEADING]

3s./ Bell/

det Wilson/

Jacobus Cockett parochia sancti Bartholomei prope
Royale Excambium London generosus etatis 24 annorum
aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus./

Ad primum nescit deponere./
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179

Pro nave ye Grace de)
Dartmouth)

1s

Johannes White parochia sancti Gabrielis ffenchurch London
mercator etats 28 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./

Ad primum articulum allegaconis ex parte Petri Therrye et alioru in hac
parte date et oblat, dicit et deponit That he hath latelye viewed
a shipp lyeinge in the river of Thames neere Horsey Downe which was
broughte in thither by the company of a shipp of
Sir William Curteene knighte called the Catherine, and was (as
he hath heard) found by them at sea as a derelicte, and sayeth that
he well knoweth that shipp and soe hath donne for these five or
six yeares last past and within that tyme hath often seene her at Dartmouth and sayeth that she is called by the name of
the Grace of Dartmouth, and for all the tyme he hath soe knowne her
the articulate Peter Therrye and Clement Palmer have bene reputed
to be part owner of the sayd shipp tackle and furniture, which
he knoweth to be true for that he this deponent hath heertofore caused
assurances to be made on the sayd shipp in the name and on the
behalfe of the sayd Therrye and Palmer. Et aliter necit deponere./

Ad secundum articulum dicit et deponit That before the bringinge of the sayd
shipp the Grace into the river of Thames this deponent hath seene a letter
written by Marke Jawkings of Dartmouth merchant unto the articulate
Samuel Bonnell being a servant unto Sir William Curteene knighte
unto whome this deponent is likewise a servant wherby the sayyd Hawkings
did advise the sayd Bonnell that he had taken the sayd shipp the
Grace to fraighte for a voyage from the porte of Dartmouth to
the Newfoundland to lade fish or trayne oyle and to deliver the
same at Nants in ffrance for the accompte of him the sayd
Hawkings and of the sayd Samuel Bonnell and company Et aliter
nescit deponere./

Ad tertium et quartum nescit deponere/

Ad quintum dicit et deponit That the sayd shipp the Grace and her
ladinge of Newfoundland fish is the same shipp
which was arrested by authoritye of this Court as a derelicte which he
knoweth to be true for that he was present and sawe when
mr Smyth one of the officers of this Court did arrest the same.
Et aliter quam prius nescit deponere/

Ad ult dicit predeposita per eum ea vera./

Idem super Interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause by the meanes
and appoyntment of Sir William Curteene, and that in respecte of
the cause he favoreth the partyes litigant indifferentlye and desireth that
right may take place./

Ad secundum respondet That he hath noe interest in the shipp in question but
a sixth part of the goods in question which were laden by
the foresayd Marke Hawkings and company were for the proper accompte of
him this respondent, but sayeth that it will be noe benefitt or losse to him
wheither the shipp and goods in question be recovered from or adiudged to
his Majestye, for that he this respondent made an assurance uppon the whole vallue of
his part of the sayd goods and hath renounced his interest in the sayd goods
unto the assurers./

Ad tertium respodet That he doth not sollicitt or followe this cause Et aliter
necit respondere./

Ad quartum respondet That Clement Palmer is interessed with the interrogate Peter Terrye
in the shipp in question, and that Marke Hawkins Samuel Bonneall Josias
Ent and this respondent were owners of the goods in question and noe other (to this respondents knowledge) is
(interessed
~~~
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180

ultimum Novembris 1633

were
were
Thomas Page of Dartmouth in the Countye of Devon merchant aged
about 27 yeares sworne before the worshipfull Bassill Wood Surrogate
to the righte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Matyes
as followeth
high Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath which
That about a yeare since, this d John Sake of Dartmouth merchant
Richard Elacotts of the same merchant and this deponent did buy a shipp
called the Providence of Dartmouth of the burthen of fourtye five
tonnes or therabouts, in thirds videlicet each of them a third part, and in or
victuall
about the moneth of March last past by the sayd owners did sett
and sett forth the sayd shipp and lett
and fraighte two and
under the mained of William Clitt the master of her
express of Plymone merchant for a voyage to Prana, and from then
to the Newfoundland, and in which voyage from Pinna towards the
Newfoundland the sayd shipp (as he hath heard) was taken by the Turks
and caryed to Sallye, and of the tyme of her settinge forth on that
her
voyage, and at the tyme of her takinge as aforesaid the sayd John Drake
and Richard Elacott and this deponent were each of every one of them or
and tackle and put into
respectively owners of the said sayd shipp in third as aforesaid. And this
hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true, that they payd for the same
one hundred and eleaven pounds sterling the first pennye, and that the
victuallinge and so fittinge the sayd shipp with sayles rigginge and other
furniture for the said voyage cost them seaventy more at the least
And this he knoweth to bee true beinge not were affirmeth uppon
his oath to bee true./
----
dco die.

Tho: Page

John Brade of Dartmouth in the County of devon merchant
aged about 27 yeares sworne and examined as aforesaid sayeth and
deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet. That in of about the moneth
of October last was twelve monethes, this depont and his precontest
Thomas Page and Richard Ellacott of Dartmouth merchants did
buy of one Erasus Deepe at Dartmouth a shipp called the Providence
then belonginge to Milford in Wales, for which they payd one hundred
(and eleaven pounds sterling, or therabouts, which they soe boughte in thirds
and after the soe for their owne accompts respectivelye, and in
the moneth of March then next followeinge they the sayd owners did
and victuall and fitt the sayd shipp with all necessaryes and lett her ⁁ fraighte
on a voyage from Dartmouth to Pinna in Portugall, and from thence
shee was to goe to the Newfoundland, to be laden from thence with
strayne oyle for Bilboe in Biskaye, and from thense to returne for
Dartmouth of London, on which shipp and voyage this deponent did cause
to bee after himselfe and the sayd Richard Ellacott to be assured
the somme of one hundred and fifty pounds by John Thierrye and
Timothy man of London merchants which sayd shipp in her voyage from
Vane towards the Newfoundland was (as hee hath heard) appeareth
by the testimony of Lawrence weeks to made in this Court) taken by
made And this
a man of warr of Silly and brought there broughte
hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true
John Bake
dco die./
Comon and
Petrus a Layne parochia sancti Botolphi Billingate Lond
mercator et extraves, aetatis 39 annorum aut circiter testis
in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./
ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos alluis ex parte dicti Jacobson et socioru
et deponit That in the same
at
in hac parte about other before hee things were in
Pd
Saint Martin
an into the
homes
and thirtye pounds p tonne and rate sed ple for thirtye and noe and
thirtye
~~~
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thirtye pounds p tonne, and at but at the prsentlye after the
cominge up of the sayd puncke the price of the oyles ffell, and
f kinsed oyle which was sould about five or six dayes before the
comminge up of the sayd pincke for thirtye three pounds p tonne
was th afterwards sould for twentye seaven and twentye eighte
pounds p tonne, and rage seed oyle was sould of after within fewe
dayes after the cominge up of the said pincke reposed hee was
was sould at xxij£
10 xvii£ p tonne, and by reason the sayd
And he alsoe that at the tyme of the cominge up of the sayd
puncke shee had in her five tonnes of raye seed byle and one
tonne of hiseed oyle which were consigned unto this deponent by
to bee sould by him for the accompte of the sayd Martin Jacoble
owners which this deponent did by and that this deponent did fell pose
six some of oyle the sayd Jacobsons owners did sustayne damage
five
in the sale of the said oyles comon by cominge or sixe dayes to
late to the markett, the somme of xxxij£ att the least besids the
leakinge of the sayd oyle Et aliter nescit deponere. savinge he sayeth
that the sayd Martin Jacobson tould this deponent that he was chaced
into ffoversham Creeke by a Dunkirker and then and otherwise he
a had come up to London five or six dayes some that he did
Peter dayly
----
dco die

Thomas Hayes parochia om Sanctorum Lumberstreet Lon
drap aetatis 37 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus et examinatus./
ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos alluis ex parte dicti Jacobson et
socioru in hac parte datus et oblatus, dicit et deponit

That about
the beginninge of the moneth of September last p in Anno
pleman by profession did
London
diu 1633 this deponent sounde a

seed oyle was worth and comonlye sould here in for thirtye three pounds
per tonne, and raposed oyle for thirtye pounds and bonne
or therabouts, but within a moneth then next followeinge the
price of those kinde of oyles dailye fallinge, the sayd Oyles
were comonly sould for xij£ and tonne, The premisses hee
knoweth to bee true for that he is an oyleman by profession
and findeth by his booke, that the tyme aforesayd hee was
the seale yarne aforesaid for Lister and puse the
Thomas Ayes
Et aliter nescit deponere./
----
dco die.

Robertus ffellowe doe sancti Bothi Willinge
Roop aetatis 33 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus iuratus et exaiatus./

Ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That in the moneths of August and September

Ad 1633 used oyle was worth and comonly sould soe
in London for thirtye foure pounds and thirtye three pound
ten shillings p tonne, and hapested oyles was sould for eight
twentye, and nyne and twentye pounds p tonne, and at soe
the rates those kinds of oyle were sould about ten dayes before
the cominge up of the articulate pincke called the Hope of
Sirricksea into the river of Thames, in which puncke there were
at the tyme of her arrivall in the sayd river twelve pipes
of pused and rape seed oyle, but presently after the coming
and vallue
of the sayd pincke the price of those kinds of oyle did growe
great
lesse and lesse, and soe by reason of a quantities of the like of
then shortly after in brought in other shipps, and soe that used
ple
others
~~~
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181

prton

oyle was within a short tyme after ye arrivall of the sayd
on
puncke sould for twenty eighte and twentye nyne p tonne, and
rape seed ple for twentye six and twenty seaven pound
tonne, And that by reason of the premisses the owners of the
sayd part twelve pipes of oyle broughte in the sayd pincke
the Hope did sustayne damage in the sall of the sayd one
in not cominge a weeke or therabouts owner then she did betweene
twentye and thirtye pounds sterling, The premisses he knoweth to bee
tyme for that he beinge a kinsman to and liveinge in house with the
so his precontest Peter Vamayne to whom the sayd oyles
were consigned was acquainted with the cominge up of the sayd
puncke and sawe howe the said oyles were sould, and howe the like
oyles were sould before their arrivall as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit
deponere savinge he sayeth he was tould by Marten Jacobs the master
sayd pincke that he was chaced by a Dunkirke into Hamborowe
or Clerke
or eise he might have come up with the said sayd pincke six or
seaven dayes sooner then hee did./

Robert ffellowe
----
2º Decembris 1635

Bartholomewe Gilman of the parish of Saint Mary Malmouth London
merchant sworne before the worshipfull William Merricke Doctor
of lawes Surrogate to the righte worshipfull Sir henry Marten knighte
Judge of his Matyes high Court of the Admiraltye, and afterwards
examined on certayne Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe
of Ellis otherton and others againt henry Crowne sayeth therunto
as followeth videlicet.

To the first Interrogatory he sayeth That in the moneths of December
Januarye or ffebruarye undi 1633 this the interrogate
Henrye Corne beinge in the Assurance office London did
then and there in the presence of this deponent and of divers others
and
wherof hee remembreth one Richard Miller a merce who useth to
underwrite pollities of assurance, and Thomas Marsham or and
were three
master Richard Woodward both ordinary assurers, declare that he had
nynetye two pipes of Canary wine in the interrogate shipp the
Sazan when shee when she came from the Canaryes, and that he did not
then or any other tyme in this deponents hearinge saye that he had above
nynetye two pipes of wyne in the said shipp, And after the castinge
away of the said shipp when this deponent payd the said Crowne his part
of the losse sustayned by him the said Crowne in his wynes assured and by
this deponent in the said shipp the sayd Crowne did not speake of any
greater quantitye which he had in the said shipp at the tyme of her
castinge away but nynetye two pipes, or other tymes

To the second hee sayeth That att an another tyme after the sayd speeches
as this deponent conceiveth the ver
used by the sayd broome of the assurance office as aforesayd
sayd Crowne did saye that some of the assurers which had underwritt
would full and
his pollicye aforesaid ⁁ but howe many would fall out, or wheither hee
did saye that only the seaven first underwriters of the said pollicye hould
beare adventure, this deponent remembreth not.

To the third he sayeth That this deponent and Robert South and Gregory
Clement or one of them, did on the behalfe of themselves and the rest
of the assurers which the said Crowne did declare to bee lyable to his said lesse
viewe the wines which were saved out of the said shipp and did compound
with him after the rate of 5 nynetye two pipes in the said shipp for
at the tyme of her castinge away belonginge to the said Crowne, but which
howe many the said Browne soe compannded hee remembreth not but by conceiveth
and beleiveth that besids this deponent, the foresayd Roberte master and Gregory Clement
George Prior, one John Harrye Timothy Eman did compound after the same rate
A and man
as this deponent did
nes
~~~
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3º Decembris 1635

Supry et socij contra Jacobson et al/

and
Petrus Wye Van Payne ad interrogate./

Ad primum respondet That he cometh to bee examined in this cause
the request of the Dutch Embassadoes Secretary, and that hee
favoreth the partyes in this cause equallye and de would give
victorye them that have most righte therunto if it laye in this
power

Ad secundum respondet That he is bayle for the sayd Martyn Jacobs
and companye in this cause but he hath not, nor doth sollicite
this the same. And her hath hee
but did never laye out any money about the
sollicitacon or prosequition of this cause but some tymes went with
the sayd Martin Jacobs to the Dutch Embassador about this cause
and sometymes spent a shillinge or two or goeinge up and downe
with the sayd Jacobs and sometymes this de respondent went with
master Newport to the sayd Jacobs his procted about this busines, and
sometymes by himselfe by the direction of the said Embassador
se hath gone to the said Jacobs his procted and gave him such directions
as the said Embassador did imploye him in Et aliter respondet negae.

Ad tertium respondet That he hath noe interest in this cause but hee much
paye whatsoever the sayd Jacobs and company is or shalbe concerned
to paye but it wilbe noe benefitt to him in this respondent
in case the said Jacobs and company doe the vayle in this suite
pincke

Ad quartum respondet That he was not in the sayd Jacobs his shipp when
Et aliter nescit
she surprized the said duoye his p partash or five
respondere and savinge he sayeth there were but fower men and a boy
in the said pincke (to this rendents knowledge) when she came
upp to London the voyage in question

Ad quintum nescit respondere savinge he sayeth that the said Jacobson
this respondent
tould him ⁁ that he was hindred from cominge up to London
five or six dayes by a Dunkirke

Ad sextum respondet That hee in the moneth of September 1633. Sunder
and have seed oyle) were sould at the Majesties menconed in his former
deposions, but after the arrivall of the said Jacobsons puncke the
price of the sayd oyles grewe lesse and lesse every daye and that
at houth
he this respondent sould oyles at the rate menconed in his predent
5£
de depositions, but he to whom hee sould them or what daye, or the
at all are
Et aliter quam pred eposuit nescit respondere./

Ad quartum nescit nec audivit aliquid de contents in qua interrogate./
master Peter Wye
dco die/
Thomas Smes ad interrogate./
ad primum respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause as
the request of his prcontest master Peter Man Payne and that
hee favoreth the parties in this cause indifferently and desireth the
right may take place./

Ad secundum respondet negative ad omnia contenta in eadem

Ad tertio decimum respondet That he hath noe interest in this suite of her the
shall hee gayne or loose any thinge house soever the Successe the
bee

Ad quartum respondet negative p parte sua Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quintum nescit respondere/

Ad primum respondet That in the worth of greate and
bought one pie of hoised tyde after the rate of hee said shipp
a merchant dwellinge in Tower street after the rate of xxx
true, and in the same moneth in tenne or the of hopes for
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182

John Lucye at the rate of thirtye pounds p tonnes, but within a moneth
a moneth then next followeinge this deponent bought two or three
pipes of ape see oyle for xij£ per tonne of master Martyn Plante
a merchant then dwellinge in Crutchett foyers, but hee bought
noe used oyle within that tyme, but sayth the said oyles were
comonly sould within and twentye or thirtye shillings in a tonne
at one and the same rate. Et aliter qua prius nescit respondere./

Ad 17 nescit dep respondere./

Thomas Ams
----
dco die.

Robtus ffellowe ad interrogate/

Ad primum respondet That he was spoken to by the Dutch himbassador
decretarye, and his prcontest master Peter Van Payne to come
to testifye in this cause, and that he favoreth the sayd Martyn
Jacobs more then the said duoye, and that hee desireth that righte
may take place.

Ad secundum respondet negative ad omnia contenta eisdem

Ad tertium respondet negative

Ad quartum respondet negative pro parte sua Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quintum nescit respondere aliter quam prius./

Ad sextum refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad 7 nescit respondere/

Robert ffellowes./

dead p interrogate
-0---
15º Dec 1635
9º Decembris 163

contra Lotland.

Robertus Hurley, poa sancke Bridgette ffleet ffreet
London dra aetatis 40 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
parte productus iuratus et examinatus./
ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit

That within the tyme articulate the articulate
or therabouts
The articulate John Loveland tould this deponent
that he the sayd Loveland and the articulate John Broked and
William Giles had fraighted the articulate shipp called the Bonadventure
ndon to yarmouth there
of London for a voyage from the port of her goods which shee had taken in his lond
which those herrings and lead and oth
to take in herrings and from thence to sayle directlye to to Naples
without stayeinge for any other shipp to goe in company with her, or
puttinge into any port when any the winde was fayre for her to
proceed for ples, and that if he this deponent or any friend of his
would adventure any thinge in the sayd shipp in that voyage, hee
mighte, wheruppon this deponent acquainted the articulate Oliver neave
therwth and afterwards the sayd Loveland and neave had severall
meetings both at the sayd noves shipp at neere the Royall Exchange
and uppon the Exchange, and the sayd Loveland at such meetings did
was make the like proposition unto the sayd Neve as hee had formerly
done to this deponent, and theruppon the sayd neave tould the sayd
Robeland, that to accommodate him and for ould acquaintance, hee
would deliver him two hundred pounds to be imployed in lead and
herrings to and to be to be delivered or consigned to one laid
Browne at Naples for the accompt prop of him the sayd neare
company or
and not in ⁁ partner shipp with the said Loverland and the rest of the
fraighters of the sayd shipp and then the sayd Loveland did desire
the sayd of eate to come into Charter partye with him and the rest
of the ⁁ fraighters, but the sayd Neave replyed that he would not come
into Charter partye neither would hee have any thinge to doe in the
fraight of the fraightinge of the sayd shipp, for that his sayd two hundred
pounds
et
fore
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pounds of Lead and herrings when they came to Naples would
alwayes be worth the fraighte, which should be and then the
Loveland demannded the sayd neare what fraighte should and
would paye for his Cold of lead and herrings wherunto the sayd
at Naples
neave replyed that he would paye such fraighte as the fores
should thincke fitt
liver Browne ⁁ which (as the said Rowland should did nor full
to whome the whole of Cargazon of goods laden in the sayd shipp were
consigned) should thincke fitt, and wherunto the sayd Loveland
him selfe or his Assigne
tented, and did afterwards as he the sayd Lovely
solved to be to
into this
confessed ⁁ accept receive the sayd some of two hundred pounds, of the
sayd Noare, and did urye this deponent to speake to the sayd Newe
to come in for a fifth part of the whole Cargazon of Lead and herring
or therabouts
which (as he sayd) would come to twentye seaven pounds more ⁁ then
sayd two hundred pounds, but the sayd neave uppon the nation there
made to him this deponent refused soe to doe that he would and sayd
that he would adventure noe more f but the sayd two hundred
ds for the his owne prop accompte, and that he would not come
in
into ptnershipp with the said Loveland and the rest of the fraighters
aforesayd. Et aliter nescit deponere./
idem super interrogatoria./
ad primum respondet That if it laye in his power the sayd to dispose
of the victorye in this cause he should adiudge that the sayd
neave should boare the whole losse of that came uppon the
Kings
sayd two hundred pounds of lead and that and venture for
the sayd Neve hould bee
his owne and prop accompte, but th and that the sayd Toveland
greed
should pade the fraighte hee excised ⁁ from payeinge any of
the fraighte demanded of him by the said Lopeland. Et aliter respondet./
negative./
by the
in ployed
to be

Ad secundum respondet That the two hundred pounds deliver
Neave unto the sayd Loveland was delivered in parte
adventure of lead and herrings for the prop accompte of the
the sayd Neve, which two hundred pounds of herrings and leads of which
to naules, the righ the sayd Never
two hundred pounds then lead
to beare the adventure and after the arrivall of the sayd shipp
at Naples, the foresayd liver Browne was to sell the whole
Cargazon of Read and herrings, and then to take but as much
for the said pticuler Naves pticuler accompte
the said 200£ in lead and herrings ⁁ did produce, and to returne
the prowed therof to the said neave in any for sitts or
as the sayd neave and both
any other commonlyes he should doe for his pticuler and hee
and company of
accompte and not in ptnershipp with the sayd Loveland, and the
the the said shipp on the order
at hee
rest, Et aliter nescit p respondere.
by this rendents advise 6

Ad tertium respondet That the sayd stive leave ⁁ did assure uppon
the two hundred pounds in lead and herrings adventured for the
owne pre accompte in the sayd shipp the voyage in quest
and a
at five per centum
three hundred pounds by way of bartayne, to which same the
conceived
made accompte the said good would have thence of the said
lead and herrings had come to a good markett at Naples, the
that one master offer Kirkye was one of the assurers the
assured the same, but who were the rest of the sayd shares
he remembreth not, Et aliter nescit respondere.

Ad quartum refert se ad predepoita Et aliter nescit respondere/

Ad quintum respondet That the sayd neave had noe other adventure
in the sayd shipp to Naples the voyage in question, but the sayd
some of 200£ before mentioned which was for his owne proparons
company of
and most in stive shipp with the sayd Loverland, Et aliter nescit./
Robert Aurely
flus Comitati Will
the
the
master
said
were
1s
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183

menconed
and pretate.
Mately and
Maston et soe

13º Januarij 1635 impta

1s

Thomas Smith of the libertie of the Tower of London Mariner
aged aboute 40 yeares sworne before the worshipfull William Merricke Doctor
of Lawes Surrogate to the rte worshipfull Sir Henry Marten Knighte Judge of the
highe Courte of the Admiralty of England beinge examined saieth and deposeth
latter and of September

That aboute the beginginge of October last past hee this examinate was imployed
sent over to Dunckercke by master John Marston, Englishe merchante to fetch
shippe therehense which one Thomas ffin
of Shadwell marriner
of one master Ambrof a Meste of Dunckere chant
bought there for him the said Marston and Company ⁁ and that
within six or seaven dayes after the direccon given by the foresaid Master
hee this examinate did arrive at Dunckercke, and did repaire to the said
Ambrosa messine and demannded the said shippe of him for the use of ye
said Marston and Company, and the said Ambrossia hee saieth uppon his
this extes demannde delivered him a certaine shippe of the burthen of
aboute one hundred tonnes, ffrench builte, and hee saieth that that shippe
hee saieth as hee was informed at Dunckercke which information hee beleeveth
was true was adiudged for lawfull prize, and after the adiudication thereof
sould by the said Ambrosta Messine unto the foresaid Hunt for the use of the
examinate
said Marston and Company, and hee saieth that after hee this ⁁ had taken
possession of the said shippe hee this examinate by the said Marstons direccon did
fitt her with all called her by the named her the Elsabeth, and hee alsoe
saieth that shee is of the burthen of aboute one hundred tonnes as before
hee hath declared, eight foote and a halfe deepe in the holde but her
length or breth hee knoweth not, and shee hath in her twoe decks and
halfe decke and aforecastle and a rounde house and doth as hee beleeveth and
for ought hee knoweth to the contrary soely and pperly belonge and
master
appertaine to the foresaid John Marston, whoe is an Englishe man borne
and a subiecte to the Kinge of England and liveth in a place called
Lyme streete in London And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true./
further addinge that before his departure from Dunckercke with the foresaid
shippe hee this examinate did procure an attestacon out of the Admiralty of
and
Dunckercke of the adiudicacon of the said shippe there for lawfull

Thomas B

prize
----
dco die./

Alexander Banckes of Plymouth marriner aged aboute 34 yeares
sworne as aforesaid beinge examined saieth and deposeth as followeth videlicet

That that hee this examinate beinge hired by his precontest Thomas Smith to
goe over with him to Dunckercke for to helpe him to bringe shippe
therehense which was boughte there, and hee saieth that uppon theire
arrivall to at Dunckercke aforesaid in the presence and heareinge of him
this examinate the said Smith did demannde of one And sta messinge a
merchante of Dunckercke whoe was then uppon the Key at Dunckerck
a certaine shippe which hee the said Vessone had sould to one master Marston
as the said Smith sayd told
of London charte, and that after the said Smith had demannded the
said shippe of the said Messine hee the said Messone did deliver the
Smith hee should
not refuse or denie the delivery thereof but told the said
have
was
yt
Bre
the
R
of
the
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have her, and shewed him where shee was then lyeinge at the said ship
Key at Dunkerke, and hee saieth the said Messoone went about
with the said Smith
the said shippe and put the said Smith in possession thereof and is
saieth that after the said Smith had taken, the possession of the
foresaid shippe hee named her the Elsabeth, and that shippe soe calle
the Elsabeth hee saieth is of the burthen of aboute a hundred and
hee guesseth, and is aboute fowerteene foote boa
tenn tonnes as this examinate
in this exts judgrent, and aboute eight booke in the holde and
ffe aforesaid
aboute fower foote betweene deckes, and had in her ⁁ twoe deck and
a halfe decke, and a forecastle but that soe castle hee saieth was
broaken downe, and the foresaid shippe hee saieth was as hee beleeveth
bought at Dunckercke aforesaid for the use of the foresaid master
Marston, and doth belonge and appertaine unto the said Majesties
giveinge a reason of his beleife for that uppon theire arrivall with
the said shippe from Dunckercke aforesaid here at this porte of
London the said Marston came to them and bid then well come
home with the said shipper, and them the foresaid Smith did acknowledge
the said Marston to bee the owner of her, and the said Marston hee
saieth is an Englishman and liveth in lye streete London and
a subiecte to the Kinge of England, and noe strannger or from
the said Marston
for ought this examinate knoweth or ever heard hath nowe any interest
in the said shippe And this hee saieth is true by vertue of his oath

signum Allum 2. Smith

and in
----
1º Martij
1
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184

us and Henry

20º Novembris 1635

Johannes Robinson de Leenbye in comitatu Bra annos
aged about annos agens 32 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte
productus iuratus, et examinatus dicit et deponit prout
sequitur./

Ad secundu arlu alluis in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et deponit
tyme, July ry August
That in June July last past there was laden aboard the
Ketch called the Hopewell wherof one Anthony Tompson was
master) to and for the accounte and adventure of the articulate
Thomas Deason, William Harris, William Wilson, Henry master
that the Tees articulate
and Charles Harvey and Roberte f to the quantity of six
hundred fickins of butter or neere thereaboutes as did appeare
by the Cockett and other letters, which this he sawe and
perused, and the foresaid butter hee saieth was to bee
transported in the foresaid Ketch to this porte of London and
not to any other place and was here to bee delivered unto the
foresaid Deason and Company or theire assignes which hee
knoweth to bee true for that hee this examinate had twoe firkins
of butter in the said Ketch and had hired his passage in the
said Ketch the Hopewell from the does aforesaid to this porte
the voyage in queste
of London, At aliter nescit /
that uppon or

Ad tertiu affirmat aboute the being of August last
past as hee remembreth the said Ketch the Hopewell with
the foresaid butter and some sea coales which shee had taken
in at Newcastle sett saile from the Ties aforesaid for London
and in her course towards London neere fflamborough heard
mett with a violent storme and tempest, and in that storme
was driven out the said Keth the Hopewell was done
out to set and putt quite by her roade, and hee saieth that
the master of her and her Company were forced to putt her out
to sea for safeguard of her, and her Companies lives, and soe
was driven uppon the coast of Callis and
that storme the said Ketch the Hopewell proved and grewe
very leakye and was in greate dannger of sinckinge, and further hee
and soe much by leakedge
saieth that shee tooke in soe much water close ⁁ that her company
were not able to cleare her as and the pumpe water hee saieth
gettinge into the coales as they pumped they pumped upp some could
with the water which stopped the pumpe by which meane they were
enforced to pull upp there pumpe and in pullinge upp the pumpe
a greate parte of the butter in her fell into the place where hence
the pumpe came soe that they could not gett the pumpe downe
againe by a foote and a halfe And this hee saieth is true for the the
was in the said Keth the tyme aforesaid. At aliter nescit /
Petch the
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Ad quartum affirmat that after the said Ketch the Hopewell was
the storme reaseinge
a
out of her roade aforesaid and put out to sea, uppon or aboute the
aforesaid
eighteenth day
fifteene or sixteeneth of Auguste as neere as hee guesseth they ested
land, which they supposed to bee the North Ireland, and makeinge
towards the shoare that land at intendinge to goe aboute that
the espied
land takeinge it to bee the North foreland as aforesaid ⁁ twoe men
warr which lay uppon that shoare it beinge uppon the coast
of Callice as did afterwards appeare) one of those men of warr
made chace after the said Ketch the Hopewell and shott divers
small shott at the said Ketch the Hopewell and afterwards
boarded her, and put tenn or twelve men on board her, and
those tenn or twelve men hee saieth kepte possession of the said
fetch the Hopewell one whole day from morneinge untill
darcke nighte and the said man of warr after hee had put some
boarded and taken the said Ketch those men which were put into her
sayled away and the men which hee were putt into her sayled
after the said man of warr with the said Ketch the Hopewell and her
ladeinge, and the Captaine of the said man of warr hee saieth sent for
the articulate Anthony Tompson the master of the Hopewell and him this examinate
to come aboard the said man of warr and to bringe theire Casks and all
theire letters and Cocketts aboard and told them that they were bounde for
Dunckercke but after hee had braken uppon theire letters and Cocketts
and sawe that they were bound for London hee aboute in eight or nyne
of the Clocke at night hee put them aboard him this examinate and the said Anton
in that tyme this
Tompson aboard the said the Ketch the Hopewell againe, and those and pre
ten or twelve
had
the men of warrs men which were aboard the Hopewell eate and drancke
Hopewells
upp moste of the provision of breade and beare, and those which from
after they came aboard
the master of the said Ketch and him this examinate aboard the Hopewell nor tooke
away twoe firkins of butter, a ffresh Salmon and a Cunger, and then
dismissed them but one of those men
one of those men, which brought this examinate and the master aboard the Hopewell
examinate
whom this Cluncketh was an Englishe man seeinge in what case they were in
and nowe leaky theire shippe Ketch was told the said Anthony Tompson this
theire best wayes was to putt and this examinate to privately that there bee
way was to gett under the ffort of Dunckercke, they beinge then
within a league as hee guesseth of the said ffort, and told them soe
they should steere to gett in theither, and hee saieth that accordingly they soe
putt with towards the foresaid ffort and came safe to an anchor right bee
against the said fforte, At aliter nescit /
a

Ad quintum affirmat, That all the while the said Ketch the Hopewell who
at anchor neere the fforte of Dunckercke aforesaid all theire Company
excepte the said Anthony Tompson the master, him this examinate and
by were very saile and freele, and hee saieth hee had but told
men and a boy in her all the voyage besided him this examinate whoe were
her as a pallinger and hee saieth they had or noe ordinance, gunns
the
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185

other weapons aboard the said Ketch the said voyage that this examinate the
knewe of, and the cheesest cause that this examinate knoweth of whoe the
said Retch the Hopewell putt into the harbour of Dunckercke and came
where they intended to have made
soe neere the towne of Dunckercke as shee did was for that whilest they
said the Hopewell tight againe and are stopt her leakes aliter
lay over against the ffort the sould soulders of the ffort came by
almost
fore aboard the said Retch and did what they lasted as is most of
the said Ketches Company beinge sicke, and when they begann to resiste
them, and would not suffer them to come aboard the said Keth they in the
fforte shott two peeces of ordnance at the said Hath the Hopewell
and thereuppon they weighed anchor and sayled towards the tonne of
Dunckercke and as they were giveinge in towards the some they mett
with a shippe that was comeinge for forth from Dunckercke for London
and one John Seaman of one of the said Hopewells Company beinge very
sicke and weake desired leave of the said Tompson to come for England in the
said shippe and the said Tompson hee saieth gave him leave to came
in the said shippe for an England and sent over a letter by him the said
seaman to his owners here in London to advertise them where the said
Keth the Hopewell was and that hee letter hee saieth hee this examinate did
write for the said Anthony Tompson, and hee saieth that after they
came neere the Towne of Dunckercke there came a Billame out of
five
manned out from the Towne with fower or men of the Kinge of
Spaines officers aboard the said Hetch and made seizure of the said
and told them, they should have theire to
but must not carry part therehence for that the Kings counted
Rethes ladeinge of butter ⁁ and forced the said Ketch within the Bam
Barne, and that after hee was forced within the Boome aforesaid and
of her
that they were of unladeinge ⁁ the Governor of Dunckercke as they tooke
him to bee came and arrested the said Ketch and her goodes and
afterwards there arose a controversie betweene the Towne and the Kings
of Spaine officers howe the said Ketches ladeinge of butter should bee
devided Al aliter nescit /

Ad sextum affirmat That after the said Ketch the Hopewell was
repayred and amended againe and her leakes stopt, they master of her
was and that they had received theire victualls they would have comen
away, but hee saieth before that they were upon the premisses they were
the said fetch was seized uppon and arrested Al aliter quam prius nescit
saveinge hee saieth that some of those men, which came the second tyme
aboard the said Ketch and arrested her did for that this examinate told them
Thom
they should have noethinge to doe there and shewed him astile, offered
to drince is sworde and his house of him this examinate and gave him soe
in Spanye
were ⁁ which this examinate understoode not onely hee said dever perfore and
another of those men beate one of the Hopewells Company alls John but
not
whitely hee remembreth) which much and made runn into his daton

Ad 7.
nescit deponere alter quam prius saveinge hee saieth that whilest
the said Retch remained at Dunckercke there came one of her hand
men and one Giles gover to Dunckercke to fetch the said th the
Generall and her ladinge of butter frigaton and they said but for the
came to her all the saile soe taken of the said ship
Hopewell
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Ad decimum nescit deponere./
Super reliquis arlis dca alluis non examinatur ex direccon
ptis producen./
Idem ad Interrogatoria./
ad primum interria respondet That hee cometh to testifie the truth
and
this cause at the request of master Harris and master Deacon twoe of the parties
6
Pd
agents producente and expecteth to receive noe sole or reward for his
and deposicon

Ad secundu refert se ad predepoita et aliter nescit deponere respondere

Ad Ad tertiu refert se ad predepoita et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad quartu respondet That hee had twoe firckins butter in the Ketch the
Hopewell when shee came into Dunckercke as before hee hath deposed and
hee saieth butter was sould at Dunckercke the price of a firckin of butter
if the same were good was at Dunckercke when, the Hopewell came theither
R
28 and as a firckin and with another and hee soe much the butter was
as hee thincketh
1s
given for the butter in question ⁁ and hee saieth that hee this respondent had
for his two firkins of butter 28 a firkin, and hee saieth it was not
worth and would not have yeelded (as hee beleeveth) above xxs a firkin
her in London the tyme aforesaid

Ad quintum et respondet That the next day after they came within the Boone of
Dunckercke all the butter in the said Ketch the Hopewell was unladen out
of her, At aliter quam prius in depoits ss continetur nescit de respondere./

Ad sextum respondet That to his best remembrance the butter in question was
seized on uppon a monday in the afternoone, and was afterwards came
within the Boone and there arrested againe and unladen out of the said
Ketch the Hopewell, and hee saieth they arrived and came to anchor videlicet
against the ffort of Dunckercke the Satterday before, and hee saieth that all
the said Ketches ladeinge was seized on, At aliter quam prius nescit /

Ad septimum respondet That hee hath heard that it is againste his Majesties proclaracon to
transporte butter into to Dunckercke or any other forraigne parts
said Ad octavum nescit respondere saveinge hee saieth that the money for the bone
in question was as hee beleeveth payable uppon bills of Exchange, but
by whome or when or wheather it bee received or noe hee knoweth not
and saveinge hee saieth that hee this respondent had ready money payd his
his twoe fackins of butter

Ad octavum refert se ad predepoita et aliter nescit respondere hee beinge noe seaman
Apt. Ad decimum respondet That for these three or fower yeares last past to his knowledge the
the hath bin warrs betweene the Hollanders, and the Dunckerckers at aliter nescit saved
with hee saieth that is very improbable that any Golder Hollander should person
any shippe or vessell laden with butter or provision to goe into Dunckercke to
laden
Dunckercker perswade any such shippe to
goe into Holland./

Ad undecimum respondet that the second same day beinge Tuesday that they came out the
the Tes aforesaid the the said Keth the Hopewell proved leakye and that of
shee began to bee leakye shee had continually in her at the least as hee cause
twoe foote water in her hold Al aliter refert se ad predepoita et aliter nescit /
John Robinson
the

Ad
1s
us
2
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21º Novembris 1635

Rp J M

storehouse contra Caselye
Johes Ellis parochia sca Maria Matsellon als Whitechapple
London navigator aetatis 46 annorum aut circiter tests in
det and soe cast
hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod
silie
parte producen p 6 menses et amplius aut circiter bene

respective novit
ad primum et schedulam articulos libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit et
deponit That within the tyme articulate the articulate Gilbert Stonechest and
company were owners of the articulate hoye called the ffortune of London
and her tackle and furniture, and the sayd hoye was by the sayd Stonechest
and companye victualled and sett forth on a voyage from the port of
London to the parts of ffrance and the articulate John Caseby went master of
her The premisses he knoweth to bee true for that he went the sayd
Caselyes mate in the sayd voyage. Et aliter nescit deponere/

Ad tertium nes dicit et deponit That within the tyme articulate the sayd hoye
sayled from the porte of London to the porte of Roane in ffrance, and
from thence to Cane in Normandye, and whilest the sayd hoye was at
storme the sayd John Casely confessed unto this deponent that he had
received all his fraighte at Roane, which was due to be payd there, but did
not tell him wheither hee had received one hundred pounds or any other some Et aliter
nescit deponere./

Ad quartum affirmat That before the goeinge forth of the sayd hoye from
the port of London on her sayd voyage for Roane this deponent heard
the sayd Stonechest give the articulate Thomas Marishall who went
in the said hoye to Roane, order to receive all such moneys as the
receive at Roane for the fraight of the
on a present when the said Stonechest gave that order
sayd John Caselye should
but the said Casoye was not
sayd hoye ⁁ Et aliter nescit deponere unto the said Marishall./

Ad quintum nescit deponere savinge he sayeth that whilest the sayd hoye
was at Roane the sayd Casebye did acknowledge in this deponents
hearinge that he had delivered only twentye pounds of the money received
by him there for fraight, unto the foresaid Thomas Marrishall. Et
aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 6 dicit et deponit That in the passage of the sayd hoye from Roane
towards Cane and shee said as kilbeene to be cleared there as it
is the usuall custome for shipps and vessells that to doe, that come or goe from
Roane to and whilest shee was at Bilboate the searchers came abord her
and seized uppon certayne moneys which were in the sayd Caselye his
Cabyn, and the sayd hoye stared there before shee could be resent freed
from trouble by reason of the said monyes, by the space of six or seaven
dayes longer then otherwise shee needed to have donne, Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 7 nescit deponere

Ad 8. et nonum nescit deponere./
super reliquis arlis dicti libelli non ext ex direction
Signum dicti s
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23º Novembris 1635

Stevenson contra Bell)

Rp J m

Thomas ffintham parochia sancti Swithin comitatu Mercer aetatis 26
annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et
examinatus dicit quod Thomam Bell ptem producen p

12 annos et amplius aut circiter et William Steevenson ptem contra qua
producit qua p 3 annos et amplius bene respe novit./

Ad 1 et secundum articulos alluis ex parte dicti Bell in hac parte datus et oblatus dicit
nescit deponere savinge he hath seene a lre written by the articulate ffrance Elliott
to the articulate Thomas Bell hath declaringe that the sayd hott had fraight
the
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2s

Rp J m

from
and shipp the are of he was wherof the articulate wayes and
the sayd sett to transport Corne from thence to the port of and
for the accompte of the said master Bell for the twentye five shilling
s torne, and that afterwards in reguard the sayd Stevenson had stayd
at Bourdeaux for the sayd Corne longer then the said Elliott upposed
hee should have done, therfore he had promised to give him xxx
sonne or therabouts, and that the said Stevenson was to have the
and noe more
one halfe of his fraighte at London uppon the delivery of the sayd
Corne and the other halfe at his the said Stevenson returne with
his shipp as Bourdeauly accordinge to the prize and vallue of money
in ffrance or to that effecte, And savinge that a in he moneth of
October last was twelve monethes, after the delivery of the sayd
Corne in this deponent port of London the sayd Stevenson cominge to the
sayd master Bells house to receive his fraighte master did in the presence
of this deponent (who was then a servant unto the sayd Bell) confesse
that ⁁ were an agreemt made betweene him and the said s Elliott to
there was
but
the effecte aforesayd ⁁ and at the same tyme the sayd S Stevenson tould
the sayd Bell that the sayd Solliott did before his the sayd
Steevensons departure from Bourdeaux promise and agree with him
that he the sayd Stevenson should have all his fraighte at London
uppon the delivery of the said Corne but the said Elliott did not
the said ship the
her dept the the of

Ad tertium 4. et octavum ⁁ articulos dicit et deponit That he doth nowe remember
howe much the sayd Steevensons whole fraighte for the said voyage in
question doth amounte unto but sayeth that after the arrivall of the
sayd shipp to the port of London from the voyage in question the said
this deponent by the order of the said Bell did pay unto the said Steevenson
in part of his fraighte one hundred and odd pounds and afterwards the said
earnest
Bell uppon the ⁁ agent intreatye of the sayd Stevenson did pay
him the sayd Stevenson of the remaynder of his whole fraighte
as it would amount unto if if it were all to be payd in England
ounds or therabouts. Et aliter nescit deponere/
wantinge but twenty
who was then goeinge agayne for Bourdeaully
add and gave the said Eliel Stevenson a note under his hand to receive
the remander of his fraight of the said Elliott if there were any due to
him, and if hee sayd in case it were agreed betweene them the said Steevense
an
them the said Allett that the said Stevenson should receive all his
fraighte for the said corne were in London Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad tertium affirmat That the Exchange of money delivered heere in to
to be payd in ffrance is comonly worth fourteene in the hund
videlicet for a delivered heere to be repayd in ffrance, merchants of
14£ or therabouts and some tymes more, and some tyme lesse the said
they
he knoweth to bee true beinge a merchant who fully tradeth betweene the
of moneys comonly relinge and fallinge ⁁ Et aliter qua prius nescit

Ad sextum refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad ultimum dicit praedeposita per eum ea vera./
John ffishing
dco die
Holland Button de Bondet nega in
mercator aetatis 27 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
productus iuratus et examinatus dicit quod Thome
ptem producen p is sua 3 yeares or
S te 4 mensis et amplius aut circit et nor putt a noa
William Stevenson ptem contra qua producits p 3annos
et amplius aut circiter novit.
ad primum et schedulam articulos dca alluis dicit et deponit That he was not with
the
hee
hee
to
one
dept by
sett

Ad
2d
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to
sterling
the said
xxx
5
he the
6
did while
or
Rye

when the articulate ffrance hitt tooke the articulate
to
that in or but the
Patt to fraighte for the voyage in question, but this
servant unto the sayd Phitt was he did heare by the said That
and the articulate William and tenn laye and actualledge that the
sayd Pilott had taken the said shipp to fraighte to tray port Cooke
from Bursonly to the port of London for the said accounte of
the articulate Thomas Bell for xx or time, and that hee
sayd Steevenson should receive the one halfe of his fraighte
London after they delivery of the sayd Come, and the other halfe
the of at Boatswanly, whoe his the said Stetts next returne
her, but in case the sayd Stevense should of storme to Bundouth
then he was to receive all his whole ffreighte in London. Et aliter
that in haved the sayd Steven
ladinge of a the voyage and in the to
nescit deponere./
paye home such hee

Ad 15 et sextum an acta et and the said Sara
did retorne to Bourdeauly with his sayd shipp a boat Christia
last past and a whilest he was there this deponent had the sayd Carr
saye that he would at or the sayd Stevenson did refuse
money for the freight of the voyage in question, and before the m
and hee
2s
have the sayd Steeven the the
the agreement betweene he the sayd Chatt and the said Screase
before a goe favice that the late mighte declare what the
sayd agreement was, but the said Stephen settinge from heare
before hee had bene before a faste the sayd Boate caused the
sayd Greater to shee are atye what the said
was, and the said Notary winde lay attestacon the Et
nescit deponere saved hee sayeth that the her merchante did
usualle pay for the England of moneys deat or delivered
to bee repayd in ffrance some tyme he eleaven borne
twelve and home tymes thirteene or fourteene pound in the hands
her or but at this hee the Exchange and twelve in the said
therabouts videlicet 10£ delivered in hee in landed is word xx 1
be payd in grace, which hee knoweth to bee true beage a mile
x and dailye seeinge the notice of the
secundum dicit praedeposita p et cra to
so de
Robert Billey the Steboro in comitatu L
and was Boate aetatis 35 and out received best
hee parte pda iurata et exaiatus dcit qr Tuch
Edwards pred producen anot late sua of Luber
a to ride et al
p partem contra had pducts and att some ele
selve was
a
ad primum schedulam et reliquos articulos libelli in the
et deponit That within the tyme articulate the articulate That Gam
with
beinge at this deponent husbands house in Chambert
true articulate this deponent) had the in her ropes and is neede at
bands and a hee neede or had serving and her whole voyage, and
a newe the tawny one a laders the cate have made towe
with a space take, two reade much the sea, ae
a were rideinge hatt, and are Saint pasticate and fore good to
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the particulars wherof hee cannott remember) all which before menconed
which was strongly corded to
goods were of this deponents sight packt up in a Cradle to be caryed
from thence to ever share ffeversham to be from thence
transported to the port of London, and there delivered to the
sayd Richard Edmonds and Barbara his wife and there, or their
Assigne) and this deponents husband went with hee the sayd Barbary
to see the sayd goods shipp for London, but the particulars of the
sayd cutt worke bounds of the vallue of them or any other of the
goods menconed in the schedule articulate shee cannott expresse.
Et aliter nescit deponere./
Eadem sup interrogate./
ad primum respondet That shee hath dwelt at Catt Canterbury for these
fourteene yeares last past or therabouts and there dwelleth at this
present./

Ad secundum respondet That her husband is an up houlste and mayntayneth
himselfe by his trade and meanes and but sayeth she camat vallue
her husbands estate./

Ad tertium respondet That shee cometh to testifye in this cause at the
request of her brother Richard Edmonds the partye producent
and noweth beinge not served with any proces in that behalfe
and the sayd Edmonds hath and doth beare this rendents and her
husbands charge, in travellinge from Zanter burye to London about
this the examinations./

Ad quartum respondet That shee is the naturall fifte of or the said
Richard Edmonds and is more conversant and ffransliar with the said
Edmonds and his wife then with the said Rye, and doth affecte them
more then the said Rye, but in this cause doth affecte the partyes
indifferently and desireth that righte may take place./

Ad quintum respondet That shee expecteth only to have only such charges
as she her husband have and shall expend
and expenses in cominge from Canterbury and returninge thither
agayne, and stayeinge heere in London about thither examination Et
aliter respondet negative./

Ad sextum respondet That quod refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit
respondere savinge that the sayd Barbara Edmonde tould this dep
respondent that she brought the said Cut worke bands from fflanders
and that shee tooke them in lewe of money which was there goeinge
or not
unto her, but wheither the said goods were customed, or where this
respondent knoweth not but

Ad septimum ren nescit respondere aliter qua prius, savinge she sayeth that
there was noe bodye present when the said goods predeposed of
were packt up before they were putt into the cable but this
respondent and the said Barbara Edmonds, and they were soe are
in her husbands shopp in Canterbarye after, they were to
packt her husband corded and bound about the said Bradle

Ad octavum respondet That shee this respondent was not present when the
said crade with the goods aforesaid was delivered unto the sayd by
Et aliter nescit respondere./

Ad neere in the her nescit

Ad saye that after hee came to save them with the sayd
Barbara Edmonds the sayd Barbara because the sayd Hope could
et nescit
to goe themselfe with a childe which shee had with her by land, and to
take out of the said caused the sayd cradle to bee unband and tooke
of
1s
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of it, fiftye pounds in money which was in a boye in in the sayd Wadle
and some Ginnen for her childs use, and putt up all the all the
rest of the things which were in the sayd Craddle, into the same Andle
agayne, and delivered the said Gradle beinge fast corded up agayne into
the sayd Rye his hoye


Ad 11 respondet That shee this respondent hath heard that after the arrivall of the sayd Rye his hoye to
the port of London the sayd Barbara Edmonds sent a gote of this
rendents daughter beinge a gale of the age of 14 yeares or therabouts
with a peter to demannde the said ride and goods, and the said board
at the tyme of the delivery therof the cords were cutt and there was
nothinge in the sayd Craddle but two pillowes, which crade and two
pillowes were delivered unto that porter, Et aliter nescit respondere/
eo vera

Ad duodecimum nescit respondere nec credit contenta in have interrogate ex castis praedeposita.

Ad tertio decimum 4 respondet That neither shee this respondent or her husband had
or hath any right or interest in any of the goods menconed in the schedule
articulate./
dco die
Barges Barnaby
Matheus Barnely de Civitate Cantariou in comitatu
Zant Phoulster aetatis 40 annorum aut circiter testis in
hac parte productus iuratus et exaiatus dicit quod Richard
Edmonds p 11 annos et amplius et ultra et Barbaram eius xx
s dus annos aut circiter et Alexandr Rye ptem contra
quam producits p 4 annos et amplius bene respective novit
ad primum 2. et reliquos arles all libelli in hac parte datus et oblatus
dicit et deponit That within the tyme articulate the articulate Barbara Edmonds
beinge at this deponents house in Canterbury had then in her custodye
a Cradle full of goods which she desired to send from ffeversham
to London in some hoye or other vessell, and this deponent at the request
of the sayd Barbara went with her to ffoversham to gett shippinge
the said
for the sayd Barbara and a childe which shee had with her and cradle of
goods to but from thence to London, and ships th delivered the sayd
Craddle with the goods in it aboard the articulate Alexander Rye his
hoye to be therin transported for London, but because the tydes were
soe lowe at that tyme that the sayd hoye could not gett out into
the Channell, and because the sayd Rye and tould the said Barbara Edmonds
that shipps his hoye mighte staye there three or fowre tydes longe
before she said could bee had out into the Channell, the sayd Barbara
resolved to goe to London by land, and sent for the sayd Cradle
on shoare agayne to take some things out of it, and ast lost did take
redd
some lynnen for her whild use and
out of the sayd Cable ⁁ a little truncke covered with ⁁ leather, in which
truncke as the sayd Barbara tould this deponent there were needdle worke
suncke
bands and other were worke
an which shee tooke of out of the said boyd and made them up in a bundle
which bundle was putt agayne into the same cradle but this deponent did
not see any of the sayd meddle worke bands neither did hee see the said
truncke opened but the said Barbara tooke the same into another roome
from this soe that he this deponent did not see what shee tooke out after or
putt into it, and the sayd Barbara putt into the sayd Craddle truncke
fifty pounds which (as shee tould this deponent) fiftye pounds which was shee
tooke out of another bundle in the sayd Craddle, and caryed that truncke
and monyes with her by land in a cloake bagge which shee had with her, and
which hee truncke this deponent putt into the said Claste bagge and pceaved
guessed by the weighte therof that there was money in it, And he alsoe
sayeth that when the sayd Marbara had taken out such things as shee intended
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a
to take out of the sayd Cradle she there were remayninge in the
sayd Cradle of this deponents sighte and knowledge and sitte mo hayre downe
worth foure pounds ten shillings or therabouts a Tany growne worth
three pounds ten shillings a ridinge Coate worth fourtye shillings a
and
crade ragge worth five shillings or therabouts a yollowe dayes peticoate
worth eighte shillings or therabouts in which peticoale had things made
in it, but he sawe not what was in it, but the said Barbara tould and
that there were cutt worke bands in it, which two gownes, ridinge coate
the
ragge, and goods made up in the said yellowe peticoate this deponent
sawe putt up in the sayd Craddle, and corded the same about
with a rope, and delivered the said Cradle with those goods in it fast
made upp unto one Hunt one of the said Ryes companye to be transported
in the said the Ryes hoye to the port of London and there delivered
unto the said Barbara Edmonds or her assigne, Et aliter nescit deponere
3
idem super interrogatoria./

Ad interrogate quoad piculu pirij fit quod petit Et respondet That hee
hath dwett for all the tyme interrogate at Canterburye and soe doth at this
present./

Ad secundum respondet That he maynetayneth himselfe by his trade beinge an
p houlster and is worth fifty pounds his debts payd./

Ad tertium respondet That he cometh to testifye in this cause at the request and
of the sayd Richard Edmonds who promiseth to beare his and his waves
scharges in cominge upp to London and attendinge about their examinacons
that he cometh voluntarilye without any proces served uppon him
Sister

Ad 4 respondet That this rendents wife is the naturall ⁁ brother of the said
Richard Edmonds and in that respecte is more conversant and familiar with the
sayd Edmonds and his wife a then with the said Rye and affecteth them more then
the said Rye, and would give the victorye in this cause unto the said
Edmonds because hee conceiveth he hath most righte thereunto

Ad quintum respondet That he is promised and expecteth to have his charges borne
by the sayd Edmonds, for his and his wife travell from Canterbary to
London, and stayeinge heere about their examinations but hath not as ye
received any thinge Et aliter respondet negative/

Ad 6 nescit respondere aliter quam prius but sayeth hee beleiveth that the goods
predeposed of and by him were the goods of the said Edmonds and his wife, being
shee had them in her possession and because hee hath seene her weare one by
or at least one of the sayd gownes and alsoe the ridinge Coate menconed
in the schedule articulate
et octavum

Ad 7 refert se ad predeposita Et aliter nescit respondere savinge he sayeth
there was present at the tyme when this respondent delivered the sayd
Crade with the goods aforesaid unto the sayd Rye his servant manned and
a woman who bee dwelleth at the Swann uppon ffower sham key, and
soe happened soe to be present for that the sayd Crade and goods were
delivered to him the said Hunt in that womans house./

Ad nonum re respondet That the sayd Brandle and goods in at when it was foresaid
were aforesaid shipp the said hee
the sayd Barbara Edward Port for the same constance againe to hee
out of it some cloweth for her childe, and some other things which shee were
and did take out of it the foresayd little trancke, and tooke as he the said
affirmed take out from the neere worke hands and made them hee
which
Longe downe
on
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