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x Januarij 1647 iux et

Super lilo et schedula examinatus.

Parr et alj contra)
Plunckett.)

Richardus Shone parochia beate Marie Overye in burgo de
Shipp carpenter ubi moran fecit per attenios ult aut eo circiter
30 annorum aut circiter dicit natus apud Tewsbury in Com
dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit

Ad tertium articulum dicti lili et ad schedulam in eadem menconat dicit et deponit that in the time menconed in ye said hee this
being one of the company of the shipp the John articulate in the voyage lilate vizt going Carpenter in her
knoweth that after the said Captaine Parr articulate and taken the shipp the
to fraight hee gave power at the Isle the Barbadoes to be the arlate Daniell Kendall and
company menconed in the schedule articulate to lade tobaccoes aboard the said shipp
and that the said Daniel Kendall Hugh Browne and other parties named in the schedule
did accordingly lade the said shipp with tobacco in the Roade of Barbadoes to bee thence
conveyed to some port under power and command of
the king and Parliament, which hee knoweth to bee true for that hee being as
the said shipp in the said voyage did see the said tobacco laden aboard and did
help to stowe the same and was present ashore in the Barbadoes and did heare the said Captaine P
in the them ashore promise and undertake to carry the said shipp to noe other
but what was under the power and command of Kinge and Parliament, for
soe hee tolde this deponent and the gunner that hee would doe, and hee bound
himself accordingly in a bond of 1000li and Mr Mabbet the Mster likewise bound himse
in the like bound of 1000li as this deponent there understood, And hee saith hee kne
Richard Kinde, George Phillipp, Thomas Bradford, Thomas Windush, Rober
Calcold, William Johan, Nicholas ffletcrast, Nicholas Valentine and the most of
the rest of the persons named in the schedule articulate in the said shipp in her said
voyage from the Barbadoes homewards and knoweth that they all had laden tobacco
aboard her, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said Roade the Barbadoes is within
the Jurisdicon of the Admiraltie of England and soe comonly accompted, et salvis subscriptis
and savinge his contest Thomas Winter being then masters mate and Purser of the
said shipp did take a particular note of the sevall tobaccoes laden aboard her, at
the time of lading thereof.

Ad quartum articulum nescit deponere salvis subscripts.

Ad septium articulum dicti lili et ad schedulam pred dicit et deponit that about six or
seaven dayes after they had sett saile with the said shipp from the said Roade and
the Isle of Barbadoes aforesaid as hee this deponent remembreth the time) and
as hee remembreth about five weekes before they came upon the coasts of well
articulate the said Captaine Parr did in this deponents presence and hearing said
demannd of the passengers and laders articulate to see their respective bills of lading
and that they should being them forth to him, and hee saith hee sawe diverse of the
accordingly soe unto him into his cabin and carry their said bills of lading with them
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving it was genally agreed on by and betweene the said
Cartaine Parr and the said serges and laders aboard that the said shipp the
John should be carried into the Port of Westchester, Liverpoole, London Derry
kingsale or Corke being then under the power and in command of Kinge and
Parliament in he and that in the presence and hearing of this deponent, and saving
his contest Winter was present at all the premisses.

Ad octavum articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit that for the space of three dayes and three
nights or neere thereabouts next before the taking of the said shipp the John by the said Captaine Down
the articulate Captaine Parr together with the Master and Mariners with very much
labour art and paines and by frequent handing of her did beate windeward
with the said shipp the John the winde being then contrary and blowing the strongly against them videlicet
in North and North and by East)
gaine the port of Kingsale, where their endeavour and purpose was to arrive
whereas hee saith that if they had desired or endeavoured to have gonne into the
and have come before the winde
about of Limerick Galloway or [?Treleith] articulate they could easily soe have donne, and have come before the winde
the same blowinge
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saith that at the
taking the said shipp
said Captaine Downes
shee was within a
to of the port of
ing saile articulate.

soe as aforesaid at Norths and with and by cast it was very good to have carried the
in thither if they had endeavoured or desired the same, which hee saith they did not
premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being then as aforesaid
aboard and Carpenter in the said shipp and seeing and observing the premisses and
laboureing amongst the rest to beate to windeward with the said shipp to came the
said Port of Kingsale, Et aliter nescit saving that amongst others his contest
Thomas Winter was then and there present

Ad nonum articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit ad schedulam pred dicit et deponit that the
the time arlate and after the bringing of the said shipp the John and of the goods
therein into the Port of Corke arlate by the articulate Captaine Downes and Company
after the taking thereof by them, the articulate Captaine Plunckett came aboard
the said shipp the John and having haled her ashore, (vizt in or about the moneth
of October last past was a twelve moneth) at his bey at Corke hee caused her
to bee unladen of her all her goods and lading and disposed of all the tobacco
and other goods
therein contayned carrying the same to a house which hee then had in Corke in
aforesaid, and would not suffer the said Captaine Parr or any other of the
persons or parties arlate to have any part thereof, but a greate quantity hee
solde there and much thereof hee sent to Dublin, Premissa deponit ex eius
visa et scientia being one of the said shipp the Johns company as aforesd
and taking notice of what hee hath soe deposed. Et aliter nescit deponere.
salvis subscripts./

Ad decimum articulum et schedulam annex dicit et deponit that in the Judgement and
estimation of him this deponent the tobacco laden aboard the said shipp the John
in the Roade of the Isle the Barbadoes and remayning aboard her at the
time shee was soe taken as aforesaid by the said Captaine Downes did extend
and amount to an hundred and fiftie thousand pounds weight at the least
for hee saith the said shipp the John was of the burthen of an hundred tonne
at the least and that shee was laden as full as shee could well swim and
noe other goods but here provisions and
that with tobacco, there being eight laden aboard
of noe considerable weight then aboard her besides tobaccoes
hee with a barrell or two of greene ginger and some such slight matters. And
that
hee saith each pound of the said tobacco at the time of bringing in the said shipp
the John into the port of Corke aforesaid by the said Captaine Downes was there
and in Kingsall in his opinion and by common estimation worth twelve pence
shilling one pound with another, and soe might then and there bee solde,
and as hee this deponent was informed as greate deale with was there solde for thirteene or
fourteene pence a pound. Et aliter nescit deponere sale quod credit raconem
sente sue ut supra, and saving hee hath bin and is well acquainted with prize often

Ad undecium articulum dicti lili et ad sched pred dicit et deponit that in their passage
from the Barbadoes towards hing sale in Ireland aforesaid hee this deponent
had
aboard heard severall of the fraighters and passengers say that the agreed to pay
and were to pay three halfe pence a pound for the freight of their tobacco to the
articulate Captaine Parr, And soe much hee saith is usually paid by merchants
to and them
and fraighters for goods in that voyage or like voyage especially in soe small
shipp, which hee knoweth having traded those parts for theise three yeares
last past. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad decium quartum articulum et ad schedulam secundum ea eadem arle menconat dicit
et deponit that in the time articulate the said Captaine Parr had laden aboard the said
shipp the John at sea in the said Roade of the Isle the Barbadoes aforesaid for his
owne use and accompt the barrell of sugar, two barrells of beefe, two barrells
of white biskett, two cases of sweete oyle, severall tonn of water castore
together with the other goods mentioned in the said second schedule, and saith the
said severall goods were worth neere about in his iudgement and by common
estimation the severall and respective sumes as they are in the said schedule
sett downe (which hath bin read unto him at the time of his examination)
and saith the said sevall goods were aboard the said shipp the John at the
time of the taking of her by the said as aforesaid and were seized in
al quod reddit raconem scientia sua ut supra.
and disposed of by the said Captaine Plunckett. Et aliter nescit deponere
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Super reliquis articulos dicti lils non examinatur ex direccone procuris producents

Super Interrogatoryes.

Ad primum respondet that hee come to be a meanes witnes in this cause by the meanes
and at the instance of Captaine Parr, aliter rendet negative.

Ad secondum respondet negative.

Ad tertium negative.

Ad quartum respondet that hee for his part looketh for noe benefitt in case the interrogate
Captaine Parr and Company prevaile in this sute, and that but his wages, and
that hee saith hee hopeth hee shall gett though they be overthrowne, and therefore
doth not deeme it will prejudice him though they prevaile not, But for suing the
said Captaine Pluncket in case the said Captaine Parr and Company prevaile
hee saith hee hath as yet noe thought or resolucon soe to doe, what hee may hereafter
legally doe in case hee bee put by any indeavoured to be put by his wages hee
saith hee doth not knowe.

Ad quintum interr respondet that at the time the said shipp the John was taken by the
said Captaine Downes and company and soe came into the hands of the interrogate
Captaine Pluncket, hee this respondent had aboard her a twelve moneths pay
in tobacco and asmuch more as cost him two ounces of sand gold which hee had brought
from Ginny, amounting to sixteene greate rolles, and xxij hand rolles and eight
and fourtie pricks, contayning in all about xxij hundred weight which in his opinion
and after the rate that the tobacco taken in the said shipp was sold for by the said
Captaine Plunkett was worth betwixt 50 and 60£ lawfull English money
clearely. Et aliter respondet negative.

Ad sextum respondet that hee received two moneths pay of his wages by in Ireland
from Captaine Pluncket, and saith that hee hath not yet received all his wages
by but saith that mr Vassell hath promised to pay him wages according to the
moneths that hee the said mr Vassell shall receive his freight for her, when
and as hee shall recover the same, and not otherwise xxx nor before, and
saith that by reason that mr Mabbet their Master did not discharge them in Ireland
when the said shipp was taken there is wages due to him from that tyme, which is seaven
moneths after 38s per mensem, which hee lookes to have of mr Vassell. And hee saith
hee is bound out againe in a shipp fraighted by Captaine Parr in a newe voyage
but hee is shippt by the master mr fflatcher whoe hee saith is to pay him
aliter negative.

Ad septium nescit nec audivit nec fuit informatus ad affirm interr.
et novem

Ad octavum respondet quod nescit.

Ad decimum refert se ad predeposita aliter nescit, saying hee did not enter any of the
said goods into any note, nor tooke other a notice then what hee hath predeposed.

Ad undecium interrium nescit salis predeposities

Ad duodecimum respondet that some of the planters and passengers inhose names af
are mentioned in the schedule libellate as clayming goods in this sute are Irish
men, but howe many of them hee doth not particularly remember by their names
yet hee saith that Teago Roeum, William Cohan, Patrick Cohan and Roger
Keyon in the said schedule mentioned are as hee remembreth Irishmen and were
passengers and had tobacco in the said shipp the John, but where any of them
doe live hee knoweth not nor hath hee seene them since the taking of the
said shipp, aliter nescit, neither knoweth hee as hee saith what to beleeve
as hee saith save that they will looke for their goods as well as others
(being freemen and free traders) as hee conceiveth.

Ad 13uj nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 14uj respondet that the subscription (p me Richard Parr) under one of the
bills of lading interrogate and theise words (The Contents I know not) under the other
seeme to be the handwriting of the interrogate Captaine Parr, for hee hath seene
him writing of his very like that hand, but whether the same were written
by him or noe, hee cannot say, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad decimum quintum et ultimum nescit respondere ut dicit

Richard Shone [SIGNATURE; RH SIDE]
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Decimoquarto Januarij 1647 iuxta etcetera

Super lilo et schedula predet examinatus./

Thomas Winter morain facieus in Burgo de Southwarke sed habitans
et familiam fovens in Insala da Barbadoes Nauta, etatis 3 annorum
aut eo circiter dicit quod Capitaneus Parr, Danielem rendet Hugonem
Browne necnon Capitaneus Plunckett bene respective novit.

Ad tertium articulum dict lilo ad schedulam in eadem menconnt dicit et deponit
that hee this deponent being Masters Mate and Purser of the articulate
shipp the John, well knoweth that after the articulate Captaine Parr had taken
the said shipp to fraight of william Mabbet articulate, hee the said Captaine Parr
did assigne and and give authority to the arlate Daniel Kendall and Hugh
Browne and company articulate to lade their goods aboard her, and hee saith that
accordingly they the said Daniel Kendall and Hugh Browne and others their
company mentioned in the schedule articulate did in or about the moneth of July
1646 lade the severall quantities and parcells of tobacco expressed in the said
schedule on board the said shipp in the Roade comonly called the Carlile
Roade of the Isle the Barbadoes comonly called Carlile Roade within the
Jurison of the Admirally of England the said shipp then riding at anchor
the xxxx bills of lading
there, to be (according to the) charter partie and securitie given ( at which hee
this deponent was present and a witness(to the) transported from thence
to West chester Kingsale, Liversell Liverpoole or London Derry or some
any other port in England or Ireland that was then under the obedience
of the kinge and Parliament, and where the said shipp might by ordinance
of Parliament safely arrive and not elsewhere, which hee knoweth because
hee this deponent was acquainted with the charter partie and bills of
lading at the time of their making and giving. And the premisses
touching the severall persons therein menconed, and parcells of tobacco schedulate and the sewall and to be soe
in the Roade of the Barbadoes laden on board the said John shipp the
John in the Roade aforesaid hee this deponent knoweth to be true, because
having nowe seene and perused the said schedule, hee findeth it to agree
in ever particular with his bookes and notes which hee then tooke in the
said Roade at such the lading of the said Tobacco, hee this deponent being
then Purser of the said shipp he saith hee was ordered and imployed by the said
Captaine to take notice of the sewall parcells and quantities of tobaccoes
in
then laden on board and to sett the same downe and writing and by whom the
or on whose accompt the same were soe respectively laden. Et aliter
nescit deponere.
quartum

Ad secundum articulum dicit lili dicit et deponit that after the lading on board
of the said shipp the John of the said severall goods or tobaccoes mentioned
in the said first schedule articulate by the severall persons schedulate
whereof hee hath predeposed the said Captaine Richard Part gave
unto the said Daniel Kendall and Hugh Browne and company in the
Roade of the Barbadoes and upon the first faire weather and oportunity
which hee had soe to doe (which was within the space of three or foure dayes
after their weighing anchor there) severall bills of lading for the delivery
and discharge at the severall goods and tobaccoes schedulate to the said Kendall
and Browne and company or their assignes in some of the ports articulate
And the arlate William Mabbet the Master gave a generall bill of lading for
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delivery of the said goods or tobaccoes soe laden on board the said shipp the ladeinge
John and mentioned in the said schedule in some of the ports aforesaid articulate
and before mentioned, which hee knoweth to be true because hee this deponent
was on board and was acquainted with the said severall bills of lading soe
given by the said Captaine Parr and alsoe with the said genrall bill soe
given by the said Mabbet hee this deponent helping the said Mabbet
to make his accompts thereabouts and to peesect the same by the bookes and
notes which hee this deponent had soe as before taken at the lading of the
said sevall goods. All which said bills of lading aswell those severally
given by Captane Parr as the generall bill soe given by the Master
William Mabbet were on board the said shipp the John and the there
found at the time shee was taken by Captaine Downes articulate
for hee sawe the said Captarne Parr and the said Master carry them
on board the said Captaine Downes his shipp, upon his the said
Captaine Downes his sending for them aliter nescit

Ad septimum articulum dicti lili et ad schedulam predcam dicit et deponit that partly while
said shipp was
they were yet in the said Roade of the Isle the Barbadoes and partly after
her setting saile from thence to come for England or Ireland and within
some few dayes after such her setti saile ut predeposuit the said
Captaine Parr signed and gave to some of them three and to some of the planters then on board two bills of
lading for every parcell of tobacco mentioned in the said first schedule as hee this deponent beleeveth
And saith that hee the said Captaine Parr about the space of tenn
dayes next after setting saile which the said shipp the John from the Barbadoes
and about the space of five or six weekes before the takin of the said
shipp the John by the articulate Captaine Downes (which happened an or
about the 12th of October 1646) and before her arivall on the coasts
of Ireland hee the said Captaine Parr called together all the
passengers and planters on board to whom hee had given any bill
or bills of lading, and demannding to see the said bills hee the said
the foresaid bills of lading
Captaine Parr tooke of back into his hands
xxx xxxxx of the said bills soe as before by him signed and given for every of the said sevall quantities
of tobacco soe laden on board, and with the consent of the said passengers
and laders hee cancelled and made vpide the same, And with their genrall consent
and agreement hee gave them other bills of lading for the delivery of
the said goods schedulate in the ports of west chester, Liverpoole or
London Derry or Kingsale or some other port under the power of the kinge
which hee knoweth to be true for that being Masters mate and Purser
of the said shipp the John and being then on board her hee sawe
and observed the premisses to be donne as hee hath predeposed, By
the said Captayne Parrs
which meanes of his soe taking up of the said bills of lading and givinge
newe ones in their roome as aforesaid all such other bills as is arlate
were voide and invalide, and that hee did according to the custome of the sea amongst
merchants and others comonly observed, and for voide and invalide they
were and are in that case comonly accompte and reputed. Et aliter nescit
deponere.

Ad octavum articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit that for the space of three dayes
and nights next before the taking of the said shipp the John by the said Captaine
Downes and company the articulate Captaine Parr together with the Master
and Mariners the winde being contrary to the did labour and use all their art
and diligence (the winde being contrary) to carry the said shipp the John into
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the port of Kingsale, whereas hee saith they that if they had then endeavoured
or desired to have gone with her or brought her into any of the ports
of Limrick Galloway or Traleigh or bent their cause that coast they could xxxxx, with much ease and
facilitie soe have donne the winde then blowing very right to have carried them
thither vizt at North East and East North East. And hee saith that at the x time
of such the taking of the said and seizing of the said shipp the John by the
said Capterne Downes and company, shee was within the space of two
lea leagues of the shore of the Port of Kinsale aforesaid. The premisses
hee saith hee knoweth to be true, for that hee being Masters Mate of
the said shipp the John and then on board her, hee did labour and worke
with the rest of the company to beate the said shipp the John to
winde ward to gaine the said Port of Kingsale, and for that hee was on
board on her when shee was soe seized and taken by the said Captaine
Downes. Et al nescit deponere, saving his contest Richard Shone was
then alsoe on board.

Ad nonum articulum dick lil et sched in eadem menconat dicit that after the
seizure and taking of the said shipp the John by the said Captaine Downes
and after shee with her goods were was thereupon brought into the
Port of Corke by the said Captaine Downes and company xx the
arlate Captaine Pluncket about a weeke after such her taking vizt
about the 18th day of October 1646 did cause all the goods and merchandizes
and goods menconed in the schedules articulate to be unladen and carried out
of the said shipp the John, and tooke away and detained the same from
the said Captaine Parr, Daniel Kendall and Hugh Browne and Company
hee the said Captaine Pluncket pretending interest in the said shipp the
Hunter arlate whereof the said Downes was Captaine, and which tooke them
as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad decimum articulum dicti lili as schedulam pred dicit et deponit that the sevall
parcells and quantities of tobaccoes mentioned and contained in the said
first schedule articulate were on board the said shipp the John at the
time shee was soe taken by the said Captaine Downes and company as aforesaid.
And hee saith that in the Judgment and estimation of him this deponent
and lay the noates which hee soe tooke as before of the lading of the said
severall parcells of tobaccoe on board the said shipp the John, the said
severall parcells did ioyntly and in the whole amount to the quantitie
of one hundred and fiftie thousand pound weight of tobacco or neere
thereabouts. And hee saith that each and every pound of the said
tobacco of the time of the bringing of the same into the Port of
Corke aforesaid both in the said Port of Corke and Kingsale was worth
in the iudgement of this deponent and in comon estimation the sume of
one shillinge lawfull English money one pound with another and might
at that noate
soe there have bin then solde, and soe a greate part of it was then solde
in Corke aforesaid. And hee beleeveth and conceiveth that the said
Daniel Kendall, Hugh Browne and company menconed in the said
schedule by reason of the taking away detention and disposing of the
said goods mentioned in the said first schedule arlate have sustained
dammage to the sume of seaven thousand, three hundred and fiftie five
pounds st of lawfull English money. Et aliter nescit, salvo quod reddit
raconem scientia sua ut sopra.

Ad undecimum articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit that the articulate Daniel
Kendall and Hugh Browne and company (by bills of lading of the
goods
severall
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goods mentioned in the said first schedule) self by them subscribed did promise
and agree to pay unto the said Captaine Part for fraight and transportation
of every pound of the said tobacco mentioned in the said schedule in the voyage
arlate the sume of three halfe pence of lawfull English money, which hee
knoweth because hee was present at such promise making and at the
subscribing of the said bills of lading on board the said shipp the John
and soe much hee saith is usually paid by merchants and others for fraight
of such goods in the like voyage, which hee knoweth to be true because hee
hath used those voyage for theise seaven yeares last or thereabouts.

Ad duodecium articulum dicit et deponit that the voyage aforesaid the Mariners
of the said shipp the John did putt and lade on board her for their owne
use and accompt severall parcells and Rolles of Tobaccoe contayning in all the
quantitie of betweene twenty and thirty thousand pound weight of tobaccoe
which hee knoweth because hee sawe the same laden and tooke accompt
thereof. And hee further saith that the fraight belonging for transporting
of the sewall goods belonging aswell to the said Daniell Kendall, Hugh Browne
and company as to the said Mariners, in case the said goods had bin delivered
in any of the ports to which they were by charter partte and bills of
lading consigned, after the rate of three halfe pence per pound had
and would have extended to the sume of one thousand one hundred and twenty five
pounds of lawfull English money or thereabouts, referendo se pro
meliori et certiori computacone eiudem ad quantitutem herbe nicotians
in drom navem soe onestion et ad schedulam arlatum, And to that valew
the said Captaine Parr by xxx reason of such detencon and disposinge
of the said goods by the said Captaine Pluncket doth in his iudgement
sustaine damage. Et aliter nescit

Ad decimum quartum articulum dicti lili et ad schedulam secundam dicti libello
annexam in eadem arle mentionatant dicit et deponit that of his knowledge
the articulate Captaine Parr in the time articulate had laden on board
for his owne use and accompt the in the said Carlile Roade neere the said
Isle the Barbadoes aforesaid the sewall particulars and parcells of
goods mentioned in the said second schedule which hee hath nowe perused
at the time of his exámination which hee knoweth to be true because hee
findeth the said schedule to agree with a noate which hee tooke at the
time aforesaid the said shipp was laden as aforesaid. All which goods
hee saith were on board her at the time of her taking and seizure
and as aforesaid and the said Captaine Plunckett tooke and disposed
of the same, detayning the same from the said Captaine Parr for
hee turned her him and all his company a shore at Corke upon
the bringing of the said shipp in thither after shee was soe taken, Et
aliter nescit deponere saving the said goods were worth the sewall
sumes of money menconed in the said second schedule and soe commonly
accompted./ Super reliquis arlis lili xxx exaiatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad
Super Interryes ex parte Capitanes Pluncket
ministratis

Ad primum respondet that hee comes by the meanes of Captaine Parr to be a
witnes in this cause, aliter respondet negative.

Ad secondum respondet negative ad singula.
by the order of mr Vassell their owner
him aliter respondet negative./
of

Ad tertium respondet that ⁁ hee carried over an order from the Comittee free the Lords
and Commons of the Admiraltie into Ireland to serve on the interrate Captaine
Plunckett to appeare here in England, but hee did not serve the same upon
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Ad quartum respondet that hee had noe tobaccoes nor other goods saving his
wearing clothes instruments writings and bookes on boa board the said shipp the John at the
time of such her taking as aforesaid, and saith it will be noe benefitt to him
this rendent in case Captaine Parr and company prevaile in this suite neither
will it be any prejudice to him in case they be overthrowne, And hee saith
hee doth not intend to sue the said Captaine Pluncket for the pretences interr
in case the said Captaine Parre and company prevaile hee but to let him
alone however, saving hee hath nowe already comensed action against him
for his clothes bookes and instruments./ which hee

Ad quintum respondet quod refert se ad predepoita ad prop prevendens Interrogatium
aliter repondet negative. saying hee had noe goods wares or merchandizes
on board (save his clothes instruments and bookes) to which hee saith were worth
20li sterling) nor any other comodities, at the tyme shee was soe taken by the
said Captaine P Downes.

Ad sextum Interrium respondet that hee hath received all his wages for the
said voyadge till such time as the said shipp was soe surprized by the
said Captaine Downes, which hee received of from Captaine Plunckett by
order of the Admiraltie in Ireland, And saith hee is nowe bound homewards
againe (videlicet for the Barbadoes where his family and dwelling is) in a
shipp of Captaine ffletchers wherein Captaine Parr is an Adventurer,
but whether the said Captanie Parr goeth therein or not hee knoweth not
but beleeveth that hee will goe therein because his family is there
but hee the said Captaine Parr is not to pay saith hee hath not as
yet contracted with any body for any wages for the said voyage, nor
knoweth not of any that shall be paid him, hee being for ought hee yet
knoweth to goe as a meer passes passenger.

Ad septimum respondet that hee did not heare nor was it anywise reported
in the places interrogate to any the effect interrogate in this respondents hearing, nor did hee heare that
ever the Governor of the Barbadoes acquainted Captaine Parr with
any such matter, nor that Captaine Parr xxxxx thereat

Ad octavum respondet that hee heard noe such demannd made or answer as
from
is interrogate nor any thing to that purpose for any person whatsoever, for
hee did not heare any mention of any such matter

Ad novum nescit.

Ad decimum respondet that hee sawe all the particular goods interr laden
and putt on board the said shipp the John in the Roade aforesaid
his booke
which hee saith hee entred particulary downe in a note by order of the
said Captaine Parr and the Master, and saith the particulars,
and markes and weight were as is menconed in the said schedules libellate
Et aliter nescit referendosa ad predepoita.

Ad undecimum respondet that saving the provisions for the use of the shipp
and other particulars menconed in the second schedule libellate, the
interrogate Captaine and whereof hee hath predeposed, the said
Captaine Parr had noe goods laden for his owne proper accompt

Ad duodecimum respondet that diverse of the planters interr are Irish
men as namely Teage Rxxxx hee conceiveth but which of them hee
saith hee doth not particularly knowe, many of which hee sawe in
Ireland in Aprill last, all which saving one) doe live in the Barbadoes
And hee beleeveth in his conscience that if Captaine Parr recover any
thinge in leiu of their losses from Captaine Plunckett, hee will truelly
pay or restore it unto them, and not convert it to his owne use. aliter
nescit.

Ad 13uj respondet that hee same Captaine sawe Parr signe all the
sevall bills of lading for the goods in question, and sawe the Master signe
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a generall bill of lading to the said Captaine Parr, and saith that in his
booke hee tooke particular notice of all the said goods and to whom they did belonge
and with what markes they were marked, and where they were consigned to

Ad 14 respondet that the interrogate Dennis Himes had 31 greate rolles of tobacco
and the interr Galriel ffrye had 53 greate rolles, 4 hand rolles and 4 pricks
of tobacco on board the said shipp the John at the time shee was soe taken by the
said Captaine Downes and company, but whether the two bills of lading interrogate
were then found in her or whether the wordes interrogate were subscribed or written
by the said Captaine Parr hee saith hee knoweth not.

Ad decimum quintum et ultima Interria respondet quod nescit.

Tomas Winters
----
Schedula eidem annex examinatus.

Ewers contra North
Yeo Marten/

1

Decimo none did Januarij 1647 iupta etcetera Super liballo ex parte her dat et
Guilielmus Ingrey de Rayly in Com Essex Lanio, ubi habitavit per octo
annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 40 annorum aut eo circiter dicit quod partem
pducen per bienniu ult aut eo circiter et novit partem rero contra quam
pductur visu tantu novit et dicit.

Ad primum secundum et tertium articulos dicti lili et ad schedulam annex dicit et deponit that
upon a day happening within the time libellate (tempus aliter non recolit ut dicit) hee
this deponent coming into the shipp of the said producent Beniamin Ewers situat
a white deale
in Raly in Essex to buy nailes, did see him the said Benjamin putting up into ⁁ box
sundry parells of silver and buttons and of gold and silver and gold buttons and
lase silver lace and silver twist and certaine ribbons and thredd and some other
part things the particulars whereof hee doth not remember, and the said box was in
this deponents knowled sight filled with such comodities, which were (as the said
Bemiamin then tould him) to be sent by the next hoy from Leigh to London to be
there delivered to Mr Samuel Lee arlate, And this deponente afterwards heard
that the said box and goods were put on board at of the hoy of the arlate Abraham
North, and that they were lost. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartum quintum et sextum nescit.

Ad septimum dicit that the said North was and is a subiect of this realme of England.

Ad ocatvum nescit.

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita per eu die vera.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet quod a que favet partibus hucinde litigan et daret victoriam in henti
aliter respondet negative.

Ad secundum refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad 3uj respondet negative et nescit, saying hee doth not knowe the hoy interrogate, neither did hee
see the said goods put on board her

Ad quartum refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Signum

Williami Ingry

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Sara Elliot uxor Ezekielis Elliot de Raly in Com Essex yeoman cuuis sic
stetit ux per 17 menses aut eo circiter aetatis 25 annorum aut eo circiter dicit
quod partem producen a nativitate sua et Abraham North ad infantia
istius deponents bene novit.

Ad primum secundum et tertium et quartum Int arlos dicti lilo et ad schedulam annex dicit et
deponit that somtime within the moneths arlat menconed in the first article of the
libell (tempus all non recolit ut dicit) shee this deponent then living with her brother
the producent in Raly in Essex did in his shopp there soe him putt up into a box
diverse groces of silke lace and silver an lace and of silke galoone and silver galoone
and of silke buttons and silver buttons, certaine taffata ribboning and taffata
goods, with inckhornes and purses, which shee knoweth because shee was present
at the putting of them up and sawe the box filled therewith, and heard him say they
were to goe to London by water, and saith the said Benjamin then told this dept
(upon her asking of him) that the said goods box of goods cost him came to and were
worth 25li -13s - 10d, Et aliter nescit saving her contest William Ingrey was
then alsoe present at the putting up of the said goods, and saving the said goods
were in her iudgement worth the said sume of 25£ - 13s -10d

Ad quintum et sextum nescit septium et octacon nescit.

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet that though the producent bee her brother yet in respect of
the truth shee favoureth them indifferently, and would give the victory accord to
right if it were in her power, and saith shee lived then in house with the producent
but shee doth not nowe doe soe.

Ad secundum refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad tertium negative et nescit salvis predepoits

Ad quartum refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Saray elot
----
Eadem die

Super lili et sched pred
junior

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Thomas Harrison de Leigh in Comitatu Essex haberdasher of small wares
ubi habitavit a nativitata sua ibinatus, etatis 19 annorum aut eo circiter
dicit quod partes hincinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad primum et secundum et tertium articulos dicti lili et ad schedulam annex dicit et deponit
that hee well knoweth the hoy the Sarah of Leigh libellate having often seene
her lie at Anchor in the dock of commonly accompted leigh where hee this deponent dwelleth and
saith the arlate Abraham North is Master of the said hoy and soe commonly
accompted, And hee further saith that in or about the moneth of November
1645 last past hee this deponents father having received a certaine white deale box
of goods from the producent Benjamin Ewers of Raly commanded him this deponent
to carry the same on board of the articulate Abraham Norths hoy, which this deponent
accordingly did and gave the same into the hands of Edward Gooson servant
of the said North to be put on board it in the presence of ffrancis Overhead
one that belonged alsoe to the said hoy the said hoy then lying at Anchor in
the Dock Leigh dock neere the said Norths house in Leigh and then and there this deponent called to the articulate
Abraham North whoe was on board and was stowing of faggots in the den of the
said hoy, and told him that hee had brought him a box of his goods from his this
deponents unckle Benjamin Ewers and to be carried to London and had delivered
it to his man Edward Gooson and prayed him to have a care of it, and hee
said hee would. And hee saith there were direccons written on the lidd of the
said box for the delivery of the same to Mr Samuel Leigh articulate, Et
aliter nescit deponere. saying hee doth not knowe what was contained in that box

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Ad sextum, septimum et ad octavum nescit, saving the said Abraham North was and is
subiect of this Realme.

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita per eum de vera.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet quod equa favet et daret victoriam in hac cause both parties therein
being his unckles, and the said Benjamin Ewers being his fathers brother by the mothers
side, aliter negative.

Ad secundum respondet that the interr Abraham Porth was on board and tooke charge of the said
box at the time hee this rendent soe delivered the same as more, being made acquainted
therewith ut predeposuit, but this rendent did not then pay him or promise him any
payment for the freight therof. aliter refert se ad predepoita.

Ad tertium respondent that hee this rendent was on board the said hoy when hee dd the said
box as before, but did not see the stowage thereof, and saith hee hath well knowne
the hoy interr about six yeeres last past, and saith shee rode in the dock Leigh dock
b at leigh neere the said Norths house, and saith that Raly (where the goods were
putt into the said box as this deponent hath bin informed) is about foure miles distant
from Leigh. aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad quartum nescit necsit deposuit.

Thomas Harrison Gover
----
Eadem die Super lilo pred.

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Elizabeth Ewers de Leigh in Com Essex vidua, ubi habitavit
alteris vicibus per 55 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 61 annoru aut
eo circiter dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene repective novit.

Ad primum secundum et tertium articulos dicti lili et ad schedulam in ead annex dicit et
deponit that shee hath well knowne the hoy the Sarah of Leigh libellate
for theire thirtie yeares last past and upwards having well knowne her while shee
belonged to the arlate Abraham Norths father, and saith the arlate Abraham North
hath bin for theise foure yeares last past or thereabouts Master of the said hoy under
his father and soe comonly accompted and for that time hath had the disposinge
or managing of the same in her voyages betwix Leigh and London. And shee
saith that in or about the moneth of November in the yeere 1645 arlate this deponent
being at her sonne Thomas Harrisons shopp in Leigh aforesaid did there see
a white deale board box which the said Harrison tolde her hee had received from the
pducent Benjamin Ewers from Raly and said hee had direccons from the said
Bemjamin to send the same to London to Mr Samuel Leigh libellate dwelling
on ffish streete hill whoe was the said Bej Bemjaminus Chapman, and the said
shee saith that the said Harrison having sent the said box by his sonne her
contest Thomas Harrison the younger on board the hoy articulate (as hee tolde
this deponent) shee this deponent out of care that the same should not miscarry
(because hee understood there were certaine goods of valew therein to be conveyed
from the said Benjamin Ewers her sonne to the said Mr Leigh chapman)
bt had
shee went to the said Abraham Norths house and in Leigh and charged him ⁁ to have a
the said Abraham
care of it, who the acknowledged the receipt thereof Et aliter nescit saving
shee had received word from her said some Beniamine to looke after the same and give
the cha said North charge thereof.

Ad quintum nescit.

Ad sextum septium et octavum nescit,

Ad ultimum dicit predepoits per eam et vera.

Ad Interrogatoria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet quod eque favete daret victoriam in hee caa partibus litigantions, and
saith Beniamin Ewers is her sonne aliter negative

Ad secundum et tertium refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad ultimum nescit necsit deposuit.

Elzabeth Ewers [SIGNATURE; RH SIDE]
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Deicesimo Januarij 1647 aix &

Super allegacone ex parte Cawson dat, examinatus.

Dey et Lavington contra)
Cawson.)

1

Rs. E. B


Guilielimus ffouljer de Redriffe in Comitatu Surria Nauta, ubi habitavit per biennium
ultimu aut eo circiter, etatis 30 annorum aut eo circiter dicit quod partes huicuide
litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad tertium articulum dicte allegaconis dicit that hee this deponent (being a seaman and a Master
of a shipp and having used to goe to sea for the space of theise seaventeene yeares last past
or thereabouts) well knoweth that it is the dutie and office of the Carpenter and of the
Carpenters mate serving in any shipp to Cawke and looke to the Caulking of such shipps
wherein they serve in all places thereof where neede requireth. an for to that purpose hee saith they are hired and have their wages,
Et aliter nescit

Ad quartum et quintum et sextum articulos dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was on board the shipp
the Seaflower arlate in all her homewards voyage from the Barbadoes and while
shee laye at the Barbadoes before her setting saile to come homewards, and hee
saith that diverse times while shee soe laye there at Barbadoes and was taking in of
her lading there, both this deponent and alsoe the producent Miles Cawson did speake
unto of the said shipp and require the said John Day and the Carpenter advise and John Lavington his mate
to looke to the Cawking of the decks and sides of the said shipp above water to prevent
the hurt and damage which might happen to the goods then in or to be taken on board
her. But hee saith that notwithstanding such advise and admonicon they the said
Dey and Lavington did not only neglect and omitt such their duty and office, but
asked this deponent and others that soe admonished them what they had to doe therewith
wishing them to meddle with what concerned themselves and not with their office
for they (as they said) knew well enough what to doe therein or they used words
to that effect. Et aliter nescit.

Ad septimum articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit that in the said homewards voyage in question
with the said shipp the Seaflower from the Barbadoes through the carelesses and
neglect or a least through the omission of the said Master Carpenter and Mate
arlate and by meanes of their not Caulking the decks and sides above water of the
said shipp the Seaflower there were certaine baggs of Cotton on board the
said shipp spoyled and or damnified by reason of the salt water which came
downe from the decks or shipp sides above water, which said bagge in his opinion
and estimation were by meanes aforesaid hurt or endammaged to the valew of the
sume of fourtie pounds sterling or there neere thereabouts, which hee knoweth
because hee sawe the said baggs, soe damnified and sawe that it was through
such coming downe of the falt water from the decks and shipp sides above
water of the said shipp through want or neglect of caulking as aforesaid. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavum articulum dicit et deponit that by the neglect or omission aforesaid and
the runinge downe of the salt water as afore hee hath deposed from the decks and
and xxxxx much head
shipp sides above water some flower ⁁ belonging to the store of the said shipp was
spoyled, but the quantitie or valew thereof otherwise hee knoweth not. Et aliter nescit.

Ad nonum articulum dicit et deponit that the said Miles Cawson as having taken the said
shipp to freight and received the said goods on board her is liable to pays and
satisfie unto such parties and persons as were owners of the said xxxxx Cotton
the damage soe sustained of fourtie pounds soe sustained by meanes of the hurt
afore deposed of. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decimum et undecimum dicit that by the still and experience which hee hath in the art or imployment
of a Mariner and having exercised the same for soe longe time as aforesaid hee
well knoweth that in case the said shipp had bin by the said Carpenter and Mate
sufficiently caulked in the decks and sides above water of the said shipp as shee
ought to have bin, there had befallen or happened little or noe dammage at
all to the said goods in the said homewards voyage. Et aliter nescit. saving the
said shipp continewed tight, stanch and stronge under water untill the time of her
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Ad 12 et 13uj articles refert se ad predepoita ad orfacxx arlum facta, al nescit, saving that the
Company of the shipp were not much straightened of victualla the homewards voyage arlate
neither did the English beere then on board stinck, but the same was good and wholesome

Ad ultimum refert se ad predeposita, all nescit. Sup primo et 2o arlis non exeriatur ex direcconis
procuris partis producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria. [CENTRE HEADING]

As primum respondet that all this rendents wages within a small matter is paid him
And the said Miles Cawson doth not stopp any of his wages for any such regard as is interrate

Ad secundum respondent that hee this rendent is part owner of the shipp the Seaflower interrate
vizt a for a sixteenth part, and but hath noe interest in the freight of the goods interrate
Gxx And hee saith that in case it shall be found that the damage in aforesaid happened
by meanes of the insufficienchy of the said shipp (which hee saith it did not) the owners
of the said shipp must make the same good.

Ad tertium respondet that whilest the said shipp was upon the coast of Ginney some few
of her company were sick, whereof the said John Day was one, and soe not soe
had bin
able to take paines as otherwise, but when hee cause to the Barbadoes and went some
while a shore hee was soe well recovered, that seeing some men that were hired by
the Master come on board to help him mad the said Day and his mate, hee was angry
our
and said what neede the Master hive any men, are not wee able to doe our worke
out selves or to that effect. And hee saith that to his remembrance the in the passage
interr the said Simon Cawson the Master conceiving that the said Day was idle or
stubborne and would not worke but fayned himselfe sick then hee was when hee
was able to worke (as this deponent alsoe conceiveth hee was able enough to doe)
hee the said Cawson tould him that is hee would not worke hee should not eate
aliter nescit

Ad quartum negative et nescit

Ad quintum respondet that in the time interrogate there fell much raine, but the decks and
the rest of the upper worke did not continew stanch, and hee beleeveth that it is true
that the said goods received noe damage while shee stayed at the Barbadoes, because
the raine that fell there was before the goods were stowed, neither did there fall any
considerable rain after the stowing thereof while hee stayed there. aliter nescit et negative
salvis predepoita.

Ad sextum nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad septium respondet that the said Cawson tooke in some passengers homewards bound
from the Barbadoes (but the number of them hee doth not remember) which fedd partly
on the shipps provision and partly in what themselves had brought on board, and
saith that by meanes of such their feeding on the shipps provisions, there was
somwhat the more scarcity of victualls, and saith that for diverse dayes the
company were putt to an allowance of a pound of bread a day for five men,
Et aliter negative et nescit, salvis predepoitis.

Ad ultimum respondet that in the homewards voyage of the said shipp the said Day
by some meanes cutt one of his thumbes. aliter nescit.

William Souliar
----
Eadem die

Super allegatione pred exaiatus.

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Rs E. X

Christoferus Cole de Ratcliffe in Com Milde Nauta, ubi habitavit per
decena annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 37 annorum aut eo circiter dicit
quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad tertium articulum dicte allegationis dicit et deponit that it is the place, office and dutie
and office of every Carpenter serving in any shipp and of his mate to cause and
looke well to the caulking of such shipp wherein hee or they serve, in all places thereof
wherein neede requireth, which hee this deponent knoweth being himselfe a shipp Carpenter
and soe bredd Et aliter nescit.

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Ad quartum quintum et sextum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
awes on board the shipp the Seaflower in all the voyage menconed in this allegation
in her is
and while shee laye at the Barbadoes hee going the said voyage at Masters Mate
Miles
and hee saith that both the said arlate Simon Cawson the Master and alsoe this
deponent did diverse and sundry times during the voyage in question speake to, and wish
and desire the said arlate John Day the Carpenter of the said shipp and the arlate
John Lavington his Mate to have a care and looke to the Cawking of the decks of
the said shipp and of her sides above water to prevent hurt and damage which
might happen and befall to the goods then in or to be taken on board the said shipp
and tould them that unlesse they did soe, the goods on would be much damnified
or spoyled, hee this deponents often shewing them where such danger was and
where the water came in through the decks and shipp sides above water for
want of such calking, But hee saith that notwithstanding, upon such his advise and admoncon
they the said Day and Lavington did not only neglect and omit their duties in
caulking the said parts of the said shipp, but did bidd this deponent meddle
with what hee had to doe, and with what concerned his office and not with
theirs, for they knew well enough what to doe, and in truth hee saith they did
neglett and omitt their duties in that behalfe, and did not caulke the said shipp
as they should and ought to have donne. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septium articulum dicit et deponit that in the homewards voyage of the said
shipp the Seaflower from the Barbadoes by reason of the negligence and
careles omssion of the said Day and Lavington in not caulking the decks
and sides above water of the said shipp the Seaflower, but reaso and by
the coming downe of the salt water from those parts of her for want
of caulking, diverse bagge of cotton laden on board the said shipp were
hurt and damnified being very such rotted with the said salt water
which hee knoweth being on board her and seeing such damage donne by
the meanes aforesaid, but the valew of the said damage hee saith hee
cannot estimate. Et aliter nescit.

Ad octavum dicit that by and through the neglect and carelesies aforesaid
some flower belonging to the store of the said shipp was spoyled with the
salt water which ran downe as is arlate, but the quantitie thereof soe
spoyled or the valew of the same hee knoweth not. aliter nescit.

Ad nonum articulum dicit that the arlate Miles Cawson is liable to pay for the
damage of the said Cotton to them to when it belonged as having taken the
shipp to fraight and received the same or board Et aliter nescit.

Ad decimum articulum dicit that there had not happened any dammage to the said
goods in case the decks and sides of the said shipp above water had bin caulked by the
said Day and Lavington as they ought to have bin the voyage in question, which
hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and by the skill which hee hath in
the office and worke of a shipp Carpenter. aliter nescit

Ad undecimum nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad decium refert se ad predepoita, et aliter nescit.

Ad uno decium tertium dicit that the English beefe and beaveridge articulate did not
stinck but were sweete and good in the homewards voyage articulate, neither were the said peeces
of English beef cut in two peeces and made to serve twice that were provided
to serve but for one meate, that hee knoweth of, Et aliter nescit.

Ad ultimum articulum dicit et deponit that if his this deponents sight and knowledge
the said shipp the Seaflower the voyage in question homewards bound, was
a stronge stanch and tight shipp under water, neither did and the damage
aforesaid happened by the reason before deposed of and not otherwise.

Et aliter nescit./

Super primo et secundo arlis non exaiatur ex direccon pducentis./

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Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primum respondet that fourtie shillings of his wages due for the voyage in question is
stopped by the said Simon Miles Cawson untill this busines bee tried.

Ad secundum respondet that in case it shall be adiudged that the damage which happened to the
goods inter was occasioned by the insufficiency of the said shipp, the owners of the
said shipp must as hee conceiveth make good and pay for the said damage, and saith
the said interrogate William ffolger is esteemed and accompted part owner of the said
shipp, but of what part hee knoweth not. aliter nescit.

Ad tertium respondet that whilest the said shipp was upon the coast of Ginney diverse
of the Company of the said shipp were sick by the intemperatenes of that climate
whereof the interrogate Day and was one and about eight or nine some of them died
there but howe many hee knoweth not, and while the said Day was there sick
hee was not soe able to worke as formerly, aliter nescit.

Ad quartum respondet negative.

Ad quintum respondet that whole the said shipp was at the Barbadoes and was taking in
her lading, there fell much raine, and saith that while the said shipp rode
there her decks and upper worke interr were tight and staunch, and noe greate damage
happened to the goods of any valewe through defect in the said decks and upper
worke while hee stayed there, but when shee came to sea shee was leaky in
her decks and sides above water before hee mett with any stormy weather,
and saith that by reason of foule weather the said shipp gave a little way
about her bowes, but the damage in question happened not by meanes thereof
but by reason of the water shee which leake throught the deck and sides above
water at the bulke head for want of caulking. Et aliter nescit saving hee
saith the waves did beate in over it, but did not doe any harme.

Ad sextum respondet that hee spake to them at diverse times to the effect aforesaid and in
severall places of the shipp, shewing them where the decks and sides above
water were leaky, at aliter referendo se ad predepoita nescit

Ad septimum respondet that the said Cawson tooke in about 30 persons passengers homewards
bound from the Barbadoes which fedd upon the shipps prison partly, and
by that meanes there was a scarcitie of victualls And saith that some part
of the beefe and which was provided in the Barbadoes was not sweete and good
aliter nescit.

Ad octavum respondet that the said Dayes thumbe was cutt in the homeward vayage
this deponent
interr, but howe it came to be cutt hee knoweth not, aliter nescit

Super allegatione predea examinatus.

Christopher Cole
----
Eodem die.

3

Rs. E. B

Richardus Denby de Ratcliffe in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta, ubi habitavit
per 20 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 44 annoru aut eo circiter
dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad tertium quartum et quintum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that it is the
place and office of the Carpenter and of his mate to Caulke and looke to the
caulding of the shipp wherein hee or they served in such places as neede requireth
and to take care that noe damage happen to the goods on board through deponlt of
calking the same. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad sextum septium et octavum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this
deponent was on board the said shipp the Seaflower arlate the voyage in question and
was question Quarter Master in her and saith that by meanes of the working at the
said shipp at sea in ffowle weather some cutt of her goods betwixt decks were wett
and a small quantitie of flower spoyled, aliter nescit.
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Ad novum articulum dicit that the said Master Miles Cawson arlate was and is as hee
conceiveth liable to pay and satisfie unto the parties whose goods are were
damnified in the said voyage, for the damage they soe sustayned, aliter nescit.

Ad decimum dicit quod nescit, salvis subscripts.

Ad 11. 12 et 13 nescit salvis subscripts.

Ad ult dicit that the said shipp the Seaflower the voyage in question homewards bound
under water was a stronge stanch and tight shipp, and the damage which happened
to the goods aforesaid came not under water, but the by the decks and sides above water
aliter nescit.

Super cateris arlis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primum respondet that all his wages due to him for the voyage in question are
not paid him the producent Miles Cawson stoppind 40s thereof besides for three
weekes and odd dayes since they came into the Thames and before the goods were
unladed, which stoppage hee maketh in regard of the damage interrogate as this
deponent inagineth. aliter nescit.

Ad secundum respondet that the interr Willim ffolger is accompted a part owner of the
said shipp the Seaflower, aliter nescit.

Ad tertium respondet that whilest the said shipp was upon the coast of Ginney
most of the Company of the shipp by reason of the intemperate heate there
were very sick, and about tenn eight or nine of her company died there, and
saith the said John Day was then very sick and weake, and not able by meanes of
such his sicknes to take such paines as hee had formerly donne in all the
rest of the voyage. And hee saith that in the said passage of the said shipp
from the coast of Ginney to the Barbadoes the said Cawson for two or three
dayes denied him the said Day his victualls telling him that if hee would not worke hee
should not eate, albeit the said Day was then sick and weake, which hee
knoweth being present and seeing and hearing the same, and the said Day
was thereby constrained to begg bread from others of the company, whoe for that
time releived thin. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartum respondet that whilest the said shipp continewed at the said Barbadoes
for was the space of fifteene weekes or thereabouts, the said John Day (as
which
well as hee was able being then alsoe sickly) and the said Lavington
behaved themselves industriously in their places and did from time to time
as neede required and as they were able worke upon the said shipp in
calking and her decks and doing such like necessary worke thereupon,
and saith the sunne was then very hott in that place. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintum respondet that whilest the said shipp was at the Barbadoes and
was taking in her lading, there fall some raine, yet her decks and the
rest of her upper worke continewed tight and staunch, and noe damage
happened to the goods on board her all the time shee stayed there, and
shee continewed light and staunch untill about three weekes after shee came
to sea and untill such time as shee mett with stormy and tempestuous
weather, and saith that by reason of the said stormy weather the said
shipp did worke very much, and by reason thereof her seames decks
and forecastle gave way and made her leaky, and the waves of the
soe did beate in over it, and by that meanes the damage which happened
was occasioned, and not by fault or negligence of the carpenters or in their
worke or for want of caulking the said Decks and sides of the said shipp
as hee beleeveth, aliter nescit.

Ad sextum nesit deposuit.
about xxxij.

Ad septimum respondet that the said Cawson tooke in fourtie or fitie passengers
(homewards
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homewards bound from the Barbadoes which feed upon the shipps provision
and by that meanes there was a greate scarcity of provision victualls
and saith that for the space of a fortnight or thereabouts the company were
putt to an allowance of a pound of bread a day for five men: And hee
saith that some peeces of beefe which were provided for a messe when they
went from England were cutt into two peeces and made to serve two
messes homewards bound, and saith that such beefe as was bought in the
Barbadoes was unsawory and unwholesome and not fitt for men to eate, whic
hee knoweth being alsoe steward on board appointed by the said Miles Cawson
the Master in the homeward voyage of the said shipp. And hee saith the
said Master might have had beefe beaveridge and bread enough at the
Barbadoes to have served him and all his company and passengers
homewards bound if hee had pleased. aliter nescit.

Ad ultimum respondet that in the homewards voyage of the said shipp the said
Day in working about the said shipp by casualty did cutt one of his thumbes
soe that for diverse dayes after hee was not able to worke as at other times, and
saith hee heard the said Cawson on board tell the said Lavington that hee
should have his wages, but hee tould the said Day that hee should not
have his without going to lawe for it because hee did not worke or to that effect. Et aliter nescit.

Richard Denbe
----
Eadem die.

Super allegatione pred exaiatus.

4.

Rs. E. B

Robertus Waugh de Wapping in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta ubi habitavit
alteruis vicibus per 22 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 41
annorum aut eo circiter dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes
bene respective novit.

Ad tertium articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that it is the place and
office of the Carpenter serving in a shipp and of his mate to Calke and
looke to the calking of such shipp in all places thereof where neede
requireth, which hee knoweth having used to goe to sea for theise xxvj
yeares last past or thereabouts.

Ad quartum quintum et sextum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that
hee this deponent went the voyage in question in the said shipp the Seaflower
arlate, an and was gunner on board her during that voyage, and saith that
sometime in the said voyage this deponent speaking to the sd articulate John
Day the Carpenter on board the said shipp and telling him that his mallet
was more fitt for a childe then for a Carpenter of a shipp to Calke withall
(the same being as this deponent saith very small and unfitting and unserviceable
for that purpose) hee the said Day tooke offence and did bidd this deponent
meddle with his owne busines, and not meddle with his (the said Dayes)
and diverse others of the company of the said shipp in the said voyage advising and admonish in by him
the said Day in the said voyage to looke to the calking of the decks and
the sides of the said shipp above water and finding fault with her calkinge
whose parts, hee would still did bidd them meddle with their owne busines
and lett him alone with his, and yet hee saith that notwithstanding such
warning and admonicon the said Day did not doe his duty therein but the
(said
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said shipp was leakie and faultie in her decks and sides above water
through want of caulking and through the neglect or omission of the said
Day in what hee ought to have donne thereabouts, Et aliter nescit deponere
saving hee deposeth the premisses because hee was present and sawe and
heard what hee hath predeposed.

Ad septium articulum dicti lili dicit et deponit that in the homeward
voyage of the said shipp from the Barbadoes (the voyage in question)
through the defect of the calking of the decks and sides of the said
shipp above water and the neglect or omission of the said Day therein
diverse baggs of cotton then on board her the said shipp by reason of
salt water which came from the decks and shipps sides above water
were endammaged and hurt or spoyled (but to what quantitie or valew hee saith
hee cannot depose) which hee knoweth seeing the same and known by
what meanes it happened, namely through such want of calking as before

Ad octavum arlum nescit.

Ad nonum nescit.

Ad decimum dicit that if the decks and sides of the said shipp above water
had bin by the Carpenters sufficiently caulked as they ought to have bin
there had not any damage (as hee verily beleeveth and conceiveth by the
skill which hee hath in seafaring affaires) happened or come to the
said goods the voyage in question. Et aliter nescit

Ad undecimum dicit that the said shipp mett with some fowle weather
but not with any storme in her homeward voyage arlate, and saith
that there happened not any damage by meanes of such weather to
the goods on board, but the shipp was and continewed tight and
staunch after such weather under water, but the damage was
through want of calking as aforesaid ⁁or the working of the shipp. Et aliter nescit

Ad duodecimum dicit et deponit that some bread and a quantitie of
flower (being part of the shipps provisions) were in the voyage in
question spoiled through want of the calking of the decks and
sides above water of the said shipp (when shee was homewards bounds
to keep out the water which leaked through the same. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 13uj dicit that the English beefe on board the said shipp the voyage
in question in her homeward voyage was good and wholesome and
did not stinck, Et aliter nescit salvis subscriptis
Ad ult dicit that the said shipp the Seaflower the voyage arlate
homewards bound under water was a stronge staunch and tight shipp
and the damage which came and happened to the said goods came not
under water, but by her decks and sides above water for want of
calkinge Et aliter nescit.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primum respondet that hee hath not received all his wages due for the voyage
interrogate, but the said Miles Cawson doth stopp part of the same or keepe
it in his hands till hee finde whether the damage will light upon the
shipp or the carpenters.

Ad secundum respondet that the interrogate William ffolger his contest is accompted
a part owner of the said shipp the Seaflower, but of what part hee
knoweth not, but hee beleeveth that in case it shall be adiudged that the
damage which happened to the goods in question brought home in the said
shipp was occasioned by the insufficiency of the said shipp, the owners of
her must make good and pay for the same. aliter nescit.
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Ad tertium Interrium respondet that whilest the said shipp was upon the coast
of Ginney most of the company of the said shipp were sick through the
intemperatenes of the climate there, and amongest others the interrogate John
Day was then and there sick, and about eight or nine of the company
dyed there, and the said John Day by reason of such his sicknes was
not able to take such paines as hee had formerly donne in the rest of the
said voyage. And saith that in the passage from of the said shipp
from the coast of Ginney to the Barbadoes, the said Day refusing or
neglecting to come one day for his allowance of bread and coming the
next day for his allowance for that day and the day before wherein
hee had not fetched it, and the boy refusing to gave him that for the
day before hee the said Day in a day stoularfull way refused the other, but begged victualls
of the company. aliter nescit.

Ad 4uj rendet that whilest the said shipp continewed at the Barbadoes
vizt by the space of foure monethes or thereabouts the said Day and
Lavington were frequently at worke on the said shipp in calking her and
about other carpenters worke, Et aliter nescit saving the same was
very hott in those parts at that time.

Ad 5 rendet that whilest the said shipp was at the Barbadoes
and was taking in her lading there, there fell much raine, and
by reason shee rod was in a rod roade hee continewed there tight and
staunch and noe damage happened there to the goods, And saith that some
waves of the sea did beate over it, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoitis.

Ad 6 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 7 rendet that the said Cawson tooke in about thirty passengers
homewards bound from the Barbadoes which fedd on the said shipps
provision, and saith that for about a weekes space the company were
put to an allowance of a pound or a pound and halfe of bread a day for five men, and
saith that that beefe which was bought at the Barbadoes was unfitt
for men to eave because it smelt xxx unsavourely and stunck
and hee the said Cawson if hee had thought hee had not had not enough
might have had more beefe, beaveridge and bread at the Barbadoes
if hee had thought fitt to have served himselfe company & pasengers
homewards bound. aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit that the said Days thumbe in the homewards voyage
interrogate was hurt with a hand sawe in making a credle for a woman

Et aliter nescit nec audivit.

Robars waugh

Vicesimo primo January 1647 iuxtate etcetera.

Super allegacone pred examinatus.

natus apud

Thomas Wilbraham de Nantwich in Com Cestrie Mercator ubi
habitavit per anu sed habitan in parti in parochia de Stebenheath
etatis 40 annorum aut eo circiter dicit quod partes huicinda litigantes
bene respective novit.

5.

Rs. E.B

Ad tertium quartum et quintum et sextum arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that by the
skill and experience which hee hath in Seafaring affaires having used to goe
to sea as a Merchant for theise 22 yeares last past or thereabouts hee saith
hee well knoweth that it is the place and office of the Carpenter and of
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his mate to looke well to the caulking of the shipp wherein hee or they doe serve
and to that purpose they have theire wages. And hee saith that hee this
deponent being on board the shipp the Seaflower arlate in the voyage in question
in her homewards voyage from the Barbadoes well knoweth that the articulate
Miles Cawson was Master and Commander of the said shipp and the said
John Day was Carpenter and John Lavington were Carpenters mate on board her the said
voyage, and saith that hee well observed that the said Day in the said
homewards voyage was obstinate and refractary to the Masters commands
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving that hee this deponent was a came
passenger in the said shipp the Seaflower that voyage from the Barbadoes.

Ad septimum articulum dicte allegaconis dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit That
since the coming home of the said shipp the Seaflower from the said voyage
from the East Ind Barbadoes, hee this deponent hath bin on board her
to see what damage had befallen the goods laden in her and brought home
that voyage, having first understood that diverse of the said goods were
spoyled or damnified by the salt water which came in through the decks
and hee saith that upon his viewing and exae taking notice of such damage
found
hee findeth that diverse bagge of cotton woull wooll were rotted and
spoyled amounting to betweene eight and nine hundred pound weight
of cotten wooll or thereabouts which hee sawe on board soe spoyled at
predeposuit, which damage hee saith amounteth to the sume and
valew of twenty pounds sterling, for hee saith that the said Cotton
wooll was and is worth six pence a pound to be here solde, And hee
saith that viewing the said shipp hee perceived that the said damage
came by meanes of the salt water which leaked through the decks of
and paying and through the neglicence of the said Carpenter and his mate
the said shipp for want of due and sufficient calking ⁁ And hee saith
that hee alsoe sawe other foure other baggs of cotton in a warehouse neere
the Custome house which hee was informed were brought out of the said
shipp and hee saith the same was likewise very much hurt and damnified. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad octavum dicit that some flower on board the said shipp the Seaflower
in her said homewards voyage from the Barbadoes was spoyled by the
leaking of the said den leakege, but the quantitie or valew hee knoweth
not, Et aliter nescit.

Ad nonum nescit.

Ad decimum articulum dicit et deponit that in case the said decks of the said
shipp had bin firmely and sufficiently calked and payed the said homewards voyage
as they ought to have bin, the dammage predeposed had not happened or
come to the said goods. Et aliter nescit saving hee

Ad undecimum respondet dicit et deponit that though they had some foule
weather in their said homewards voyage from the Barbadoes, yet
hee saith hee conceiveth and beleiveth that noe damage or hurt
came thereby to the foresaid goods, but the same happened meerly
for want of due caulking of the decks as aforesaid, for the said
shipp continewed tight staunch and stronge under water notwithstanding
such fowle weather as they well perceived by the Pompe. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad 12 dicit that some of the shipps provision of flower and biskett was wet
and spoyled the said voyage by meanes of leakage, but where that water
came in hee cannot tell. Et aliter nescit

Ad 13 nescit salvis subscripts

(Ad
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Ad ultimu arlum refert se ad predepoita. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis arlis non examinatur ex direccone partis producentis./

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primum respondet that hee was only a passenger in the said ship
the Seaflower in her said homewards voyage, and therefoure had noe
wages due to him.

Ad secundum rendet that the interrogate William ffolger is accompted with a
part owner of the said shipp, Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertium nescit, for hee was not then on board.

Ad quartum nescit.

Ad quintu refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit, saying hee came not on board
the said shipp the Seaflower at the Barbadoes untill shee was ready
to sett saile from the said Island to come homewards.

Ad 6 nescit deposuit.

Ad 7 rendet that the interrogate Cawson tooke in about fourtie or fiftie thirty
passengers homewards bound from the Barbadoes, which fedd upon the
shippe pvision for the most part (the most of the said passengers
having brought something for themselves on board). And hee saith that
through the spoyle which befell the flower by him predeposed of, the
company for a weekes space or thereabouts were putt to an allowance
of a pound and halfe of bread a day for five men. And hee saith that
hee beleeveth the said Cawson conceived hee had victualls enough for
himselfe company and passengers for the said homewards voyage from the
Barbadoes, and if not hee beleeveth hee might have had enough there
Et aliter nescit.

Ad ultimu dicit that the said Dayes thumbe by casualtie was hurt with
his sawe in sawing of a board to make a coutch for a wooman to lie in
as hee the said Daye said, Et aliter nescit.

Tho: Wilbraham
----
Vicesimo primo die Januarij 1647 iux et cetera.

Super allegacone ex parte Day et Laving dat
examinatus.

Day et Lavington)
contra Cawson)

Jmus

Philippus Jourdan parchie sancti Botolphi extra Algate
London Nauta ubi habitavit per annnum ult aut eo circiter
natus in civitate Bristoll etatis 23 annoru aut eo circiter dicit
quod partes huincinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad quartum arlum dicit et deponit that the articulate John Day and John
Lavington are both able and sufficient shipp Carpenters and carefull men
in that their imployment in f And saith and soe commonly accompted:
And saith that in the homewards voyage of the shipp the Seaflower from
the Barbadoes they did labour carefully and painefully in their places
as their healths and strengths would permitt them, the said Day being
unhealthfull and sickly all the said voyage. The premisses hee deposeth
because hee was on board the said shipp the said voyage being
Boatswaine in her, and seeing and observing the premisses, Et aliter
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Ad quintum articulum dicit et deponit that whilest the said shipp the Seaflower
was upon the coasts of Ginney and Binney articulate, the most part of the
company were sick and weake and eight of them died, and amongest the rest
the said John Day was very sick and weake, and by that meanes was
not able to labour and take such paines as hee had formerly donne, but
continewed sick and weake the remander of the said voyage, which hee
this deponent knoweth for that hee was on board as aforesaid being
Boatswaine in the said shipp and sawe and observed the same, and tooke
a note in his booke of such as died. Et aliter nescit.

Ad sextum articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that for the space of
three moneths or thereabouts whilest the said shipp continewed at the
Barbadoes and afterwards in their retourne homewards to this port of
London the company of the said shipp were putt to halfe their former
allowance of beef, and those peeces of beefe which were cutt here in
England for a messe were cutt or devided into two peeces, and made to
serve two messes. And hee saith that for two monethes time while
they soe stayed of the Barbadoes the beefe and fish whereon the
company fedd was for the most part of it rotten and stincking and
not fitt or whole some for men to eate, and the beaveridge was sometimes
stincking, And for about a weekes space in their said homewards voyage
the company had but a pound of a bread a day allowed for five men
and for a fortnights space but a pound and halfe f to five men for
a day, and two pounds a day for another fortnights space. And hee saith
that there were about fourtie foure and thirty passengers on board the said
shipp in her said homewards voyage, which with the shipps company made
up fiftie and three persons, all which hee saith fedd upon the pvision
which was provided for the company, by by which meanes there noe was
greate scarcity of victualls on board, in so much that when they had
made the land in their said homewards voyage there was lest of all saith
of provis provisions but one dayes provision in the said shipp
whereas hee saith that if the said Cawson had pleased hee might
have had and provided more bread and beefe at the Barbadoes,
and was offered bread and beese there by the English to be solde
him. All which hee knoweth being as before on board and taking
particular notes of the premisses in his dayes booke which hee hath
nowe with him.

Ad septimum articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp when shee tooke in
ther homewards lading at the Barbadoes was stannch and for ought
this deponent perceived, and soe continewed for the space of about three
weekes after her departure from thence and untill such time as shee
came to sea and mett with fowle and tempestuous weather, which hee
saith shee did. And then hee saith that by heate of the sum pxxxxxxx
peircing the shipp sides the same shrunck in such manner that what
dammage was donne came by that meanes as hee conceiveth aliter nescit
and not by any fault or neglect in the Carpenters worke, but the by the
said foule weather and leaking of the said shipps Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primum respondet that hee cometh to testifie in this cause by meanes of
the carpenters, favet et daret victoriam partibus indifferenter et secundu ius
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Ad secundum interrium resendet negative.

Ad 3uj rendet that hee this respondent is that Phillipp Jourdaine interrogate and
saith hee was on board and had the office as predeposed of, And saith there
in Ginney
wrose some difference at sexx betwixt him this rendent and the interrogate Miles Cawson
by reason the said Cawson come on board halfe drunck and without cause strucke this rendent
Et aliter respondet negative

Ad 4 respondet negative.

Ad 5 respondet that the said Carrson hath commenced an action against this rendent
in this Court, aliter negative.

Ad 6 nescit, saving it is the Carpenters place and office to looke to the calking
of the shipp wherein hee serveth, and to take care that the same be duely calked

Ad 7 respondet that the interrogate John Day the voyage interrogate was hired to serve
in the said shipp the Seeflower as Carpenter and the said John Lanington
to serve in her as his mate Carpenters mate. Et aliter referenda se ad
predeposita nescit al saving hee beleeveth that what damage did befall
the said goods, happened without the fault of the said Day and Lavington, and
saving the said shipp received water into her.

Ad octavum respondet that the salt water which the said shipp soe received came
in aloft through the decks, and by meanes of that water the goods interr
were damnified. aliter nescit salis predepoits.

Ad nonum respondet that there was a scarcitie of bread and beef, and saith that
a quantitie of their flower being part of the shipps provisions was spoyled
with salt water which it had taken through the over sight or carelesnes of
the steward of the shipp. Et aliter nescit salis predepoits

Ad decimum respondet that the said shipp the Somflower the voyage interr
homewards bound from the Barbadoes under water was a fight, stronge
and staunch shipp saving some shott which shee received betwixt winde
and water in fight, Et refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad ultimum refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit

Phill Jorden
----
Eadam die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Thomas Webber parchia sancta Maria Matsellon als Whitechappell
Nauta ubi habitavit per triennium ult aut eo circiter etatis 24 annoru
aut circiter dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad quartum articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the
arlate John Day and John Lavington by reason that hee this deponent was one of
the shipps Company of the shipp the Seaflower in the voyage in question, and
saith the said Day was Carpenter and John Lavington Carpenters mate onboard the
said voyage, and saith they the said Day and Lavington were carefull and
painefull in their places for ought hee this deponent could perceive, and
soe they were comonly accompted, and did the voyage articulate by behave therselves
cervantly and parefully on their places soe farr forth as their health and
strength would permitt them. aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that whilest the said shipp was upon the
coastes of Ginney and Binney many of her company (and amongst the
rest
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rest the articulate John Day were very sick and weake, and about eight of them,
And the said Day continewed sick and weake for the most part of the rest of
the said voyage, and by that meanes hee was not soe able to labour and
take paines as hee had formerly donne, the premisses hee knoweth
because hee was on board and went all the said voyage as a Common man
in the said shipp, and thereby came to take notice thereof. Aliter nescit

Ad sextum articulum dicit et deponit that in the homewards voyage of the said
shipp the Seaflower from the Barbadoes towards this port of London
the Company of the said shipp were for the space of a fortnight or
thereabouts putt to the allowance of a pound of bread a day to five
men, which hee saith was not soe much as halfe their allowance. And hee saith
that the beefe and fish whereon the Company fedd in their said homeward
voyage was for the most part of it rotten and stincking, and not fitt or
whole some for men to eate, and some of the beaveridge stunck.
And hee saith that the said Cawson tooke in about thirty passengers
homewards bound, which feed upon the shipps provision, which caused
a greate scarcitie of victualls in their said shipp. And hee the said
Cawson if hee had pleased might have bought more bread and beefe
art the Barbadoes and Premissa deponit ex propria sua scientia
being on board and seeing and observing the same. Et aliter nescit.

Ad septimum articulum dicit that the said Carpenters trimmed the said shipp
all over at the Barbadoes, aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur xx direccone parte producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria

Ad primum respondet that hee comes required by the Carpenter to
be a witnes in this cause, favet et daret victoriam indifferenter ptibus
litigan se in sua esset ptate. aliter negative.

Ad 2uj respondet negative ad singula.

Ad 3uj respondet that hee was one of the said shipps company as a common
and saith his contest Phillip Jourden was alsoe one of the Company
and was in the said shipp the said voyage, and saith that diverse times
there was difference and disegreement at sea betwixt the said Phillip
and Miles Cawson the Master, and saith the said Jourden was
three or foure times over taken with drinke on board the said shipp
the said voyage, and in his dunke hee was very wilde. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartum nescit.

Ad 5uj nescit.

Ad 6uj respondet that hee knoweth and hath heard that it is the place and
officers of Carpenters of shipps and of their mates to caulke and looke
to the calking of the shipps they are hired to goe to sea in upon any
voyage, aliter nescit

Ad 7 respondet that the said Day was hired to serve in the said shipp the
Seaflower the voyage interr as Carpenter and the said John Lavington
to serve therein as his mate. And saith that in her said homewards
voyage the said shipp received in much water upon her decke, Et
aliter salvis predepoita nescit

Ad octavun Interrium nescit.

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Ad 9uj respondet that there was a scarcitie of bread and good beefe for the shipps
provisions in her said homewards voyage, and saith there was some
flower on board spoyled with water that in came into the said shipp through
her decks, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 10uj respondet that the said shipp the Seaflower in her said homewards
voyage from the Barbadoes under water was a light, staunch and stronge
shipp till shee mett with fowle weather, but when shee came to meete
with fowle weather shee was there leaky with her working, soe that
the Company were constrayned to pumpe every glasse or every halfe
houre. Et aliter nescit.

Ad ult refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Signu
Thome
Webber.
----
Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

3.

Edwardus Skamen de Insula Barbadoes Smyth natus apud
Limber magra in Comitau Lincolnshire etatis 42 annorum aut eo circiter
dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad quartum articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth
the arlate John Day and John Lavington for that hee this deponent came
a passenger in the shipp the Barbadoes Seaflower in her homewards
voyage from the Barbadoes, in which shipp the said Day was Carpenter
and the said Lavington Carpenters mate that voyage, and saith they
the said Day and Lavington the said voyage did behave themselves carefully
and painefully in their places as their health and strength gave them
abilitie, the said Day being weake and sickly the said voyage. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 5 nescit, salvis predepositis.

Ad sextum dicit that there was greate scarcitie of victualls in the said shipp
in her homewards voyage from the Barbadoes, in so much that for the
space of a weeke or thereabouts the company had not above a pound
of bread a day allowed to five men, and saith that the beefe on board
which was for the shipps provision was for the most part of it rotten
and stincking and not fitt or wholesome for men to eate; And hee
saith the passengers whoe were about thirty fedd for many of them
upon the shipps provisions, and thes arlate Miles Cawson the Master
might have bought more bread and beefe at the Barbadoes. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad septimum articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp continued staunch
and stronge under water in her homewards voyage till hee till shee mett with
fowle weather, but hee came not on board her at the Barbadoes till
shee had wayed anchor to came away, and hee saith that in case there
were in any damage happened to the goods laden on board the said shipp
in such her homewards voyage it was occasioned by such fowle weather
and the working of the shipp by meanes of the fowle weather, and
as hee beleeveth not by any default or neglect in the Carpenters
worke. Et aliter nescit.

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Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu respondet that hee cometh at the instance of the Carpenters
aforesaid to testifie in this cause, favet et daret victoriam partibus
indifferenter et quo, aliter negative.

Ad 2 respondet negative.

Ad 3 respondet that hee was only a passenger in the said shipp the said
voyage, and saith his contest Phillipp Jourdan was in the said shipp
and voyage, and saith there was some difference at sea betwixt him and
Miles Cawson their Master, this deponent seeing the said Master
beate the said Phillipp betwixt decks with a ratan, and saith that
once the said Phillipp was a little overtaken with drincke the said
voyage, aliter nescit.

Ad 4 nescit et 5uj nescit.

Ad 6 nescit.

Ad 7 rendet that once the voyage interr this deponent spake to the said
Carpenters to mend this deponents cabin for hee saith it was leaky
and they refused to doe it upon this deponents such speaking whereupon
this deponent complained to the Master, and then they endeavoured the
mend it but could not by reason of the working of the shipp, and
saith the said shipp received into her in much water upon her decks and
in her sides above water, which water that shee soe received in her
sides hee conceiveth was for by want of calking her there, but hee
saith hee beleeveth the carpenters could by noe meanes help the coming in
of the water which shee said received through her decks, aliter referend
se ad predepoita nescit.

Ad octavu respondet that hee beleeveth that if there were any damage
as is interr, it was by meanes of the water which soe came in through
the decks as afore, aliter nescit

Ad nonum refert se ad predepoita and saith that there was a scarcitie of bread
and beef, by reason that a greate part of that they had was naught and
unwholsome, aliter nescit.

Ad decimum respondet that the said shipp the Seaflower in her said
homewards voyage from the Barbadoes under water was a tight
stronge and stanch shipp untill shee received a shott or two in fight
which was were againe mended, aliter refert se ad predepoita, et nescit.

Ad ult nescit saving there was a little bisket spoyled, but howe
hee knoweth not.

Edward Skamen
----
27º Januarij 1647

Crofcembe contra Phillipps

Yeo Smith

1s

Rs. E. B

franciscus Calley de Stepney als Stebonheath in Comitatu Middlesex
scriptor etatis 37 annorum aut eo circir testis in hac pte pductus
iuratus et examinatus deponit et dicit pvt sequitur vizt/

Ad primum secundum et reliquis pred alluis ex pte Croscombe in hac parte dat
et admissum et sched in eadm allue mentionat deponit et dicit That
uppon or aboute the second day of June 1640, the arlate Josephe
Hewett late of ffarnam in the Sonn of Thomas Hewett late of ffarnam in
the Countye of Surrye Carier deceased by vertue of an Indenture
under his hand and seale became bound as an apprentice to the arlate John
Croscombe of Lymehouse marriner to serve him as an apprentice for the
space and terme of seaven yeares to begin and comence or ensue from
the sayd second of June aforesd Anno 1640 pred soe that for and duringe
(the
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the tyme articulate the sayd Hewett was commonlye accounted reputed and
taken to bee the servant and apprentice of the sayd John Croscombe and
hee schedule arlate was and is the indenture or covenant whereby the
sayd Joseph Hewett was bound as an apprentice to the sd Croscombe and the
same was and is subscribed with the proper hand writeinge of the sd
Hewett and sealed with the seale which hee made use of for that purpose
when hee sealed the same and all and singular the contents thereof
were and are true as herein is contained which hee well knoweth to bee soe for that hee
was and is a witnes to the signeinge sealeinge and deliverye of the sd
Indenture and hath seene his name soe subscribed to the same at the
tyme of this his examination aliter nescit /

ffrann Cally
----
1º ffebruary 1647

Dmus nr Rex contra navem)
the Peter canis Colard)
Budard erat magr einsqr)
apparatass at bena in)
eaduj capt Budd Sucklye)

2s

Ex offº. 9.

Edwardus Cotterell de Saintt Catherines prope turrim Londra
nauta etats 30 annorum aut eo circir testis in hac pte pductus
juratus, et examinatus deponit et dicit pvt sequitur vizt/

Ad prima prem alluis ex pte diu xxx Regis in hac pte dat et admiss deponit et
dicit aboute three yeares since the arlate Colard Budard, did
and that
Live and keepe a wife and damilyeat Dunquercke
since that hee hath lived at fflushinge but howe longe it as since hee left
Dunquercke and went to Live at fflushinge hee knoweth not but sayeth hee
knewe him whilest hee lived at Dunquercke and a little before Christmas last 
xxxx hee this examinate sawe the said Colard Budard at Ostend aliter pro parte
sua nescit saveinge that the sayd Budard was then master of a certaine
shippe called the Peter which hee taketh to bee the shippe arlate

Ad secundum ponem dicta alluis deponit et dicit that whilest the arlate
shippe the Peter was and remained at Ostend aforesd hee this exte
beinge there at the same tyme sawe some hopps, tobaccoe and musketts or
fireLocks but which of the twoe hee certainelye knoweth not nor yett what
number or quantitye carried and put aboard the sayd shippe the Peter
aliter p pte sua nescit saveinge that hee heard it sayd then and there
that the sayd shippe was to goe from thence to Ireland but to what
place in Ireland hee knoweth not./

Ad tertium salvis prdepoita ad qua se refert nescit /

Ad 4 deponit et dicit that it was in December last when the sayd shippe
the Peter was and remained at Ostend as aforesd and there as hee
heard and understood hee beinge absent part of the tyme shee had bine for the space of five or six weekes
this hee sayeth is true by vertue of his oath aliter p pte sua nescit /

Ad Interrogatoria./

Ad primu rendet that the shippe the Peter whereof the sayd Colard Budard
beinge
was master taken as a prize was brought in to Ostend whilest
hee this respondent was there and was there made prize of and afterwards bought
againe by the sayd Budard or some for his use at the price or rate as
hee heard of fowerteene hundred gilders./

Ad secundum respondet that the interrte Colard Budard hath bine ever
since this rendent knewe him accounted reputed and taken to bee
an honest man and one that will not as hee beleeves speake an untruth
uppon his oath and the said Budard as his shippe was ladeinge at Ostend
told him this rendent that hee was to goe to Dublyn in Ireland aliter salvis
prdepoitis ad qua se refert nescit./

Edward Cottrell
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Belderie contra Backus)
Martyn Backhus)

1s

Rs. E. B

Johannes Hearne de St Dunstaines in orien London Blacksmith etatis
40 annorum aut eo circir testis in hac pte pductus iuratus et extus.
deponit et dicit pvt sequitur vizt/

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos libelli in hac pte cau pro pte Baldere dat et
admisses deponit et dicit that the articulate William Backhouse master of the rticulate shippe
the Providence of Hull uppon or aboute the 14th of December last past came to
this exte and told him that hee had taken ballast into his shippe the Providence
of a ballast man whoe had abused him and haveinge gotten
a fraight of Corne for his shippe and willinge to be ridd of the sayd ballast
hee had rather this examinate should have the sayd ballast for noethinge then that
the ballast man should have it againe or any other for noethinge and thereuppon
wished this examinate to send for it and hee should have it for
heaveinge in but this exte told him the sd Backhouse hee could not gett
or hire men to heave it in at that rate whereuppon the sayd Backhouse
it the thirtee
then wished him to send upp some lighters to the shippe for the same
and his sayd that his men should heave it into the lighters and uppon
that consideracon this examinate haveinge hired the lighter in question of the articulate
Baldere the owner of her for the space of one whole yeare did
uppon or aboute the said 14th daye of December aforesd send upp the
sayd Lighter from Saint Catherines where the Lighter then was to
Buttolph Wharfe where the said Backhouse his shippe then laye for the
the ballast aforesd and sent upp twoe men in the said Lighter to
conduct and guinde her but the sayd men with the sayd Lighter as
their have since informed this examinate comeinge with the said Lighter to the
sayd shippe and for the ballast aforesd demanndinge the same of the
the said Company
sayd Backhouses Company that were aboard refused to heave
the same into the sayd Lighter which the sayd men perceiveinge they
desired leave of the said Company to fasten the lighter to the sayd shippe
which was accordelye don as hee hath heard and told them that they
would goe downe and acquainte this exte therewth and stopp
another lighter that was to come upp, for ballast alsoe to the sayd shippe
from this examinate but before this examinat had notice of the passages aforesd and
could speake with the sayd Backhouse aboute the same hee had newes that
the Lighter aforesd nowe in question was suncke by reason the sayd
shipps Company after the Lightermen had fastened her to the shippe and
were gon had removed her from that place and brought her to the shipps
side and heaveinge ballast into her and noe bodye in her soe order and
dispose of and stowe the same in her as ought to have bine had suncke her by meanes
whereof the sayd Lighter is utterlye lost to the sd Balderes the same beinge till that disaster
a stronge thight stanch and sufficinte lighter able to have carried
above twentye tonnes of ballast if well stowed in her and was and worth at the least twentye poundes
sterlinge this hee sayeth is true by vertue of his oath aliter nescit saveinge hee
beleeveth that it hath and will cost the sd Balderie in weighinge the roapes
or peeces of the sayd Lighter in case hee have or doe endeavor
and performe the same to avoyde the amonncese the xxxx at least the sume of five poundes sterl./

Ad Interrogatoria

Rs puinterries./

Af

Ad 1uj negative./

Ad 2s pro parte sua rendet negative./

Ad 3 salvis predepoitis nescit /

Ad 4 et 5 salvis predepoitis ad qua se refert nescit /

Ad 6 rendet that the lighter in question was of the burthen of twentye tonnes
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a lighter of 30 tonnes may well carrye 25 tonnes of ballast and a lighted of
twentye tonnes may verye well carrye 16 tonnes of ballasts of they bee serviceable and
the ballast well stooked

Ad 7 refert se ad prdepoita et aliter nescit /

Ad 8 refert se ad predeposita aliter nescit saveinge the wynde was faire to have
carried the shippe downe the River towards hall when the lighter in question
Richbuse then
came to the sayd shippe but hee had neither had nor could take in his fraight
untill hee had taken out his ballast

Ad 9 salvis predepoitis ad qua se refert nescit

John Georne
----
die pred

3s

Baldere./

Rs. E. B

Johannes Beane de Saint Catherines propre turrim London nauta etats 38 annorum
Aute carr testis in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus deponit et dicit
pvt sequitur videlicet/

Ad primum secundum et reliquos arlos libelli ex parte Balden in hac parte dat et
admiss deponit et dicit That within the tyme articulate videlicet in December last
past hee this examinate and another man called John Hunt were imployed and
same
sent by his precontest John Hearne with the lighter in question which hee had
formerlye hired of the articulate Baldene who was generallye accounted
reputed and taken to bee the owner of her to goe from Saint Catherines which to
Buttolph Wharfe to the articulate shippe the Providence of which the articulate
Willm Backhouse was sayd to bee master to fetch ballast out of the sayd
shippe and accordinglye hee this exte and the sayd Hunt did carrye upp the
where that then laye and have soe done
sayd to the sayd shippe to Buttolp, Wharfe aforesd which have good and
fastened the sayd Lighter to the sayd shippe with twoe roapes one belongeinge
then
to the lighter and another which they had from the shippe this examinate and his
flowe aforesaid demannded the ballast of the masters Mate of the sayd shippe
then aboard the master himselfe be present
but
and the rest of the Company accordinge as they had order to doe they
the shippe refused to heave the same out of the shippe into the lighter but
as they were desired but
would have had this examinate and his fellowe to have don it which they likewise
and hipp
refused to doe as knoweinge that it did not belonge to them soe to doe hee
there the she or some of them
they told this examinate and his fellowe that if they would not heave in the sayd
and
ballast they should not have any there but bidd then lett it alone till it
heere
was daye light and sayeinge that then they would hale aboard one
shippe or another and sell at the sayd ballast and thereuppon this examinate
and his fellowe aforesd went away leaveinge the lighter in question
with her Companies consent
fastened to the sayd shippe as aforesd intendinge to acquainte the aforesayd
Hearne that sent them of the premisses but before they could meete with hee
sayd Hearne and hee speake wth the master of the sayd shippe the Providence
they heard that the sayd Lighter was suncke the sayd shipps Company
haveinge as hee conceiveth removed her from the whence shee was by
him and his fellowe fastened to the shippe and fastened her to another
place which sincke was occasioned by theire heaveinge of ballast
in hee absence of this examinate and his fellowe and
bene
undred lye into the sayd her noe bodye in her to tooke to her and stowe
and
the ballast in her as ought to have bine and xxxxx this examinate and his
fellowe had and would have don in case the shipps Company had not
was desired then
refused to leave the ballast out of the shippe as aforesayd and the sayd
Lighter was at the tyme of when it was fastened to the sayd shippe as
aforesd a thight stronge and staunch lighter and able to have
came above twentye tonnes of ballast of it had bestored
wise as it ought to have don bine and by reason of the prmisses the
said Lighter is broaken to peeces and never to bee recovered or made
serviceable againe in soe much that the sayd Baldowe hath suffered damage
thereby above xxli sterl this hee sayeth is true by were vertue of his
oath aliter nescit /

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad 1uj p pte sua rendet negative./
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3s

Baldere

Ad secundum pro parte sua rendet negative et aliter nescit /

Ad tertium salvis predepoitis nescit

Ad quartum aliter quam predeposuit ad qua se refert nescit /

Ad quintum refert se ad predepoita et aliter p pte sua rendet negative et nescit /

Ad sextum respondet that the lighter in question was of the burthen of twoe and twentye
tonnes and that a lighter of thirtye tonnes as able to carrye 25 tonnes
ballast and a lighter of 200 tonnes 18 tonnes of ballast of they bee thight
and serviceable, and the ballast well stowed in them)

Ad septimum refert se ad predeposita et aliter nescit /

Ad octavum pro parte sua nescit respondere./

Ad nonum pro parte sua nescit respondere./

signu Johis
Beane
----
18

et 6u

Johannes Carles de Nickletterringe in Burgo de Southwarcke London
Lighterman etats 60 annorum aut eo circir testis in hac pte pductus iuratus
et examinatus deponit et dicit pvt sequitur vizt/

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos libelli ex parte Baldere in hac parte dat
et admissum deponit et dicit that in a morneinge aboute six weekes since
betweene the howers of fower and five of the clocke hee this exte beinge
aboard of a close lighter at Buttolphe wharfe sawe when his precontest
John Beane and another man came and brought upp an emptye lighter
to the shippe articulate shippe called the Providence whereof Willmj Backhurse
any
Coman
articulate was then master and hee heard some or one of the sayd shipps call
out to the sayd Beane and his fellowe and saye what upon are come for
more atwere and
the ballast are yee not and heard then or one of there saye yes and
then hee likewise heard those of the shippe aske where were the men
that should heave it in and heard Beave and his followe or one of them
sayd that did not belonge to them to doe they were onelye sent for to
receive the sayd ballast, which they were readye to doe of the shipps
but the sayd Company soe refuseing to doe
Company would heave it in what they Company before to doe the
sayd Beave and his fellowe desired leave of them to fasten the lighter
or some of them
next
to the shippe untill the tyde came and the Company of the shippe bidd
them doe with all theire had harte if they would but sayd they should
have noe ballast there unleet they would heave it out of the shippe sayeinge
that when it was daye they would hale aboard some shippe or other
the same
that wanted ballast and sell and thereuppon the sayd Beave and his
fellowe after they had fastened the lighter to the shippe went awaye
aboute theire busines and but soone after they were gon and before they
came againe to fetch away the lighter the sayd shipps Company had
aswed lossend the sayd Lighter from the place where the lightermen had
fastened her and brought her to the Ports and were heaveinge of ballast out
hee
into the lighte
no the her and in soe doeinge through want of care or some bodye in the
Lighter to stowe the ballast in her had suncke her in the River by the
shipps side this hee sayeth is true by vertue of his oath aliter pro pte sua
nescit /

Ad Interrogatoria

Ad 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. et 3 p pte sua negative et nescit salvis predepoitis
qua se refert et salvis quod hee hath bine a lighterman for above these
fortye yeares and sayeth a lighter of thirtye tonnes is able to carrye 28tonnes
of ballast if shee bee thight and serviceable and and a lighter of
twentye tonnes to carrye 15 tonnes of ballast accordinglye

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8º Februarij 1657

2

Balderie

Rs. E. B

Johannes Burrett de Stepney in Com Midd nauta etats 32 annorum aut
eo circir testis in hac pte pductus iuratus, et examinatus deponit et dicit
pvt sequitur videlicett

Ad primum secundum et reliquos articulos libelli ex parte Baldere in hac parte dat
et admissum deponit et dicit that hee this examinate hath often wrought in the Lighter
in question and knewe the same for the space almost twelve monethes
the lighter
before the disaster in question happened and knoweth that it was at the
which as wither the tyme articulate
tyme when the said disaster happened a stronge stanch and thight lighter
and that it did belonge and appertaine unto the arlate Baldere but
was lett out to hire by the weeke to ast unto one John Hearne a lighter
after the rate of three shillinges a weeke and the was eveninge before the
damage in question happened hee this examinate was present with the sayd
Hearne when hee spoake with the Company of the articulate shippe called
shee then
the Providence of Hull whereof the articulate Backhouse was master rideing
or lyeinge at Buttolph Wharfe in the River of Thames aboute takeinge out of
her ballast and heard the sayd Hearne saye that if the sayd hee would not
bee at the chardge of men to heave it out of the shippe into the the lighter
or lighters but that if they would heave out the same hee would send upp
a lighter or lighters for the same and to which they condiscended and
thereuppon the sayd Hearne did send upp the Lighter sayd Balderes
Lighter in question for part of the sayd ballast and this exte in another
Lighter of his owne for the rest but before this exte came to the sayd
shippe to Buttolphe Wharfe aforesd the sayd Balderies lighter was
with heaveinge of ballast into her as the shipps Company sayd noe
bodye beinge in her to looke to her and stowe the same in her suncke
the River and then the some or one of the sayd shipps Company asked
this exte what it would cost the weigheinge of the sayd lighter and hee
told him or them that hee thought it would cost at the least five pounds
doeinge of it could bee done at all as hee was doubtfull wheither it could
or not, whereto the sayd men or some of them made answere and
sayd that hee or they would gove fortye shillinges withall the his or
theire hurt that the sayd Lighter were weighed or till towards the
weigheinge thereof or used words to that effect and withall wished that the mate of the meanninge
as hee conceiveth the Mate of the sayd shippe then aboard when the lighter
suncke had bine fast askeepe in his bedd when hee badd them
heave the ballast into the sayd lighter and that lighter was the tyme
aforesayd worth at the least twentye pounds sterlinge money and soe
much and more hee beleeveth the sayd Baldere is damnified by
reason of her sinckinge shee beinge utterlye lost this hee sayeth is true by
vertue of his oath aliter pro parte sua nescit /

Ad Interria

Ad primum respondet negative./

Ad secundum et reliqua interrogatoria respondet that the lighter in question was of the
burthen of above twentye tonngs and is lighter of 30li tonnes of it bee thight
and well stowed in her
and serviceable any well carrye 16 tonns of ballast and lighter of 34
tonnes to learnes may of as aforesd will ye 16 tonnes and lost and hee
beleeve the sayd Backhouse was proved pvided of a fraight before the
lighter interrogate came to the shipp side and that shee stayed onelye
the
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onelye the takeinge out of the ballast the wynde beinge faire to have carried hee
hath
downe the River and that hee bine a lighterman for the space of these
twelve monethes and a halfe last past aliter salvis predepoitis ad qua se
refert nescit negative et nescit saveinge that the lighter which this respondent
brought upp did receive ballast out of the sayd shippe the Providence
which with that ballast that was put into the lighter that was suncke was all the
ballast that was taken out of the sayd shippe the Providence

John Bennett
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die pred

& Baldere/
of her

R. E. B

Oliverus Smith de Wappinge in Comitatu Middlesex Lighterman etatis 30
annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus, et examinatus deponit et
dicit 

That hee this examinate knewe the lighter in question longe before the
damage in questioned happened and knewe that shee at the tyme hee was
sinckinge shee did belonge to the articulate Balderie and was onelye lett out to
here to one Hearne by the weeke and that shee was within the tyme arlate
alsoe sent by the sayd Hearne from Saint Catherines upp to Buttolph Wharfer
with have men in her to fetch ballast out of a shippe which laye there
whereof one Backhouse was sayd to hee master for that hee this examinate workeinge
with the sayd Hearne was sent upp with another lighter presentlye
after that lighter by the said Horne alsoe to the sayd shippe taketh
ballast out of her likewise wth direccons from the sayd Hearne that the
were soe
shipps Company went and the ballast out of the sayd shippe into the sayd
Lighters but soe it was that comeinge upp to the sayd shippe accordinge to the
sayd Hearnes direccon within the tyme aforesd and present within the
space of three howers after the lighter in question, hee founde the lighter
to bee suncke and enquiringe but neither of the men sent upp in her then
there and enquireinge the of the shipps Company the reason or cause of the
the
lighters sinckeinge some of the sayd shipps Company told him it came to pusse
in heaveinge of five or six teanes of ballast of out of the sayd shippe into her and
thereuppon this examinate asked what was become of the men that came uppon her
but that
and they told him they knewe not or that they were gone a shoare and then
hee asked whoe they would meddle with the lighter in theire absence whereat
they then begann to complaine and accuse one another for the same
sayeinge it was the masters Mates faulte and the lighter beinge made fast
by was
to the shippe had bin in her sinckinge broaken the roapes with which shee had
shee was
hee bine lastened and had broad storme and towe the Port sayle downe
with her when shee suncke at that the sayd shipps Company were as hee
conceiveth the cause and occasion of sinckinge of the slighter or heaveinge
the ballast into her where in the obsence of the lightermen and noe bodye in her
to stowe the ballast equallye in her by which meanes shee was over sett and soe
suncke and ut credit, and shee had not bine longe suncke when this exte came to the
hee sawe the
sayd shippe ut credit for that the shippe did then sallye too and againe were
when hee came neere to her which was as hee conceiveth occasioned by the
sinckinge of the lighter and breakeinge of the fasts wherewith shee was fastened to
a aforesd
the sd shippe and that lighter soe suncke was of the burthen of twentye tonne
and a good stronge stanch hight and sufficient lighter for carriage of ball of
and well worth twentye poundes sterlinge and soe much and more hee sayeth hee
beleeves Balder is damnified by her sinckeinge the said lighter beinge utterly
lost to him this hee sayeth is true by vertue of his oath aliter pro parte sua nescit /

Ad Interrogatoria/

Ad primum secundum et reliqua interrogatoria respondet negative et nescit salvis prdepts
at and saveinge that hee was a lighterman before the damage in question hee
but had noe chardge of the lighter in question and that a lighter of thirtye tonnes of
hight and good is able to carrye 27tanes of ballast in case the same bee was
stowe or her and soe likewise a lighter of 20 tonnes 18 tonnes of ballast and
that Backhouse was provided of a fraight as hee would not have take parted
hath his ballast as hee did but sayeth shee his shippe stayed or three dayes of
the River after the ballast was out of her takeinge in Corne./

Biner Smith
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1s

undecimo Martij 1647 iuxta et
Super allegacone artion /

Plover et socij contra)
Gough)
et socioru dat examinatus.)

Julius ffowles de Wapping in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta, ubi had
per 16 annos ult aut eo circiter, etatis 36 annorum aut eo circiter
dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective novit./

in
Ad quintu articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent went and was one of
Tarr
this Company of the shipp the Bonadventure menconed in this allegacon during the whole
voyage in question, Et aliter nescit deponere salvis subscripts.

Ad sextum articulum dicit et deponit that in the said shipps homewards voyage there was delivered
of corne
which to his remembrance was the merchants could
out at Elsanore two or three sacks by the order of Ruper Plover their Master, and foure or
five sacks at Harwich articulate, which said corne soe delivered out sacke, but whether it was
but whether that torne any hee soe delivered out at Harwich was any part of
it was any putt of the Merchants corne (which hee saith laye loose alltogether in the said
or which hee saith hee doth not knowe
shipps out of sacks or baggs, Et aliter nescit, saving there came certaine sacks of corne on
board at Dansicke in the Masters name and as for his accompt

Ad septium et octavun artoculos dicit et deponit that there was much of the corne arlate damnified in the
said shipps homewards voyage to this port of London, which dammage hee conceiveth and
beleeveth came by stormy and fowle weather, and not by any default or insufficiencie of
the said shipp, for hee saith that in the homewards voyage of the said shipp from
Dansicke towards this port of London shee mett with much stormy and tempestious
weather, which caused the said shipp to bee leaky, but hee saith that when the said
shipp became leaky, by reason of the said stormy weather her Master and company
did their best endeavours both by pumping and otherwise to preserve the said goods are
from damage. Et aliter nescit, saving hee knoweth the premisses to bee true becau
hee was on board (being one of the shipps company) and sawe and observed the said
to bee
as hee hath here deposed.

Ad novum articulum dicit et deponit that the corne and grane articulate was not measured at the
time it was delivered at the said shipp, nor was it measured on board when it was lade
which if it had bin hee saith hee must need of have seene it, being one of the company
and then on board and helping to stowe the same. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decimum articulum dicit et deponit that the corne and graine arlate was brought abord
doutsick
the said shipp in Danish vessells called Burthens, and when the greatest part thereof
was brought abord the weather was very stormy and tempestuous weather, in somuch
groatest part of the
that in the hearing of the said corne and graine into the said shipp out of the said
Burthens much thereof fell by the side of the said shipp into the sea and was lost,
And hee saith that the corne that was delivered out of the said shipp in the River of
Thames for the Merchants accompt was delivered into such vessells as were sent by
the Merchant to receive the same, Et aliter nescit which hee knoweth, being present
as before. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp stayed in or neere the Roade arlate aliter
forting, but were many dayes hee knoweth not) for her lading, and tooke in soe
much corne for the Merchants accompt as could be conveniently stowed aboard her, on
after shee was soe laden, hee saith the Master and company with the first convenience
and oportunitie sett sayle from thence, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving they prosequitted
the said voyage with what convenient speede they could.

Ad 1u articulum dicit et deponit that the arlate Juper Plower tooke some baggs of woll
the said shipp in Dansicke, which hee saith were noe hindrance or preiudice to the corne
aboard
aboard her, but rather was good for it, and saith the said shipp could could not conveniently
take in any more going then was coment laden on board her, for hee saith hee was deep
laden therewith, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp being to deepe laden at Dansick, they
unladed out of her the quantitie of two last of pease or thereabouts, which were putt on bord
another prizes ashore from the said shipp at Elsanore but hee hath since heard that they were brought home
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in Captaine Woollers shipp) which were soe unladed for the preservation of the rest of the
corne on board to lighten her the said shipp, Et aliter nescit.
Sara

Ad 14 articulum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
in the port of London, the arlate Mr Gough came diverse times abord her and found the
some of the wheate articulate was much damnified and did stinck very much (as indeede hee
saith it did) and hee saith a greate part thereof was throwne over board as little or
nothing worth, which hee knoweth being one that did help to heave the same over board, but
the quantitie thereof soe hee ver board hee knoweth not, neither knoweth whether the
said Mr Gough gave any order to have the same soe throwne over board or noe, Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis arlis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu rendet that hee cometh at the instance of the producent Juper Plover to testifie
this cause, and was one of the shipps company, but had noe office therein, but went therein
common man, and hath received all his wages for that voyage, aliter negative.

Ad secundum respondet negative ad singula.
for the most

Ad tertium respondet that hee hath bin at Dansike in many former voyages (having used that
voyage for theise 15 yeares last past or thereabouts) and hee hath formerly came from
thence in a shipp that hath brought corne, which hee sawe here delivered out, Et aliter
nescit, saying hee is not acquainted with the measureing of corne at either of the
ports or places interr as is brought from Dansike, nor knoweth what hee yeeldeth here
and saving what hee hath hereafter answered to the Interries.
and company

Ad quartum respondet that after the corne interrogate was stowed, the interr Jumper Plove
the Master tooke in a quantitie of hemp and wooll some other goods at Dansike, but howe
much hee knoweth not, and saith the said corne was shipp was very deepe laden with
corne, and the burthen was increased by the said hemp and other goods, though but little
the same being light goods. Et aliter nescit, salvis subscripts

Ad quintum respondet that during the said homewards voyage of the said shipp they after putt
into diverse ports and harbours aswell by reason of the deepe lading of the said shipp as
for securitie from the Winter weather (it being that time of the yeere and like to bee
stormy weather, and dangerous keeping out at sea on those coast in such weather)
and hee saith they did not put into any port or harbour without good good reason of
upon feare of stormes and fowle weather or the like, and when they soe went in, hee
beleeveth they should have donne the same though the shipp had bin lighter the laded
then shee was aliter nescit.

Ad 6 respondet that there happened a greate storme in their homewards voyage betwixt
the Lizard and the lawe which began on saftirday in the afternoone and continewed all
in his opinion
that night, and hee saith that by reason it was soe violent that it would have made
any shipp give way that was never soe stronge, considering they were forced to bee are
over presse her with sayle to keepe cleere from the shore, aliter nescit salvis prdepoits.
saving hee beleeveth the damage came by the fowle weather and not by meanes of her
being over laden.

Ad septimum respondet that there was one of the company of the said shipp sent ashore by their
Master to see the said corne and grame measured before the receiving the same on board
the said shipp, and hee this rendent heard him that was soe sent ashore (being william
the gunner
Booke) say that hee had seene it all measured, and that there was sixtie vessells
alled to every last, (and soe much hee saith is the usuall allowance for a last
which Bowle hee saith came alonge with the said corne from the shore to the shipp
to see the same brought on board, and was appointed by the said Plover to attend
all the while till it was laden abord, Et aliter nescit, nes scit quod credat

Ad octavum respondet that after the said shipps arrivall in this port of London the said Plover
imployed another of the company videlicet Samuel Hawkins the Boatswaine to see soe
the said corne measured out here in this port of London, which came alonge with the
same when it was brought from the shipp in lighters to the short to take charge
thereof and to lack to and soe that none thereof was imbeazelled, before it was measured
and aliter nescit.
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Ad nonum respondet that there was a greate part of the said wheate spoyled and damnified
with salt water, and that the said shipp in her homewards course did putt into Harwich
where shee abade for the space of three weekes or thereabouts, and saith that while shee soe
laye there, there were foure or five sacke of corne carried away out of the said shipp
of the said Mr Haven order, aliter salvis predepoits.

Ad 10 respondet that at Dansike sixtie she ffells are usually allowed to a last, and a shee
is commonly accompted to containe five packs of English measure, Et aliter nescit.
interr

Ad undecimum respondet that the two lasts of pease belonging to the said Mr Hough he were
delivered out of the shipp the Sarah Bonadventure at Elsanore, the said shipp being
then leaky, and having mett with some badd weather in coming thither Et aliter nescit
referendo se ad predeposita./

Ad 12uj nescit.

Ad 13 nescit negative.

Signu

July

6

ffowles
----
Eadem die.

2dus

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Richardus Wood de Debtford in Com Lantij Nauta ubi hitarie
per quinquein ult aut eo circiter etatis 50 annorum aut eo
circiter dicit quod partes huicinde litigantes bene respective
novit.

Ad quintum et sextum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that the voyage in question
hee this deponent was one of the shipps company of the said shipp the Sarah Bonadventure
arlate, and went masters Mate in her the said voyage, and saith that such corme and pease as
came home the said voyage on the arlate Mr Goughs accompt was in the said shipp
was delivered here in this port of London to the use of the said Mr Gough, being putt
into lighters sent for that purpose by him, which this deponent sawe, And saith that
there was delivered out of the said shipp at Elsanore by the said Plover only two or three
sacks of corne, which the said Plover (as hee said delivered out through want of money
and a provide necessaries to furnish his occasions, but whither that corne soe delivered
was the Merchants or the Masters hee knoweth not, but saith the said Master had on
board (as hee told this deponent) 25 sacks of corne on his owne accompt, And some
bine more the said Master delivered out at Harwich only five sacks of corne which
hee saith was the Masters owne, which corne of the Masters was in sacks or baggs
whereas the Maste Merchants corne lay loose alltogether and not in bagge. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad septimum et octavum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that such damage or hurt
as befell the corne and other graine brought home in the said shipp the Sara Bonadvent
said port of London through wett or otherwise happened not by insufficiencie of
the said shipp nor by any neglect or fault of the Master and company, but meerly
by stormy and tempestuous weather, for hee saith that when they tooke in the said
goods of Dansike, the said shipp was stronge thight, and stanch and was well calked
from Steme to sterne, and was well able to have brought the said goods (which hee
saith were well and carefully stowed) safely and in good condicon (the perills and
danngers of the seas excepted) home to this port of London, But hee saith shee
the said shipp in her homewards voyage mett with very stormy and tempestuous
weather, which made her leaky, by which meanes part of the said corne received
wett and was damnified, howbeit hee saith the Master and Company both by
accomping and otherwise did their best endeavours to preserve the said goods from damage
the shipp continewing thight and staunch untill shee mett with the said storme. The
premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being masters mate and
present thereat. Et aliter nescit.

Ad [?XX] articulum dicit et deponit that the corne and graine articulate was measured on shore
at
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at Dansike before it was brought aboard the said shipp but was not measured into the
when
shipp by the shipp side, nor on bord her necit was first laden, for hee saith if it had noe
bin there measured, hee this deponent must needs have seene it in measureing hee being
on bord all the while it was taking in and stowing. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that the said corne and graine was brought abord in
the said shipp in Dansike vessells called Burthens, and that while the greatest part
thereof was soe brought abord it was very stormy and tempestuous weather, soe
that much of the said corne while it was heaving out of the said Burthens into the
shipp was fell by the side of the said shipp and was lost in the sea, but of what
quantitie the corne that was soe lost in the sea was hee saith hee knoweth not
Reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra. Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad undecium articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure did
stay for her lading of corne in the Roade of Dansike the space of twenty working dayes
or thereabouts, and there tooke in asmuch corne for the Merchants accompt of
could conveniently bestowed on board her, and with the first oppertaintie of wind
and weather (after shee was there ladeing the Master and Company sett saile from
thence, and prosecuted her voyage from thence towards the port of London
with asmuch speede as conveniently they could and as winde and weather did prize
and stayed not in any place by the way longer time then they were by winde and
weather constrained to stay. The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons
aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12uj articulum dicit et deponit that true it is the said Junper Plover at Dansike
tooke abord certaine bagge of wooll, yet hee saith the said woolls were noe hindrance
or preiudice to the corne abord, saying that the said shipp could not conveniently
take in any more corne then was laden on board her, which hee knoweth because
hee was on board and observed the same. aliter nescit.

Ad 13 articulum dicit et deponit that when the said shipp came to Elsanore in her
said homewards voyage and having in her coming thither mett with some foule weather,
of the Master and Company finding that the shipp was too much by the sterne
her
soe that they could not well worke hold did at Elsmore putt out of her only
two lasts or thereabouts of pease which were carried ashore, and the same was
soe donne to lighten her and to preserve the rest of the corne on bord the said
were
shipp, which pease as hee hath heard was brought home in Captaine Woollard
shipp shortly after their arrivall in this port of London. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 13uj articulum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Saray
Bonadventure in the port of London, the said Mr Gough came aboard her and
finding that some of the wheate on bord was damnified and stunck hee gave
order to have it putt in tubbs and laid by on the decks and otherwise disposed
thereof. Et aliter nescit, saying hee sawe none throwne over board, nor knoweth
of any order given to that purpose.

Ad ultimum dicit predepoita p eu vera. Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone.
partis producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria./

Ad primun respondet that hee comes by the meanes of Mr Plover to be a witnes
in this cause, and was one of the Company ut predeposuit, and saith hee hath
received all his wages due unto him for the said voyage, aliter negative.

Ad 2 negative.

Ad 3uj respondet that hee hath bin at Dansike in two former voyages, but came not home before
in any shipp that tooke in corne, aliter nescit.

Ad quartu respondet that besides the said Mr Goughs corne and there sacks of corne
soe as before laden for his owne accompt, the said Mr Plover or Dansike tooke in sixtie
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baggs of wooll and a certaine quantitie of knuckeld hemp, which being such light goods
did not hinder make the said shipp the more unfitt to sayle ut dicit, howbeit
hee saith shee was laden with asmuch corne as shee could well saile with in case
shee channced to meete with stormes and tempest. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5uj respondet that the said shipp in her said homewards voyage did putt into divers
ports and places by the way, but not without iust occasion, yet not constrained by any
over lading, or insufficiency of the shipp, aliter nescit et negative.

Ad sextum respondet that under the Skan they had very stormy and tempestuous weather
if
in their said homewards voyage in somuch that although the said shipp the Sarah
Bonadventure had not bin a stronge and stanch shipp (as hee saith hee was) shee
could not have indured the said storme and hee beleeveth and knoweth that by force
of bearing of saile to make her worke in the said storme (and not by any overlading) shee gave way
and soe the goods laden in her came to be damnified, Et aliter nescit.

Ad septium interr respondet that their Gunner William Bowell was by the said
Plover sent ashore and imployed to see the corne and pease. measured before the same came
abord, and some other of the company did fetch the said corne on board, Et aliter
nescit, nor knoweth what to beleeveth therein.

Ad 8uj respondet that by the said Masters appointment their Boatswaine
Samuel Hawkins went upp with the lighters to London with the said corne
after it was laden into the said lighters out of the said shipp, to see the same
measured in this porte of London, whoe had in charge to looke to and have
a care of it that none was imbeazeald till it was Et aliter nescit.

Ad 9uj respondet that there was a greate part of the said Mr Goughs wheate
spoyled with salt water, but howe much hee knoweth not nor to what
valewe, and in her homewards course the said shipp did putt into Harwich
where shee remained and abode the space of betweene three weekes and a
moneth, aliter nescit et negative salvis predepoits.

Ad 10 nescit, nor doth remember what hee hath heard to that purpose, nor can
hee (as hee saith) tell what to beleeve therein, having taken noe notice or regard
thereof.

Ad 11uj respondet that the two sacks lasts of pease interrogate were delivered out at the
place predeposed, but the said shipp was not then leakie when the same was soe
delivered out, and but yet shee had mett with some fowle though not stormy
in
weather and her coming thither from Dansike aforesaid, aliter referendo se ad
predepoita nescit.

Ad 12uj respondet that the interrogate Mr Plower brought most of the lighters aboard that
fetcht the said corne from the shipp to the shore in the River of Thames, but
whoe hired them hee knoweth not, aliter nescit

Ad ult respondet that the said shipp at Danseke being laded laden did heele a little more on one
side then on the other, but when their boate was on board, shee was upright
aliter respondet negative.

Michael Wood
----
xiij Martij 1647 iux er

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

3us

Edwardus Foxe de Wapping in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta ubi habitavit ptermass per
octeniu ult aut eo circiter, aetatis 26 annoru aut eo circiter dicit quod
p arles huicinde litigantes bene respective novit.

Ad quintu et sextum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent went the
voyage in question in the shipp the Sarah Bonadventure arlate as a common man and
by that meanes well knoweth that there was not above two or three sacks of come delivered
out of the said shipp at Elsinore and not not above five delivered out at Harwich, all which
hee saith was brought in and laden in the Masters accompt and his came, and was delived
out to provide by the articulate Mr Plover their Master to provide necessaries for the shipps
company, And hee saith that the corne on board laden on the Masters accompt (which hee saith
was 25 sacks and whereof the said sacks of corne delivered out at Elsanore and Harwich was
a part) was in sacks or baggs a part from the Merchants corne, which hee saith lay loose
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altogether in the shipp and not in sacks or baggs, And the said corne of the said Merchants
that was brought home in the said shipp was delivered here out of the said shipp in this
port of London into lighters to the said Merchants, use. Et aliter nescit

Ad septimum et octavum articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that the shipp articulate
when shee tooke in the goods arlate was stronge, thight and staunch and was well calked
from stemme to sterne and well able to have brought the said goods safely and in good
condition (the perills and dangers of the seas excepted) for hee saith the said goods were well
and carefully stowed. And hee saith that the said shipp in her said homewards voyage
from Dansick towards this port of London mett with very stormy and tempestuous
weather especially with one night under the betwixt the Skaw and the Tromell
they mett with a great storme which lasted the whole night, which fowle weather hee saith
made the shipp leakie, by meanes whereof (and part of the corne received wett
and was damnified, whereas before that stormy and tempestuous weather the said
shipp continewed thight and staunch, nor did the said hurt or dammage befall the
said corne by reason of any default or insufficiency of the said shipp ut dicit, but by meerly
by her giving way by stresse of weather, for hee saith that when the corne
was taken out of her here in this port of London it was drie at the bottome
thereof, and the damage was at the side of shipp, which hee saith was an evident
signe that it came by stresse of weather and not by reason of thexx any insufficience
in the shipp, saying withall that the said Master and company did their best
endeavours by pumping to preserve the said goods from dammage, Et al
Reddens raconem scientia sua for that hee was one of the shipps company as
before hee hath deposed, and by that meanes tooke notice and the better observed
the premisses to bee as hee hath here deposed, and himselfe helping to plie
the pumpe with his fellowes in such the voyage upon the occasion aforesaid.
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad nonum articulum dicit et deponit that the said corne and graine was not delivered
into the said shipp by measure nor was it measured on board, which if it had
bin hee saith hee must needs have seene the same in measuring, hee being
on bord all the while the same was takeing in or in one of them that did
help to heave it into the shipp out of the Burthens wherein the same the
was brought to the shipps side. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decimum dicit that the said corne and graine was in question was brought
abord the said shipp the Sara Bonadventure in Dansicke vessells called
Burthens, and while the greatest part thereof was soe brought abord it was
stormy and tempestuous weather soe that much of the said corne and graine
in heaving thereof out of the said Burthens into the shipp fell by the
shipps side and into the sea and was lost, which hee knoweth being one of
them that did help to heave the same out of the said Burthens into the
foresaid shipp, and seeing the same to be as hee hath hee deposed, But
the quantitie thereof that soe fell by the shipps side into the sea and was
lost in the heaving aforesaid hee knoweth not nor can hee (ut dicit) estimate
the same, Et aliter nescit And saving his contests Julius ffowles and Richard wood went
alsoe the said voyage in the said shipp and were of the shipps company the
said wood being Masters Mate and the said ffowles a common man

Ad undecimum dicit
that the said shipp staid in or neere the roade of Dansike xx
for her lading of corne above a fortnight but the precise number of dayes hee
remembreth not) and tooke in asmuch corne and graine for the Merchants accompt as
could be conveniently stowed on board her, and when shee was therewith there
laden, hee saith the Master and company with the first oportunitie of
winde and weather sett sayle from thence, and prosequuted her voyage from
thence towards the port of London with asmuch speede as winde and weather
did permitt, staying not any longer time in any place then they were forced to stay
by winde and weather, Premissa deponit ex certa sua scientia reddens raconem ut supra.

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Ad duodecium articulum dicit et deponit that the wooll which the articulate Juniper Plover
tooke into the said shipp at Dansike was noe hindrance or preiudice to the corne
aboard her, but rather good for it in case of water coming in, which the said wooll
would have received, neither as hee saith could the said shipp then take in any more
corne then was laden abord her. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decimum tertium articulum dicit that in their passage from Dansike to Elsanore the
said Master perceiving that the said shipp was too much by the sterne (as in truth
shee was ut dicit) caused a quantitie of the pease laden abord her for the said
Merchants accompt to be taken out of her and putt on shore at Elsanore and there
to bee left, which hee saith was donne to lighten her by the sterne for the preservation of the rest of the
corne and graine abord the said shipp the Sarah Bonadventure to lighten her
which said pease soe taken out amounted not in his iudgement and estimation
to above two lasts of peese, which hee saith as hee were brought safe home
in another shipp and delivered to the said Mr Gough or his assignes as hee hath
heard. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14uj dicit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Sarah Bonadventure
in the port of London, there was a quantitie of the wheate therein that was
damnified and stanck heaved over board as little or nothing worth, this deponent
helping to heave some of it over board, and as hee heard some of the company
saye, it was soe throwne over bord by the Masters command according to
order which hee had received from the articulate Mr Gough for doing the same
but the quantitie soe throwne over board hee saith hee knoweth not. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad ultimu arlum dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Super reliquis arlis non exaiatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes to testifie by the meanes of Mr Plover, and
was one of the shipps company ut supra deposuit, and hath received all his wages
due unto him for the said voyage, none thereof being stopped or detained. aliter nescit.

Ad 2uj respondet negative ad singula.

Ad 3 negative et nescit, saying hee was never there before, nor remembreth howe
the measure falleth out.

Ad 4 respondet that besides the foresaid 25 sacks of corne taken in in his the said Mr
Plovers name of Dansike, hee tooke in a certaine quantitie of wooll, but
howe much this rendent knoweth not, but saith the said wooll and other things
were a lighter full, which were taken in after Mr Goughs corne was laden aboard
aliter nescit, saving the said corne was not more then the shipp could well sayle with
mett
in case hee may with a small storme or tempest, howbeit the said lighter
of goods must (ut dicit) needs add somethinge to the charge or burthen of the said shipp

Ad 5 dicit respondet that upon occasion of badd weather or uppon apprehension of
the coming of fowle weather they putt with the said shipp into diverse ports
and places by the way from Dansicke, for the safeguard of the shipp and goods.
aliter negative.

Ad 6 respondet that considering the prest sayle they were forced to beare in the
foresaid storme, to keepe the shipp up from going to the Lee shore, hee beleeveth
that if shee had bin never soe stoute and staunch a shipp shee must have given
way, and have endamaged her lading thereby, aliter satisfecit in predepoits suis.
ad qua se refert, saying that in his iudgement and as hee verily beleeveth the
damage happened by the shipps giving way in the storme aforesaid and not by
meanes of any overlading of her.

Ad septimum respondet that there was one of the company videlicet William Bowle sent
ashore by the Master at Dansicke to looke to the taking in of the corne into the
Burthens and to come alonge with the same to the shipp, Et aliter nescit, nec
scit quid crederet ut dicit.

Ad octavu respondet that the said Plover sent up Samuel Hawkins the Boatswaine
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with the lighters from the said shipp to see the corne interrogate measured here in the
porte of London, xxx Et aliter nescit.

Ad nonum respondet that a greate part of the interrogate Mr Gough wheate was
spoyled with salt water, but the quantitie or valewe thereof hee knoweth not.
and saith that the said shipp did putt into Harwich in her said homewards
voyage where shee staid and abode the space of to a moneth or thereabouts
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 10u nescit nec audivit quaterus recordatur.
of the said shipp

Ad 11u respondet that the interrogate two lasts of pease were delivered out at in
the said shipp not being then leakie, nor having mett with but a little storme
before her coming thither, aliter nescit.
Ad 12 nescit.

Ad respondet that at Dansike the said shipp at Dansike was laden something
on the onside then on the other, which hee saith they usually doe for placing their
boate anchors and cables, and when they had soe xxx taken in and placed their
boate anchors and cables hee came to rights againe, aliter negative.

Signed
ffor
Ad

2
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Decimo exte Martij 1647 iux

Super lili in hac causa dat examinatus.

dickons et socij proprietary navis the)
Talbott contra Hawkins all)
theithers, Batson et alios)

1us

Smith

Rp. EA.

Johannes Rewman de Woollwich in Comitatu Canty Shipp carpenter ubi habitavit
per octenniu ult aut eo circiter aetatis 29 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac
causa productus et juratus deponit ut sequitur.

Ad primum et secundum articulos dicte allegaconis libelli dicit et deponit that the arlate John Dickons,
Thomas ffowell, Richard Wilson, Edward Walker Nicholas wallis and company were in
the yeare and monethes articulate and are commonly accompted and reputed owners and proprietors of the
shipp the Talbot articulate, and the articulate Joseph Blowe was and is accompted master of the
said shipp, and went master in her the voyage in question of this deponents sight and
knowledge, hee this deponent being one of her company the said voyage, And hee saith
the arlate Thomas Hawking the time articulate was and is accompted Master of the shipp the
Charles menconed in theise articles, and had the governement of her in the said time. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu et quartum arlos dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee this deponent going in the said
shipp the Talbott the voyage in question and being as Carpenter on bord her, well knoweth
that in some of the moneths menconed in the first bale of the libell videlicet about Michaelmas
last past the said shipp the Talbott being and remayning neere the porte of Suta
articulate was there fraighted by certaine merchants to sayle or goe to the Port of
Alborne arlate, to take in her lading of corne and to transport the same thence to or
neere the port of Cales arlate and there to discharge the same, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 5 et 6 arlate dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid after the foresaid Merchants had
soe taken the said shipp the Talbott to freight, the said shipp the Talbott did sett sayle
and depart from the harbour of Suta aforesaid and arrived neere the porte of Alborne
arlate, and hee saith that being there arrived, and the Master and Company having
procured license and authoritie from the Governour of that place to receive and take
on board the said shipp her lading of wheate to be transported as is articulate, there was by
the Merchants and others provided xx many hancke of wheate to be putt on bord the said
goods
shipp to be carried to Cales, a greate part of which wheate was there laden on bord the said
shipp the Talbott of this deponents sight and knowledge whoe did there help to stome
the same. And hee saith that within the time articulate and while the said shipp the
Talbot soe remained in the port of Alborne and aforesaid and was taking in her
said lading of wheate the articulate Thomas Hawkins came and arrived likewise is the said
porte with the foresaid shipp the Charles, his coming thither being as this deponent
there understand) to got leave likewise to lade corne in the said shipp the Charles, which as this
was informed, was denied him, Et aliter nescit.

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Ad septium et 8u articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that within the time arlate and during the
while that the foresaid shipps the Tilbett and the Charles were and remained as
aforesaid in the porte of Abbyne, there was likewise in the said porte a Turkish shipp
belonging to Agier, which had received in her lading of corne there, and this deponent saith
hee knoweth that shee was a Turkish shipp belonging to Algier, for that the Captaine
of her and some of her company came on board their shipp the shipp the Tilbott
aforesaid, and informed the company soe much and that they were laden with corne, and
this deponent sawe wheate in her boate. And whole the said shipp the Tilbott had
come
was as aforesaid was taking in her lading in the said Porte of Alborne and when shee
had taken in about eightie suncks thereof and not more, the said Thomas Hawkins
with
in the said shipp the said Charles did in a violent and hostile manner after
shooting at the said Turnish shipp sett uppon her as shee was going out of the said
porte in the sight of this deponent and company abord, whoe stood on the decks of their
said shipp the Talbott and sawe him soe shoote at and sett upon and surprize the said
ashore
Turkish shipp and carry the same away after hee had chaced her at sea
for hee saith and chaced her in againe for hee saith that after shee the said
Turkesh shipp was gonne a little out to sewards losse and was followed and chaced by the said Harking
shee the said Turckish shipp retourned into the harbour and ran
in the said shipp the Charles, shee in her neere the shore, where the said
and carrying away
Hancking tooke her, the whole action of her chaceing and taking being within the
sight of this deponent and company as they were on their said shipp the Talbot
and were taking in their come aforesaid, and Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the

Ad novu articulum dicit et deponit that as hee hath bin credibly informed there was in
the time aforesaid and when the said Thomas Hawkins in the said shipp the Charles and
tooke the said Turckish shipp and her lading, peace and amitie betwixt the kings
Majestie of greate Britaine and the governour or Commander of the troone
of Algiers and their respective rosper subiects, and that it was and is lawfull
for them to trade and traffique with and amongst each others, and hee beleeveth
that there was such peace and amitie as aforesaid, or els (as hee beleeveth) the
said Captaine and some of some of the company of the said Algiers shipp
would not have adventured to have come soe freely on the board their said shipp
the Talbot as they did, for hee saith the master and Company ⁁ if the said shipp
Captaine and
the Talbot could easily have taken the said take the said Company together with
their shipp and have carried them away, but that there was peace betweene them
Et aliter nescit.

et 2uj
Ad decium arlate dicit et deponit that in the eveninge of the daye on which the said Hawkins
and Company in the shipp the Charles aforesaid had soe taken the said Alliger shipp being
on Saturday, their Master Mr Bowe did after a request or message sent unto him
from the said governour to the effect articulate, did send his mate John Cade and George
Rayner the Boatswaine in his boate from the said shipp the Talbott to the said Thomas
Peters bough and in were the said shipp the ship and her
lading alsoe surprize, and the saith hee afterward the said
on board
John and in returne hee his deponent hee wth his and the Popham to
that the said Jacobus notwithstanding their said messingeressed to deliver hee
said Algier shipp and her lading, but said that what hee had donne, hee would
answer for in England, and soe carried away the said Alger shipp and her lading
with him. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 11uj articulum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said Hawkins had
carried away the said Algiers shipp, and her lading certaine persons of the company
twenty or thereabouts
of their said shipp the Talbot to the number of Eighteene going on shore to fetch
x and
and and water and other necessaries for the said shipp the Talbott were sett uppon
were and surprized by the order of the said Governour, for hee saith hee sawe
the said Govenor present when the persons sett upon and surprized on shore
as hee this deponent was upon the decks of the said shipp the Talbott which rode of
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a reason aforesaid.
boates were upon the
foresaid occasion burned
xxxx by the Noares as
upon

John Bewman

anchor neere the said shore, and about six weekes afterwards when soe these persons of the company
that were soe surprized were sett at libertie and retourned to the said shipp, hee this
deponent saith hee heard them say that the said Governour was present and privie
to such their surprizing, and that it was because of the offence of the said Tomas
trucking in taking and carrying away the said Algiers shipp, and her lading
and in the setting upon and surprizing of some of the company as aforesaid, (which
happened on the monday after the taking and surprizing of the said Turckes shipp
as aforesaid by the said Hawkins and company) hee saith that one of them named
himselfe
John a Dutchman endeavouring with two others to save the selled by strimminging
to their be frigotts boate that was then with one man in her neere the shire, was
by the Mr Moores that son after him, killed with their cotlasses in the water
the other twoe recovering the boate and soe estapping to the shipp, and seaventeene
upon
of them were seized and comitted to prizon and there detayned and not
suffered to retourne on board the said shipp the Talbot till satisfaction were
made for the foresaid inary soe comitted by the said Hawkins as aforesaid
and that they were thereof for that cause restrained and imprisoned they themselves
reported when afterwards they came on board uppon the said shipp the Pullet
and for that two of their
her second coming to the said port of Alborne, Et aliter nescit. And for the
the master and company of the said shipp the Talbot
reason aforesaid they durst not send on shore or stay for the rest of their lading the
of corne soe provided for them, but were constrained to depart with the said
they lay to the shore
shipp and what corne they had already taken into her which was but a small
quantitie, to the greate losse of the owners articulate. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15uj articulum dicit et deponit that at Suta aforesaid the said Merchants that
tooke the said shipp the Tallbott to fraight as aforesaid did promise to provide
her a full lading of corne at Alborne, and hee saith shee was well abord
to carry and make out eight thousand hancks of wheate, for soe much hee brought from
Galisia to Buta aforesaid, and soe much shee might have taken in at
Albizure in case shee had not bin hindred as aforesaid, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 16 et 17 dicit that the Master and company of the said shipp the Talbott
were
being upon the occasion aforesaid forced to depart and sayle with the said shipp
(with a small quantitie of her lading as aforesaid) for Cales to procure
moneys and to take some order for the enlaggement and release of the said
company and there to hire other men in roome of the said men soe imprisoned
and there hee saith they safely arrived, hee this deponent being one of
the company then on board the said shipp the Talbot. And hee saith
that when the said shipp was soe arrived at Cales, their said Master,
Joseph Blowe did at the cost and charges of the owners articulate at greate
to the number 16 or of thereabouts
rates hire and provide other men to serve with the said shipp in the roome
and stead of those whoe were imprisoned as aforesaid, of whom hee saith
they had greate neede, for that their company were soe weakened and diminished
by the restraint of the said men, that the rest that were left had much adve
to bringe their shipp about from Alborne to Cales aforesaid, and at
Cales aforesaid at the costs and charges of the said owners the said Mr Bowe
provid much new victualls for
did victuall the shipp and to goe back againe to Albornie to redeeme the
said imprisoned mariners, this deponent seeing the same provided and
brought on board, and seeing the said hired men corne on bord and saying
with them. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 18. 19 et 20uj dicit et deponit that when the said master of the said shipp the
Tallbott hee at Cales had provided some new victualls and other men as aforesaid
the said Master and Company (whereof this deponent was still one) departed
in the said shipp the Talbott back againe for Alborne, and there safely
arriving, the said Master sent a Spaniard in (whom they brought from
Cales) in a boate to shore to mediate and sollicite the for the release of their
men and for leave to take corne on bord their said shipp to the said
Spaniard being one that could speake the Mariscoe language, whoe having
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donne his errand (as hee said hee had) retourned againe to the said shipp the Talbott
and tolde the said master that the Governour would not suffer them to take in any
more corne there, but said hee might redeeme his company which were imprizoned
with money, otherwise they should not be released or that effect, and to that end
wished him to goe about with his shipp to a castle in custody of the Spaniards
called Piniyon, which was distant thence about foure xxx leagues, and said that the
men should hee sent thither if hee meant to redeeme them, And thereupon hee
saith that the said Master and Company with the said shipp the Talbott
aforesaid went towards the said castle and arrived before the same (and this
hee saith was about six weekes after the taking of the said Turckish shipp
by the said Hawkins as aforesaid) and finding that there was noe other meanes
to release the said men, the said master out of such moneys as hee had belonging
to the said owners and some that hee borrowed of the company did really and truely pay and
disburse for the redemption of the said mariners (as this deponent was informed
on bord and verily beleeveth) after the rate of sixtie peeces of eight a peece
for the ransome of each of the said men man of 14 of those that were soe
surprized, one being dead of the company soe restrained being dead and
two other being exchanged for two moores that they had on board, which sume
amounte in all to much about the sume of and number of 800 peeces of eight as this
deponent estimateth the same, and upon payment of the said money
(which this deponent sawe put into the boate to be carried on shore to the castle)
the said men came on board, and without the payment of the money that they could not have bin ransomed
for the Governour sent word on board that unlesse they were then redeemed
redeemed and at that rate hee would send them away and sell them at
Algiers or some other place, and that the master paid soe much as aforesaid for their redempcon
hee heard the said men soe redeemed affirme and report when they were
come on board the said shipp the Talbot aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 21 nescit.

Ad 22 dicit that by the wayes and occasions arlate the owners cannot choose but
have suffered very greate dammage and losse, which hee saith was caused
by the meanes and occasion of the said Thomas Hawkins his taking the said
and for noe other reason that hee this deponent could any wayes understand
shipp Turkish shipp and her lading as aforesaid ⁁ but for the valewe
of the said losse and damage, hee saith hee cannot estimate the same, Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 23uj nescit.

Ad 24 dicit that in the said shipp the Talbotts course from Cales backe to Albozine
as aforesaid, shee was becalmed before Mallaga and there laye becalmed about
a good distance
24 houres, in which space xxxx from shore, but their boate being there sent
to shore, the company that went in it brought word that the said Hawkins then
was and bxx remained in the said shipp the Charles in the roade there, and
her company
and the said Turkish shipp and ⁁ xxx loading with him and company, and
this deponent for his part from their said shipp the Talbot sawe and discerned
the said shipp the Charles riding at anchor in the said roade, Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad 25. 26. et 27 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predeposita per eu ea vera.

John Newman

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Decimo septium die Martij 1647 iux et

Super libello predca examinatus.

2dus

Rs. EA.

Johannes Cade parochia sancti Botolphi Algate London Nauta, ubi et
per times ult aut eo circiter enter in parochia se Catherina prope turim
London her anu et anctus, etatis 30 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa
productus et exaiatus deponit et sequitur.

Ad primum et secundum articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate
John dictonns, Thomas ffowell, Richard Wilson, Edward Walter and Nicholas Mallis, and
saith that they and their company have bin for the time articulate and are commonly accompted
proprietors and owners of the shipp the Talbott articulate with her tackle and furniture
And the articulate Joseph Blowe was for the same time and is master and governour
of her and soe accompted, which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent was masters
mate in her the voyage in question, And the articulate Thomas Hawkins the time
here menconed was and is master or commander of the shipp the Charles menconed
in the said second article and soe comonly accompted. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertium et quartum articulos dicit et deponit that in the time articulate videlicet in the moneth
of June or of July last past at recolit) the said shipp the Talbott being and
remayning at in the roade at or neere the porte of Tuke arlate was there
fraighted by certaine Merchants to sayle and goe to Alborne and there to receive
and take in her lading of corne, to carry and transport the same from thence
to the porte of Cales arlate, which merchants hee saith did there at Suta promise
foresaid
and agree to and with the master of the said shipp the Tilbott Joseph Blowe
to pay or satisfie unto him the sume of three rialls of plate per annorck for
every hammack of wheate that the said shipp the Talbot should receive and take
on bord her at the said porte of Alborne and deliver out againe at Cales
the premisses hee deposeth because hee being then Masters mate on board the
said shipp the Talbott was present at the said contract and or bargaine making,
three rialls per same
and hee saith that is after the easiest rate that is usually paid for fraight from
the said port of Alborne to Cove the porte of Cales, the commoninate being
more then three rialls per hamock as hee this deponent was in those parts
informed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu et sextum articuos dicti lili dicit et deponit that after the contract
aforesaid and within the time libellate the said shipp the Talbott did depart
and sett sayle from the foresaid porte of Suta and arrived at the porte
his liberine arlate, and after such her arrivall there the said master and company
of her had free license and authoritie from the Governour of the said place
to receive and take on bord the said shipp her lading of wheate, to bee thence
transported to Cales or what other porte they pleased or were bound for, and
accordingly, there was order taken there by the said merchants factors for and
her lading of wheate and to be forthwith laden on board as fast as it could hee
conveniently soe be donne, which hee knoweth for that hee understood soe much by
New that was their spokesman and messenger that went overy daye to and againe
to and the shore
betweene
from the said shipp of the burne of Alborne and brought or word to the effect
here deposed. And hee saith that in the time arlate and while they soe remained
with the said shipp the Talbott at the said Porte of Albozine and had taken in
some of their said corne the arlate Thomas Hawkins came and arrived likewise
at the said porte of Alborne with the said shipp the Charles, there to gett
leave to lade corne likewise in the said shipp the Charles as hee the said Thomas
related, which was denied him by the Governour or Alade, whoe would not
suffer had boate to come to shore as hee the said Hawkins confessed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad septimum et octavum articulos dicit et deponit that in the time articulate and while the said
shipps the Talboe and Charles were and remained at the said Porte of Abbarie
there was alsoe a Turkish shipp belonging to Algiers then remayning at the
said port of Albozine which had there received in her lading of corne, And
was
hee saith that the said time and when the said shipp the Talbott had takeinge
in her lading of corne and had taken in about 60 or ninetie hancks thereof
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and not abord, the said Tomas Hawkins Turnish shipp going out to sea ward,
the said Thomas Hawking in the said shipp the Charles aforesaid went likewise out
and on Satterday the seaventeenth day of July last past (ut tempus recolit)
or some other day were about the said time did in a violent and hostile manner sett upon the said Turkish shipp belonging
to Aliers, which thereupon made in againe for the shore being chaced and followed
by the said arle which Thomas Hawkins of the said shipp the Charles, whoe shott at him about 16 peeces of ordinance in the sight and
hearing of this deponent and company, and there hee saith the said Turckish
shipp coming aground, the said Hawkins and company after pursuing and
shooting at her in a hostile manner as aforesaid tooke the same and surprized
the same within the space of two leagues of their said shipp the Talbot.
that then laye taking in her corne as aforesaid, and being soe neere, this deponent
and company well discerned and perceived all the action predeposed of
taking the said shipp by the said Captaine Hawkins. And hee saith that
before and at such time as the said Hawkins in the shipp the Charles tooke
and surprized the said Turkish shipp and her lading, there was and
at this present is peace and unitie betwixt the kings Matie of greate
tome and the Governour or Commander of the towne of Algiers
in somuch that
and their respective subiects, and it then was and nowe is lawfull and free
if hee saith the Captaine and some of the Company of the said Tukes shipp before ther taking by the said Captaine Hawkins came
or them to traffique and with others Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 10uj 11uj et 12uj articuos dicti lili dicit et deponit that after such time as the
said Hawkins had soe taken and surprized the said Turckish shipp and her
lading of corne, videlicet on the said Satterday in the afternoone, the Aleade
or Governour arlate sent and wrote unto their master Joph Blewe commander
of the said shipp the Talbott to wish and desire him to send unto the said
Hawkins to request him deliver back againe or surrender up the said Algiers
shipp and her lading of corne soe by him taken and surprized, which hee this
deponent knoweth because hee sawe the said re brought on board the said
shipp the Talbott to their said master and was by him made acquainted
that the contents thereof was to the effect by him deposed. And hee saith
that upon such receipt of the said lre the said Mr Nowe sent this deponent
Cate and George dayner the Boatswaine to the said Thomas Hawkins
to the effect aforesaid, and hee when they came on board the said Tomas
Hawkinns, hee saith hee this deponent according to his order from their master
did wish and perswade him the said Hawkins to deliver by the said shipp and
or
Tuke
her lading soe seized and surprized as aforesaid and withall tould him that
there was peace betweene the Browne of England and the towne of
Algiers and that hee the said Hawkins had evill downe in taking and
surprizing the said shipp and her ladinge in being against the said peace
and this hee saith was on the suttirday night aforesaid, But the said
Thomas Hawkins notwithstanding the message, perswasions and intreaties
of this deponent to the effect aforesaid, made answer that what hee had donne
hee would answer for, or to that effect, and refused to deliver upp the said
her shipp soe surprized by him, carrying her away with his lading
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 13. et 14uj articulos dicti lili deponit that after such time as the said Hawkins had
carried away the said Atters shipp and her lading as aforesaid vizt on the
next monday after the taking of her before deposed of, some of the company
of the said shipp the Talbott having occasion to goe on shore to fetch wood and
water for the useing the said shipp the Talbot, were sett upon and seized
the Moores, and that (as this deponent afterwards understood by the order of
the Governour or Alcade aforesaid, for that the said Hawkins had soe surprised
and carried away the said Turckish shipp and her lading, and soe hee sent
word
on board their said shipp
the Talbott as to friends
and were soe intertained
by them.

John Cade
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word on board to their master that it was donne for that cause, and in such
setting upon and surprizing the said men, hee saith that one of them was slaine
as hee was endeavouring to escape by swimming, and seaventeene of them
were detained and carried to prison and not suffered to retourne on board
the said shipp the Talbott untill satisfaction should bee made for the wronge
and iniury soe comitted by the said Captaine Hawkins, and soe much the
said Governour or Alacada sent word to their said Master, and would
not permitt that they should receive or take in any more of their lading
come soe provided for them, but they were faine to depart away with the
said shipp the Talbott with not above 30 or ninetie hannocks of her said
wheate, to the greate losse and damage of the said Dickons, ffowell, Wilson
and Company the owners, Et aliter nescit deponere. saving hee from their
said shipp did see the said men soe surprized, and heard the said word
brought on board from the Governour that the said men should not be
released nor any more corne suffered to be taken on bord for that the said
Hawkins had soe taken and carried away the said Algiers shipp.

Ad 15uj articulum dicit that the said shipp the Talbott could well carry have
carried from Albozine to Cales eight thousand hannocks of wheate and
upwards, for hee saith that shee had before carried and made out from
eight thousand hannocks and more of wheate from Galisia to Suta, and
soe much shee might have taken in at Albozine in case shee had not bin
hindered by the fault and occasion of the said hawkins his taking the said
Algier shipp as aforesaid, for every of which Hamacks the said ffowell
Dickons and company were to have had and received three rialls in
plate per hannock. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 16 et 17 articulos dicit et deponit that the master and company of the said
shipp the Talbott finding and perceiving that they could not be permitted
to take in any more corne nor to could get their men released, were constrained
to depart and sayle with the said shipp for Cales to take some order for
their enlargement and to hire other men in their roomes and there safely
arrived, where hee saith the master of the said shipp the Talbott and at
the costs and charges of the parties arlate at greate rates did hire and
prede 13 or 14 men or thereabouts, to serve in the said shipp in the roome
and stead of those that were soe taken and imprisoned as aforesaid, and
did likewise at the costs and charges of the said owners victuall the said
shipp anew to goe back againe to Albozine to redeeme their foresaid
men, which hee knoweth for that hee was acquainted with the masters
proceedings therein and seeing the said men come on board and sayling
with them and seeing the said victualls soe provided and brought on
bord. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 18. 19. et 20uj articulos deponit that after such time as the said shipp was
soe newe victualled and other men hired and putt on board her as aforesaid, the
master and company departed with her from Cales backe againe for Albozine
and there arrived, and desired to have their foresaid men released out of
prison and to be permitted to take come on board their said shipp the Talbot
to carry for Cales or some other porte or place, but hee saith that word was
thereupon brought on bord from the Governour or Alcada aforesaid that
that they should have noe more corne, but if the master would redeeme
or els they should not bee delivered
his company that were imprisoned for xxxx hee might with money doe
it ⁁ and all otherwise, which hee this deponent knoweth being present at
the premisses and seeing and hearing the same soe donne as hee hath hee
deposed, And hee saith that when their said master sawe there was noe
other remedy, and that hee had by his agent brought the price of their redempcon
as
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as lowe as hee could (the governour at first demannding therefore two thousand
peeces of eight) hee was faine to pay and did really and truely pay and disburse
out of such money as hee had belonging to the said dictonns, Wilson, ffowell,
Walker Wallis and company the number of eight hundred peeces of eight for
the reddencon of the said mariners which hee knoweth seeing the said money
neere the porte called Penn de ves whither the were directed to goe to fetch and their said men
delivered by the master on board and carried to shore ⁁ to the xx aforesaid, and
saith the said summe or number of eight hundred peeces of eight makes in
sterling money the summe of 164 or thereabouts, without which hee saith the
said mariners could not have bin reddemined. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2u articulum dicit that for victualls and hiringe of newe men at Cales as aforesaid
to goe back for Albertie to releinge their said imprisoned men
it cost and saved the said Rickons, Powell, Wilson Walker, wallis and Company
owners of the said shipp the Talbott in the sume of two hundred pounds
sterling at the least, this deponent being acquainted with the laying out and
disbursing of the same by their master aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 22uj articulum dicit that the arlate dickon, ffowell, Willson, Walker and Company
the voyage aforesaid in the losse of their imployment of the said shipp in coming from
Cales to Alborne aforesaid to redden their said men, and in the losse of the
freight of the corne which was provided and should have bin taken on bord at
Albozine in case the interruption aforesaid had not happened, and in the charges
of hiring newe men as aforesaid and redeeming their imprisoned mariners and
new victualling at Cales as aforesaid have in his iudgement and estimation
suffered and sustained losse and dammage to the summe or valewe of two thousand
pounds lawfull English money or neere thereabouts. All which damage hee
saith came and happened by the meanes and occasion of the said Thomas
Hawkins his taking the said Turckish shipp and her lading of corne as
aforesaid, Reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 23 nescit.

Ad 3uj articulum dicit et deponit that in the said shipp the Talbotts course from Cales
which was about a moneth after the taking of the said Tarks shipp by the said his as aforesd
beck to Albozine as aforesaid ⁁ shee put into the roade of Mallega articulate and
then the said Hawkins with the said shipp the Charles was there at anchor and
had the said Turckish shipp then with him and her lading and some of her
company as this deponent was informed, and there their said Master Joseph
Blowe sent out his boate with his chirurgeon (this deponents contest) with
direction to goe on board the said Hawkins and to desire him to deliver take
or upp unto him the said Joseph Blewe the said Tarlish shipp and company
that hee might carry the same againe to Alborne and redeene his company
soe there imprisoned, which but hee the said Hawkins did not then deliver
fully
up the said shipp and company, Et aliter nescit, saying hee doth not remember
what answer the Chirurgeon brought from him, but thincketh hee brought
were

Ad 2. 3. et 4uj refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit

Ad ultimum articulum dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interrogatoria.

R. E.

in dt.

Ad primum respondet that hee was one of the shipps company the voyage interrogate
was Masters mate on board her, and saith the Moores interrogated are a barbarous
people, and soe commonly accompted. aliter nescit.

Ad secundu respondet that they had a ken on board when they went with the said shipp to
the porte of Alborne aforesaid whoe went on shore and treated and traded for
them at Alborne aforesaid with the Aloade there for lading for the said shipp
and hee the said Peter
are was one of the persons seized upon by the Moores, And saith that the
master
said sent there were to their said shipp that if they could hee could procure Captaine
backes to make restitucon of the said Ager shipp soe by him taken and carried
away
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together with her company and lading
away, his men soe surprized and imprisoned should bee retourned to him without
other ranson, otherwise that they should not be redeed without money, and
saith it will bee neither proffitt in nor losse unto him this rendent whether the
Gentence should passe for the said Captaine Hawkins and is owners, or against
them, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits, saying hee knoweth not what is the
custome or use of other shipps tradinge to the said coast of Albozine touching
carrying of any Jewe or Moore on board them to deale or mediate there for them
for that hee this deponent hath not bin there at any other time savinge the
times predeposed by him when hee went in the said shipp the Talbott or predeposion
for the reasons aforesaid

Ad 3 respondet that hee knoweth not what other shipps usually doe in the case
interrogate, but saith that one of their company named her, words and that hee
had bin there about six moneths before in the Captaine Harris his shipp, and
that they then went freely on shore there to see their corne measured and helpe
to fill their sacks, whereof hee himselfe being one as hee said that were soe
freely on shore and had noe interracon, and saith that the after they arrived
at the said porte of Alborne when any of the company went at any time on
shore before they had contracted for their corne and had libertie to take in the
same, they went alwayes armed both with muskets, pikes and swords, but after
they had agreed for their corne and had promise of free quarter there, they
went on shore unarmed, and continewed to goe and come day from time to time
as they had occasion for the space of a weeke or thereabouts freely and
unterropted though they were morned, untill the said surprizing of the
said shipp by the said Captaine Hawking as aforesaid, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 resondet that hee this respondent for his part heard before that they must
have hostages at Albaye for their Jow whoe was to be their Interpreter, or
els the Moores were likely to seize and him and keepe him prisoner till
hee should be ransomed, and to that purpose when they arrived there they
had two Mares brought on board in hostage for the said Jewe, but the men
that were soe seized went on shore without hostages and earned, but hee
saith that they rode within Command at Cales upon their first retourne
thither without the men, and brought their said shipp in the rode before
Cales within command of the towne became before their master came to
any treaty with the Merchants about the redeempson of his men soe taken and
imprisoned as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad 7 ultimum respondet that hee for his part was not on board the said Captaine
with
Hawkins his said shipp the Charles in the rode of Mallega when his contest
Roths Harway their Chirurgeon that was sent to the effect interrogate, and
therefore hee for his part cannot tell what answer Captaine Hawkins made
him, but hee saith hee knoweth not whether the said Captaine Hawkins
carried to retourned back the said Turkish shipp and company or not,
and is hee did, hee beleeveth. And hee saith the said mone soe by him
predeposed of to be paid for the ransigne of the said men soe imprisoned
was really soe paid for their ransome and not given after they were
restered by way of gratity. And hee saith hee beleeveth in his conscience
that in case the said Captaine Hawkins had not taken the said Turckish
shipp, they should have there had free trade and their men hould not
have bin seized or and molested by the Moores, And this hee saith
hee is the rather induced to beleeve, because that for about a weekes
space after their treatie and abtayning libertie to take their corne on
bord they had such free quarter and libertie on shore for their
men ourned as hee hath before deposed of. Et aliter nescit deponere
salvis predepositis ad qua se refert.

John Cade
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Decimo actave die Martij 1647 iux er

Super lilo predca examinatus.

3us

Rp. EA.

Radolphus Harrey parochia sancti Stephani Coleman streete London Charges
ubi habitavit per timestre ult aut eo circiter, auten in parochia sancti
Swithin prope London stone per a nativitate sua abinatus, aetatis
28 annoru et ultra testis in hac caa pductus et juratus deponit ut
sequitur videlicet.

Ad primum et secundum articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well
knoweth the articulate John Rickons, Thomas ffowell, Richard Wilson ward
Walker and Nicholas Walle and saith that they and their company were for all the
time articulate and are commonly accompted and reputed owners and proprietors
of the shipp the Talbott articulate with her tackle and furniture, and the
articulate Joseph Blowe (whom hee likewise well knoweth) was and is master
and commander of her and soe accompted, And Thomas Hawkins hee
likewise well knoweth ut dicit) and saith hee was and the time articulate
commander of the Charles arlate and soe commonly reputed. Et aliter nescit.
deponere.

Ad tertiu et quartum articulos dicit et deponit that within the time articulate videlicet in
or about the moneth of July last past the said shipp the Talbott being and
or neere
remayning at the Porte of Suta articulate, was there fraighted by certaine
Merchants to sayle and goe to Albozine arlate there to receive and take in her
lading of corne to bee thence transported to the Porte of Cales, as this deponent
and that this was the contract betweene the said Merchants and the said Joseph
Blowe the master, this deponent was afterwards informed on board both by the
said master and one of the a merchant on bord that was imployed upon the designe
by the said freighters, whoe likewise informed him that the said merchants had
agreed to paye the said master the sume of three rialls and a halfe per hannock
for every hanck of wheate that the said shipp should receive and take on bord
her at Alborowe, aforesaid and deliver out againe at the porte of Cales
and soe much at the least is usually paid for freight per hanck for fraight
and transportation of wheate from Albozine to Cales, and most commonly a
greative rate is paid as sometimes foure rialls somtimes five and somtimes more
or but within the mouth of the Streights at and by the meanes soe convenience
her hanck, but in regard the shipp the Talbott was then ⁁ soe neere for
to goe for Albozine at to the agreement was made at soe case a rate as hee hath
predeposed. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu et sextum articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that after the said contract
the said shipp the Talbott did departe and sett saile from Suta and arrived
in the Baye of Alborne arlate, and after her arrivall there which was
within the same and daye or thereabouts after the said contrary soe made
Buta) the master and company of her procured and had free license and
authoritie from the Governour of the place to receive and take on board
agreed for and
the said shipp her lading of wheate, and accordingly there was provided
and ought thousand huncks of wheate for a freight for the said shipp and
the same quantitie was agreed for for some freight upon the said shipp
should have discharged the first and should retourne to sett forth it hee
hee knoweth because hee this deponent was then on board (being Cartagens
in the said shipp, and heard the Jew that was their danger man or agent
to goe on shore, being his reports and note of his bargaine from the
said Governour to their master on board and this deponent being intreated
by the master to have and receive the said Jewes reports and notes because
hee this deponent could speake Spanish, which language the said Jewe
used with them, and in which his mates and particulars of his agreements
with the Governour were written, And hee further saith that within
the time articulate and during such time as the said shipp the Talbott was and
remained in the Baye of Alborne aforesaid to take in the rest of her lading
having
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having already taken in a part thereof) the said Thomas Hawkins
and arrived likewise xx xx in the said Baye with the said shipp the
Charles, his coming there being to gett leave to alsoe to lade corne in the
said shipp the Charles as hee the said Hunkins reported and acknowledged hee
which the Governour aforesaid denied him as their said druggerman the
aforesaid Jon brought them word from shore, where said that the Morrell
had sent would to the said taking to bee gone with his said shipp for
hee should not have any corne there. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septium octavu et 3u articulos dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid
and while the said shipps the Charles and the Talbot were and remained
in the said Baye of Alborne, there was in the same Baye a Turckish
there
shipp belonging to Mier which had taken in a good quantitie of wheate
and beames. And hee saith that while the said shipp the Talbott in the
time aforesaid remained in the foresaid Baye to take in the rest of her
lading, the said Turkish shipp on a Sattirday morning happening in or
some of the monethes aforesaid and as hee remembreth in the moneth
of September last past sett sayle to goe out to sea, but perceiving
himself the Captaine and company of her perceiving themselves chaced
by the said Hawkins (whoe had then alsoe sett sayle) made in againe
for shore and was chaced by the said Hawkins in a hostile manner
and the said Turkish shipp being soe chaced came neere to an anchor
neere the shore and the Captaine and some of his company come on
seeing
board the said Hawkins towe after them with his boate came on boar
being that it was calme, come on board the said Hawkins his said shipp
whome the said Hawkins detained, saving two whom hee sent with their
boate boate on bord the said Turkish shipp to bringe some moorein
of their men on board his said shipp, whoe not retourning, the said
hawking fired certaine about a done greate ordinance at the said
Turnish shipp, whereupon the men in her did run the said shipp ashore
there
and leapt over board to shore whereof three were drowned
in such their endeavouring to storm to shore, and then hee saith the
said Hawkins sent his boates and hawled her off and carried her away
And on the day before vizt on the friday this deponent being on board
the said shipp the Charles did there understand from his the said
Hawkins his mates that they intended to sett upon and take the said
Turkish shipp. And hee saith that in the time articulate and when the
said Hawking soe surprized the said Turckish shipp and her lading it
was commonly in those parts reported that there was peace and amitie
betwixt the Kings Majestie of greate Britaine and the Governour or
Commander of the towne of Algiers and their respective subiects
and that it was lawfull for them to traffique with each other, and
sinch hee this deponent understandeth that there was really a peace
soe concended at and before the time aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere
saving hee this deponent sawe the action of chacing and taking the
said Tarlish shipp by the said Captaine Hawkins as hee hath before
this deponent
deposed) as hee was upon the decks of their said shipp the Talbott
in the said Baye of Alburne aforesaid.

Ad 10. 11 et 12uj articulos dicit et deponit that after such time as the said
habies in the said shipp the Charles had soe taken the said Turkish
shipp videlicet in the evening of the said Sattirday the Governour of at
Alborne aforesaid sent on board their said master of shipp the Talbot
to desire their master to send unto the said Hawkins to request him to
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deliver and surrender up againe the said Algiers shipp with her lading for
for there was peace betweene the kinge of England and those of Algier as
John Cade
aforesaid, and accordingly the said master Blawe sent his mate to the said Hawkins
with order to that effect, but the said John Cade brought answer that the said Captaine
Hawkins refused to deliver up the said Algiers shipp, but said that what hee had donne
in taking her hee would answer here in England, or to that effect, and soe on the
morrowe being sonday the said Hawkins sett saile with the said shipp the Charles
and the said carried the said Turckish shipp away, in the sight of this deponent
and others his contests. And that the governour sent such request on board
their said shipp as hee hath predeposed, hee is the better able to testifie because
hee this deponent was present and heard the same delivered by the said Jew their
druggerman aforesaid and the Leiutenant or master of the said Turckish ship
(who was one of the Company that hoped out of her by diringe amongst the others by him deposed of to the sd and 9
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, they doing their message in the se
tongue which this deponent well understood and did help to interpret to the masters
whoe did not soe perfectly understand the same. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 13 et 14 arlos dicti libelli dicit et deponit that on the monde after the
premisses ut tempus recolit, and within the time libellate, and after the said
Captaine Harkins had soe carried away the said Algiers shipp and her lading
as aforesaid, some of the company of the said shipp the Talbott having
occasion to goe on shore to fetch wood and water for the use of the said shipp
the Talbott were sett upon there by the oares and eighteene of them were
surprized (whereof one was killed in the surprize) and the other seaventeene
were seized and carried to prison, And this hee saith was donne by the
Governours order or approbacon, for hee saith that the same day the Governour
having first caused a white cloth to bee hange out on shore, sent a Jew on board
them with a letter to their master signifying that hee had caused the said company
to be seized and imprisoned, because the said English man (meanning the said
Hawking) had soe surprized and carried away the said Algiers shipp betwixt
when and the English as hee said there was peace and amitie, and desired in
the said letter that by the beare the name of that Englishman and of his shipp
might be sent him, that hee might intimate it to Anger that soe they migge
seeke for remedy, or to that effect, and the said re further purported that
nor they suffered to take in any more worne
the said men should not be released, unlesse at if the said Turckishe shipp with
his lading and company were first restered a satisfaction for the same give
other come in which hee knoweth because hee this deponent read the said letter
And thereupon their said master mr Bowe caused a lre to be written backe to
said Governour, wherein hee oppositated the false and fowle dealing
him the said Governour in causing hee menn to be surprized after hee had
ingaged his promise and given them some other securitie for their free libertie
to trade with him for the said corne, and sent the same to him by the said
Jen this deponent alsoe reading the said did before it was sent and the
purporting
purporte
at he said cause the said Governe it hee the bee
master in answer thereof (that in case the said Turkish shipp with her men
and lading were delivered up againe hee should have his men sett at Libertie
otherwise that they should not be released unlesse satisfaction were and lett
made to to the valew both of the said Turkish shipp and lading and of her
men, which answer was by the Jew that brought it after his hanging out a
with at there land downe on the sands, and their master sent his boate with
some of his company to fetchit, and that he this deponent alsoe read, being
the aboute to in hee depose, and he this were constand to depose
away which was made fusall port of their lading of an her
rei nomber of humacks hee remembreth not) to the greate losse of the
said Dickons, fowell, Willson and Company owners of the said shipp
the Talbott. Et aliter nescit deponere.

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Ad 13uj articulum dicit et deponit that there was prison provided for the said shipp
the Talbe the voyage in question eight thousand hancks of wheate, and soe might
and more shee could have carried from thence for Cales, for hee saith hee could
and made out eight thousand hanncks of corne and more from Galisia to Suta
aforesaid shortly before the voyage in question of this deponents knowledge
being on bord and being the same, and soe much hee hould and night pre
taken at Allon aforesaid had sent in hindred by the said Cooke
as aforesaid in taking the said Dunkish shipp, The number of Wills
for freight for which at he to be takein hee hath before deposed of
Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 16 et 17u articulos dicit et deponit that when the said Master and company
of the said shipp the Talbott sawe that they could not be suffered to
taken in any more corne, and that they could not procure their men to be
they
released out of prison, were faine to depart with the said shipp for Cales
to procure money and to take some other course for the enlargement
of the said company, and to hire other men in the roomes of those that
were imprisoned as aforesaid, and there they safely arrived within the time
libellate, And being there arrived the master of her at the costs and
charges of the said dictons, fowell, Willson, Wallis and company
did at greate rates hire and provide other men to serve in the said shipp
seized
in stead of those of his company that were soe surprized and imprisoned
as aforesaid, and there hee did likewise at the costs and charges of the said
Dickons and company victuall the said shipp anew to goe backe againe
to Alborne to redeeme their said men soe detained. This hee
knoweth to bee true being on board and being acquainted with the pticulars
thereof. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 18. 19. et 10uj articulos dicit et deponit that after the said master of the
said shipp the Talbott had soe new victualled the said shipp and provided new
men at Cales as aforesaid, hee the said Master Joseph Blowe the master
and Company departed in the said shipp the Talbot to goe back againe for
Alborne and there arrived, and des there they desired and made request
to have their foresaid men to be released, but the Governour or Abrade of
Alborne aforesaid returned answer to the said master that hee should not
have his men released except hee renoored them with money, and to that
soe with his shipp
purposed willed him to repaired to a castle about two leagues from thence
being a castle in the hands of the Spaniards, but the name thereof hee remembreth
not) and there hee should be treated with about their redemption, whither
hee saith the said master and company went with the said shipp, and
there treated for the rideing of the said men f and when hee had gotten
the price as lowe as hee could and sawe that his men could not bee otherwise
released hee did there out of his such moneys as hee had belonging to the
dictors ffowell, Wilson and company
said owners really and truely paye and disburse for the reddempson of the
foresaid mariners the number of eight hundred peeces of eight making in or
the sume of 164li sterling money or thereabouts, which hee knoweth because
hee was on board and was privie to the carriage of the said busines of
redeing the said men, and sawe the money delivered, and this hee saith was
about
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about eight weekes or after such taking of the said Turkish shipp by the said
Captaine Hawkins, and without the payment of such sume of money hee saith
the said men were not or nor could not then be procured to be sett at Libertie and
restored. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 21 articulum dicit that hee verily beleeveth that for hiring of new men and new
victualling the said shipp the Talbott at Cales as aforesaid it cost and did stand the
said Dickons, ffowell, Willson, Walker, Wallis and Company in the sume of
three hundred pounds sterling at the least. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 22 articulum dicit that in his the said Dickons, ffowell, Wilson, Walker, Walls and
company the voyage aforesaid in the losse of their imployment of the said shipp as
is arlate, and in losse of the freight of the corne that was provided for her
and should have bin taken in at Albozine in case shee had not bin hindered by the
said Hawkins his taking the said Turkish shipp as aforesaid, and in the charges
of redeeming the marriners and hiring of new men in their places and in newe
victualling the shipp as aforesaid, have in the iudgement and estimation of him
this deponent (whoe hath used to goe to sea for the space of theise nine yeares
last past and by that meanes hath for that time bin well versed in such affaires
and as hee verily beleeveth suffered and xx sustained losse and dammage
to the sume of or valewe of two thousand pounds lawfull money of England
And that by the meanes and occasion of the said Captaine Hawkins his
taking the said Turkish shipp as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit
that

Ad 23 et 24 articulos dicit et deponit ⁁ in the said shipp the Talbotts course back
from Cales to goe for Albozine as aforesaid, shee putt into the Roade
of Mallega where the said Hawkins then was and remained in the said shipp
the Charles and had then with him the said Turkish shipp and the
Captaine of her and foure others of her company, and there hee saith hee
this deponent by order and direction of the said Joseph Blewe their master
went on board the said shipp the Charles and desired him to deliver upp unto
their said Master the said Turkish shipp and her company that soe hee
might carry the same to Albozine and therewith redeeme his owne
company soe imprisoned as aforesaid, whoe was content soe to doe if the
Governour of Mallega would give him leave soe to doe as hee said, but
the said Governour would not give way thereunto or condiscend thereunto; and
And then the corne on board the said Turkish shipp was solde, for hee
this deponent did see it unlading as being solde when hee went on board
the said shipp the Charles as aforesaid to desire the said Captaine Harkins
to deliver the said Turkish shipp. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 25. 26. et 27uj xx articulos refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad ultimu articulum dicit predepoita per eum eo vera.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu respondet that hee was one of the shipps company ut predeposuit,
and saith the the Moores interrogate are a barbarous people, and in religion are
Mahometans, and for such are commonly accompted. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 respondet that such shipps as belonge to Christians and goe thither to trade doe
usually as hee hath bin informed carry in their shipps some Jew to goe on shore to treate or trade for them
and they had a Jew on board their said shipp the Talbot for that purpose, whoe
hee saith was one of the persons seized upon by the Moores aforesaid, but hee
saith
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hee saith that after such seizure of them the Governour or Alcade aforesaid
the did after that if the said Turckish shipp with her company and lading soe
taken by the said Captaine Hawkins were restered the said men soe seized on should
be sett at libertie and retourned on board the said shipp the Talbot, otherwise
said
hee xx pie of their mastore hould be the valew of the said English shipp
and lading and of her men in money. And hee saith that it will bee
neither proffitt in nor losse to him this rendent in case wentence be give
for or against the said Captaine Hawkins in this cause or for or against his owners
or any of them

Ad 3 respondet that their men when they had occasion to goe on shore before they had
permission given them to trade there, went comonly armed, and had with gunns
pikes and swords, but after they had free leave to trade and had x hostages
on board, their her told them it was un necessary to goe armed on shore, Et
aliter nescit, for hee saith hee we this rendent was not there at any time before
the voyage in question.
that they must

Ad 4 respondet that hee heard before they went to Alborne to have have hostages
from the Mares for their securitie, but hee saith that there was noe such
inter
negate
promise or engagement as is arlate to reddene or reasonne any of the shipps
noe
company in case they should be seized, nor xxx demannd thereof by their said master
And hee saith there is noe castle or forte or there to command the harbour,
and when their said men that were soe seized went on shore, were they were
at the time of such their seizure unaried, because their gen assured them
it was needles then to bee armed, but they had then two Moores on board
for hostages aliter nescit.
this rendent

Ad 5 responndet that the said Captaine Hawkins the time predeposed when hee
by order from their master demannded the said Turckish shipp and company
doth
wth
to ransome their men with tolde this deponent that within two or three
dayes hee would should goe himselfe to deliver the said shipp and men in
the place where hee tooke them, and if that would would release their men
they should be released, and this deponent heard that within the space of
a fortnight after the said Captaine Hawkins carried back the said Turckishe
at afarias or in
shipp and delivered the same in some part of Barbary, but to not
at Alborne where hee tooke her, and that hee saith was after their men
were delivered, and after their had spent a fortnights time in working
their releasent. And hee saith the said money given for the redeempcon
of the said men was really and truely paid for their ranson, and was
as little as their master with his best endeavour could get them released
for, and was sent on shore to the said Spanish castle before the delivery
of the said men, and not given after their resteering by way of any graunty
But hee verily beleeveth that if the said Captaine Hawkins had not
soe seized the said Turckish shipp, their men had not bin seized by
the Jone Moores, for that they went and almost daily on shore and
retourned safe (although they were comarmed) for five or six dayes
together after they had leave to traffique there and untill the said sancks
had soe surprized the said Algiers shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Robt Harrye
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Vicesimo quinto die Martij 1648

Super lilo predicto examinatus.

4.

Rp EA

Johannes Groome de Redriffe in Comitatu Surria Nauta, ubi habitavit per viginti
annos aut eo circiter, etatis 28 annorum aut eo circiter dicit quod testis
in hac causaa examinatus deponit ut sequitur.

Ad primum et secundum articuos dicti libelli dicit et deponit that the articulate John
Dickons, Thomas ffowell, Richard Willson, Edward Walker, and Nicholas
Wallis and Company were the yeere and monethes arlate and are accompted
proprietors and and owners of the shipp the Talbott articulate with her tackle and
furniture, and Joseph Blowe articulate was and is accompted and commonly reputed
master or governour of her, this deponent seeing him exequute that office
for the most part of the said time, and further hee saith that the arlate
Thomas Hawkins was for the said time and is commonly accompted xxx
reputed master and governour of the shipp the Charles articulate and had
the governement of her in the said time of this deponents sight and
knowledge. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 3 et 4 articulos dicit et deponit that within the time arlate videlicet in or about the
moneth of June last past the said shipp the Talbott being and remayning
in the Roade of Suta arlate was there fraighted by certaine Merchants
to sayle and goe to Albozine there to receive and take in her lading of
corne and to carry and transporte the same from thence to Cales arlate
and there to discharge and deliver the same. This hee knoweth
to be true (ut dicit) because hee was then in at frigott Tuta in a frigate
in company of the said shipp the Talbott, of which frigate the said Joseph
part owner
Blowe was master and this deponent was on board her, and this
deponent heard the one of the said merchant fraighters on board the said
shipp the Talbot while shee laye in the Roade of Suta aforesaid saye
and affirme that the said shipp the Talbott was fraighted to goe to the
places and on the imployment by him predeposed.
And then and there this deponent on board the said shipp the Talbott
understood by the said merchant and the shipps company that
the fraighters had agreed with master Blowe the master to pay him the
sume of three rialls of plate per hannock for every hannock of corne
that the said shipp the Talbott should receive and take on board her at
Albozine and deliver out againe at or neere the
porte of Cales, but what is usually paid for fraight of
wheate from the said Roade of Albozine to Cales hee saith hee cannot
depose foreasmuch as hee was never at Albozine or Suta before
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintum et sextum articulos dicit et deponit that after the said shipp the Talbot
was soe taken to fraight at Suta as hee hath predeposed shee sett sayle and
departed from thence and arrived in the Roade of Albozine arlate, and that
within the time libellate, which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent
in the said fregate went in her company and arrived alsoe there with her
And hee saith that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Talbott
Albozine the master and company of her had free license and authoritie
from the Governour of the place to receive and take on board the said
shipp her lading of wheate, which was there provided for her,
which hee knoweth for that hee this
deponent was very often on board the said shipp the Talbott while shee soe
remayned in the Roade of Albozine, and sawe her boates to goe to and from
shore
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shore and bringe on board her parte of her said lading of wheate, And hee
in
saith that while the said shipp the Talbott was and remained the
said Roade of Albozine and was taking in her lading of wheate aforesaid
the arlate Captaine Hawkins came and arrived likewise in the said Roade with the said
shipp the Charles of this deponents sight, and this hee saith was on
about the 14th day of July last past, his coming being (as this depot
heard him there say) to gett leave to lade corne in the said shipp the
Charles which the Governour there denied him. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad septium, octavu et nonu arlos dicit et deponit that within the time
aforesaid and while the said shipps the Talbott and the Charles were and
soe remained in the Roade of Albozine aforesaid there was likewise
a Turkish shipp belonging to Algiers then alsoe in the said Roade which
had received in her lading of corne at Albozine aforesaid, And hee saith
that in the said time and while the said shipps the Talbott and the Charles
were in the said Roade of Albozine and that the said shipp the Talbott
was taking in her lading of corne aforesaid, and had taken in about
eightie hannocks thereof and not more, the said Turkish shipp being
gonne out to sea and plying to and againe because the winde blewe contrary
some of his company tolde
that hee could not gett away, the said Hawkins being denied his said
lading of corne tolde ⁁ some of the company of the said shipp the
Talbott (as they afterwards informed this deponent) that if
hee could come upp with the said Turkish shipp hee would
take her, and to that purpose hee sett hee saith that accordingly
on or about friday the sixteenth day of July aforesaid the said Captaine
Hawkins sett sayle with the said shipp the Charles and
the
when Captaine and Company of the said Turkish
shipp sawe that hee the said Hawkins in the said shipp the
Charles made way after them, they made in againe for shore
and were chaced in a hostile manner by the said Hawkins and company in the
Charles of this deponents sight and knowledge, and when they of
the Turkish shipp were come as neere the shore as they well could
they came to an anchor and the Captaine of her and some of
his company went with their boate on board the said shipp
the Charles to the said Captaine Hawkins, whoe there detained and
kept them, and shott certaine greate guns at the said Turkish shipp
which the men on board her seeing, they forsooke her to swim to shore
and three of them were (as hee was informed) drowned in soe endeavouring
to swim to shore, and then hee saith the said Hawkins sent his boates
and fetched her off, and this hee saith was on or about sutterday
the seaventeenth day of July last past, this deponent seeing the
action of such pursuinge and taking the said Turkish shipp by him
here deposed of, and on the morrowe being sunday hee saith the said Hawkins
and company sett saile with the said shipp the Charles and
carried away with them the said Turkish shipp soe surprized
with her lading and some of her company, The premisses hee saith
hee is the better able to depose because hee was present in the said
frigate and somtimes was on board the said shipp the Talbott
and sawe and observed the same and tooke notes of the particulars
as they happened in writing which hee hath nowe perused. And
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hee saith that before and at such time as the said Captaine Hamkins
soe surprized the said Turkish vessell and her lading there was and is peace
betweene the subiects of England and those of Algier
and free trade and traffique with and betweene them as it then was and is commonly reported and beleeved. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 10uj. 11uj et 12uj articulos dicit et deponit that this deponents contest John Cade
while they soe remained in the Roade of Albozine and within the time libellate
after the said Hawkins and Company in the said shipp the Charles had soe
surprized the said Turkish shipp did tell this deponent
that hee had bin with the said Hawkins to gett him to release
the said Turkish shipp and restore her, and that hee had refused soe to doe
and answered as is arlate, but hee saith hee sawe the boate of the said
shipp the Talbott in the evening of the said sutturday
goe to the said shipp the Charles after the said Hawkins had soe
surprized the said Turkish shipp, and
sawe the said Hawkins carry away the said Turkish shipp on the
next day. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 13uj articulum dicit et deponit that on the monday after the premisses
vizt on or about the nineteenth day of the moneth of July last past
and after such time as the said Hawkins had carried away the said
Algiers shipp some of the company of the said shipp the Talbott
to the number of eighteene persons having occasion to goe on
shore at Albozine to fetch wood and water for the use of the said shipp
were there sett upon and surprized by the Moores, and one of them
was by them the said Moores there slaine in endeavouringe to escape
by swimminge, and the other seaventeene were carried to prison and
there detayned and not suffered to retourne on board the said shipp
the Talbott, And this hee saith was donne by order of the
Governour arlate whoe was there in person at the surprizall of them
as two of the company that were escaped tolde this deponent; and
the said Governour sent word by a Jewe to the said Joseph Blowe on
board that hee had caused them to be soe surprized and imprisoned
because the said Hawkins had soe taken and carried away the said Turkish
shipp, and that they should not be released unlesse the said shipp
were restored and her lading were restored, This hee knoweth because
hee was acquainted with the bringing of the said message, his boate
fetching the said Jewe on board the said shipp the Talbott, for hee
saith both the skiffe and longe boate belonging to the said
shipp the Talbott were burnt by the said Moores when they soe
surprized the said company. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14 articulum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said Hawkins had
soe taken and carried away the said Turkish shipp the said Governour
did not only imprison some of the said company, but denied and would not permitt
the master and company of the Talbott to receive and taken on board
any more of her lading of corne, whereupon they were constrained to depart
with the said shipp with not above eightie hannocks of wheate
or thereabouts, to the greate dammage of the said owners this deponent departing in her company with the said frigate

Et aliter nescit.
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Ad 15uj articulum dicit that the said shipp the Talbott could and might well hee
carried from Alborne for Cales the quantitie of eight the thousand hant
of wheate or neere thereabouts (the perills and dangers of the seas excepted
for hee saith shee had rorly before carried and made out in voyage to
Galission to Suta aforesaid betweene seaven and eight thousand he
hamocks of wheate, which hee knoweth being acquainted with her lading
at Gallis, and sayling with the said ffregate in her company from thence
for Suta where they safely arrived. And hee verily beleeveth that
shee should have taken in soe much at Alborne the voyage in question
had shee not bin prevented by the said Hawkins his taking the said Tukish
shipp, for every of which hunnecks of wheate the said ffowell, dickins
and Company were to have had and received the number of three rialls
as hee remembreth the same agreed on for fraight
of plate pper hanck for freight. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 16 articulum dicit et deponit that the master and company of the said
shipp the Talbott seeing that they could not be suffered to take in any
more corne, and that they could not gett their company that were soe
imprisoned to be at released out of prison were constrained to depart
and did depart with the said shipp to goe for Cales, with purpose
at his depont
for hee this deponent then
as hee tolde this deponent (when there then parted from him
some
the said ffregate) to procure money and take course for the release
of his said company soe imprisoned, and to hire other men in their
this deponent sayeing in his company with the said ffreigatt from Alborne to the barr of St Lucas Jame
roomes, Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 13uj articulum dicit et deponit that after the premisses vizt in or about the moneth
of August last past this deponent being then with the said fregate called San
ffrancisco at St Lucars in Spaine did there soe the said Joseph Blowe whoe
was come thither from Cales where hee had left his said shipp the Talbott to
hire men to serve in the said shipp the Talbott in the roome of those men
that were soe surprized at Alborne and imprisoned, and there the said
sea
Joseph Blowe did hire 14 men or thereabouts for that service, which this
deponent knoweth because hee did helpe the said Blewe to some of them
and sawe them all when they were hired, and sawe them shipps away
from thence to goe for Cales, which is thence distant about 5 leagues by sea,
and the said Bowe and this deponent going from St Lucas to Cales by
land, this deponent sawe them there arrived, and sawe them on board
as
the said shipp the Talbott of part of the her company. Tuch fourteene
men hee saith were hired at greate and xx and rates Et aliter nescit.
deponere, saving the said fourteene men were by the said Joseph Blowe hired
at the charge of the said owners.

Ad 18. 19 et 20uj nescit, for hee was not then in the said voyage shee shipp or in
her company, howbeit hee saith that after the said Joseph Blowe had redeemed
was
his said men that were taken and imprisoned at Alboraine, and being in his
tourne with the said shipp and men from thence for Cales againe, this
deponent having left his said fregate at Saint Lucas and being on board the
shipp the seaven Brothers whereof Thomas and was master to was come
for England did meete with the said shipp the Talbott of the barr of Saint
Lucars, where this deponent went on board her and sawe the said men that
sixteene
were ransomed then on board her being bin number (one her of them that the
were soe imprisoned dying in prison) Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 21 et 22uj nescit, saving hee beleeveth the said dictons, fowell, Willson
Walker Wollis and company the voyage in question sustained damage in the
losse of fraight which they should have received had the said shipp ⁁ taken in her
whole lading of corne at Alborne) the sume of six pound hundred pounds
sterling
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sterlinge or thereabouts, and a very greate some in the losse of their
imployment of their said shipp as is arlate, but hee saith hee cannot estimate ⁁
a vallew
of that losse, And saving hee saith hee verily conceiveth that the
said losses and dammages came and happened by meanes of the said Captaine
Hawkins his said taking of the said Turkish shipp and her lading as aforesaid

Ad 23 nescit.

Ad 24 nescit.

Ad 25. 26. et 27 refert se ad predepoaita, Et aliter nescit.

Ad ultimu dicit predepoaita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu respondet that hee was not any of the company of the shipp the Talbott
interr, but sayled in her company with the said ffregate as hee hath predeposed.
And saith the Moores and Inhabitants at or neere Albozine interrogate are
accompted Mahometans, but not Infidells; but for the rest of the contents of this
Interrogatory hee saith hee knoweth not what to answer./

Ad secundu respondet that as hee hath bin diverse times informed in the voyage in
question such shipps as belonge to any Christians and goe to Albozine to trade
doe usually carry in their shipps or els procure there some Jewe or Moore
to goe on shore to treate and trade for them, and the said Joseph Blowe
to that purpose carried a Jew in his said shipp from Suta to Albozine,
which Jew was one of the persons seized upon by the Moores as aforesaid.
but hee saith the Alcada sent word when the said men were
surprized that if the said Turkish shipp and lading were restored, the ⁁ men
said
should be sett at libertie, or els they should not be sett at libertie unlesse
they were ransomed with the valew of the said shipp and goods and of her
men soe taken and lost as hee this deponent remembreth the contents of
the message or letter, hee being on board the said shipp the Talbott when
the said master received the said letter from the Alcada, and there
hee was made acquainted with the contents thereof. And hee saith hee
expecteth that neither losse nor proffitt will redound to him this rendent
in case Sentence should be given against or for Captaine Hawkins his
owners or any of them in this cause. Et aliter nescit

Ad 3 respondet that for some certaine dayes upon their first arrivall in the said
Roade of Albozine and before they had obtained of the Alcada or Governour
there libertie to trade, such of the company of the said shipp the Talbott as had
occasion to goe on shore went armed with musketts and swords
and hee beleeveth that if then the Moores could have intercepted them they
would soe have donne, and have kept them prisoners, till they had bin
ransomed with money. But after they had libertie given them to trade
they went unarmed diverse times and returned freely without interrupcon
untill such time as the said Hawkins had soe taken the said Turkish shipp
as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 respondet that it is commonly reported in and about the places interrogate.
that is noe safe going on shore or trading with the moores and people of
Albozine, and without having hostages on board for their true performance
and saith the said Captaine Blowe had two moores on board for hostages
for such his securitie of trading with them, and then his men went on shore
unarmed that were afterwards seized, Et aliter nescit, for
hee was not there when the said Blowe first retourned without his
men, and saving there is noe fort or castle to command the shipps there
riding./

(Ad
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Ad ultimum non sic deposuit, saving hee saith hee cannot nor will not hee
depose positively what the said Moores would have donne in case they had
gotten a proportunitie as is articulate for that hee knewe not the harts and
mindes of them in that particular; But hee saith hee beleeveth in
his conscience that if the said Captaine Hawkins had not surprized the
said Turckish shipp, they would not have seized the said men./

John Groome
----
27º Martij 1648.

Super lilo predco exaiatus.

5us

Rs. EA

diva
Thomas Gawle parochia Catherina prope turrim London Nauta
ubi hitavit per 12 annos ult aut eo circiter, aetatis 44 annorum aut eo
circiter, testis in hac cause productus et examinatus dicit et sequitur.

Ad primum et secundum articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that the articulate John Dickons
Thomas ffowell, Richard Willson, Edward Walker Nicholas Wallis and company
have bin for all the time articulate and at this present are commonly accompted and
reputed owners or proprietors of the shipp the Talbott arlate with her tackle
and furniture, and the articulate Joseph Blowe was the said time arlate and
is accompted master of her, this deponent being for the most part of that time
ene of her company and seeing the said Joseph Blowe performe and exequte
time
the place and office of Master of her; And for some of the articulate
the articulate Thomas Hawkins did of this deponents sight and knowledge
exequte the office of master or governour of the shipp the Charles articulate, and was for
all the said time and is commonly accompted master or governour of her. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertium et quartum articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that within the time
arlate (tempus magis specifica non recordatur) the said shipp the Talbott being
and remayning in the Roade of Suta arlate was there (as this deponent heard
the said Joseph Blowe their master say) fraighted by certaine merchants to
sayle and goe to Albozine and there to receive and take in her lading of corne
to bee thence carried and transported to or neere the porte of Cales and there
to be delivered and discharged. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintum et sextum articulos dicit et deponit that within the time articulate and
(as hee remembreth in the moneth of June last past the said shipp the
Talbott did departe and sett sayle from the foresaid Roade of Suta and
arrived in the Baye or Roade of Albozine arlate, and after her arrivall
there, the master and company of her had free license and leave from
the Alcada or Governour there to receive and take on board the said shipp
her lading of wheate, and to carry the same whether they pleased, and to that
purpose there was order taken in the countrey thereabouts for asmuch wheate
for her lading as could reasonably and well bestowed in her, And hee saith
that within the said time and while the said shipp the Talbott was and
remained in the said Baye or Roade of Albozine and was taking in her lading
of wheate soe provided, the said Hawkins came and arrived likewise there
with the shipp the Charles arlate, there to gett leave likewise (as this
deponent was informed to lade corne in the said shipp the Charles, which leave
was denied by the said Governour, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving hee
deposeth the premisses, for that hee was then on board the said shipp the
Talbot and as being Gunner on board her for the said voyage./

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Ad septimum, octavum et nonum articulos dicit et deponit that within the time libellate and
while the said shipps the Charles and the Talbott were and remained in the
said Roade of Albozine aforesaid, there was likewise a Turckish shipp in
the said Roade belonging to Algiers which had there received in her lading of
corne, which hee knoweth for that her the Captaine of her came on board their
said shipp the Talbott in the said Roade and there in the presence and hearing
of this deponent said in the Spanish tongue (which this deponent well understandeth)
that his said shipp belonged to Algiers and that shee had taken in
her lading of corne there at Albozine to be transported to Algiers And hee saith that within the said
time and while the said shipps the Talbott and the Charles were soe in the
said Roade of Albozine and that the said shipp the Talbott was taking in
her said lading of corne and had taken in about foure score hannocks
thereof and not above, the said Turckish shipp endeavouring to goe out
to sea was followed by the said Thomas Hawkins and company with the said
on a
shipp the Charles, and the next morning being satturday happening in or
about the moneth of July libellate the said Turckish being as it seemed
afraide of the said shipp the Charles made in againe for shore in the said
Baye of Albozine, and being still persued by the said shipp the Charles
the said Turckish shipp came as neere to the shore as shee well could and
soe came to an anchor, and the said Hawkins and company
with boates towing their said shipp the Charles (for it was calme) within
shott of her, the Captaine and some of the Company of the said Turckish
shipp seeing the same, tooke their boate and came on board the said shipp
the Charles, whom the said Hawkins there detayned, and then in a hostile manner shott
diverse greate gunns at the said Turckish shipp, which being perceived
her
by the rest of the company on board, they ran her a shore and forsooke
her indeavouring to save themselves by swimminge to shore, And then
hee the said Hawkins sent out his boates and in a hostile manner seized
and surprized the said Turckish shipp belonging to Algiers, and haled her off
and brought her on board the said shipp the Charles, and setting sayle
that night or the next morning hee carried her away the said Turckish shipp
way as prize, The premisses hee deposeth because hee this deponent
on board their said shipp the Tallbott did see the persuing
and taking and carying away of the said English shipp by the said Harris
it and Company in the said shipp the Charles such manner as hee
hath heere deposed. And hee further deposeth that before and att such
time as the said Thomas Hawkins the said shipp the Charles tooke
and surprized the said Turckish shipp and her lading it was commonly
reported in those parts that there was peace and amitie betwixt England
and Algiers and their respective subiects, and that it was free
and lawfull for them to trade and traffique each with others, or els hee
saith they of the Talbott could aswell have taken the said Turckish shipp as the
said Captaine Hawkins, and that before his arrivall there. Etalr nescit
deponere./

Ad 10. 11. et 12uj articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that on the saturday aforesaid
after the said Hawkins had taken and surprized the said Turckish shipp and
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her lading, the Alcade or Governour at Albozine aforesaid did send a letter
unto the their said master on board the said shipp the Talbott this
deponent seeing the letter soe brought, and hee saith hee heard her master
after was read say that it was to the effect articulate, and that night hee saith
their said master sent his skiffe and his mate John Cade this deponents
contest on board the said Hawkins, and this deponent was informed that his
going was to the effect menconed in the eleaventh article: And
hee saith that upon the retourne of the said John Cade hee this deponent
heard him say that the said Hawkins refused to release or deliver up the
said Turckish shipp and lading, but that hee had told him, that what
hee had donne in taking her hee would answer in England or to that
effect, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said Hawkins carried the
said Turkish shipp away ut predeposuit, with her lading./

Ad 13 et 14uj articulos dicit et deponit that on or about the monday after
the premisses and within the time libellate, and after the said Hawkins
had carried away the said Algiers shipp and her lading as aforesaid.
some of the company of the said shipp the Talbott having occasion
to goe on shore to fetch wood and water for the use of the said shipp
the Tabbott were there sett uppon and surprized by the Moores to the
number of seaventeene persons, and one that endeavoured to
escape by swimming was killed, which hee saith was donne by order
of the said Governour whoe was there in person at such their
surprizall (as three others of their men brought word that escaped by
swimming) and saith the said seaventeene men were detained and
comitted to prison and not suffered to retourne on board the
said shipp unlesse satisfaction were first made for the said wronge
and iniury soe comitted by the said Captaine Hawkins in taking the
said Turkish shipp, and soe much the said Governour did signifie to their
said master Joseph Blowe on board by a message sent him to that
purpose, and withall that hee had caused the said men to be taken and
imprisoned for that the said Hawkins had soe taken and carried away
the said Turckish shipp, and that untill such satisfaction were made
they should not take in any more of their corne, whereupon they were
constrained to depart with not above eighte hannocks or thereabouts
of their said lading of wheate soe provided, to the greate losse and
dammage of the said owners of the said shipp the Talbott, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15 articulum dicit et deponit that (as hee was credibly informed) there was
a full lading of wheate provided for the said shipp the Talbott at Albozine
and hee saith that in a former voyage (shortly before) shee had carried and
or neere thereabouts
made out eight thousand hannocks of wheate from Galisia in Spaine to
Suta aforesaid of this deponents knowledge helping to lade and unlade
the same, and being informed by the boateswaine that it was the quantitie
here deposed, and soe much shee might have taken in at Albozine
and carried for Cales, had shee not bin soe hindered by the occasion
of the said Hawkins in such his taking of the said Algiers shipp, for every
of which hannocks the said ffowell, Dickons, and company were to have had and
received (as this deponent heard the said master and company say) the number
of three rialls of plate per hannock. Et aliter nescit.
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Ad 16 et 17 articulos dicit et deponit that within the time libellate the
master and company of the said shipp the Talbott seeing they could not bee
procure
permitted to take in any more corne at Albozine, and that they could not gett
that
their men were soe taken and imprisoned to be released were constrained
to depart, and did sett sayle and depart from thence for Cales with the said shipp
there to procure moneys and take some course for the enlargement of the said
company soe imprisoned at Albozine aforesaid, and to hire other men in
their roomes; And hee saith that arriving safely there, their said master
did at the costs and charges of the said owners hire other men to the number
of sixteene or thereabouts to serve in the said shipp in the roome and stead
of those that were soe taken and imprisoned as aforesaid, which said men soe
hired were brought from St Lucas and most of them this deponent sawe on board their said shipp. And from and after the premisses
this deponent was at Cales cleered off the said shipp, and there hee left
her and therefore hee cannot further depose hereunto ut dicit, saving that
before such this deponents departure their said master did declare his
purpose and intencon to be that after hee was thereto provided hee would
retourne with the said shipp for Albozine to redeeme his said company soe
imprisoned.

Ad 18. 19. 20. et 21uj arlos nescit deponere ut dicit.

Ad 22 dicit that hee cannot compute or estimate the dammage articulate,
but hee beleeveth that in the wayes and particulars arlate it was a very
greate losse and dammage to the said owners, All which dammage hee
saith happened and was occasioned by the said Hawkins his taking and
carrying away the said Turkish shipp and her lading of corne as aforesaid.
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 23 nescit.

Ad 24 nescit.

Ad 25. 26. et 27 refert se ad predepoita ⁁, aliter nescit.
sua

Ad ultimu dicit predepoita per eum xxxxxxxx esse vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu respondet that hee this rendent was one of the shipps company interr,
the voyage interrogated, being Gunner on board her, and saith the Moores at
and neere Albozine aforesaid are a heathenish and barbarous people, and
such as hee beleeveth will say say or doe any thinge for their owne ends
and proffitt, and a people not to bee beleeved or trusted by Christians, and
for such hee saith they were and are commonly accompted and reputed,
aliter nescit.

Ad secundum respondet that in regard of the falsenes and barbarousnes of the
said Moores at such shipps as belonge to any Christians and goe thither to
lade doe usually (as hee hath often heard and verily beleeveth) carry some
Jew in their shipps to goe on shore and to treate and trade for them, and
to that purpose their said master carried a Jew in his said shipp, whoe
was provided by the merchant fraighters at Sata to goe on shore and treate
and bargaine with the Alcada at Sat Albozine interr, which said Jew
hee saith was one of the company soe seized upon by the Moores as
hee hath before deposed, and after such their seizure the said Moores
utterly refused to deliver or restore them unlesse they were ransoned with
the Alcada
money, howbeit hee saith that at the first ⁁ they offered to restore them
in case the said Turkish shipp soe taken by Captaine Hawkins and her
his were xxx delivered up and released. And hee saith it will be
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neither proffitt nor losse to him this deponent in case Sentence should
be given for or against Captaine Hawkins his owners or any of them in this
cause.

Ad 3 respondet that hee hath often heard that when shipps belonging to Christians
bee to Albozine to trade and traffique the shipps company doe usually keepe
bee
on board and not adventure to goe on shore unlesse they ⁁ well armed with
gunns of is interr, or els that the moores in case they finde oportunitie doe
often usually make seizure of them and take and keepe them prisoners till they
be bought off with money or otherwise, But of this use of theirs hee
saith hee cannot of his owne knowledge depose forasmuch as hee was
never there before hee went the voyage in question./

Ad quartum respondet that such behaviour and dealing of the said Moores
in falfying their words and taking the company prisoners is very
well knowne at Mallegae and Cales and other places thereabouts, for
this respondent hath often in those places heard it spoken off of, insomuch
that they will not trade with them without hostages for their true
performance, and saith the said Blowe and company knew and
heard thereof before they went the said voyage, and diverse of the company
(whereof this respondent was one) exprest much unwillingnes to goe the
said voyage, untill the merchants that fraighted them promised them
somthinge to drincke, over and above their wages,
and promised to ransome such of them as should happen to be seized
upon by the said Moores, And such promise that the said merchants
had soe promised and undertaken their said master informed them
before they went from Suta for Albozine aforesaid. And hee saith
that for some certaine dayes after their first arrivall at
Albozine they their men that had occasion to goe on shore, went well
armed, but afterwards when they had libertie grannted them to trade there
they went unarmed, and were unarmed when they were soe seized,
for which hee holdeth them unwise and over seene, but yet hee saith
they had two moores on board for hostages when the said men were
soe seized. Et aliter nescit, for hee was not in the said shipp at
such her retourne.

Ad ultimum nescit deposuit et nescit, saving hee saith
that although the said Moores are a very false and
people, yet considering howe freely they suffered their men to come on
shore and retourne not uninterrupted (though unarmed) bef for diverse
dayes after they had gotten leave to
trade with them, and untill the said Captaine Hawkins had soe taken
the said Turkish shipp, hee verily beleeveth they would not
have surprized or seized their said men, had not the said Captaine
Hawkins soe taken the said Turkish shipp./

Signum dci
Thomas
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Tricesimo Martij 1640

Super lilo in hac caa dat exaiatus.

Pately contra amend)
White Spart)

1

sud in./

dt

Petrus Jager de Wapping in Com Midd Nauta ubi habitavit permique
per 16 annos ult aut eo circiter aetatis 35 annoru aut circiter dicit quod partem
producentem scilicet William wheately per septemiu ult aut eo circiter
partem ver contra quam producitur visa tantu novit ut dicit deponit ut sea

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the shipp the Willing minde
arlate and soe hath donne for the space of seaven yeares or thereabouts next
before shee was cast awaye, and saith that in the yeere 1648 arlate and in diverse
of the monethes of that yeare hee this deponent served in the said shipp as
within a day or two of the time that
being one of her company untill shee was soe cast away as aforesaid and by
that meanes hee well knoweth that the producent William whately was
said
voyage
Master of the said shipp the willingeminde this deponent seeing him
performe that office on board her, and the arlate John Baptista
dyatt was then commonly accompted and reputed owner and proprietor
of one sixteenth parte of the said shipp, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
the said William whately was then alsoe commonly accompted and reputed
master of the shipp aforesaid.

Ad secundum articulum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate hee this deponent
went in the said shipp the Willing minde the voyage menconed in the said Mr
article from Dover to Bilboe, and in the said voyage hee often heard the said
William wheately saye that the said John Baptista Guynt was their master
Merchant, and that hee had taken the said shipp to fraight for the said voyage
and that shee was to take into her upon his the said Sugars accompte Spanish
two hundred and eighte bagge of
the said Gaynor
wooll, to be transported from Bilboe to Dover, and that hee had promised
to pay unto him the said wheately the summe of eighteene shillings sterling
for fraight for every bagge of the said wooll what hee should soe transporte
in her with pilotage, primage and averidge, and all other duties in such case
accustomed to bee paid, Et aliter nescit deponere for that hee was not present
at nor otherwise acquainted with the said voyage contract

Ad tertium articulum dicit et deponit that the voyage in question there was laden
on board the said shipp within the yeere and monethes aforesaid in the Porte
of Bilboe by the factor or agent of the said Guy Guyat and for his accompte
the quantitie or number of two hundred and fiftie baggs of Spanish were
which hee knoweth because hee was then in the said and did helpe to staye
the same in her, which said wooll soe laden hee the said wheately did
transporte and beinge over in the said shipp the Willinge minde from
Bilboe aforesaid into Dover roade, and soe into the Downes where hee safely
and with the said shipp and wall, which hee knoweth for that hee
this depont saye or the said voyage in there
which said arrivall of the said shipp in the Downes was on or about the
wth daye of January 1648, and then and there the said voyage did end and
determine, for hee saith hee this deponent (and the rest of the company were
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and soe back into the Downes and noe further, and being soe arrived in the
Downes hee this deponent was by their said master and diverse others of the
company were paid their wages and having finished the voyage they were
hired for, and refused to goe any further unlesse they were by the or said
master new hired, and in their common discourse and accompt on board
from Bilboe to the towards the downes they reckoned that their said
voyage should finish and determine when they should there arrive. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartum articulum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the
willing Minde in the Downes this deponent heard their said master say that
the said Guyott had after such their arrivall there contracted with him to
transport the said two hundred and fiftie baggs of wooll to Amsterdam, and
that hee the said Guyott had promised to pay unto him for transportacon thereof
the sume of three gilders and tenn stivers per baggs, but of his owne knowledge
hee saith hee cannot depose that the said contract was made for such as hee
was not present thereat, but hee the rather beleeveth that the said Guyott
had soe contracted with the said master to transport the said wooll to Amsterdam
came to a nowe composion wth the marriners and
because the said Master did there xx in the Downes ⁁ hire them this deponent
and others of the company new to goe the said voyage from the Downes for
Amsterdam. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintum articulum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Willing Minde in such
her passage for Amsterdam was within the yeare and monethes aforesaid videlicet.
neere about the end of the moneth of January 1648 taken by xxx Dunquercke
of the man of warr
or Ostend man of warr, and ran
a
there upp and after they had taken
weathers
xxxx
their said master and soe ⁁ of the company on board them, they of (whereof this
and putt then on board the said man of warr soone
deponent was one) ⁁ and xxxxxd them
And others of the company of the said
man of warr which that were putt on board their said shipp the Willinge minde
afte
did (as this deponent was ⁁ credibly informed) run the said shipp the William Minde
on shore at Egmont op't Zee in Holland, where the said shipp was last cast
away and lost, but some of the goods to the number of an hundred baggs of
wooll were there saved and came to the hands of the said Guyott or his agents
as this deponent was shortly after credibly informed. Et aliter nescit deponere
for this deponent uppon his being soe putt on board the said man of warr was
are
with their master and five more of the company carried to Ostend

Super conteris arlis non exaiatur ex direccone partis pducentis.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu respondet that hee was one of the company of the shipp interr, and the
voyage in question, and saith all his wages for the first voyage from Dover to
Bilboe and soe back into the Downes were fully paid him ut predeposuit,
but his wages due upon the said newe composicon from thence to goe for Amsterdam
not paid him as yet, but are by the master detayned untill the end of this sute
or that the merchant and hee bee agreed, but howe much his said wages well
bee hee knoweth not till they are agreed./

Ad 2 et 3 refert se ad predeposita aliter nescit, saying hee knoweth nothing nor hath heard
of the Charter partie interr, nor had hee xxx this rendent any share in the said
woolls

Ad quartu et ultimu nescit salvis predepoits, for hee was neither present when the
said shipp was cast away, nor at any such contract

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Decimo quarto die aprilis 1648.

Super lilo et schedulas in hac caa dat examinat.

Greene contra Navem vorat)
the Merchant Adventure)
et contra Witham et alise)
prives
the

Rp. EA.

Guilielmus Greene filius et apprenticius William Greene partis pducents
in hac cause parochia Sti Magin Martyns London atatis 19 annorum aut
eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus deponit et sequitur.
videlicet.

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the shipp the Merchant
And within
Adventure arlate for the three yeares last past or thereabouts and saith that for the
untill the death of the
Thomas Gossingelder which happened
are fore and halfe since they
all the time arlate ⁁ the arlate Thomas Gosling the elter and ⁁ Tomas Gosyage the younger
were commonly accompted masters and Commanders of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure
& her tackle and furniture
& this deponent sawe them on board her in that command, Et aliter nescit deponere.
56. 7. et 9
ad schedulas annex ditempus exaiacons attens

Ad tertium quartum articulos dicit et deponit that on the first daye of ffebruary 1644 this
deponent living with his said father William Greene the producent as his apprentice
did in the shopp of or warehouse of the said William his father situate in Thamestreete
and Gossinge arlate hee
suger
in the parish of Saint Magnus aforesaid deliver unto th, being Carpenter of the
the use of the said shipp
said shipp the Merchant Adventure and to her of a parcell of goods three gallons of oyle
menconed into
childe
in first schedule coming to 4 6. And on the 18th of January 1644
delivered ⁁ unto John Trinings Carpenter of the said shipp and to her use one hundred and
a quarterne and fourteene pounds of pitch et 116d per C comming to 16. And on
the 29th of June 1645 hee this deponent did there deliver to Ropse Stude one of
the said shipps company halfe a hundred of rozen at 56 6 and 2 gallons of oyle
at 3 and more to him October and 11th 1645 1s a quarter and pt of pitch at
11s 6d per C and comming to (with 2d for carriag 15, and 2 barrells of blacking at 3
in to be 18. And hee saith that June & 1648, hee this deponent in the said place
delivered to the said Ambrose Trinings the Carpenter a barrells of pitch coming
to 28 and for carriage the same cost intent 8. And August the 5th 1650
hee this deponent delivered to Ambrose hamlet of one of the said shipps company
came in name
above then was sent by the said Passing therefore and hundred a quartie and spoiled
of pitch at his sd ⁁ and for carriage coming to the same cost in 10 16655, All which
said particulars are menconed in the said first schedule, And hee saith they
were soe severally delivered by him this deponent by order of the producent his
father (whose goods hee saith they were) to the use of the said shipp the Merchant
Adventures, for this deponent havinge delivered them did enter them in their day
booke, which hee hath lately perused and findeth it to agree with theise particulars
and they were soe delivered in the life time of the said Thomas Gossinge the olde
within the time arlate) in chose names hee saith the severall persons came aforesaid
gaine for them. And hee saith the said wares and Merchandizes soe delivered were
with hee and by him deposed of were worth the sevall sumes of money by him
and stayne to and upon the said pticulars in the said schedule
deposed of ⁁ and for soe much they might their have bin then solde, and for soe much
the like were then comonly solde in open markett.
and or of the said
and dept hee but with such hee his deponent having the said
all
others doe take did hee soe and said entred the sevall and untill hee
parcells of goods menconed in the said three schedules to be delivered on the
sevall dayes and under the rates and prices in the said schedules menconed and
in theuse of the said shipp
contayned, and this deponent did thereupon extract the said three schedules at
the said bale which is owne hand and therefore hee being the said persons
were delivered accordingly in the said endall dayes to the use of the said shipp. Et
aliter nescit deponere.
Super reliquis arlis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad primu Interrogatoria.
et

Ad primu respondet quod eadem satisfit quoad priven partum essen a prem but deponis
free, and saith hee cometh by the appointment of his said father to be a witnes in this
cause, and for that hee expecteth neither proffitt nor gaine whether the said William his
father doe prevaile or be overthrowne in this suite.

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Ad secundum refert se ad predepoita, and saith hee did not see the said goods putt aboard
nor imployed in or about the shipp interr, aliter satisfecit supra.

Ad tertiu respondet that the said Thomas Goslinge the elder and Thomas Goslinge the
& accon
yonger were masters of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure at such time as the
said goods by him deposed of were soe delivered to her use, which were delivered upon
who hee did of
demannd of the said severall persons to him ⁁ they were desired as aforesaid, noe
note being by them given for the receipt thereof. aliter satisfecit supra.

Ad 4 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 5 respondet that in regard the said goods are in their said day tooke charged in the said
Thomas Willinge the order, hee beleeveth his said father William Greene tooke by him the
said Goslinge for his paymaster therefore. Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Will Srame in
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Decimo quinto Aprilis 1648.

Super lilo et schedula pred examinat.

dus
2

R. E.

Johannes Bembridge parochia sancti Maria At hill London civit
et Grocer London ubi habitavit per annu et did ult aut eo circiter
etatis 28 annorum aut eo circiter, dicit quod part testis in hac cause
productus et iuratus deponit ut sequitur vizt.

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee well knewe the arlate Thomas
Goslinge the elder for the space of eight yeares or thereabouts next before his death
which happened about a yeere and halfe since and saith that for all the said time
hee the said Goslinge was comonly accompted master and Governour of the shipp
the Merchant Adventure articulate with her tackle and furniture, and uppon his death
his sone the arlate Thomas Gosling the younger (whom this deponent alsoe
for som Port time
well knoweth) had the command and governement of the said shipp, and for
masters of her
which they were for the said severall times commonly accompted and reputed.
Dman
Et aliter nescit deponere.

et ad sched lilatam eitence is exaiacons oftenson

Ad secundum articulum tertiu et quartum arlos dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
being apprentice to the arlate William Greene did by order of his said master
deliver for the use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure upon the accompt
of the arlate Thomas Goslinge the elder on the 6th of November 1649, foure
gallons of oyle at 18£ per gallon coming to be and menconed in the said
schedule, and on the 29th of Aprill 1645 hee delivered to the use and on the
accompt aforesaid foure hundred weight of resent at 10s per coming to as
as in the said first schedule is mentioned, which said resen hee delivered to John
Tinninge that whoe was (as hee remembreth) Carpenter of the said shipp, and
the former oyle aforesaid hee delivered to one Thomas Todd that came and
ffreight the same in the name of the said Thomas Gosling the elder for the use
of the said shipp. And in the said 29th of Aprill 1648, hee further delivered
to the said Trimming to the use aforesaid 13 gallons of oyle at 15£ per gallon
and the ralett contayning the same at 18, amounting together to the summe of xxxijs
as in the same first schedule is menconed, alsoe halfe a hundred and fourteene
pounds of brimstone, the at 28 per hundred, caske is, in toto 10d as he
the said schedule. alsoe delivered to the said Trimming the same daye two double
barrells of blacking as and the carriage of the whole parcell or comon and
as in the said schedule. And Maye 12th 1645 hee further delivered to William
Aned to the who aforesaid by gallons of oyle at 18 per gallon xxx 9, and foure
pounds of thembes at 2s per pound, and carriage of both 3d. And further
on June the second 1646 hee delivered to Ambrose halet & gallons of are
at 10d per gallon 5 9d, xx and one double barrell of blacking at 1648
And on the 30th of June 1648, hee delivered to John Williams (that came in
the name of the said Goslinge two hundred weight and five pounds of rozen at 10s
or
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per hundred 16 and one hundred a halfe and two pounds of pitch at
13 per hundred 18638, and foure gallons of oyle at 16d per gallon 6 more
25£ of bine stone and caske his sd All which said goods are menconed in
the said first schedule, and hee saith they were the goods of the said William
Greene, whoe was lawfull owner of them at the time of such their delivery and
further hee saith they were delivered by him this deponent as being apprentice
to the said Greene, in the shopp of him the said William Greene situate of the
redd on in Thamestreete, to the use of the said Thomas Goslinge the elder
for the use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure aforesaid. Et aliter
nescit deponere, saving hee the better knoweth that the pre foresaid parcells
were soe delivered by him on the dayes and to the persons aforesaid, because hee
with his owne hand did then enter the delivery of them in his said masters
daye booke, and within the space of a weeke or thereabouts before his producing
and swearing in this cause hee tooke went and viewed the said booke, and
booke a copie of the particulars which hee hath nowe with him, and findeth
it to agree as touching those parcells with the said first schedule.

Ad 5. 6. 7. et 8 nescit.

Ad novu articulum dicit et deponit that the severall parcells of goods by him
deposed of and menconed in the said first schedule were worth or the time of such
their delivery by him this deponent the severall summes of money deposed of
and sett downe to each particular as in the said schedules, And for soe much
the same might then have bin sole
for hee saith
the like goods were then commonly solde for soe much. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu respondet that at the time of delivery of the said goods hee this
deponent was apprentice to the said William Greene, but nowe hee is
freeman ut dicit, and that hee cometh to testifie in this cause by the meanes
and procurement of the said Greene, and whether the said Greene prevaileth
or be overthrowne in this sute, hee saith it indifferent will bee neither proffitt
nor losse to him this deponent

Ad 2 respondet that hee did not see the goods deposed of putt on board, but they
were delivered to the use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure on the
dayes and times aforesaid, aliter nescit
Thomas the elder

Ad 3 respondet that the said slinge was master of the said shipp the time interr
and the goods aforesaid were delivered upon the demannd of the foresaid sevall
persons that fetched the same whoe came in the name and of, and as being sent
by the said Tomas using the order for them, aliter nescit salvis predeposits.

Ad 4 nescit.

Ad respondet that hee beleeveth the said William Greene on the time of the delivery
of the said goods and merchandizes predeposed of, did take the said Thomas
Gossinge the elder for his paymaster for them, because they are charged
upon his accompt for the use of the said shipp

John Bembridge
----
Eadem die.

Super libelli et schedulas predci

is

3

Rs. E.

Stephanus nes James et apprenticius William Greene partis
producents, is sic stetit apprenticius per diemdut aut
ex circiter, etatis 20 annorum aut circiter testis in hac cause
productus et juratus deponit et sequitur.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knewe the arlate.
Thames Hillinge the order in his life time and well knoweth his some Thomas
Gosling the yonger, and saith they were in the time reses arlate respectively.
accompted
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accompted and reputed masters and Commanders of the shipp the Merchant
Adventure arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum tertiu et quartum articulos dicti lili et ad prima schedulam eadem lilo
Exaiacons tens
& tempus

Ad 5 dicit et deponit that hee this deponent being servant and afterwards
apprentice unto the producent William Greene did in the shipp of him the
said William in Spaine treate and by his direccon deliver on the 25th daye of
September 1645 to John Trimming Carpenter of the said shipp the Merchant
Adventure and to her use in the name of the said Thomas Gosling the olde
an hundred and quiture and a shirty at 15 per the cared depose
coming to 1655 and 3 gallons of oyle at 15£ per gallon coming to as ad
And 15 October 1645 to John Dunker Boatsen of the said shipp a hundred and
18th of pitch at 1s 6d per coming to 15, and 3 gallons and a halfe of
oyle at 16d per gallon 5, and halfe a barrell of tarr at a and
the carriage in. And to Ambrose hamlet the said Goslinge the order his
man to the use aforesaid on the 10th of July 1648 one barrell of weather
tarr, 16s and a gallons of oyle at 18d per gallon 6 scarriage and
wharfage 3. All which said severall parcells of goods and Merchandizes
this
which
de

were by him this deponent soe delivered ⁁ in the said severall dayes to the said
severall persons aforesaid for and in the name of the said Thomas Gosling
the elder
aforesaid and to and for the use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure
and according to the direccons given by the said Thomas Goslinge the elder given
at their said shipp before the delivery thereof, which hee knoweth because hee
this deponent uppon delivery thereof did enter them in his masters day booke
and lately upon perusall thereof hee found the same to agree with what
hee hath predeposed of them. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said
goods and parcells predeposed and menconed in the said first schedule
were at and before the time of such delivery of them the goods of the said
William Greene the producent, and hee was the lawfull owner and
proprietor of them and soe accompted, et salvis subscriptis
ostens

Ad quintu articulum dicti lili et ad secundum schedulam erdam lilo annex dicit
et deponit that hee this deponent after the decease of the said Thomas
Goslynge the elder vizt on the 24th of Aprill 1647 did by in his said
masters shopp deliver unto John Dunken aforesaid the Boatswaine of
the said shipp and to her use the severall parcells of goods and commodities
mentioned in the said second schedule amounting to the sewall valewes therein
contayned being the goods of his said master William Greene, And
hee saith the same were soe delivered according to anote in the name
of the said Thomas Goslinge the yonger (whoe was then master of the
said shipp) according to a note sent by him the said Goslinge the younger
which this deponent hath nowe with him. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
hee knoweth the premisses to be true because hee himselfe delivered them
and findeth them accordingly entred by him in their said day booke, and
saving they were delivered by his said masters order. And hee
further the that
ostens

Ad sextum articulum et ad tertiam schedulam in eadem menconat hee saith
and deposeth that hee this deponent on the 26th of June 1647 did
deliver unto the said John Dunker boatswaine of the said shipp the Merchant
Adventure according to the direccons of the arlate Edward waterman and to
in the accompt of the said
homas Golling the yonger
the use and for of the said shipp ⁁ all the severall goods and commonities
menconed in the said third schedule, amounting to the sewall sumes of
money therein expressed, which before such and at the time of such their
delivery were the prop goods of the said William Greene whoe was owner
of them. The premisses hee remembreth because hee hath likewise
lately seene the same soe entred in their said Day booke. Et aliter dicit
quod nescit deponere, saving the said Thomas Golling the younger was
then upon removing from the office of master arlate.

(Ad
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Ad septium articulum nescit deponere ut dicit.

Ad octavu articulum nescit.

Ad novu articulum dicit et deponit that all the goods, wares and merchandizes by
deposed of and by him delivered as abovesaid, and menconed in the said schedules is
were worth at the time of such their delivery the severall summes of monelast
menconed and sett downe in the said schedules to and upon the said particular of
parcells, and for soe much the same might then have bin solde in open xxx
makett the yeares and moneths aforesaid, and for soe much the like come
were then comonly solde. And the said William Greene doth suffer losse and
damage to the valewe of them. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non exaiatur

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu rendet that hee is apprentice to the said William Greene, and cometh
by his order to be exámined as a witnes in this cause, and saith hee expecteth
noe proffitt or benefitt if his master prevaile in this sute, and hopeth hee
shell sustaine noe dammage though his said master be overthrowne therein.

Ad 2 respondet that hee himselfe delivered the goods predeposed of, to the
use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure on the dayes predeposed.
aliter nescit.

Ad 3 refert se ad predeposita aliter nescit./

Ad 4 nescit.

Ad ultimum respondet that hee beleeveth his said master tooke the said Thomas possinge
the elder for his paymaster of the said goods by him deposed of and menconed
the said first schedule, and the said Gosling the yonger for his paymaster of
those menconed in the said second and third schedules, because hee saith that are
entred on their accompt. Et aliter nescit, salvis predepoits.

Stephan Sit
----
Quarto Maij 1648

Super allue predca ex parte Grayson dat examinatus.

buy

5

Nard

Rs. E.

Richardus Ewers de Wappinge in Com Midd Nauta ubi habitavit per 30 annos ult
aut eo circiter, etatis 40 annorum aut circiter, testis in hac cause productus et
juratus deponit ut sequitur.

Ad quintum articulum dicte alluis dicit that hee knoweth not of any threats, strokes or blowes used
Grayson contra Haddock./

in given by the arlate William Haddocke towards or unto the producent Richard Grarson to compell
him to goe in the shipp the America in the service arlate, Et aliter nescit.
Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that during the time the said Richard Grayson was Chirurgeon
of the said shipp the voyage in question, diverse yea most part of the company of the said
shipp became sicke and diseased and some of them dyed, and the said Richard
Navis subscripts moad William Burley
Brazon did carefully looke unto such of the said shipps company as were soe fallen
by
like, and from time to time administred sicke unto them and used such meanes
and applications, as this deponent conceiveth the nature of their diseases required, and
according to the dutye his place, and by meanes of such his care and ministring unto them.
many of the said company by goods blessing upon such his endeavours, became reason
sd
and (as bee
and well and were recovered from their diseased during the said voyage. And this
and not
deponent beleeveth hee the said Gxx Graison during the said voyage ⁁ neglect his duty
and place in administring to such of the said company as were at any time sicke
such remedies as hee conceived conducible to the recovery of their health and to carried
of their maladies, for this deponent from time to time observed him very vigilant
and diligent in the discharge of his said place, and in visitting the disposed, beave
their passes and ministring unto them as neede and occasion as hee conceived received
The premisses hee saith hee knoweth to be true because hee this deponent went the said
voyage in the said shipp and was Boatson on board her, and thereby came to take
notice of the premisses. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that during the time the said shipp was in the service
of the State of Venice, the said William haddock tooke on board her 50 souldiers the
most part whereof continewed on board in service of the said State the most part of the
time that the said shipp was in the said States service, which was 22 monethes or thereof
Et aliter nescit.
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Ad 12 articulum nescit deponere ut dicit, saving that some short time while they hee
in service of the States of Venice, the said shipp wanted fresh victualls./

Ad 13u articulum dicit that hee doth not knowe of any of the company of the said shipp
the America, the voyage in question that did through sickes or otherwise went
help or presence of the said Grayson at any tyme when hee was ashore, or there
suffered in their health or otherwise by meanes of such his absente. Et aliter

Ad 14 articulum dicit et deponit that the said Richard Grayson was and continewed
Chirurgeon of the said shipp the whole voyage in question, vizt from the rished
November 1644 untill the first of ffebruary 1647 arlate, which amounteth to
monethes and a halfe or thereabouts. Et aliter nescit, saving hee knoweth
wor
same to bee true, because hee this deponent was alsoe the said voyage and served soe
longe in the same shipp.

Super reliquis arlis non examinatur ex direccone.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu interr rendet that hee this rendent was hired (the voyage in question) to bee
in the said shipp of as Boatson from this porte of London to the porte of Vinge
or any other lawfull porte or place within or without the Streights of Gibralter
and soe backe againe for London, and hee beleeveth the company were soe hired
likewise by the said Mr haddock, for as hee remembreth they sett their hands to
a note to that purpose. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 nescit nec audivit ut dicit.

Ad 3 respondet that the said by Mr haddock before hee undertooke to serve the said Stoke
of Venice made knowne the said voyage and imployment to the company, and asked
if they were willing thereto, and hee saith that both the said Grayson and all
the rest of the company did willingly undertake the same, not expressing any
dislike thereto at such their first undertaking it, for hee saith that when the
States officers came abord them to view them and take their names, each man free
might
gave them his raine, whereas if they had refused soe to doe they have had liberty
to have departed. And hee beleeveth that in case the said Grayson had bin at the
first desirous to have left the said imployment, and would have provided another
Chirurgeon to serve in his place, the said Mr Haddock would have given way there
els not. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 Interr respondet that about eight monethes after they were soe entred into the
service of the said State of Venice in the said shipp the America, and were ready
to enter into fight with the Turkes in the said Grason endeavoured to discharten
the company of the said shipp (shee being then in the harbour of the Isle of
Mell
saile) from fighting with the Turkes, telling them openly in the shipp and
with much earnesties that if they gott any wounds or hurts in the said
fight hee would not helpe or care then, but said unlesse they would fort
give him a note under their hands to pay him for the care soe much as hee
should thinke fitt, and that otherwise they should lie and wallowe in their
owne blood, and perish, and some of them hee said (but which hee named not)
should perish like the untinely fruite of a coman, or hee then or there
premisses hee knoweth being present at the same speaking ye
used words to the same effect. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 respondet that the said Grayson the voyage in question was much given to
drincking and was many times over taken with drincke, and then hee would sentime
quarrell with the some of the company. aliter nescit.

Ad 6 respondet that the said Grayson at Venice and other ports and places but especiall
at Venice did by goe and lie often on shore for diverse dayes and weekes together
whereof the said master did often admonish him, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 respondet that hee well knewe the interrogate William Burley in the said shipp and
voyage, and saith hee was longe sicke and died the said voyage, and in his
said sicknes this deponent diverse times heard him complaine of and against the
said Grayson for his neglect of him and refusing to take care of and admined
unto him as hee ought to have donne, which complainted hee diverse times made
with greate moane to this deponent (being his mate, lamenting his owne said
and wishing hee had some other Chirurgeon, and diverse times in such his sacke
the said Burley sent for on shore for physick and medicaments f at his or
charge, this rendent lending him the money. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 8 respondet that the voyage in question the said haddocke did provide the said shipp
with fresh victualls when shee came into ports and harbours as neede required
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 et ult nescit, saying hee cannot estimate the number of dayes that the said Grayson
was soe absent.

Richard Ewers
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6º Aprilis 1648

Q: Budard et alioru pro nave)
Peter et bonis in eadem and Capeu)
Coppin capt./

1s

Rp J m

ffranciscus Nevill parochia sancti Bothi Algate Lond generosus et
36 annorum aut eo circir testis in hac pte productus iuratus
et examinatus or

quintu
Ad 6u articulum alluis ex parte Budard et socioru in hac parte dat et admissum
dicit et deponit That about the beginninge of the moneth of March last
past this deponent was imployed by the sayd Budard mr of the arlate
to carrye
in to the Downes
shipp the Peter which a letter which was delivered to him by Secretary Smyths
Clarke by the order of the sayd Secretary, directed to Collonell Rainsborough
said to bee
concerninge certayne letters xx or writings that were founde abord the
sayd shipp the Peter by the arlate Captayne Coppin at the tyme of
the seizure of the sayd shipp and goods, and accordingly this deponent
went wth the sayd letter to deale Castle where the sayd Collonell
and
was then resident, and delivered the sayd lre to him, which the sayd
Colonell havinge perused the sayd letter tould, this deponent that hee
the sayd Colonell was informed by his Lievetennant, that in the
being then in London)
absence of him (the sayd Colonell hee had received a letter from the sayd
Captayne Coppin directed to the sayd Colonell, which letter the sayd
Lievetenant brake open, and therin founde another letter which (as appeared
by the sayd Coppins letter) was founde abord the sayd shipp the Peter
at the tyme of her seizure, and that his sayd Lievetenant had sent the
both the sayd Coppins letter and the inclosed letter found sayd to be founde
abord the sayd shipp the Peter directed to him the sayd Colonell
Raynsborough) at his lodginge at one Captayne Taylers lodginge house
neere East heape in London, and therfore wished him this dept to goe
thither from him and to inquire for the sayd letters and gave him a note
under his hand directed to a servant of the sayd Capt Taylor advising
him to looke in his Chamber for the letters aforesd, and if the hee founde
then then to deliver the sayd letters her to deliver them to him this dept
and likewise delivered him another to directed to mr Jeshopp and
Secretaries to the right hable the Earle of Warwicke
Mr Coitmore desiringe them to looke for the sayd letters and tould this
deponent, that he did verily beleive that he had delivered the sayd
letters to one of the sayd Secretaryes, or to that effecte, wheruppon this
deponent returned to London, and delivered the sayd Colonell Rainsborough
one of them to sayd messe and the or to the sayd Capt Tayers soe
quates accordinge to deration and the sayd Gerrellaryes and the sayd
Captayne Taylers servant havinge searched for the sayd lres in the sd
sayd that he could finde noe such and the sd mr Jessepp likewise
tould him that he had not received any such letters, but sent him to the
sayd Mr Corture to Marwicke house where this deponent goeinge
he spake wth one was sayd to be mr Coctores servant) who the next
day beinge searchinge for the same in the office at in Sir Abraham
Williams his house in Weste was demanded by mr of the sayd mr
Jeshopp (beinge then present) what hee looked for, to which hee replyed
for that hee looked for the letters aforesd, wheruppon the sd mr Jersey
tould him that he needed not to looke any further for them for that the
were noe such, Et aliter nescit depre salvis subsequen./

Ad sextum articulum dicit et dept That at the same tyme when this deponent
was at deale as aforesd did likewise there spoake with the sayd Capt
Coppin and inquired of him what letters or writings were founde abord
the sayd shipp the Peter at the tyme of her seizure who tould him this
and another writinges or pap
dept that hee had founde arle in the sayd shipp, and then this deponent
asked the sayd Coppin what was the contents of the sayd Letter, and wherther that
other paper or writinge was not a Cocquett, wherunto the sayd Coppin
made answear that the sayd letter was directed to a merchant in Dublyn
to asiste the master of the sayd shipp the Peter in the sale of the sayd shipps
ladinge, but wheither that other paper were a Cockett or not, he knowe
not, and then this dept asked the sayd Coppin what was become of the sayd
letter and other paper, and what was become of the company of the sayd shipp
(wherunto
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wherunto the sayd Coppin replyed that he had sent the sayd letter hole
paper inclosed in a letter to the sayd Colonell Rainsborowe, and that he
had severall of the company of the sayd shipp the Peter abord of his
man of warr, and had examined them or questioned them to what
place the sayd shipp the Peter was bounde, and that they all sayd
that they were the sayd shipp was bounde for Dublyn, and that doe
what he could by threatinge or otherwise hee could not make her
confesse any thinge but that the sayd shipp was bounde for Dublyn
and therfore hee had dismissed them or lett them goe, or the sayd
Captayne Coppin used other words tendinge to the same effected
And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 7u nescit deponere.

Sup ceteris arlis non examinatur ex directione./

ffran Nevill/
----
13º Aprilis 1640./

John Archdeacon of Rosse in the Kingdome of Ireland
Merchant aged 20ty yeares or thereabouts sworne hee
Pro duo Rege
Le Prince Christian

To the first Interrogatory hee sayeth and deposeth uppon his
oath, That the interrogate shipp the Prince Christian was
at Rosse in the Kingdome of Ireland and came from thence
imediately before shee was taken by the shipp the
Expedicon and came from Middleborough in Zealand
when shee went to Rosse and was consigned to Thomas
De la hoyd, and Lucas Lerroy, And this hee knoweth to
bee true who beeing servant to Richard de Lafford
a Merchant of Rosse who had some goods in the sd
shippe
for
shipp was sent by his said Master in the said
from Rosse this last voyage as factor him and his
the the said Thomas des shippe herein hee
wth the perous tooke her was at Boate
aforesaid when shee arrived there from Middleborough
To the second hee sayeth That the goods that were
carried into Rosse in the said shipp were part of
them sould there, and the rest the Merchants to whom
they were consigned kept in their warehouse
of the goods seized in the said shippe were boughte
a cheste and other places in Ireland of the fish
fore, and shee carried to see hoppes, Madders,
Tobacco and sells her ballast was salt, and this hee
same in the the being as after

John Archdekin Ju
----
13º Aprilis 1640./

Crosse et socij contra)
Vande couter

3s

Pd

Robertus de Lyna parochia Sti Nichola Acon London
Mercator annos agens 24 aut eo circiter testis in hac parte
productus, iuratus et examinatus dicit et deponit pvt sequitur
videlicet/

xxxxxxxxx

Ad 11u articulum alluis ex parte Crosse et soc in hac parte
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to
dat et oblat dicit et deponit, That the arte William Cros
and company beeing advised by letters from Lisbone that the
arte shipp the William and Jane was there sent and
imployed Plimas Tyler whom hee appointed to bee Mr
of the to received and take possession of that shippe
of Aprill 1650, And this hee knoweth to bee true who
in the said same as
the in the to the moste his
and made upp saith and desent, for that
voyage, At aliter nescit./
to firste opposed those
Diler, & John Mary Males the said Crosses ffactor of
at Lisbone to the said Crosse & kepte this examte
of were thereing then of the
said his estate Mariners which
the her of the
the et
same one as forwards as
at his
et
she was one for the

Ad Interrogatoria 3º loco./

dt Sucklin

Ad 1u non deponit and effect interrogatus./

Anto
Ad 2u nescit rendere, Saving that in Aprill 1643 the
xxx about the beginning of that yeare the interrogate John
May Mayles wrott a letter to the said Crosse
to advise him to looke after the said shipp the William
and came then at Lisbone, and from that tyme the said
Crosse held comesponden iwth the said Mills and
about the sending for of the said shipp away from
Lisbone, At aliter

Robert Pelina
----
15º Aprilis 1643

John Charge of Barrall in the County of Chester
Marriner, aged 27 yeares or thereabouts sworne before
Mr Doctor Clerke Judge of his Matyes highe Court
of the Admiralty sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath
gave the
Vincorn

Pd

That about fower yeares since, whilst the Citty of
Westchester was under the power and command of the
Kings forces, the shipp the Joshin (whereof Robert
Clarcke was Captaine the William and Thomas
(whereof William Riche was Captaine, being in the
service of the Parliament was an anchor in
Chester booke in he called thoughe take to shipp
the trade with to and from Chester by water, and then
but the Englate with some of the Companies
to sett a shipp then saileing upp the river of
ster wore the Citty of Chester about
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mile and a halfe or two miles upp in the said river
neerer Chester then high lake where the said shipp
rodd, the said boates boarded the said shippe called as
Capt Clerke sayeth the Unicorn and the Master of her
as hee remembreth was called Crooks who resisted
them, and by his comannd one of his Company lett off
a muskett and killed one of the men of those boate
beeing then in the service of the Parliament and
confessed that hee was bounde for Chester bene
laden with Grocery wares and soe for that tyme the
said boats lefte her, but the next day the William and
Thomas went upp after her, and tooke her, shee
being deserted by her Company, and command the
takers carried her to Liverpoole, and there lefte
And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath
to bee true of his knowledge who was then
Boatswaine of the said shipp the William and
Thomas and one of them that boarded the said shipp
in the boats aforesaid, At aliter nescit

John Sharpe
----
dicto die./

2s

Pd/

John Griffin of Liverpoole in the County of Lancaster
the shipp Carpenter aged 28 yeares or therabouts
sworne as aforesaid, sayeth and deposeth uppon his
oath

That there betweene fower and five yeares
since as hee remembreth, whilest the shipps the
William and Thomas (wherof William Rigby was Captaine)
and the Joslin (whereof Robert Clerke was Captaine)
being in the service of the Parliament
in a place called high lake in the river Chester
water to stopp the trade by water, to and from
Westchester, a shippe called the Unicorn of
Portsmouth sailed upp the said water towards
Chester being they under the power of the
Kings forces, and thereuppon the William and Thomas, and
the Joslin sent their boates after the said
shipp the Unicorn, and boarded her, and one of her
Company by way of resistance lett off a muskett
and killed one of the Company of the Joslin, and
thereuppon the Companies of the William & Thomas
and Joslin for that tyme lefte her, and returned to
their owne shippes againe, but the Master of the
Unicorne went with them to excuse the death of the
mann killed as aforesaid, and after some conference
with the Captaines of those shippes, the Master of the
Unicorn wrott a noate to his Companie to brige his
shipp to the said Parliament shipps which noate this
examte carried aboard her, and her Company pmised
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to bring her to the Parliament shipps, but contrary to the
order and or carried her upp further towards Chest
and then was her a shoare, and soe lefte her, and the next day
the May and That it her of are comined her to
her in hee
goods
and in the
went the
to bee
Mr hee

John Griffitt
----
decimo septimo die Aprilis 1648.

Super lilo et schedula examinatus.

Margetson Turcke)
et alios)

prius.

Rp EA

Josephus Stanley famulus et apprenticius George Margetts partis
producentis cus se stetit apprenticius per trienniu ult aut eo circiter
aetatis 23 annorum aut circiter testis in hac cause productus et exaiatus
deponit ut sequitur vizt.

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knewe the arlate
John Bowden in his life time, and saith that hee the said Bondon for all the
with her tackle and furniture.
time arlate was master and Commander of the shipp the greene drage arlate
and soe commonly accompted and reputed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundum tertium et quartum et quintum articulos dicti lili et ad schedulam annex dicit et depon
tempere eius extracons ostenss dicit et deponit that the said schedule is wholly
written with the proper hand writing of him this deponent out of the debt a booke
of the producent of the goods and parcells therein contayned delivered partly
by him this deponent and partly by his contest Robert Cooker being the goods
of the said producent and delivered to the use of the said shipp the greene
dragon
arlate whereof the said John Bowden was then master, And hee saith that
on the fifty of May 1648 hee this deponent did in his said master George
Margetts his shopp situat in Thamestreete at the signe of the
Rotterdam in the parish of St Dunstans in the east London, deliver in the behalfe
of his said master to such person or persons as was sent from or came in the
name of the said Bowden halfe a hundred and foure pounds of Rubline
at 25 per cente, comming to 15, and six Hambrough lives at 16d p live
coming to 8. Alsoe a double barrell of blacking coming to 2s ffurthernor
on June the 22th 1646 Ropes of Rich Rise hempe stowed, weighing 4 hundred
a halfe and 22£ at 34s per C 17 19. 10. More Ropes 2 hundred and
twelve pounds at 25 per 2192s. More Ropes of the best dise
hempe weighing hundred and at 5 per 30. 3. Alsoe fifteene
broughties at 16 pertice of the 26 of marine at the
pound 8. 8. Item longe double legglines at is plive 13. ten
the disey lives at 60 per live 120. Eten a longe Brashes at 12
pribing 40. ten two shore broughes at be per bough his, All
which said goods and particulars hee saith were soe by him delivered as being
apprentice to his said master) to the use of the said shipp the greeme dragen and
hee menconed in the said schedule, and were delivered according to the order of
the said John Bowden master of the said shipp, being before such their delivery
the goods of the said George margetts, which hee the better remembreth for that
hee not only entred them in his said masters debt booke upon their delivery
out hath alsoe lately perused the said debt booke and findeth the same to bee
entred as soe delivered and to agree touching those particulars with the said
schedule
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schedule, and hee saith the said rest of the said goods and merchandizes
schedulate were as hee beleeveth likewise delivered by his said master or a
order upon the accompt of the said Bowden and to the use of the said shipp
what hee the said Bowden did on some daye after such delivery of the
cause the said schedule libellate to bee in used for the payment of fourth
pounds and eighteene shillings on the 13th of January 1648 unto the said
George Margetts and then in subscribed his name with his owne hand and
as there on nowe appeareth, and that in sight and presence of him this dept
dwelling
or the then house of the said Bowden in Redriffe, this deponent being sent
to him from his said master with the said schedule to that purpose. And
hee saith the said schedule is a true schedule and copie of taken out of the
said debt booke of the said particulars and prizes therein contayned for good
soe delivered to the use of the said shipp, the same being soe copied with
this deponents owne hand. Et aliter nescit.

Ad sextum articulum dicit that hee this deponent having bin but a little while with his
said master at his trade when the said goods were soe delivered, is not very well afte
to saye what the same were then worth, but hee beleeveth the same were worth
the severall prices and sumes of money expressed and sett downe in the
said schedule to the said parcells and particulars, because the said Bowe
did approve of the said prizes and subscribe to the said indursement for
the payment thereof, and besides hee saith, that the like goods and
merchandizes were then solde commonly at the lefte prices. Et aliter
nescit, saving his said master not being yet paid) doth suffer dammage
and losse but least to the valew of the said goods.

Super ceteris non examinatur.

Ad Interrogatoria.

Smith dt

Ad primum respondet that hee cometh by the meanes and order of the said George
Margetts to be a witnes in this cause, wherein hee hath noe share ut dicit, and
saith it will bee neither benefitt nor preiudice to him whether his the said marges
prevaile or be overthrowne in this busines, and that hee is apprentice to the
producent.

Ad secundum respondet that hee did not see any of the goods schedulated carried and
delivered on board the said shipp, but saith the same are wholly entred in
the said Margetts his booke upon the accompt of the said Bowden the master,
and for the use of the said shipp. And saith the said Margetts tooke the foresaid
note on the backe of the said schedule of the said Bowden for the said goods, but
not to cleare and discharge the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 3 rendet that hee beleeveth in his conscience that the said Margetts at the
time of the shipps goinge to sea interrogated did expect his satisfaction from the
said shipp in case hee were not paid by the said Bowden, for soe hee hath heard
his said master often saye. Et aliter nescit.

Joseph Barkes
----
19º Aprilis 1648.

Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

2s

Rp. EA.

6

Robertus Hooker de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Comitatu Middlesex Ropeseller
ubi habitavit per 13 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 28 annorum aut circiter
testis in hac cause productus et iuratus, deponit et sequitur.

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the shipp the greene dragin arlate
and saith that for all or most part of the time arlate, the arlate John Bowden was com
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accompted master and Commander of the said shipp with her tackle and furniture. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad secundum tertiu quartu et quintu arlos dicti lili et ad schedulam lilate extempere eius exaiacon
et per eu plect dicit et deponit that hee this deponent did on the behalfe of the
producent mr Margetts deliver at his the said mr Margetts his Rope ground in time house
on the 21th of Aprill 1646 30£ of martine at a per pound, comming to 6s 8d Mate
six hambrough lives at 16d per live 30. ffurther more on the 30th of the same
moneth 1648, halfe a hundred and 8 of Ropes at 35 per C 17s 8d more for
Spanyarne by him delivered the same contayning day weighing three quarterines and l
at 166 per x 13. And againe Maye the 7th 1648, a peece of Rope of five
Rise home, weighing three quarters and 19£ at 30s per 2 17. Mr
23th of the same moneth, Ropes of the best Rise hampe weighing 2 a halfe and 3
at 30 per 17. 5. Item Spanyarne weighing a quarterne 31 at 16s
per of s Item of marrine at is per pound 4, Item a Hambrough
live at 13. Item May 10th 1646 Ropes weighing a halfe and 8 et 250
per 2 Item ⁁ of marrine at 4 per pound 3 8d St June
22th 1648, Ropes of five Rise hempe stowed weighing 3 quarters and 17th at
34 per x 10º 8 Ite July 16th 1648, Boye Ropes, Russe, weighing
3£ a quarterne and 13 at 30 9£ 17s 60. All which said goods are
menconed in the said schedule and the producent George Margetts was owner of them
at the time of such their delivery, and hee saith the same were soe delivered
by this deponent to sewall persons of the company of the said shipp the greeme
Dragon that were sent by the said Bowden taketh the same, the said Boade
having before hand spoken unto him this deponent to deliver the same to his
men as they came for them, and the said goods and merchandizes were delivered
predeposed of were delivered for the use and service of the said shipp the
Greene dragen, This deponent being then (and still) a servant to the said
George Margetts his Rope maker (named Henry Newchurch) and imployed
the said margetts
by him in delivering such goods to the use of shipps, at the instance by such
mast. The premisses hee saith hee the better knoweth, for that upon the
delivery of the said particular parcells of goods and merchandizes to the use of
the said shipp the greene dragon hee this deponent did on the sewall dayes the
same were delivered enter the same in his daye booke, which hee hath very
lately perused and findeth the same entred accordingly, and therefore hee
saith that the said schedule as touching those particulars predeposed of.
true schedule and particular of the said goods soe delivered. Et aliter nescit.
deponere.
the sevall parcells of

Ad sextum articulum dicit et deponit that all the goods wares and merchandizes
predeposed and menconed in the said schedule were at the time of such their
delivery to the use of the said shipp as aforesaid in the iudgement of this deponent
and a common estimation worth the sevall summes of money menconed and
sett downe to and upon the same in the said schedule, and for soe much the same
might then have bin ther otherwise solde, and for soe much the like goods were
then commonly solde. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non exaiatur er

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primum respondet that hee comes by the meanes of the said George Margetts to bee
this rendent
witnes in this cause, wherein hee hath noe interest ut dicit, and saith it will
bee neither benefitt nor preiudice to him this rendent whether mr Margetts pvaile
be overthrowne in this suite, aliter negative, saying hee is noe immediate for the
seere unto Mr Margetts, but is (as hee saith a servant to be his Roye maker

Ad 2uj respondet that the foresaid goods by him deposed of are entred in his the said
Margetts his booke (kept by this examinate) upon the accompt and as delivered of
the said shipp, and not of the said Bowden the master, aliter negative et nescit.

Ad 3uj rendet quod nescit, nor knoweth hee what to beleeve herein ut dicit.

Robert Clerke
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die predict pro Aprilis 1640 Super lilo et schedula in hac caa
dat examinatus.

Batam contra navem the)
greene dragen et Paffeild)
et alis er)

1us

Johannes Coramer famulus et apprenticius William Mayes civis et
Piscarry London, aetatis 21 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac causa
productus et iuratus deponit et sequitur.

4. Et
one Mr Bondon whoe was knowne to this dept by the name

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the time arlate hee well knewe the
of George
arlate John Bowden (since deceased) and saith that for all the said time the said
Bondon was comonly accompted and reputed master or commander of the shipp
the greene dragon arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum tertiu et quartu articulos dicti lili et ad schedulam eadem lilo annex et
tenn
depre did exaiatus et per eum lect dicit et deponit that in the three and
seaventieth daye of June 1646 hee this deponent being apprentice unto the foresaid
and being
William Mayes partner of the said James Barthiam articulate did ⁁ in the shipp of
them the said Bartham and Mayes situate in paine streete London and knowne
the said
then
by the signe of the James head the arlate Mr Bondon master of the
as aforesd.
said shipp the greeme dragon (and knowne to this deponent by the name of
George Bowder) came into their said shipp and spake to mr Barthan the
producent that hee might have to the use of the said shipp the goods menconed
in the schedule articulate, which the said Bartham then grannted that and gave
order to this deponent to deliver them, and accordingly this deponent did then
and there deliver to the use of the said shipp the greene dragon 600 haberdines
at 5£ 15s per by coming to 22£ 10s, which this deponent sent according
to the order and direccons of the said Bowden did send by two watermen
in a boate to be carried on board the said shipp the greene dragen, to whom
hee paid 2s for their fare, and for foure matts alsoe by him delivered
to the same use and for parteridge of their said goods came to 4s Intoto
30£ 10s. And on the same daye the said watermen retourned and brought
said shipp the
word that they had delivered the said goods on board the greene dragon
and brought this deponent a receipt thereof under the Boatswaines hand.
The premisses hee the better remembreth because hee upon such his delivery
of the same goods did enter the same in their daye booke, which hee hath
lately perused and findeth the same to agree with the said schedule, Et
aliter nescit deponere, saving the said Bartham (together with this deponents
said master William Nayes) were accompted owners and proprietors of the
said ship goods at the time of such their delivery

Ad 5 nescit.
hundred

Ad 6 arlum dicit that the said six haberdines at the time of such their
delivery were worth the sume of 22£ 10s, and the foure matts worth
2s 6d xx and for soe much the same might then have bin solde ⁁ brothers
and for soe much the like goods were then commonly solde. Et aliter nescit

Ad 7 nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur.
Super Interryes.
sayd.

Ad primu rendet that hee cometh by the meanes of Mr Barthram to be a
witnes in this cause, wherein hee this rendent hath noe interest ut dicit, and
saith it is and will be all one to him whether Mr Parthrall prevaile or bee
overthrowne in this sute. aliter rendet negative.
Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita rendet that hee was neither present nor sawe the
fish in question delivered on board the said shipp, and saith the same was bushee
by the said Mr Bowden master of the said shipp, and that the same is entred
then
the
in the said Barthaines booke upon the Accompt of George Bowden master
and hee beleeveth the said Barthran expected payment for the same from
said Bowden and not from the shipp./

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad ultimu rendet quod nescit.

John Crower
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Succesimo Aprilis 1650.

Super lilo in hac caa dat examinatus.

Burton which
soe
Robert

1s

Henricus Bodson parochia de Steenheath in Com Midd Nauta ubi habitavit per
14 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 20 annorum aut circiter testis in hac cause product et
iuratus deponit ut sequitur, videlicet.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath understood both from the said
Brookes and alsoe from the said Christofer Malion articulate that the said Brookes did in
in this arle
the moneth articulate borrowe the boate or skiffe menconed ⁁ of him the said Malin. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad 2 articulum dicit that upon the promise and agreement articulate the said Malyon did
with oares
lend unto the said Brookes the said boate or skiffe within the time aforesaid, and
the said Brookes did take upon him the care and charge of the said boate or skiffe
and ownes aforesaid of this deponents knowledge, seeing him use the same. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad 3 articulum deponit that in or about the moneth of March last past, and while the
said boate was in the charge of the said Brookes and before hee had retourned the same
to the said Malin the said boate or skiffe was of this deponents sight and knowledge
fastened to a shipp called the Hopewell, and the said boate laye by her saide
in safetie, and the said shipp the Hopewell did then ride at Anchor in a convenient
place in the river of Thames against Redriffe church, where shipps usually
ride, and was moored with two Anchors, and had ride there in saftie by the
space of a fortnight or thereabouts, which hee this deponent knoweth being xx
then masters mate of the said shipp the Hopewell, and frequently on board her
and thereby seeing the said boate soe fastened to her. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 4 arlum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid namely in or neere about
the moneth of May March last past this deponent being on shore and in the yard
of the said Mayon (being a Carpenter right over against and in the sight of the
said shipp did see the hoye or vessell called the Dublyn paste articulate come upp the
river of Thames about xxx eleaven or twelve of the clocke under saile or
and soe as the master and company of her might plainely have seene the said
and discerned
boate
soe fastened to the side of the said shipp the Hopewell as aforesaid if they had
looked out as they ought to have donne, and might easily have avoyded the said
boate and gone cleare of her, and for smuch as the winde was wasterly they
might easily have gone with the said hoye either a head or a sterne of the said
shipp the Hopewell without dinge or otherwise have gone cleere of her without
giving any damage unto her or unto the said boate soe fastened unto her. The
premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 cu arlum dicit et deponit that notwithstandinge the premisses the said hoye or
vessell called the Dublyn Poste did within the time aforesaid in a most willfull
heedles or careles manner come aboard the middle of the said boate or skiffe
soe lying by the said shipp the Hopewell as aforesaid in safetie, and booke or
splitt the said boate or skiffe and two oares that were in her to peeces, which hee
knoweth being in the said Carpenters yard and seeing the same soe donne, Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 6 arlum dicit that in the iudgment and estimation of him this deponent whoe
hath bin a seaman theise 24 yeares last past or thereabouts) the said boate or skiffe
and her oares left imediately before the breaking or splitting thereof two peeces
by the said hoye were worth the sume of three pounds and tenn shillings sterling
entrie, and the said Robert Brookes hee saith is liable to paye unto the foresaid
Christofer Mayon the valewe of the said boate or stiffe and of her oares, soe splitt
and broken to peeces by the said hoye. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 refert se ad Regeum his Curia, aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu vera.

Henry Dodson
----
Eadem die.

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2us

Robertus John de East Greenwich in Com Cantij Nauta ubi habitant
per 40 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 40 annoru aut circiter testis in
hac ca pductus et juratus deponit et sequitur.

Ad primu et 2uj articulos dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knoweth
the articulate Robert Brookes and Christofer Malyn, and saith that hee this deponent haveing
for a yeere last past or thereabouts belonged into the shipp the Hopewell arlate at And
one of her company well knoweth that the articulate Robert Brokes their boare to
within the time articulate
did or have in certaine boat or seife of the said Mayon a Shipwright
whoe was owner thereof, and to whom hee was goe on board their said shipp, and
then the hee was to restore the same to the said Malyn, and the said Mallyn did
within the time arlate land the said boate or skiffe to the said Brookes with owne
whoe brought the same aboard the said shipp the Hopewell. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 articulum dicit et deponit that after the said Robert Brookes had taken uppon him
the charge of the said boate or skiffe and before hee had restored the same unto the
said Malyn, the said boate or skiffe was within the time articulate xxx xxxx
brought by the said Brookes with the hope of the masters boye of the said shipp
the Hopewell aboard the said shipp and fastened to her, and the same laye
by her side in safetice, And the said shipp the Hopewell did then ride at
Anchor in a convenient place in the River of Thames right against Redriffe
church where shipps usually ride, and was moored with two anchors, and
had redd there in saffecte by the space of a fortnight or thereabouts, which
hee knoweth for that hee was one of her company and was constantly on board
her. Et aliter nescit./
on a day happening

Ad quartum articulum dicit et deponit that in or all neere about the moneth of
March last past the hoye or vessell articulate called the Dublin paste came up the
river of Thames about tenn of the clock in the forenoone under sayle and
her master and company might the plainely have seene and discerned the
said boate soe fastened to the side of the said shipp the Hopewell as aforesaid
if they had bin carefull and had looked out as they ought to have donne, and
might easily have avoyded the said boate and gonne cleere of her, and her
gonne with ease either a head or a sterne of the said shipp the Hopewell
or of either side of her without doinge any damage unto the said shipp or
skiffe, the premisses hee knoweth to bee true ut dicit) because hee was then
on board the said shipp the Hopewell and sawe the said hoye soe under
sayle. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu articulum dicit et deponit that the premisses notwithstanding the said
hore or vessell called the Dublyn Posse did within the time aforesaid in a care
biron
or negligent manner xx corne aboard the middle of the said boate or skiffe
as the same was lying by the said shipp the Hopewell in saftie, and broke to
plitt the said boate and her wares to peeces, this deponent being then and
and
board the said shipp the Hopewell and seeing the same soe donne, his
and
contest Silas Bigge being then alsoe on board and looking over at the same
with this deponent. Et aliter nescit.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that the said boate and her oares immediate
before the breaking or splitting thereof, to peeces by the said hoye as aforesaid
was worth in his this deponents iudgement and estimation and by the skill which
hee hath in such matters (having bin a seaman theise twenty yeares and
upwards) the sume of three pounds and tenn shillings sterlinge, and the
said Robert Brookes hat is liable to paye unto the said Molyin the villa
of the said boate and oares soe broken to peeces or splitt by the said hoye

Ad septium dicit that hee sawe the said hoye arrested at Neworane at the
sute of the said Brookes. Et aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu eo vera.

Signu
Robert
Genn

2
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Eadem die

Super lilo predca examinatus.

3

Rias Rickford de Redriffe in Com Surr Nauta ubi habitavit per
vizt annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 24 annorum aut circiter testis in hac
cause productus et juratus deponit ut sequitur.

Ad primu arlo et secundum arlos dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the articulate
Aatson
Robert Brookes hee the said Robert being of the shipp the Hopewell arlate whereof
wherein this deponent serveth, and alsoe well knoweth the arlate Christofer Mallyn
ut dicit, and saith that in the moneth of March last past the said Brookes
aboard
brought the boate or skiffe arlate their said shipp which hee said hee had borrowed
of the said Malyin or of his the said Maynes man, and that hee was to rescore
the same safe and saith the said Malyn was then commonly accompted
owner of the said boate or skiffe Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that after the said Robert Brookes had the
or
said boate or skiffe under his charge and before hee had retourned or restored
the same unto the said Malo, videlicet in or about the said moneth of March
last past the said boate or skiffe was fastened to the shipp the Hopewell
arlate, and laye by her side in saftie, And the said shipp the Hopewell
then
did ride at Anchor in a convenient place in the river of Thames where
shipps usually ride against Redriffe, and was moored with two anchors,
and had rided there in saftie by the space of tenn dayes or thereabouts.
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent was then on board the said
shipp and sawe the said boate soe fastened to her and lyeinge by her. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartum articulum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid vizt on a
daye happening in or neere about the moneth of March last past the hoye arlate
liver of
called the Dublin Poste came upp turning up the Thames about tenn of the
clocke in the forenoone under sayle, and hee saith that then the master and
company of the said hoye might plainely have seene and discerned the said
boate soe fastened to the side of the said shipp the Hopewell if they had
looked out and as they ought to have donne, and if they had wrought as
they ought to have donne, hee saith they might easily have avoyded the said
boate and gone cleere of her, and might easily have gonne asterne
of the said shipp or gonne such other waye as might well have avoyded
the doinge of any dammage unto the said shipp or to the said stiffe soe
fastened to her. Et The premisses hee knoweth to bee true because hee was
then on board the said shipp and sawe the said hoye soe under sayle, and
sawe that the master and company of the said hoye did not worke her as
they might and ought to have donne, have kept her cleere of their said
shipp and of the said boate. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quentu articulum dicit et deponit that the premisses notwithstandinge the
said hoye or vessell called the Dublin Posse did within the time aforesaid vizt
in a daye happening in or a neere about the said moneth of March last past or
careles and negligent manner come or tonn aboard the middle of the said
as the same was
boate or skiffe ⁁ soe lying by the said shipp the Hopewell in saftie as
aforesaid, and broke or splitt the said skiffe or boate and oares to peeces
which hee knoweth to bee true ut dicit, because hee this deponent was then
on board the said shipp, and sawe the said hoye soe come on board and
litt the said boate and eares to peeces xxx predep Et aliter nescit deponere
saving his contest Robert tenn was then alsoe on board the said shipp and
standing on the said decks.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath used to goe to sea for the space of
theise eleaven yeares last past or thereabouts, and thereby hee saith hee well
knoweth that the said boate and oares immediately before the breaking or splittinge
of them to peeces as aforesaid by the said hoye were worth the sume of three
pounds and tenn shillings sterling. And hee beleeveth the said Brookes must
pay unto the said Mayn the valewe of the said boate and eares soe splitt and broken
peeces by the said hoye. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita sua eo vera.

Solas Rickford
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21º Aprilis 1648.

Super lilo et schedula predca examinatus.

Harton Bowles parochia in Martin Brogate London was
ubi habitavit per trimu ult aut eo circiter etatis 28 annorum
circiter, testis in hac cause productus et iuratus deponit et sequitur

Ad primum articulum nescit, for hee did not knowe the articulate Brander the master of the said
Hartham contra Basteild
et alis

2
Rot.
the greene dragon arlate ut dicit.

Ad secundu 2u et 4uj articulos et ad schedulam lilata et temper eu examinacons of the
did deponit that in the 8th daye of the month of Jane, at hee his deponent
together with one William Topley a waterman were imployed by his contest De
Breamer servant to William Baye, whoe was and is partner of and with the
and foure matt
James Bartham to carry the fish ⁁ menconed in the said schedule aboard the sd
shipp the
dracon articulate, and accordingly hee saith they this deponent and the said Topley
receive
and foure makes schedulated.
did carry the six hundred haberdines and foure matts (who this deponent some
side and foure matte schedulated from the shipp of the said Boath and
into
into
Boyes situate in Thamestreete London (and knowne by the some of the ran
heard) to their boates then lying at Charchard alley stares, and from thence the
carried the same in their said boates through bridge on board the shipp the
Greene dragon articulate then riding at Anchor in the river of Thames and
against Wapping olde stares, and there they delivered the said fish and mate
abord the said shipp the Dracon to Bartholmer of Plunner the Boatswaine
of the whoe upon receipt thereof gave them a note for the receipt of the same
which they brought back to the said Creamer on the same daye, which note hee
hath nowe with him at the time of his examination, and thereby the better
hee saith hee
remembreth
the said premisses and particulars, and saith that hee sawe the said habendinge
be tolde into their said boates and out againe into the shipp and thereby knoweth
that the same were 600 in number, which were brought to their said boates by
parters thereto imployed by the said Creamer, whoe paid this deponent and
1600
his contest two shillings for their said fare. And hee saith the said redeing
and foure matts were the goods of the said Moyes and Bartham and came out
of their shopp in Thamestreete knowne by the signe of the rons head, for this
then
deponent did fetch strannce there to lay under them in their boates to keepe them
cleane and drie, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 5 et 6 nescit, saying hee knoweth not the valew of the said fish

Ad 7 nescit.

Super reliquis non exaiatur.

Super Interryes.

Ad primu respondet that hee cometh to be a witnes in this cause by the meanes of the
the interrogate James Bartham, and saith hee hath noe share or interest therein, and
that it will bee neither benefitt nor preiudice to him whether mr Bartha preve
or be over throwne therein. aliter negative.

Ad 2 rendet that hee was present and sawe all the fish in question delivered in
board the shipp interr ut predeposuit, aliter nescit.

Ad 3 et ult nescit.

Sattenboles
----
2º Aprilis 1648.

Grason contra Haddock

1us

R. 6.

Super allegacone articulate ex parte haddock in hac caa dat examinatus
Daniel Morgan de Wapping in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta, ubi habitavit
per 14 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 29 annorum aut eo circiter
testis in hac caa productus et iuratus deponit et sequitur.

said
Ad secundum articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the
arlate Richard Grazon and soe hath donne for theise three yeares and a halfe or neere
thereabouts and went the voyage in question with him in the shipp the America arlate
this deponent going masters mate that voyage, and by that meanes hee well knoweth
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that during such time as the said shipp the America laye and remained in the porte of Venice
the voyage in question and in other places he the said Garrs contrary to the order and command of the articulate
William Haddock master and commander of the said shipp did goe very often on shore and
there remaine and abide from monday till satterday at night for sevall weekes and
somtimes for a lesse space together, and this deponent conceiveth hee the said Grayson
did there spend much of the said time in drincking and otherwise dely for that hee this deponent
having in that time occasion to goe often on shore hath seene the said Grayson very often in
tavernes in Venice, and somtimes this deponent hath seene the said Grason overtaken
with drincke with drincke there and in that case the said Grayson hath often come on board
of this deponents sight and knowledge. Et aliter nescit deponere salvis subscriptis.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Grayson the voyage in question was behaved himselfe
in a druncken and debauched manner and was often drunck, and would and did often quarrell
with the said mr haddock, and with diverse others of the shipps company, and
by his will language frequently used on board to the company against the master endeavoured
(as this deponents conceiveth to doe disaffect the company towards the master and to
render the master distastefull unto them, which this deponent observed and noted by the said
Grayson the said voyage. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said Grayson the said voyage in question
did xxx sevall times quarrell with this deponent, and callinge him to goe ashore to fight with him

Ad quartum arlum dicit et deponit that at such time as the said Mr Haddoce did enter the
said shipp the America into the service of the State of Venice the voyage in question the said
Richard Grayson amongst the rest of the shipps company did freely and volluntarily give
his consent to serve in the said shipp under the said States, for hee saith that the officers
of the said States coming on board did take the names of such as were willing soe to
serve, together with their complexion colour of haire, and their fathers names, and
having entred the master and his mates and coming to the said Granson, hee freely
owne and his
gave them his age and tolde them his fathers named, and they entred him accordingly
with the colour of his faire, and that this this hee saith was donne by the said
Grason without any forcing or constrayning by the said master that this deponent
knewe of, and without any gaine saying or opposition made by him the said Grayson
at such his entry xxx and giving of his name to the said officers. The prmisses
hee saith hee knoweth to bee true, because hee this deponent as mate and purser
did call the said company by their names and him the said Grayson with the rest
and was present when hee soe freely gave his age and consent to the said officers.
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad sextum articulum dicit et deponit that during the voyage in question and while the said
company of the said shipp the America amongst other Venetiam shipps were in
fight with about 2 70 sayle of Gallies of the Turkes Armade off the Isle
of Jennes, nable man of Vince that was on board them on behalfe of the State
giving amongst the company a quantitie of wine to refresh them, and the said
Grayson taking offence that hee had not a bottle in particular sent unto him, and
deing (as it seemed) that it had bin by this deponents meanes that in hee had it not
hee the said Grayson tooke occasion to quarrell with this deponent, and in an angry
manner told him this deponent (being then one of the masters mates) and swore

Ad one that is this deponent were hurt in the said fight, in stead of
Balsome hee the said Grayson would powre vineger into this deponent wound
to that effect, to which this deponent answering, Mr Grawson doe noe more then
used words
what you have meate, drincke and wages for to doe, and that you shall doe, at which
and the said Grayto being in greate worther sat the up a hand trike and endead
runninge to this deponent endeavoured to strike him therewith, and struck of him
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Richard Grason the voyage in question
hee diverse times and places when the said shipp the Amence came into any porte or
harbour in her homewards voyage (besides what hee hath predeposed touching beinge
of Ligorne, Mallega and Cales did goe on shore at the shipps arrivall in all
or leave
the said ports and places, and there laye deinge without order of the master or
imployment from the shipp him many dayes and nights together and that at sevall times
the said sevall places (but the number of dayes hee remembreth not only hee
remembreth that the most part of the time they laye in any of the said ports with
the said shipp the said Grason would and did lie on shore, and at Venice hee
saith they laye wither the said shipps foure moneth, and at Ligorne about a
moneth, And when they were soe in the porte of beinge they laye at Anchor at
Notamore, and thereabouts, which is in this deponents restimation about six miles from
beinge up and somtimes they rode at Spinion which is about 8 miles thence, soe that
cam times came of the master knewe not where the said Mr Branson was nor whether
to land for him if any occasion should have happened in the shipp to use him, as
and being
this deponent often heard the master & bert aliter nescit deponere saving hee
this deponent being then on board ⁁ tooke the were notice of the said Graysen
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Ad decium et undecium arlos dicit et deponit that the voyage in question divers
shipps company that were sicke and ill complained unto this deponent there and
meerantents
Barson would not admister remeanes into them, whereupon this deponent being and
make and purser admonished the said Granson thereof, and advised him to be more and
carefull of the ptients on board, and others of the said company that wanted at
helpe did in this deponents hearing complaine unto the master of the said Greene
writing are of them, when likewise in his deponents being did hee
said Grason thereof and wished him to take order with them to hely them, yet hee
the said Cason as this deponent offered but regarded at what the said was
said therein, and this much was taken notice of and spoked by most of the said
shipps company. And in particular hee saith that one William Boate
of the said shipps company being very sick on board (of which sicknes hee did hee
did diverse times complaine that the said Chirurgeon Richard Garston
farington would not admister necessanes unto him, and often complayned the
to the purpose to the master in this deponent having, And hee saith that and
such his sicknes the said Burley was faine to send and did send on there or the
for mediaments necessary for him, and sent money of his owne (which hee brough
of the master) and which to buy them. And often times afterwards the said Parling
the
complained both to this deponent and to the master and diverse of the company a
this deponents hearing that the said Grawson did neglect him in such his soe
and shortly before the said Burleys death this deponent heard him contine wth
said complaints of and against the said Chirurgeon. Et aliter nescit
Ad 12 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 13uj arlum dicit et deponit that the voyage in question and during such time as
the said shipp the America was and remained in any porte or harbour, the
master of the said shipp did cause sufficient provision of fresh victualls to bee
brought on board her, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent being Purser
went ashore and by order of the master bought and provided the same, soe the
the said Grason had sufficient thereof allowed him at the masters cable, and
might have taken it at his pleasure, and needed not to have the gonne answere
sufficiently
to have sought after the same, which hee knoweth being alsoe of the same
messe and seeing the said allowance to be very plentifull and good, and
soe that such provision was soe made hee saith was and is well knowne to
the said shipps company. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent by order of the the said master
haddocke by himselfe or others in this deponents presence since the beginning of
the voyage in question at sevall times and payments, and places paid unto the
M
said Grayson for himselfe and his mate the according to the or a greament
for monethly pay made by the said Grayson with the master the sume of equeste
pounds sterlinge, which hee knoweth because hee hath the was present at the
lately seene
payment of most part thereof and hath the receipte for the whole under the said
Graysons hand, and this hee saith was in part of his wages for the voyage in a
question. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15uj arlum dicit et deponit that the voyage in question and while the said
shipp in her homewards voyage was and remayned in the Porte of Mallega, the
oneing
said Barson cominge drunck de on board the said shipp the America, and
being on board, and this deponent coming on the decks unto the Cookeroome which
done to demannd whoe had the watch (the master being then absent) the said Cause
mett him there in the darke, and perceiving that it was this deponent, swore a greate
with and said to this deponent, nowe you villaine, I can bee revenged of you of
to that effect and therewithall hee the said Grason listed upp his hand with an
therein at his deponent perceived in the steering thereof)
stilletts or some other short naked weapon and offered therewith to staves this er
strike this deponent, and had (as hee beleeveth) stabbed or wounded him thereof
if this deponent had not stopt in unto him and taken hold of his hand and the
said weapon together and thereby prevented him, and in soe doing this deponent
cutt his owne hand with the said weapon, Et aliter nescit deponere.
pours
Super reliquis non exaiatur ex direccone producents

Super Interrys

Ad primu rendet that in respect of the truth hee favoureth the parties and ffereth
in this sute, and accordingly to truth hee would give the victory therein
if it were in his power, and saith that about six yeeres since hee this deponent
a
was servant and apprentice to the said haddock, and saith hee is nowe of true by
him by marrying the said Haddoce fesser, vizt his brother in lawe
Mr Ret

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rendet
Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was sevall times sicke and
the said interr Thomas Morgan was once at least sick during the said voyage, but howe
often the said Thomas was sick hee remembreth not, and for his this deponents owne part hee
saith hee was sick about foure times during the said voyage in the space of about three
moneths, at which times the said Gayson was carefull of this deponent, and did his duty
in his place towards him for his cure and recovery by posick, bleeding and other
under
mediaments necessary for him, (as farr as this deponent is able to ridge) and did lett
and soe hee beleeveth hee did towards the said Thomas Morgan. Et aliter nescit salvis
predepoits.

Ad tertiu interr rendet quod nescit, saving hee remembreth in genall the some one
of the company hath bin hurt when the said Grayson hath bin on shore and layne on shore
and that they have bin fame to get the Chirurgeon of another shipp to help him, when
the said Grason hath afterwards thensed for doing that office in his absence, but
the name of the partie or place hee remembreth not at present ut dicit.
Ad quartu rendet that both hee hee this deponent and alsoe the said Greyson and
all the rest of the said shipps company were hired to serve the said mr haddock
in the shipp America in all lawfull voyage or voyages within or without the
streights of Gibralter, and thereto hee this rendent and the said Graison with
at noe hand
the rest have sett their hands, and saith that ⁁ before the departure of the said
shipp from England, nor at the time of hiring this deponent, the said haddock
did not tell or acquaint this deponent that hee intended to goe goe on a man
of warr voyage, or to serve on any forraigne prince, state or Republique
in any warrick service or imployment, what hee told others of the company
this rendent knoweth not ut dicit. aliter nescit.

Ad quartu quintu rendet that the voyage in question the said William Haddock
did lett out his said shipp to serve the state or Republique of Venice in a
man of warr voyage, and to transport souldiers for Candy for the securitie
of the garrisons there, aliter nescit.

Ad sextum Interr rendet that the said haddocke the voyage in question tooke aboard his shipp
And the Porte Spenion (being a parte neere Vince) diverse soldiers (but the number thereof
of them hee remembreth not) to transporte for Candy, which souldiers continewed aboard
about 10 dayes and were then the most part of them were delivered at Suda in
Candy, and the rest (but the number of them hee remembreth not) continewed aboard about
20 moneths, and saith that more of the company were sicke while the said souldiers were
or after they were dutcharged
and continewed aboard then at any other time before they were taken aboard ⁁ which hee
conceiveth was rather through the intemperatenes of the are in those parts then by
meanes of the said souldiers being on board, Et aliter nescit

Ad septium interr rendet that by reason of the sicknes of such of the company as soe fell
lake as aforesaid while the said souldiers were on board hee beleeveth that the said
Barson was at move and spent more mediaments and tooke more paines in leaking
to the said patients then at other times when they were not sicke. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 8uj nescit.

Ad ultimum rendet that while they were in the service of the State of beinge some of their
leete meate which they killed and salted in hott weather was not somtimes soe savein,
by reason it would not see well take salte through the heate of the weather, but still they
upon the least complaint of the company supplied it with fresh meate in any porte
were they came, and could gett for money and the bread was somtimes perished
the still alsoe supplied with fresh bread, and one in the Anchors for about a
fortnights space they were forced to drincke water, but hee doth not beleeve or dicit)
that the said Garsen was any wayes necessitated thereby to goe on shore either at
beinge or any other this porte offer then otherwise hee would have donne, Et aliter
nescit.

Daniel Allegan
----
Vicesina secundo Aprilis 1648.

Super allene predca examinatus.

3us

Thomas Morgan famulus et apprenticius William haddocke partis producents
aetatis 21 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus.

Ad secondum octavu et duodecium articulos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this depon
hee he knoweth the articulate Richard Garson, and saith hee this deponent went the voyage
in question in the shipp the America with him the said Grarson and by that meanes sawe
and tooke notice that the said Grason contrary to the duty of his place did often beare the
bucke and neglect his place and imployment on board the said shipp and went on shore in diverse ports
and places, and there spent his time dely in drincking, for this deponent hath often
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in such places the said Barson Duncke or much over hee over taken with drincking
at other times the said Barson hath come aboard in that case of this deponents sight and
saith it was the practice and custome of the said Granson both at Venice and when the said
shipp the voyage in question in her homewards bound voyage came to other ports and
places as Ligorne, Allegant Mallega and Cadiz, to goe from time to time arte and
at the shipps reall all the said out and peaces, and there to be deliveth
drincking diverse dayes and nights together, and somtimes (namely at Venice, save
eight miles from the said shipp, neglecting his said place and imployment, which be and
hee said of the said Grasons was soe frequent, that this deponent tooke particular and
thereof in writing, and having nowe perused his mate, hee saith hee findeth and knoweth
that while the said shipp was and remained in the porte of Venice the voyage & were
and plemen then he said Cason and corne in hee
by dayes and mights, continewing soe on shore sometimes a fortnight or three weekes togated
and same times lesse, and in the said shipps homewards voyage at Ligorne at sea
times while the said shipp was and staid in that parte hee baye and staid or shore
xij dayes and nights. At Allegant two dayes and nights at Mallega six dayes and
nights, and at Cadiz eighteene or twenty dayes at sevall times, amounting
all to foure monethes and odd dayes. And indeede hee saith the said Grasson was
saving the time the said shipp was in the service of the bene and
from time to time more ashore then on board, especially at beinge where hee
spent most of the time on shoare that the said shipp continewed there, and this hee
this by him this deponent noted, were when the said Grayson had noe command
order or imployment to goe on shore for the occasion or service of the said master of
shipp or company that this deponent could understood understand. Et aliter nescit.
deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Richard Grarson the voyage in question
was a druncken and debancked man, and one that was much given to quarrell and did
often quarrell with the said Mr Haddock and diverse others of the company of the
said shipp, and in such quarrells hee somtimes wised mutinies in the shipp, and
disbursed diverse of the company in their service in their respective places in the said
notice
in question
shipp, and soe much was taken of by this deponent the voyage, and soe much was divers
times noted and spoken of by others of the said company in the hearing of this deponent
Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartum arlum dicit et deponit that at such time as the said Mr Haddoct the master
entred the said
of the said shipp the America ⁁ into the service of the State of Prince, the States
officers came on board to master and enter the men that were willing to serve therein
and then hee saith the said Grason amongst the rest did freely give them his name
to be soe entred, without any opposicon or contradiction thereto at that time, and that
without any forcing or constraininge of him thereto by the said mr haddock, which this dept
knoweth being present and seeing and noting the same. aliter nescit.
company of the

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that during the voyage in question, and while the
ready to
said shipp the America with diverse Venetiam shipps were of fight with about
30 sayle of Gallies of the Turkes Armade off the Isle of Linnes articulate, hee
the said Grayson in this deponents presence and hearing usinge diverse distassefull words
to the arlate Daniel Morgan one of the said mr haddocks mates, said unto him, that
if hee (speaking to and meanning the said Morgan) were part or wounded in the fight, hee the
said Grazon) would power viniger into his wounds in stead of bale, or to that effect, and
but with hee quarrelled with and struck the at the said Margan, This deponent being
present and hearing and seeing the premisses. Et aliter nescit.
et undecium

Ad decium articulum dicit et deponit that the arlate William Burley one of the said shipps
company the voyage in question died in the said shipp the America, and the said Burley
offentines in his sicknes given to the time of his death complayned to the master and others
of the company of the said Richard Grason the Chirurgeon for his neglect and want of
care towards him. And in the tyme of such his sicknes the said Burley was forced to
send
send and did on shore for some mediaments that were to bee used about him, and was fore
to send to buy them with his owne money. Et aliter nescit, saving hee knoweth the premisses
to bee true, because hee was present and sawe and heard the same.
&

Ad decium tertiu articulum dicit et deponit that the voyage in question during such time as
he said shipp the America was and remained in any porte or harbour, the said Mr
did cause sufficient provision of fresh victualls to be brought on board her when there were
and that hee could gett if
any want thereof especially for his owne cable where the said Grayson was to bee
in commons and had his allowance when hee pleased to come, and there hee might for
had sufficient fresh victualls, and needed not to have gonne on shore to have sought after the
same, And soe much hee saith was and is well knowne to this deponent and the rest
the company. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14 articulum nescit deponere.

Ad 15uj nescit.

Sup reliquis non examinatur ex direccone et

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Ad Interrogatoria.

neither

Ad primu rendet that hee favoureth not any of the parties more then the other in this
cause, and touching the victory hee saith hee desireth that right may take place, and according
to right hee saith hee would give it if it were in his power, and saith hee is howshold servant
to the partie producent being his apprentice, but of noe kinne to him, other then by this rendents
brother his marrying the said haddocke after

Ad secundu rendet quod refert se ad predepoita, and saith that hee this deponent respondent
was twice sicke during the said voyage, and the said Daniel Morgan was diverse times sicke
during the same (but howe often hee remembreth not) And saith that for his owne part the said
Grayson was very carefull of him, and did (as hee beleeveth) his best endeavour for his
care and recovery by price bleeding and other mediaments, such as hee conceiveth were
the remeding of
proper for his disease. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu nescit.

Ad quartu rendet that this rendent being then the said Mr haddocks apprentice was not by him
hired at all for the said voyage, nor made acquainted with his designe therein other them
that they were to goe for beinge, nor that they were to goe on a man of warr voyage as is
interr, Et aliter nescit nec audivit.
Ad quintu rendet that the said haddocke the voyage in question did lett out his said shipp to
serve the State or Republique of Venice in a man of warr voyage and to carry souldiers for
them to fight against the Turkes. Et aliter nescit nec audivit.
Ad 6uj rendet that the said haddock the voyage in question tooke aboard his shipp in the
question or in the Porte of Venice a hundred souldiers and upwards (but howe
many above a hundred hee knoweth not) about 70 whereof hee saith continewed on board
about 30 moneths and while the said souldiers be continewed aboard hee saith that diverse
of the said shipp
of the company were sick and diseased, and moore of them soe sicke that while then
the said souldiers
at any other time before they were taken on board or after the shipp was discharged of
them. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 nescit./

Ad 8 nescit.

Ad ultimu rendet that while they were soe in service of the venitions, the weather being
for time very hott, the meate on board xxx in that it would not then soe well take salt as at
other times of golder weather was somtimes unsavoury, and the beefe did then small a little
unsavourily, and some of the fish and bread was badd, and some of the bread were enter
which they were forced to eate for the space of weeke or thereabouts till they could gett better,
and then they did, and for that time the Company were forced to dringe water, but hee
saith the said Grason being provided for or the masters cable, hee doth not beleeve that
hee went on shore either at Venice or any other place the said voyage after then otherwise
hee would have donne through any fault in the said provisions, or to gett fresh victualls
Et aliter nescit./

Thomas Morgand

Vicesimo quarto Aprilis 1643

Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

Sally contra though

2

Ad

Willimus Bowere famulus et apprenticius Johannes Relfe parochia Sancti Michaelis
Cornehill London Scriptors, cus sic stetit apprenticius per annos ult aut
circiter, etatis 25 annorum aut circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus
deponit ut sequitur, videlicet.

Ad primu articulum dicti lili et ad quartum schedulam endam lilo annex et tempe eu examinacons
ostenss et per eum parlect dicit et deponit that on or about the day of the date of the
said schedule being the first day of October 1646) hee this deponent was present
in his said masters mr Rose his shopp in Cornehill London and did then and there soe
the articulate William Jones sonne seale and for his act and deed deliver the said
schedule or bill of sale, and as a witnes thereof hee this deponent together with
his fellowe apprentice Thomas heathe did then and there sett their names thereto
in the backe side thereof as nowe appeareth, and this deponent acknowledgeth his
a name thereto to be by him ren and there written the time and place
aforesaid with his owne hand. And hee saith the said schedule is the true and
ginall bill of sale soe made by the said James to the said Smalley for the eighth part
of the said shipp the ffortune als the Mary and John and of her tackle and furnitur
and the contents thereof were and are true, and soe had and donne the time & place
aforesaid as therein is contayned. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Wh Bowen
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27º Aprilis 1648

Salley contra Hough
1us
hough

Super allegacone arlate ex parte Maria dat ease time
Pasch 1648 dat examinatus.

Richardus Surrett de Lepton paroa de reson in Com Castria Nauta, ubi habitant
per 40 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 44 annoru aut circiter, testis in hac
pduct et exaiat deponit et sequitur.

Ad
Ad primu articulum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knoweth the ve
the ffortune of Chester articulate and soe hath donne for the ever since the building of his
saith that about nine yeares since (and within the time articulate) the said shipp was buildeing
the Porte of Chester in a certaine place under the wast bucks in the said parish of and
and the said producent John Hough caused her to be built, and bought and proved hee
the timber and other necessaries for the building thereof and hired worke
shipp wrights to builde the same at his owne proper costs and charges, All which hee saith
hee knoweth to bee true, because hee this deponent the place where the said shipp was soe
but is within a quarter of a mile from this deponents then dwelling house, and the
sawe
said
then
deponent was very frequently amongst the ⁁ workemen, and seeing the said worke goe and
same
and seeing the said John Hough frequently there, and going to and fro with his port
hee was
fetch neces tymber and other necessaries, and being by the workemen from time the
owner
called their order, and said and acknowledged by all to be the one master, and said
bin
six
that was master of the said worke and to be owner of the said shipp, and hee that hee
and paid for all necessaries and worke man shipp thereto, and to have built the said shipp
at his owne charges. Et aliter nescit.
Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the ffortune of Chester having bin
about foure yeares since taken as shee was going for Ireland, and brought up to London and
said
where (as this deponent hath heard) and having bin in the hands or under the command of one
Salley, came about a yeere since to Liverpoole in Lancashire, and there the said Hough
getting her againe into his possession, desired this deponent to goe alonge with him thither
in the said Porte of Chester
to helpe to bringe her about to the Marke stile, which deponent accordingly, did and
by her would fastion & by many signed other taken and marked
there found and sawe ⁁ that it was the same shipp that was soe built by the said Hough
and whereof hee hath predeposed, but that shee hath bin called the Mary and for
an or by whom shee hath bin soe named or called hee saith hee knoweth not. Et al
nescit deponere.
depre. Ad ult dicit predepoita eo vera.

Super Interries.

Ad primu rendet quod venit ready producen ad testificand in hac caa, favet et daret victorio
ius habenti s in sua et plate, aliter negative.

Ad 3 rendet that hee hath had some conference with the producent about this busines, but it
by waye of any instructions what hee should saye, aliter rendet negative ad singula.
Ad 3 negative.

Ad 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. et 10 nescit.

Saied
Signum dci
Richard
Turner
Rp
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46

2º Aprilis 1648

Super lilo et sched examinatus./

Smally contra Hough
2dus
de

Stephanus Thompson parochia sancti Leonard Shorditch London Mercator
ubi habitavit for quinque menses aut circiter inter apud Wappinge in
Comitatu Middlesex per annos aut circiter etatis 31 annoru aut circiter testis
in hac cause productus et juratus.

Ad sextum articulum dicti lili et ad schedulam secundum in eadem arle menconat et tempare
as examinacons ostenss dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the articulate James
Smalley and John White, and saith the said schedule is the true and originall bill
of sale for the seaven eight parts of the shipp arlate gold soe solde as therein is
contayned unto the articulate James Galley by the said John White. And hee
he saith that on the day of the date of the said bill videlicet on the 21th day of
July in the 22th 8 yeere of the raigne of the King Majestie that nowe is hee this deponent
was present in a house in Redriffe (knowne to this deponents xx the
dwellim
signe of the shipp han and being the house of the said Johiles father and had
Thomas Maydon) and did there soe the arlate John White signe, seale and for
his acte and deed deliver unto the said James Smally the said schedule or
bill of sale, which donne hee this deponent as a witnes thereof did with his
contest Leonard Guy sett his name or the back thereof at wines, together allsoe
with ffrancis Newton and Richard Martyn there named, And this deponent having
nowe seene his name on the back of the said schedule or bill, acknowledgeth the
same to be his owne hand writing and to bee written the time and place aforesaid
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the contents of the said schedule were and
are true, and were then soe had and donne as therein is contayned.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone et./

Stephen Thompson
----
29o Aprilis 1648./

Rarrier et de Vishey)
bonis so in nave the Saint)
Jacob)

2s Pd

Petrus Row parochia Sta Catherina Crechurch London
generosus annos agens 34 aut eo circiter testis hee

xxx
came a
Ad 1u 2u et reliquos articulos alluis ex parte Sariner et de Hopher
in hac parte dat et oblat dicit et deponit, That in any last
hee this examte was imployed by Mr Abraham de ther
and others of London Merchants, and went downe into Et
with a Comission of inquiry from this Court wherein hee
himselfe amongst others was named a Comissioner to inquire
for the shipp the Saint Jacobs of Danske (whereof Jacob Lawrence
to Mr, & the goods in her stranded uppon the Whitt the in
T
the coast of Esse and the said Wither gave him
perticuler direccon putting severall to enquire for
he said
wth his place
in the to him seised the
were use the
when it
his in the that mission
paine in her
one Mr and hee
because he the take the sd
the tenth
were then at
the is use the arte and
the being as are
the lesse, And there upon
Dr Rowe/
et aliter nescit./
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Quarto Maij 1648.

Super alle arlate ex parte Johnson et Bours dat examinatus.

Jacob ffell de Crem in Regno Dania Nauta, etatis 50 annoru aut circiter
testis in hac caa productus et iuratus deponit ut sequitur vizt.

Q: reason Johnson et Andrea
Peterson Boares pro nave
the Prince Christian &

1us

R.

Ad primu articulum dicit et deponit that for diverse yeares last past hee this deponent
hath well knowne the arlate Enousand Johnson whoe dwelleth in Copenhaven in the
kingdome of Denmarke, and the arlate Andrew Peterson Bars, and saith that
for all the time arlate they the said Bussias Johnson and Andrew Peterson Bours
have bin and are commonly accompted and reputed Proprietors and owners of the
shipp the Prince Christian arlate, but of what particular part or parts each
of them is owner, hee saith hee knoweth not nor hath heard. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 et 3 articulos dicit et deponit that within the time articulate and while the said shipp
the Prince Christian was and remained at Rosse in the river of Waterford in Ireland
there were diverse goods laden on on board her by Lewes de Crosse brother of the
articulate Emaniel de Crosse to be thence transported to Middleborowe arlate, but
the quantitie thereof or on whose accompt they were laden hee saith hee knoweth
not, neither doth hee as hee saith remember what goods they were. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate videlicet on or neere
about the first of March last past the arlate shipp the Prince Christian in
her course from the river of waterford aforesaid towards Middleborough
was mett with, surprized and taken by the articulate Captaine Jourdaine and
Company on board the shipp the Expedition (as this deponent hath heard her
named) and by them brought into Bristoll, where (as hee beleeveth) shee
nowe remaineth. The premisses hee saith hee knoweth to bee true because
hee this deponent was on board the said shipp the Prince Christian at the time
shee was soe taken by the said Captaine Jourdaine and company, and when
shee was brought into the river of Bristoll aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent in the towne of Rosse before
the said shipp the Prince Christian sett sayle from thence for Middleborowe
did heare the copie of the Charter partie read over, by which hee saith hee
That as
remembreth) that the freight due unto the articulate asmus Johnson and Andrew
Peterson Boures for the goods taken in the said shipp by the said Captaine Jourdaine
a
thereabouts
and Company amounted unto the summe of 40£ Reex dollers of his depont
had contracted to pay And this deponent for his part had agreed to bee stowe
upon the said shipper Andrew Peterson Boures, 56 guldens for the fraight of
his this deponents goods laden on board the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 articulum dicit that there were on board the said shipp the Prince Christion at
the time of her taking as aforesaid diverse victualls and provisions belonging to
the owners of her, but the worth thereof hee knoweth not. aliter nescit.

Ad 7 articulum dicit et deponit that the articulate Easmus Johnson and Andrew Peterson
wors were and are subiects of the Kinge of Denmarke, and saith they both
inhabiting and having their families in Copen haven aforesaid of this deponents
knowledge. And saith that at the time of the surprizall of the said shipp
and before and since there hath bin and still is peace, legue and amitie betweene
the Kinge of England and the Kinge of Denmarke and their respective subiects

Et aliter nescit.

Ad 8 nescit.

Ad Interrogatoria.

a dt

Ad primu respondet that hee was of the company of the shipp the Prince Christian interrte
and was taken on board her at Rosse to goe thence masters mate in her to Middleborowe,
And saith some of the goods in the said shipp at her taking aforesaid belonged to one any
dischare a Merchant of Rosse, and some to one Mr Bull and some to mr de
Crosse merchants in Middleborowe as this de rendent hath heard, and some part
thereof
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thereof videlicet hee sale had, and seaven barrells of parte and free and
butter belonged into him this depon respecient, and were bought with his or
. And saith when the said shipp was taken shee came from de
Ireland, which was then in hostilitie against the Parliament of England
at hee there beford, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoitis adines scit.
Ad secundu arlum Interr rendet that the examinacon or deposicon to the his
(which hath bin nowe showne unto him this dept respondent) was signed and said
with the proper hand of Andrew Peterson Barr the master interrogated
which hee knoweth being present and seeing him soe subscribe the same
before mr Mayor of Bristoll. Et aliter nescit deponere, salvis predepose

Jacob fett

bas Brandt

Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Luderius de Leete de Trevice in Zealandia Nauta, Viccars
30 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et examinat.
deponit ut sequitur vizt.

2

Rp. EA.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowne
the arlate Andrew Peter son Bours for theise six monethes last past or thereabouts
and saith hee x was and is commonly accompted and reputed part owner of
quarder
the said shipp the Prince Christian arlate vizt of a shoth part thereof and
hee hath often heard that a merchant of Copenhaven is owner of the other
three quarter parts of her with her tackle and furniture, but his name
hee knoweth not ut dicit. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundu et tertiu arlos dicit et deponit that within the time arlate vizt
the said shipp the Prince Christian was and remained xxx at Trevire
neere unto the Porte of Middleborowe, and whilest hee soe remained there
one Januel de Crosse an Inhabitant of Middleborowe did freight and hire
the said shipp for a voyage to bee thence made with her to the River of waterford
there in Ireland there to take in such goods as should be there laden on board
her by the said Saniel de Crosse or his assignes, and from thence to returne
with the same to Middleborowe, which hee knoweth being present and
made acquainted with the said contract, and being Steersman of the said
shipp the Prince Christian. And hee saith that the said shipp being soe
taken to freight, did in or neere about the moneth of January last past
towards
departe and sett saile from Trevice aforesaid to Rosse in the River of water as
aforesaid and there arrived in or about the said moneth, and there hee saith
the agent or factor of the said Smanuel de Crosse did lade diverse goods on
Saman
board her as wooll, hides, sailin and tallowe with some other goods, which hee
knoweth because hee this deponent as Steersman received the same on board and
entred the same in his booke, and with the said goods and others the said shipp
departed againe to retourne thence for Middleborowe arlate, aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that in or neere about the beginning of the moneth
of March last past the said shipp the Prince Christian in her course from
the River of Waterford towards Middleborough was in the night time cutt and
with surprized and taken by the arlate Captaine Jourdaine and company (on
board the Expedition) and by them carried to Milford haven (where this dept
and five more of his company were by them putt on shore, and from thence shee
was carried to Bristoll as hee hath heard. The premisses hee deposeth
being on board when the said shipp the Prince Christian was soe taken Et aliter nescit

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the freight due by Charter partie was
the arlate Andrew Peterson Bours and his other owner for the goods taken in the
said shipp the Prince Christian by the said Captaine Jourdaine and company
extended and amounted unto six hundred and sixtie or seaven hundred and sixt
Reex dollers or thereabouts as hee remembreth, hee having seene and read the said
Charter partie, Et aliter nescit.

Ad
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Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that there were on board the said shipp the Prince
Christian at the time of such her surprizing by the said Captaine Jourdaine and
Company diverse victualls and provisions belonging to the owners of her, Et aliter
nescit, saving there was good store of the same./

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate Andrew Peterson Bourt and by
hee hath heard) his other owner were and are at the time of surprizing the said
shipp by the said Captaine Jourdaine and Company and before and xxxxx are subiects
of the kinge of Denmarke arlate, and have their families there. And saith that as hee
was informed, there was then and is peace and amitie betweene the Kinge of England
and the Kinge of Denmarke and their respective subiects. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee was masters mate of the said shipp the Prince Christian
at the time of such her taking as aforesaid by the said Captaine Jourdaine and
company, And saith the goods on board her belonged some to one Mr Dela
Cape a Merchant of Rosse aforesaid, and some to certaine Merchants of
Middleborowe, and some to one Jacob fetch, And the said shipp hee saith
came then from Rosse in Ireland, which was in hostilitie against the Parliament
of England

Ad secundu Interr et ad seperates schedulas annex et ostenss dicit quod nescit
respendere, salvis predepoits suis ad p qua se refert.
his pte

That Gurning

6º Maij 1643. Super lilo predca examinatus.

6º Maij 1643. Super lilo predca examinatus.

Andreas Avery parochia de Stepney in Com Midd waterman, etatis
34 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.
Crossly contra Andrewes

1us

Clarke

pap

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate Henry
Cost, and Mathew Crosse, and soe hath donne for theise twenty yeere last past
hee dwelt neere them in the parish of Stepney for the most part of that time, and
saith they were for all the time arlate and before and still are fishermen, and such
as have authoritie to fish at sea and in in any rivers within the where the sea ells
and flowes within the Jurison of the high Court of the Admiraltie of England
and for all the said time of such this deponents knowledge of them they have exerised
the said trade or calling of fishermen of this deponents knowledge, And for
free fishermen within the places aforesaid they have bin for all the time arlate and
are commonly accompted and reputed.

Ad secundu et 3uj arlos dicit et deponit that on a day happening in or neere about the
Mather
moneth of August last past, the arlate the Caske with his wife and mother were
and
of worke and following their trade and calling of fishing in the river of Thames
boate
neere Blackwall in a fishing, and was moored and rode at anchor at a place neere
the shore, free from the birth of the shipp the Loyaltie als the Lioneste arlate, and
were it was lawfull for them to fish, and hire ride in saftie by the space of
lilate
halfe an houre or more before the astant or abuse ⁁ arlate of this deponents sight and
knowledge, a and the said shipp rode likewise at anchor neere the same place by the
like space, without doeinge or receiveing any hurt or dammage to or from the said boate
& company, And hee saith that after the premisses on the same day (whiles the said
were in their
Mathew Cresey with his wife and mother was in the said fishing boate riding at
livery in the place aforesaid, and were quietly and peaceably following their fishing
make) some of the company of the said shipp laid out an anchor and a halser
thwart the said fishing boate (notwithstanding that the said Mathew did gave them
warning to the contrary) whereby they not only hindred and disturbed their fishing
but endangered the overthrowing the said boate and all that were in her and to spoyle
them
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ther netts, whereupon the said Mathew Castly called fortunes to the Companye
said shipp the Royaltie als the Lonesse to remove their said anchor and to cleer
their said hiller of him or from his said boate, and that tolde them that if the sd
not soe doe, hee the said Mathew to preserve his owne said boate and his and
together with the lives of his wife and mother must and should beforced to cutt hee
said Haller, or hee used words to that effect, and the company of the said shipp
well heard what hee soe said for some of their lade him depose of hee said
to that effect, The premisses hee deposeth being present on the shee was
said boate and seeing and hearinge what hee hath soe deposed of. Et aliter nescit sed
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that if the said halver had not bin soe cutt of the
have
would in likelyhood have overturned the said boate, and ⁁ endangered the lives of the said
persons therein, This hee saith hee knoweth, for that hee is a waterman and knoweth
the danger of a hall her soe lying athwart a boate.

Ad 5 arlum dicit et deponit that the time and place aforesaid and when the said Mater
Cresey called to and desired the said shipps company to the effect arlate, the winde and
weather was faire and calme, and the company of the said shipp might very well
and without any prejudice to the said shipp or her lading have removed their said
anchor and cleered their halter from the said boate, if they had pleased of this
deponents knowledge.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that after the said xxx halser or cable was att
and
for the preservation of the said boate of the lives of those we that were in her, the
& place
company of the said shipp the day aforesaid manned out their boate, and about
light of them came therewith to the said side of the said Crossies boate, and
and sealed the said Nathand.
by force halled him the said Mather out of his said boate into theirs by force and
used much violence towards him, and soe halled him to the side of their said shipp
and fastened a rope about his middle and endeavoured to dregge and hale him into
their shipp to the greate abuse, hurt and wronging of him the said Mather Crossy
The premisses hee knoweth being present as before on the shore and seeing and suffering
the same. Et aliter nescit.
et 9
Ad 7 nescit salvis predepoits.

Signum

Andrew
Avery

2

Eadem die. Super lilo pred exaiata.

Armes Harlinge wer Robert pastinge de Popler paroa de Stepney
Nauta, etatis 26 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa etiam product et
examinata.

4

purp

Ad 7. 8. et 9 arlos dicit et deponit that shee well knoweth the arlate Mathew Costly
and soe hath donne for theise 14 yeares last past and well knew his wife in her
past was
on a day
life time, and saith that ⁁ in the summer time last Goodwife Crostre mother of the
said Mathew came to this deponents dwelling house in Copler, and saying to this
deponent tolde her that hee sonne and his wife and shee had then newly before bin
in greate danger of drowning by meanes of a halser of a shipp that was land athwart
their fishing boate, and tolde her alsoe that the company of the said shipp had beate
and abused her said sonne and freighted his wife, whom the said Goodwife Costly
then brought with her, lading her alonge by the hand, and desired this deponent
to suffer her said sonne and daughter to lie for a time at her this deponents house
untill her said some were recovered of his hurt received from the said company, and
his wife of her knight and sicknes occasioned by meanes thereof, which this deponent
yeelding to doe, the said Mathew came the same day to her said house beised, went
and sicke soe, that hee was forced for some time to keepe his fedd, and was soe
himselfe
fore that hee could hardly worke at all to provide for his wife and his wife then
livelied, and at the same time his said wife was with hide and soe sicke with
the said fright that shee miscarried of childe shortly after, and died thereof the
deponent beleeveth) and in her said sicknes shee was not able to worke or goe to
markett to sell her fish for a greate space. But what shipp it was that they were
soe hurt and freighted by shee this deponent saith hee knoweth not, but this deponent
hath often heard it was a shipp of which one Captaine Brookehaven was part owner
and of which hee had bin somtime master. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur.

Signu

de Eagle

et
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50

8o Maij 1648.

Prefatus ffranciscus Nevill alls super allewe ex parte Budard, et am super
rendet
Interries examinat deponit et sequitur.

B Budarder ad p nave
Peter et X bounde in eadem
Hope Coppin capt.

Rowe dt.

Ad primu respondet that it was about the beginning of the moneth of March last past that hee
this rendent spake with the Interr Captaine Ramborowe at Deale Castle concerning the matters
Colonell
interr, and on the next day after hee had soe spoken with the said Colonell, hee spake with the interrte
Captaine Coppyn at his owne house in deale and againe on the day after being monday hee spake
the said Coppin
to him againe at the said castle to the same effect, but whoe was present at such sevall
conferences hee knoweth besides the said Captaine Colonell Raisborowe and Captaine
Copper and this rendent hee remembreth not, for that such other persons as were
resent were strangers unto this rendent. And saith the producent Colard Budard
hired and paid this rendent for his courney interrogate, and that hee hath received
all that was promised him for the said cornely, and is xxxxx not to receive any
more for the same at the end of this sute or otherwise, Neither is hee nor doth hee
expect to receive more or to be paid any more though Gentence should be given in
this suite on the behalfe of the said Budard

Ad secundu respondet that hee this respondent was not acquainted with the producent
bard Budard till after this sute was begin, and saith that afterwards this respondent
growing acquainted with him, the said Budard and alsoe his proctor Mr Tucklin
desired him this respondent to interprett betweene them because this respondent
could speake dutch and the said Budard could not speake English soe as to bee
without difficultie
understood, and further hee saith that in respect of such the said Budards
at somtimes directed him according to his pretendrice
defect of speaking English, hee this respondent hath ⁁ at his instance and
hee hath spoken
request gonne and speake spoken with diverse persons and diverse times ⁁ with
his proctor on his the said Budards behalfe in this cause, for which his paines
the said Budard hath paid him from time to time. Et aliter rendet negative.

Ad 3 rendet negative ad singula.
foram Merill

8º Maij 1648.

Super allegacone arlate ex parte Powell et alioru dat
examinat.

Petrus Wilbury de Redriffe in Com Midd Surria Nauta ubi
habitavit per quenses ult aut eo circiter, etatis 50 annoru aut
negative.
circiter, testis in hee ⁁ a productus et juratus deponit et sequitur
Negotiu examinacons testiu ad perpetuam rei
menconed ex parte Thomas ffowell, Robert
Charrye or proprietariors navis the
John and Ambrose contra Stanley

1us

vizt

Ad quintu arlum dicit that there was some distresse or treate at Newfoundland betweene
her master Robert Charon and Dayes Bundly and of the arlate William Hanly to
hee effect arlate, but hee knoweth not of any conclusion or agreement thereupon, or of any
order given by the said Factor to the master and Company to goe and saile to another
parte or place as is arlate. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu et sextum et 7 arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that after such time as the
factor of the arlate William Stanley had laden and put on board the said shipp the John
and Anthose arlate at a porte called St Jones in Newfoundland certaine ffish
and oyle, hee ordered the said factor (named Daniel Bradley) ordered their master
Robert Church and company to goe or saile to fformose another porte in the said
Newfoundland, where hee said they should take in more lading as hee said, which this
deponent knoweth being present and hearing the said 9 order given, and hee saith that
the said master and company departing accordingly with the said shipp from St James
they sett saile for fformase aforesaid on the 7th day of August 1647 and on
at night
serve
by the reventh
hee eveth day of the same moneth the said shipp in her said course met with
one very greate or hee storme, which was bee violent that hee saith the same endangers
the sinckinge of the said shipp and goods and perishing of the lives of the men on board,
in somuch that the said shipps company expected every monent when the said shipp
and goods should have bin lost and perished in the sea by reason of the said storme
And hee saith that the said master and company the finding that they with the
said shipp and goods on bord were in greate and iinent danger to be cast away
all
through the violence of the said storme, and finding and perceiving that in likelied
there was not possibilitie to preserve their owne lives nor to keepe the said shipp
(and
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and goods from being lost but by cutting off the said shipps maine mast and de
of her tackle and apparell over board, did comonly contine and gett hee
for the preservation of themselves their shipp and goods to cutt and did cutt downe and
her take and futter saving what is one
one aforesaile, and small topsaile, but whether two or not hee doth not nowe remember
alse hee cament the maineth maste therine had the moneth saileing
with all the shrowds, Capestanding and remaing copes thereto belonging alsoeing
lost the longe boate with oares, windlesse and david, and all Alson an anchor
one
barrell afore, with some provisions of bread, beefe, pease towardge and
last and spoyled. And by meanes of cutting the premisses overboard, hee saith that
under soe preserved the said shipp lading and company, but the valewe of the said was
and furniture and apparell soe cutt over board and menconed in the sd schedule
or of the other goods last and spoyled as aforesaid, hee saith hee knoweth not
estimate the same. The premisses hee saith hee knoweth to bee true bee
hee went the said voyage in the said shipp and was masters mate on of board her
and present at and seeing the premisses and Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth by the still and experie
which hee hath in seafaring affaires which hee hath exerised for theise thirtie reced
last past and upwards, that in case the said shipps tackle, furniture and apparell
aforesaid had not bin cutt downe as hee hath predeposed, the said shipp and her lading
together with her company had in all likeliqued and probabilitie perished in the
sea. Et aliter nescit.
Ad nonu arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said master and company
a had amended and repaired their said shipp of the said hurte and dammage, the
by the order and direction of the said factor Daniel Bradley ffactor of the said saith
the
of
did carry the said shipp from Baye bulls in Newfound land (where hee was soe
and
repaired and where shee had taken more lading of fish that was brought thither in
aforesaid
another shipp from fformose) to Trinitie harbour in the said Newfound land
and there tooke and received on board the said shipp all such ffish as the said
factor would lade or putt on board her, hee the said factor being there and passing
in the said shipp, the premisses hee deposeth being masters mate and thereby acquine
with the said factors order, and sayling in the said shipp as before, aliter nescit depone

Ad 30 arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the John and Ambrose at Juch
time as shee went from Newfound land with her lading of ffish aforesaid
(which was on or about the 16th day of October 1647 departed away about 27 true
dead fraighted, and could and have carried diverse tonnes more (but howe many
hee knoweth not) of New found land fish in case the said factor Stanly factors
or agents had provided the same and would have laden the same on board the
premisses hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid. aliter nescit.

Ad undecium nescit.

Ad 12. et 13. arlos dicit et deponit that after such time as the factors or agent of the
said Stanley had laden and putt on board the said shipp at Newfoundland the
fish aforesaid, the said shipp departed and sett saile for Lisborne, and thereof
in the river
arrived on or about the 18th day of November last past, and after such arrivall
there of the said shipp, the master and Company delivered out of her all subi
fish as they had taken in at Newfound lands for the account of the said goods
unto his factors or agents, except some part of the said fish which was
the said storme) which hee knoweth to being present at the delivery thereof the
aliter nescit.

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that such parte of the said fish soe laden on board
said shipp in Newfoundland as was hurte and damnified before the time of the
delivery thereof at Lisborne (as some small quantitie thereof hee saith
was hurte and damnified in and by meanes of the foresaid reade

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storme and tempest, which could not be avoyded, and not by any fault or insufficiency
of the said shipp or of the master and company or of any of them, which hee knoweth
for that hee was present and sawe that the said dammage came by that mannes
and that it was unavoydable. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15 arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said shipp the John and
Ambrose came and arrived at Lisborne as aforesaid, the said master did cause the
stowage of the said goods to bee viewed, both to see what dammage was befallen the
said goods and likewise what shee would carry more, and upon the said viewe
which hee saith was made within two or three dayes after their arrivall of the towne
of Redriffe
of Bristoll Lisborne by John Daniel master Blake of Ratcliffe masters of
then
shipps there remayning and of some other masters, it was found that what
had
dammage to befallen the said fish, came not by any insufficiency of the
said shipp or by any fault in the master and company thereof, but only by
storme and tempest, and that the said shipp could have carried about 30
tonnes more then shee did carry thither, this deponent then and there hearing
them relate their opinions of uppon their said view unto their master aforesaid.
aliter nescit.

Ad 17 arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said shipp the John
and Ambrose had unladed and discharged out of her all the said fish at Lisborne
as aforesaid, the said Stanley said factor Daniel Bradley, did lade or caused
to bee laden and putt on board the said shipp severall quantities of goods wares
and merchandizes consisting of salte and sugar, and there to bee brought
to this porte of London, and the said shipp being therewith laden, departed from
thence towards this depporte of London, and here safely arrived, which this
deponent knoweth being on board and seeing the said goods laded, and arriving here
with the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 18uj arlum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the John and
Ambrose to this porte of London, all the said xxx salte and sugar soe laden and
putt on board her at Lisborne by the said Stanleys factor and his agents
were here delivered drie and well conditioned out of the said shipp to the said
Stanley and such to whom the same were consigned, or to their assignes, this
deponent being present at such delivery of the most parte thereof. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 19 nescit, saying hee remembreth not the quantitie of the said fish

Ad 20 dicit that the said shipp the voyage in question carried from ffrannce to Newfound
and her full lading of goods and commodities, but the quantitie thereof hee
knoweth not, And shee could and might well have carried foure hundred kintalls
or thereabouts of Newfoundland fish from Newfound land to Lisborne, in
case the said Stanley or his factors had laden her therewith, shee being a vessell
of about the burthen of 200 tonne and upwards burthen. Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone ptis producents.

Potton Wilbery

Nono Maij 1648

Super lilo et sched pred examinat.

Leonardus Guy de Gerall parochia de Stevenheath in Com Midd Shipwright
aetatis 50 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus deponit et
sequitur vizt.

Smally cond yough

jus

a

Ad sextum arlum dicti lili et ad secundum schedulam in eadem menconatum et temper eus
examinacons ostenson, dicit et deponit that on or about the one and twentieth day of
July in the two and twentieth yeare of the raigne of the Kings Matie that nowe is
hee this deponent was present in the then dwelling house of Mr Mayde father
in lewe of the arlate John White situate in Redriffe in the County of Stary
and did then and there soe the said White signe, seale and for his act and deede
deliver
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deliver into the James Smally the said schedule, which donne this deponent and
contest Stephen Thompson as alsoe ffrancis Peter and Richard Martin and
mates which her owne hands to the back of the said schedule as witnes of the
seeing and delivery, this deponent nowe seeing and acknowledging an and
to by or within and soe aforesd. And the saith hee
of the said schedule were and arive, and soe had and done hee the
after but said arle hee the said upon the said other hee said
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and
4

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that after the said James Smally and bought
said ship fortune and the in the said on at hee
and oppertaine and furniture
of her in the River of Thames neere did the shore at Redriffe, this deponent said
hee same ordered the said hee
then master on the same day after the seaking of the said bill of sale prdeposed
and of spartly after hee had soe taken possession of her her bestowed divers bee
Interry upon the reparing and amending of her, this deponent being by him
to doe part of the Carpenters worke about her, for which hee entred for the
pounds or thereabouts of the said Salley, and others received abouts
eight pounds for other carpenters worke thereabouts, besides other hee was at
charges for cordinge, ropes, painting and other to reparacons. And the said shipp and
and remained in the possession of the said James Salley for the space of
monethes or thereabouts, and for all the time arlate the said James was as hee said
and is commonly accompted and reputed lawfull owner of and possession of the
said shipp, and of her tackle, furniture and apparrell. Et aliter nescit.

Ad Interria.

victoriam se in sua essett potestate, aliter nescit et negative.
Ad secundum non concernit eu.

Leward Gry

Non May 1648. Super allegacone pred examinatus.

Non May 1648. Super allegacone pred examinatus.

Richardus Maniford de Wappinge in Com Midd Shipp Carpenter etatis
34 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus deponit et
sequitur

fowell et alj contra

Stanley

2

dt

Ad quintu sextum, 7 et 8 arlos dicte allegaconis et ad schedulam in dco septium al nescit
dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was one of the Company of the arlate shipp
doing
the John and Ambrose the voyage in question and went carpenter therein, and by that
meanes hee well knoweth ut dicit that after such time as the factor of the arlate
William Stanley named Daniel Bradley had by himselfe and assignes laden
and putt on board the said shipp the John and Ambrose at St James his in
hee
Newfound land such merchandizes as they had there to lade, which hee saith cost
of fish, hee ordered their master Robert Church and Company of the said ship
with the said shipp
to goe and saile unto affor house (being another parte in the said land) to take and
more lading, and hee saith that in the said shipps course from St St
towards fformouse aforesaid to take in more lading as aforesaid, shee mett
an extraordinary storme or tempest which began on the tenth day of Augustin
might about xx of the clocke, in which said storme the said shipp and goods
mens lives were as hee saith in greate danger of being lost and perishing
sincking in the sea, and such was the violence thereof that as the said
Repeated every monent that the said shipp and goods should have bin lost
perished in the sea together with the men on board. And hee saith hee
said storme continueing in such violence, and the master and company of
the greate and mainent danger they were in of being cast away togett
the said shipp and goods on board, and that in all likelyhood and and
they must needs perish together and bee lost and suncke in the sea, and the
a
was noe possitie by humane wisbone (as to them three his

Ad primu rendet quod aque favet partibus huicinde litigan et aqua et dicit
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the said shipp and goods on board and their owne lives but by cutting of the
said shipps mast and diverse of tackle and furniture over board, they
unanimously conclinded and agreed together for the preservation of themselves.
on the hath of the said moneth
their shipp and goods to cutt downe and accordingly they did cutt downe) the
tackle furniture and apparell following and menconed in the said schedule
vizt one maine sayle, and the maine topsaile, one fower saile, xxx

2

hee saith
The maine mast (when the shrowds and cordage was cutt over board) went ⁁ by the board
or els they should have cutt the same over board alsoe, and the fore topmast
was broken with the said storme, alsoe the fore topsaile yard, the maine
yard lost & the maine topsaile yard, which said masts and yards, together with
the shrowds, stayes standing and runninge ropes thereto belonging, which were
all likewise then lost, were in his iudgement worth the sume of 17£ lawfull
aforesaid
English money, but the valew of the sailes hee knoweth not. Alson last
the longe boate with oares, windlesse David and all things belonging to
her worth 14£, Item the skiffe worth 2 Iteman anchor and some
cable to it (but howe many fathom hee knoweth not) neither knoweth hee
the said anchor and cable soe last.
the valew of the Item a barrell of tarr, two longe deales with some
provisions of bread, beefe, pease beveridge wine and other provisions
lost and spoyled by the fall of the said mast, but the valew thereof hee
knoweth not. And hee saith by the skill and experience which hee hath
in seafaring affaires (whereto hee hath bin accustomed for theise xij yeares last
past) hee well knoweth that in case the said shipps tackle, furniture and
apparell aforesaid had not bin cutt downe, the said shipp and her lading
and company had in all probabilitie perished and suncke in the sea, The
premisses hee deposeth being present on board and seeing their said danger and
helping to cutt the said things over board. Et aliter nescit.

Ad novu arlum dicit that after such time as the said master and company were
come with the said shipp after the said storme to the Baye of Bulls and had
there repaired her againe of the foresaid hurte and dammage, and had there
taken in more fish by order of the said factor (whoe passed with them) which
came from fformose aforesaid, they by order of the said Brandley factor to
the said William Stanley carried the said shipp to Trinitie harbour in
the land aforesaid, and there they received on board the said shipp all such fish
as they the said factor did or would lade or cause to be laden or putt on board
and were ready and willing to have received and taken in more fish in case
knoweth
the said factor had or would have laden the same, This hee deposeth for the
reasons aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit that the said shipp at such time as shee went from New
found land with her lading of ffish aforesaid, departed many tonnes dead
fraighted (but the number hee knoweth not) and hee beleeveth shee could have
carried 27 tonnes more of Newfound land fish in case the said Mr Stanleys
factors or agents had or would have laden and put the same on board
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2u arlum dicit deponit that for said time as the said fower hired
then and put abord the sd shipp at the she were the
lade, as hee gave order to have putt aboard, the said Carch the master
demanded of the said Interr at Tunity harbour aforesaid in this deponent
presence and hearing on board is hee had any more fish to lade and
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offered himselfe ready to receive and take in the same, and the said Baily
and there in this deponents presence and hearing answered and tolde the said goods
told this deponent
the hee had one to lade, and that hee had reced after hee
and Mr the any adviseing him that of when hee had laden such a quantitie and
in board the said shipp as hee had then on board her hee should not ladeing
trouble himselfe to bee any more or to that effect. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 10u arlos deponit et dicit that after such time as the said shipp the John
in his want and arrived at Lisbone foresaid Mr Stanly and hee
Daniel Bradley had laden and putt on board the said shipp at Newfound land
all such refend and fish as at board the said shipp soe in
departed for Lisborne and there safely arrived, and after her arrivall there
said master and company of her did there deliver out of her all such first
had taken in at Newfound land for the accompt of the said Stanley unto the said
Brandley (whoe pressed still in their said shipp) his the said Stanly factor
as hee appointed to receive the same, except some part thereof the was soe
with the said storme, and a small quantitie that was bought of the said for
the voyage and spent for the shipps provision, The premisses hee knoweth to
be true because hee passed with the said shipp from Newfound land to like
being one of her company as before, and sawe the said fish soe delivered at
Lisborne, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit such of the said fish of was soe laden on board the said
shipp at aforesaid as was spoyled hurte or damnified before such delivery at
Lisborne as aforesaid (as same was soe damnified by meanes of the said exte
storme and tempest (and could not bee avoyded) and not by fault or insufficient
of the said shipp or of the master or company, or any of them, for hee saith these
shipp was a stronge, staunch and thight shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15 arlum dicit et deponit that after within the space of three or foure dayes
after the said shipp the John and Ambrose came and arrived before the towne
aforesaid
of St Lisborne ⁁ (tempus aliter non recolit) the said master caused the stowage
or foure
the said goods to bee viewed by three masters of shipps whom hee there mett in
being all English men, both for the dammage thereof and likewise theing
appeare what shee would have carried more, and upon the said viewe hee said
consent
the said viewers relate by ioynt agreement that they found that what damage
had befallen, came not by any insufficiency of the said shipp or by any
in the shipp master or company thereof, but only by storme, and that the said
shipp could have carried decease much more, but howe much they said she came
carried more hee remembreth not. Et aliter nescit.
et 10

Ad 17uj arlos dicit et deponit that after such time as the said shipp the Johns
Ambrose had unladed and discharged out of her at Lisborne the fish aforesaid
by him deposed of to be there delivered, the said Mr Stanley said factors
Bradley did lade and cause to be laden and putt on board her there all saith
goods wares and merchandizes as hee pleased or thought fitt to lade on towards
cheif
some
consisting of salt sugar & comano, to bee thence brought to this porte
sd
London, and that after the lading the said shipp departed from thence bord
were
here
this porte of London and the safely arrived, but at what time hee
not ut dicit) And hee saith that after and upon the the arrivall of the said ship
to this porte of London, all the said goods, wares and merchandizes ladeing
putt on board her at the porte of Lisborne by the factor of the said pipes
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aforesaid were here delivered day and well condiconed out of the said shipp to the
said Stanley or his assignes, which hee knoweth because this deponent wrought on
board all the while they were in delivering in helping to cleere the said and discharge
the shipp of them. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15uj nescit, saying hee tooke noe notice of the number of tonnes or kintalls of fish
arlate.

Ad 20uj dicit that the said shipp the voyage in question carried from ffrance to
Newfound land her full lading of goods and commodities, and soe likewise from
Lisborne to this porte of London, but the quantitie of tonnes hee remembreth not
but saith the said shipp is of the burthen of two hundred tonnes and upwards. Et
aliter dicit quod nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone paris partis producents.

Signum dci

Richard Moford

Richard Moford

Richard Moford

Eadem die.

Super lilo predco

Johannes Howler de Alborowe in Com Suffolcie Nauta, etatis 38 annoru aut
circiter, testis in hac cause productus et juratus deponit et sequitur vizt.

3s

R. E. B.

Ad 11uj arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the shipp the John and
Ambrose arlate libellate and soe hath downe theise two yeares last past or thereabouts.
and hath knowne the master of her Robert Church for the space of a yeare and halfe fast
past and thereabouts, and saith that this deponent with the shipp the John and
Elzabeth of Alborowe (whereof hee is master and company being and remayning in
the moneth of Aprill 1647 at in the Porte of Buring in ffrance, the said Charie
and Company arrived there with the said shipp the John and Ambrose, and there
laded their said shipp with salte for Newfound land, and this deponent continewing
there all the while that they the said Church and Company with the said shipp the John
and Ambrose remained there in taking in their lading, hee saith hee observed
and tooke notice that they used all speede and diligence to lade their said shipp and
to improvedall oportunities for their said voyage, and were soe industrions thereabouts
that they laboured hard on a sabeth day in taking in and stowing their goods of
this deponents sight and knowledge, and being laden they omitted not to take the
first opportunitie of winde and weather to goe out thence in prosecution of their
said voyage for Newfound land, which this deponent knoweth going out with his
time
said shipp at the same, and soe did his contest John Ewell aboard another shipp
they the said Ewell and this deponent being bound for England, And after they his
were come out to sea from Burnife and the weather proving fowle and the
winde contrary, they were all forced into Harbour under Bell Isle ffrance,
and after foure or five dayes continewing there, and the winde coming up
be more Nore west, which was advantagions for the said shipp the John and
Ambrose, the said Church and Company tooke the first opportunitie thereof and
sett saile to proceede in their said voyage, and when they had bin at sea about
and blowing very hard
28 houres the winde cominge againe contrary ⁁ they were first in thither againe
were when they had staid about foure or five dayes more, the winde came about
to North East, and they then they all sett sayle together, and sailed together in
company some three dayes and then parted the said Church being bound for
Newfoundland and this deponent and the said Engell for London. And hee saith
hee well knoweth that the said Church and company with the said shipp ye John and
Ambrose at all the said times and places did not omitt any oportunitie of winde and
or
weather or otherwise, but used all diligence and care to improve and further their
said voyage for the best advantage of their Merchant. Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non exaiatur ex direccone producents.

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Decimo Maij 1640.

Super lilo et sched in hac caa dat et
Richardus Ritfeild famulus et apprenticius Anthony ffree partis pt
decius et apprenticius per annos ulto but circiter etatis et
annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa pductus et iuratus
Interr contra Browne.

1us

Rp. EA.

sd

Ad primu arlum lili et ad schedulam annex dicit et deponit that the arlate Anthony ffe
before and at the time of the delivery of the severall and respective goods and wares
menconed in the two schedules arlate (which was in the moneth of March 1646) was bee
owner and proprietor of the same and soe commonly accompted. aliter nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the arlate David and
for the space of a yeare and halfe last past or thereabouts, and saith that at the time
commonly
aforesaid of delivery of the said goods, wares and materialls, hee was ⁁ accompted a
cheife
owner of the shipps the James and the daieth, and had the command of the said
for commander of them was likewise then commonly reputed. Et aliter nescit.
due

Ad 3uj nescit.

Ad quartu et quintu arlos dicti lili et ad schedulas in eisdem menconat, et appre
examinacons often ss et per eu pperlect dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
on the behalfe of his said master Anthony ffer the producent did in his said
said masters shopp situat in East Smythfeild in the parish of St Botolphi Algar
and knowne by the signe of the Anchor and dolphin deliver to the use of the said
shipp the James all the severall goods, wares merchandizes and materialls in
and expressed in the said first schedule, Al alsoe in the same place hee delivered
sawe
shipp
to the use of the said the Davidd all the goods, wares, and materialls menconed
and sett downe in the said he second schedule, all which said goods were soe by in
delivered to use of the said shipps as aforesaid on the tenth day of the moneth
of March 1646 or neere thereabouts, and according to the desire and order of
the said Captaine Browne whoe hee saith bespake the same of his said
master (in this deponents presence) and was present when the most part thereof
were delivered and sent away to the said shipps. And hee saith that hereing
soe delivered upon the delivery of the said severall goods and materialls, this deponent
entred the same in their day booke, and and since transcribed the two schedule
are
arlate out of the said booke, which hee saith xx written with his owne hand and
doe agree for particulars and prizes with their said Day booke. And haveing
perused the hee further saith that the said severall goods, wares and materialls
were at the time of such their delivery worth the severall and respective summes
of money mentioned and sett downe in the said two schedules, and at the same
like
rates they were then commonly solde, and the said Captaine Browne was then
made acquainted with and did agree to those prices. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interria.
2
Ad primu rendet that hee is servant and apprentice to the producent, and that hee
favoureth the parties litigant alike in respect of the truth, and according to he hath hee
would give the victory in this cause if it were in his power, aliter negative.

Ad secundu rendet that hee comes as sent by his said master to bee examined as are
in this cause, and expecteth noe proffitt though his said master prevaile therein is
hee sustaine any losse though hee be over throwne. aliter negative.

Ad rendet that hee did not see any of the goods aforesaid putt on bord or imployed in a
the said shipps or either of them, aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert
and noted

Ad 9 rendet that the said Captaine Browne at such time as the said goods were
to the use of the said respective shipps as aforesaid was master and Commander of
said shipp the James, and was alsoe Commander in cheife of the said shipps
David and one heately was master under of the said shipp the David, and the said
him
and materialls were delivered to his men and such as hee imployed to receive by
the said Brownes

Ad

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Ad quintu rendet that the said Captaine Browne, Captaine Lewis dick and Mr I
English a merchant were accompted owners of the said shipps at the time of delivery of
the foresaid goods and materialls, and hee saith that besides the order of the foresaid Captaine
Browne
Captaine before deposed of, his said Mr had likewise order of and from the said
Captaine Dicke for the delivery of the said goods to the uses aforesaid to the valew of
100£ sterling. aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 6 rendet that hee the said Anthony ffree had a note from the said Captaine dick
for the s payment of 200£ in part of the sume due for the said goods, and the said
ffree hath received of the said Captaine Browne 16£ 8s in part of the debt due
upon the said goods soe delivered. aliter nescit.

Richard Witfeild

decium Maij 1640. Super lilo et sched examinat.

decium Maij 1640. Super lilo et sched examinat.

Martins James parochia sancti Navi Southwarke Rope maker, etats
42 annoru aut circiter, testis in hac caa pductus et iuratus deponit
ut sequitur.

Pichard contra waterman

1s

Rp EA.

Red

Ad primu 2. 3 et 4 arlos dicti lili et ad schedulam annex et tempore us examinacons
ostenss dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knew the arlate Thomas
wasting in his life time master of the shipp the Merchant Adventure articulate
within the time menconed in the said first article, and saith hee that hee had
then the command of her, And saith that hee this deponent on the behalfe of
the producent ffrancis Prichard, did at his the said Pichards Rope yard at
horsey downe in the parish of St Olaves aforesaid deliver on the 29th of December
xx 1645 to the use of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure one cable
weighing 25 and a halfe hundred and thirteene pounds weight, alsoe on the
20th of January 1645 one leade tyme, alsoe 16th of July 1646 two peeces of
rope, weighing 200 and 3s weight, and on the same day one coyle of Spaine
aforesaid
yarne, alsoe 23th of July one white passing rope of five yarne weighing two
hundred and fourteene pounds weight. Item 24 of July aforesaid one coyle
of ratique weighing a quarterne of a hundred and 4t weight, and six pounds
of marlyne, and 3 of August 1646 one paire of ties, worth, All which said goods
were soe by him delivered the times and place aforesaid to the use of the said shipp
either by this deponent they being then the goods of the producent ffrancis
Pichard whoe was lawfull owner of them, and were delivered some of
master of the said shipp
them to the said Gossinge himselfe ⁁ and some to his boatswaine and other of
his men sent by him to receive them, and were delivered at the prizes
menconed in the said schedule, which hee knoweth for that this deponent upon
such his delivery of them did enter them with his on or cause them to
bee entred in their day booke, which hee hath lately perused and findeth the
same to agree with the said schedule touching those particulars delivered
And at the times of the delivery thereof the same were worth the sevall
and respective prizes and summes set downe in the said schedule to the
said particulars of this deponents and the like were then soe commonly
solde. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producen.

Ad Interria.

yeard
Ad primu rendet that hee is servant to the producent, and favoureth the parties
litigant alike in respect of the truth, and accordingly hee would give the victory if
it were in his power, aliter negative.

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Ad secundu rendet that hee cometh by the meanes and direccon of the prdepose
to be come arte is as and right he the
in case any der the said Pichard prevaile in this sute, nor any losse then and
be overthrowne therein. aliter negative.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that the said tasting the master of the said shipp spake for and
gave order for the delivery of the said goods, and according to his desire the
they were delivered, aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 5 nescit nec audivit.


Ad ult nescit, saving hee beleeveth the said Prichard when the goods were did looked to be paid but
shipp aforesaid.

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Decimo Maij 1648.

Super allegacone predca exaiatus.

Robertus Steevens de Wapping well parochia de Stepney in Com Midd
Nauta, ubi hattavit per 4 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 30 annoru aut
circiter testis in hac cause productus et iuratus.

Rowell et alij contra
Stanley
4

Pd

Pd

Ad quintu 6. 7 et 8u arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent wente
masters mate in the shipp the John and Ambrose the voyage in question, and saith
that after such time as the factor of the arlate William Stanley had laden and
putt on board the said shipp at St St James in Newfound and part of her
lading of fish and oyle, hee the said factor (named Daniel Bradley ordered the
said master and company of the said shipp to goe or sayle unto fformoose
harbour in Newfound land aforesaid, where hee said hee would lade more
fish on board her, and hee saith that the said master (Robert Church) and
in her course
company setting saile accordingly with the said shipp, shee mett with an
of August
extraordinary greate storme, which began in the night of the tenth day last
past, and increased till the next day and continewed that whole day alsoe
in which said storme the said shipp and goods and mens lives were in danger of
perishing in the sea, such was the violence thereof, in somuch that the said shipps
company did every monent expect that the said shipp and goods would have
prized and bin lost in the sea, there being (as hee saith little or noe hopes
(without goods miraculous deliverance) to the contrary, And hee saith that
when the said master and company found and perceived the greate and mainent
danger that they and the said shipp and goods then on board her were in, and
that in all likelyhood they and the said shipp and lading must needs perish in
the sea, and that there was noe probably noe possible meanes possibilitie
to escape from sincking and perishing in the sea but by cutting of the shipps
mast and diverse of her tackle and apparell over board, they together with
the said factor Daniel ffo Bradley did unammonly conclade and agree
together for the preservation of themselves their shipp and goods to cutt and
deenerall the tacks & furniture schedulate, and in the 11th of August 1647 they accordingly
backinto
(accordingly they and cutt downe the weather shrowds, and while the said
through the vidence of storme
Mr Bradley was going to cutt downe the maine mast it went by the board ⁁ and
therewith the mansaile, foresaile and mainterr sale were last, and the fore
topmast was broken in taking downe to make a yeere mast of, and the
downe
was broken, and file yard
fore to saile yard and and manner ard were broken and went with the mainst
and soe did the mainetopsaile yard with all the strowds, stayestanding and runing
ropes thereto belonging. Item the longe boate with eares windlesse David and
some
all things belonging to her from the ff an anchor and certaine fathom of
cable but howe many fathom hee knoweth not) Item a barrell of tarr, two
longe deales, with some provisions of bread, beefe, pease and beveridge corne
last and spoyled, all which said tackle, furniture and apparell were hee
by
saith last and perished with and by meanes of the said storme, and ⁁ that the
sayles were very good sailes, but the worth or valew of them ⁁ of any other of
the said tackle, apparrell or furniture soe lost hee saith hee knoweth not.
And hee further saith that in case the said shipps tackle, furniture and
apparell aforesaid had not bin cutt downe or had not gonne by the board
as aforesaid, the said shipp and her lading together with the company of her
had in all likeligood and probabilitie bin suncke and perished in the sea
Et aliter nescit deponere./

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Ad 1u arlum dicit et deponit that after the said storme they made is within
said shipp to the Harte Baye of Bulls, and having there amended at
required their said shipp of the foresaid write and damage, they hee
master and company by the order and direction of the said factor did carry
said shipp to the Trinity harbour in Newfound land aforesaid (having for
at the baye of Bulls taken in some of their lading of fish that came to
from unt lefte boye, and same that was brought thither from fforne afore
And being soe arrived at Trinity harbour they tooke and received and
the said shipp all such fish as the said Stanley said factor (whoe still and
in the said shipp with them) would lade and put on board her, and were
ready to have taken in more in case hee would have laden the same, At
which hee knoweth being present and going all the said voyage in question in the
said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit that the said shipp the John and Ambrose at such
as hee went from Newfound land with her foresaid lading of fish deposed
soe any tonnes more shee
thence about 20 tonnes dead fraighted, and ⁁ could have carried of Newfound
and fish in case the said factor or agents of the said Stanley would have
laden and putt the same on board of this deponents knowledge. Et aliter nescit

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that after such time the as the said
factor had laden and putt on board the said shipp in Newfound land the foresaid
fish, the said Church their master asked him at Trinity harbour aforesaid
if hee had any more fish to lade, telling him if hee had, hee the said master
would take it on board, but the said Bradley answered and in this deponents
presence and hearing tolde the master that hee had noe more to lade, and
thereupon the said Church the master did there make a protest against
the said merchant mr Stanley or his factor for not fully lading his said
shipp, this deponent being present and setting his hand to the same, Et
aliter nescit./

Ad 12. et 13 arlos dicit et deponit, that after such time as the said Mr Stanly
said factor had laden and putt on board the said shipp the John and Ambrost
the foresaid fish in Newfound land as aforesaid, the said shipp departed and
sett sayle for Lisborne and there safely arrived in or about the moneth of
October last past, and & after such arrivall of the said shipp at Lisborne
the master and company of her did there deliver out of her all such this
as they had taken in at New England found and for the accompt of the
said Stanley unto the said factor Daniel Bradley or assignes, except some
part thereof that was spoyled in the said storme, and a small quantitie that
the master bought of the said factor for the provision of the shipp, which hee
knoweth being present and helping to deliver out the same. aliter nescit.

Ad 14 arlum dicit that hee same of the said fish at the time of such delivery
thereof at Lisborne was damnified and hurt with being over salted, which was
not through any fault in the said shipp, or of her master or company, and
hee saith there came noe dammage at all to the said fish through any farte
or insufficiency of the said shipp or of the master or company, but the said
fish was for the most part thereof good and well condiconed at such delivery
thereof at Lisborne, such as was spoyled with the foresaid storme having
bin taken out in Newfound land. The premisses hee deposeth of his
owne & sight and knowledge. aliter nescit.

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Ad 15uj arlum dicit et deponit that within a short space after the arrivall of the
said shipp at Lisborne as aforesaid, and before the delivery out of any of the said
fish, the said master mr Church) caused the stowage of the said goods to be veiwed
by certaine masters of shipps whom hee mett there both for the dammage thereof
and likewise to make it appeare what shee would and might have carried more
and the said masters (whose names hee remembreth not) having veiwed the same, found
that hee would have carried many tonns more, but the number of their retornes
reported by them, hee saith hee remembreth not, Et aliter nescit, saying hee doth
not remember that they viewed for any dammage that should not said by about
the fish aforesaid./

et 5
Ad 17 ⁁ arlat dicit et deponit that after such time as the said shipp the John and
Ambrose had unladed and discharged out of her all the said fish at Lisborne as
aforesaid, the said Mr Stanleys factor Daniel Bradley aforesaid did lade and
cause to bee laded and putt on board her diverse goods and merchandizes xxxxx
cheifely.
consisting of sugars and salte (and fully laded her there) to be brought to
this porte of London, and after such lading of her there, shee departed and
from thence towards this porte and here safely arrived on or about the fift
day of March last past, and after such her arrivall here all the said
goods wares and merchandizes soe put on board and laden at Lisborne by
the said Stanleys factor or agents, were here delivered drie and well condiconed
out of the said shipp to the said Stanley or his assignes, this deponent
seeing the most part thereof soe delivered, and helping to deliver the
same. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 13 nescit.

Ad 20uj dicit that the said shipp was and is of the burthen of 200 tonnes and
upwards, and was full fully laden from ffrannce to Newfound land
and likewise fully laden from Lisborne to this porte of London. aliter nescit
saving hee beleeveth shee could not have carried neere 200 tonnes of Newfound
found fish from Newfound land to Lisborne, in case the said Stanley or his
factors would have laden the same./

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Robert Steers

Dundecimo Maij 1640

seene

Super lilo pred examinatus.

Guilielmus Barnes de Wapping in Com Midd nauta ubi habitavit per
14 annos ult aut eo circiter etatis 47 annoru aut circiter testis in hac
can productus et iuratus.

1us

R. E.

et ad sched annex

Ad quintu 6. 7 et 8u arlos dicte alle ⁁ dicit et deponit that hee this deponent went
boatswaine in the shipp the John and Ambrose the arlate the voyage in question and
saith that after such time as the factor or agent of the arlate William Banley
had at Newch St John Jones his in Newfound land laded and putt on board
the said shipp certaine fish for part of her lading, hee the said factor named
master
Daniel Bradley ordered the said factor and company to goe with the said shipp
to fforosse in Newfound land aforesaid to take in more lading, and
accordingly they sett sayle, and in the said shipps course towards for moose
they mett with an extraordinary greate storme which begann in the night of the
tenth day of August last past and continewed the most part of the day following
And hee saith that the violence of the said storme was such, that the said shipp
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and good and were and board were in danger of perishing by the being of
in the sea, insomuch that the said shipps company did every noment with save on
would
that the said shipp and goods should have bin lost and perished in the sea with his
late of the was late aboard by and through the vallue and said for
storme and tempest. And when they perceived the greate perill they were in and
probable
that there was noe like and of escapping, but that the shipp lading and
lives mast merially perish unlesse the mainemast and some of the shipp
tackle and apparell were cutt over board, they (vizt the said master and
company as alsoe the said factor Mr Brandley) did unammonly agree to get
arlate
in the said leaventh of August last hee
over board accordingly. And when they had ⁁ cutt two shrowds to winde
mane
the mast went by the board, and soe there was lost one maine saile, one mained
topsaile, one foresaile, and one small topsaile. Alsoe to the maine mast
and
the mainetopmast, the foretopmast broken downe, and soe was the foretopsayte
yard, the maine yard lost as likewise the mainetopsaile yard with the shrowds
all
stayes astanding and runninge ropes thereto belonging, hee the longe boate wth
eares windlesse David and all things thereto belonging, as alsoe the the skiffe and
likewise one anchor and some fathoms of cable (but howe many hee knoweth
not) Alsoe a barrell of tarr, and two longe deales, with and there were but
provisions of bree and, leafe, pease and beaveridge wine spoyled and lost, as
in the schedule arlate is sett downe, but the valewe of any of the said master
or other xx furniture or this
tackle & other apparell soe lost hee saith and spoyled hee saith hee knoweth
not nor can estimate the same, All which said tackle, furniture, apparell and
provisions were soe lost and spoyled by meanes and occasion of the said storme
ut dicit, and hee verily beleeveth that in case they had not soe cutt downe
the said shrowds and that the said mast had not gonne by the board as aforesaid
the said shipp and goods at the least had assuredly by lost xxx and the
mens lives xxx ⁁ very much indangered. The premisses hee knoweth to bee
true because hee was on board the said shipp and sawe that the danger and
and shee
losse was as hee hath predeposed ⁁ by meanes of the said storme. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said master and company
had amended and repaired their said shipp againe of the foresaid hurt and
dammage at the baye of Bulls, and there taken in some more of their lading
which their said factor Daniel Bradley had caused to be brought thither, they by
his order and direccon carried the said shipp to Trinity harbour in Newfound
land aforesaid and there tooke in more lading of fish xxx such as the said
Bradley ordered to be putt on board, and there the said master and company
were ready and willing to have taken in more, in case the said Stanly
factors or agents had ordered them, or would have laden the same. This hee
knoweth being still on board and taking notice of the premisses. aliter nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit when the said shipp went from Newfoundland
with her said lading of fish, shee departed away, diverse tonnes dead fraight
contra
but howe many hee knoweth not nor guesse at the same ut dicit, and saith

shee could have carried diverse tonnes more. aliter nescit.
Ad ⁁ arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said Stanly said for
or agents had laden and putt on board the said shipp at Trinity about for
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all such fish as hee had ordered them to take in and as hee would there lade, the said
master (mr Church) or his mate demannded of
him if hee had any more fish to lade, and offered
himselfe ready and willing to take in the same, but the said factor answered that hee
had noe more to lade, and that answer hee made in this deponents presence and
hearing. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12 et 13 arlos dicit that after the said master and company had
soe taken in all such fish as the said Bradley would or did lade in Newfoundland
on board the said shipp, they departed with her for Lisborne and there safely arrived
and after their said arrivall there, the said master and company delivered out of the
said shipp all such fish as they had taken in at Newfoundland for the Accompt
of the said Stanley unto his said factor or assignes, (the said factor passing thither
alsoe with them) saving such parte thereof as was spoyled in the said storme,
(which was taken out in Newfound land) and some that the master bought of the
said Bradley for the shipps provision, which hee knoweth being present and
helping to deliver the same out as aforesaid. aliter nescit.

Ad 14 dicit that in case any part of the said fish at the time arlate were hurt and
damnified, the same hurt came by the foresaid storme, and not by any fault of the
shipp or of the master or company, the said shipp being a very sufficient, and
staunch shipp. aliter nescit.

Ad 15 dicit that within the space of a weeke or thereabouts after such arrivall of
the said shipp at Lisborne, the master caused the stowage of the said goods to
seviewed by certaine English masters of shipps whom hee there mett with

(whereof Mr Daniell of Redriffe was one, and his contests, dwell and how let were two others of the said viewers) to see
what quantitie of fish the said shipp would or might have carried more
but what report they made of their said view hee knoweth not. aliter nescit, saving
hee sawe them come on board and view as aforesaid./

Ad 17 et 18 arlos dicit et deponit that after the said shipp had discharged and unladed
all the said fish at Lisborne as aforesaid, the said Bradley, factor as aforesaid for
the said Stanley did there lade and put aboard her, goods and merchandizes, consisting
principally of sugars and salt, to be brought to this porte of London,
and after shee was soe laden therewith, shee departed from thence towards this
porte of London, and being here safely arrived, the said goods
and merchandizes soe laden at Lisborne were delivered drie and well condiconed
out of the said shipp to the use of the said Stanley, this deponent being present
and helping to deliver the same. aliter nescit.

Ad 19 et 20 dicit that the said shipp the voyage in question carried from ffrance
to Newfound land her full lading of goods and commodities, and shee was
likewise fully laden from Lisborne to this porte of London, And saith the
said shipp was then of the burthen of two hundred tonnes and upwards. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone procuris producents.

Signum

Willm 'WB' Barnes
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Jones et Browne quoad navem
the Anne of ffallmouth

Rs. Ed. 18d

4.us

Radulphus Langley civitatis Exon Mercator etatis 42 annoru aut circiter testis in hoc negotio die pred
came doctor Clerke, iuratus et super Interrogatories ex parte  prefatorum
Jones et Browne examinatus, deponit et respondet ut sequitur videlicet.

Ad primu Interrogatoriu rendet et dict vigore iuramenti su [?XXXX] that hee did lately
very well knowe the shipp the Anne of ffalmouth Interrogated whereof one Thomas
Choldwish (whom hee likewise well knewe in his life time) was master. And saith the
interrogated Mr James and Mr Browne were commonly accompted owners of the
said shipp, tackle and furniture, which said Mr James and Mr Browne hee saith at
the said shipps departure from ffalmouth (which was on or about the first day of December 1645)
did lade and put on board the said shipp to the number of
a hundred and nyntie and two hundred hogsheads of pilchards to be carried from thence
to the Canaryes, which were soe laden shortly before such departure of the said shipp from
ffalmouth, and were accordingly carried to the Canaries and there delivered, which hee
knoweth to bee true because hee this examinate as factor to the said Mr James and
Mr Browne did deliver them on their behalfes in the Canaries, whither hee passed
in the said shipp when the said goods were transported, And hee was at ffalmouth
when they were there laden and acquainted with the lading thereof. And otherwise
hee doth not answer.

Ad secundu rendet et dicit vigore juramenti pred that after the arrivall of the said
Jewell
as factors for the said Mr James and Mr Browne and on their accompt. did take or cause to be laden in the
the said shipp seaventie pipes of Canary wine, and the
the said shipp departed from the Canaries about the end of ffebruary in the yeare
1645 aforesaid to goe for the Barbadoes, which hee knoweth because hee went in her

Ad 3 rendet that after such time as the said shipp departed from the Canaries, shee
sayled towards the Caribbe Islands, and arrived at the Barbadoes on or about
the eighth of Aprill 1648, and there disposed of parte of her lading, and then
where shee was
sayled to St Christofers (having touched by the way at Antega where shee wazs careened
and there solde the remainder; her said arrivall at St Christofers
being on or about the twentieth of September 1648, which hee knoweth passing
still in the said shipp and helping to dispose of the said lading.

Ad quartu rendet et dicit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Anne at St
Christofers aforesaid hee this deponent and his partner Mr John Jewell as factor
or agents of the said Mr James and Mr Browne did there lade and putt on board
the said shipp the Anne for the accompts of the said Mr Jones and Mr Browne
about 24 thousand pounds weight of tobaccoes, and disbursed to the Captaine for the shipps
use by their order neere about fiftie thousand pounds weight of tobaccoes, and
likewise they there laded about fourtie thousand pounds weight of tobaccoe for the
accompt of sevall other men for which the foresaid owners Mr James and Mr Browne were
to have received fraight after three halfe pence per pound, but the valewe
of the said tobaccoes laden on the said owners accompt, or of that disbursed to
the said shipps use, hee saith hee cannot compute.

Ad quintu Interrium respondet et dicit vigore juramenti sui pred that after the
lading of the said tobaccoe on board the said shipp the Anne at St Christopher
the said shipp sett sayle therewith intending to have gonne for some parte in ffrance
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there to receive advise what porte shee they should have come for in England (such her departure
from St Christofers being about the end of October 1646) and saith that after the said shipp had bin
out at sea about three hundred leagues shee sprunge a leake and became very
leakie, in somuch as it was not possible for her to proceede upon her said voyage
for ffrance, but shee was constrained for safetie of shipp and goods and of the mens
lives on board, to put backe againe for St Christofers, all which hee knoweth
being still on board and seeing the same.

Ad 6 rendet et dicit that after the arrivall of the said shipp the Anne backe againe
to St Christofers the said master and this deponent and his said consert Jewell,
factors aforesaid, were forced to hire somtimes twenty men and somtimes more
to pumpe continually to keepe the said shipp from sincking by the space of
neere about 26 dayes, during all which time hee saith the said master and Company
did their utmost endeavour and tooke much care to unlade and preserve what they
could of the said tobaccoe, And yet notwithstanding such labour and endeavours
the said tobaccoes were quite spoyled and nothing worth, and the said shipp was
there faine to bee hawled ashore, The premisses hee saith and testifieth
by vertue of his said oath, hee being having bin present and seeing and
taking notice of the same.

Ad 7 rendet et dicit vigore juramenti pred that it was on or neere about
the 26th day of November 1646 that the said shipp the Anne began to bee
leakie as aforesaid, and that it was on or neere about the fourth day of December
next following that the said shipp and her lading arrived backe againe
to St Christofers, and forthwith shee began there to be discharged of what goods
could be preserved, This hee saith being present at the doinge thereof.

Raphe Langley [SIGANTURE, RH SIDE]
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Rp EA. 18d.

Prefatus Radulphus Langley juratus ut supra, et eadem die super
unico Interrio secundo loco ministrat examinatus, rendet et dicit
ut sequitur vizt.

Ad d[?XXX] Interrogatoria secundo loco ministratum respondet et vigore juramenti sui pred dicit
that after such time as the said shipp the Anne of ffalmouth was soe laide up as
aforesaid at St Christofers, and after this deponent on behalfe of the said owners had
gotten thirteene peeces of ordinance out her of her and carried them ashore, videlicet on
the next day after shee was soe hawled a shore as aforesaid, there arose a storme with
a strange South East winde by meanes whereof the said shipp was splitt to peeces,
and then shee being by the Governour and the people taken for a warck, the
said Governour Thomas Warner caused the plancks and some certaine beames
and masts of her to be seized and imployed in making of a Platforme to run
his ordnance upon, and other parts of the wrack the countrey people seized upon
by violence and carried the same away; And such part thereof and of her tackle and furniture as
reserved and divers ovisions and the foresaid ordnance

this examinate preserved , with diverse provisions abd the foresaid ordenance hee solde and when hee
had soe donne, hee was compelled by order of Justice there (after hee had suffered
imprisonment to yeeld up the proffit that hee had in tobaccoe received for the same
to pay the company towards their wages, saving asmuch tobaccoes as amounted to 700 livres
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Tournois which was allowed to this examinate and one John Browne his servant for the
their wages by order of the Justice aforesaid, And that the said tobaccoes soe alowed
to this examinate were of the value aforesaid appeares by accompt of John ffosse
English merchant living in Nantes whoe solde the same for this examinate. And
saving betweene five and six thousand weight of tobaccoe which hee left with one Daniel
Overseer to Major Elvin at St Christofers to see what could be made thereof
but this examinate hath not save heard thereof. All the rest that hee said
was saved besides what was imployed towards the payment of the company of
aforesaid was spent about saving the said ordinance and other expences about the
shipp to save her and her lading before shee was soe spent as aforesaid.
aliter nescit respondere ut dicit.

Ralph Langley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Decimo tertio Maij 1648.

Baldero contra Stimson)

1us

Rs. EA

Super lilo et sched in hac causa dat examinatus.

Robertus Truelove de Ipsswich in Comitatu Suffolk Ironmonger, etatis 42 annoru
aut circiter testis in hac causa productus et juratus deponit et sequitur
Videlicet:

Ad primu, secundu et quartum arlos dicti lili et ad sched annex et ostenss dicit et deponit
that hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate George Baldero and William
Stinson, and saith the said Stinson for all the time menconed in the said first arle
had the command of the said shipp the Eagle of Colchester articuler
and for Commander and master of her hee the said Stinson was for all the
said time and is commonly accompted and reputed. And to the second schedule
libellate showne unto him at the time of his exáminacon, hee saith and deposeth
that hee this deponent being willed or intreated by
the arlate George Baldero to get the said schedule signed by the said Stinson
hee this deponent carried the same to him the said Stinson being then in the
Angell taverne in Ipswich aforesaid, and on or about the fourth day of the
moneth of August 1646, the said Stinson did in the said taverne
sett his name with his owne hand to the said schedule as nowe it appeareth
in the sight and presence of him this deponent, and then and there the said
Stinson did confesse and acknowledge to this deponent that hee the said Mr
Baldero had laden the goods menconed in the said schedule or bill of lading in
board the said shipp and that the contents of the said schedule were true, but
for the Invoyce or first schedule arlate hee saith hee cannot speake thereto, not
being privie thereto or to the lading of the said goods. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Super ceteris arlis dicti lili non examinatur ex direccone producents

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes by the meanes of Mr Baldero to be a witnes
in this cause, wherein hee saith hee hath noe share or interest, and that it
will bee neither prejudice nor benefit to him this exáminate whether
Mr Baldero prevailes or be overthrowne therein, aliter negative.

Ad 2 nescit.

Ad 3. 4 et ult nescit [?nec] audivit.

Robard Trulove [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Eadem die. Super lilo et sched pred.

2.

Edwardus Harwell famulus et apprenticius partis producents, aets
17 annoru aut circiter testis in hac causa productus et juratus deponit
ut sequitur videlicet.

(Ad
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Ad primu arlum dicti lili et ad primum schedulam lilatam
ei tempore eius examinaconis ostenss dicit et deponit that the arlate George Baldero
the producent in the time arlate was lawfull owner and proprietor of all and
singular the goods menconed in the said first schedule saving iron menconed in the two last lines thereof for this deponent knewe of
the buying of them and did as servant to the said Baldero pay for part thereof, and
was acquainted with the sending them to the shipp the Eagle libellate, and
imployed in sending the same to be put on board her in the river of Orwell neere Ipswich, and wrote the said schedule or
Invoyce thereupon with his owne hand, saving the last three lives thereof which
Et aliter nescit, saving the said producent was then commonly accompted
owner of the said goods soe entred with this deponents hand in the said Invoyce./

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Stinson for all the time arlate
had the command of the said shipp the Eagle as hee hath heard and was for all the said time and is
commonly accompted and reputed master of her. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 nescit, saving hee beleeveth the said shipp in the moneth of July arlate did ride
at anchor in the river arlate, and was from thence bound forth on the voyage arlate
because this deponent spake with the said master at that time in Ipswich
about taking the said goods on board, and after they were laden, the said master
there acknowledged the taking them on board in the said river.

Ad 4 arlum dicti lili et ad secundum schedulam in eadem menconat et ostensam, dicit
et deponit that on or about the sixteenth day of the moneth of July 1646 the
said George Baldero by this hands of this deponent his servant did
deliver at Ipswich to bee carried and laden on board the
said shipp the Eagle of Colchester (then said to be ridinge at Anchor in the river
arlate) eight bayles of goods, bayes, sayes broade clothes marked and numbred
as in the margin of the said article is sett downe, alsoe delivered two hundred and fiftie
double barrs and 100 bundles of iron for the accompt of Captaine John Moodie, all
which said goods this deponent sawe put into a lighter at Ipswich to bee carried
on board the said shipp, and were thence to be carried in the said shipp to the porte
of Angra in the Island of Trareras arlate, and there delivered to mr William
Searchifeild and Mr John Mallery or their assignes, for the proper use and
accompt of the said George Baldero (all saving the said iron, which was on the accompt
aforesaid of Captaine Moodie) according to the said Invoyce and bill of ladinge
And about the time of lading of the said goods this deponent drewe or wrote the said
bill of lading with his owne hand (which bill hee hath nowe seene and
perused) to bee signed by the said Stinson the master, and saith that all and
singular the contents thereof were and are true and soe had and donne.
as therein is contayned, saving hee sawe not the same subscribed by the said
Stinson. aliter nescit.

Ad 5 et 6 arlos nescit.

Ad 7 dicit et deponit that the said eight bayles of goods, bayes, sayes and broadlothes
soe caused to be laden on board the said shipp did containe all and singular
the goods wares and merchandizes menconed in the said first schedule arlate
the iron only excepted, and the said first schedule was and is a true Invoyce
of the said eight bailes of cloth  and bayes and aforesaid iron, for this deponent wrote the same at

the time of packing up the said goods to bee sent on board the said shipp, and hee
saith that all the said goods menconed in the said first schedule (saving
and excepting the said iron) were at the time of delivering the same to be carried on
board as aforesaid worth the sume of 445 li lawfull English money and somethinge
more, for soe much hee saith they cost the said Baldero not longe before the
said lading thereof, as by their bookes appeareth, which hee hath perused to that purpose
and part of the money was by him on his said masters behalfe paid for the same.
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Ad 8 nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu rendet that hee comes to be a witnes in this cause by the meanes of
the producent, and that hee hath noe share or interest therein, and saith it
will be noe benefitt to him though the producent prevaile in this cause wer pred
to him, though hee be overthrowne, aliter negative.

Ad 2 nescit.

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad 4 et ult dicit repondet that the interr Mathew Goodwin the voyage in the
was factor or agent for the said Mr Baldero at St Michaels interrogate, and soe
that hee this rendent hath seene an accompt, which the said Godon hath not
the producent of taking of the said goods consigned for the Tereraes
a shore at St Michaells, and of disposing of part of the same there.

P me Edward Harwell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
15º Maij 1640

Swanley contra Albert

1us

Super lilo examinatus.

Willimus Jourden famulus et apprenticius George Swanley partis producentis, aetatis 18 annoru
aut circiter, testis in hac causa productus et juratus deponit et sequitur videlicet.

Ad primu arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the shipp the Henry
Bonadventure arlate, having bin for all the time arlate Purser of her, and saith the
producent Captaine Swanley and Company have bin for all the said time and till
and commonly accompted and reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp and of her tackle furniture
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said shipp the Henry
Bonadventure did lie or ride in the River of Thames at the Chaine neere Limehouse
bridge, being a convenient place where shipps doe usually ride, and there shee had
ridden about the space of six weekes next before the dammage in question happened which hee knoweth being frequently on board her in yt time, Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid, and whilest the said
shipp the Henry Bonadventure rode at the chaine as aforesaid, videlicet on or about
the fourteenth day of the moneth of ffebruary arlate, the shipp the Mary
Bonadventure arlate (whereof the arlate Thomas Mullinox was master or commander)
being loose, came driving downe the said River of Thames, and came upon and
fell fowle of the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure upon the head (which was
made newe not longe before) and broke the maine knee of her head and her railes
and did dammage to her Gallaries, and brooke the railes of her sterne, and an anchor
stocke and made a hole in her boughes, And when the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure came soe driveing downe and did the dammage predeposed of, there
was but one man on board her and a boy, for this deponent went then on board
her and sawe noe more but the said man, whoe tolde this deponent then that
there were none others on board her but hee and aby. The premisses touching
the foresaid dammage hee knoweth to bee true, because hee this deponent was then
on board the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure, and sawe the said shipp the
Mary Bonadventure came drivinge downe the river and doe the dammage
aforesaid, and his contest Christofer Wilson and Bradford Wilson were then
alsoe on board. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that by the comming and falling fowle of the
said shipp the Mary Bonadventure upon the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure
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the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure was broken from her Moorings, and was
damnified by the falling fowle of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure as aforesaid upon
her to the summe or valewe of 30li 1s 9d or neere thereabouts, and soe much the said
dammage was valewed and esteemed to be by Mr Callis and (as hee remembreth) Mr Guy two shippwrights
chosen to view the same shortly after the said dammage happened, and soe much or neere
thereabouts the said Swanley and Company expended and disbursed in reparacon
of the said dammage, and new mooring of the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure
which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent on behalfe of the said producent mr Swanley and Company
paid the workemen for the said repaire. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 5 quintu arlum dicit et deponit that in case there had bin such a competent number.
of men aboard the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure as might have moored
her, the dammage in question hee saith might in all probabilitie have bin prevented.
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur et cetera

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Rs EA.

Ad primu rendet that hee is one of the company of the shipp interrate, and is Purser
of her; and saith it will bee neither benefitt nor dammage to him whether Captaine
Swanley prevaile or be overthrowne in this busines, aliter satisfecit supra.

Ad 2 negative et nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that at the time the said Mary Bonadventure fell foule of the said shipp
the Henry Bonadventure as aforesaid it was stormy and tempestuous weather, and
by reason of such coming fowle of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure upon
the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure, the said shipp the Henry Bonadven=
ture being forced as aforesaid from her mooring and by that meanes fell fowle
of other shipps and drowe them from their mooringes, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that it is usuall for some shipps which lie in the River of Thames at anchor
not to have above two or three men constantly on board to looke to them, but
in stormes it is usuall to have more to prevent the danger they may doe or receive
aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 5 nescit.

per William Jordan [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
16º Maij 1648

Crosse et Pauls contra)
Doves et alios)

1us

Super lilo in hac causa dat examinatus.

Abrahamus Muco parochia sancti Olavi in Burgo de Southwarke in Comitatu Surria
Brewer, aetatis 35 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.
deponit et sequitur videlicet.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knew the arlate Andrew Doves in his
life time, and saith hee was in the some of the yeares arlate master of the shipp the
Mary Rose arlate and had then the charge and governement of her, and Paul Bradshaw
arlate (whom this deponent likewise well knoweth ut dicit) was purser of the said shipp
the time aforesaid, and for such they the said Doves and Bradshawe were commonly
accompted and reputed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secondum, 3 et 4u arlos et ad schedulam lilatam deponit et dicit that within the time lilate
the arlate William Crosse and Magdalen Pauls were and are partners in a Brewhouse
in Morgans lane in St Olaves streete in Southwarke, and were owners and lawfull
Proprietors of all and singular the severall quantities of beere and other things schedulate
And saith that in or neere about the [?first] daye of December 1655 hee this deponent for
and on the behalfe of the said William Crosse and Magdalen Pauls did at their said
Brewhouse deliver to the use of the said shipp the Mary Rose all the beere and
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other things menconed in the said schedule (which hee hath nowe read over saving the
of beere
which barrells menconed towards the end of the said schedule, which hee saith were hee
by him delivered to the use aforesaid after the said shipp came home from and
which shee had made after the other were menconed in the former part of the said ship
was delived, And he saith the same was soe delivered to such of the said shipps
company as were sent by the said Doves the master to receive the same, hee this
was
(being clarke to the said mr Crosse and Paul
Master having first spoken to this deponent ⁁ to deliver the same accordingly
told him that the said shipp was to be sett out to sea upon a voyage. And there
deponent since the said shipps retourne from the voyage aforesaid, hath heard both the
said master and Paul Madsham the Purser acknowledge the receipt of the said bee
on board and that it was spent on board the said shipp for the use of the Mariners
and Company aboard. Et aliter nescit, saving that upon the delivery thereof
entred the same in his booke kept for such purpose, and having lately perused
the same hee findeth the it to agree touching the said parcells and prices the
agree with the said schedule. Et aliter nescit

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said sevall parcells of beere and other
thinge the dolate at the time of such delivery thereof to the use of the said
shipp were worth the sewall sumes of money menconed and expressed in the
said schedule and were then soe commonly solde, and soe much is due
the said Crosse and Paul for the same. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes by the meanes and appointment of the pducents
to be a witnes and testifie in this cause, and that hee is servant to them and
is of time to the said Mrs Pauld, favet et conferret victoriamins habenti, aliter
negative.

Ad 2 nescit salvis predepoits, saying hee did not see any of the said beere put
on board the said shipp

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that after the said shipps retourne from the voyage aforesaid this dept
on the behalfe of the said Crosse and Paul demannded the said money of the
who gave this deponent noe satisfaction thereupon
said Daves for the beere and other things aforesaid, aliter negative et nescit.

Ad 5 rendet that to his remembrance the said shipp had made but one voyage
after the delivery of the said beere before the said Crosse and Pauld caused her
to bee arrested. aliter nescit, nescit quod credat./

Abraham Mary

16º Maij 1648. Super allue arlate ex parte Castile dat examinatus.
David Hales paroa beate Maria Magdalen Bermondsey in Com Surria
Nauta, etatis 50 annoru aut circiter dicit quod testis in hac caa productus
et iuratus.

Castile contra Lucy

1us

Rp EA.

xxx
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knoweth the arle
Michael Castile and soe hath donne for theise 16 yeares last past or thereabout
arlate
and did well knowe the shipp the Constance of London having bin Master of
her for the space of two yeares and upwards, and saith that for all the made
arlate and longer hee the said Michael Castile was owner and lawfull
Proprietor of the said shipp and of her tackle and furniture, which hee
knoweth for that hee this deponent bought her for the said Castile of and
knoweth
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dwelling
and sawe the money paid for her by the said Mr Castile at his then house neere
Soperlane end, and for the all the hee this deponent was constituted and appointed
master of the said shipp and continewed master of her and had the charge and government
of her for all the time arlate, And the said Casteele was for all the said time
commonly accompted and reputed owner of the said shipp, tackle and furniture, and
this deponent was likewise commonly accompted master of her for all the time aforesaid.
Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate vizt in or about the
arlate
moneth of Aprill 1648 the said Lucas Lucy and Michael de Hael Hawe did
hire and take the said shipp to freight for a voyage to be made with her from
this porte of London to Dublin in Ireland to carry mant, and did ioyntly
and sevally contract and agree to and with this deponent for and in the name and
on the behalfe of the said Mr Castile, to pay and satisfie unto him the said Mr
Castile the summe or valewe of 40£ sterling for the fraight of the said shipp for
further
the said voyage, and did agree and contract with this deponent that and in the
as for and in the name aforesaid that upon the delivery of the said Mault at
Dublin, the partie receiving it should pay to him this deponent soe much of the said
30£ as hee this deponent should demannd or should thinke fitt there to receive for his
use and occasions and that the rest should be paid here in London. Et aliter nescit.
saving the said contracte was soe made at the said Lucas Luce his house in
Spaine streete London.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid, the said shipp
with the lading of mane aforesaid sett sayle for Dublyn aforesaid and there
safely arrived, this deponent going then master of her and arriving there in her,
and that
which was in or about the moneth of May 1648, and there this deponent delivered
the said male according to the order and direccon of the said Lucas Lucy and
Michael de Harrye to one Mr Phillipp Laydater, whoe received the same as
having power and order from them soe to doe. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent received of the said Lesdaker
at Dublin aforesaid the sume of fiftie foure pounds sterling and noe more
which hee received in parte of the said xxx contracted for as aforesaid, and
saith that neither the said Phillipp Lydater, nor the said Lucas Lucy mr Michael
de Hawe nor any other person have at any time either at Dublyn or elswhere
paid unto this deponent or to any other that hee knoweth of any other or greater
same upon the contract or agreement aforesaid, save then the said sume of
fiftie and foure pounds sterlinge, But hee verily beleeveth the sume of fourty
pounds the remannder of the said sume of 5£ is still companie and custified and
remayneth still due to the said Michael Casteele Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Mault was laden on board the said shipp
by the appointment of the said Lucas such and Michael de Hawe, and for their
see and accompt, which hee knoweth for that hee gave this deponent signed xxx
bill of lading to that purpose, upon taking the said nault on board as aforesaid. Et
aliter nescit.

Super cateris non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria.

and
Ad primu rendet that hee was one of the Company of the said shipp the voyage in question
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videlicet master of her, and all his wages for that voyage are paid him./
a
Ad rende the by want of his or soe his the
expecteth neither proffitt nor dammage whether mr Castile prevaile and
overthrowne therein. aliter negative.
partie

Ad 7 rendet that there was noe charter made upon the contract aforesaid
passed only by word of mouth, and bills of lading given thereupon, and
cetera satisfecit supra in predepoits suis ad que se refert

Ad 4 rendet that there were none other present at the said contract, but the said ship
Lucy and Michael de Hanze and this rendent, they the said Lucy and despare
contracting and ageing poyntly and severally with this deponent for the said
freightment, aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad 5 rendet that having received the 54th at Dublin as aforesaid hee this rendet
remitted the remayning 40£ by bill of exchange to be paid here at London to
Mr Castile to whom it was due, this rendent having noe occasion to use it hee
Dublin, which the interr Legaber did not refuse to pay him (because this rendent
did not demannd payment of it there) but gave this rendent the said bill of the
Exchange to Mr Lucas knowe, according to former agreement, quoad cetera
refert se ad predepoita.

Ad 6 rendet that the said shipp the Constance came noe more home from
or about
that voyage, shee being cast away in January following the premisses by stormy
weather and breaking of her rudder, for want whereof shee was split upon
the rocks upon the Islands of Scotland, and saith the said Michaelde
and resided
have dwell ⁁ then at Charditch neere London, but liveth nowe in Dover
aliter nescit.
Hane Hare
16º Maij 1648.

super lilo prd exaiatus

Bristoferus Wilson de Stepney in Com Midd Nauta, ubi hitavit
per 38 annos aut circiter, etatis 54 annoru aut circiter testis in
hac caa pductus et iuratus.

Swanly contra dilbert

2

ye
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the time arlate the producent
George Swanley and company were and still are commonly accompted laste
owners and Proprietors of the shipp the Henry Bonadventure arlate and of her
tackle and furniture. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit within the time arlate the said shipp the George
Bonadventure did lie or ride at the chaine neere Limehouse bridge, being
in ye river of Thames
a convenient place ⁁ where shipps doe usually ride, and there shee had soe
redden by the space of six weekes or thereabouts next before the dammage in
question happened, and that without doing or receiving any dammage, which
hee knoweth, being then Boatswaine in her, and frequently aboard or while
shee soe rode there. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu et quartu arlos dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid and goe
the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure ride at the Chaine aforesaid vizt
aliter
or about the 14th day of ffebruary last past, the said shipp the Allen
Bonadventure being loose from her mooring by the arlesnes or negligence of
the arlate Thomas Mallinox the master of her, came driveing downe the said
River of Thames with winde and tide, and came upon and fell fowle of
their said shipp the Henry Bonadventure upon the head being which was bee
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before made newe, and broke the maine knee of her head, and her railes, and an
in anchor stocke belonging to her and some of her prit sailerigging, and did some
dammage to her Galleries, And saith that by such her coming and falling fowle
upon the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure as aforesaid the said shipp the
Henry Bonadventure was broken from her Marrings and damnified in his
sterling
estimacon to the valew of 30£ The premisses hee deposeth knoweth to bee true
because hee was then on board the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure and sawe
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure came driving downe the river and
doe the dammage aforesaid his contests William Jourdan & Bradford Wilson
as alsoe three or foure others of their company being then alsoe on board the said
shipp the Henry Bonadventure, and there were but to a man and a boy
then on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure as themselves confessed
which man and by this deponent sawe on board her and noe more. Et aliter nescit
deponere.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that in case there had bin such a competent number
of men on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure the time predeposed as
might have moored her, the dammage in question might in this deponents
judgment have bin in all probabilitie prevented. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur er

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee is one of the company ⁁ and being boatson in the said shipp
and that it will bee neither benefitt nor past dammage to him whether mr Swanley
prevaile or be overthrowne in this sute, and saith hee is servant to him by
his said office in the said shipp, aliter negative.

Ad 2 et 3 rendet that at the time interr it was stormy weather, aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that it is xxxxx an usuall and ordinary thinge for shipps which lie in
the river of Thames at anchor and are delivered of their goods and well moored,
constantly
not to have above two or three men on board cause to looke to them, and hee
beleeveth the said man and by on board the Mary Bonadventure as aforesaid did
their best endeavour to prevent the dammage aforesaid, but in waine, xx
without more only Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad quese refert.

Ad ult nescit./

Ex ptyer Wilson

Eadem die. Super lilo pred exaiatus.

Eadem die. Super lilo pred exaiatus.

Bradford Wilson filius Christofer Wilson precontestis sua, etatis
21 annoru aut circiter, et moran facious cum dci sua pate, testis
etiam productus et iuratus.

3s

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the shipp the Henry
Bonadventure xxx (whereof the pducent George Swanley is master or comander)
for theise six yeares last past or thereabouts, and for all the time arlate the said
George Swanley and company were and still are commonly accompted and
and of her
reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp, tackle and furniture
Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit within the time arlate the said shipp the Henry
Bonadventure did lie or ride in the river of Thames at the paine neere
Limehouse bridge, a place convenient and where shipps doe usually ride and
lie, and there had soe redden before the dammage in question happened) about two monethes
Spe
his
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together within doinge or receiving any damage of this deponents knowledge
lying
whoe was allmost constantly on board her, and by ⁁ on board her every for the
most part of that time. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu et quintu arlos dicti lili dicit et deponit that in the ptime aforesaid
within or were about the moneth of ffebruary last past, whilest the said shipp
any Comuch coman chaine the
soe of the arlate Thomas Malley was master or Commander)
the one Mr andenture and as hisses in the shipp the Merchant
Bonadventure arlate ⁁ being loose from her mooring came driving downe the
river of Thames and came upon and fell fowle of the said shipp the Henry
in three places
Bonadventure upon the head, and broke the maine knee of her head, and the
one of her anchor stocks (vizt the stock of her best bougher anchor) and her
sailes, and beate a hole in her side with the flooke of her anchor, mast and
and hee saith the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure had gove made but hee
voyage after her head had bin newe made before the said dammage happened and
when the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure did the said dammage recd
but one two persons on board her that this deponent could see, but whether
either of them was a boy or not hee knoweth not, the evening being dussist
but on board their said shipp the Henry Bonadventure there were then this
deponent and his contests William Jourdan and Christofer Wilson, and
William Thomas Griggs their cooke, And hee saith that by the coming
and falling fowle of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure upon the said
shipp the Henry Bonadventure as aforesaid, the said shipp the Henry Vander
was broken from her moorings The premisses hee deposeth of his owne
sight and knowledge being present and seeing the same soe donne. And
by the comming and falling fowle of the said shipp the xxx Mary Bonadventer
upon the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure, the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure
hath
was damnified to the summe or valewe of 30£ as this deponent heard the
Shipwright that were chose to viewe the said dammage astians and
compute the same. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 arlum dicit that in case there had bin such a competent number of men
on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure as might have moored
her the time aforesaid, the dammage in question hee saith might in
all probabilitie have bin prevented. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinature.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee is one of the shipps company interr, being house
mate in her, and saith it will be noe benefitt to him in case Captaine Swanly
prevaile, nor damage though hee be overthrowne in this in this suite, aliter negative

Ad 2 nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that at the time the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure did the fast
dammage, it was a greate storme, and when the said Mary Bonadventure had
soe driven their said shipp from her xxxx mooring as aforesaid, their said stopping
in the river of Thames aforesaid
shipps
drove two others from their moorings, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet quod nescit.

Ad ult nescit./

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17º Maij 1648. Super allegacone arlate ex parte ffowell et alioru examinatus.

Johannes willippe the Maria Magdalen Bermondsey in burgo de
Southwarke Nauta, etatis 36 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa pductus et
juratus.

Powell et alj contra

Stanly

6

Ad 16uj arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that about a twelve moneth since this
then
deponent being master of the Robert of London did lie and was with his said shipp and
the porte of
her company at Bouring in Bretague in ffrance, and to receive in lading to bee thence
transported for Poole in Dorsettire, and when hee had soe rudden there about eight
dayes, the Robert Church master of the said shipp the John and Ambrose arlate
arrived the and company arrived there alsoe with the said shipp the John and
Ambrose, to take in lading for Newfound land, and hee saith that although this
deponent and company last noe oportunitie, but used all speede to lade their said
shipp and hasten their voyage, yet hee well observed that the said Church and
Company were soe diligent and carefull in amproving all oppertunities to further
their said voyage, that they had taken in their lading, and sett saile assoone as
this deponent and company with their said shipp. And hee sawe and observed
that the said Chary and company while they there continewed did followe their
busines close and the company wrought hard to lade their said shipp, without
by neglect whatsoever that this deponent could perceive, and being soe
laden they the said Harch and company with the said shipp the John and
Ambrose, and this deponent and Company with his said shipp, and his
contest John Hawleet with and company with their shipp and one Mr
Seaver and Company with another shipp called the Hercules did all sett
saile together on or neere about the xith day of May 1647 the said
Church and company being (as hee remembreth) the first that soe went
out of the said harbour, and that night they all came together to an anchor
ver Bell Isle, where they found diverse of the Kinge of ffrannce his men
of warr riding, and there having ridd about five or six dayes for a winde
seaventeenth
on or about the reputeenth day of the said moneth the said Church and company
with the said shipp the John and Ambrose did putt to sea with the said
men of warr, with such a scant and bare winde that as this deponent
out
well
conceiveth when they were at sea they could not laye their course for
except they found the winde longer at sea then this deponent and the others
did under the said Island, where hee and the said dwell, Howler and
Seaver did still continew riding as not deeming the winde serviceable enough
for them to goe out, although therein it was largoe for them then for the
said Church. And hee saith the said men of warr were the next men
morning forced backe againe under the said xxx Island by fowle weather
and yet soe was intent and carefull were the said Church and company
to further and presequite their said voyage for Newfound land whither
they were bound with all speede and diligence, that they kept the sea
as this deponent remembreth) longer then the said simen of warr, notwithstandinge
the said shipp the John and Ambrose was deepe laden with salte, and came not
in under the said Island after the said men of warr, till they were forced
in by fowle weather and contrary winde. And there having againe
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continewed for two or three dayes they the said Harch and Company of
the said shipp the John and Ambrose departed of this deponents sight and Mr
knowledge with the very first opportunitie of winde and weather which was
or about the nyneteenth day of the same moneth, the winde being then and
but stant for his said course, and soe soone, that this deponent and the said
howler and leaver did not budge till the next day although they had
second
winde longer then the said Chary had. And all in all things hee said
and company
Charth and further and prosecute the said voyage for the best day
of their merchant (whoe (as hee heard) was one mr Stanley of Southam
while they were soe in the sight and company of this deponent, without
omitting or neglecting any oppertaintie of winde or weather or otherwise
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving hee hath knowne the said mr Chart
for theise five or six yeares last past xxx

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

John Dell
----
Vicesimo die Maij 1648

Super allega arlate ex parte Laurence dat exaiatus.

Willimus James de Shadwell parochia de Stepney in Com Midd
Nauta aetatis 30 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus
Habon contra Laurence

1us

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath used the up within theise
tyme soe three yeares last past made two voyages with the producent Captaine Lawrence
into the coasts and parts arlate seas of West India and America, and by that
meanes hee well knoweth that there hath bin and is hostilitie for all that time a
common report in those parts that there hath bin was hostilitie and open warr betweene
the subiects of the Kinge of England and the subiects of the kinge of Spaine within
the bounds and upon the coasts and seas arlate, and that it was lawfull to take
each others shipps and goods there as is arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that the producent Captaine Lawrence before his
going forth upon the voyage in question tolde this deponent that hee had a Comission
from the Earle of Warwick to the effect arlate, and this deponent beleeveth that
Lawrenge
a
hee had such a Comission, for that when hee the said Captaine Harbor had
hired this deponent to goe in the said voyage vizt to Ginney and thence to the
Barbadoes and soe home for England, and this deponent being prest into
of the Parliamts
the States service ⁁ after by land after such his hiring, hee the said Captaine
Lawrence did procure his release by vertue of the said Comission, but for
the contents thereof hee knoweth not, for that hee this deponent did never
the same, nor heard it read to his remembrance. Et aliter nescit.

et 6
Ad quintu arlat dicit et deponit that the voyage in question vizt about the
moneth of Auch two yeares and a halfe since the shipp the John and Peace
arlate riding at the month of Callabarr river at x on the coasts of Ginney
and their master Roger Lawrence and diverse others of the company being &
or thereabouts
shore with both their boates, leaving not above twelve men on board their said
shipp (as not fearing the arrivall of any other shipp to put them in feare or
hazard) the arlate John Bernard ffalcon and Company arrived there with
shipp as from Portugall Princes an Island belonging to Portugall, and
came to an anchor neere unto them, and within the space of two houres of
thereabouts after such their arrivall, the said John Bernard ffollon hee
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Captaine of the said shipp came on board their shipp the John and Isaack
with his boate which was rowed by foure negroes, and which hee steered as xxx
Cowson thereof, with a message (as hee pretended) from their Captaine to
desire libertie of their said master to trade there, pretending himselfe to bee
their
a subiect of the Kinge of Portugall, and that this said shipp did belonge to
Portugall, and that hee had but twelve men on board and six peeces of
ordinance, whereas it afterwards plainely appeared to this deponent that hee
had fourtie men on board at the least and twelve peeces of ordinance, and then
hee being by their and masters mate acquainted that their said master was
not on board, hee retourned to his said shipp and came againe the next
day steering the said boate as before, and againe pretended the same message
factines
and brought a present of Coker nutts and a mon and such like to their said
and their said master
master wyne was then on board and intertained him very freely and promised
him all the made and assistance that hee should demannd. And by reason
of the premisses this deponent verily beleeveth and did then conceive and
suspect that hee came with purpose to espie their strength on board and
to lake his oportunitie to surprize and seize their said shipp and goods which
hee well perceived to be an English shipp. Et aliter nescit deponere
saving hee was present at the premisses and sawe and heard the same.
Ad octavu et novu arlos dicit et deponit that while the said shipp the John and
Isaack ride as aforesaid at an anchor without the barr of Callabarr the said
said shipp soe pretended to belonge to Portugall drowe a ground upon the said
in the night time, and in the morning the master and company of her made
signes by wastes and shooting off at least twenty peeces of Ordinance that
they were in dannger, and then at by length the said Captaine John
Bernardo ffalcon came againe on board them and declared himselfe to bee
Captaine of the said shipp, and with yeares befought their said master Roger
Lawrence to send out his boates and help to save his men, the weather
being then very foule, and the said Roger Lawrence at the xxx intreatie
and importunitie of the said Captaine, did send out both his boates
and men in the to the said shipps side to help and assist the said shipp
shipp and ⁁ company, which could not be donne, but with greate hazard for
hee saith the weather was then very fowle, in somuch that they passed
in greate danger, this deponent being one of the company that went in
the said boates, and hee saith that the company of the said shipps Portugall
a Spanish Shis shipp being in greate hazard of perishing left their said
shipp and came away in the boates aforesaid belonging to the John and Isaack
aboard the said shipp the John and Isaack, and staid on board her without
going on board their owne shipp againe by the space of eleaven dayes, saving
company
that nowe and then in that time some of the said officers of the said shipp
went on board her at high water, to see what they could save of their goods
but not to stay, but retourned againe to the said shipp the John and (Isaack
in the said six boate. The premisses hee de knoweth, because hee sawe
the same soe donne as hee hath predeposed. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 110u arlum et ad schedulam in eadem menconat et tempere eius examinacons
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plect dicit et deponit that there were brought from the said Port
or Spanish shipp in the boates arlate on board the said shipp the de
Barcke the goods and merchandizes following vizt about betweene from
six they and Copper Kings, nyne warrs of powder (the weight thereof and
or tenn
knoweth not) is warrs of wine, eight small was of oyle, At suall this
saile and three bases, one small boy of sugar (the weight whereof hee and
not) a small box of reasons, one small box of beades, six New
and 28 small had granadoes. And hee saith hee this deponent being the
Cooper and
Steward of the said shipp did take notice of the said thinge soe brough
board their said shipp and did on the masters behalfe enter the such and
in and enter the same, and delivered the same out againe, and to his beste
remembrance their were noe more or other goods or negroes brought the
the foresaid shipp in board the said shipp the John and Isaack then came
to the hands or possession of the said Roger Lawrence then what hee hath
predeposed. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that when at any time their said boate
went to fetch ought from the said shipp soe droven a ground, some of the
company of the said shipp that was aground went in the said boate, when
hee beleeveth fetcht the said goods out of the said shipp and put them into
their said boate, Et aliter nescit.
company of the

Ad 12. et 13. arlos dicit et deponit after the said Spanish or Portugall and
shipp had staid aboard their said shipp the John and Isaack by the space
of eleaven dayes as aforesaid, the said shipp heere called the Nostra Sen
de La Conception St Anthonio was driven further on uppon the Sand
and at length came into deeper water, and drigging her anchor after
her, shee came to ride by it, which being by perceived by their said
master Roger Lawrence and this deponent and the rest of the company there
said master desired the said John Bernard ffalcon and the rest of
his company to goe on board their said shipp and looke to her, this
deponent being present and seeing the said shipp the Nostra Seniora
de La Conception St Anthonio soe ride and hearing their said master
soe speake unto them, and accordingly upon the personsions of the said
Roger Laurence, the said Bernardo ffalcon and the rest of his company
(saving two of the said company and six of the said negroes whoe refused to goe
board) went aboard their said shipp, and carried her into a certaine
river about a lega league discent from the said river of Cabber,
but the name of that river hee knoweth not. The premisses hee knoweth
their said shipp the John and Isaack
being on board and hearing and seeing the same soe donne. Et aliter nescit.

deponere unto
Ad decium ⁁ arlum dicit et deponit that a greate parte of the wine, after
sugar and reasons aforesaid and menconed in the schedule arlate were of
this deponents sight and knowledge spent and disposed of by the said
Company of the said shipp soe called the mostra Geniora de La Comple
St Anthonio and Et aliter nescit deponere.
aforesaid that

Ad 16uj arlum dicit et deponit that dureing all the time the Company of
the said shipp (soe as before said to belonge to Portugall being fourte at
were aboard their said shipp the John and Isaack they had sufficient
nally to the of his owne come
of victualls, meate and drincke at the charge of the said Roger are
Cooper and
which hee knoweth because hee was then steward on board the said shipp and
delivered the same out for them. Et aliter nescit. And hee saith that into
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iudgement and estimacon the diett of 40 men by the space of 8 dayes in the
ports of Ginney where the said shipps then were, and considering the dernesse
goods
was and
and scarcitie of pressions in those parts, is worth the sume of fourtie pounds sterling
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 17 arlum dicit et deponit that about the a weeke after the said Bernardo ffalson xxx and
company were soe gone aboard their said shipp the Nostra Seniora, the said Roger
Lawrence upon his request did give him the said Bernardo a barrell of English
Powder for the defence of his said shipp, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent
saved the same delivered to some of the said Bernardes company that came for
the same, but the worth of the said barrells of powder hee knoweth not. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 13uj arlum dicit et deponit that at the time that the said Roger Lawrence and
Company did releeve and rescue the Captaine and Company of the said shipp
the Nostra Seniora, the said shipp and company were in greate danger
then
of perishing, and the said Company had then in the apprehension of this deponent
and company and all probabilitie bin utterly last and cast away, had they not bin
said Roger Lawrence his
brought off in their boates ⁁ as aforesaid, and and had not had the assistance of the
said Roger Lawrence and Company as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
and the foresaid some of her goods
5
the fetching off the said company was a greate lighteing to the shipp to make
her the more apt to nover the barr, as at length shee did./
Super reliquis conteris arlis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes by the meanes of the producent to be a witnes
in this cause, wherein hee saith hee hath noe share nor interest, and that it will
be noe benefitt to him if Captaine Lawrence prevaile in this sute, nor dammage
if hee be overthrowne, nor is hee apprentice or of time to the producent, nor otherwise
servant to him then by being one of his company as aforesaid, quoad cetera satisfecit
upon
interr

Ad 2 rendet that hee knoweth not the name of the shipp ⁁ otherwise then by hearing
of the same at the time of his exáminacon, nor wherewith shee was laden saving
the things and goods predeposed of, and saith that as this respondent understood
by the discourse of the or two ffrences that were brought with the rest of the
said shipps company abord their said shipp the John and Isack, the said shipp
saith
and goods belonged to a church in Spaine, and ⁁ that the said ffalcon was master
and
heard Captaine of her. Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that the foresaid rings were solde some to the Negroes at Ginney and
some at Barbadoes by their master but for what or howe much hee knoweth not
and the powder was brought home to London, but the wine, oyle, sugar and
raisons were spent aboard partly by Bernards ffolcons company and partly by
their owne. and spritt saile and three buses are still on board their shipp
the beades were ⁁ away to the Negroes, whoe were left at Barbadoes. Et aliter
nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad 5 rendet that none but Hollanders and English are used to trade in the place
interr as this deponent hath often heard. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 rendet that the said Bernardo ffalson did twice send unto the said Laurence
read goods and nes
deing him demannding the reddelivery and reston ⁁ back againe unto him the
said Bernards, where they were at Callabarr aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 rendet negative, saving what hee that hee had part of the said wine
oyle raisons and sugar as it was spent for pvisions of the shipp amongst the
rest of the Company.
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Vicesimia secundo die Maij 1648.

Sup allue arlate ex parte Comas

3 sessione trim in Port 1648 examinatus.

Johannes Stone de Dartmouth in Com Devon Nauta, etatis 33 annoru dat
circiter testis in hac cause productus et juratus deponit et sequitur ved

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath bin twice at Albertaine arlate at
fower et al contra

Hawkins

1s

R E

thereby knoweth that the Inhabitants there are Moores (saving some hee being
amongst them) and a barbarous persidions people, and soe are the Governand
Rulers of the place, and saith they are soe false to Christians, that they accompt
it a deponent to keepe saith with them, in regard thereof such Christon
goe to trade with them doe frequently and constantly carry some Jew or May
in the shipp with them whom they send on shore to maderate for them in gettinge
and procure
libertie of for them to trade there and such goods as they desire, which hee
Jon
knoweth because they carried a serve in their shipp at both the times hee was
there as aforesaid (which was in the shipp the Charles whereof the producent
was master) and becam hee hath heard it there reported that it is the company
custome for Christians soe to doe. And the voyage in question the shipparted
her
the Talbott had a Jewes on board the there, whoe was sent on shore to the said
purpose, which Jewe hee saith while they laye there with their said shipp the
Charles came on board them, and this deponent sawe him goe to and from
the said shipp the Talbott to the shore. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that as hee heard and was credibly informed
at Alberine aforesaid the Governour or Alade there in case hee permitt and
suffer the Christians to trade there, doth constantly exact and will have a good
will
sume of money in hand by way of gratitie before hee after them to take in
any goods or commodities from thence, and this deponent being on board the said
shipp the Talbott the while hee laye there the voyage in question, did heare
Joseph Blowe the master of her saye that his merchants had procured command
there upon those termes, and had given the Arade a giste or present money
and other things to a good valewe, but the particulars or some that this deponent
doth not remember as hee saith. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that such parties and persons especially thise
as come to Alborne to trade after and notwithstanding such their givinge or
paying their said first summe or payment by way of gratitie doe from time
to time require hostages from the Aloade or Governour and Inhabitants
of the place for the true performance of their promises with such as this dept
was there credibly informed, and as it is there commonly reported to bee the bee
witt the said Captaine Staking and to
and custone, And hee saith that they for their parts when afterwards of
retourned
xxxx thither with their said shipp the Charles, and had gotten libertie of
the Alade to traffique there, they had were upon their demannd of the
they had a moore whoe was the Alades kinsman sent on board them for his
their securitie, which hee knoweth seeing him come aboard them, and stay bee
till they had donne taking in their lading there. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that the of the said said Captaine Hawkins of
Company well knowing and understanding by their gave whom they had soe and hee
them as aforesaid, have ready the said Moores were to seize any thersons
shee came ashore not withwithstanding their promises of libertie and de
of trade with them, and to detaine them untill they were conson aforesaid
such of their company as had occasion to goe on shore for water of the
the said shipp
as some of their hee saith did foure times while way by there greife
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one) went from time to time well armed with swords, guns, pikes and pistalls,
not withstanding that they had first gott leave to trade there of the Aoade, And
saith that none of their said company did not at any time adventure to goe ashore
marined while there said shipp soe continewed there. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the voyage in question while the said shipps
the Charles and Talbottried at Alborne aforesaid this deponent did heare
daye of the said Joseph Blowes Company say and confesse that they understanding
howe dangerous it was to deale and trade with the said Moores at Alborne
did refuse to undertake the said voyage untill such time as the Spaniards, whoe
fraighted their said shipp the Talbot from Suta to Alborne aforesaid had
engaged themselves to ransome such and soe many of their said company as
should be seized by the said Inhabitants or others at the Alborne, and they
them further said and confessed that the said merchants did soe engage themselves
and undertake to free them in case of such surprizall. Et aliter nescit
deponere.
two

Ad sextum arlum dicit de deponit that while both the said shipps and laye and
were in the rode of Alboyinge aforesaid, this deponent sawe diverse of the
company of the said shipp the Talbott goe on shore there armed, and therefore
hee for his part verily beleeveth it was through their owne carlessnesse that
they were seized by the Moares, howbeit hee did not see them goe on shore at
the time when they were soe seized, this deponent being first gonne out to
sea wt in their said shipp the Charles before such time as they were said
to be soe seized. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that at the time that the said Captaine
Hawking in the said shipp the Charles first mett with the Turckish shipp when
arlate and questioned the master and Company thereof (which hee saith was
of from Lilborne aforesaid
at sea, at least three leagues of from the place where the said shipp
the about good and where the said shipp the Charles had and before shee sett
saile there was noe league or peace conclanded betweene his Matie of England
neither
and the Tarke, that this deponent knew of, and hee beleeveth ⁁ their master
Captaine Hawkins nor any other of the said company knew or understood that there
was any such peace an or league, for if they had knowne or heard thereof this
deponent beleeveth hee should have heard them speake thereof, which hee saith
hee did not. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Charles and the said
Surlish shipp being both gonne out to sea as aforesaid, and the said Turnish
shipp perceiving the said shipp the Charles to be an English shipp by the English
mensigne, which shee had spread, and being afraide of her (as this deponent conceiveth)
the said Turnish shipp with all speede made from their said shipp the
Charles and rann on shore, and the said Thomas Hawkins sending his boate
a board the said Turckish vessell to fetch a Christion that hee understood to bee
therein that hee might enquire the reason of such their runninge on shore, the
company on board the said Turckish shipp by heaveing over iron shott or stones
or some other thing, (which this deponent from the or said shipp the Charles sawe
in the head
them doe) did steely wound one of the said Captaine Hawkins his men and hurt
the shoulder of
another of them and broke some part of the skiffe wherein they went, which hee
knoweth because hee sawe them retourne to their said shipp the Charles soe wounded
and port, and sawe the said skiffe retourne broken as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit
deponere.

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Ad nonu arlum dicit et deponit that fort with upon the retourne of their said
their said shipp the Charles, the said Captaine Hawkins caused a peece of
Ordnannce to bee said from the said shipp at or words the said alsoe
which hee knoweth being present and seeing it downe and hearing the said Capt
acknes give order for the same, and hee saith that the arles on board the
deserting their said vessell and raminge washore, certaine Spaniards the
the xx of
on board their said shipp the Charles (whereof the pte
one) accompanied with three of their said company went in a shallopp which hee
said Spaniards had on board their said shipp the Charles and boarded
entred the said Gurlish vessell and possessed themselves thereof. which
hee knoweth being masters mate on board the said shipp the Charles, and
seeing them soe goe and enter the said Turckish shipp Et aliter nescit deponere
saving they had & Spaniards in all on board the said Charles, vizt at such Cargo a als
within the space of foure or thereabouts.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that about ten dayes next after the promised
the arlate Thomas Hunkins arrived with the said shipp the Charles at Malloe
within the Dominions of the Kinge of Spaine, accompanied with the said
Elish shipp, which hee knoweth because hee arrived there in the said shipp
the Charles whereof hee was masters mate as aforesaid, and hee saith that
within the space of a weeke or thereabouts next after such arrivall the
Governour of Mallega commanded that the corne in the said Turckish
vessell should bee unladen and putt into the citty store house, which hee saith
was accordingly donne, to which the said Thomas Hawkins expressed much
unwillingnes and great dislike. The premisses hee knoweth seeing the
Governours officers come on board and hearing them acquaint the said son
hawking with the said Governours command and order therein, and seeing the
unlading.
said corne carrying from the said Turckish shipp and carrying to the said
storehouse of the citie aforesaid, and hearing the said Hawkins expresse
much dislike thereat in Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that after the said Thomas Hawfull
arrived at Mallega and understood that there was a league or peace by
before agreed upon betweene this Kingdome and the Governourt of Algier
hee the said Captaine Hawkins endeavoured to gett the said corne to be rideing
but the said Governour refusing to reddeliver the same, the said Captaine
hawking about five weekes after such his first arrivall a Mallega soe
accompanied with
saile with the said shipp the Charles ⁁ and the said Turckish shipp and
retourned for Alboyine, and there arriving, did in the rode there read
deliver the said Turkish shipp with the her apparell tackle and
furniture to the master or Captaine and company of her. And other
the said Turckish master or Captaine did acquitt the said Thomas
hawking of and from the said corne and from any dammage sustance
or donne by meanes of taking or seizing the same or of the said shipp
and to that purpose hee caused an Instrument to be drowne by a
Scrivano, whom they had on board, which was affected by witnesses, and the said
deponent Instrument and release was made and given after the said
Turckish shipp was reddelivered to the said master of her, and after hee to be
the possession of her, and at the same time and dive the bee
deparein this deponent heard the said Turckish master say that he was and
feete for his remedy from the Spaniards. Et aliter nescit saving received
present in the premisses and same and heard the same./
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Ad duodecium arlum dicit et deponit that the Merchants or ffreighters of the said shipp
the Talbott the voyage in question did soe and impleade the said Thomas Hawkins
at Mallega upon the xx pretences of dammage as the partie for taking the
said Turkish shipp and goods (which as hee hath bin informed as the same thing for
which this sute is commansed) which hee knoweth accompanying the said Hawkins while
to the Governour and the Scrivanes while hee was answering and defending the
said sute, and in the space of about a fortnight the said Captaine Hawkins was
there acquitted and released from the said pretences and accons, and had his
as
libertie from the Governour ⁁ and being cleered from the said sute. Et aliter nescit
deponere in

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that in truth hee conceiveth and is perily pswaded
that the Governour and Inhabitants of Alborne did seize, surprize and
some of
detaine ⁁ the company of the Talbott meerly for here sake and to gett money
for their release, which hee is the rather induced to beleeve because as hee
saith they were released againe for money before such time as the said
Turnish vessell was redelivered to the master and company thereof, as this
deponent and alsoe the said Captaine Hawkins and company were informed upon
their retourne to Alborne with the said Turkes shipp. Et aliter nescit
deponere.

Ad decium quartu arlum dicit that upon their retourne with the said shipp the
Charles and the said Turckish shipp to Alborne and after they had there
gotten leave to brade, they were credibly informed both by the said Turckish
master or Captaine whoe had bin on shore with the Alade, as alsoe by the
hostages which they had on board, that what money the said Captaine Blewe
or any others on his behalfe had paid to the said Alade or any other there
for or about redeeming of his men that were seized, was by the said governour
and persons that received the same converted to their owne proffitt and use
and not given to the Tarkes for x or in lieu of the dammage sustained
by the seizure of the said corne or of the shipp aforesaid, this deponent
their said
hearing both the said Turckish master and alsoe the hostages soe affirme
on board their said shipp the Charles. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee was one of the company of the said shipp the
Charles the voyage in question, and hath received all his wages for the same,
and hath noe part or interest in the said shipp

Ad 2 rendet that hee hath bin twice at Alborne the voyage in question in
the said shipp the Charles to trade with the Moores for corne, and hath not
at any other time bin there, and the last came hee was there was in the
moneths of September and October last or thereabouts, and then they traded
with the Moores for come. Et aliter nescit quoad cetera satisfecit supra
negative salvis
predepoits suis ad qua se refert

Ad 3 rendet that hee beleeveth and hath heard that it is an usuall and ordinary
thinge for masters of shipps or others on their behalfe to obtaine leave from
the cheife Governour at Alborne and parts thereabouts to trade and
traffique there with them, which leave the said Governours doe seldome denie
first
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Ad 4 rendet that hee was in the shipp the Road when shee came to
Alborne the voyage in question, and saith the said shipp the Talla and
then there. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 5 rendet that there was be brought on board to their said master and
harkins as from the Governour wherein hee was denied trading there said
whither the said hee was indeede sent home by the said Governour or were
secured
knoweth wer, but for were, hee this rendent beleeveth was by the said
and contivance of the said Captaine Ballowe and the Jen when hee in the
for this deponent rendent heard their Moore that was sent and suffe
the Charles
upon their retourning thither from Mallega
the Charles
on board their said shipp saye and affirme that the said Captaine Ball
had given the Aleade or Governour six hundred peeces of eight more
suffer the said Captaine Hawkins to trade there, quoad cetera refert said
ad predepoita.
de

Ad 3u rendet that the said Turnish shipp predeposed of soe seized as before
at Morina
was ⁁ laden with corne, which shipp was seized ⁁ after the deniall of trade
interr and after shee had bin out at sea, and after such seizure the said
Captaine Blewes boate came aboard the said shipp the Charles with
make therein to desire the said Captaine Hawkins to deliver up againe the
said shipp and corne, telling and then the said Blawes mate tolde the
said Harkins that the Moores had sent on board them to desire ther wind
to send to the said ffarckins to that effect. Et aliter nescit salvis prdepose

Ad 8 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 9 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 10uj rendet that after the taking of the said Turnish shipp and come
aforesaid, the said Captaine Hawkins caused part of her lading of corne
to be taken out of her and put into his owne shipp the Charles before
hee came to Mallega, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 11uj arlum interr rendet some of the company of the said shipp the Charles
did by order of the said Captaine Hawkins board the said Turckish shipp
and bringe her by the said shipp the Charles quoad cetera refert se ad
predepoita, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12uj nescit.

Ad 13 rendet that while the said Captaine Hawkins laye and remained
with the said Turnish vessell at Mallega, the shipp the Tallata
arrived in the partons sight, and the her boate came into the habour
with the Chirurgeon of the said shipp the Talbott, which said Caphan
came unto the said Hawkins and desired him to send back the Tarris
Captaine and such other of his company as hee had abord (which hee
were foure men more) with him on board the said shipp the Toback
hurt
but spake nothing of the shipp or of her lading that this rendent heard)
but the said Captaine Humbins did not deliver the said men, because
hee purposed shortly after to goe back thither and carry them within
and restore them, which hee accordingly did. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14 nescit.

Ad 15 rendet that the hee beleeveth the master and company of the said
the Talbott were able enough to have taken the said Surnish shipp and
or vessell, and might have donne soe if they had attempted it aliter
Ad 16 rendet that the said Hankins had a share of the foresaid corne or the
by the Governour of Mallega, and before the bringing of the said shippe and
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Mallega the said Hawkins could have restored or procured the restoring of the
said corne soe taken in the Turkish shipp, but not afterwards as hee beleeveth
Quoad [?catera] refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit

Ad 17 rendet that hee sawe the said Turkish vessell delivered to the Turcke Captaine
and some of his company from whom shee was taken,
and saith hee sawe the writing predeposed which the said Turckish Master
gave to the said Captaine Hawkins for his release and discharge as aforesaid
and the same hee saith was written in the Spanish language which this deponent
understandeth, and the said Turke alsoe understood the same, for hee
spake Spanish reasonable well of this deponents knowledge,
but what witnesses were present at the signing thereof this deponent
remembreth not. Et aliter nescit.

Ad ult nescit et negative salvis predepoits, ad qua se refert

John Stone [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
24º Maij 1648 

Super allen pred examinatus.

Edwardus Harfeild de Wapping parochia de Stepney in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta
ubi habitavit per 9 annos ult aut eo circiter, aetatis 26 annoru aut circiter
testis in hac causa etiam productus et juratus.

ffalcon contra Lawrence)

2

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath made three voyages
into the coasts and Seas of West India and America within the space of foure
yeares ending about November last past, and saith that at all times of
such his being in those parts and coasts it was commonly accompted and reported
that there was open warr and hostilitie betweene the subiects of the respective
Kings arlate in those seas and coasts, and as enemies to each other they then & there tooke
and surprized the shipps and goods of each other, and such shipp and goods
soe taken were then and there held and accompted to be lawfully taken and
to be lawfull prize. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving hee made all the said
three voyages in the shipp the John and Isaack, of which Captaine Lawrence
was for all the said time and is master.

Ad tertiu nescit saving hee heard the said Roger Laurence say that hee had such a Commission
and saving hee heard their then Boatson (whose name hee remembreth not) saye that hee
had sett his hand to the said Commission

Ad 4 nescit.

Ad 5 et 6 arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that the voyage in question videlicet
about two yeares and three quarters since the shipp the John and Isaack
arlate riding at Anchor without the barr of Calabarr, the arlate John
Bernardo ffalcon with his shipp arlate came to an anchor neare
unto the place where the said shipp the John and Isaack ridd, and the said
ffalcon came with his boate on board their said shipp the John and Isaack, hee
himselfe steering the boate as Coxon thereof and foure negroes rowing him,
and comming a board the said ffaccon pretended himselfe to be a subiect of
the kinge of Portugall, and pretended that the said shipp the Nostra Seniora belonged
to Portugall, and the said Roger Lawrence entertained him very friendly
and promised him all the aide and assistance that hee could give him, The
premisses hee deposeth and knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent went the
said voyage in the said shipp the John and Isaac and was Coxon on
board her, and sawe the said ffalcon soe came on board and heard him speake to
(the
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the effect aforesaid this deponent partly understanding him his language And
for that the said ffaccon proved to bee afterwards to be a Spaniard and the
his shipp belonged to Spaine, and in that hee came on board as Coxon whoe
and pretended himselfe to bee only Quardian of the said shipp when as
hee Captaine of her, and having bin once before on board their said shipp to the
this deponent was informed while there their said master Roger Laurence
was gone with both his boates and diverse of his company (whereof a
deponent was one) on shore, this deponent verily beleeveth that the said
ffolcon had a designe to seize and surprize their said shipp the John
being
Isaac and sought his oportunitie soe to doe, and knowing
her to be an English shipp when hee soe came on board her. Et aliter nescit.
deponere.

Ad 8 et 9u arlos dicit et deponit that while the said shipps the John and lake
and the Nostra Seniora de La Conception arlate soe ride at xx without the
barr of Calabarr the said shipp the Nostra Seniora one daye weighed anchor
and came neere their said shipp the John and Isaac with purpose to followe
her in over the barr aforesaid, they then intending to sayle in, but finding
said Lawrence and company
the winde not to serve their turne, they weighed not, and thereupon the
said ffalcon and Company with their said shipp came to an anchor neere
to their said shipp the John and Isaac then before, and that night the
said shipp the Nostra Seniora through the carlesnes (as this deponent
conceived) of the Captaine and Company of her drowe aground upon
the Sands, and being soe upon the Sands, the said Captaine and
made signes
company by fire and shooting of Ordinance that they were in danger,
and assoone as it was day, and that the said Roger Lawrence perceived
what danger they were in, hee the said Roger sent one of his boates and
men in her to helpe and assist the said shipp and her company, which boate
hee saith passed in much danger and hazard to the side of the said shipp
the mostra Senioran by reason that it was fowle weather, this deponent
the said boats
being one of the men that passed in her, and a while after the said
Mr Lawrence sent his other boate and men in her therein to the said
shipps side to help and assist as aforesaid, And hee saith that the
Company of the said shipp the Nostra Seniora, forsooke her (being
soe aground upon the Sands) and came away in the boates belonging the
the John and Isaack aboard the said shipp the John and Isaack and
staid aboard her by the space of eleaven dayes or thereabouts, in which
space they went not aboard their owne shipp to stay in her, but nowe
and then some of them went with some of the company of the said
shipp the John and Ann Isaack to see what they could save out her
and retourned againe to the said shipp the John and Isaac The prmisses
hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge. Et aliter nescit deponere
that
Saving that all the while till ⁁ the said shipp the Nostra Seniora was
soe aground, and that the said Captaine Halion came on board their said
shipp the John and Isaack and confessed himselfe to be paid
his shippe to belonge the said Captaine Laurence and company
to made accompt and take denied that hee was a Portugall and his
shipp was belonging to Portugall.
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et schedulam annex
Ad decium arlum ⁁ dicit et deponit that theise goods and Negroes following were
brought
in the boates of the said Roger Lawrence on board the said shipp the John and
Isaack from the said shipp the Nostra Seniora de La conception, the time aforesaid
vizt diverse thousands of Copperrings (but howe many thousands hee knoweth
not) diverse barrs of wine and severall arrs of powder, but howe many
arrs of either hee knoweth not, alsoe certaine Jarrs of oyle, Item a
small spritt saile and three bases, some sugar and raisons but howe much
hee knoweth not. Item a small box of beades, certaine and granadoes
and six Negroes. And this deponent doth not knowe of any other
goods wares or merchandizes brought on board the said shipp the John and
Isaac from the shipp the Nostra Geniora aforesaid, and verily beleeveth
there were noe more or other goods or merchandizes soe brought on board that
came to the hands, possession or knowledge of the said Roger Lawrence
for hee saith hee this deponent was alwayes in one of the boates that soe
Deniora
went and fetch things from the said shipp the Nostra and if there
then what hee hath predeposed of
had bin any more or other goods or merchandizes brought from her on board
the said shipp the Master John and Isaack this deponent verily beleeveth
hee should have seene the same or knowne thereof. Et aliter nescit depone.

Ad 12 nescit, saving some of the Company of the said shipp the mostra
Geniora did help to hand out diverse of the foresaid goods and merchandizes out
side of the
of the said shipp into to the company of the said shipp the John and Isaac
et 3

Ad 13 arlate dicit et deponit that after the Company of the said shipp the
Nostra Seniora de La Conception St Anthonio had staide as before on board
the said shipp the Noston & John and Isaack the space of about eleaven
dayes, the said shipp the Nostra Seniora was driven further on uppon the
Sands and at length comming into deeper water and dregging her anchor
after her, shee came to ride by it, which being espied by the said Captaine
Lawrence and company, they perswaded the said ffalcon and company to
goe on board their shipp and looke to her, and accordingly they the said
ffolcon and diverse most of his company went on board their said shipp
calle Hobas river
and carried her into a certaine river about a legae distant from the
River of Callabarr arlate, which hee knoweth because hee sawe the same
and heard their said master and company perswade them to goe on board and
helping to carry them soe on board. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that after the said John Bernardo ffalcon and
his Company had gotten the said shipp the Nostra Seniora de La Conception
at Anthonio wth Abbas River aforesaid, hee the said ffalcon declared
and acknowledged
himselfe to be a Spaniard and a Subiect to the Kinge of Spaine, and
said
that his shipp belonged xxx was sett out by a Church in Spaine. Et
aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 15 arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that a greate part of the goods and
that were soe brought from the said shipp the Nostra Seniora
merchandizes predeposed were sent on board the said shipp the John and
Isaac and disposed by the company of the said shipp the Mastra Seniora and
by them disposed of of this deponents sight and knowledge without yeelding or
any benefitt to the said Roger Lawrence. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 16 arlum dicit et deponit that all the time that the said ffalcon and compa
company (being in number to and fourtie persons) were on board their said
shipp the John and Isaace, which was about tweleaven dayes or a fortnights
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space they had sufficent allowance of victualls meate and drincke at the paine
the said Roger Laurence, and that the diett of the said men for that space
the parts of Ginney where the said shipps then laye and remained, and the
good provisions were then very deare and scarse to be gotten was well was
the sume of 30£ sterlinge, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 17 arlum dicit et deponit that after the premisses the said Roger Laurence did and
unto the said John Bennard Cason for the defence of his shipp att arlate band
or vale
and part of an another barrell of English Powder worth, but the worth thereof
in money hee saith hee knoweth not. Et aliter nescit./
at the time that

Ad 16 arlum dicit et deponit that in case the said Roger Lawrence and Company
had xxx arded and assisted the said Master and Company of the shipp the
Nostra Seniora aforesaid when shee was ashore upon the Sande,
the said shipp was in great danger and
to have
likelyhood and probabilitie the said shipp and her lading and company had
have
perished and bin cast away in the sea, together with her lading and company
considering the fowlenes of the weather that then was, and the greate danger the
hazard of the said shipps being upon the sand, which was such, as both the
for and her lading
companies of the said shipps gave and accompted her for lost and cast away
xx And the company hee saith had undoubtedly bin lost, had they nor king
releived and fetcht off by the boates and company of the said shipp the John
and Isaack as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 810 arlum dicit that the six Negroes and six Spaniards arlate rescit
and would by noe meanes goe any more on board the said shipp the Noste
any
Deniora de La Concepon St Anthonio, in somuch as when ⁁ of the Spanied
came from the said shipp aboard the John and Isaack the said Negroes winde
man and side themselves in any private holes or places in the shipp, fearing
the Spaniards came to fetch them aboard, and when they were told made
signes that rather then they would goe aboard the said Spanish shipp they
would suffer their throats to be cutt, and the said six Spaniards likewise
exprest much unwillinges to goe any more on board the said shipp the
Nostra Seniora. And hee saith that neither the said Spaniards nor
Negroes were kept or detayned by the said Roger Lawrence or his company
but they had free libertie to goe when and whither they pleased. Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes required by Captaine Lawrence to bee
a witnes and testifie his knowledge in this cause, wherein hee hath noe
share nor interest, and whether the producent prevaile or be overthrowne
therein, hee saith his all one to him, aliter negative salvis predepoits ad
qua se refert.

Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita, and lately understandeth that the name of the
said John Bernardo ffalton his said shipp is Nostra Seniora da a cona
St Anthonio, and soe the said Bernard was master or Captaine of her
aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita ubi satisfecit et aliter nescit.

Ad 9 rendet that some of the said rings were solde by the said Roger lawes
at Calabarr and some at Barbadoes, but the powder was brought have
in their said shipp, the wines ase, sugar and raisons was spent aboard the
man
said shipp by both the said Companies, the Sprieside three bayes are and
still on board their said shipp, and soe are the granadoes or lately were
fire of
and the six Negroes were by the said Laurence solde at the Barbadoes, the
sixt hee saith is died on board. Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.
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Ad quintu rendet that the place interr is on this side the live and English
that hee knoweth or hath heard
shipps use to trade there but not Spanish shipps, aliter nescit.

Ad 6 rendet that the said Bernard came diverse times to the said Laurence and
desired certaine goods to be redelivered him that had bin brought on board the said
shipp the John and Isaack and for ought this deponent knoweth hee had what
hee demannded, and some things this deponent knoweth that hee had againe
upon such his demannd. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 negative, saving hee had part of the wine, oyle, sugar and raisons aforesaid
as they were spent amongst the companies aforesaid, but made noe proffit
thereof. aliter nescit.

Edward Norfeill
----

25º Maij 1648

Super allegacone pred examinatus.

Henricus Crewe de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Shipp Carpenter
aetatis 33 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa etiam productus et juratus.

3

Ad quartu arlum nescit, saving the said Captaine Lawrence had a Comission to the effect
arlate as hee tolde this deponent

Ad quintu et 6u arlos dicit et deponit that this deponent went in the shipp the voyage in
John and Isaack arlate the voyage in question and was Carpenter of her the whole
voyage, and saith that while the arlate Roger Lawrence being at an anchor with
the said shipp without the barr of Callabarr, the arlate John Barnard ffolcon
with his shipp the Nostra Seniora de La Concepcon St Anthonio arlate came unto
an anchor neere unto the place where the said shipp the John and Isaack ridd,
and while their said master, Roger Lawrence with both his boates and most part of
his company were one daye gonne ashore, the said ffalcon came in his aboate
as boateson and steering his boate, which was rowed by negroes, on board their said
shipp the John and Isaack and being soe on board, hee pretended himselfe to bee
a Portugall and that his said shipp did belong to Portugall, and said that hee
had not above eleaven or twelve man on board, and pretended his errand to bee
to their master to desire leave of him that hee might followe him in when hee
sailed over the barr, and that hee might have leave to buy some Negroes there
this deponent hearing and understanding such his pretences as hee declared them
to their Steward and Quarter master whoe answered him in the masters absence
their company
and then the said ffalson well knew and perceived that they ⁁ were English, and that
the said shipp the John and Isaack was an English shipp And at that time
this deponent and others of their company suspected the said ffalcon to come as
a spie, and that hee had noe good meanning towards them, well perceiving him to
bee of more enment qualitie and place in this shipp then hee pretended. And
in regard both of the premisses and that the said ffalson proved to be a Spaniard
and that his said shipp belonged to Spaine and had above fourtie men on board her,
this deponent verily beleeved and doth beleeve that hee the said Bernard had
some intent to seize and surprize their said shipp and the John and Isaack, and
and sought
that hee wated ⁁ his oportunitie soe to doe. Et aliter nescit deponere, salvis
subscripts
one night

Ad 7. 8. et 9uj arlos dicit et deponit that while the said shipp the John and Isaac
soe made without the barr of Calabarr aforesaid, the foresaid shipp the Nostra seniora
drove aground
de La Concepcon St Anthonio was driven upon the Sands, and when shee was soe
a ground the Master and Company of her by continuall firing of ordinance made
signe that they were in danger, and when day appeared, the said Roger Lawrence
shee was
hee was
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and that their mainemast was by the board, whereupon the said Roger for
soe withall speede sent one of his boates and men therein to the side of the said shipps
and afterwards his other boate and men therein, to ande and assist the said shipp
soe grand and her company in such their distresse, this deponent being the
the Company that soe went to their releife, and carrying his tooles with him
make them a Pawle for their Captan, in stead of theirs that was broken, where
hee saith hee made and fastened it and fitted some other things as were though want
towards the preservation of the said shipp. But hee saith that when ⁁ hopes appeared
of saving her, the Company of the said shipp the Nostra Seniora forsake her and
came away in the boates aforesaid belonging to the said shipp the John and Cape
on board the John and Isaack, and staid abord her the space of eleaven die
or thereabouts, saving that nowe and then some of them went with some of the
to bee to have fourthing the regut
Company of the shipp the John and Isaac on board their said shipp soe aground and
but retourned againe in the same boates to the John and Isaac, The premisses
hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge, And all this while this deponent
(and as hee beleeveth their master) tooke the said Bernard to be a Portugall and
his shipp to belonge to Portugall. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving their said boate
passed in great danger to the releife of the said company, the whither being then fowle
Ad decium arlum et schedulam annex dicit et deponit that such goods as were
brought aboard the said shipp the John and Isaack from the said shipp the Nostra
Geniora arlate were by the Company of the Nostra Seniora taken out of her
and put into the foresaid boates, and hee beleeveth it was without the direction a
knowledge of the said Roger Lawrence. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 12. et 13. arlos dicit et deponit that after the said Company of the said shipp
the Nostra Seniora had soe as before staid aboard the said shipp the John and
Isaack about eleaven dayes space, the said shipp the Nostra Geniora was
driven further on uppon the said and at length came into deeper water
and drigging her anchor after her, shee came to ride by it, which when the
said Roger Laurence and company preceived, they advised the said Captaine
Bernard and company to goe aboard their said shipp and looke to her, which the
said Captaine and and diverse of his company were very willing to doe, and
accordingly they went aboard her, and carried her into a certaine river called
Abbas river about a league and better distant from the said river of Callabarr
which hee knoweth hearing them soe advised and seeing them soe goe aboard
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 15 arlum dicit et deponit that most part of the goods arlate that were
brought aboard the John and sanct from the said shipp the Nostra Seniora
it certaine wine and oyle and some riggs were spent, consumed and given
away by the said Company of the shipp the Nostra Seniora, and without
producing as hee beleeveth any benefitt to the said Roger Laurence, Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad 16 arlum dicit et deponit that during all the time aforesaid that the said
company of the shipp the Nostra Seniora being about 42 persons continued
aboard the said shipp the John and Isaac they had of this deponents sight and
knowledge sufficient allowance of victualls meate and drincke at the charge
of the said Roger Laurence, as fully and in as pleatifull manner as those
of his owne company, whoe hee saith were very well victualled and maintained
in the parts and places arlate
And this deponent saith that the diett of the said 42 men or thereabouts of
the space aforesaid, considering the goodnes of the same, and the plantiall
allowance they had of it, and the scarcitie and difficultie of getting goods soe
in chose parts was in this deponents iudgement and estimacon well worth 30£ sterling
Et aliter nescit deponere.

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Ad 17 arlum deponit that after the premisses the said Roger Lawrence upon the request
same
of the said Bernard did give unto the ⁁ Bernardo a quantitie of English powder
his
for the defence of the said shipp, this deponent seeing the same delivered out to that
and put into a booke to be that the said Bernard brought aboard their said shipp
the Master John and Isaack, but the howe much the powder was, or howe much
it was worth hee knoweth not. aliter nescit.

Ad 16 arlum dicit that in case the said Roger Lawrence and Company had not
given the aide and assistance aforesaid to the master and company of the said
said
2
shipp the Nostra Seniora, and ⁁ in helping the said shipp and fetching off the said
company whereby hee became soe much the lighter to be driven off the said
the said shipp and her lading in all likelyhood and probabilitie had bin utterly
best and cast away. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Sup reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee was spoken to by Captaine Lawrence to come and
testifie the truth in this cause, and saith hee hath noe share or interest therein,
and that it will be noe bene fitt to him though Captaine Lawrence prevaile, nor
dammage to him though hee be overthrowne in this cause, aliter salvis predepoits.
rendet negative.

Ad 2 rendet that hee knoweth not the name of the shipp arlate interr otherwise
then the at the time of this his exáminacon hee heareth her called by the name
of Nostra seniora de La Conception St Anthonio, and saith the said Bernard
was master of her, and Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad 3 rendet that there was brought on board the John and Isaack at the time
and place aforesaid from the said shipp the Nostra Seniora three bases and
a spritt saile and some powder but howe much hee knoweth not, Et aliter
nescit salvis predepoits./

Ad 4 rendet that the foresaid oyle and nine brought on board the John and Isaack
as aforesaid was spent on board her amongst both the companies by the consent
and order of the said Bernard, and the foresaid three bases are still aboard
the said shipp the John and Isaac Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 5 rendet that hee hath heard that English and Portugalls use to trade at
the place interr, but not Spaniards, aliter nescit.

or any other or his behalfe
Ad 6 rendet that what goods and things interr the said Bernards desired, the said
Lawrence delivered him for ought this deponent knoweth to the contrary. Et aliter
nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad ult negative, saving hee had part of the said wine and oyle as it was given
and spent amongst the foresaid companies, aliter nescit.

the Mary Trowe
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26º Maij 1648.

Super allen pred examinatus.

Thomas Beley de Wapping parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Barber Burgeon
aetatis 35 annoru aut circiter, testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.

7

4

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath seene and read the arlate
Roger Laurence his Comission arlate, and thereby hee well knoweth that hee the
said Roger had sufficient authoritie therein given him to the effect arlate Engal
nescit.

Ad quintu et 6 arlos dicit et deponit that hee this deponent went the voyage in question
throughout in the shipp a the John and Isaack arlate and was one of her
company vizt Chirurgeon of her, and by that meanes hee well knoweth that
while the said shipp the Laurence, master of their said shipp was at an anchor
with her without the barr of Callabarr, the arlate John Bernardo ffalcon arrived
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there with his shipp arlate, and came to an anchor neere unto their said shipp the
John and Isaack, and assoone as hee was came to an anchor, hee came aboard
their said shipp the John and Isaack with his boate which hee himselfe steered being
rowed by Negroes, and at such his coming their said master, Roger Laurence and to
his mates and diverse others of his company were gonne to with both their boate and
on board
boye the barr, and upon the said ffallons discourse ⁁ with one Johnson (one of the said
Quarter masters whoe could speake his language) hee the said ffaccon tooke man
and pretended to be a Portugese, and said that his shipp belonged to Portune
and said that hee was Boatson of their he said shipp wherein hee arrived, and the
there were but 14 men or thereabouts aboard her, as the said Johnson interted
and related his discourse and answers to this deponent and others of the company
that were then on board the said shipp the John and Isaac and did not underland
the language of the said Bernard; And then this deponent (assoone as the said
and others as their company
when this deponent had moored the behaviour of the said ffulson and perceiving
subiect of the Kinge of
and had 4 men aboard her
afterwards that hee was a Spanner and that his shipp belonged to Spaine, hee
iustly suspected and this deponent doth beleeve that hee the said ffaccon practized
and sought meanes to surprize their said shipp and seized upon her. Et aliter nescit.
deponere, salvis subscripts.

Ad 7. 8 et 9 arlos dicit et deponit that the same night after such arrivall of the said
ffaccon with his said shipp the Nostra Seniora de La concepcon St Anthonio and
after hee had bin soe on board them, the said shipp the Nostra Geniora drove
aground upon the Sands, and when shee was soe aground, the master and Company
of her gave notice that they were in danger by shooting off the diverse peeces
of Ordinance, whereupon the said Roger Laurence assoone as it was day and
that hee sawe in what danger they were , and that their maine mast was by the
board much pitied them, and supposing the said master and Company (as
hee said) to be Portugalls as the master had pretended to his company as
aforesaid, with all speade sent both his boates and men in them in greate
hazard and danger (the weather being very fowle) to the side of the said shipp
to help and assist the said shipp and company, this deponent seeing them soe
goe, and hearing their said master give them order soe to doe, and the said
boates hee saith went diverse times to and from the said shipp and brought of
(whon forsooke their said shipp
all her company ⁁ aboard the said shipp the John and Isaac which Company hee
saith continewed and staid aboard the John and Ihat the space of eleavendayes
saving that nowe and then in the day tyme, some of the Company of the said
soone
out
and take
shipp the Nostra Seniora went aboard her with desire to save some of
her, but they retourned to the said shipp the John and Isaac againe, The
premisses hee deposeth seeing the said company soe brought on board the said
shipp the John and Isaac and seeing them staye there and some of beinge
to and fro as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere, xxxxx

Ad 12. et 13. arlos dicit et deponit that after the Company of the said shipp the
Nostra Seniora had stayed aboard the said shipp the John and Isaac by the
space of eleaven dayes as aforesaid, the said shipp the Nostra Seniora
was driven further on uppon the said, and at length came into deeper warr
and drigging her anchor after her, shee came to ride by it, which when the said
Roger Laurence perceived hee advised the said Bernardo and Company to goe
aboard their said shipp and looke to her, this deponent hearing him soe expre
them, and thereupon the said Bernardo and the greates most of his company
then
(saving six Spaniards and six Negroes that by refused to goe with them, and
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aboard their said shipp, and carried her into a River called Abbas river about a league
from the river of Callabar of this deponents sight. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that after the said Bernardo ffalo and Company had
gotten their said shipp into Abbas river as aforesaid, the said Barnard came aboard
their said shipp the John and Isaac and declared himselfe to be a subiect of the Kinge
of Spaine (as this deponent was informed by those of their company that spake with him
and understood him) and demannded of their master such goods as were brought from
his shipp aboard the said shipp the John and Isaae. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 16 arlum dicit et deponit that all the time aforesaid that the said company of
the shipp the John Nostra Seniora being fourtie two in number were and continewed
aboard the said shipp the John and Isaac, they had sufficient allowance of victualls
meate and drincke at the charge of the said Captaine Lawrence, requall to those of
his owne company. And hee saith that the diett of 42 men by the space of
eleaven dayes in the parts of Ginney where the said shipps then were, and
were
where noe good provisions or to be gotten for money in case their owne had sailed
was and is worth the sume of 30£ lawfull English money, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 13 arlum dicit that in case the said Captaine Lawrence and his company had not
given their aide and assistance as aforesaid unto the said master and Company of
the shipp the Nostra Seniora de La Concepcon St Anthonio, in all likelyhood and
probabilitie the said shipp and her lading had (as hee saith bin utterly lost and
cast away. Et aliter nescit deponere.
the six
any more

Ad 13 arlum dicit et deponit that ⁁ Negroes arlate would not goe ⁁ aboard xx the said
shipp the Nostra Geniora de La concepcon St Anthonio, but hide themselves when
they were tolde of being sent, and likewise two of the former six Spaniards that
were of the Company and refused to goe aboard, did utterly refuse to goe aboard
their said shipp againe, but the other foure upon perswacons went. And saith
that all the said Negroes and Spaniards had free libertie to have gone aboard
their said shipp and were not for ought hee this deponent knoweth. Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee cometh by the meanes of the producent to testifie in this
cause, wherein hee saith hee hath noe share or interest, and saith there will noe
same fitt redound to him though Captaine Lawrence prevaile in this sute, nor will
this rendent
privene
is soe any bee sett to him though hee be overthrowne therein, Et aliter negative salvis
predepoits ad qua se refert.
and
and her lading

Ad 2 rendet that the said shipp the Nostra Seniora de La Concepon St Anthonio
were
was reputed to belonge to a Church in Spaine, and saith the said Bernardo ffalson
was master of her, quoad cetera refert se ad predepoita.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit, salvis subscripts.
there
copper or brasse,
and about 60 of sugar in a box

Ad 4 rendet that ⁁ were a quartitie of rings and some arrs of wine, brought
from the said shipp the Nostra Seniora aboard the said shipp the John and Isaac
the time aforesaid in the said Lawrence his boates, but the most quantitie of the rings
and wine hee knoweth not, and saith the said wine and sugar was spent aboard
amongst both the said Companies. Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 5 rendet that the place where the shipp interr was driven upon the hands of
aforesaid is in foure degress of North latitide, and is foure degrees on this side
the live, and both English and Portugalls use to trade there, but Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 7 negative, saving hee had some part of the said wine and sugar as it was spent
amongst the Companies aforesaid.

Tho: Cley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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26º Maij 1640.

Crosse et Paules contra)
Doves et alios)

3us
R. E.

Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

Janus Bradham de Deptford in Com Cantij rendous, etatis 3
aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus./

Ad primu arlum dci that or the sale for as are
hee this deponent was and continued Purser of the shipp the May et aliter nescit
thereby well knoweth that for all that time the arlate Andrew Doves was master
of the said shipp, and had the charge disposion and governement of her, and the
all the time aforesaid the said Doves was commonly accompted master and this deponent
Purser of the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundum, 3 et 4 arlos dicti lili et ad sched annex dicit et deponit that within the
time aforesaid the said shipp the Mary Rose was to be sett xx sea forth
a voyage from this port of London to the parts beyond the seas, and wanted
beere and other provisions for the setting of her forth on the said voyage, and hee
saith that on or about the fift daye of December bxx 1643 there was brought
aboard from the the said shipp in the River of Thames from the Brewhould
of the arlate William Crosse and Magdalene Pauld situate in Southwarke
all the beere and caste menconed in the former part of the said schedule, and
this deponent knowing the same to bee true did attest the said bill on or about
thereto
of the
the fourth daye of January 1642 and put his name, according to the tenor
and copie in the said schedule menconed, and delivered the same to his contest
Abraham Muto clarke of the said Brewhouse, And when the said shipp came
home from the said voyage, there was further brought on board her in the
River of Thames from the Brewhouse aforesaid all the beere menconed in the
being 15 barrells
latter part of the said schedule and was at the time of delivery of all the
accompted
said beere and caske the said Crosse and Paules were ⁁ lawfull owners and
pprietors thereof, and the same was delivered to the use at the request of the
master aforesaid of the said shipp, this deponent being acquainted with the
order which hee gave for the same. And hee saith that all the said beere
was spent aboard the said shipp of this deponents knowledge. The prmis
hee deposeth, being Purser of the said shipp, and acquainted with the taking
of the said beere and caste aboard as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.
et sched pred
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said sevall parcells of beere and
other things arlate were at the time of their putting aboard the said
shipp the Mary Rose as aforesaid worth the severall sumes of money menconed
and expressed in the said schedule, and soe much is due to the said William
Crosse and Magdalene Paules for the same, Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur er

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu rendet quod vent regatus producenti and testificand in hac caa, nor
actus, quod que aque favet partibus huicinde litigand, et qua is conferr
victoriam in sua essett potestate eadem conferrend gacolas, aliter negative.

Ad secundu rendet that hee sawe the respective quantities of beere interr
the next day after the same was put aboard, and did not see the same at
the instant it was soe delivered aboard the said shipp the Marchase, and hath
the lader 17 barrells thereof menconed in the latter part of the said schedule
were delivered to the use of the said shipp in or about the moneth of March 1644
when hee was come home from the foresaid voyage. quoad cetera satisfe
in predepoits suis, quibus se refert

Ad 3 et 4 nescit.
Ad ult rendet that the said shipp was arrested at the sute of the said Crosse and and
when shee had made but one voyage after the delivery said beere to her of
they coming her to bee arrested after her retourne into the River of Thames from that the the
before shee went out any more, aliter nescit quod credat./

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27º Maij 1645.

Super allene predca examinatus.

Johannes Wood de Redriffe in Com Surria Nauta, ubi hitavit pertiu
ult aut eo circiter, etatis 25 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac cause
productus et iuratus.

det.
Johis

2
1
A.A.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that the Inhabitants, Governours and dollers of
Alborne are for the generalitie of them commonly accompted Moores and infidells
and a barbarous, perfedions people, and such whoe carrespond or keepe saith with
noe Christians, in which regard all such Christians as goe to trade with them doe
frequently were cary with them a Jew or Moore whom they send on shore to mediate
and endeavour for their trade and lading, And saith that the said Captaine Hawkins
the voyage in question had a Jen on board his shipp the Charles for whom hee sent
a shore at Alborne to that purpose, of this deponents knowledge whoe went all
the said voyage in the said shipp, and was boatson abord her. And hee as hee was
credibly informed there was then a Jen aboard the Talbott arlate whoe was likewise
sent there ashore to the effect arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu rendet arlum deponit that in case the Arade or Governour of Albine
aforesaid giveth leave to such parties as came thither to trade, to have traffique there
and promiseth to supply them with commodities, th hee usually (as this deponent
did there understand) requireth and will have a good summe of money before
hand by way of or for a gratinitie, and soe the said Captaine Hawkins was faine
to give him upon his second comming thither, and as hee was likewise informed Capt
his freighters
Joseph Blowe master of the Talbott and ⁁ Company did give the Alade such gratitie
before they could have any grant of trade there. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
hee there heard some of the company of the Talbott being aboard their shipp the
Charles aforesaid say that they had given the Alade in money and cloth to the
valewe of 600 peeces of eight and upwards before they could gett leave to trade
and take in lading at Alborne aforesaid.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that not withstanding that the said Governour
and the Inhabitants there doe promise such as come to trade there to furnish them
with corne and commodities, yet such as soe came, especially Christians, upon and
notwithstanding the payment and disbursing of the first sume by way of
gratintie as aforesaid and the receiving thereof by the Allade or such as are imployed
by him to that purpose, doe from time to time require hostages from the said
Poores by way of securitie and for engagement of the Mores to keepe their pmisses
masmuch as the said Governours and Inhabitants are soe false and perfidions
otherwise
that they doe ⁁ seldome or never performe their promises to furnish such Christians
with the commodities or goods promised and undertaken for, But doe but are
commonly accompted to defrande and cozen them of their money soe trusted
without such securitie
into their hands. Et aliter nescit.
any hostages

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that notwithstanding what ⁁ promises or engagements
made or given by the said Alade and Inhabitants for their performance of their
promises and undertaking to the effect aforesaid, yet it is a usuall course for such
(especially Christians) as goe thither to trade with them not to adventure on shore
upon any occasion whatsoever without being armed, it being there well knowne
unto Seamen and such as come thither to trade, that in case they goe ashore unarined
the Inhabitants doe frequently make seizure of their persons of or of a smany
of them as they can surprize, and detaine them and detaine then untill they bee
rensoned with money, and this hee saith was and is publique and notorious to
xx such merchants, seamen and others as come thither to traffique. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

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Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that while the said Joseph Blewe with his said
shipp the Talbott and the said Captaine Hawkins with his said shipp the Charles
were and remained the voyage in question in the Roade of Alborne aforesaid
Talbott
some of the Company of the said shipp the Charles came being aboard the
said shipp the Charles did say and affirme in this deponents presence and hearing
that they had bin ashore there married. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that at the time arlate there was not any
or place concended betweene his Matie of England and the Turke that this exte
knewe or had notice of, nor any probacon or proclaimacon of any such leagues and
that neither
hee beleeveth ⁁ their master nor any other of their company had any notice of
that
knowledge of any such thinge, for this deponent never heard them befor speake
thereof at or before that time. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that at such time as the master Captaine and
fide
Company of the Turnish shipp arlate with with their said shipp from the shipp
Charles and ranne a ground ashore at Alborne, the said Charles had her
her fish
English Ensigne flying. And the said shipp being soe ashore, the said Compt
Hawking understanding that there was a Christion in her, sent his board but
aboard her to fetch the said Christian, to the end that hee might enquire some what
of him, and upon the retourne of the said boate this deponent sawe that one
their men therein had his head broken that hee bedd much, and that another
of them was hurt in the shoulder, which they said was donne by these of
the Turckish shipp whoe (as they said) heaved stones and iron shott and such
like over into their boate (whereby the same happened) and hee saith there
was likewise a peece of the boate broken, which the said men said was donne
by the meanes aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad novu arlum dicit et deponit that upon the premisses and upon the deniall of the
said Turckish Company to send the said Christian the said Thomas
Hawkins caused a peece of Ordinance to be fired from the said shipp the
Charles at or towards the said Turkish vessell, upon which the Turkes
deserted their said vessell and ran ashore, and immediately foure or soe
Spaniards that were on board the said shipp the Charles together with soe
some of the Company of the Charles entred into a Spanish shallop which they
and a board, and suddenly boarded the said Turckish vessell and possessed
themselves thereof, in the sight of this deponent. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
they had in all six Spaniards aboard, whereof one was a Super cargo,
another a Pilott, and x mariners, and saving hee did not then knowe or
league made
understand of any peace or anie betweene the kinge of England and the
Tuke.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that within the space of three dayes or the
to the next proceedeing arle
next after the premisses the said Thomas Hawkins arrived with the said
(whereof hee was master)
shipp the Charles accompanied with the said Turckish vessell in the reade
of Mallega arlate within the dominions of the Kinge of Spaine, and soe
after their said arrivall, the Governour of the said Porte of Mallega casuall
and commanded the corne in the said Turnish vessell to bee unladen, and
to be putt into a storehouse in that citie, which hee knoweth saying thither
with
in the said shipp, and seeing the Governour and other officers come on board,
such
and hearing him gave command, and seeing the said corne unladen accordingly
Et aliter nescit deponere./

for
Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that the said Thomas Hawkins after his
arrivall at Mallega and after the premisses being informed that there
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league lately before agreed upon betweene this kingdome and the Governour of
Turch
Algies, did of this deponents knowledge labour and endeavour to have the said shipp
redelivered by the Governour to the Captaine thereof, which and getting leave of the
said Governour for her restitucon, the said Hawkins carried her backe againe
and delivered her to the said Captaine and Company at Alberine together with
her tackle, apparell and furniture, And after the redelivery of the said shipp
to the said Turnish Captaine, hee the said Captaine xxx gave the said Hawkins
an Instrument in writing which was written by a Scrivans on board the Charles,
whereby as this deponent was informed hee did release and acquitt the said Captaine
Hawkins from all prejudice & dammage for or by reson of the taking the said
shipp and corne, and this deponent did then heare the said Turkish Captaine
in the Spanish tongue, (which hee this deponent understandeth) expresse much love
and friendshipp towards the said Captaine Hawkins and acknowledge his
courtons and good dealing with him all the while hee was aboard, and in givinge
him his shipp againe, professing that hee would many wayes afterwards honour
him and testifie his gratitude towards the said Captaine Hawkins for such his
favours and soe departed with much contentment and satisfaction as it seemed
to this deponent, But for the contents of the said Instrument hee cannot depose.
having not read or heard the same read over, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
the said Turckish Captaine or master was at Mallega with the producent
Captaine Hawkins and some the valed

Ad 12 dicit that at Mallega the said Captaine Hawkins was imprisoned, and this
deponent there understood that it was by meanes of the freighters of the said shipp
the Talbott for that hee had taken the foresaid Tarkish shipp, Et aliter nescit.
Ad 13 et 14 arlos dicit that upon the said Captaine Hawkins his retourne from
Mallega to Bilborne aforesaid with the said Turkish shipp, and before the
the delivery of the same to the said Turckish Captaine, vizt the first night
they soe came in, their Jon xx whoe was their agent and Interpreter having
bin ashore, brought word backe againe aboard that such of the said Joseph
master of the albott his
Plowes Company as had bin there seized and imprisoned, were released
and sett free foure or five dayes before, and soe much some of their company
that had bin to sett their Jen ashore and understood that language reported
from the said Mores, and likewise that they were freed for a gratinitie of
money given to the Alade, which hee converted to his owne use. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad 15uj non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee hath received all his wages for the voyage interr from
the producent Thomas Hawkins, aliter negative salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 2 rendet that hee was twice Alborne the voyage in question in the said shipp the
of those
at
Charles to trade with the Moores for corne, and the last ⁁ times shee traded there
but was not suffered at the first time, aliter negative salvis predepoits.
is

Ad 3 rendet that hee hath heard that it ⁁ an usuall and ordinary thinge for masters
of shipps and others on their behalfe to obtaine leave from the cheife Governour
of Alborne and other parts thereabouts to trade and traffique with them,
and that the said Governours doe commonly and ordinarily gave then leave soe
to doe, nor did hee ever heare of any that was denied besides the said Captaine
Hambins, which deniall as hee afterwards heard uppon their retourne thither was by
reason that the said Joseph Blewes fewe had given the Alade a sume of
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money to dence the trading, quoad cetera refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that the said shipp the Talbott was at Alborne when the said
shipp the Charles (wherein this rendent was) came first thither the voyage in quest
and while the said shipp the Charles was were the master and Company of the
Talbott did trade and take in corne there, and some of her company were
ashore there, but whether they had gotten leave to trade and had taken
the
any corne or other commodities before the arrivall of the said shipp the Totton
Charles, hee saith hee knoweth not. Et aliter nescit de rendere.

1u rendet
And ⁁ that upon the arrivall there of the Charles, the said Captaine Hamburr
desired leave to trade there (his coming being to that end) but the same was
dired him by the Governour or Abrade, and that by the meanes aforesaid as
this deponent heard, quoad cetera satisfecit supra.
Ad 6 rendet that about two dayes after the said deniall and that the said shipp
the Charles and the Turckish shipp had bin out at sea, the said Captaine
Hawkins and Company did seize upon the said Turckish shipp or vessell
as aforesaid which was partly laden with corne, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad 8 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit./

Ad 9 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad 10 rendet that after the taking of the said Turckis vessell and corne, the said
Captaine Hawkins tooke part of the said corne into his owne shipp the
the said Dunkish shipp
Charles before to lighten her before hee could fetch her off frashore
at Alberine, to the quantitie of tenn sacks of corne or thereabouts, aliter
nescit.

Ad 11u rendet that before the taking of the said Turkish shipp there were
at her
diverse peeces of Ordinance fired there from the said shipp the Charles
by the order of the said Hancking, and afterwards some of the company of
the said shipp the Charles by the order of the said Captaine Hawkins boarded
the said Turckish shipp and brought her to the said shipp the Charles
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12 nescit.

Ad 13 rendet that during such time as the said Captaine Hawkins laye and remayned
that
with the said shipp the Charles in the Roade of Mallega, and had the said
Turckish shipp was then there and under the command of the Governour
of
8
there, the said shipp the Talbott arrived ⁁ at sea not farr from thence
not
and one of her company namely John Hary the Chirurgeon of her
are
came in their boate to the said Captaine Hawkis aboard the said shipp the
Charles, and had discourse with him, which this deponent did not heare, Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 14 nescit.

Ad 15 rendet that hee beleeveth that the master and company of the said shipp
the Talbott were able enough and might to have taken the said Turckish
shipp or vessell. aliter nescit.

Ad 16 nescit, but beleeveth that after the said corne was soe landed at Mallega
by and the order of the Governour as aforesaid, the said Captaine Hawkins could
not have procured the restring thereof.

Ad 17 rendet that hee sawe the said vessell delivered to the said Turckish by
and some of his company from whom shee was taken, and as hee was infree
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the foresaid Instrument was written in Spanish, which the said Tarkish Captaine
well spake and understood. Et aliter nescit, salvis predepoits.
Ad ult nescit et negative salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ja: Wood [SINATURE, RH SIDE]
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29º Maij 1648, Super lilo in hac caa,/

dat examinatus.

in hac caa pductus et iuratus.
Robertus Castle parochia beata Maria Matsellon als Whitechappell in
Com Midd Supwright, aetatis 33 annoru aut eo circiter testis
were one

Ty
1us
R Rp. EA.
a

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the shipp the Mary
Bonadventure arlate having bin for all the time arlate and upwards and being still
10
Carpenter, and saith hee alsoe well knowes the arlate Roger Kilvert and Company
have bin for theise seaven moneths last and are owners and proprietors of the
said shipp and of her tackle, furniture and apparrell, and soe commonly accompted
and reputed. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 2uj arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate William Tafely was at the time of the
dammage in question and is commonly reputed master and Commander of the shipp
the Diamond arlate, and in or about the moneth of Aprill last past this deponent sawe
him goe out Master of her Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 3 et 4 arlos dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure did ride at anchor in a safe and convenient place in the River of
Thames against Chadwell docke where shipps doe use to ride at anchor, and
to peeced it was sayle or
⁁ hee saith that after shee had soe ridden there in safetie in by the space of eight
weekes or thereabouts without doeing or receiving any hurt, the said shipp the Diamond
arlate
on a day happening within the time arlate and as hee remembreth in or about the
moneth of March last past, about five of the clocke in the afternoone came thwart
the hawse of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, and broke her from her
Moorings, and broke one of her anchors, and three cables, and her missen mast
and splitt her bolt spritt, and broke the fish of thereof, and further broke downe
three strakes without board and a cabben within board of the and broke the missen
topmast of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure and tore a plancks off her
goode girdlin and a peece of planck betwixt the bends, all which hee knoweth
to be true because hee sawe the said shipp the Diamond when shee soe came
said
fowle of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure and did the did dammage
this deponent being then going a shore in their boate from their said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure, and having first called sevall times to them on board the said shipp
the Diamond to keepe cleere of the Mary Bonadventure. And hee saith
hee that hee this deponent repaired againe the Carpenters worke of the said
in his estimacon and iudgement
shipp, and well knoweth that the said dammage and the costs and charges
de to require the same happening by meanes thereof to repaire and xxxd amend
did and
the same ⁁ doth amount to the sume of foure score pounds sterling or neere
thereabouts. Et aliter nescit deponere saving his contests Leonard Guy and
Edward to Maniford were there standing in the said Guy his yards and seeing
upon hee
lookeing townes
the said shipp the Diamond ⁁ soe come foule the St Mary Bonadventure as aforesaid

Ad 5 nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that the parte and dammage that happened the time
aforesaid unto the shipp the Perry Bonadventure by the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
happened by the coming foule of the said shipp the Diamand upon the Mary
Bonadventure as aforesaid and driveing her from her moorings as aforesaid and not
otherwise, for which hee saith hee knoweth, for that when being hee was in their
said boate to goe ashore as aforesaid, and sawe that the said shipp the Diamond had
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
diven the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure from her moorings, hee followed her
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and sawe hee came fowle of the Harry Bonadventure and doe the said damage
notwithstanding that the men on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure beste
themselves of his sight and knowledge, and (as hee beleeveth) did their lest endeaven
prevent the same. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the said hurt and dammage done but
said two shipps happened by the fault and neglect of the said Totely and company
in not sufficiently mooring the said shipp the Diamond as hee he verily beleeveth
at least hee and hee saith that the same afternoone the said shipp the Diamond
being in danger to come fowle of the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure the
foure times, this deponent being on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
anchor
called diverse times out to them and bade them lett fall another to keepe themselve
cleare of the said shipp, which hee saith they neglected to doe, Et aliter nescit deponere.
saving hee beleeveth that if they had accordingly lett full another anchor they mill
have prevented the said dammage

Super reliquis non examinatur.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod venit ad testificandum in hac caa regatu pon Malling or
dicte navis the Mary Bonadventure, non cactus, favet et daret victoriam it
partibus huicinde litigan, aliter negative salvis predepoits.

Ad secundu rendet that at the time interr hee was one of the company of the said shipp
other
the Mary Bonadventure, and saith there were then two ⁁ men of their company aboard
her, quoad cetera refert se ad predepoita, saying hee was not ⁁ on board, but was
in the boate as aforesaid.
that

Ad 3 rendet imediately before the foresaid dammage was donne, the said shipp the
Diamond did lie in a place in the river of Thames where shipps doe usually calle
and very neere to the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, Et aliter nescit.
s pro parte sua negative.

Ad 4 nescit, saving hee then sawe a Scotch shipp advise neere to the place where
the said shipp the Diamond ride.

Ad 5 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad 6 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad 3 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 10 rendet that by the custome of the River of Thames every shipp lying and
rideing at anchor therein ought to have aboard her one cable and anchor at least
more then those by which shee rides, in readines to lett full upon occasion of
preventing of dammage, and by the same custome there ought to be aboard
her marriners enough to let fall an anchor and to yeere upon the like ocasion
understandeth
touching the rest of this Interrogatory hee saith hee knoweth not the meanning thereof
and therefore cannot answer thereto.

Ad 5 rendet that there was another cable and anchor aboard the said shipp the bee
Bonadventure at in a readines at the time interr besides those by which shee red
and saith the said two men on board were all able in case of necessitie to have lett
side, and to have bitted their cable, but saith they did not lett their said same
sall, aliter nescit salvis predepoits, saying hee doth not knowe that the said Wallers
were fowle one of the other.

Ad 12 nescit salvis predepoits.
Ad ult rendet that the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure after the Diamond
was cleere of her drowe loose in the river of Thames about a quarter of and
before hee fell fowle of the shipp the Henry Bonadventure, quoad cable
refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Signum dci
Robt
Castle./
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30º Maij 1648.

Super lilo pred examinatus
.
Samuel Pensan de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Nauta, ubi
hitavit per 8 annos ult aut eo circiter, etatis 22 annoru aut eo circiter
testis in hac caa productus et juratus.
any or lett

4
1

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the arlate George
Swanley and the shipp the Henry Bonadventure for all the time arlate and upwards
and saith that for all the said time the said Swanly and Company have bin and
are commonly accompted and reputed owners and lawfull proprietors of the said
shipp and if her tackle and furniture. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad secundu et tertiu arlos dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said shipp
the Harry Bonadventure did hee or ride at anchor in a certaine convenient place
in the river of Thames where shipps doe usually ride and lie vizt at the chaine
neere Limehouse bridge, and there had soe redden before the dammage in question
happened by the space of ye weekes or thereabouts of this deponents sight and
knowledge, without doing or receiving any dammage, And whilest shee soe ridd
there vizt on or about the fourteenth day of ffebruary last past the said
shipp the Mary Bonadventure arlate being loose from her mooring, came
driving downe the River of Thames and came upon and fell fowle of the
said shipp the Harry Bonadventure upon the head (which was newe but a voyage
before) and broke the maine knee of her head and her railes, and broke her
anchor stocke, and ran of one of her anchor flookes inter her bough, which hee
knoweth to bee true for that hee sawe the same soe donne, this deponent being
Captaine
then on board the shipp the Golden some of London (whereof ⁁ Robert Swanley was
then commander) which rode board and board with the said shipp the Henry
Bonadventure at the chaine aforesaid, and was likewise driven loose by the
coming fowle of the Mary Bonadventure on the Henry Bonadventure as aforesaid
and there was not then on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure more then
her
one man and a boy that this deponent sawe or that appeared upon the decks
the time aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that by the comming and falling fowle of the said
shipp the Mary Bonadventure upon the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure
as aforesaid, the said shipp the Henry Bonadventure was broken from her moorings
of this deponents sight and knowledge, and by the coming fowle of the Mary
Bonadventure uppon her as aforesaid was damnified to the valew of 30£ sterling
in this deponents iudgement and estimation
or thereabouts, and soe much the said dammage was valewed and esteemed
to be by Shippwrights that were imployed to view the same shortly after the
said dammage happened as the Carpenter of their said shipp the same (whoe was
one of the viewers) related to this deponent. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that in case there had bin such a competent
number of men on board the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure the time aforesaid
as might have moored her, the foresaid dammage might in all probabilitie have
bin prevented. Et aliter nescit.

Sup reliquis non examinatur er

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that it will be noe benefitt to him though the said Swanley
prevaile nor dammage in case hee bee ever throwne in this sute, aliter rendet negative.

Ad 2 negative et nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that at the time of the dammage aforesaid it was an extraordinary storme
and tempest, aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 4 rendet that it is an usuall and ordinary thinge for shipps which ride or lie in
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the river of Thames at anchor not to have in time of faire weather about
1
or three men at most constantly on board them to lake to them, but in a strength
usually goe more aboard to prevent dammage that may happen, aliter nescit saving
predepoits.
Ad ult nescit./
Samuel Pors
Primo Junij 1648.
Super allue predca examinatus.
Cockade
Nicholaus Dennis de Shadwell in Com Stepney in Com Midd
Saylemaker, etatis 39 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa
pductus et iuratus.
Dicknes et alj contra Hawkins
3us
3
Rp. EA.
Ad primu arlum dicit di et deponit that hee well knoweth the place or Baye called
boyine arlate having bin there the voyage in question in the shipp the Charles of
which the producent Thomas Hawkins was then master, this deponent being then one
of her company, And hee saith that the Inhabitants Governours and Rulers
and Infidells
of Alborne are for the all Moores (saving some fewe Jewes that live amongst take
and a barbarous pesidions people, and such as keepe are commonly accompted and
to keepe faith with any strangers especially not with Christians, in which regard
all such Christians as goe thither to trade with them, d frequently and constant
as the commot speech and report is) carry some Jewe or Moore in their shipps
with them, whom they send on shore, to mediate and gett libertie for them there
to trade, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Governours or Rulers arlate
soe
of Alboyine doe by the imediacon and meanes of such fewe or Moore sent on shore
or otherwise promise and undertake to supply and furnish the said parties who
corne to trade with them with corne or such commodities as the place affordeth, yt
it frequent and common with the said Rulers and Governours first to require and
exact a good considerable sume of money before hand by way of gratitie before
they deliver the said goods and commodities, or suffer them to be carried aboard, and
upon those termes the Mesparts or freighters of the said shipp the Gilbott did
houre trade there and commence as a themselves related, coming on board
and telling the
their said shipp the Charles while shee lay there, whoe tolde other merchants on
board in this deponents presence and hee saith that they were fame to give the
Alade a present in money both and stockings to bee good vally before they could
be premitted to traffique and had commodities there. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that after and notwithstanding that the premisses
said Inhabitants Governours and dollers of Alborne have promised and undert
to furnish such as come thither to traffique with corne or such other commodities
as are agreed upon betweene them, and to that purpose have received such same
of money or considerable quantitie before hand, yet conside it is comon
and usuall with such as soe come to trade especially with he risions consideing
the falsonnes and persedouses of the said Moares, to require and have hee
of and from them for the better obligging them to the performance of such their
promises, it being a thinge notorious and frequent with the said Moores of
Alborne, without giving of such hastages, not to regard or performe any
such promises or undertakings, but to defrande and cozen the of their in the
(soe given before hand) that trust or relie upon such their promises without
sufficient hostages given This hee saith hee is the better able to see the
well acquainted with the conditions and dealinge of the Mares amongst whose
hath formerly bin for seaven yeares together or thereabouts in Captivete at Algate
and
aliter nescit deponere, and besides hee was ashore at Albargue and there and the

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conversinge on board with such as well knewe the condicons of those of Alborne, hee
well understood them to be of such behaviour as hee hath predeposed.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that notwithstanding any such promises of the people of
Allegine, and notwithstanding that they have given hostages as aforesaid, yet it is usuall
to goe
for such as come to traffique with them not to adventure ashore upon any occasion
whatsoever without armes in their boate, and therewith commonly they goe armed ashore
doe
and in case they doe otherwise the said Inhabitants did frequently laye holde and seize
or such and soe many of them as they or surprizell, and detaine them untill they
be ransomed with money, and this hee saith was and is publique and notorious
amongst Merchants, Marriners and Seamen that goe thither to traffique
there or thereabouts. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum nescit deponere ut dicit

Ad 6 arlum nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that at the time that the said Captaine Hawkins
in the said shipp the Charles first mett with the Tirkish shipp arlate
of in the Roade of Alboyine aforesaid (at which time this deponent was
then on board the said shipp the Charles) and questioned the master and
Company of her, there was noe league or peace concladed betweene his
Matie of this Kingdome and the Turke that this deponent knewe or heard
of. And hee verily beleeveth the said Captaine and the rest of the company
did not knowe that there was any such league made, because if they had
knowne thereof, hee verily beleeveth hee should have heard them speake
thereof, which hee saith hee did not, but heard the said Captaine Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that when the said Turnish shipp and
the said shipp the Charles were both under saile and gonne out to sea, and
ye Captaine and company
at the said Turnish shipp as being a fraid of the said shipp the Charles
with all speede made from the said shipp the Charles and ranne ashore at
Alborne aforesaid, and then the said Thomas Hawkins sending his boate on board
the said Turckish vessell to fetch a Christian that was therein that hee
might enquire something of him, the Company that were in the said
Turckish vessell at first repused the same, and going the second time and
retourning againe to their said shipp the Charles, one of their company therein
had his head wounded and broken that it bleed much, and another was
hurt, which they said was donne by stones which the Company of the said
Surr fish vessell heaved over into their boate at them, and they alsoe related
that some of the said Turckish company told them that they would rother fire
their said vessell, then deliver her up or the sd words to that effect Et
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad novu arlum dicit et deponit that forthwith after and upon the premisses
there were some Ordnance fired from the said shipp the Charles at or
towards the said Turkish vessell, upon which the company on board her
deserted her lapping over board to run ashore, and immediately three
Spaniards whom they had on board, and some of their company entred into a
Danish shallop which they had on board and went and boarded the said Turckish
vessell, and possessed themselves thereof, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving
they had five Spaniards aboard whereof one was a super cargo, and another
Pilott, and the other three were mariners./

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Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that within the space of foure dayes or there laden
next after the taking as aforesaid of the said Turnish shipp, the said Thomas
Hawkins arrived with the said shipp the Charles at or neere Mallega with
the Dominions of the Kinge of Spaine, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that after the premisses and after the said shipp the
bin and continewed at Mallega aforesaid about seaven weekes or thereabouts
said Captaine Hawkins retourned with his said shipp the Charles and with the
said Turfish vessell into the Roade of Alborne aforesaid, and shortly after
his arrivall there, the said Captaine Hawkins did really deliver to the said
Turckish vessell to the Captaine and Company of her together with her
apparrell, tackle and furniture. And the said Tarkish Captaine expressed
much than befullnes and good will towards the said Captaine Hawkins for his home
and favours and courteens behaviour towards him, and said hee would have
his remedy and against and bee revenged of the Spaniards, which words and
expressions hee used in this deponents presence and hearing, this deponent
well understanding the language (being the Kingue ffrant) wherein the said
Turckish Captaine spake. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 12 arlum nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu respondet that hee had noe share or interest in the shipp interr otherwise hee
that hee was one of her company the voyage in question, and saith hee hath
received all his wages from Captaine Hawkins for the said voyage, aliter refert se ad
predepoita.
in the said shipp are

Ad 2 respondet that hee was twice at Alberine in the voyage in question, and the
which was in or about October last
last time ⁁ they traded with the Moores for corne, and saith Captaine hawson
was master of the said shipp both the said times, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 respondet that as hee hath heard it is an usuall and ordinary thinge for
Masters of shipps or others on their parts to obtaine leave as is interr, and that
to trade and traffiqueth
the said Governours doe ordinarily give them leave or licesse soe to doe by
that after such leave alla Et aliter negative.

Ad 4 respondet that hee was in the shipp the Charles the voyage in question when
shee came to Alberine, and when shee came first thither the shipp the Talbott
interr was there and had taken some corne on board there as this deponent was
informed by some of their company that had bin on board, and this rendent sawe
an of the said shipp the Tolls
the fety come on board while hee was there with the said shipp the Charle
Et aliter nescit.
first

Ad 5 respondet that upon their arrivall at Alberine with their said shipp the be
& other master Thomas have is desired beare or license of the and the
at the
time
quadater
corne, but the Alcade denied him leave to trade there ⁁ aliter nescit saved predet
et salvis quod predepoits nescit aliter rendere.

Ad 6 rendet that after and within two or three dayes after the said Dame
the said Captaine Hawkins tooke the said Turckish vessell, which was almoste
with corne, aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 7 et 8 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 9 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Ad 10 respondet that the said Captaine Harkins after the taking of the said soe
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shipp and forne in her, caused part of the said corne to be taken out of her to lighten
her
or Company
her to the end to hee off the ground, on which shee was run by the at Tukes as
soe taken out
aforesaid, which corne was put into the said shipp the Charles at Albene aforesaid
before her going for Mallega, aliter nescit

Ad 11u respondet that there were six peeces of ordinance or thereabouts fired from the
Charles at the said Turckish vessell before the taking thereof) by the company of
the said shipp the Charles, which was donne by order of the said Thomas Hawkins
and saith that some of the said company by the same order went aboard the
Turnish vessell and fetcht her off to the said shipp the Charles Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12 nescit.

Ad 13 et 14 nescit.

Ad 15 respondet that hee beleeveth the master and Company of the said shipp the
albott were able enough to have taken and might have taken the said Turckish
shipp or vessell if they had pleased. aliter nescit.

Ad 16 respondet that the said Captaine Hawkins might have restored the said
corne before the same was carried to Mallega, but not afterwards, aliter nescit.

Ad 17 respondet that hee sawe the said Captaine Hawkins and some of his company
goe on board the said Turckish vessell at Alborne to deliver her upp to the
from whom hee was taken
said Turckish Captaine and company, and sawe them retourne and the
Turkes left in possession of her. aliter nescit et negative proparte sua.
Ad ult nescit deposuit./

i
Dennis
Signu dci

B
----
2º Junij 1648. Super lilo et sched examinatus.

Munday
Monday contra Baker)

1us
Rs. E.
last and
a
Marday

Willimus Steare parochia beate Maria Magdalen Bermondsey
in Comitatu Surria Shipwright, aetatis 25 annorum aut eo circiter testis
in hac cauaa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the articulate Robert Mary and
saith that hee was in the time arlate lawfull owner and proprietor of the goods and
interall menconed in the first schedule articulate hath was read over unto him at
the time of his examinacon,) for this deponent working with him about repairing
arlate
the shipp the Catherine of Bermondsey Burneham, knoweth that they were fetcht
vessell or smack
where
out of his the said Roberts yard which hee keepeth such materialls, and provided by
him, and for lawfull owner thereof hee was commonly accompted. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundu articulum dicit et deponit that the arlate John Baker was and in in the
time arlate and when the said materialls were delivered and the worke in question was donne, commonly accompted and
reputed the owner and proprietor of the said vessell or smack. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid videlicet about Allallanted
last past the said Robert Meriday by the order and direction of Henry Champson
then master of the said vessell the Catherine of Barneham did by himselfe and
this deponent and others that wrought with him deliver out of his said Shipwright
yard at Redriffe wall to the use of the said vessell all and singular the goods
and materialls menconed in the said first schedule, which goods and materialls hee saith
were then spent and imployed in the repairing and amending of the said vessell and
were incorporated into her and made part of her, which hee knoweth to bee true
because hee this deponent wrought with the said Robert Merday in the said repaires
and sawe that they were spent and used accordingly. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 4 arlum lili et ad schedulam pred dicit et deponit that the said goods and materialls
at the time of their said imployment were worth the sewall and respective sumes of
money menconed in the said first schedule, and for soe much the same might then have bin solde
and at that rate such goods were then commonly solde. Et aliter nescit.

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Ad 2u et second schedulam alma dicit deponit that hee
the time arlate vizt about Alhallande aforesaid for tempus recolit) the said Dove

Rp

Mariday, and the other persons menconed in the said schedule being hired and and
by him the said Robert did by the said direccon of the said Henry Carpent the then master of
worke the said Smarke the Catherine of Burne, worke upon the said relade
hee this deponent
in repairing and amending of her, and did worke in the said repairing by the same
and number of dayes of nine dayes as in the said schedule is expressed, and the
beleeveth the other partes and persons menconed in the said schedule wrough hee
of dayes therein alsoe menconed, this deponent working with them, and the said
sevall persons schedulated did well deserve to have for their said worke the said
and respective by sumes of money menconed in the said schedule (which hath billing
read over unto him) and soe much they usually have allowed unto them for the
about and paines for workin soe longe time on other shipps or vessells. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur at

William Steere
----
Eadem die Super lilo et sched pred

2

Rp. EA.

Thomas Davies de Redriffe in Com Surria Shipwright, aetatis
annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.

Ad primum articulum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate Robert Malo
and saith hee was in the time arlate and when the goods and materialls schedule
were delivered, owner and proprietor of the said goods and materialls menconed
in the said first schedule, (which was read over unto him at the time of his
examinacon this deponent knowing that the same were fetch out of his the said
Robert Meridayes Shipwrights yard situat at Redriffe wall and take
imployed about the repaires arlate, this deponent working thereat and seeing the
same soe delivered. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundun articulum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate and when the said
goods and materialls were delivered and the worke in question donne, the arlate
John Baker was commonly accompted and reputed owner and proprietor of
the vessell or Smack, the Catherine of Burneham arlate and of her
tackle furniture and apparrell. Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertium articulum dicti lili et ad dcam primum schedulam annex dicit et deponit
that within the time arlate videlicet about All hollantide last past the arlate
Robert Merday by order did by himselfe and others (whereof this deponent was
one) deliver unto the use of the said vessell the Catherine of Burneham
all and singular the goods and materialls menconed in the said first schedule
which said goods and materialls after and upon such their delivery were shee
and used in the repairing and amending of the said vessell and made part
of her, which hee knoweth because hee wrought with the said Merday in
said repairing of the said vessell, and sawe that they were spent and
imployed accordingly, and while the said worke was in doeing the said arlate
John Baker came thither and viewed the same and approved thereof. and
aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartum articulum dicti lili et ad sched pred dicit et deponit that the said goods of
materialls at the time of such their delivery and imployment were well which
same sevall and respective summes of money mentioned and expressed in the said
schedule, and for soe much the same ought then have bin solde, and after
late such goods were then commonly solde, which hee knoweth being the
of the said trade well acquainted with the condicon and prices of which goods and and
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Ad quintum articulum dicti lili et ad secundum schedulam lilo annexam et tempre eu examinacons
ostenss et pperlect) dicit et deponit that within time aforesaid upon the delivery of
the said goods and materialls the said Robert Mereday and William Dawes his apprentice
and the other persons menconed in the said schedule being procured and hired by
bee
the him the said Robert and to be paid their wages by him did worke upon the said
vessell or Saacke the Catherine of Burneham in the yard of the said Robert
of Mariday aforesaid situat at Redriffe wall aforesaid (whither shee was brought
by henry Champton then master of her to that end) in repairing and amending
of her, and did worke in soe repairing her each men by the space and severall
numbers of dayes menconed and expressed in the said schedule, which hee knoweth
because hee was one of the said company that soe wrought, and did see that the
others wrought in the said worke the said sevall numbers of dayes, and hee
saith the said sevall persons did well deserve the sewall and respective sumes
of money menconed in the said schedule, and soe much they have usually
allowed unto them for their said worke and labour on other shipps and vessells
for soe longe time. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur er

Thomas Daniel [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Secundo Junij 1648. Super lilo et sched examinat.

William contra Wall.)

1us
X

Willimus Halliam parochia sancti Mildred Breadstreete London Calter, etatis
38 annoru aut circiter, testis in hac caa productus et juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the producent Margaret
Hallan as alsoe the hoy the John of Burne an arlate, and saith the said Pargaret
Halliam was for all the time arlate owner and lawfull proprietor of one halfe part
of the said hoy the John and her tackle and furniture, and soe commonly reputed, which
hee knoweth, because hee this deponent from time to time made upp the accompts
concerning the said hoye betwixt the said Margaret and John Baker then owner
of the other halfe part, on behalfe of the said Margaret Halliam for all the time
arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.
and was

Ad secundu dicit that the said Baker whilest hee lived was commonly accompted owner
of the other mortie or halfe part of the said hoy and of her tackle and furniture and
of xxxx, reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra, and was master and Governour of
her and soe commonly reputed. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time arlate the said John Baker did
make sevall voyages with the said hoy from this porte of London to Burneham
in Essex within the ebbing and flowing of the sea, and received sevall freights
and earned severall summes of money, vizt from the third of September 1656
to the 16th of June 1649, hee soe earned and received the sume of 17£ 10s of lawfull
English money, and from the said 16th of June to the 30th of October 1647
the sume of tenn pounds of like money, the which hee knoweth because hee
this deponent keeping the accompts betweene him and the said Margaret Hallin as
aforesaid did according to the accompt given of such freight by the said John Baker,
enter the same into the said booke of accompts soe by him kept, and the said John
Peter did sett his hand to the same, which hee hath lately perused ut dicit.
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving hee saith that one halfe of the said sames was
and is due to the said Margaret Halling Et aliter

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time aforesaid arlate the said Margaret
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William was owner and lawfull Proprietor of all and singular the goods wares and
merchandizes menconed in the first and second schedule arlate (which have bine
read over unto him at the time of this his examinacon,) and soe commonly accompted
which hee knoweth being then and nowe servant unto her, and buying and serving
such commodities for her, Et aliter nescit.
et ad primum sched annex

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent on the behalfe and of
to the said Margaret Halliam did at the request of the said John Baker deliver
to and for the use and provision of the said hoy the John all and singular the
comodities
goodes and wares menconed and expressed in the said first schedule, and that
on the sevall dayes therein sett downe, all which saving the last parcell thereof a
soe by him delivered at Barneham aforesaid, and the said last parcell consisted
at
of 54 of Essex cheese was hee saith delivered Gravesend to the use aforesaid
Et aliter nescit deponere, saving that upon the delivery of the said goods, hee entered
them into his booke at which hee hath lately perused and findeth the same to and
with the said schedule.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit et ad secundum schedulam annex dicit et deponit
that the said John Baker within the time arlate did give unto the said Margaret
Halliam an accompt of the sewall parcells and quantities of mustard seede
menconed in the said schedule as being bought in Essex for and on her accompt
by one William Whitfeild of Cholmesford and by him the said Baker received
on board the said hoye to be by him solde and disposed of for the lest benefitt
and advantage of the said Margaret, which hee knoweth because hee this depont
take the said accompt on the said Margaretts behalfe. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that in the yeares and monethes arlate the
the
firkins of
said butter and ⁁ cheese menconed in the said schedule were worth at such time
as they were delivered to and for the provision of the said hoy as aforesaid
the sevall sumes of money menconed and expressed in the said schedule, and
and more such goods
at such rates ⁁ were then commonly solde, of this deponents knowledge, using
the trade of a Cheese manger and dealing in such commodities. aliter nescit.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said John
Baker did sell and dispose of the said goods in the said second schedule menconed
aboard the said hoy for the sewall sumes of money and at the sevall rates
and prizes in the said schedule contayned, and soe much the same were then
worth, and at such rates were commonly solde, for hee saith the said John
Baker gave the said Margarett an accompt of telling the same accordingly
accompt
and at such prices, which ⁁ this deponent in the time aforesaid received of him
to her use. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad nonu arlum dicit et deponit that from time to time in the and at all this
that the said John Baker made upp his accompt with the said producent being
the time arlate (which hee saith was diverse times donne) the said Margar
Halliam paid and satisfied to the said John Baker for the repairing it
provision and other charges that were or grewe due upon the her repon
of the said hoy, over and besides the goods, wares and merchandizes delivered
as aforesaid, which hee knoweth because hee kept the accompts, as aforesaid at
paid him accordingly. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 10u arlum dicit et deponit it appeares by the said accompts, but the said and
John Bater hath not paid or satisfied unto the said Margarett Halliam for
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goods, freight and proffitts arlate, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving hee beleeveth
that if hee had paid the same this deponent should have received it, or at least bin
made acquainted therewith, by reason of his keeping the said accompts, Et aliter nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur etce./

Ad Interria.[CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu rend it ut petitur, et rendet that the producent is his safter in lawe vizt
his brothers widowe and this rendent is servant unto her, being her dealer for her
in her trade, and liveth not in the house at bedd and bord in her house. aliter
negative.

Ad 2 rendet negative.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 4. 5. et 6 nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad ultimu interr rendet that the said John Baker did make or deliver his last
this deponent xx xxxx to the suite of
accompt to the said Margarett Halliam on the sixteenth day of June 1649, which
was about foure monethes next before his death, but hee paid not hee not the
any money to her or to her use, and saith there were not any other dealinge
accompts or reckonings betweene thence, but such as concerned the said hoye, aliter
respondet negative.

William Halliam [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Quinto Junij 1648. Super allue arlate ex parte Butler prod Plosij 1647 dat
examinatus.

Butler contra Salile)
et alios)

1us
Red

Josephus Allect parochia sancti Margareta Lothby London civis
et Grifter London, annos 38 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac
can productus et juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that in and before the before and unto
the thirtieth day of December 1648 the arlate Edward Grove was commonly accompted
and reputed owner and proprietor of five sixteene parts of the shipp the Releife arlate
and of her tackle, apparell and furniture, and all other appointances thereunto belonging
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu et tertiu arlos dicte allegaconis et ad to prima schedulam annexam et tempe
in examinaconis estenss dicit et deponit that on or about the day the date of
the said schedule being the thirtieth day of December 1648 hee this deponent was
present and did see the arlate Edward Grave signe seale and for his act and
did deliver the said schedule, which being soe by him donne, this deponent and
his contest John Parry did sett their names on the back side thereof as witnesses
and this deponent having nowe seene his name there written acknowledgeth it to
bee written with his owne hand the time aforesaid, And hee saith the said schedule
was and is the originall bill of sale made by and from the said Edward Gove
five
to the said James Butler for the sixteene parts arlate, and the contents thereof
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contained. And hee this
deponent verily beleeveth the same said bill of sale was soe subscribed, sealed
and delivered at his this deponents shipp in Bartholmew Lane neere the Royall
charge London. Et aliter nescit deponere. Super reliquis non exaiatur ex direccone./

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatus per pollicitatem producents and testificandum in hac
a favet et daret victoriam in habentis in sua et plate, aliter negative.
Ad secundu Interr rendet that at or about the third day of the date of the foresaid schedule
or bill of sale, there was a deseizance made and signed by the said James Butler, and
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saith the writing annexed to this Interrogatory is the said defenance, which hee knoweth noe
that the same in written with this deponents hand, and the same was signed to
interr James
sealed by the said Butter the time aforesaid. Et aliter nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad 3 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 4 et ultimu nescit nec audivit.

Joseph Alford

JP
----
Eadem die. 

Super allen pred examinatus.

Johannes Parry parochia sancti Antonio London Scriptor etatis 26 anno
aut circiter, testis in hac caa etiam pductus et iuratus.

Ad primu secundum et tertiu arlos dicte allegaconis et ad primu schedulam and
tempore en examinacons attenss dicit et deponit that upon or about the thirte
day of December 1648 arlate the arlate Edward Grove did by his deade under
hand and seale fully and absolutely grannt, bargaine, sell and assigne unto
Butler
the arlate James ⁁ xxxxx five quall parts sixteene parts of the shipp the
Releife arlate with all and singular her tackle apparell and furniture and
all other appartaine thereunto belonging. And hee saith that on or about the
day of the date of the said schedule hee being the thirtieth day of December and
Joseph
hee this deponent was present together with his contest John Allon and
did see the arlate Edward Growe signe, seale and for his act and and
xxxx Sr James
deliver unto the said to Butler the said schedule or bill of sale
Joseph
and thereupon the said John Alport and this deponent as witnesses thereof
did sett their hands on the back of the same as nowe appeareth, and ye
deponent acknowledgeth his name there written, to be by him written
the time aforesaid, and by his remembrance the said schedule or bill
of sale was soe signed, sealed and delivered by the said Grove at or ne
Joseph
the shipp of the said John Aspert Pituat in Bartholmew one London
to whom this deponent was then servant. And hee saith the said
deade was and is a bill of so made by and from the said Grove for
said Butler for the foresaid five sixteene parts, and the same
all and singular the contents thereof were and are true and soe had
and donne as therein is contayned. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad Interria.[CENTRE HADING]

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatus per magrum Barrett sollicitation
producentis ad testificandum in hac caa, favet et daret victoriam second
writate, aliter negative.

Ad 3 Interr refert se ad predepoita, and saith that at the time interrogated
there was a deseizance made and signed by the said James Butler, being
the writing interrogated, which hee saith was signed and sealed by the said
James Butler, and this rendent knoweth the same to bee true, because
hee did then sett his hand thereto as a witnes of the said saving and
sealing, which hee hath nowe seene and acknowledged

Ad 3. 4. et ultimum nescit nec audivit.

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5o Junij 1648, Super allegacone pred examinatus.

4
Ad
14

Edwardus Bullord de Limehouse in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta, etatis 25
annorum aut circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus.
he said

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee went the voyage in question in the shipp Charles
of which the producent Thomas Hawckins was then master, and saith that in that voyage
hee was twice with the said shipp at Alberine arlate, and thereby hee well knoweth
that the Inhabitants Governours and Julers of Alboe are commonly accompte
a barbarous heathenish and deceit full people, and that such Christians xx as goe thither to trade
doe usually carry some few or Moore on board with them, to send ashore to mediate
and procure them prattike or libertie of trade there, and of the said voyage the
shipp the Talbott had a Jew a board her there to that purpose, which hee knoweth
because while both the said shipps ride in the Baye of Alboyine, this deponent
sawe him on board their said shipp the Charles Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu arlum dicit that hee hath often heard that it is a usuall thinge for the
Alade or Governour of Alberine to exact a gratinitie before hee well suffer any
commodities to be delivered as is arlate, aliter nescit.

Ad 3 et 4 arlos dicit that both the said B said Thomas Hawkins at his second coming
thither to traffique the voyage in question, and alsoe the sd Joseph Blowe master of the
Talbott at such time as they of the Charles were the first time the said voyage with
the said shipp the Charles at Alborne aforesaid, had hostages from the said
Poores on board their shipps, neither durst they of the Charles upon their
second comming as aforesaid adventure to goe ashore nor did any of them goe ashore
unamed, albeit they had both libertie to trade, and hostages aboard, but touching
the use and custome deduced in theise arles, hee saith hee cannot depose, for smuch
as hee hath not bin at Alborne save the voyage in question. aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit quod nescit deponere.

Ad septium arlum dicit that at the time that the said Captaine Thomas Hawkins first
mett with the Turckish vessell libellate arlate and questioned her the master and
company thereof, there was not any league or peace contended betweene his Matie of
England and the Tirke, that this deponent knew of, nor any pubacon or
proclaimation of any such league, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that assoone as the said Turckish shipp perceived that
the said shipp the Charles which had then an English signe flying) made towards
her, shee with all speed speade made from the Charles and rann ashore at
Alborne aforesaid, and the said Thomas Hawkins sending his boate on board
the said Turkish vessell to fetch a Christian that was therein that hee might
enquire something of him, the one of the company of the said shipp the Charles
retourned the with his head broken, which hee said was donne by the company
of the said Turckish vessell, which hee said heaved stones over into their boate
alsoe
at them, and thereby ⁁ part of the skiffe they went in was splitt and the
shipp
said parties that had bin in their said boate aboard ⁁ the said Turckish ⁁ brought
word that the company of the said Turckish vessell said, that rather then they
would deliver upp their said vessell, they would five her. Et aliter nescit.

Ad novu arlum dicit et deponit that forthwith after the retourne of the said
boate the said Captaine Hawkins commannded a peece of Ordinance to bee
fired at the said Tarkish vessell, and thereupon the Turkes deserted their
vessell and leapt over board to swin ashore, and immediately some Spaniards
and some of the Company of the said shipp the Charles having in a Spanish
shallopp which they had aboard went and boarded the said Turckish vessell and
possessed themselves thereof, this deponent being one of the company that
soe went. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that all within some fewe dayes after the
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premisses the said Thomas and arrived with the said shipp the Charles and
the said Turckish vessell neere Mallega within the dominions of the England
Spaine, and shortly after such their arrivall the Governour of Mallega comanded
and caused the come in the Turlis vessell to bee unladen and putt into the
going
storehouse, which hee knoweth, saying thither in the said shipp the Charles and
seeing the said corne soe unladed. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said Cartaine
Hurling at Mallega, and then hee had said there a while being informed
there was a league lately made and agreed upon betweene this kingdome,
the Governour of Algiers, hee the said Captaine Hawkins retourned with
said shipps againe to Alborne, and did there really deliver upp the said Dowe
vessell with her apparrell, tackle and furniture to the Captaine of her from
whom shee was taken and his company, and this deponent hath often heard the
said Turckish Captaine (speaking in the Spanish tongue which this deponent
understandeth ut dicit) acknowledge the courteene voyage which hee and his
company had received from the said Captaine Hawkins and make many expre
of love and good will towards, and hath heard him asmuch threaten the
his
Spaniards (to whom hee imputed the taking of the said vessell, saying had
would bee revenged on them therefore. Et aliter nescit.

Ad duodecium nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu refert se ad predepoita, aliter negative, saving hee hath received all
his wages for the said voyage.
shipp

Ad 2 rendet that the last time they were the at Alboyine with the said ⁁ the the
as aforesaid upon their retourne from Mallega, they traded with the Mare
for corne, aliter nescit aliter refert se ad predepoita.

Ad 3 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 4 rendet that the said shipp the a Talbott was at Alborne when the said
master and company of
shipp the Charles came first thither the voyage in question, and the said shipp the
The shott had obtained leave of the Governour there to traffique and trade there
for corne, and tooke in part thereof on the day the said shipp the Charles soe
arrived there of this depone. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit interr rendet that during at the arrivall there of the said
shipp the Charles, the said Captaine Hawkins and company desired license of
leave of the Governour there to trade and lade corne, which the the Govero
denied. Et aliter nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad sextum rendet that the next morning after the said deniall, the said Captaine
Hawkins and Company tooke the said Turckish shipp, which was laden with com
Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 7 nescit saving then the same might after the taking of the said this
one of the said Blewes boate came aboard the said shipp the Charles

Ad 8 nescit salvis predepoits./

et 9 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 10 rendet that after the taking of the said Turkily shipp and lading hee
of her said corne was taken out by the said Captaine Hawkins his order and pre
into his owne shipp the Charles, to lighten the said Turckish shipp before the sd
could fetch her off the shore at Alboyine, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 11 rendet that there were fired by the Company of the Charles from her the
or six peeces of Ordinance at the said Tor fish vessell before the take or the
and that by order of the said Captaine Harbins, by whose order some of the said
of the Charles boarded the said Turckish shipp and brought her to the Charles
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Ad 12 rendet quod nescit.

Ad 13 rendet that during such time as the said Captaine Hawkins laye and remained
with the said Turkish vessell and her lading at Mallega, the said shipp the
a bett arrived there out at sea, and one of her company came aboard their
said shipp the Charles in aboate unto the said Captaine Hawkinns, and had speach
with him, but to what purpose this deponent knoweth not, Et aliter nescit.
Ad 14 nescit.

Ad 15 rendet that hee beleeveth that the master and company of the said shipp the
To bott were able enough and might have taken the said Turkish vessell if
they had pleased. aliter nescit.

Ad 16 nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad 17 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit et negative proparte sua.
Ad ult nescit deposuit./

Edward Bullocke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Sext Junij 1648.

Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

second well

3s
John

Thomas Hallum filius partis producentis, carles, annos agens 23 aut eo circiter
testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the hoy the John of Barneham
arlate, and saith the producent Margaret Halliam hath bin for all the time articulate
and is lawfull owner and proprietor of one halfe part of the said hoy and her tackle
and furniture, for this deponent hath seene the bill of sale thereof made from
John Baker to Thomas Hallan (whilest hee lived husband of the said Margarett which
bill the said Margaret hath nowe in her custody, And for lawfull owner and
Proprietor of the said halfe part the said Margaret was and is commonly accompted
reputed and taken. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit that in the time arlate the said John Baker was whilest hee
commonly accompted
lived owner and proprietor of the other mortie or halfe part of the said hoy and her
tackle and furniture, and was Master and Governour of her and soe commonly
accompted, which hee knoweth for this deponent hath knowne the said Baker in
his life time to make up his accompts as master and halfe owner thereof, to the
his exactis.
said Thomas Halliam whilest hee lived and since to the producent ⁁ in Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said John Baker
did make sevall voyages with the said hoy and traded betwixt this port of London and
Burneham in Essex and some places in went, and as by his accompts, which hee hath
lately
made to the said producent appeareth (which accompts this deponent hath seene and
perused) hee hath received sevall freights, and earned sevall sumes of money within
the said time, vizt from the third of September 1646 to the 16th of June 1647
hee carried and received the sume of 10£ 10s of lawfull English money, and from
the said 16th of June to the 30th of October 1649, the sume of 100£ of like money
the one halfe of which summes was and is due unto the said Margaret Hallin, as
owner of the said halfe part. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartu quintu et sextum arlos dicti lili et ad schedulas in eadem menconat et tempe
is examinacons ostenss et per eum perlect, dicit et deponit that within the time
libellate vizt in the moneth of October last past or some what before, the said
Margaret William at the instance of the said John Baker did by by his contest
William Hallin the producents servant and other of her servants deliver or
cause to be delivered in to and for the provision of the said hoy all and singular
the goods and commodities mentioned and expressed in the said first schedule arlate
whereof shee was then lawfull owner and proprietie, this deponent being made
the delivery of
acquainted with all or the most part of the said goods and prisions, and hee saith
hee sawe some of them spent and eaten aboard the said hoy. And hee saith it
likewise appeareth by the accompts of the said John Baker given to the pducent in
his life time, that hee received aboard the said hoy all and singular the goods, wares
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and Merchandizes menconed and expressed in the said good schedule for the accompt and
said Margare, and to be by him solde and deposed of for the best benefull and
advantage of the said Margarett Hilliam, and that hee disposed thereof and soe the
same accordingly. Et aliter nescit, saving the said Margaret was likewise the
or
hee

Ad septium ⁁ arlate dicit et deponit that at the time of delivery and taking aboard
the said goods provisions and commodities predeposed of, they were worth the sd
sumes of money menconed and expressed in the said schedules, and for said
the same might then have bin solde, and at these rates the same were there
commonly solde of this deponents knowledge being a Chause whole soe
Cheese monger and a freeman of his trade and thereby well acquainted
the prices of such commodities. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 arlum dicit et deponit that during all the time aforesaid the said Margaret
Halliam paid and satisfied the said John Baker for the repairing, victualling
provision and all other charges that were or grewe due uppon her halfe part
of the said hoy, over and besides the goods and provisions delivered as aforesaid
as appeareth by the said John Bakers said accompts under his owne hand
aliter nescit.

Ad 10u dicit that hee beleeveth the said John Baker hath not paid or satisfied
unto the said Margaret allam for the goods and merchandizes aforesaid nor for
the freight and proffitts of her halfe part of the said hoy the John, earned
and received by him as aforesaid, for that the same remaines still undischarged
the said accompts. Et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur et

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee is sonne to the producent, and liveth in house with an
aliter negative.

Ad 2 negative.

Ad 3 Interr refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 4 nescit salvis predepoits, and saving the particulars of this Interrogatory
appeare in the said accompts, which hee hath not nowe with him

Ad 5 nescit, salvis predepoits.
hee referreth himselfe to

Ad 16 nescit, saving the said accompts.

Ad ult rendet that the said John Baker in his life time, and about a moneths
his death did make upp his accompts with the producent, and saith there
not any other dealings, debts xx accompts, or reckonings betweene them both
as concerned the said hoy, and which did arise and proceede by reason thereof
and of the voyage and imployment of the same, Et aliter nescit salvis pred

Thomas Ballon [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Septio Junij 1645. Super alle arlate ex parte dictons et alions is

imetatis 1648 dat examinatus.

Dickons et alj contra Hunkines.)

1us

Edwardus tyde famulus et apprenticius Johannes Booner Nauta, and
facies in parochia Sm omnium Barking civitats London, aetatis 23 anno
aut circiter, testis in hac causa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu et secundum arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
hath bin twice at Alborne arlate in the shipp the Corser of London (where
and is master Captaine Vincent Harris) and that within the space of six monethes the
hee
about September last was two yeares, and saith they then had free trade with the
Moores for corne, by permission and leave from the Governour there, wchant
milestacon or interption, And hee saith that for the space of such monethes of her
and wthout hee
while they soe lye and traded there, their company went familiarly and for
neere
ashore armed to fetch their lading aboard and other necessaries, and the other the

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did never offer any harte a violence to them, but suffered them to come on shore and
retourne againe on board their shipp at their owne wills and pleasures without any
let or molestacon, notwithstanding that they were marined as aforesaid, which hee
knoweth for that hee this deponent was one of the company and went almost daily
for that time ashore manned, and had faire voyage and intreatie ashore amongst
the oares, and retourned from time to time quietly aboard with others of his
fellowes, without the least trouble or molestacon of or from the said Monies or
Inhabitants. And hee saith that after they had soe stayed and traded there
and gonne and corne from shore freely and unlested for the space of two monethes
or thereabouts as aforesaid, a a greate storme arisinge and breaking their
cables, they were forced to sett saile, and sailed away for Cales in Spaine
leaving foure of their company a shore at Alborne, and about six weekes after
the said Vincent Harris retourning with the said shipp and company (whereof
this deponent was still one) for Abberine and arriving there, their said
in this deponents hearing that
foure men came aboard freely and related that they had had very kinde
usage from the Moores in all that time and had bin unmolested by them, and
then and from thence forth for the space of three weekes more or thereabouts
they had free trading and traffique with the said Morres for corne by permission
of the Governour, and laded their shipp newe with corne, having dischardged
their former lading at Cales aforesaid, and in that space alsoe their company
morne
went freely and frequently almost daily ashore ⁁ for their lading and about
the shipp other necessaries, and retourned safely and unlested abord this
name
deponent being one of the said company that soe went almost daily ashore ⁁ and
retourned freely and commolested againe to the said shipp, having from time
to time had and received very good and friendly usage from the said Moores
And hee further saith that hee hath often heard, and it is the common report, that
it is a usuall and ordinary thinge for English shipps to trade and traffique
with the same moores
at Alboyine and the coasts of Barbary thereabouts for corne, and to have
and obtaine leave from the Governours and Commanders there to trade and
traffique freely and quietly, and that such Governours doe usually and
easily graunt and give such leave for English shipps to trade there for corne
morning
and for their companies to goe ashore there ⁁ and retourne againe to their shipps
such
from time to time
unlested, and that accordingly the said companies have gone ashore and
retourned unlested aboard, though they have bin marined xxx after they
have obtained libertie or leave to trade as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad unicu Interrium in hac partinistratum rendet quod refert se ad predepoita and saith
hee hath not bin at Alborne in any other shipp saving the Carr aforesaid, nor at
any other time saving what hee hath predeposed of, and saith the said shipp the
tooke in
Casers of the burthen of 700 tonnes, and at the first time they gett but halfe
their lading vizt 300 tonnes of corne, by reason they were driven away with the shipp
aforesaid before they could take in any more, or els hee saith they had bin fully laden,
which was promised them, and the second time they upon their retourne from Cadiz
as aforesaid they tooke in only fifteene hundred hancks of come, beames and noe
meate, it being all which was asmuch as they desired it being taken or provision
thence
a for the shipp for a voyage to the West Indies, and all which lading was pcured
by money. And saith they had the assistance of a Jewe to obtaine them prattie
and deale for them, and that they gave noe money before hand, but only as their corne came
in they paid for the same after the rate agreed upon, And hee saith at their first coming
after they had gotten prattice or trade, they had two Moores sent aboard by way of hostages
for their securer dealing, but after a weekes space that their said master Captaine
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Vincent Harris sawe that the oares behaved themselves soe fairely and that hee
had seized byage ashore, hee turned the said hostage againe ashore and and one
the same freedeing afterwards of her what he said stood in the the
or Cadiz, hee take noe hostage aboard at all thigh hee traffique with
Mars as aforesaid. And hee alsoe saith that they went commonly ashore were
when they went for their lading as aforesaid with all their three boates, and in the
longe boate only they constantly carried armes, but never used them, which hee
going as aforesaid constant frequenly ashore named. And that suctus et
or nyne went ashore together and somtimes fower, and somtimes more
as their occasions required
number of twenty or thirtie, and never went above muskett shott out of command
their boates, saving that nowe and then their said Captaine and his mate went and
a mile or thereabouts into the countrey to bill birds with their peeces, And hath
theire have bin but foure or five of the company (whereof this respondent hee
one) they have gonne amongst twenty or more of the Moores, and commoned
they went amongst a greater number of the Inhabitants Moores, then they of the
company were, ther goeing somtimes for wood and water for the shipps he said
for the most pant for to fetch their lading of corne aboard for their lading
aliter nescit./

Edward Stee
----
Novo Junij 1648.

Super allen pred examinatus.

2

X

Isaa Andley parochia et Trinitatis in the Minories London Nauta, aetatis 20 annorum
aut circiter testis in hac causa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu et secundum arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent being
whereof is Commander Captaine upon her
of the company of the shipp the Caser of London ⁁ was thence within the space of
six monethes or thereabouts ended about November last was two yeares at Allayine artice
those
to trade for corne but
in the said shipp, at the first of which times their Merchant finding corne two da
did not lade, yet hee went ashore there and retourned safe againe to the shipp, and for the
time they departed, and about a fortnights space after they retourned thither, and there
they had free trade and traffique there with the Inhabitants, having first in
leave from the Governour there to trade, And then hee saith they continewed that
about the space of six weekes and traded and tooke in their corne as for the moste
to that time, And after they had obtained leave and permission of the said Gor
and agreed and bargained for their lading
to traffique, which was xxx within the space of a weake or thereabouts after such their
some of
thither their company went frequently and almost daily ashore there cared and of
any weapons to fetch provisions and necessaries, this deponent being one of the cope
that soe went frequently ashore, and his contest Edward Steede another, and being soe
ashore they had came freindly and good usage from the Moores and Inhabitants
offered them noe hurt or violence, but suffered them to goe ashore and retourne
againe aboard their shipp at their owne pleasures without any let or matestation
were soe their voyage was soe freindly that hee saith their shipp being by a stored
(where his dept
driven from thence and forced to sett saile, the said Captaine Harris and company
at xxxxx
the said shipp sailed thence for Cadiz leaving foure of their men ashore at Civit
at badiz
and after they had discharged their lading which they had the taken in at Abraine, by
retourned about a moneth after thither to Albone againe, and then there foure
are that had bin soe left behinde came freely aboard, and reported in his bee
hearing diverse times that they had free libertie and very good quarter and bee
and dealing from the Moores, without being in the last wise annexed, or mileste
them, brough they went as they said a matter of thirtie nines upon to the combert
after
And hee saith that xx such hee coming thither from Cadiz, with the said shipp
free
staid there about three weekes more and had againe livertie to trade, and
there take in now lading.
lade the shipp were bine, and in that time alsoe diverse of their company
somtines more and somtimes fower) a shore frequently, and almost day hee was
that named, this deponent being still one that soe went often a shore and soe
the said Steede, and in this time alsoe hee saith they had any freedowne and to
amongst the Inhabitants, whoe suffered them to goe and corne at their quarters
servis
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hath often heard and saith it is the com that it is an usuall and ordinary
thinge for English shipps to trade and traffique at Alboyine and thereabouts upon
the coasts of Barbary amongest the Moores the for corne, and to have and obtaine
leave of the Governours there soe to trade, and that such leave being obtained, they
have freely and quietly traded there with the Natives and Inhabitants, and that
then their company have from time to time gonne freely and contested ashore
quarned
about their occasions and have there bin well treated by the oares, and retourned
againe aboard unmolested. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria.

red

Ad primu rendet that the Inhabitants and Moores of Alborne are commonly accompted
heathens and Insidells, but hee beleeveth they are very constionable in their dealings
and soe this rendent found ut dicit, aliter negative et nescit.
and tooke

Ad secundu rendet that the first time while they lay there as aforesaid to take in their
lading, they had a Jene on board their said shipp the halser to goe on shore and treate
interprett betweene their merchant and the moores
about their trading, but when they retourned thither from Cadiz, as aforesaid, they
aboard
goeing ashore and
had neither fewe nor moore, their Merchant treating and getting their lading himselfe
by the helpe of a Jewe which dwelt there. aliter nescit et negative.

Ad 3. 4. et ult refert se ad predepoita, et aliter nescit salvis subse quentious.

Ad Interr secundu loco.

Ad dum Interrium secundu loco ministratu rendet that hee hath not bin at any time
or in any other shipp at Alberine, saving the times aforesaid in the shipp the
Cason, which is of the burthen of seaven hundred tonnes or thereabouts, and the
said first time they had not above three hundred tonnes of corne or taken
aboard, and not more by reason of the said storme, or els they had then bin full
laden, their full lading being provided, and the last time they tooke in not above
fiftie tonnes or thereabouts, which their said Captaine tooke in himselfe upon his
owne accompt, and desired not moore. And at their time of their first
being and there taking their lading aboard there the first time, they had two
or three
Mares aboard by way of hostages, and after they had bin aboard about a weeke
they the said Captaine Harris finding the dealing of the Moores to be soe
faire and his company to have such freedome ashore, hee turned the said
hostages againe ashore, and thence forward at that time and likewise uppon his
returne from Cadiz, hee still traded on with the Moores and his men
went ashore and retourned safe aboard with the like freedome as when
the said hostages were aboard, of this deponents knowledge being one that soe
went and came. And somtimes there went five or six, and somtimes more
somtimes to the number of twenty or thereabouts of their company a shore, and
Comtimes they went alosse waye and somtimes some of them went halfe a mile or
thereabouts into the countrey, And one time John Banner their master and the wth
and their merchant went with their peeces a birding about halfe a mile into the
countrey, this deponent going with them, and all retourning safely. And
in number
often times the moores have bin ⁁ three to one to them or more to their men ashore
(when they have gonne to fetch in their lading and wood and water and such necessaries
themselves
and somtimes they carried musketts and other armes in their boates, but went
from time to time unarned ashore. Et aliter nescit.

Isaack Angley
----
Wolley et alioru p bonis suis

Dundecimo die Junij 1648. Super allen arlate ex part Woolley et
aliora dat et schedula annex examinat.
not the Charitie &

1us


Robertus Smyth parochia Omniu sanctoru Barking London generasus
aetatis 56 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus.
deponit et sequitur, vizt.
et ad schedulam xxx

Ad primu secundu et tertiu arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that in the monethes
of Aprill and May 1645 arlate there were laden aboard the shipp the Charitie of
and whereof this deponent was ther part owner
London (whereof was then master Edward Clement) for the accompt of William Woolley
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and other persons schedulated the by their octors or agents the sevall goods were and
merchandizes following to be transported some for in Milford haven and some to
Liverpoole arlate and there to be delivered vizt for their proper uses and accompts and
by Thomas Stone for the accompt of the said William Wolley in the said of all
firkins of Sape marked as in the margin of the said schedule. Alsoe by To
Marckland for the Accompt of Nicholas howritt and others Edward his and
followell and others, ten rowles of tobaccoe, six stanch barrells, foure reason by and
two halfe butts of grannts, fourtie firkins of sope, 16 rundletts of Mallaged
26 boxes of pipes, rundletts of stronge waters, all marked I as in the married
the said schedule, which said stanch barrells and reason barrells were full of suching the
lay
of what hee knoweth not. Alsoe ⁁ by the said Marckland for the Accompt and
Edward Johnson one barrell of Sualls or stanch and six bayes of picus
to as in the said schedule, and touching the two packs of small wares menconed in
said schedule under the said marke of this hee saith by his nates it appeares ther lading
were two packs laden, under the marke did, but what the said packs contained
knoweth not. Alsoe by the said Marckland for the accompt of Richard ffello
two butts of such and six box of pipes, marked it as in the margin of the said
schedule. Alsoe by the said Marcklande the Accompt of Edward Day two but
of sack marked & as in the margin of the said schedule, which hee beleeveth to bee first
laden
accompt of the schedulated Edward Davies. Alsoe ⁁ by the said Marckland one
barrell of stanch, the foure firkins of sope and two bundletts of stronge water
marked & as in the said schedule. Alsoe f laden abord the said shipp
and
for the Accompt of Robert Master, so firkins of soape, two hogsheads and
and two barrells of cutt tobacco
eleaven randletts of stronge waters marked R. At as in the said schedule. Et aliter
laden for the Accompt of Samuel Westen twelve barrells of Tope, one dred
filled (but with what hee knoweth not) one hogshead of alla, two packs of
the one contayning (as hee beleeveth)
of whilabove and the other past board, a bale of mander, two bundletts of
to some ligued stuffe (but of what hee knoweth not) alsoe one starch barrells
of some thinge (but of what hee knoweth not) one fardle of flax or hempe) at
two truncks, but what was in them hee knoweth not and two bigge of hipp all
which were marked & as in the said ma margin. Alsoe laden to
of hoppes for the accompt of the said Samuell Weston two baggs of hoppes more
and as in the said schedule. Alsoe foure baggs of hoppes for the accompted
this deponent likewise marked & d as in the said schedule. All which said
severall goods, wares and Merchandizes were soe laden on board the said shipp
some at one time and some at another within the said monethes of Aprill as
May 1645 in this port of London, which hee knoweth to bee true becauseth
for the comme
sawe the lading of the most part thereof, and made uppon accompt of the
all the said goods with mr Alsopp the Wharsinger of Chesters by whereof
said shipp then tooke in her lading, which accompt and other motes of excise and
customes and other particulars hee hath nowe perused, and findeth thereby
all the foresaid goods to be laden accordingly. ffurther more hee saith hee
after the departure of the said shipp from this porte of London, shee card
Liverpoole, shee stopt at Milford haven in Wales, where this deponent came
ber
aboard her, and there hee was informed by Captaine Moulton that her
said Moulton had caused to be laden on board her there two baggs of old the
to goe for Liverpoole, and there hee likewise understood that there were care
goods there laden aboard her for the accompt of the Nathaniel Dunck
which hee beleeveth were to likewise to be transported to Liverpoole because hee
findeth amongst his mates a lett passe or transire for two truncks of
habberdasher wares to bee thither transported. Et aliter nescit deponere
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saving hee beleeveth the arlate William Woolley, Edward Johnson, Nicholas Hawritt
and company menconed in the said schedule were lawfull owners and proprietors of all
and singular the said goods wares and merchandizes, because they were laden on their
accompts, and because hee hath seene an order of Parliament and thereupon a Comission
out of this Court for the restering of the said goods, wares and Merchandizes unto them
Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the moneth of May 1645 aforesaid
the said shipp the Charitie departed from this porte of London and with the foresaid
goods abord her, and shortly after (and within the time arlate) arrived at Milford
which hee knoweth because hee mett her there, and there shee unladed certaine
others
goods which were laden aboard her for the accompt of one ffenton and parte
dwelling there or thereabouts, and afterwards vizt in or about the moneth of
arrived and
in the Baye of Dubly
August 1645 the said shipp departed from Milford, and ⁁ came to an anchor ⁁ about
3 leagues of Dublin, which hee knoweth because hee was then in her, And saith
that the Baye of Dublin is not farr out of the course of sayling from
London to Leverpoole arlate, aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlat dicit et deponit that whilest the said shipp the Charitie rode at
anchor at the place aforesaid, and whilest this deponent was gone ashore at Dublin
to get leave to and certaine cordage and other materiall for fitting of a shipp called
of Dublin
the Adventure which this deponent had here given a thousand pound securitie to
bringe to this porte of London, for the shee the said shipp the Charitie was
arlate
with the foresaid goods sett upon, surprized, and taken by the foresaid Captaine
Kinge and Captaine Michell, and their Companies, for this deponent going
afterwards aboard her, found that shee was soe taken, and saving the said
cordage and materialls which this deponent had license from the Customehouse
here to land there at Dublin, and some fewe goods of his owne, hee verily
beleeveth that if any goods were there unladen, it was without the knowledge
privitie or consent of any of the Claymers in this cause, for that hee verily
beleeveth they did not knowe of that the said shipp should goe into the Baye
of Dublin. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 6 et 7 et octavu nescit.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate Edward Clements was not to
goe Master of the said shipp the Charitie from Milford to Leverpoole
at Dublin
but hee was to goe into the Adventure of Dublin ⁁ there, which this deponent
went to fetch off as aforesaid, and then the arlate John Browne was the
goe Master of the said shipp the Charitie to Leverpoole and to carry thither
the goods schedulate, which this deponent knoweth because hee made the
in the Charitie
contract with the said Clements to goe to the Baye of Dublin and then
to goe into the said shipp the Adventure, and with the said John Browne
to goe masters mate with the said Clements from hence to the Baye of
Dublin, and from thence to goe master of the said shipp the Charitie to
Liverpoole, and did there to deliver the foresaid goods, and did not contract
with the said Liverpoole Clements to goe to Liverpoole. Et aliter nescit.

Ad nonu et decium refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit, saving the schedulate
Samuel Weston, Peter daman and Nathaniel drincke water are well knowne to this dept
bin

Ad ult dicit predepoita and comen well affected to the Parliament, and
hee saith hee
soe is this deponent (being alsoe menconed in the said schedule) and ⁁ hath contributed
liberally towards the Parliament in the service of Ireland, against the Rebells
there, and for such they were and are commonly accompted. Et aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu ea vera.

Robert Smyth
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Decimo quarto die man to Junij 1648

Super lilo et sches in hac causa dat exaid

Auston et alij contra)
Pafeild)

1us

Robertus Hough arles domestin William Ridge was artis producents
23 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus deponere
sequitur.

nescit
Ad primu arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee well knewe the arlate John Mr
in his life time, and saith hee was for the time arlate commonly accompted hee his
of the shipp the Greene dragin arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu arlum dicti lili et ad tertium schedulam annexam dicit et deponit that the
arlate William Ridgeway within the tyme arlate, and at such time as the goods men
in the said schedule were delived was lawfull owner and proprietor of all he said his
and soe commonly accompted, for hee saith they were made upon the shipp the
the said Vidge way, this deponent as his servant working about the same making
of them upp Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3u arlum deponere

Ad tertiu arlum dicti lili et ad dcam tertium schedulam annex et tempere eis exámin
ostenss et pperlect dicit et deponit that in a daye happening about this time two
yeares, and as hee beleeveth on the sixth of June 1648, hee this deponent was
present in the shipp of him the said William Ridge way and situat in St England
neere the Tower of London and did see him the said William deliver unto the bee
of the shipp the dragon arlate and to be by belonging to the said shipp, and
to the use and setting forth of the same shipp all and singular the master
aphance musketts, pistolls and swords menconed in the said schedule, his
contest Lamber Wilson being then alsoe present. Et aliter nescit deponere, said
the worke menconed in the said schedule was then alsoe donne about trimming upon sett
as belonging the said this deponent also to doe the same and saving

xxxxxxxxx xx the said Gunner came for the
said goods in the name of the arlate John Bowden, the master of the said shipp
and for him the said Ridgeway delivered the same to the said Gunner, to bee in pred
to the use of the said shipp this deponent hearinge the said Gunner demannde
desire to have the same for the said Bowden. aliter nescit.

Ad 5 arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that hee hath exerised the trade of a
Gunnsaith theise nyne yeares last past, and thereby well knoweth that the said
in the time of such their delivery
musketts pistolls and swords were ⁁ well worth the sevall sumes of money mencon
in the said schedule and the nor at that rote they xx such goods were then coming
well
solde, and the said worke was likewise ⁁ worth the sume of 25£ as in the said John
is sett downe. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 6 et 7 arlos refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit saving the said Bowden is de
since the delivery of the said goods, and saving the producent is an honest man and soe accompted
Super reliquis non examinatur er

Robert Worge
----
Eadem die.

Super allegacone et sched pred examinatus.

Lambertus Wilson famulus et apprenticius partis producentis, annos agens
20 aut eo circiter testis er
mett

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knew the arlate John Baden in her
life time, whoe was commonly accompted for all the time arlate master or Governours
of the shipp the Greene Dagen arlate. aliter nescit.
Ad secundu arlum et quiet tertium schedulam annex dicit et deponit that the arlate
William Ridgeway in the time arlate when the goods menconed in the said schedule
were delivered was commonly accompted lawfull owner and proprietor of the
same, aliter nescit, the same being

Ad 3uj arlum nescit deponere.

Ad 4 arlum di et ad schedulam tertium dicti lilo annex et tempere eis examinatus
often ss et peect dicit et deponit that in a day happ or about the sixth day of
June 1648, hee this deponent was present in the shipp of the said William
Redge way smat in St Catherines neere the Tower of London and did there soe the
for one
the arlate John Bowden in the maring of the said day, and heard him that the said
to the said William Bidge way to deliver the goods schedulate unto such as hee
send in the afternoone for the same for the use of the said shipp the Greene
and then the said Bowden agreed with the said Bid forway for the said goods and
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at the prizes menconed in the said schedule, And accordingly hee saith that in the
afternoone of the same day the Gunner and another younge man belonging to the
said shipp came from and in the name of the said Bondon for the same, and then
and there this deponent sawe the said Gidgeway deliver unto them the tenn
muskitts, foure stapsence musketts, two pistolls and tenn swords menconed in
the said schedule to the use of the said Bowden for the said shipp, this deponent
helping to carry them downe to St Catherines staires to be carried aboard her,
And about the same time (and within the time arlate) there was worke donne
about trummage upp some olde armes belonging to the said shipp) at the said shipp
by the servants of the said Ridgeway, this deponent being one that did help
to doe the same. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum dicti lili et ad sched pred dicit et deponit that the said musketts
pistolls and swords at the time of delivery thereof as aforesaid were worth
soe of
the sumes of money menconed in the said schedule, which this and at that rate
such like were then commonly solde, and the said worke was well worth
250 as in the said schedule is expressed, and by common estimacon the same
were worth as aforesaid. aliter nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that since the delivery of the said goods to the use
of the greene dracon as aforesaid the said Bowden is departed this life, doing
about a yeere since, as this deponent hath bin credibly informed. aliter nescit.
lately

Ad 7 arlum et sched dicit that hee hath ⁁ perused his said masters shipp booke
and there found the said goods entred in particulars and prizes as in the said
schedule is contayned, and saith the same doth agree with the said booke, which
is iustly and honestly kept. Et aliter nescit, saving his said master is
an honest and uprighte men in his said accompte, and soe accompted

Super reliquis non exaiatur.

Hambard Wilson
----
decimo quarto die Junij 1648

Super allue pred ex parte Harkins dat exaiat

Dictus et alj contra Hawkins

1us
R
7

Daniel Gares de Roder hithe in Comitatu Surria Nauta, etatis 52 annorum
aut eo circiter, testis productus et juratus.

Ad primu et secundum arlat dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath bin diverse times on
the coasts of Barbary within the Streights with the shipp the Isabell and
it which hee was Commander
Ellen of London and hath sent some of his company ashore there as at
a to Tittean, Buttay and Cape ffalson and other places, but went
wth to trade in any of those places save only at Titteman hee endeavoured to
tide in the yeere 1655, but could not get leave, and therefore the occasion
of such his mens going ashore was to fetch wood and water for the use of
for
the shipp, and saith the Inhabitants of those parts and places are the most
part Mores, Insidells and heathens, a barbarous people and such as
seldome keepe correspondence or faith with Christians, And hee hath often
heard that the Bullers and Governours there and at Alboyine and other
places thereabouts doe frequently exact and take a good considerable sume of
by warre of gratitie
money before hand of such Christians as come thither to trade before they will
suffer them to take the goods agreed for aboard or suffer them to trade, But
hee saith that hee hath not at any time bin at Alborne arlate, and
therefore hee cannot speake of the condicon of the people and of their dealing
in that particular place. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath often heard that such
as goe and trade at Albeyine doe from time to time require and take
hostages aboard to oblage the Moores to the observance of their promises,
which otherwise they dore not relice upon, and that in case they adventure
to trade without hostages, the Moores doe usually defrande and cheate
such as trust them, and never seldome or never keepe their promises
with them. Et aliter nescit deponere.
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Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the places aforesaid where hee
this deponent had casion to send his men aboard as aforesaid, hee are
sent them well arrived from time to time as knowing the persons
of the Moores to bee say, that if they could by any meanes over com his this
men, they would surprize and detained them till they were ransoned and
or such as goe to trade or
hee hath likewise often heard that it is the constant custome ⁁ at Alborne
not to adventure ashore conared upon any occasion, although they have
passages, and that in case they doe adventure to goe ashore married, there
doe usually make seizure of them if they cam master them, and detained the
till they be rensoned with money. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet negative.

Ad 2 rendet that the last time hee was in those parts was in the yeere 1649
aliter negative salvis predepoits.

Ad 3 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit

Super reliquis non interrogatur ex direccone partis ministrannts.

Daniell Gaves
----
Decimo sexte die Junij 1648.

Super lilo et sched in hac caa dat examinatus.

Beale contra Curteene

1us

Johannes ffrith parochia Comissanctoru Stayning civitatis London
generosus etatis 40 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus
et iuratus er

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that for some time next before the twentieth
day of June 1643 arlate the arlate William Curteene was commonly accompted
and reputed sole and lawfull owner and Proprietor of the shipp the James
arlate and of her tackle and furniture. Et aliter nescit.
Ad secundum et tertiu arlos dicti lili et ad schedulam annexam et temperat et examinat.
perfectum dicit et deponit that on or about the twentieth day of June And
j 1643 the arlate William Curteene Esquire for a valuable consideracon
and sume of money which hee then acknowledged to be by him owing unto the
producent William Beale did fully and absolutely bargaine sell, transport
assigne and sett over unto the foresaid William Beale the said shipp the
James and all and singular the masts, sailes, saile yards, anchors, called
ropes, cords, ordnance, municon, artillery Cock or boate, furniture and
all other things to the said shipp belonging, and hee saith the said schedule
was and is a true cope and doth containe therein the effect of the originall
bill of sale and by the said William Cartaine Esire to the said said
Beale of the said shipp the James and her tackle and furniture
and the originall bill of sale was on or about the said twentieth of June
hee subscribedd and sealed by and with the proper hand of seale of him
and
the said William Carteene and that in the presence of him this depon
and of John Hare his contest and of the other witnesses menconed in the said
foote of the said schedule, whoe did all then sett their xx names to the
said originall bill of sale as witnesses of the said sealing and subscribing
And to his best remembrance the same was soe donne in the then dwelling
house of him the said William Curteene shire situat in ffrenchant
streete London, and all and singular the contents of the said schedule were
and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contayned which hee
knoweth to bee true because hee hath nowe with him the drought of the
said bill of sale out of or by which the said originall bill of sale was
aged, which draughte hath bin ever since in the custody of in this depont
and which being examined the same doth fully a gree with the said Inhedule
being ared. Et aliter nescit deponere. saving the said xxx
originall bill was then and there alsoe delivered by the said William Cartaine of
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Ad quartu et quintu arlos refert se ad predepoita, et aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur er

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatus per producened testificandu in hac caa, in
qua millum haber interesse ut dicit, and saith it will be noe preiudice to him
though mr Beale be overthrowne in this sute, aliter negative respondet.

Ad secundu rendet that as hee remembreth the said Curteene did then acknowledge
to himselfe indebted unto the said Beale in the sume of 1130£ lawfull money
and in that consideration the said sale was made./

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad 4 refert se ad predepoita aliter nescit.

Nine John ffell
----
Eadem die, Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

2

Johannes ffare famulus Johannes ffrithe precontestis sua, etatis
28 annoru aut circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that before the making of the bill afte
and unto
ther bill of saile arlate vizt before ⁁ the twentieth day of June 1643, the
Curteene
arlate William Beake Esquire was commonly accompted and reputed
sale and lawfull owner and proprietor of the shipp the James arlate
and of her tackle, apparell and furniture. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum et tertiu arlos dicti lili et ad schedulam annex et ostenson
dicit et deponit that on or about the twentieth day of June 1643 the said
William Corteene Esquire for and in consideracon of the sume of eleaven
hundred and thirtie pounds which hee then acknowledged himselfe to bee
indebted and to owne unto the producent William Beale did fully and
absolutely bargaine, sell, transport assigne and sett over unto the said
William Beale the said shipp the James and all and singular the masts
sailes, saile yards anchors, cables ropes, cords and all other things and
apparell tackle and furniture thereunto belonging menconed in the said schedule
and on or about the said twentieth day of June 1649 the said William
Curteene equire did signe with his xxx owne hand signe, seale and
for his act and deede deliver the originall bill of sale (of which the said
schedule was and is a true copie) in the presence of this deponent and of
his contest John ffrithe and of the other witnesses there unto subscribed
whoe all did there sett their names thereto as witnesses of the said
delivering
signing, sealing and subscribing, and the same to his remembrance was
soe sealed and delivered either at the then dwelling house of him the
said Courteene in ffenchurch streete London or in the shipp of his comte
John ffrith were unto the said house being a striveners shopp and
then kept by the said father of his said contest. And hee saith that
said schedule is written with the hand of him this deponent and is a true
the
copie of the said bill originall bill of sale, which hee knoweth to the true
because hee findeth the same to agree fully with the originall brought
of the said bill of sale, out of which the said originall bill of sale was
engressed, and which hath ever since bin kept in their said shipp, it being
their custome to make draughts of all such bills of sale as they
make and engresse, and to keepe the said droughts by them, and the contents
of the said schedule were and are true ut dicit and soe had and donne
as therein is contayned. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 4 et 5 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad
made
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Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatu partis producents and testificandum
hac caa, and saith hee hath noe share or interest therein, and saith hee and
be noe preiudice to him though mr Beale overthrowne in this suite &

Ad secundu tertiu et ultimu refert se ad predepoita sua, Et aliter nescit.

ping John Hare
----
Decimo sexto die Junij Anno di 1648./

shipper allead and
ex parte dcorum Scott et aliora 13º Junijpre dat et
eadem annex examinat.

to William Scott, Johannes Merin
ony second probonis suis in nave
the St George de Hambrough

1us
Rp EA
red.

Johannes Peterson Gippes de Hamborough Nauta, etatis
40 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus
et mediamte interpretacone Abraham Der Kinder notary publin
examinatus deponit et sequitur

Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth to
arlate William Scott and John Merin and company, and saith that the
were within the time arlate and are the lawfull owners and proprietors of
one hundred fourestore and eighteene tonnes of Ree of the measure
Auray arlate, which hee knoweth to bee true because this deponent received
being master of the shipp the St George of Hambrough did receive the same
aboard in the said river of Auray in Bretague in ffrance for the accompt
of the said Scott and company as by the bill of lading annexed to the said
allegacon appeareth, Et aliter nescit deponere saving the said Scott and
company were and are commonly accompted and reputed lawfull owners
the same. Et aliter

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the moneth of May last
past the said William Scott and John Merin and company by their factor
Peter de La Porte did lade or cause the said 196 tonns of rie to be laden
aboard the said shipp the St George then lieing or being in the River of
Surray aforesaid to be carried & transported from thence in the said shipp the
into the Roade of have de Grace or Newhaven arlate, there to received
to what place
advice whither hee this deponent should goe with the said shipp and lading
into in England, which hee knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent
as
as master aforesaid tooke the said ride aboard aforesaid in the said river
from the said Peter de Lor porte
and received order to saile therewith to have de grace and there bee
advice as aforesaid. aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dici et ad schedulam annexam dicit et deponit that the first
schedule arlate annexed to the said allegacon was and is the originall bill of
lading for the said Rice, and was and is subscribed with the proper
hand writing of him this deponent. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 4 arlum nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate, after the lake
of the said Rie aboard the said shipp the St George as aforesaid, et
about five weekes since the said shipp the St George did depart afte
sett saile from the River of Amray aforesaid towards Newhaven or
have de Grace aforesaid, and in her course towards haver de Et
foresaid
aforesaid the said shipp the St George with the ⁁ lie aboard her was one
night happeninge about five weekes since mett with, surprized and hee
by the arlate William Macklowe and company about eight or nyne
about kept does
leagues off the Ile of Wight, and ⁁ afterwards, ing into the hee
of Poole the said shipp and the Rie that was left the said Manow
at any neere Poole
and Company having solde ⁁ about a quarter of the Roe that was laden of the

Ad
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made unto Colonell ham and Governor
of the Isle of wight
of the
(was by the meanes of and at the request and instance of him this deponent
retaken and seized by the Company ⁁ leath Anne in the service to the Parliamt
arlate. All which this deponent knoweth being on board the said shipp when
shee was soe taken by the said Mallowe and company, and being brought
with her into the Baye of Poole aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad sectum arlum dicit et deponit that the said William Scott was and is
a Hollander, and the said John Marvin was and is an Englishman, and
were
saith there was and is pence, league and amitie the Kinge of England
and the States of Holland and their respective subiects. Et aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that the said Rie was to goe from first from the said River into
the Roade of haver de Grace or New haven, and there hee was to have received
Advice from the said Scott and Merin or one of them whether to goe in England
but was surprized in the way thither as aforesaid, and saith the said Scott
liveth in Roane and soe hath donne about three yeares last past and the said
Merin liveth at haver de Grace, and saith the said parties to whom
the said Rie was consigned at Newhaven might have disposed thereof there
good
in case it had come thither) but not at soe ⁁ a rate as in England, Et aliter
nescit rendere.

Ad 2 rendet that the interrogate Johnson Henrickson and Matthew Dillfull
were two of the company interrogate, and that they were exámined at
of the said Henrick and till allfull
Portsmouth interr, and saith the examinacon ⁁ nowe showne unto hee him are
true, saving that this rendent liveth alsoe in Hambrough, where hee saith hee was
borne, and beleeveth the said exáminacons to be the examinacons and confessions
ffrench
of the said Henrickson and dillfull, and saith the ⁁ writings annexed to the
said Interries were taken in his shipp at the time of the seizure thereof
by the said Macklowe and company. aliter negative, et nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that hee knoweth the interr John Hamborne, and saith hee hee
whether
ffrenchman borne aliter negative, saying hee doth not knowe ⁁ but the said John
Hamborne be a ffrench man or noe, only hee liveth in Roane
Ad ult rendet quod refert se ad predepoita, and saith hee knoweth not any
other of the company but the said Scott and Merin, nor whether there be any
more of their company or noe. aliter nescit.
Dam his faith
the arle
----
decimo septium die Junij 1648, Super lilo pred examinatus.

Gilbert et alj contra Tackely.

2
Rp EA.

Edwardus Maniford de Shadwell parochia de Stepney in Com Midd
Blacksmith, annos agens 32 aut eo circiter testis pductus et juratus.

hee
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the shipp the Mary
Bonadventure and soe hath donne for theise five yeares last past or thereabouts
and hath might and
Harkes donne Smithes worke upon her, and saith the arlate Roger Kilvert and
theise six monethes last or thereabouts
Company have bin for the bine or the greatest part thereof commonly accompted
and reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp and of her tackle
apparell and furniture. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the time arlate the arlate William Tall
Tafely hath bin and is master and Commander of the shipp the Diamond arlate, and the
said Tately and company have bin for all that tyme and are comonly accompted owners and
infull proprietor of her. Et aliter nescit.
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and was moored

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said shipp the
Mary Bonadventure did remaine and abide at anchor ⁁ in a safe and companie
place in the River of Thames a little belowe Shadwell decke where shee
doe usually lie and ride at anchor, and there hee saith shee had layne and
tenn
who receiving any port
redden safe xx xxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx for the space of are and
or thereabouts before the dammage hereafter menconed happened of this deponent
sight and knowledge, Et aliter nescit deponere.
in the affirme

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that about five of the clocke of London
helpeing in or afor the moneth of March last past and while the said said
the Mary Bonadventure did remaine and abode at anchor and lemoored
as aforesaid, the said shipp the Diamond came thwart the or hawse and
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, and broke her from her xx and
and brake ther cables
and ⁁ by that meanes the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure came fower
et did
other shipps and receiveing further dammage, but what the said other dammage
was or howe much it would cost to repaire the same hee knoweth not, Et alite
nescit deponere, saving hee knoweth the premisses to be true because hee
was then standing in mr Guy a shipp Carpenters yard by Gladwell did
hee
and did see the said shipp the Diamond come thwart ⁁ hawse of the May
Bonadventure and breake her cables and force her from her mooring
saving that
as aforesaid, and at the same time his contest Robert Castle was coming
ashore from the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, and was comeing
the shore of this deponents sight

Ad quintu et sextum arlos nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 6uj arlum dicit that the foresaid dammage happened by the coming home
of the anchors of the said shipp the Diamond. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interrogatoria.

regatu

Ad primu rendet quod venit and his producen ad testificand in hac caa, non cactus
favet et daret victoriam indifferenter partibus hincinde litigands in sua esset
potestate andem conferrend faulty, aliter negative.

Ad 2 negative et nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that the shipp the Diamond did lie and ride at anchor about twice
from the Mary Bonaventure
aforesaid
her length immediately before the paided dammage ⁁ was donne, and was
and anchors
moored with two cables in the river of Thames where shipps doe usually
ride. aliter nescit.

Ad 4 nescit, nec audivit

Ad 5 et 6 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad 5 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 3 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 10 et 13 nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad 12 nescit, saying hee knoweth nothing of the twisting of the cable of the said
shipp the Mary Bonadventure, or of her being fowle in the haves, but being
that whether her cables were of twisted or not, the said shipp the Diamond would
then have driven her from her Marrings, considering the force wherewith to
came fowle of her hawle.

Ad ult refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Edward monford
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89

17o Junij 1640

Super allegacone pred examinatus.

de
as hee
did true /

2
Rp

Petrus Randent parochia sancti Margaret Pattens London
Mercator, annos agens 36 aut eo circiter testis in hac caa etiam
productus et juratus.

Ad primu secundu et tertiu arlos nescit deponere, salvis subsequentibus.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate
William Scott, and soe hath donne for theise nyne yeares last past or thereabouts
and saith that for the space of a yeare and the last past or thereabouts this
deponent hath and the said Scott have held constant wth correspondence
each with other by letters in a merchandizing way, xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx xxxx but three pence hee
at her, and saith that in the moneth of Aprill last past hee this
deponent received a lre from the said William Scott from Roane written and
signed by and with his owne hand (which this deponent well knoweth) directed
unto him this deponent, and there bearing date the 25th of the said moneth
of Aprill last past (new style) and therein the said Scott wrote unto this
here
deponent to make ensurance ⁁ upon the said shipp the corne laden or
to be laden aboard the St George of Hamborough, burthen of 90 lasts whereof
was master John Peterson Gry, from Howay in Breturne to
here in London cause
Exeter or Newhaven, and accordingly this deponent did ⁁ xxxxxx the same
to be ensured to the sume of six hundred pounds which assurance was soe
made on the 25th daye of Aprill last past olde style, And hee further
adde
saith that upon a second order from the said Cott hee call two hundred
the said former ansurance
pounds more to bee againe in the third day of May last past old style
said xxx said Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said Scott in his said
first letter did write unto this deponent that the said corne was to be laden in
and et aliter nescit depared the name of Merin, meanning (as
hee this deponent conceiveth) John Marrin one of the parties in this sute, whom
this deponent likewise knoweth, and therefore this deponent beleeveth the said
John Marrin had a part in the said corne.

Ad primum arlum nescit deponere.

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that the said William Scott is acco a Hollander
this deponent
and soe reputed, and was borne at Harbem in Holland as this deponent
hath bin credibly informed, being very well acquainted with his brother which
a Hollander
hee wenty nowe living at Amsterdam, and the arlate John Merin is
accompted an Englishman borne at Exeter, and saith there was and
is peace and amitie betweene the Kinge of England and the States of
Holland and their respective subiects. Et aliter nescit.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that as hee hath heard the rie Interr was laded in the river
of Abray in Bretague by Peter de La parte, aliter nescit salvis prdepoits.

Ad secundum non concernit eu.

Ad tertiu rendet that hee knoweth the interrte Lamborne by name, aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum rendet that the said William Scott liveth at Roane, and
keepeth a family there, and there hee hath bin settled with his family about
tenn monethes last past, or thereabouts, it being soe longe since they
went from Lew in Surrey, where they formerly lived, and the said bott
to
went about two or three monethes before thither to settle, and ⁁ provide for
the coming of his family, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits, saving ther
bara

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19o Junij 1648

Super allegacone arlate ex parte Tobery so Jn Hunt and
examinatus.

Gilbert et alj contra
Tokely

1s
dt

Johannes Harles de Shadwell parchia de Stepney in Com Midds
etatis 34 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et iuratus
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that imediately before the dammage in
question happened videlicet in or about the moneth of ffebruary last past bee good

shipp the dammand (whereof the arlate William Tockely was and is master by
in a convenient place in the River of Thames neere Shadwell (where shee
usually lice and ride at anchor) and was fast moored with two sufficion and
and anchors, this deponent seeing her soe lie and ride for the space of laden
or two daye before the said damage, his house being neere the places
shee soe rided. Et aliter nescit.
that in a day happening in or from moneth of ffeby

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that whilest the said shipp the Diamond and
fast moored in the place aforesaid with two sufficient cables and anchors
certaine Scotch shipp or vessell being xxx moored ashore neere againe
Shadwell dock, and riding a head of the said shipp the Diamond did
by extremitie of weather (the winde being then ut dicit very tempestuous
or anchor
breake loose and drowe and came fowle of the said shipp the Diamond
brake one of the cables or hales by which the said shipp the Diamond reade
this deponent then standing in his yard and seeing the same soe donne,
Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
arlate rode a sterne the said shipp the Gomond of this deponents sight
immediately before the coming fowle of the said Scotch shipp upon the
said shipp the Diamond as aforesaid of this deponents sight, but that the
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time that the said Scotch shipp
or vessell fell foule of the said shipp the Diamond as aforesaid and take
the
of the said shipp the dammand
one of her cables or hawles some of her company to the monnger of
in the among
foure or five were of this deponents sight then aboard her, Et aliter
nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that hee did not at hee the Diamond
come fowle the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, or doe her any
dammage but saith that the said Scotch shipp or vessell, after shee
with her anchor
had fallen fowle of the said shipp the Diamond and broke her cable or
and come with her anchor fowle
halse as aforesaid, did likewise drive upon the said shipp the Mary
man and thereuppon the said cable xxxx
Bonadventure and her Northermost cable, of this deponent
sight standing still in his said yard and observing the same, and
dure
by that meanes the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure but losse
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit that hee the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure had
for a good space, by her owne cables and anchors of this deponents shee
the anchor
before and untill the said Scottish, shipp or vessell came foule of her
then
Bake
calle Northermost cable and booke the same as aforesaid, and the
and not before that this deponent sawe) the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure broke losse and drown away as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that at the time that the xxxxx
of afte
said Scotch shipp or vessell came with her anchor fowle of the said
shipp the Mary Bonadventure as aforesaid, the cables by which the said
shipp the Mary Bonadventure rode were of this deponents sight and
knowledge twisted, and the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
with a fowle halfe, and by that meanes and the stresse of were
which
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which then was and by the coming fowle of the said Scotch shipps cable
anchor uppon her cable as aforesaid, shee broke and drove loose as aforesaid, Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 8 nescit

Ad 9 arlum dicit et deponit that this deponent hath bin a master of shipps by
the space of twenty yeares last past and and upwards by that meanes hee well knoweth
the customes of the River of Thames, and saith that by
the custome of the said River every shipp rideing therein ought to have aboard her
a sufficient cable and anchor in readines to lett full, besides those by which
shee rideth, that in case one of the cables by which shee rides should chance
to breake or slipp, another may forthwith bee lett full to prevent falling
fowle of and doing dammage to other vessells,
Et aliter nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that by the custome aforesaid noe shipp
rideing at anchor in the River of Thames ought to lie or ride with her any
cables twisted, or fowle in the hawlse, but shee ought to ride with her
halfe cleere, because the company of her such shipp that rideth with
her hawlse fowle or with her cables twisted, cannot soe sudainely or
readily veere or hall, as all shipps by the custome of the said River
of Thames ought to doe for the preventing and avoyding of dammage,
neither could the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure by reason of her being
fowle in the hawlse as aforesaid vere or hall to prevent dammage the time aforesaid
as shee ought to have donne. aliter nescit.

Ad 11 nescit./

Ad 12 arlum dicit et deponit that after the cable of the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure was broken as aforesaid, the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
drove loose from a little belowe Shadwell docke where shee had soe ridden
as farre as belowe Ratcliffe crosse in this deponents sight, which is about
halfe a mile ut dicit, And hee saith that in case the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure had had another cable and anchor, and men enough aboard
her, they might in that space have lett the
same fall, and prevented her falling
fowle of any other shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 13 nescit.

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Scottish shipp or vessell arlate did
remaine and abide in the River of Thames after the dammage donne by the
coming fowle of her anchor on the cable of the said shipp the Mary Bonadven=
=ture as aforesaid by the space of a weeke of this deponents
sight and knowledge, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 15 dicit that hee conceiveth the arlate Kilvert and Mullineux had
tyme enough to have procured a warrant as is arlate before the going away
of the said Scotch shipp if they had pleased. aliter nescit.

Ad 16 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu ea vera.

Ad Interria. [centre heading]

Ad primu rendet that hee comes by the meanes of the producent to be a
witnes in this cause, and saith it is all one to him whether the producent prevaile
or be overthrowne in the same, aliter negative.
hee

Ad 2 rendet that the producent asked him one day if hee sawe the busines about
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Mr Mullineux his breaking loose, and what hee knewe therein, and this deponent
tolde him to the effect aforesaid, aliter negative.

Ad 3 negative et nescit.

Ad 4 nescit, referendo se ad predepoita.

Ad 5 rendet that when the goods are discharged out of any shipp, it is an usuall
and ordinary thinge for the master to keepe only two or three of his company
on board to looke to her, aliter nescit.

Ad 6 nescit, salvis predesposses suis.

Ad 7 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 8 rendet 
negative et quod nescit salvis predepoits.
and saving it was (as hee remembreth) in the afternoone of the day aforesaid.

Ad 9 rendet that hee sawe that the cables of the Mary Bonadventure were
twisted and fowle imediately before the Scotch shipps anchor came fowle of
one of them as aforesaid, and that the same was not occasioned by the said
Scotch shipps comming fowle with her anchor upon her or her
said cable. aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad ult rendet that hee beleeveth that by reason of the foresaid storme and
tempest it was not possible for the company of the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure to make stay of her after shee was broken loose as aforesaid
unlesse there had bin twenty or thirtie men on board her to have lett
fall her greate anchor, in case shee had any such anchor aboard, and saith

the anchors usually belonging to such shipps are of about eight hundred or
a thousand weight, shee being in his estimacon of the burthen
of two hundred or two hundred and fourtie tonnes or thereabouts. aliter nescit

Jereimy Hailes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
20º Junij 1648.

Quoad  Johannes Peterson Grips)
et alioru pro)
nave the Saint George)
de Hambrough et cetera)

Rp. 1us

Super allegacone arlata pro Peterson Grips et al examinat.

Hans Claeson de Hamborough Nauta, Magister navis the kinge
David of Hamborough, aetatis 52 annoru aut eo circiter testis
in hac causa pductus et juratus.

Ad primu et septium arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et
deponit that hee this deponent is an Hamburger and hath lived in Hamborough
for theise thirtie yeares last past and upwards and for all the said time hee
hath well knowne the arlate John Peterson Grips and knewe him from
his childehood, and saith hee the said John Peterson Grips hath lived for
all the said time in Hamborough, and there (as this deponent remembreth) hee was
borne, and hee saith that hee the said John Peterson Grips and company videlicet
Nicholas Vandervercht Hendrick [PonXX] Vincent Clingenburgh, and
Jurian Johnson have bin for all the time arlate and are owners and lawfull proprietors of the shippe
the St George of Hamborough (which this deponent likewise well knoweth
and her tackle and furniture and soe commonly accompted. And hee saith hee hath likewise longe and
well knowne the said Vandervercht, [PonXX], Clingenburgh, and Joachim Johnson
to be Hamburgers and to dwell in the citie of Hamborough, and saith
they and the said John Peterson Grrips were and are subiects of the said
State of Hamborough of this deponents knowledge, and saith that there was and
is peace, league and amitie betweene the Kinge of England and the fleet
State of Hamborough and their subiects, and Inhabitants respectively
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu secundu et tertiu nescit.

Ad quartum rendet that hee hath knowne the interrate William Scott
living in Roane for a yeere last past or thereabouts, and saith the said
Scott speaketh good Lowe dutch very perfectly, and as a Dutchman borne
Et aliter nescit.

Hanss Claesne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Abr: Der Kinder No:t [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
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Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Rp. 2.

Johannes Duncker de Hamborough Nauta, ubi habitavit a nativitate sua ibus natus
aetatis 28 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac causa etiam productus et
juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowne the arlate
John Peterson Grips from the childehood of him this deponent, and saith hee hath
for the all that time lived in Hamborough where this deponent was borne, this
deponent having bin well acquainted with him for theise twenty yeares last past and
upwards, and for theise eight yeares last past this deponent hath knowne him
the said John Peterson Grips to bee master of the shipp the Saint George of
Hamborough arlate, and saith

that hee the said John Peterson Grips and Company videlicet [?Brassell] van Borstell, Nicholas
Vandervercht, Vincent Clingenborough, and Jurian Johnson father in lawe
of the said Peterson Grips, were and are all Hamburgers of this deponents
knowledge, and have bin for all the time arlate and are commonly accompted
lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp and of her tackle and
furniture, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad septium arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that the said John Peterson

Grips and Company aforesaid all whom this deponent well knoweth owners of the
said shipp the Saint George of Hamborough, were and are subiects of the
free state of Hamborough, and saith that there was and is peace, league
and amitie betweene the kinge of England and the free State of Hamborough
and their respective subiects and Inhabitants. Et aliter nescit, salvis prdepoits.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producentis.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu 2 et 3 et 4 Interria nescit respondere ut dicit.

Jan Duncker [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Abr: Der Kinder No:t [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
1648
----
Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Ernst Derrick Wolfe de Hamburgh Nauta, aetatis 44 annoru aut
eo circiter testis in hac causa etiam productus et juratus.

Rp. 3.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was borne in Hambrough
and live hath lived there ever since, and saith hee hath well knowne the
arlate John Peterson Grips ever since hee the said Peterson Grips
was a youth very younge man vizt for theise sixteene yeares last past or
thereabouts, and saith that for all the said time hee the said John Peterson
that
shipps hath lived in Hamborough, and saith ⁁ hee hath knowne the said

Peterson Grips Skipper or master of the shipp the Saint George of Hambrough
arlate for theise six yeares last past or thereabouts, and further saith that hee the sd
said Peterson Grips and company of whom hee well knoweth Jurian
Johnson, Nicholas Vandervercht and one [?Ponye] whoe hee saith are all
Hamburgers) have bin for all the time arlate and are commonly
accompted and reputed owners and lawfull proprietors of the said shipp the
Saint George and of her tackle, apparell and furniture. Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate John Peterson Grips and


soe many of his Company owners of the said shipp the Saint George of Hamborough as are knowe as aforesaid to this deponent, were and
are Hamburgers and subiects of for free State of Hamborough, and saith
there was and is peace, league and amitie betweene the kinge of England
and the said free State and their respective subiects and Inhabitants. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu 2. 3 et ult Interrogatoria nescit rendere./

Enrst dierick [?XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Abr: Der Kinder No:t [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
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Love contra Smith [?XXX]?

Rs EA. 1us

Super lilo et schedula in hac causa dat examinatus.

Thomas Woodward parochia sancti Petri Cornehill civitatis London civis et
Coquus annos agens 32 aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et
juratus.

Ad primu, 2 et tertiu arlos nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam in eadem menconat dicit et deponit that

about the sixth day of March last past (uttempus recolit) hee this deponent was present at the house
of John Hiron a Cooke situat in Gracious streete London and knowne by the signe of
the Pewter Platter there, (in which house this deponent is a servant) and did see the
arlate John Mare with his owne hand subscribe, seale and for his act and
deade deliver the said schedule, which being soe donne, hee this deponent and Robert
Dun a Scrivener did then and there sett their names thereto as witnesses, as nowe
appeareth, this deponent having nowe seene and acknowledged his name thereto subscribed
to be by him written the time and place aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu et sextum nescit deponere.

Thomas Woodward [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Eadem die. 

2.

Super lilo et sched pred.

Hugo Makinney de Wappinge parochia de Whitechappell in Comitatu Middlesex
Nauta, aetatis 36 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et
juratus

Ad primu arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowe
the shipp the Hermite arlate for theise five yeares last past
and hath well knowne the arlate John Mare for the like space of time, and saith
the said John Mare for about a yeere of that time (as this deponent remembreth)
and untill about September last past was master of the said shipp the Hermite
and had the governement of her of this deponents sight and knowledge
seeing him aboard her in that qualitie, and for master of her hee was then commonly
accompted and reputed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 arlum nescit deponere.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Hermite in or about the moneth
of September last past retourned from a voyage, which as this deponent was
informed was from a Greenland voyage, this deponent going aboard her shortly
after such her retourne. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam in eadem menconat dicit et deponit

that hee this deponent was present and did see the arlate John Mare with his owne hand
seale and for his act and deede deliver the said schedule unto the producent
James Love in a Cookes house in Gracions streete knowne by the
signe of the Pewter Platter, then and there being alsoe present his contests
Robert Dunn the Scrivenor and Thomas Woodward a servant in the said house,
but for the time of doing the same hee saith hee cannot call to minde
remember, and hee saith the contents thereof were and are true, for
hee saith that that both at the said time of sealing and alsoe before hee heard
the said Mare confesse unto the said James Love that hee ought him the
summe of ninetie and one pounds menconed in the said schedule. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad 5 et 6 nescit.

Hew Mackeny [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
21º Junij 1645.

3

Super lilo et sched pred

Robertus Dunn parochia sancti Botolphi Algate civis et Blacksmith
London aetatis 24 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et
juratus.

Ad primu secundum et tertiu arlos dicti lili dicit et deponit that the arlate John
Mare in the time arlate and at the time of sealing the bill of sale libellate was
master of the shipp the Hermite arlate and soe commonly accompted, and
the said time of the said sealing hee the said Mare did in this deponents
presence and hearing acknowledge and confesse that hee had borrowed upon the creditt of the
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said shipp and to her use of the producent James Love the summe of nyntie and one
pounds of lawfull English money for and towards the setting forth of the said shipp

the Hermite upon a voyage from this porte of London to Greenland, which voyage
shee went, and retourned from the same about Michaelmas last past into the River of Thames, this deponent
seeing her shortly after such her retourne, Et aliter nescit deponere salvis subscripts.
et referendo se ad schedulam lilata.

Ad quartum arlum dicit et ad schedulam in eadem menconat et tempore aut examinaconis
ostenss et per eum [?arle] dicit et deponit that the said schedule was and
is the originall bill of Bottomrie made by and from the said Mare to the said
James Love for the summe aforesaid, and was and is wholly written with the proper
hand of this deponent being a Scrivener and imployed about the drawing thereof.
And hee saith that on or about the sixth day of March 1646 hee this
deponent was present and did see the arlate John Mare subscribe his name
thereto with his owne hand, and signe seale and for his act and deed deliver the
said schedule or bill of bottomerie, which was soe donne at a Cookes house knowne
by the signe of the Pewter Platter in Gracious streete, then and there being alsoe
present his contests Thomas Woodward and Hugh Makinney, whoe all did
sett their names thereto as witnesses of the said sealing and delivery, and by
his name there appearing hee knoweth the same to be the same bill
of bottomrie that was then and there soe sealed and delivered howbeit
hee saith that by the error of this deponent the date of the said schedule or
bill is mistaken touching the yeare of our Lord, and written 1647 in stead of
1646 for hee well knoweth that it was March last was twelve moneth wherein
the same was soe sealed and delivered. Et aliter nescit deponere, the contents
otherwise in the said bill were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contayned

Ad 5 et 6 nescit.

Ro: Dunn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
22o Junij 1648.

Austen et alij contra)
Pasfeild.) 

3

Super lilo et sched pred examinatus.

Thomas Smyth libertatis Turris London, aetatis 28 annoru
aut eo circiter, testis in hac causa productus et juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent well knewe John Bowden
arlate in his life time, and saith hee was while hee lived and when the goods
hereafter menconed were delivered, within the time arlate master and Governour
of the shipp the Greene dragon arlate (which shipp this deponent likewise well
knewe, having wrought on board her) and for master and Governour of her
hee the said John Bowden was commonly accompted reputed and taken
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad secundum arlum et ad schedulam primum annex dicit et deponit that the arlate
William Austen was owner and lawfull Proprietor of all and singular

the goods and materialls menconed in the said first schedule at the time that the
same were delivered and imployed for and towards the use of the said shipp
within the time arlate, which hee knoweth to bee true, because hee this depont
then dwelt with the said Austen and was acquainted with the
delivery and imployment thereof as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit

Ad tertiu arlum nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum et ad schedulam annexam ei ostenss dicit et deponit that in the space of
the or three monethes happening about two yeares since and within the time arlate
the producent William Austen and this deponent and his contest
Leonard Penrose his the said producents servants and others imployed therein
by him did deliver to the use of the said shipp the Greene dragon arlate all
and singular the goods and materialls menconed in the said schedule
which were soe delivered in the shipp of the said William Austen at Tower wharfe
neere
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is comon and and
were the Iron gate, said some of them which were delivered on board the said
her the 1s
and there and and fitted to and for her use, and the seale were soe lived
and imployed at the instance and according to the same order of the said John Peter
master of the said shipp, this deponent being acquainted with six ander
given for the same, and hee to bee remembreth the premisses did
that upon the delivery of the said goods and materialls the same were ented
ther the said producents debt booke, and upon perusall of the said schedule
findeth the same to agree punctually) and particularly with a copie which and
hath nowe with him which was taken and transcribed out of the said be taken
touching the foresaid goods and materialls, and which hee saith hee hath hee
compared with the said debt booke and findeth it wholly to agree the
with the same. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the said goods and note
were delivered and same of them by this deponent served aboard bounde
forth of the said shipp to sea, and saving that hee this deponent by was then
apprentice to the said producent, and did marke in his and prepared
a good part of the same, and being constantly and frequently in the said
shopp at worke hee was the better acquainted with the making pred
and delivery of the same as aforesaid.

Ad quintu arlum et schedulam pred dicit et deponit that the arlate said
and fitting
and materialls aforesaid, at the time of such their delivery as aforesaid
were respectively worth the sevall sumes of money menconed and doe
in the said schedule extending in toto to the sume of 25£ -14s 2d, and
like
at such rates and prices for stuffe and worke man shipp the same were
bee then
then commonly solde and to others of this deponents knowledge and selling
such like goods and materialls at the same prices for his said master to
others. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that since the delivery of the said goods the
said John Bowden, master of the said shipp is departed this life
aliter nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit that the said first schedule doth fully agree touching
the particulars and prizes therein contayned with the debt booke of
like
the said producent kept for such purpose, and that the said producen
doth fully reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra, and saith the said
man
one that is
producent is accompted an honest man and ist man in his accompts
and reckonings. Et aliter nescit deponere

Ad 8. 9. et 10 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Thomas Smith

Eadem die, Super lili et sched pred.

Leonardus Rences parochia libertatis London Pully maker abats
31 annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.

and

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knewe the arlate John Bowle
in his life time and saith hee was within the time arlate xxx and when the
goods here after menconed were delivered, master and Governour of the shipp the
Greene dracon arlate, this deponent working somtimes aboard and seeing the
said Bowden aboard in that office, and for master and Governour of her
hee was then commonly accompted and reputed. Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate William Amston was one
of all and singular the goods and materialls menconed in the first schedule
arlate at such time as they were delivered to the use of the said shipp, which
this deponent knoweth because hee wrought then which the said Austen as
his servant, and Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam primam in eadem menconat et
ostens et perlact dicit et deponit that about two yeeres since in the space
two or three monethes happening within the time arlate, there were
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in the yard and shipp of the producent sat at Tower charge to the use of
the said shipp the Greene dragen and towards the setting of her unto to sea all
the goods and materialls menconed in the said schedule, some whereof this deponent
in the producents behalfe delivered, and others hee sawe delivered by the said pducen
and his contest Thomas Baith the producents then apprentice this deponent then
working as a yourney man the to the said producent in the said shipp in making of
Pully makers worke, and did help to make a greate part of the said materialls
for the said shipp, and the same were made, provided, and delivered according
which this deponent heard had give
to the desire and direccon of the said Bowden the master of the said shipp
and were a good part of them put on board her in this deponents sight who
did help to carry some of them on board, and wrought on board in fitting
some of them being there imployed by the said producent at the request
of the said Bowden. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et sched pred dicit et deponit that the said goods and
materialls menconed in the said schedule were at the time of their delivery
aforesaid worth the sewall sumes of money menconed in the said schedule
and for soe much and at such rates the like goods were then commonly
solde to others, of this deponents knowledge whoe hath exercised the
said trade theise twelve yeares last past, and at that time solde many
such goods on the behalfe of the said producent. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that since the delivery of the said goods and
materialls the said John Bowden as this deponent hath heard is departed
this life. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit that the said I William Masten the producent
was and as accompted a very honest man and one that is iust and faithfull
and reckinge. Et aliter nescit.

Signu
Leonard
Newrose

R
----
23o Junij 1640

Super lilo in hac caa dat examinatus.

Brade et alj contra

Stagge

1us

were
Rp. EA.

Matheus Engle de Lubecke Nauta, aetatis 32 annorum aut eo circiter
testis in hac causa productus et interpretate Abraham der Kinder noria
pdca examinatus, deponit et sequitur vizt.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate Alard Grabe
and for hath knowne him for theise twenty yeares last past and upwards, and hath
well knowne the shipp the Hope arlate from the time that the same was built
which hath bin for theise five yeares last past on or thereabouts, and saith
and company have
that the arlate said Mard Gibe ⁁ was hath bin for all the time arlate and abor
owners and lawfull proprietors of the said shipp the Hope and of her tackle
and furniture and soe commonly accompted, which hee the better knoweth because
hee this deponent is and hath bin for theise two monethes last past or
thereabouts Steersman or masters mate of the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 arlum nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that or a daye or about the third day of June
last past (and within the time arlate) a certaine English shipp, having the kings
camed and anted
armes upon her sterne, but the name of her f and and coming from Spaine
or out of the fraights as this deponent understood (but her name or the name
of the master of her hee saith hee knoweth not nor hath heard) and alsoe the
said shipp the Hope being both under saile and coming up the river of
Thames on this side Blackwall, (which place hee saith hee well knoweth)
the said English shipp steered soe neere unto the said Shipp the Hope
that the boltspritt of the said shipp the Hope and the maine shrowne
which this deponent knoweth being aboard the Hope and seeing the same.
of the said English shipp were hunge and entrugged together ⁁ Et aliter nescit
deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and Company of the said
shipp the Hope seeing and perceiving that the said bolt spritt and the
maine shrowds of the said English shipp were soe hunge and entangled
together, they called out alonde to these master and company of the said
English shipp and soe did some of the passengers aboard the Hope and take
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the said Mard Gibe the master of the said shipp the Hope and some and
said passengers in soe calling to the master of and company of the said
did wish and speake to them either to cutt the rope belonging to the said
Bobte spritt or to cutt the hallier of their said maine shrowde of the
English shipp thereby to cleere the said shipps each from other, and the
said Gibbe toulde them and promised that what losse or dammage the
should sustaine by cutting thereof hee the said Grabee would pay
to the like effect, all which this deponent heard, being then on board
be de
upon the decks of the said shipp the Hope. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and company of the said
English shipp, refused either to cutt the rope belonging to the boltspritt of
the Hope or to cutt the Hallier of one of their owne maine shrowds, the
said master soe notwithstanding the request and speaking aforesaid of the said
and
Gibbe by reason whereof the same was not donne, the said shipps
came further fowle each of other, and by the soe coming for
the said shipp the hopes
the said English shipp upon the Hopell Bolspritt, and her foremost
and fore to mast, all her yards and topps, her fore shrowds and
running ropes were broken and torne and her sailes rent and thereby
the said shipp the Hope was damnified in her hull, masts, appeare
tackle and furniture to the summe or valewe of 30£ lawfull English
money, in this deponents judgement and estimacon, and soe much hee
conceiveth it will of the said Gribbe to repaire the same. Et
The premisses hee deposeth, being then on board the said shipp the
Hope and seeing the said dammage soe donne, Et aliter nescit.
Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that in case the master and Company
of the said English shipp had not steered their said shipp soe neere
the said shipp the Hope as aforesaid (which hee saith they needed not have
donne, but might very well have avoided) or had afterwards at the
request of the said Gombe cutt the hallier of one of their maine
shrowds, or had cutt the rope of the Boltspritt of the damage
the dammage in question in all likelived had bin prevented. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the master and company of
the said shipp the Hope did their utmost endeavours to prevent
the dammage aforesaid, and that in case any of the company of the
said English shipp had at the request of the said Grabe cutt theire
English
Hallier aforesaid the said shipp to had not or could have bin damnified
to the valewe of above twenty shillings sterlinge at the most in this
deponents iudgement. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 8. 9. 10. et 13 nescit, referendo se ad predepoita.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee cometh by the meanes of the said Cooke to the
witnes in this cause, wherein hee hath noe interest, and that it was one
benefitt to him though Gibbe prevaile, nor dammage though hee bord
in this sute, and that hee was and is one of the said shipps company, and
there is 20 Reex dollers of his wages behinde and unpaid for this voyage
interr became it is not due till hee cometh to saile againe hande
with the said shipp. aliter negative salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad secundum rendet that the said shipp the ye came first hee
river of Thames, aliter negative et nescit et negative.
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Ad tertiu refert se ad predepoita aliter negative et nescit, saving hee
saith they of the hope could not hinder or prevent what was donne as aforesaid,
they being to Lee of the said English shipp where they had way enough to
have passed without hazard or dannger, but that the said English shipp
came sport upon them.

Ad quartu refert se ad predepoita et presse, aliter negative et nescit.

Ad 5 negative et nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 6 rendet that the said shipps the Hope and the English shipp were
cleered without dammage ⁁ each from ex other the first time of their coming
fowle each uppon other. aliter nescit et negative.

Ad ult rendet quod nescit et negative salvis predepoits.
natus et

John Downer
----
sd

Eadem die.

Super lilo predca examinatus.

2
Rs. E.
her

Jacobus Gondon de Dansike in Prissia, natus apud resore in
Mercator
Scotia annos agens 46 aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et
iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowne
the arlate Alard Gribe for theise six weekes last past or thereabouts
this deponent coming a passenger in his shipp the Hope of Lubecke arlate
from Dansike and arriving here about three weekes since, and saith
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 2 arlum nescit deponere salvis subscripts.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that on or about the third day of June
last past and within the time arlate the said shipp the Hope and a certaine
greate English shipp (whereof the masters name was stagge as this
a
deponent ⁁ heard, but the shipps name hee knoweth not) being both under
together
saile and coming up the River of Thames betweene xx on this side
Greenwith, the said English shipp and the said shipp the Hope being
master &
to Lee of the said English shipp and her ⁁ company perceiving another shipp
lying at anchor a head in her course, soe that shee could not securely
make way by reason the said English shipp was to windeward of her,
the master and company of the said shipp the Hope suddanly let full an
anchor to eschen danger, and being at anchor the English shipp in
coming to goe by her came with one of her shrowds fowle of the
boltspritt of the said shipp the Hope, and the said f bolt spritt was
by that meanes fast and intangled in the said said shrowde, being one
of her maines words, Et which this deponent knoweth because hee being
then aboard the hoye, sawe the same soe donne. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and Company of the
said shipp the hoye seeing and perceiving that their said bolt spritt
and the maine shrowde of the said English shipp were fowle as aforesaid,
the the said master Mardrabe) and diverse xx of his company and
of his passengers whereof this deponent was one called out to the master
and company of the said English shipp either to cutt the rope belonging
to the bolt spritt of the hope, or to cutt the hallier of the maine, shrowds
of the shipps said English shipp, thereby to cleere the said shipps each
from other, telling and earnestly requested them soe to doe, telling and
faithfully promising them withall that what losse or dammage

To
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they should sustaine by cutting thereof, hee the said Gibbe had and
of the high as

4

promised hee would pay for very willingly what ever they hee
would demannd, All which words, requests, and promises this deponent
being on board the hoye did heare, and did himselfe perswade and is
them to that purpose. Et aliter nescit.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and Company of the
English shipp seemed to this deponent to neglect and slight the request
calling out, of the said Allard Grake and such of his company
passengers as soe called to and intreated them as aforesaid, and did at
goe about or endeavour to cutt either the rope of the boltspritt of the
Hope aforesaid or the hallier of their maine Prowde aforesaid, by
reason whereof the said shipps came further fowle each of other
by that meanes the said shipp the Hopes boltspritt and her formed
and fore to mast, all her fore yards and topps, her fore stronded
ninge ropes were all broken and torne and one of her sailes and
of this deponents sight and knowledge, but for the valewe of the
dammage hee saith hee cannot estimate the same. Et aliter nescit.
Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Mr and Company of the
English shipp had not steered their shipp soe neere the said shipp the Hare
as aforesaid, or had at the request and earnest intreate of the said Pinke
and company cutt the hallier of one of their maine shrowds, or cutt the
Cope of the Boltspritt of the dan hope, the dammage aforesaid
in the judgement and opinion of him this deponent and in all probabilitie
have bin prevented. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit that the master and Company of the said
the Hope did of this deponents sight and knowledge did their utmoste
endeavour to prevent the said dammage, and in case the said Baggs
or any of his company had cutt their hallier of their said Pronde
the request of the said Grabe and company, the said English shipp
could not have bin damnified at all to any valewe, at least not to the
valewe of 20£ sterling, howbeit whatsoever the dammage should hee
bin the said Grave promised as before to make full satisfaction for
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 8. 9. 10. et 11u nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria./

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatus per producente and testificandum in the
a wherein hee hath noe interest, aliter negative ad singula.
Ad secundum rendet that both the said shipps xxx came sayling ever to the
and that the hope could not come to windeward of the English shipp, but
et nescit

Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit, saying hee heard noe say this
though hee was then upon the decks of the hope

Ad 3 nescit, saving the Company of the Hope could not bine but
her to the the windward of the English shipp

Ad 5 negative et nescit, saving hee saith that he the is
soe farr to windewards of the hope, that it was impossible for the sd
to windward of her, but the Hope might well have gonne and said
to Lee of her had it not bin for other shipps that were in ther said
to prevent danger of coming foule in of them, soe cast ough hee the
the English shipp came shott att from London unlade
of her bolt spritt as afore, which the Company of the
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Ad 6 rendet that the said shipps were xxx xxx quod refert se ad predepoita.
aliter negative et nescit.

Ad ult nescit.

James done

1. 23o Junij 1648

Super lilo pred examinatus.

Cables all or himsell et alliner

2
R. E.

Georgius Barrell parochia sancti Olavi Hartstreete London Nauta
etatis 56 annorum aut eo circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that about five yeares since (and within the
time arlate) the producent Thomas Calvill (whom this deponent hath well knowne
for about tenn yeares last past) did bin the shipp the Providence arlate at
Algier of the Turkes there whoe had newly before taken her and brought her
in thither for prize, which this deponent knoweth because hee being then in
Olavery at Algiers did see the said shipp brought in as prize, and after the
said producent had bought the same, this deponent sawe him in possession
thereof, this deponent being by the said Calvill imployed to worke aboard
her after hee had the possession of her, his this deponents Pxxxxx being by
the said Cabill paid for such this deponents late And ever since the
said Colvill and company have bin accompted lawfull owners and proprietors
of the said shipp, and of her tackle, apparell and furniture. And the said
till was of this deponents sight and knowledge master of her. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producent.

Ad Interria.

det.

Ad primu rendet that the porte of Allicant is in the Dominions of the
Kinge of Spaine. aliter nescit.

Ad 2 negative.

Ad 3 rendet that hee comes at the request of the said Thomas Calvill
to be a witnes in this cause, and that hee hath expecteth noe benefitt or
proffit though Colvill prevaile, nor losse though hee be overthrowne
in this sute./

Ad 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. et ult Interria nescit respendere.

Yeo
Purnell
Signu

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23o Junij 1648

Super lilo examinatus.

Capell contra Hansell
et Callier

1us

R 2

Benjaminus Baniford de Ratcliffe in Com Midd Nauta, etatis nescit
et ultra testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.
saith

Ad primu arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath were lading
the arlate Thomas Calvill for theise six yeares last past of thereabouts, and
hath knowne the shipp arlate the Providence about foure yeares last past
deponents
saith that hee this present in Algier about foure yeares since (where hee had
did there
then
knoweth that
then in Olavery) and did soe the said Thomas Cabill ⁁ by the said shipp
Providence there of the Carkes, whoe had lately before taken her at ffe and
this deponent seeing him there
brought her in thither as prize, and sawe him there in possession of her
and knoweth that the said Colvill after hee had soe bought her made a
voyage with her and retourned againe with the said shipp to Algier from the
said voyage, this deponent againe seeing him and the said shipp upon shee
his retourne, which was about foure monethes after such his buying the
and this deponent heard the Turckes call him master of that vessell afford
hee was in possession thereof, ever since
the said Cabbill and Company (whereof this deponent knoweth the arlate
comonly
Thomas Goddon) have bin and are ⁁ accompted lawfull owners and
proprietors of the said shipp and of her tackle apparell and furniture
and the said Cabill hath for all the said time bin accompted master of
her. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Signu
Benjamin
Banford
----
6

23o Junij 1648

Super lilo predca exaiatus

Thomas Browne parochia sancti Botolphi Alder gate London
civis et Leather seller London, annos agens 27 aut eo circiter testis
in hac caa productus et iuratus.

ffrier contra Browne

2

suger
et ad sched annex

Ad quartum arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that within the time arlate libee
hee this being on board the shipp the James arlate and did see some of the
deponent was
her
goods mentioned in the said schedules brought on board, and sawe some other
of them delivered on board the shipp the David arlate towards their being
out to sea in service of the Parliament, this deponent then going that
voyage out with them on board the James, and hee saith hee beleeveth
the said goods and materialls were brought from the producent and by
& his order delivered out to the use of the said shipps, because somehall
before their said bringing on board this deponent was present within
arlate Captaine David Browne at the shipp of the said ffairing
Catherins and did heare him give order both to the said ffrier and
alsoe to his servant to have deliver them for the uses aforesaid
Moreover hee saith that on or about the twentieth day of the moneth
of January last past and within five or six dayes or thereabouts
after the arrest of the said shipps, the said Captaine Browne and
the producent and this deponent being together at the white halfe
taverne in Lumbard streete, and the said Captaine Browne and Mr
ffrier having some speech about the said goods delivered and of the
xxx
money thereupon due and owing for the same to him the said ffree
the said Captaine Browne did then and there confesse the received
a this depts hearing
of the said goods, and that hee ought the said ffriet a hundred pound
which hee confessed was behinde and unpaid for the same as hee
said ffoyer what hee needed to have all costed arrest both the shipps
when as one of them was sufficient to make satisfaction for the sd
hundred pounds that was soe repaid. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad
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Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod equa favet partibus huicinde litigantibus respecti veritatis
et secundu ius daret victoriam in sua esset potestate. aliter negative.

Ad secundu rendet quod venit regatus per producen ad testificandu in hac caa aliter
negative, saying hee shall neither gett nor loose whether ffrier prevaile or
be overthrowne in this cause.
rendet

Ad tertiu arlum that it was in or about the moneth of March last was a
twelve moneth that this deponent sawe the said goods brought on board by him
before deposed of, and this depon rendent sawe them imployed to the use
and provision of the said shipps, this deponent being then maste master
master to the Squadron of which the said two shipps were true aliter nescit
salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad quartu rendet that the said David Browne was commander in
cheife of both the said shipps the time interr, and william Asterley was
master under him of the James, and John Browne the said Captaine
Brownes brother master of the David, aliter nescit salvis predepoits.
ad qua se refert.
Bay

Ad quintu rendet that Colonall weames and Colonell ⁁ were part owners
of the James the time interr aliter nescit, saving the said Captaine Browne
was a part owner both of the James and of the David

Ad ult nescit, saving hee heard the said the ffrier confesse that hee
had received some part of the money due for the said goods

Thomas Browne
----
23o Junij 1643.

Super lilo et sched pred.

Smally contra Hough

8
soe

Thomas Arath familius et apprenticius Johand Rolse parochia
sancti Michaelis Cornehill London Scriptoris, annos agens 19
aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et juratus.

Ad novu articulum dicti lili et ad quartum schedulam in eadem menconat et
tempere eius examinacons ostenss dicit et deponit that the said schedule
of bill of sale of sale is wholly, written with this deponents hand, and
hee saith that on or about the day of the date of the said schedule being
the first day of October 1648, hee this deponent was present in his
said master mr Rasses his shipp in Cornehill and did soe the arlate
then
William James (whom this deponent well knewe) with his owne hand signe
and seale the said schedule or bill of sale as nowe appeareth, and deliver
or
the same to or the use of the arlate James Smalley, which being donne
this deponent and William Bower his fellowe apprentice William
taken did both write their names on the backe of the same as witnesse
to the said sealing and delivery, this deponent nowe seeing his name
there acknowledgeth the it to be by him written the time and place
aforesaid, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving the contents of the said schedule
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contayned, saving hee
did not see any money then paid by the said Smalley to the said Jones

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod equa favet partibus huicinde litigantibus, et daret
victoriam secundu ius, all receipt neces aliquod et promisum protestimona sua
in hac parte, neer alligand expectat quicquam, and being an apprentice hee
cannot tell what hee is worth. aliter negative.

Ad 2 nescit deposuit.

Ad 3. 4. et 5 nescit nec audivit

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29o Junij 1640

Super lilo predca examinatus.

Covill contra Honsell

dt Calliner

3
R. E.

Hunfidus John de Ratcliffe in Com Midd Nauta, annos agens
20 aut eo circiter d testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate and unto
water into the possession of the libellate consent and foresaid
as the shipp the Providence arlate was shippe uppon in the Roade of Alligan
was on or about the fitt Aprill last past was a twelve moneth, the pt
commonly
Thomas Cobbill was and James Goldin and company were accompted to
and proprietors of the said shipp, and of her tackle apparell and from
and then the said Correll was master of her of this deponent knowe
Et aliter nescit.

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that about the latter end of March 16
the said Thomas Carvill arrived with the said shipp in the roade aboard
Allegant arlate laden with ye fifte of wates oates, barrells and the
or masters of timber, and as this deponent was informed and verily beleeveth
there were in her 30 cafisses of oates, 430 barrells, 1720 small beames and
rasters and 9 other small beames or masters of a shorter sixe as in the
schedule arlate is expressed, and presently upon his arrivall there, hee
applied himselfe to the arlate Richard himsell and Henry Callimer and
there residing, and lodged at the said housell his house, Et aliter nescit.
deponere, saving hee knoweth the premisses to be true because hee his
deponent was then at Allicant and observed the same.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Colvill after such his arrivall
caused all the or the greatest part of the said goods to be landed out of
the said shipp upon the Mould at Allegant, this deponent seeing the
same when they were soe landed, And the said housell and fullie
did there receive the seaventie cafisses of oates and 430 barrells arlate
into their possession and custody, this deponent seeing the same in their
they received the same
agayinges at Allegant, but at what rate ⁁ hee knoweth not, but hee was
tolde that it was at the rates and prizes arlate. Et aliter nescit deponere
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee did likewise soe the said being
or resters arlate in the custody and magaynes of the said housell and
fullier at Allegant, and heard that them say that they had solde by
1720 small beames or masters at Trialls and a quarter per beame, and
336 beames at foure rialls and a halfe for every three of them. Et al
nescit deponere.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the said shipp, and soe
that when shee was soe at Allegant, shee was well worth to bee then
ffreighted for Newfound land the sume arlate vizt eighte six pounds
thirteene shillings and foure pence per moneth. Et aliter nescit depon
Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that upon or about the said fishe
the moneth of Aprill 1647 arlate the said Richard Horsell and her
Galliamen possessed themselves of the said shipp the Providence of and
her tackle apparell and furniture and all things thereunto being
turned the said Cobbills men out of the said shipp, and put in
named Isaack Goodridge and other men therein, whereof hee this hee
was one (whoe was put masters mate in her) and sent her in the
Newfound land (which hee knoweth because hee went that voyage in the said
wither all they pleased, and at the time they hee
his went or of the said shipp and putt others therein hee the said his
or about
was kept in custody as a prisoner the lett his
house, whereons hee was consigned, this depon hee said
age
A
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et 6
Ad septium ⁁ arlos dicit et deponit that hee this deponent about foure
monethes since left the said shipp at Dartmouth upon the accompts of and as
belonginge to the said Honsell and fullier, upon whose accompts hee had
his wages paid him by the said Goodridge the master from the said time aforesaid
hee soe went aboard her till that time of his leaving her at Dartmouth
Et aliter nescit deponere, salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 9. 10 et 2 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that the Ports of Allegant is under the dominion of the
Kinge of Spaine, aliter nes nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 2 rendet that all his wages are paid him saving a which is detained by reason
the master by reason of dammage to pretended to be suffered on board quoad
cetera refert se ad predepoita.

Ad 3 rendet quod venit requistus per magr Colvit ad testificandum in hac caa
aliter negative, saying it will be all one to him whoe prevailes in this cause.

Ad 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. et ult nescit salvis predepoits.

Humphrey Hessett
----
29o Junij 1640

Super allegacone predca ex parte Toby dat examinatus.

Gilbert et alj contra

Edwardus Broade de Shadwell parochia de Stepney in Comitatu Middlesex Nauta
ubi habitavit per 20 annos ult aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus
et iuratus.

They
2
said
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that in the moneth of ffebruary last past
and immediatly before the damage in question was donne the shipp the
dammond arlate (whereof the said arlate William Tokely was and is master)
lay in a convenient place in the River of Thames neere Shadwell where
shipps usually lie and ride at anchor, and was fast moored with two
sufficient cables and anchors, and soe had layne and redd at anchor in
22
saftie for the space of tenn dayes or thereabouts, before the said dammage
to her xx
happened, which this deponent knoweth, being one of her company and
almost daily aboard her in that space. Et aliter nescit.
Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that whilest the said shipp lay as aforesaid
fast moored with two sufficient cables and anchors in the place predeposed
Scotts
a certaine ⁁ shipp or vessell being Moored on shore and floating or riding
a head of the said shipp the Diamond, was by extremitie of weather
broken loose, and drove or came fowle of the said shipp the Diamond
and brake one of the cables by which the said shipp the Diamond rode
which this deponent knoweth because hee sawe the same, being then on
board the said shipp the Timond. Et aliter nescit.
Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that by reason of the breaking of the
cable belonging to the said shipp the Diamond as aforesaid, shee the
with her quarter
said shipp the Diamond was enforced to come fowle of the shipp the
Mary Bonadventure arlate then riding a sterne the said shipp the
diamoney before the company quod nescit deponere, for that hee did
the said shipp the Diamond came not ffowle or did any dammage at all to
the Mary Bonadventure arlate xxx but only touched her bolt spritt with
the serve of the Diamond, but it was the Scotch shipp that did the
dammage to the said Mary Bonadventure, after shee had bin fowle of the
Diamond as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere, and saving the Mary
Bonadventure that rodd a sterne the dammand
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Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time when the said and
fell fowle of the said shipp the Diamond and brake one of her calling
aforesaid there were about six of the company of the said shipp the Down
aboard her, whereof this deponent was one, and after and of the
streaking of her cable, they did withall convenient and possible ladeing
lett full another anchor and cable in stead of that which was broken of
them the said shipp the Diamond was fast moored againe, which this depont
knoweth being one of them the did help to lett the same sale and
nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the dammond in the
endam
then at all ⁁ the shipp the Mary Bonadventure, her tackle or from
nor drive her loose, But the said Scottish shipp or vessell the
shee had broken the cable of the Diamond as aforesaid did likewise
drive upon the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure and brake and
Northermost cable, and by that meanes the said shipp the May
drowe
Bonadventure bee loose, and not by occasion of the said shipp the
Diamond, Et aliter nescit, saving hee knoweth the premisses hee
true, because hee was then on board the Diamond and sawe the said
Scotch shipp came fowle of the cable of the shipp the Mary Bone
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 6 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit that before and at the time that the said
Tutch shipp or vessell fell foule of the said shipp the Mary Bounde
as aforesaid, the cables by which the said shipp the Mary Bunde
rode were twisted and the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure them
with a fowle halfe, and had soe rudden by the space of two or three
must neere
dayes before, by which meanes her cables did which gall and fretting
other, and by occasion thereof, and by the stresse of weather which the
was, and the coming fowle of the Scotch shipp upon her as aforesaid
shee the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure broke and drowe looke as
aforesaid, and not by occasion of the said Diamond, which hee knoweth
because hee sawe the premisses here deposed. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that at the time arlate there were on board
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure but two of her companye
one man and a boy, and this deponent seeing them and noe more and
her, and hee saith that that man and boy could not have letten from
were
another anchor and cable in case there had bin any other on board, and
could not have veered and billed their cable as should have bin de
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit the by the custome of the ver of the
every shipp rideing therein ought to have aboard her a sufficient
cable and anchor in a readines to lett full by besides these by which hee
rideth that in case one of her cables should whence to breake by said
another may fortwith bellett full to prevent falling fore
doing dammage to other vessells, and by the same custome hee
to bee men men enough aboard of every shipp to the
cable and anchor for such preventinge of damage that
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Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that by the same custome of the River
of Thames every shipp there rideing at anchor ought to ride or lie with
her cables cleere of each other, and not to have her halfe fowle or cables
because
trusted, by the end that the company of such shipp that rideth at anchor
with her cables twisted and fowle in the halfe, cannot soe suddenly
or readily were or hall as all shipps by the custome of the said
river ought to doe upon occasion of avoyding any damage, neither could
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure for want of company enough
on board her were and hall to prevent & the dammage aforesaid
riding with a fowle halse as aforesaid. Et aliter nescit deponere
saving hee well knoweth the customes of the River of Thames having
bin a seaman for theise 26 yeares last past or thereabouts.

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit quod refert se ad predepoita, aliter
nescit

Ad 12 arlum dicit that after the cable of the said shipp the Mary Bonad
venture was broken as aforesaid, shee the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
or thereabouts
drove loose from Shadwell aforesaid as farr as timehouse of this
deponents sight (which is a mile or very neere) and in case the said shipp
the Mary Bonadventure had had another cable and anchor aboard
and men enough as shee ought to have had, shee might very well
before her driving soe farr, have lett the same fall, and soe have
bin fast moored againe, and prevented further dammage. Et aliter
nescit.

Ad 13 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 14 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Scotch shipp or vessell
after shee had bin fowle of the anchor of the Mary Bonadventure
as aforesaid, did of this deponents sight and knowledge remaine
and abide in the River of Thames by the space of six or seaven
dayes or more, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad 15 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 16 arlum dicit that the said Scottish shipp did the foresaid dammage
and putting her
cable of a
of breaking the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure from her Marrings,
and not the the said shipp the Diamond, Et aliter nescit referendo
se ad predepoita.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee comes by the meanes of the producent
to be a witnes in this cause, and hath noe share or interest therein,
if
and that it will be noe benefitt to him through the said Tokely
prevaile in this cause, nor dammage though hee be overthrowne
aliter negative saving hee is one of his the said Teakely his company

Ad 2 negative.

Ad 3 rendet that hee was then one of the company of the Diamond
at the time aforesaid, aliter negative.
lately before

Ad 4 negative./

Ad 5 rendet that the said shipp the Diamond was then neerly arrived
and come into the river of Thames from a voyage, but her lading
was almost all discharged out of her ⁁ the time aforesaid, and saith if
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is an usuall and ordinary thinge for the most part of the company
of any shipp which come home from any voyage, to be on board the said
till their goods be discharged, and after the same are discharged and
is an usuall and ordinary thinge for the master of any shipp the
only two or three of his company and sumtimes foure at most and
to looke to the said shipp, Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad sextum interrium rendet quod refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.
Ad septium negative.

Ad octavu rendet that hee was then on the decks of the said shipp
Diamond, aliter negative et nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad novu rendet that hee sawe the said cables interr immediate
before the dammage aforesaid was donne, and tooke notice of the
aliter negative et nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.
ulter

Ad 1u rendet that if there had bin tenn eight or tenn men or
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure when shee was driven lost
as aforesaid they might have lett full her greate anchor, and shee and
have bin stayed with a letter anchor and the help of fower men had
Hurly
they bin on board, Et aliter nescit, saving the sheate anchored
to such a shipp is about 13 or 14 weighe, her best bower about
and 5£ & her small bower about a thousand weight

Signu
Edward
Brade
the
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Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Aruldus Willson de Hiprice in Com Suffolcia Nauta, et
21 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus
3
d

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that in the moneth of ffebruary last
and immediately before the dammage in question was donne by a certaine
Scotch shipp here after menconed the arlate shipp the Diamond
(whereof William Tokely arlate was and is master) lay in a conceived
place in the river of Thames neere Shadwell, where shipps usuall
it and ride at anchor, and was fast moored with two sufficient
cables and anchors, and soe had lane and ridden in safetie at anchor
for the space of tenn dayes or thereabouts before the said dammage were
donne, which hee knoweth being then one of her company and most of
on board her for all that time. Et aliter nescit.
Ad secundu dicit that whilest the said shipp the Diamond soe and fast
moored with in the place aforesaid, in certaine Scotch shipp or rest
that was moored on shore, floating or riding a head of the said shipp
the dammand by extremitie of weather and tempestuous winde the
then were broke loose and drove and came fowle of the said shippe
the Diamond of this deponents sight, and brake one of the call
by which shee rode. Et aliter ⁁ of this deponents sight and fowle
Et aliter nescit.
Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that by reason of at Letter
aforesaid the arlate shipp the Mary Bonadventure and aforesd
the said shipp the Diamond, and Et aliter nescit deponere saving
subscripts

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time when this
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Scotch shipp came fowle of the said shipp the Diamond and broke one of
the master
more
her cables as aforesaid there were foure ⁁ of the company of the said
shipp the Diamond on board her, and after the breaking of her cable
possible
as aforesaid, they did with all convenient speede lett full another
anchor and cable in stead of that which was broken, and then the said
shipp the Diamond was fast moored againe, and gott free of the
said shipp the Mary Bonadventure, which hee knoweth being
aboard and helping to lett full the said cable and anchor. Et aliter nescit.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Diamond did
not at all came foule of or endammage the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure, her tackle or furniture, But the said Scottish shipp
after shee had fallen fowle of the said shipp the Diamond and broke
her cable as aforesaid did likewise drive upon the said shipp the
nor
Mary Bonadventure and brake her another most cable, and by
that meanes the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure drowe loose
and not by occasion of the said shipp the Diamond, which hee knoweth
because hee sawe the same soe donne by the said Scottish shipp
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure
rode by her owne cables and anchors in safetie untill the said
Scottish shipp or vessell fell fowle of her and broke her cable
as aforesaid, and then and not before shee brake loose and drove
away. Reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra. Et aliter nescit.
Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure rode with a foule halfe and had her cables
twisted when the said Scotch shipp came fowle of her cable and
broke the same as aforesaid of this deponents sight and knowledge
and had soe ridden with a fowle halfe for three or foure dayes
next
before the coming fowle of the Scottish shipp upon her, and by that
said
meanes the ⁁ cables were much galled and fretted of this deponents sight
and by reason thereof and the stresse of weather which then was
and the coming foule of the Scotch shipp upon her as aforesaid.
the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure broke and drove loose
as aforesaid, and not by any occasion of the dammond. Et aliter nescit
deponere./

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time articulate there
were but one man and a boy aboard the said shipp the Mary
Bonadventure that this deponent sawe and they themselves then
confessed that they had noe more company aboard for this deponent called
then
to them to knowe, and in case the Mary Bonadventure had had any
other cable or anchor aboard then those by which hee rode, those two of
her company were not able to lett the same fall and to veere and
bill their cable as they ought to have donne. Et aliter nescit.
at soone

Ad novu arlat dicit that the custome of the River of Thames touching
cables and anchors and the number of men aboard every shipp there riding
and hath bin
is ⁁ as is arlate of this deponents knowledge for theise seaven yeares last
past, and the said shipp the Mary Bonadventure with riding with
a fowle halfe as aforesaid were could not veere and hall to prevent the
dammage aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

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Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that in case the said shipp the
Bonadventures have had not bin foule and her cables twisted of the
that shee had had men enough on board her to veere and half
ree ought to have had, the said shee might easily soe had
soe at the and soe the dammage in question might have bin
prevented. Et aliter nescit.

Ad duodecium arlum dicit et deponit that after the cable of take
shipp the Mary Bonadventure was broken as aforesaid, red
drowe loose from Shadwell aforesaid as farr as time house
neere thereabouts, which is neere a mile) before shee fell the
of the Henry Bonadventure arlate, which this deponent from
daye
sawe her doe, and hee saith that in case the said shipp the saith
Bonadventure had had another cable and anchor and men used
aboard as shee ought to have had, shee might very well before
her falling fowle of the Henry Bonadventure, have lett the
cable and another,
same full, and soe have fast moored againe, Et aliter nescit.
salvis predepoits.

Ad 13 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 14 dicit that the said Scottish shipp or vessell did remaine
the river of Thames foure or five dayes after the dammage
aforesaid of this deponents sight, and the next morning after
the said dammage, the said arlate Mollicenix xxx comming about
the Diamond, the said Tokely in this deponents presence tolde
that the said Scottish shipp, and not his said shipp the Diamond
that had donne him the dammage aforesaid. Et aliter nescit depone

Ad 15 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 16 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod venit requisitus per producente and testis
in hac caa, in qua willum her interesse, aliter negative salvis subscripts

Ad 2 negative.

Ad 3 rendet that hee was one of the company of the Diamond all
time aforesaid, aliter negative.

Ad 4 negative.

Ad 5 rendet that the Diamond and bin about tenn dayes retourned
and
from a voyage into the river of Thames, but shee had then dispose
most of her lading, and saith it is a usuall thing for the most
a shipps company that came home from a voyage to be a board
till their goods be discharged, or butt a fewe of them left and soe
and after the same are discharged, it is an usuall tyme for the
master to keepe only two or three & somtimes foure of his lost
aboard to looke to the said shipp. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 6 negative salvis predepoits.

Ad 7 negative.

Ad 8 rendet that hee was none of the Scottish shipps company
was on board and upon the decks of the Diamond the time the
the master as alsoe
together with his contest Edward Brade, Richard Porte and
William Lisborne) all of her company, and it was about the
foure of the clocke in the afternoone. Et aliter nescit.
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Ad novum nescit et negative salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad ult rendet that in case there had bin six or eight men aboard the
Mary Bonadventure and that hee had had another anchor or cable aboard
the time of interr shee might have bin stayed and moored by letting the
same full and saith the Mary Bonadventure is of the burthen of
about 250 tonnes, and the anchors usually belonging to such shipps
about
about
are some 1000, some 1100 and some about 900 weight. aliter nescit.

Signum
Arvell
Wilkinson./
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26º Junij 1640

Super lilo predca examinatus.

Thomas Goll de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Chirurges
aetatis 40 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et iuratus.
et Callier

ffleet and himsell
4

Et
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that about five yeares since the shipp the
Providence arlate being brought to Algier as prize was there by the Tarkes solde
to the producent Thomas Corvill (whom this deponent then well knewe & this
deponent being then in Captivitie at Algier did see the said shipp lie there
after shee was brought in and before the said Calvill bought her, and alsoe
sawe
after hee had bought her, and seeing him in possession of her, in the qualitie
and office of master of her, this deponent being sundry times aboard her
there did see the said Calvill in command of her and heard the Turkes
her
call him master of her, and after hee had soe bought hee made a voyage
with the said shipp to Ligorne and retourned thence againe to Algier, this
and from such time of his buying her as aforesaid the said Calvill was
and Company (of whom this deponent well knoweth the arlate James Gadding
have bin and are commonly accompted lawfull owners of the said shipp whereof
the said Calvill was and is master, Et aliter nescit deponere, saving in his
iudgement and as hee remembreth the said shipp was and is of the burthen of
place
about six score tonnes, and carried nyne Ginnes and two murtherers./
et schedulam

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that about on or about the 26th of March
xxx arlate, this deponent having escaped out of Olavery from Algier aforesaid
and passing from Mayorica to goe for Tolloone in Provence mett with the said
Calvill at villa ffrance ville ffrancke, whoe was there with the said shipp
the Providence band and there this deponent agreed with the said Calvill
to serve in the said shipp, such his coming thither being on or about the 8th
of September 1648, and from thence this deponent sailed with the said
Aprill with the said shipp to Jersey and thence and thence backe againe
to ville ffrench ffrance where they tooke in the 430 barrells arlate, and
thence to Prizes where they tooke in 229 dozen and one third of beames or
lasters, at which and 90 Cargoes of oates which made out at Allegant ye
cafisses, all which goods were taken on the said Calvills accompt, and from
Prigges they went with the said shipp to Allegant in Spaine arlate
were they arrived with the said shipp on the 2 or about the 2s of March
1647 arlate with the sevall and respective goodes aforesaid, And upon his
there
arrivall hee the said Calvill applied himselfe unto the said Richard himsell
and Henry Collier arlate, Englishmen then resident at Allegant, and
in this deponents presence and hearing gave them notice of the severall
ports and places from whence hee came with the said shipp and goods and
where hee had bought the said goods, and desired them inate entry
thereof, and take order for their lading and to assist him in the disposall
of them, and the said housell and Collier did accordingly promise and
the said Cabill and undertake to make entry of the said goods according to and
afterwards they told him that they had accordingly entred them there, and
had gotten license to sell or dispose them, and gave order to have the landed
at all which this deponent was present, and heard the same. Et aliter nescit
deponere.

Ad 3 arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that the said Thomas Calvilling
having the promises aforesaid and relying upon the same, caused all the said
and to be landed out of the said shipp upon the mould at Allegant, and
they the said housell and Callier did there agree with the said Colvell
for the said seaventie caffisses of oates at eighteene malls double plate
for every confisse, and for the said 430 barrells at three rialls per barrell
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a corant money, which said sevall sumes of money they) the said hompson
Galliner did promise and contract to and with the said Cabbill to pay
satisfie unto him for the said goods, and did thereupon receive the said pd
their possession of this deponents knowledge seeing them receive the same a
hearing the said bargaine and premisses predeposed. Et aliter nescit.
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was present in
said himsells house in Allegant and did heare the said himsell and and
tell and informe the said Cabill that they had solde and disposed of the
170 singl beames or masters arlate for two rialls and a quarter the laden
at a smaller place but howe much hee remembreth not but beleeveth it hee
and of the arlate 3s beames as masters at foure rialls and a halfe for
three of them as in the said arle is sett downe, and they the said Hamell and
alliner did promise and undertake to see him the said Clerke made
and satisfied for the same after the rates aforesaid, and thereupon the
the said Honsell and Callier tooke the same into their pression
disposed thereof. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that after the sale and disposall of the
goods as aforesaid the said housell and Calliner of this deponents coned
breated with the said Calvill to hire or freight the said shipp to goe
Newfoundland from Allegant aforesaid, and proffered unto him the said
of seaventie five pounds sterling per moneth for freight of the said
shipp, and hee the said Calvill did stand upon and require foure
hundred dollers or peeces of eight (making sterling money eighte
six pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence) per moneth from the
said port of Allegant to Newfound land, and soe much the said shipp
was well worth per moneth for the said voyage, shee the being as
the burthen of
aforesaid a shipp of six score tonnes or thereabouts as aforesaid, and the
said Coloull would not nor did yeeld to let her goe under that rate
sd all which treatie proffers and demannds this deponent was present
made
in Allegant and did heare the same, the most thereof being in
the said himsells house. Et aliter nescit deponere.
Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that upon the fifth day of the money
of Aprill 1647 old stile the said Richard Hounsell and Henry balland
did without any more agreement made with the said Calvill possess
themselves of the said shipp the predence and of her tackle apparell
furniture and all things thereunto belonging and turned most of the said
Cobbills men out of the said shipp, this deponent being one that was
then put out of his imployment in the said shipp (the said Care
& Comers
being then kept prisoner in the said housells house) and putt other
men and a new master therein and sent her away for Newfounde
arlate and whither they pleased, which hee knoweth because hee saweth
donne, and hee the better remembreth the particulars because hee any
kept for that voyage
them in his gournall ⁁ which hee hath lately perused, and hee saith the
at the same time they said Calvill was kept prisoner in the said house
this deponent left him, & and tooke his passage thence homeward a
Hamburger, being turned out of his place in the said shipp the Prince
by the said housell and Cullier. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 8 refert se ad predepoita and to the usuall computacon of the money and
aliter nescit.

Ad 9. 10. et 11u nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eumen were
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Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that the said porte of Allegant is in the Dominion of the
kinge of Spaine, aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Ad 2 rendet that hee was one of the company of the Providence the voyage in
question, and saith there remained a matter of 40 of his wages pd
behinde and unpaid, which the was said Calvill is to pay him, and hath
promised to pay him, but it hath bin detained by reason of the said
housell and Collier their taking away of his said shipp and goods./

Ad 5 rendet quod venit requisitus per producen ad testificand in hac caa
and saith it will be noe proffit or damage to him whether Calvill prevaide
or be overthrowne in this sutie all hee

Ad 9 rendet that as hee the said quod refert se ad predepoita, aliter nescit.

Ad 5. 6. 7. 8. et ult nescit nec audivit, referendo se ad predepoita./

Thomas Gill
----
Super lilo predca examinatus.

28o Junij 1640

Dalentimus Gryer de Dansike in Prussia Nauta, annos agens
40 aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus et juratus.

made contra Bagge

3
. B.
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowne
the arlate Allard Gibe for theise tenn yeares last past or thereabouts
and hath well knowne the shipp the Hope of Lubeck arlate for theise
six weekes last past or thereabouts, during which time hee hath served
in the said shipp in the Place of Cheife Batson thereof, and saith the
said Alard Gambe and Company (whereof this deponent well knoweth
John Van Men of Lubeck is one as this deponent hath bin credibly informed)
have bin and are commonly accompted and reputed lawfull owners and
proprietors of the said shipp, and of her tackle and furniture. Et aliter
nescit deponere.

Ad secundum dicit that hee knoweth not the names either of the master or
sion
of the shipp that came fowle of their said shipp the Hope, Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in a day happening (as hee remembreth
the time about three weekes since (tempus aliter non recolit) and within the
time libellate, the said shipp the Hope and an English shipp having the
Kinge a Lyon and an Unicorne painted on her sterne, which hee taketh the be
the armes of England, and being as hee beleeveth the shipp Elizabeth arlate
were both under saile and came up the river of Thames on this side
Blackwall (which place hee saith hee well knoweth) and the said shipp
the Hope being to bee of the said English shipp and the master and
company of the said shipp the hoye seeing the said English shipp which was
to windeward of them come short off from the shoreward uppon them
they fearing hee would come fowle of them lett full their Anchor, and
keepe
did their best endeavour to come cleere of the the said English shipp, which
notwithstanding through the negligence and default of the master and
Company of her steered for neere unto the said shipp the Hope that the
Bolt spritt of the said shipp the Hope and the maine shrowds of the
English shipp were hange and entagled together, the premisses hee
saith hee knoweth to bee true, because hee was then on board the said
shipp the Hope and sawe and observed the same to bee as hee hath
here deposed. Et aliter nescit deponere.
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Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and Company of the said
shipp the Hope seeing and perceiving that their said bolt spritt and the being
maine throwds of the said English shipp were fowle and entroughed the
they and especially the said Aberd Grabe the master cable called
very lowrde and with much earnestnes to the master and company of the
said English shipp desiring and requesting them to either to cutt
rope belonging to the bolt spritt of the said shipp the Hope, or the the
cutt the hallier of the maine shrowds of the said English shipp thereof
to cleere the said shipps each from other, and promised them that what
losse or dammage they should thereby sustaine hee the said Gibee was
readily and ladly pay and satisfie, though it were to the double water
thereof, or words to that effect, in the presence and hearing of him this
deponent, being one that alsoe called out unto them, xx Et aliter
nescit deponere./

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the master and company of the said
Elizabeth English shipp wilfully refused either to cutt the rope belonge
to the Bolt spritt of the Hope, or to cutt the hallier of one of
their maine shrowds (which they might with much ease have donne,) they
or some of them answering the said Gombe and Company (soe called
earnestly unto them as afore to cutt one of them) and saying, noe
wee will not, which kings this deponent as hee saith well understood
by reason whereof the said shipps came further fowle of each other
soe that the Hopes bolt spritt, and her foremast and fore topmast
and all her fore yards and topps, her fore shrowds and runningtoyes
were broken all to peeces and her sailes rent and torne, and shee
& by the said English shipp soe coming foule upon her in her the said
shipp the Hope was damnified in her hull, masts, apparell taken
and furniture, but to what valewe hee saith hee knoweth not, nor
hee estimate the same. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 6 dicit that in case the master and company of the said English shipp
had not steered their shipp soe neere the said shipp the Hope as aforesaid
(which they might easily have avoyded) or had afterwards at the request
the said Grabie and company cutt the hallier of one of their maine said
or the rope of the bolt spritt of the Hope, the dammage in question
might in all likeligood have bin prevented. Et aliter nescit.
Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit the master and Company of the said
the Hope of this deponents sight and knowledge did their utmost
endeavours to prevent the dammage aforesaid, and in case the said
master and company of the said English shipp had at the request of
the master and company of the hope cutt their hullier aforesaid
upper of the Hopes bolt sprett. Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad 8. 9. 10. et 11u nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet quod venit regatus per producente and testificandum
hand, wherein hee hath noe share ut dicit, and saith it will bee neither fuse
nor dammage to him whether Gralloe prevaile or be overthrowe in the said

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and that about 8 or nine dollers of his wages are yet unpaid him, hee being
by agreement formerly made to not to receive the same untill they be ready
to sett saile againe in the for their homewards voyage, aliter negative, salvis
predepoits.
up the river of Thames

Ad 2 rendet that they came saileinge even one by or against the other, aliter
negative.

Ad 3. 4. 5. 6. et 7 negative et nescit salvis predepoitis./
tenn grein
John Der Kinde or

Per
Goods contra containe tonnelles ligin Dubi 28o Junij 1648. Super allegacone late lata ex parte hooper
apud acta

Goods contra containe tonnelles ligin Dubi 28o Junij 1648. Super allegacone late lata ex parte hooper
et alioru 23o Junij 1648 fact, examinatus.
Joh

Georgius Trancke parochia sancti Olavi in Burgo de
Southwarke Shipwright, etatis 36 annoru aut
eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et juratus.
deponit ut sequitur vizt.
Goods contra containe tonnelles ligin Dubi 28o Junij 1648. Super allegacone late lata ex parte hooper
et et contra hooper, ffutter et alios

primus

3s

Ad dcam allegaconem apud acta from dicit et deponit that in the moneth of August
last hee this deponent went out in a pinnace called the George of London
(whereof was master one Lee) in a voyage from this porte of London for
Browne
Ginney allegate, accompanied with his contest John Max and one
Robert Mariton, this deponent going Carpenter and the said Browne Chungeon
in the said shipp for that voyage, and the said Meriton went as factor unto the
producents Mr hooper, ffutter, Cast and Company xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
in the River of Garber.
and arriving there ⁁ in or about the moneth of October following the said Norton
went up into the countrey to buy redd wood for the use of the said producents
and about a moneth in five weekes after such his goeing up into the xxx countrey
this deponent according to order given him by Captaine Ireland Commander
of the shipp the Releife allegate to whom this deponent then being with the
said shipp in the River of Cen Geraloonn, went againe with a
Halloy x of which this deponent was master to the said River of Cerbero to
receive need wood which the said Marriton (as hee the said Captaine Ireland
after hee arrivall there
said had bought for the accompt of the said producents, and coming whither
at place called ang
this deponent there mett with the said Meriton ⁁ and received of him diverse
tonnes of Redd wood (but the particular qualitie hee remembreth not)
which hee the said Meriton told this deponent) hee the said Meriton
had brought in that countrey of Ginney for the accompts of the producents
which this deponent laded aboard the said Pally, and from thence according
to the order of the said Captaine Ireland and of the said Mr Meriton
2
this deponent carried the same to Limber and there same was put
ashore and afterwards of this deponents sight and knowledge laded aboard
the said shipp the Releife for the accompt of the said producents, and there
was much other redd wood laden in the said shipp of the Releife in Ginney
which this deponent sawe in the said shipp, but did not see the lading thereof)
all which this deponent beleeveth was bought and laden for the accompt of
the said Mr Cooper, Mr ffatter, Mr Cast and company, because hee was
soe informed by the said Captaine Iland Merton and the company
aboard the said shipp, and because the said Pinnace the George was sett
out by the said producents purposely to buy redd wood in Ginney, and
laden by them with goods to that purpose, the said redd wood which this
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deponent soe received as before of the said Mr Meriton at Sangro and
of this deponents sight and paine for with some of the goods, which were saving
brought over in the said Pinnace; And hee further saith that hee this hee
deponent retourned have in there for this porte of London in the said shipp
the Releife, and by the common report and accompt on board amount
the company the same was freighted ⁁ by the said producents, and
the redd wood laden aboard her and brought home was genally said
aboard to belonge to unto them, and soe may this deponent hath often
heard since his arrivall, and that the said shipp was by them propose
sent to Ginney to take in and bringe to this porte of London such
wood as for their accompts should be therin bought and putt on board
But the quantitie of tonnes of the said Rold wood soe brought home in
the said shipp the Releife, hee saith hee knoweth not, nor can estime
Et aliter nescit deponere.

Ad Interria.

Rowe dt.

Ad primu fit ut petitur, et rendet quod venit regatus per Capitaneu
Ireland and testificand in hac caa, quod partibus huicinde litigantious
a que fave, et conferret victoriam ius habentis in sua esset potestate
eadem conferr and faculas.

Ad 2 rendet that the River of Cerbero xx interrogate with the severall
parts and streames thereof, are under the power and command of
certaine Negroes, heathers, in habiting in the said parts of Ginney, and
ended about seaven yeares since
this rendent living for the space of three yeares upon the said River well
knoweth that those Negroes and heathens freely permitted the interrate
John Wood (whom this dep rendent hath well knowne for theise tenn yeere
last past or thereabouts) his partners ffactors and assignes to trade
with the said Neges in the said River of Cerbero and in the parts or
streames thereof comonly knowne by the names of Middam, Mary
and Melyn, which places xxx xx Rx this rendent saith hee well knoweth
and for the said three yeares of this deponents knowledge and as hee hath
heard for theise fifteene yeares last past, the said John Wood, his
partners, factors or assignes hath had the sole trade and traffique and
Commence from this Kingdome in the said River of Carbero and part
and streames thereof with aforesaid with the Negroes there Inhabiting
untill the said Ireland and his partners in the voyage interrogate did
trade in the parts aforesaid, howbeit this rendent hath heard that
others have formerly and within the time aforesaid attempted to trade
there, and to interrupt the sole trade of the said wood, but without
effect. Et aliter nescit.
Ad tertiu xxxx rendet that hee this respondent went knewe the Negro
interrogate named Tona when hee this rendent lived there as aforesaid,
saith hee was then and (as this de rendent hath bin credibly informed or
the time interrogate Captaine and Commander of the River and proceed
a
interr where the redd wood is to bee had, and as this deponent hath heard
the said Tewa sold or transferred all his right title and interest and
said River of Carbaro and unto the Interrogate James order his the
said woods factor to and for the said woods use, Et aliter nescit.
Ad quartu interria rendet that while this deponent lived as aforesaid
Ginney, hee well knewe the interr James Holder, and saith hee and
then factor of the said John Wood, and for the said three yeares of the said
respondents knowledge and (as hee hath credibly heard) for theise fowere
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yeares last past, the said John Wood and Company have had a factory setled
the parts interrogated, and have there kept and maintained factors and
servants (whereof this deponent was one) and of late a preaching Minister
named called Mr Calker (whom this deponent well knoweth, and saith
that for the said three yeares and as hee hath heard untill about the moneth
of October last past, the said John Wood and his partners by themselves
or their factors or servants, have bin in quiett and peaceable possession of
and trade thereupon
the said River of Carber ⁁ and without disturbance therein saving some
attempts aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu interrium respondet that the Redwood in this cause controverted was
and is part thereof the native commoditie of the parte of Ginney
interrogate, the other parte being the commoditie of that parte of At
Africa, which doeth upon the River of Beraliam Grillioon, where the said
John Wood and factors have not for many yeares had ought to doe for the
buying of redd wood, and the said some parte of the said redd wood hee
saith was taken and laden aboard the said shipp the Releife in the said river
of Carbara, Et aliter nescit respondere.

Ad sextum nescit nec audivit, salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad septium interrogatoria respondet that after the said shipp the Releife
came into the River of Carbere, and while shee was riding at in the
River of her neere unto a towne called Limber or Limberman on the
said River, the interrogated James holder and amouth English youth
and a Negroe belonging to the said Mr Wood and and imployed by him
were in or about the moneth of March last past in a cruell and inhumane
manner sett upon and killed by the Negroes, Naties of the Countrey
in this deponents sight in the River on shore in a place called Boone,
neere unto the rever soe called, being a streame of the said River called
Cerbero, this dept respondent being then on the other side of the said River
and seeing the same soe donne by the said Negroes, whoe having shott many
arrive at the said holder, and the said youth and Negroe Negro as they
were passinge in the said River in a boate, the said holder perceiving himselfe.
to bee in such danger, and thinking (as this respondent conceiveth) by going ashore
to appease them, went ashore with the said Zouth and Negro, and assoone
as they landed the said Negroes presently killed youth and Negro with
or were on
to carry in their hands and
an iron Instrument xxx which they use to bill their elephants
therewith, and having seized and the said holder and bound his hands, after
they had danced on a little about him they knowed him on the head with
two peessells or stiffe and soe filled him, and in the same day sporte
after they had at soe killed the said holder they assailed the house or
factory of the said wood and partners called Bem Bermony, and
entring the same, they bound diverse of the company being English men
the Minister
others of them hardly escaping, whereof the said Mr Calker was one
whoe
and saved himselfe in
whoe
that escaped in his shirte breeches and stockings and came was this
rendents boate and then lying in the said river, Et aliter nescit respendere.

Ad octavu Interr respondet that as hee hath heard and beleeveth that
upp at the time predeposed the said Negroes upon their assantinge and
entring by force as aforesaid into the said ffactory house and doing the violence
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aforesaid to the said factory servants, a greate tooke away by force a greate
from
quantitie of Redwood and of the said house and factory without the cann
of the said woods factors or servants, but this rendent as hee saith did not
soe the same soe taken away by Et aliter nescit salvis suis predespente
Ad novum respondet negative pro parte sua, et quoad alios nescit.

Ad 10 rendet negative proparte sua, aliter nescit nec audivit.

Ad 11u rendet that one William Jones and one Henry (his other name hee remembreth
others
not) two of the Company of the said shipp the Releife were present with this
respondent when the said Holder was and the said youth and Negro were
likewise
slaine as aforesaid, and sawe the same some donne, Et aliter nescit.

Ad duodecium interrogatoria respondet that the interrogate George Ireland
did expressely forbidd this respondent xxx from bringing any letters from
the parts aforesaid upon paine of loosing his wages, and as hee heard divered
others of the company say, hee forbade them the like upon the same
paine, aliter nescit, nec audivit nec credit.

Ad 13 rendet that for these three yeares predeposed hee was a constant servant
unto the said John Wood in Ginney, and hath bin his servant for theise tenn
yeares off and on, ending about two yeeres since, and his contest John
formerly and untill
Browne was likewise till within theise three yeares last past or thereabouts
his the said woods servant, and that before the said shipp the Releife
came into the River of Cerber aforesaid the Natives and Inhabitants
d
of that countrey did for the most part love and affect the said James hader
and other the factors and servants of the said John Wood, and yet hee saith
hee hath heard diverse of the Natives speake very much against him the
said holder, and formerly hee saith the said Natives and Inhabitants
did fairely treate the said woods servants and factors and trade civilly
and peaceably with them of this rendents knowledge. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14 rendet that hee hath heard and beleeveth that soone after the Pinnace the
George aforesaid (wherein this deponent went as aforesaid, and which was sett forth
by the said Ireland and partners) came into the River of Cerlero, the said
James Golder complained to the Kinge or Commander of that countrey
against the Company thereof for coming into that River and thereabouts
saith it was generally reported and said by the said woods factors and serving
and such as belonged to his said factory that the said James holder had
bought the said River and streames, and had paid for them, and by that
meanes had the Command of trade in and about the said River and streames
Et aliter nescit nec audivit.
Decim

Ad quintu Interrium respondet that hee heard and it was genrally reported
parts and placed in and about the River of Barbaro before the said shipp the
Releife went to sea upon the voyage aforesaid, that the said James Hodder
had bought the said River and streames and the commoditie of trading up
the same of the said Towa the Commander thereof for the use of the
said John Wood and and this respondent hath heard the said the said
Ireland (speaking of the said holder) say that if hee could gett him have
would have satisfaction of him for inuries formerly donne unto him the
said Holder. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 16 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 17 negative pro parte sua, nec appertat quicuam
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Ad 18u rendet that hee beleeveth the said John Wood and Company have for
theise tenn yeares last past bin at the yeerly charge of 500£ per and at the
least in maintayning a factory in the River of Cerokero where the said James
Golder was Resident, which factory the xx and such as belonged thereunto
the said John Wood hath from time to time supplied with victualls and wages,
and sent over from hence bread, beefe, aile, pease and other necessaries
for their maintenance, and hath not the said John Wood him at very
as hee beleeveth
great charges in upp and the said wood hath bin at greate charges in setting
the said factory. Et aliter nescit.
to

Ad 19 rendet that hee this respondent hath herefore bin imployed by the said John
wood as a servant unto him in those parts, and was there maintained at
his the said woods costs and charges, and the said wood hath paid unto this
the fell
respondent for his wages of himselfe and his mann in those parts in the said
three yeares space that this deponent lived there served him the sume of
sixore and fifteene pounds sterling or thereabouts after 3£ 15s per moneth
besides their meate and drincke, and the said wood as this deponent hath
bin credibly informed paid unto the said Holder 100£ per and wages, and
to other of his servants greate wages for their service in those parts, Et
aliter nescit nec audivit.

Ad 20 Interr rendet that the said John Wood and company have heretofore
greate and six
sent over to those parts severall cargazoonns of goods but the particular valewe
thereof hee knoweth not nor hath heard the same estimated, and the
same hath have bin there laid out for the setling and maintayning
of the said ffactory, and saith that a greate parte of the proceede of the
the
To
said cargazons is left there in redd wood, and saith the said John Wood
is in danger and likely to loose the said estate there settled, if hee
may not peaceably have to his owne use the Roded and other
merchandizes which hee hath purchased. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 21 rendet that Redwood may bee had in diverse other places in Africa
by those whoe will bee at the charge and trouble to purpose the same
and in all such places they must have the leave and consent of the Kinge
or cheife commander in that place to trade there, before they shall
bee suffered soe to doe. Et aliter nescit.
some part of

Ad 22 rendet that the Redwood place where the Redwood nowe in controverse
was
it had in the had and where the said Ireland and his company or their
factors bought the same is 100 miles and more within the countrey or land,
from the month of the River Corbero, and where noe shipps, but only
vessells of 25 or 30 tonnes or thereabouts can corne within the distance of
fourtie miles and more, which is to Limber, and saith the said
place by reason of the River runing up into the land but at a small
distance from the sea, is not above up nyne or tenn leagues over land to
the sea, but to the place where shipps came neerest and doe ride in the
said Rever which is to be aforesaid it is may come in the
said river is at the neerest 40 miles, howbeit they seldome came soe
neere but ride & commonly at Limberman which is about 100 miles off
the place aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 23 rendet the quod nescit.
and drowne

Ad 24 rendet that the foresaid Meriton and one John Crofford bought some or
of the redd wood interr in Cartie the River of Cerbero and thereabouts, and
the said Captaine Ireland
some thereof his hee bought at Beralon aforesaid, and
the
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the same was bought for Truck or with goods & the buyers were English and and
the sellers Negves, and hee beleeveth the payment was present upon or
receipt of the comoditie. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 25 rendet that the said James Golder and one Thomas James ashoare
to the said Mr wood were present was at a place called Tonne in the in
of Boone which is a streame of the the River Cerber aforesaid when the
said John Browne bought some of the said Redwood in controversoe there and
did gaine say the buying thereof by the said drowne, saying that the same
belonged to the said John Wood, which words were spoken by the said Jenne
to this deponent whoe was then and there present, aliter nescit.
Ad 26 rendet negative.

Ad 2u rendet that about twelve tonnes of the Redwood interrogated was taken
in and bought in the River of Boone neere unto the place where the said
house
horder and persons aforesaid were killed, and neere unto their said factor
and one boates loading to the quantitie of foure tonnes or thereabouts was
taken in shortly after the assault and staughter aforesaid, Et aliter nescit

Ad 28 rendet that the said George Ireland for 3 or foure voyages former
sailed to and for the accompt of the said John Wood to the River of
cerber aforesaid and places thereabouts, from whence some parts of
the Redwed in controverse was brought, and hath bin from time to
time for those voyages bin furnished and provided with lading by the
factors and agents of the said wood and partners, and bin there quietly
permitted to take in his lading when hee was in the imployment of
the said Wood. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 rendet that the said George Ireland hath here before (as this
rendent hath heard) endeavoured to trade and buy redd wood and other
commodities in the River of Corbero and thereabouts, and hath bin
opposed and hindred and disappointed therein, aliter nescit rendet
Ad rendet and by reason thereof the said Ireland hath taken
to soe at or against the said holder, and in this rendents hearing the
hath said that if hee had him at home hee would have satisfaction
of him or to that effect. Et aliter nescit.
Ad ult rendet that all the English that were before the voyage in
question in the parts interrogated were commonly accompted to be the
servants and factors of the said John Wood and company, and that there
were none alse of the English that had any servants or factors
there, and such such factors and servants as the said ffutter, by
and Company have nowe there, were carried thither in the last
voyage with the said Pinnace the George and the said shipp the
eleife, and not before. Et aliter nescit.

Conch ffleet
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29o Junij 1648

Super allegacone arlate predicit qd
acta fact, examinatus.

Johannes Browne parochia de Wappinge in Com Midd Ch
satis 23 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac ca productus et juratus

2

Ad dcam allegaconem apud acta from dicit et deponit that within the space
three monethes or thereabouts ended about three monethes since hee this deponent
as factor for the producents Mr ffutter, Mr Cast Captaine Ireland and of
within
Time
and being there imployed by the
Company did by at Lona in the River of Boone or uppon
Ginney
the River of Carboro and to and for the xxx use and accompt of the said and
ffutter, Ireland and any and with their goods sent for that purpose
two and twenty tonnes and a halfe of Redword and sent the same bye
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George ffrancke from thence to the said shipp the Releife then lying at Lambermen
within the said river of Cerbero, where the same (being part of the redd wood
in question) was laden aboard her for the accompt aforesaid, and the rest of the
said redd wood in question was bought in Ginney by other of the said producents
factors and agents namely Mr Meriton, and John Crofford, and by the said Mr
Ireland in the said parts of Ginney to and for the use and accompt aforesaid
that which the said Meriton and Crofford bought, being by them bought in bidden
within the said River of Carvero, and that which the said Mr Ireland bought
was had and fetcht from Garlyon in Ginney, and all the said weld wood
in question was bought, laden and transported to and for the use and accompt
of the said producents, xxx and paid for with such goods as they sent over
for that end, which this deponent knoweth to bee true, because hee went over
thither from this port of London in a Pinnace called the George of London
being sent purposely by the said Captaine Ireland and Company to buy redd
wood, which pince hee saith the said ffutter, Ireland and Company freight
for that voyage and for that purpose, and laded the same with goods to buy
redd wood and with part of the said goods this deponent bought the said
two and twenty tonnes and a halfe of redd wood, and all the said redd
wood in question, was laden and transported to this porte of London to and
by
for the use and accompt of the said ffutter Ireland, Cast and company, which
hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and alsoe for that this deponent came
home with the said redd good in the said shipp the Releife to this port, and
aliter
by the generall voice and accompt of the said shipps company ⁁ the said redd
and in controverste was xxx ⁁ bought, laden and brought home to and for
sole
the use and accompt of the said ffutter Ireland and company. Et
aliter nescit deponere, saying hee knoweth not the quantitie of the said redd
wood in controver soe f and saving the said shipp the Rellice was (as this dept
hath bin credibly informed) freighted by the said ffutter and Company for
the said voyage./

Ad Interria.

Ad primu fit ut petitur, et rendet quod venit regatus per Capitane Ireland
and testificandum in hac caa, a favet partibus huicinde litigand indifferenter et
daret victoriam ius habenti

Ad primu secundum rendet that hee well knoweth the parts and places interr
having formerly lived there for the space of three yeares together or thereabouts
and saith that the River of Corbero interrogate with the sewall parts and
streames thereof are under the power and command of certaine Negroes
being heathens, in habiting in the said parts of Ginney, and that the said
Negroes and heathers for diverse yeares last past have peaceably and
interrogall
freely permitted the said John Wood, his partners factors and assignes to
boade with them in the said river and of Carbero and in the parts and
streetimes thereof comonly knowne by the names of hiddam, Mary and
Mely, and for the said three yeares of this deponents knowledge and as
hee hath credibly heard for theise 25 yeares last past or thereabouts the
said Mr wood, his partners, factors and agents have had the sale true
and traffique from this kingdome in the said River of Carbera and
the ports and streames thereof with the Negroes there inhabiting, untill
the said Ireland and his partners in this his last voyage did trade in the
parts aforesaid without the leave and lecause of the said wood and ptners
Et aliter nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the interrogate
Towa, and saith that for all the time interrogate the said Tomas Negro
was Captaine and Commander and owner of the said river of Carbero and
of the said Rivers and streames of Liddam, Mary and Melye, and of and
those
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and parts
those parts within the said river and streames where Redwood is to bee had noe
of all the land lying within these straines, and thereof hee hath bin for as
the said time in full and peaceable possession, and hee hath heard and her
beleeveth and that the said Towe being possessed of the premisses did same
and transferr all his right stile and interest in and to the same to the
said James London interrogall the factor of the said Mr Roade to and the
same for and touching the
the said was use, lighter with the full power of trade traffique and
commore there to the interrogate James Holder, factor of the said Mr
for the said Mr woods use, and to that purpose when this deponent coming
thither the voyage in question the said holder shewed this deponent a
writing, which hee said was the grant thereof from the said Towe, and
the same hee saith was of that purport, this rendent reading and
under the same, which was written in English. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 4 rendet that the said James Holder in his like time was of this
deponents knowledge factor of the said John Wood and company, and for
many yeares last past the said John Wood and Company have had
a factory setled in the parts interrogated, and have there kept and
maintayned factors and servants and of late a preaching Minister (whoe
this rendent knoweth, but remembreth not his name) and for theise
five yeares last past and untill the moneth of October last hee the
said John Wood by his factors and servants hath bin in full and quiet
possession of the premisses, Et aliter nescit rendere.
Ad quintu interr rendet that the most part of the redd wood in this
cause controverted was and is the native commoditie of the parte of
Ginney interr, and was taken and laden aboard the said shipp the
beleife in the River of Carbero, the rest at the said redd wood being
the comoditie of and taken and laden at Sarallyn aforesaid. Et aliter
nescit nec credit.

Ad 6 interr rendet that the factory aforemenconed is commonly said and
esteemed to belonge to the interr John Wood and company, and soe
much this rendent hath heard from diverse Inhabitants there, Et aliter
nescit.

Ad 7 interr rendet that hee beleeveth and hath heard that after the
and while shewnd remained there
said shipp the Releife came into the River of Carber aforesaid, vizt
or about Easter money last past the said James Holder the factor
English
aforesaid and a boy and a Negroe belonging to the said Mr Wood and imployed
in his service were in a crewell and inhumane manner, assailed, and
same by the said Negroes there Inhabiting) this deponent seeing the
corps of the said Holder and of the boy burned, and as hee hath heard
that forthwith after they had killed the said Holder the said Negroes broke
into the said factory house at Berimany and bound such of the serveing
and beate some of them
thereof as they there found, and wound. Et aliter nescit, saving hee
alsoe heard that the said Inhabitants wounded another negro belonging
to Mr wood, when they killed the said Mr Holder
Ad 8 rendet that as hee hath heard that at the time interrogate the
goods of the said John Wood in his factory aforesaid (amongst which this
rendent hath heard was about 30 tonnes of redd wood) were in a vier
manner and without the consent of the said woods factors and owne
servants taken and forced from them, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 9 et 10 negative proparte sua, aliter nescit.

Ad
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Ad 11 rendet that as hee hath heard his contest George ffrancke say, hee
the said ffrancke was an eye witnes when the said holder and the bey and
Negro aforesaid were staine, and the other Negro wounded. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 12 rendet quod nescit nec audivit.

Ad 13 rendet that hee was for the space of 33 monethes or thereabouts
ended about June x this time two yeares servant unto the said
Mr Wood in his said factory at Ginney, and before the said shipp the
Releife came into the said River of Carbero, the Natives and Inhabitants
of that countrey did for the genalitie of them esteeme of and affect
it
as the said James Holder (as seemed to this respondent) and other the factors
and servants of the said Mr wood, and formerly they fairely treated
the said woods factors and servants and traded with them quietly and
civilly. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 14 interr rendet that hee hath heard that shortly after the Pinnace
aforesaid, sett forth by the said Ireland and partners came into the River
of Carvero, the said James holder complained to the Kinge or
Commander of the place against the company of the said Pinnace
(whereof this rendent was one) for cominge into the Rivers and streames
aforesaid, which hee the said Holder had bought as aforesaid, and that
thereupon the said Kinge lade the said holder that the said Rivers and
streames were his and that hee had bought and paid for them, and
the commodities and merchandizes therein, and therefore willed him
to doe what hee would to the company of the said shipp Pinnace or to
that effect, and saith it was generally reported, said and acknowledged
by the Inhabitants and Natives of those parts, that the said James
holder had bought the said Rivers and streames and paid for them. Et
aliter nescit.

Ad 15uj rendet quod nescit.

Ad 16 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 17 negative, nec expectat aliquod prater salarium

Ad 10 rendet that for theise five yeares last and for many yeares before
and hath heard
the said John Wood and company have bin (as hee beleeveth) at the
yeerly charge of 500£ per and at the least in maintayning the factory
interr where the said James Golder was resident, and the said John wood
hath supplied the said factor and such others as there were there
imployed from time to time with victualls and wages, and sent
over from hence bread beefe, oyle, pease and other necessaries for
their maintenance of this deponents knowledge having bin one of his
servants there) and been at very greate charges in the setling of
the said factory. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 11 rendet that hee hath here before bin imployed by the said John
wood as a servant and factor in those parts, and bin there maintained
at the said Mr woods costs and charges, whoe paid him 30 per moneth
was for 33 monethes or thereabouts besides his allowance of meate and
drincke, for his service in these parts, and to other of his servants
there hee the said John Wood hath paid very greate wages, namely
to Mr Holder of late times 100£ per annd, and to others lesse according
to their place and service. aliter nescit

Ad 20 rendet that the said John Wood and Company have here before
sent over to those parts sewall rich very valuable cargargons of
goods
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in
of goods, but some of them of the valewe of 1000£ or 3000 as hee hath
heard, this deponent knowing of three cargazons about that valewe
hee sent over when this rendent served him there, which have all bin soe
out there for the setting and maintaining of the said factory, and a
greate parte of the proceede thereof of that expense, is as hee hath
heard left there in Redwood to the quantitie of betwixt 30 and
tonns, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 rendet that red wood may bee had in diverse other places in Adrian
by those whoe will be at the charges, trouble and expense to pursued
the same, and in all such places they must have the consent and
leave of the Kinge or cheife commander of the place, before they came
interr
be suffered to trade. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 22 rendet that the place where the said Redwood was for the most part
of it was bought is about 34 70 miles within the land from the
month of the said river of Carbero, and soe farr from the sea in the
place, and where noe shipps can came in the said river within very
neere 30 leagues and yet hee saith these that over land to the
sea is in some places not above a mile and some places moore./

Ad 23 rendet that hee hath heard quod nescit.

Ad 24 rendet that the persons that solde the said wood red wood were
Negroes and natives of that countrey, and saith the same was bought
and this rendent bought
for truck of goods, upon present at two barrs and a quarter measure
and somtimes at two barrs and uppon present exchange or payment
Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert
belonging to the said Mr Woods factory
Ad 25 rendet that one Thomas Jenot ⁁ hath bin present and seene
redd wood brought to this rendent to bee bought, And in reddem this
deponent hath heard one of the said Mr woods servants named there George
any say that they ought not to buy there without their leave, aliter nescit.
Ad 26 negative./

Ad 2u rendet that hee this rendent bought two and twenty or 27 tonnes
of the redwed in controversie in the river of Bonne neere the place
where the said holder was slaine as aforesaid vizt within 8 English miles
or thereabouts of the said place, and within some six miles of the said
woods factory house, but the same was bought before hee was assailed
thereof
and killed as aforesaid, and saith that a shallops lading of about foure tonnes
not
being part of the said 22 tonnes was ⁁ laden aboard the Releife till
after the astanting and billing of the said wards factor and servants
aforesaid, Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2u rendet that the said George Ireland for three former voyage of the
rendents knowledge and as hee hath heard for many voyage before that
hath sailed for the accompt of the said John Wood to the parts interr
and hath from time to time bin furnished and provided with lading
and permitted peaceably to lade take in lading, and not opposed her
hee was in the service and imployment of the said Mr Wood, aliter nescit
heare

Ad 2u rendet that hee hath that the said Ireland hath heretofore before the
voyage one endeavoured to trade and by bin redd wood and other
comodities in the places interr, and was apposed and hindred therein hee
thereupon (as this deponent hath heard) the said Captaine Ireland and a
holder had a falling out. Et aliter nescit.
Ad ult rendet that all or most of the English, that were before they hee
at or neere the the parts interr, were the factors and servants of the said
John wood and company, and that noe other English had any servants and
factors there, and such factors or servants as the said Capt and company
have nowe there, were carried thither his last voyage, they having as
any there before.

John Browne
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108

Primo Julij 1648

Ad
Super allegacone apud acta fact exaiatus.

Johannes Crafford parochia sancti Olavi in Burgo de Southwarke
Nauta, aetatis 40 annoru aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus.

3

Ad prem allegaconem apud acta factum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
went forth in the shipp the Relife the voyage in question to the ports of Ginney
in the servant service and imployment of Mr ffutter, Mr Ireland and Company
and there for and on their part and accompt of the said producents and
with their goods sent in the said shipp to that purpose buy of the Negroes
Maties of the place, in severall places in and upon the River of Cerber,
(Redwood to the quantitie of twenty tonnes or thereabouts, which hee laded
aboard the said shipp the Releife for the accompts of the said mr ffutter, Mr
& Clast, Captaine Ireland and company, and which hee saith is part of
the worde redd wood in controverse brought home in the said shipp
and a greate quantitie more of the said Redwood in contraverse that was
bought some by by Mr Meriton factor for the said mr ffutter and company
and some more by his contest John Browne another of their agents in and
about the said river of Carter this deponent sawe laded aboard the said
shipp for the accompts aforesaid, all which Redword aforesaid bought and
provided as aforesaid in and about the said River of Carbero was soe laden
aboard the said shipp at Limberman of this deponents knowledge whoe was
then masters mate aboard her, and besides all the redd wood aforesaid
this deponent sawe a pinnace and shallopps lading of redd wood that was
bought and provided by the said Captaine Ireland and Companies ffactors
and agents in and about the said River of Carber before the arrivall
of the said shipp in those parts, brought and laden aboard the said shipp
at Seralion for the accompts aforesaid, this deponent being sent xxx
by Captaine Ireland from Beralion to the river of Corber to give
them cuttice of the said shipps arrivall did there soe the same said xxx
and lading, and redwed aboard the said pince and shall, and was
alonge there with sawe the same laden from Dad
the rest of the said redd in question was bought and laden for the accompt
aforesaid
at Seration, this deponent seeing all the said reddwood in question
either laden in lading or when it was laded aboard the said shipp in the
parts of Ginney aforesaid and came with the same in the said shipp
from thence to this porte of London, and therefore hee knoweth it to bee
the same that was soe laden in Ginney, the same contayning in his
iudgement and by the comon estimacon of the company aboard 140 tonnes or
thereabouts, All which hee saith was bought and laden for the accompts
of the said ffutter, Cast and company, and the shipp hee saith was
freighted and sett out for the said voyage by the said Ireland, ffutter
and Company to transport xxxxx such lading as for their accompts
was and should be provided in these and laden aboard in those parts
and the shipps company and the said factors and agents were by them
imployed and paid, and the said shipp laden by them from hence with
goods to buy the said vedwood and such other commodities as the said
parts of countrey Ginney yeelded. Et aliter nescit deponere, saving all
the said redd wood was laden in the space of about foure monethes, ended about about the
beginning of May last

Ad Interrogatoria.

Ad primu fit ut petitur, et venit regatus per moram Ireland ad testificand in
hac caa, faver partibus indifferenter, et conferret victoriam in habentis.

Ad secundu rendet that the river of Carbaro interr with the sevall parts and
and
streames thereof are under the power and command of certaine Negroes, heathens
inhabiting the said parts of Ginney, and saith the said Negroes for theise
sixteene yeares last during which time hee hath used those parts) have
peaceably and freely permitted the said interr Mr wood and company with
their factors and assignes to trade with them in the said river and in the pts
and streames thereof knowne by the names of Kindam Mary and Mely, and
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and the said Mr wood and Company, their factors and assignes have had the
sole trade and traffique there from this Kingdome with the Negroes, for the
said sixteene yeares, untill the said Captaine Ireland and partners in this hee
last voyage traded there, saving Et aliter nescit

Ad tertiu interr rendet that hee well knoweth the interr Towa, and saith hee
the rivers et
was for all the time interr and Captaine and Commander of the kill
and Mary and of Melyn interr, and was in quiet possession of the good
of these places, Et aliter nescit.
Ad quartu rendet that the said James Holder in his life time was the fort
of the said John wood and company, whoe for all the time that this deponent
there
hath knowne and used those parts as afore have had a factory settled and
the there kept and mantained factors and servants, aliter nescit salvis
predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad quintu rendet that the greatest part of the redd was in this cause controverse
was and is the native Comoditie of the parte of Ginney interr, and was
there laden aboard of Thallopps, and thence carried to Limberman aforesaid
to be put aboard the said shipp the Releife, and was bought and taken into
and Boone
the said shallops in hiddam within the factory or places where the said
to the quantitie of thirteene halls lading, but howe many in hee soe
Wood and Company had the said sole trade as aforesaid, Et aliter nescit, said
hee beleeveth the same was soe bought and taken in wth against the good
will of the said holder and other the said Mr woods factors and servants
there./

Ad 6 refert se ad premissa sua, aliter negative et nescit.

Ad 7 rendet that hee hath heard and beleeveth that after the said shipp
the Releife came into the River of Carbero and remained at Limberman
aforesaid the said James holder the factor and another younge man and a
Negro, servants of the said Mr wood and imployed by him were in a crewell
manner assailed and slaine by the said Negroes in or about the moneth
of Aprill last past, Et aliter nescit rendere.
or presently upon

Ad 9uj rendet that hee hath heard that at the time when the said holder and
some of
other persons aforesaid were killed the goods of the said Mr Wood in his
and pticularly hee there
factory aforesaid were unto the place where the said Holder and others were
same were in a violent manner taken away and particular the redd and
there found by the Regroes, and that some of the company of the said shipp
the releife were present and sawe the said persons soe slaine, but
beleeveth
denieth that the said read noe part of the redd wood in question was of the
said redd wood soe taken away from the said Mr Woods factory as
aforesaid. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3 negative propert sua, aliter nescit.

Ad 10 et 11u nescit.

Ad 12 rendet that the said George Ireland did forbidd his company xxx in
this deponents hearing not to bringe any letters from the ports aforesaid
but what they imported and made knowne to him, upon penaltie of
looking their wages. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 13 rendet that hee was formerly (and about three yeares since) serving
unto the said John Wood, and before the coming of the said shipp the
Releife into those parts, the Navives and Inhabitants of the countrey
did well love and affect the said servants and factors of the said John
wood, and saving the said holder) and fairely breate and use them and
trade peaceably and quietly with them. aliter nescit
soone

Ad 14 rendet that hee hath heard and beleeveth that after the arrivall
of the Pinnace the George (formerly sett forth by the said land and or
company) in the river of Cerbero, the said James Holder complained to
the Kinge or commander in cheife there against the company thereof one
cominge thither, aliter nescit nec audivit.
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Ad 15 nescit.

Ad 16 nescit.

Ad 17 negative, nor doth hee expect ought more then his wages ut dicit./

Ad 18 rendet that the said John wood hath from time to time supplied his factors
and servants at his factory interrate with victualls and wages, and sent over from
hence bread, beefe oile, pease and other necessaries for their maintenance, and
bin out greate charge and expense in maintaininge the said factory. aliter nescit.

Ad 10 rendet that hee this rendent hath bin here before imployed by the said John
wood as a servant to him in those parts, and bin there maintanced at his
the said woods costs and charges, whoe paid him 40s per moneth and somtimes
30£ per moneth for such his service, and for a matter of fourteene yeares
this rendent
together, and hath received sevall summes of money at sevall of him and
his company in that time, but howe much in all hee knoweth not, but at
one time hee received 100 and at another box for such his service there
and the said wood hath paid greate wages to other his servants there. aliter
nescit.
over to

Ad 20 rendet that the said John Wood and Company have heretofore sent out
into those ports severall cargazons of goods of greate valewe (but of
what vallewe hee knoweth not) which hee knoweth because hee went with
have
them severall yeares, and the same hath bin there laid out for the setling
and maintanning of the said factory, aliter nescit.

Ad 21 rendet that in all places where redd wood is to bee had in the said countrey
they that goe to buy it, must have leave and permission from the Kinge
or cheife Governour of the place and of the Natives there before they
contrade or be suffered to buy goods there, Et aliter nescit salvis prdepoits.

Ad 22 rendet that the places within the river Carber where such part
of the Redwood in controversie as came from thence was had and bought,
was about 60 miles within the countrey from the neerest place where shipps
contra come in the said river, but over land to the set it is soe in some places
but three or foure miles, and in some more and in some losse. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 23 rendet that the yeare before the voyage in question the said ffutter
ffast and Company sent to the place interr with the said shipp the Releife
this rendent being one that went in her, xxx Et aliter nescit.
that

Ad 24 rendet the redwood interr was bought some by this rendent
some by his contest John drowne and some by the foresaid Mr Marriton, and
that which was bought at Seralion was bought by Captaine Ireland and
was bought
all of it
was bought of severall Negroes and not of any English and
trucke upon present payment or exchange, and saith there have one Mr
key a factor of mr woods (and one that was none of the company of the
Releife) was present when this rendent bought some of the Redwood in
controversie in addam, Et aliter nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 25 rendet that the said James Golden was the factor of the said John
Wood keyes did oppose the buying of the said redwood by this rendent,
aliter nescit, nor is hee as hee saith concenced in his conscience that the same
belonged to he wood or partners.
Ad 26 negative.

to the quantitie of five tonnes or thereabouts

Ad 3uj rendet that some of the said Redwood ⁁ was not laden aboard the beleife xxx
at timberman till
after the willing of the said holder and the younge man and Negro aforesaid, Et
aliter nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 20 rendet that the interr George Ireland for three former voyages hath
sailed for the accompt of the said Mr wood to the parts of Ginney from whence
redd wood in controversie was brought, and hath by from time to time
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provided &
furnished with lading by the said Mr wood, and bin permitted quietly and peece
to take in his lading there, and hath this deponent being then there and seeing
the said Ireland
the same, and then hee was not ⁁ all apposed, being in the service and upon
a
of the said John Wood. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 2 rendet that hee this rendent hath heard that about five or six yeares
were
since, the said George Ireland hath endeavoured to trade and buy redd and
other commodities in those parts, from whence the redd wood in controvers
was brought, and that hee was opposed and hundred therein by the said was
solder, and that thereupon hee tooke distaste at or against Mr Holder, Et
aliter nescit nec audivit.

Ad ultimum rendet that all the English that were before the voyage in question
which of the said Pinnace the George and the said shipp the Releife, at a neere, and
on
those parts from whence the reed wood in question came, were the servant
and factors of the said John Wood and company and such as were by them
imployed, and none else of the English had any ffactors or servants were
and such factors and servants as the said ffutter Cust and company have
there, are such as were carried thither this last voyage, and were not
there as their servants before. aliter nescit.

John Cron Lond
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Quinto Julij 1648.

Nauta

Junelius Tenman de Rotterdam magister navis the Peter de Rotterdam
etatis 52 annoru aut eo circiter testis iuratus coram Doctore Clarke no
Indico supremia Curia Admiraltatis Anglia die predci et ex parte
Johannis seein examinatus super Interria deponit ut sequitur.
Quoad the Peter of Rotterdam.

in negatio assecuracons hee

1
said

Ad primu Interrium rendet et dicit vigore iuraments that hee well is the
same Cornelis Thomamans interrogate, and that hee was well knewe the
shipp the Peter of Rotterdam (whereof hee this exáminate was (as hee saith
Master, and saith hee well knoweth the interrogate John Henne by of
Rotterdam, and whoe hee saith was and is owner there of the said shipp
and soe commonly accompted and reputed. Et aliter nescit deponere rendere.
Ad secundum Interrium rendet et dicit regore juramenti sua pred, that the said
newe soe
John Hamakin did on or about the fourteenth day of the moneth of May in
this present yeere 1648, lade on the board the said shipp at Rotterdam in the
haven there the quantitie twenty six lasts of Rie or neere thereabouts
to the transported in the said shipp from Rotterdam to the porte of Bristoll
in this Kingdome of England, which hee knoweth because hee being then master
of the said shipp did see the same laden, and tooke a note of the said quenter
And saith the bill of lading arlate was and is subscribed with the proper
hand writing of him this hee examinate ⁁ master of the said shipp, which suffer
hee hath nowe seene and acknowledgeth the same to bee written with his owner
hand, and saith the contents of the said bill were and are true and soe and
and donne as therein is contayned. Et aliter nescit.
Ad xxx tertiu Interrium dicit et respondet that the said shipp soone after the
said ree was laden therein vizt on or about the sixteenth day of the said made
of May and sett saile with said from the said porte of Rotterdam to
directly for Bristoll as aforesaid, and saith that in her course betweene
Rotterdam and Bristoll the said shipp the Peter and her lading therein were
neere unto Sunday not farr from Bristoll seized by an Irish man off of
warr and carried to waterford interrogate, which hee knoweth because hee was
belonging a nexte in Ireland
on board the said shipp ⁁ when shee was soe taken, and was carried with her
the Peter
Waterfor aforesaid, and saith hee was soe taken on or about the 28th dayes
of May last (newe stile) about two of the clock in the morning, the rest
Will
name of the said Irish man of warr being John Rosmouth Rosser
Waterford as hee hath heard the said shipp the Peter contineweth and read
at this time. Et aliter nescit.
unles home
the Dom Hade
To
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110

Eadem die.

dward Barson at Amsterdam de Der Schelling in Hollandia
Amptes

Nauta, magister navis the Hope da Interrate, annos agens 32 aut eo circiter
juratus coram Venerabili vir William Clerke legum Doctore Suprima Curia
Admiralitatis Anglia Indico una, examinatus, deponit ut sequitur vizt.

Ad tertiu Interrium respondet et viora iuraments pred dicit that hee well knewe
the shipp the Peter arlate and well knoweth Cornelis Tenne mans master of
the said shipp, and saith that on or about the 29th day of May last past (newe
or William Amsterdam
sayle) this deponent exáminate sayling with his said shipp the Hope for xxxx
Bristoll was neere unto the Lunday sett upon and surprized and taken by an
Irish man of warre whereof was Captaine John Rossetter, and after the taking
of his said shipp, this examinate was taken out of the same and put on board
the said man of warr, and there hee mett with the said Cornelius
one mannes, there whoe was there kept prisonner, and whoe then and there
tolde this examinate that hee was taken with th his said shipp the Peter on
the same day by the said Irishman of warr, and this examinate then
sawe the said shipp the Peter sailing by the said shipp the man of warr
of warr
and saith the said shipp the Peter was carried by the said Irishman to
waterford in Ireland, this exáminate being carried thither in her company
and seeing her there. Aoreover hee saith that the said shipp was the
Peter was laden with rie as the said Thomamans lade this exáminate.
and was (when shee was soe taken in her course betweene Rotterdam and
Bristoll, for this exáminate had mett her and spoken to the said
Hernemans about a weeke before such her taking off the Isle
to ffrancish Lodowicke
of Wight, and then and there the said Thome mans tolde this examinate
that examinatus.
that hee came from Rotterdam and was bound for Bristoll and that

The first second, 3 and
in his said shipp was laden with one, Et aliter nescit, saving that when
one
life to his former answers.
this examinate came from waterford, the said shipp ⁁ was remaining there
saying hee knoweth

Super ceteris non examinatur ex direccone producentis.
dis Interries
names hee referreth
the hee saith hee had
said shipp xx called
same of the Johnke.}
her gent
neere five of John Doe under or

1. 12
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Eadem die.

Herman Bouchus de civitate Amsterdam Nauta etatis 33 annoru aut eo
circiter, juratus coram Doctore Clarke and Indico Suprem Curia And
pred et super Interris ex parte Johns heeken examinatus deponit
a quratus ut sequitur.

Ad tertiu Interrium respondet et dicit renore iuramenti sua pred
hee well knoweth the shipp the Peter interrogate and of Rotterdam, as
alte Cornelis Thermans master of the said shipp, and saith that hee
Amsterdam
this deponent being aboard the shipp the Hope of Rotter (whereof hee
was masters make and whereof was master divert Siverson) bound
for Bristoll, did meete with the said Cornelis then nemans aboard
the said shipp the Peter of the Isle of Wight, whoe then and there said
that hee came from Rotterdam and was bound for Bristoll and that this
said shipp was laden with rie, and hee saith that about a weeke after
the said Rivert Garrson and this examinate coming with their said shipp
have neere Sunday in her course for Bristoll, save that the said shipp the
Peter was taken by on Irishman of warr, whoe alsoe tooke their said shipp
the Hope, and then and there this examinate sawe the said shipp the Peter
sailing by the said man of warr, and saith it was on or about the 29th day
wick et alior of
May last past (newe stile) that the said shipps were soe taken, the
said shipp the Peter being taken in the morning, and the said shipp the

Ad 4 Interries hee
shore about noone of the same day, And being soe taken the said shipps
to his former were carried by the said Irish man towards, waterford in Ireland, and
of warr ford
saith saying
coming neere the River the said shipp the Hope (wherein this examinate was) was
shipp the
retaken by the shipp the Elizabeth in service of the Parliament, but the said
in thitherward
or of one
shipp the Peter was carried in either by the said Irishman of warr. Et
Cranes don is
P
Ad Interria ex pte
otherwise hee
seaven

Pro Por Kinder of
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7o Julij 1648

Super lilo et sched pred.

Auster et alj cona

Paffeild.

5
Rp. EA.

Thomas Ken de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Comitatu Middlesex Marke
aetatis 38 annorum aut circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dci lili et ad dicit et deponit that hee this deponent was one
the arlate John Bowden in his life time and saith hee was within the time arlate
and when the goods here after menconed were delivered and when the worke said
was donne, master and Commander of the shipp the Greene dragon arle
and of her tackle and furniture and soe commonly accompted. Et aliter nescit
Ad secundu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam secundam annex et tempre et
examinacons often ss et lect dicit et deponit that the arlate Richard William
in the time arlate and when the worke and goods are schedulate were donne and
delivered, lawfull owner and proprietor of till the said goods and soe commonly one
Et aliter nescit.

Ad 3uj arlum nescit.

Ad quartum arlum dicti lili et ad secundum schedulam in eadem menconat dicit
et deponit that hee this deponent was and yournemen and foreman is the sd
to the producent Richard Williams when the worke schedulate was donne and
when the goods menconed in the said schedule were delivered, and saith that
within the time libellate vizt in the space of halfe a yeere or thereabouts
of that time happening in the yeere 1646 the said Richard Williams and
by himselfe and servants and at the instance of the arlate John Boaden
and reall the worke and deliver all the iron were and goods menconed in the said
in both leave thereof
schedule to and for the use of the said shipp the Greene Gragon towards
her fitting up and setting out to sea, this deponent being helped to deliver
most of the said goods and to doe most of the said worke, and being made
acquainted with all of it at the time the same was delivered and donne,
and worke day
all which goods hee saith were delivered ⁁ at the said Richard William his
shipp neere dickshore in Limehouse, and according to the direccon of the
said John Bowden master of the said shipp, which this deponent heard him
give, which Bonden hee saith came diverse times to their said shippe
the said goods were in delivering and worke in doing to give order thereabouts
and for the sending the same aboard the said shipp. Et aliter nescit depone
saving this deponent kept reckoning of most of the said goods upon a fully
kept for that purpose, and when hee kept did not note thereupon, was hee
saith donne by the said Richard Williams or others of the shipp and with his
this deponent notice and knowledge, working daily in the said shipp and saving
the same donne. Et aliter nescit.

Ad quintu arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath
right at the trade aforesaid for theise twenty yeares last past and thereof
well knoweth that the said goods and worke were well worth the sevall
paines of money menconed in the said schedule, and at those paires and
rates the same were then comonly solde and donne to others, and soe
much the same were worth by comon estimacon, aliter nescit.

Ad 6 arlum dicit that since the delivery of the goods and doing of the Mr
aforesaid the said John Bowden is dead. Et aliter nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Will Richard William is an
honest and saith fue dealing man with his customers and honest in lest
of his bookes and accompt, and soe commonly accompted. aliter nescit

Super reliquis non examinatur er
was one
----
Eadem die.

Super lilo et sched pred.

&
Rp. EA

Robertus Crosse de Limehouse in Com Midd Blacksmith, etatis
annoru aut circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit that hee well knewe the arlate More he and
tyme and saith hee was for all the time arlate master and commander
shippe dree dragen, and of her tackle and free and hee
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111

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate Richard Williams at the
time of delivery of the goods and doing of the worke menconed in the second schedule
arlate (wch was within the time arlate) was lawfull owner and proprietor of xxx
the same. alr nescit.

Ad noe not

Ad tertiu arlum dicti lili et ad dcam secundum schedulam eadem annex et tempere
eu examinaconis lect dicit et deponit that in the space of sevall monethes
happening in the yeere 1648 the producent Richard Williams by himselfe and
servants and did at the request of the arlate John Bondon master of the said
and det
shipp the Greene dragon deliver to and for her use and towards her fitting
up and setting out to sea upon a voyage, all the goods and worke menconed and
sett downe in the said schedule in both leaves thereof, all which hee saith were
soe delivered and donne at the shipp of the said Richard Williams fituate
neere dick shore in timehouse and that at the instance and request of
the said Bowden, whom this deponent heard take order with the said
Richard Williams above having the same donne and delivered and about
fending the same aboard the said shipp, The premisses hee saith
hee knoweth to bee true because hee was and is courney man and servant
to the said producent and wrought in his said shipp all the while the
said goods and iron wares were in delivering and worke in doing and
same the same delivered and donne, and helping to deliver and
doe the same. Et alr nescit.

Ad 5 arlum et sched pred dicit that the said goods and commodities were
at the said time of delivery thereof worth the severall sumes of money
menconed in the said schedule and soe commonly solde, and were soe
much worth by comon estimacon. Et alr nescit.
And to dicit that since the premisses the said John Bowdenis departed
this lifte alr nescit.

Ad 7 dicit that the said Richard Williams was and is accompted an hones
man, and one that is iust in his accompts and reckonings, alr nescit.
Super reliquis non examinature.

Robert
Crosse
Signu

2
----
7º Julij 1648

dward the Custe of God of
London, ex parte
Briggs et Land examinat.

1
R
EA.

Richard Storey de of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney aged
Mariner aged about 43 yeares sworne before the right worll
William Clarke doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the highe
Court of Admiraltie, being examined by vertue of his
oath upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe
of Thomas Briggs and Richard Land, saith as followeth.

To the first Interrogatory hee answereth and saith that hee was masters
mate of the shipp called the Guifte of xxx God of London (whereof
Joseph Hollins was master) in her last voyage in her last voyage from
this porte of London to the coast of Barbary, and from thence backe againe
to the port of London, and soe was one of her company

To the second Interrogatory hee answereth and saith that the said shipp
went from the port of London on the said voyage on or about the tenth hery
Aprill
of the moneth of June 1647 and that before her departure from the
porte of London on the said voyage, there were laden aboard her twenty
bales or thereabouts) of linnen cloth, or Whited Canvas called Reames, and
about 80 bales of callicoes, to be transported in the said shipp to the Coast
of Barbary for the Accompte of the foresaid Thomas Briggs and
Richard Land.

To the third Interrogatory that on or about the twentieth day of the moneth
of April 1647 in the outwards voyage of the said shipp betwixt Beach and

To
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the Isle of Wight the said shipp the Gunck mett with much stormy and
tempestuous weather, and was by reason of the violence thereof in greater
danger to be driven on shore upon the rocke or sands, and the master
company to avoide the same were forced for the safegard of the said shipp
and her lading and their owne lives to weare or putt abroade more about
then otherwise they would have donne, wch made the said shipp this
her broade side, and by reason thereof the waves or sinnes of the said
washed or came in over the decks and forecastle of the said shipp and re
downe into her holde in greate abundance notwithstanding that the master
and Company used their best endeavours to prevent the same, The
premisses hee knoweth to bee true because hee was then aboard and sawe
and observed the same.

To the fourth Interrogatory hee answereth and saith that by reason of the
storme aforesaid and the water which beate and ron in over the decks and
forecastle of the said shipp into her hould as aforesaid some of the said
bales of waies and Callicoes to the number of seaven or thereabouts
the said bales were wett and damnified with salt water, by reason
whereof the said Mr Briggs and Mr Land received dammage and
bale in the sale of the same (as this exáminate hath credibly heard
and beleeveth) to the summe of xxx£ sterling or thereabouts.

Ad To the fifte Interrogatory, that after the arrivall of the said shipp
the Guift on the coast of Barbary and discharge of her outward lading
the said Thomas Briggs laded & caused to be reladen aboard her,
for the accompte (as this exáminate beleeveth and hath heard) of himselfe
and the said Richard Land the quantitie of 24 tonnes or thereabouts
of salt Peter in baggs and one chest, and after the lading thereof
in the homewards voyage of the said shipp from Barbary towards
porte of London on or about the 26th day of January last past
on the coast of Barbary the said shipp mett with a greate storme
and that the sea in that storme beate and came in over the decks and
forecastle of the said shipp in a very violent manner and stowed about
or shallopp wch laye upon the deck, wch shalloy belonged unto the
said Briggs and land and was their proper goods, and was noth
before the saving thereof the sume of five pounds sterling or there
in this examinates estimacon, The premisses hee knoweth to bee
true for the reasons aforesaid, vizt, because hee was aboard and
sawe the same.

To the sixt Interrogatory that in the storme last before menconed and
by reason of the violence thereof, many billowes, and sale of the said
which came in over the decks of the said shipp ran downe into her lade
by occasion whereof the said shipp had in the said storme five or soe
many of the
to Lewards
foote water in holde, and about seaventurne baggs of the salt past
were of this exáminates knowledge wett and damnified, and all the
salt Peter in seaventeene of the said baggs was quite matted and
wasted with the said water which came into the said shipp out and for
end, and saith that each of the said baggs one without another when for
were first putt aboard the said shipp did containe about 250 yeeres
of salt her
weight as hee conceiveth, and that there was caste and doe the
hould pt
by reason of the water which came into the said shipp in these and
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about two tonnes of the said salt Peter, which hee saith cost in Barbary
according to the sale a goods.
about 45£ per tonne, and was there worth soe much ⁁ xx her The
premisses hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid./

Ad To the seaventh Interrogatory, that both in the outwards and homewards
voyage of the said shipp shee was stronge and staunch (for ought this
examinate could perceived) untill shee mett with the stormes aforesaid.
and that the foresaid Rames, Callicoes and salt Peter were well
stowed, and the master and Company of the said shipp both in and after
endeavors
the said stormes used their best both by pumping and otherwise to
preserve the said goods from dammage, wch dammage hee saith was
occasioned by the said stormes and fowle weather All the
premisses hee affirmeth by vertue of his said oath.
The said Richard Story (sworne as aforesaid exaied
on Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of Gilbert
Moreward, Richard Shute and others Assurers &
answereth as followeth vizt.
Pd

To the first, That hee knewe the shipp the Siste aforesaid at the time
shee provided in the voyage in question for Barbary and elswhere, and came
acquainted with her, having gonne sevall former voyages in her)

To the second, that besides the Callicoes and Roanes predeposed, there were
laden and put aboard her for the said voyage anno 1647 iron, lead, breadleth
gunns, leasies, and diverse other goods, the particulars whereof hee saith
hee doth not remember, and the same were laden in the river of Thames
but for the valewe thereof hee saith hee knoweth not otherwise then
before
what hee hath formerly deposed, whereunto hee referreth himselfe

To the third hee referreth himselfe to his deposion and answers to the
Interrogatories aforesaid ex parte Briggs and land, and saith the said
shipp tooke in and received aboard after shee went from London on the
voyage aforesaid for Barbary, was, salt Peter, corne, and goode and
pticular
peeces of eight, the quantitie, valewe or first cost whereof (saving
what hee hath before answere) hee saith hee knoweth not, All wch
hee saith were well stowed in the houlde of the said shipp, And otherwise
hee cannot answer as hee saith.

To the fourth, hee referreth himselfe to his deposition and answers aforesaid
where hee hath satisfied the contents of this Interrogatory.

To the fift hee referreth himselfe as aforesaid, and otherwise answereth
negatively.

To the last hee answereth negatively, saying the Master hath not.
detained of any of his wages, nor as hee beleeveth any of the wages of
any other of the company.

Richard Story
----
Otove Julij 1648

Super allegacone arlate ex
parte Petri Grobson Wisen et alioru 6º July instantis.
dat examinatus.

Rivert Siverson de E der Schelling in Hollandia Nauta aetatis
22 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac negative productus et juratus
deponit et sequitur.

a examinacons testiu ex pte Petri
John Witten, Johanus Betton et sociorum
Mr Hope de Amsterdam

1us
R
R

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate Peter
Jacobson Poyten, and John Beton and company vizt Peter Cladson and Simon
Curson and saith they have bin for all the time arlate and are lawfull owner
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and proprietors of the shipp the Hope of Roter Amsterdam and of her tacks and
furniture and apparell and of thirty eight lasts or Rie or thereabouts in
aboard the said shipp and soe commonly accompted and reputed, which hee knoweth
to be true because hee this deponent hath bin master of the said shipp for a
the said time and was by them constituted and appointed master thereof and
knoweth that they laded the said Rie aboard her. Et alr nescit.

Ad 2 arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said Peter James
she
Mason, John Beton and Company did send out the said and her said lading
die, being thirtie eight lasts of Rie or thereabouts, and the other goods and
commodities menconed in the schedule arlate (which schedule hee hath nowe hee
read over) from Amsterdam in Holland towards the Porte of Bristoll
and arlate, and ordered and directed this deponent master of the said shipp
there to sell and dispose of the said die for their use and accompt, but the
said goods schedulate hee saith were laden for the accompt of this deponent
and company of the said shipp, and the said carrans, flay, cheife and tobaccoe
schedulate were laden to bee golde and disposed of at Bristoll aforesaid and
premisses hee knoweth for that hee knewe of and was made acquainted
with the lading of all the pre foresaid goods. Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in the said shipp the Hopes Course
towards the Port of Bristoll with her lading aforesaid of corne and
other commodities aforemenconed upon or about the aynteenth day of May
last English stile) neere unto a place called landed the said shipp the
Hope was mett with by an Irish ffriggott and taken by her, and
afterwards as the said ffriggot was carrying the said shipp towards deland
the shee was within twenty houres at the most after such her taking by
the said ffrigott rescued from the said Irish friggott by one Captaine
Reeve Captaine & Commander of the shipp the Greene Elizabeth
then in the Parliaments service, and that before shee was carried into
any Command (wthout any losse a danger and upon the open seas
at least three English miles from Dove, The premisses hee knoweth
to be true because hee was aboard the said shipp the Hope when shee
was soe taken by the said Irish ffriggott and was aboard the said ffrigatt
never
when the hope was retaken or rescued by Captaine ⁁ and being upon
the decks of the said ffrigott hee sawe the said shipp the here soe
rescued and carried away by the said Captaine Reeve. Et alr nescit
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit qd nescit deponere, for hee was a
by the said ffrigot into Waterford since which time hee hath not seene the
said shipp the Hope

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Captaine and Company
of the said Irish ffriggott whoe tooke the said shipp the hope and hee
lading, did not take any part of her the said Rive or any other of
were
lading out of her during such time as the same in their possession
a cheese two or free cheeses and some of the companies clothes and of
this deponents sight, and but the said shipp and her lading come to
the Intody and possession of the said Captaine Reeve and his but
in the same condicon they came out of Holland, without any diminion
at all saving as aforesaid, reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra.
nescit.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that the said Peter Jacobson Mr
John Peton, Peter Collson and Simon Cason and all the said
of the said shipp (saving one named Martin whoe was of going towards
the owners arlate for all the time arlate were and are subiects of th
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States of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the said Peter Jacobson
Purson and John Beton living at Amsterdam, and Peter Claeson and Simon
Cason at Issan in Holland, and saith there was and is peace and amitie
betwixt xxx the Kings Matie of England and the said States and their
respective subiects. Et alr nescit.

Ad 7 arlum dicit et deponit that all the goods wares and merchandizes
menconed in the schedule arlate at the time of the taking of the said shipp
as are
the Hope by the said Captaine Reere, were on board her ⁁ and did belonge
this deponent
to the master and company of her, and were taken away saving as
aforesaid by the said Captaine Reeve saving as aforesaid, and were worth
at the time of such their taking xx away the sewall sumes of money
menconed in the said schedule, saving that the Company of the frigot had
taken away the foresaid cheeses and most of the said companies clothes, Et
alr nescit.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that every last of the said Rice at the
time of taking thereof by the said Reeve was worth the summe of xx£ sterling
at the least in this deponents estimacon, and soe much hee beleeveth the
same would have yeelded in case the same had come to Bristoll
Et alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Bud dt.

Ad primu rendet that hee knoweth the parties interr, and saith the
interr
contents of the said schedule are true, saving it was on the fifteenth day
of May (new style) that the said shipp hope came from the Tapell, and
at
saves or it was ⁁ last three English miles out at sea and not within
any comand command of waterford or other place in Ireland that the
said Captaine Reeve tooke the said shipp the Hope from the said Irish
frigot. Et alr nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.
scit

Ad 3 nescit, neer scit and credet.
Ad ult rendet that hee did not see the re interr measured, but be knoweth
it was of the quantitie aforesaid by the license from the Customehouse
at Amsterdam, for carrying the same out, which this rendent sawe and red read
and wth menconed the quantitie aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Viner Griner
----
John Der Kinder or
A

Decimo die Julij 1648

Super allue predca examinatus.

Hermanus Backes de civitate Amsterdam Nauta, aetatis 32 annoru
aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.
nescit deponere.

2
1

Ad primu arlum nescit deponere did that the arlate Peter Jacobson Rosen and
John Betton and company have bin for all the time arlate comonly accompted lawfull
owners and proprietors of the shipps the Hope of Amsterdam and of her tackle furniture
and apparell and of the rie arlate, alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time arlate the said owners did send
the some arlate
were sent out
the Hope arl
and the said shipp ⁁ and her said lading of Rie ⁁ from Amsterdam towards the parte
ordered
of Bristoll, and adved the master of the said shipp there to sell and dispose.
of the owners
of the said corne for the use, which hee knoweth because hee sawe the said Rie
laden at Amsterdam and did help to lade the same, and went Steersman of the said
shipp for that voyage, Et alr nescit.
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Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in the said shipp the Hopes consent
towards the porte of Bristoll with her lading of corne aforesaid
or about the nynteenth day of May last past (English stile) were
unto Lude Island arlate the said shipp the Hope was mett withall and
and taken
by an Irish ffregate, and afterwards within twenty houres or were
thereabouts within halfe an houre men houre or thereabouts the
neere thereabouts after the taking thereof, and as the said ffrigott was
carrying the said shipp the Hope for Ireland, the said shipp the Hope
was mett xxx rescued from the said Irish ffrigot by one Captaine
Reeve, Captaine or Commander of the shipp the Greene liver
then in the Parliaments service, and that upon the open seas, about
three English miles from the Irish shore, and before shee was carried
into any Command, for although this deponent was then upon the
decke of the said shipp the Hope and looked towards the shore, wch
hee saith hee could not see any castle or fforte, The premisses
hee deposeth being aboard the said shipp both when shee was taken by the
we
said Irish ffregat and what was rescued as aforesaid by the said Captaine
Reeve. Et alr nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that after such time as the said shipp the Cope
was soe rescued by the said Captaine Reere, hee the said Reeve carried or
and her lading to Kingsale in Ireland, and there kept her for the space
of a weeke, and during her said stay there the said Captaine Reeve and
Company did take out sell and dispose of a greate quantitie of the said
shipps lading of Rice and other goods at his and their will and pleasure
and disposed of
vizt they tooke out soe much of the said Rie in Pipes and otherwise that
the said shipp was a quarter of a foote lighter in the water then before
besides they tooke as alsoe a butt of currants of 170£ weight, 29 chest
and 100 andles of flax
& 3 rolls of tobacco weighing 115 pounds, all which they solde and disposed of of
to the said Captaine
this deponents sight and knowledge, and afterwards carried the said
shipp and the remainder of her lading to Milford, and there solde and
disposed of the Remander of the said Rice at the pleasure of him and the
said company, which hee knoweth being still on board the said shipp, and
afterwards sent the Et alr nescit deponere, for hee came of the said
shipp at Milford since which time hee hath not seene her

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Captaine and Company of
said Irish ffrigot wyne tooke the said shipp the Hope and her lading
during such time as the same were in their possession, did not take and
parte of the said Rie or any other of her lading out of her saving to
of the companies clothes, but the said shipp and her lading came to the
custody and possession of the said Captaine Reeve and company in the
same condicon as they came out of Holland (saving some of the close
as aforesaid) reddens raconem scientia sua ut supra.
hee

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that the said owners of the shipp the sd
(as this coman hath bin informed)
aforesaid and of her goods aforesaid for all the time arlate and before
and are subiects of the States of the United Netherland Provinces, and
some of them livers and dwellers in Amsterdam, and the rest in others
places of Holland, and saith there was and is peace and neere
his allate of greate Britaine and the said States and then respected
subiects. alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that all the goods wares and merchants
menconed in the schedule arlate wch hath bin read over unto him at the said had
of his examinacon at the time of the taking of the said shipp the hee
the said Captaine Steeve were on board her and saving some of the bee
a
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114

aforesaid) and did belonge unto the master and Company of her and were taken
away and were solde and disposed of by the said Captaine Reeve and his company
and were at the time of such their taking worth the severall and respective
gunnes of money menconed and expressed in the said schedule, saving the
said clothes and goods soe taken away by the Company of the Irish frigot
were in this deponents estimation worth the sume of thirtie eight pounds
sterling or thereabouts of the said money schedulate, Et alr nescit deponere saving
hee knoweth that the said goods and merchandizes were of the weights
numbers
nes and prives schedulate because hee was made acquainted
with the lading of them.

Ad octavu nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu eo vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee is one of the parties interr, and that hee knoweth
and Corne his Cawson
saith
Martin Lewther ⁁ the other parties interr, and saith that the contents of the
note or schedule arlate interrogate were and are true, saving it is outruely
there sett downe that the said shipp the Hope was hope was taken from
the Irish, ffrigot within the bower of waterford, the premisses by him
that
of her taking from the said fresh frigot
deposed concerning the place being the truth, and hee beleeveth that pticular
in the said schedule was not read unto him, at least soe as hee might understand
the same, for at the time when hee subscribed the said note, for if
it had, hee should hee saith have caused it to be altered before hee would
have subscribed it, neither can hee saye of his knowledge that Sivart
wantson the Skipper and two of his company were carried into waterford
but they were aboard the said Irish frigott, wch sailed that way, when
the said Reeve rescued the said shipp the Hope.

Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad 3 nescit, nor knoweth hee as hee saith what to beleeve therein.

Ad 4 negative.

horsman downes

Wm Damage
----
1649

Eadem die, Super allen pred examinat.
arnelius Thornemans de Rotterdam in Hollandia nauta, etatis 6
de annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.
2s
3

Ad primu et secundum arlos nescit deponere salvis subscripts.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent being on a voyage with
(whereof hee was master
the shipp the Peter of Rotterdam from the said parte of Rotterdam for
Bristoll did on or about the fifteenth daye of the moneth of May last
Amsterdam
English stile
past in his course meete with the shipp the Hope of Rotterdam (whereof
steering the same course
his contest Sivert Siverson was master) off the Isle of Wight, and
hte hawling her, and asking the master and company and of her whence
their shipp was and whither bound, other answered him that their said shipp
was of Amsterdam and was bound for Bristoll, and that shee was laden
for that time
with fie and soe the said shipp the Hope ⁁ left the company of this deponents
and saile
said shipp and in served her, and about foure dayes after the premisses,
this deponent arriving with the said shipp the Peter neere the Isle of
funde, did there soe the the said shipp the Hope was taken by and
frigot gett alsoe the and there he this deponents said shipp, and
him
the comand of the said freight booke
the take her this deponent and
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said frigot where hee saith hee his said shipp hee saith was there
surprized and taken by an Irish ffrigot the Captaine whereof was
named John Rositer, and this hee saith was on or about the interr
day of May last past (new style) about two of the clocke in the
morning and about eleaven of the clock of the same day the said
shipp the Hope (wch this deponent had mett with and hawled as aforesaid
arriving alsoe there, was likewise there surprized and seized by the
said Irish frigott, of this deponents sight and knowledge, this
deponent being then on board the said frigot and seeing the same
soe taken, and after her taking as aforesaid the said Sivarr signed
was taken aboard the said frigot, where this deponent had further
speech with him, and understood from him that his shipp came from
and laden with
Amsterdam and was bound for Bristoll as aforesaid and as the
said frigot was sailing with the said shipps the Hope and the
Peter for Ireland, and when they were came the said shipp the
hope after shee had bin xx about twenty the houres and not more
taken by the said Irish ffrigot was of this deponents sight rescued
by a shipp in service of the Parliament (but the name thereof or
of the Captaine thereof hee saith hee knoweth not) about three or
foure English miled from the Irish shore, uppon the open seas
and before shee was carried into any command, there being then
as hee saith noe castle, fower or ffort in sight that this deponent
good perceive. The premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight
and knoweth knowledge ut dicit. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4. 5. 6. 7 et 8 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu negative pro parte sua alr nescit.

Ad secundu refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad 3 nescit.

Ad ult negative.

Samells Coman

the true.
the
----
decimo Julij 1648. Crustin Heaman agister nor hee

Examinacon testiu in negatio afteraconis
ex parte Johis Hermet et
Abraham Vanderater as
3

Peter of de Rotterdam etats 6 annoru aut eo circiter testis
iuratus coram menerabilinio mon William Clarke legno
doctore unto Indico Suprem Caria Admiralitatis Angl
et ex parte Johannes Henne in et Abraham Vandeconter

super Interryes examinatus deponit et sequitur./

To the first Interrogatory hee answereth and saith by vertue of his and
then in the moneth of May, Anno donin 1648 and for diverse more
before hee this exáminate was master of a certaine shipp of Roter
called the Peter of the burthen of sixtie tonnes or thereabouts, &
of Roterdam
said shipp in the time aforesaid laye or ride in a haven of Roterdam
the Leewe haven, and that the Interrogate John Hanne by was commonly
accompted and reputed sole owner of the said shipp and of her tackle and
furniture, wch said John herein hee saith is a Burgher of bee

To the second Interrogatory, That on or about the fourteenth hee
and well knowne to him this exáminate.
May last past were five the said or made
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in the lewe haven at Roterdam
be laden on board the said shipp the Peter the quantitie of twenty six
lasts of Rie or thereabouts, to be transported in the said shipp from Rotterdam
aforesaid to the Porte of Bristoll in this Kingdome of England for the
Accompt of him the said Harnein and Mr Abraham Vande conterr merchant
as by the bill of lading annexed (to which hee referreth himselfe) appeareth)
And saith that hee this examinate did signe the said bill of lading (nowe
showed unto him at the time of his examinacon for the said corne soe
received aboard the said shipp to be transported and delivered as therein
is expressed, and saith the contents of the said bill of lading were and
are true and soe had and donne as therein is contayned, This examinate
having nowe seene the subscripton of his name thereunto, acknowledgeth
the same to bee written with his owne hand
this exte
& othe third Interrogatory, that hee was never master of any shipp
nor hath heard
called the John and that hee knoweth not of any other shipp about the
time aforesaid of the burthen aforesaid then being in the harbour of
Rotterdam that was called the John, wch did about that time goe or
was bound to goe from the said Porte of Rotterdam to Bristoll with
corne or any other goods for the accompt of the said John Herein
or and Abraham Vandeconterr or either of them, nor hath hee
To the fourth Interrogatory, that the said shipp the Peter soone after
the said hee was laden therein sett saile from the said porte of Rotterdam
bound directly for Bristoll as aforesaid, and in in her course betweene
Roterdam and Bristoll, the said shipp the Peter were and her
lading therein were neere unto the Island of Lunday seized by
an Irish frigott or was man of warr the Captaine whereof was named
in Ireland
John Rossiter) and carried to Waterfore, and there the said rie was
solde, and there this exáminate left the said shipp and came with
an On English shipp from thence to Tin Tinby in Wales, The
premisses hee knoweth to bee true, because hee was aboard the said shipp
the Peter when hee was soe taken by the Irish man of warr aforesaid
for that because that hee
and this exáminate being taken aboard the said ffrish frigot was carried
the Hope Peter
in company of
with the said shipp to waterfore aforesaid.

Idem super Interryes ex parte ffrancisci Lodowicke
et alioru ministrat viora iuratus pred examinatus.
rendet ut sequitur.

Rp. EA

To the first, second, third and fourth Interrogatories hee referreth himselfe
to his former answere, and otherwise hee cannot answer, saying hee knoweth
not any shipp called by the name of the John of Rotterdam.
Garrets Goeman

Q John Barking or
1639
----
undecimo Julij 1643. Super lilo in hac caa dat examinatus.

Johannes Gibbon de Redriffe in Com Surria Nauta, etatis 30 annoru aut
eo circiter testis in hac ca productus et iuratus.
1
mr Part
R

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent is the same John Gibbons arlate
and that hee was in the moneth of September 1638 arlate and for about three monethes
before las master of the shipp the William arlate of London arlate, and saith the
xx
arlate William hurt was then commonly accompted lawfull owner and proprietor
of one seaventh part of the said shipp and of her tackle apparell and furniture
Et alr nescit deponere.
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Ad secundum arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam in eadem menconat et temper it
ostenss dicit et deponit that in the time arlate and when the goods schedulate were a
delivered to the use of the said shipp the arlate Thomas ffosson was common
accompted and reputed lawfull owner and proprietor of all and singular the goods
wares and merchandizes mentioned and expressed in the said schedule and for
Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in the yeares and monethes aforesaid and
particularly in the moneth of November September 1648 the said shipp the
William did want and stand in neede of diverse provisions and necessaries
for the fitting and furnishing of her for a voyage to sea upon wch shee was and
x
bound, and without which shee could not have proceeded to sea upon her said
voyage, and this deponent then master of the said shipp by the order and
consent of William Hunt and company mr Mathew Grad
and company for and in the name of the rest of the owners of the said shipp
accompted
whereof the said William Hart was one) did take up of severall men and
severall provisions and necessaries for the use of the said shipp and for the
fitting of her as aforesaid, Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam arlatam dicit et deponit that in or
about the moneth of September 1638 and within the time arlate the said
Thomas ffosson at the request of this deponent master of the said shipp
for and on the behalfe of the said owners did cause to be delivered to and for
the use of the said shipp the William all and singular the goods wares
commodities and merchandizes menconed and expressed in the said schedule
all which hee saith were put on board the said shipp, and spent, used or
imployed in and about the said shipp and for her use and fitting on, and
without the same or the lake commodities the said shipp could not hee
proceeded upon her then intended voyage. all which hee knoweth to bee true
being master of the said shipp as aforesaid, Et alr nescit deponere, saving
the said goods and merchandizes were delivered in and from the shipp and
warehouse of the said Thomas ffossen situat in St Catherins neere the
Tower of London./

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time arlate and when the said goods
and commodities were delivered, as aforesaid to and for the use of the said shipp
the William, the same were worth the severall and respective sumes and
vidence in the said schedule menconed and expressed, and for soe much they
same might then well have bin solde, for this deponent bargained and did
the price with the said ffossen before the delivery thereof at as lowes
for
rate as they were then comonly solde for ready money, and at those was
at least such goods were then commonly sold, Et alr nescit.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that in the time arlate and at the time
the delivery of the said goods and commodities to and for the use of the
shipp one mr Mathew Graddock of London merchant was part owner
of the said shipp the William and accomptant or husband for the rest of her
owners and soe comonly accompted, wch this deponent knoweth for the
reasons aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that hee beleeveth the subscripton
the said schedule in theise words (Mr Hurt is to pay this bill written by ye
1639 Mr Cr) to bee written with the proper hand of the said Mr Mate of
for her this deponent is (as hee saith well acquainted with the paid wente
of him the said Mr Craddock, and that the tall summe schedulate was one
the proporconable part of the said hurt for the setting forth of his parte
the said shipp upon the said voyage, and that soe much was due by the
hort towards his said part, which in the whole came to the sume of one
thereabouts as the by the accompt in that behalfe made appeareth hee

Ad
Sup reliquis non examinature
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116

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee cometh by the meanes and procureement of the pducent
to be a witnes in this cause, wherein hee saith hee hath noe share or interest
and that it will bee neither preiudice or benefitt to him whether mr hurt
prevaile or be verthrowne in this sute, alr negative.

Ad secundu rendet that hee well knoweth both the parties litigant, and hath
having knowne the producent about twenty yeares and Mr Hurt about tenn yeares
last past, and this deponent knoweth that the said William hurt was part
owner of the said shipp the William because hee the said Hurt with the rest
of the owners did subscribe his name to a letter desiring this rendent to
deliver upp the said shipp to Gilbert Angell, and promising to pay him what
wch was due to him upon his accompt, and accordingly upon suite in the
Channary the said hurt did pay this rendent his said share of this
his the said Harts shee being a seaventh part
rendents accompt for the said shipp, but this rendent did never see any
bill of sale made of any part of the said shipp to the said hurt, alr nescit
.
Ad tertiu xx interria rendet that hee this rendent was by the said
Mr Craddocke for himselfe and the rest of the owners consigned to the
said Thomas ffoston for the foresaid goods commodities and materialls for
the said shipp, the said ffosson having formerly served the said shipp with
the like, and this rendent received them all and knoweth that they were
all imployed upon and about the said shipp, alr negative, salvis
predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 4 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative et nescit.

Ad 5 rendet that every mans proporcon of setting out the said shipp
the William to sea upon the voyage in question came for every seaventh
part to soe much and more as is in the said schedule charged upon
the said hurt and more, and all the rest of the owners have paid
their proporcons, and saith the said materialls were delivered for
any ⁁ towards the furnishing and setting out of the whole shipp and
soe imployed, and the rest of the owners had reason to pay and have
paid their shares and parts thereof according to their proporcons, alr
nescit
but
wage of the shipp
or ye voyage
Citty of wch

John Gibbins
----
18º Julij 1648. Super allegacone et
schedula pred examinatus.

Holy et alioru pro
bin in nave le Charitie./
2 dt
A

Abrahamus Wooke parochia sancti Botolphi extra Algate London civis et ffletcher
London etatis 55 annorum aut eo circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu secundu et tertiu arlos et ad schedulam in eadem menconat et ostenss dicit et
deponit that within the time arlate and especially in or about the moneths of March and
William
Aprill and May 1645 the arlate Grand Walley Edward Johnson, Nicholas hawett
and any did by themselves or assignes lade aboard the shipp the Charitie of London
to the River of Thames neere Wapping all and singular the goods wares and
Merchandizes menconed and expressed in the said schedule (savinge those under the names
of Robert Marten and Nathaniel drunckwater which hee saith were taken in at Wilford
five rected from this port of London to Liverpoole and there to be delivered
for ther uses and accompts, and in or about the moneth of May 1648 arlate
the said shipp the Charitie together with the said goods aboard her departed from
this porte of London and afterwards went to Milford haven, and there unladed
some of her goods, which were laden aboard her for the account of some Merchants of
London and afterwards the said shipp departed from Milford and arrived and came
to an anchor about three or foure leagues off Dublin, and saith that the bay of
Dublin is in the way or course of the said shipp from the London to Liverpoole, The
premisses hee knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent went purser of the said
shipp the voyage in question, and was privie to the lading of the said goods and cooke notes
thereof and received the excise bills thereupon which hee hath nowe with him, Et alr
nescit saving the said wolley and company were and are commonly accompted and reputed
lawfull owners and proprietors of the said goo
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Ad quintu arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that the said shipp the Chartie were
shee rode at Anchor in the Bay of Dublin aforesaid was together with the said goods
sett upon surprized and taken by Captaine Page and Captaine Michell and and
companies and by the xxx carried towards Liverpoole arlate, wch hee knoweth
being then on board her when shee was soe taken. Et alr nescit.
Ad quintu nescit.

Ad 6 nescit.

Ad 7 dicit that when the said shipp was at Milford aforesaid the said arlate Peter
was there, and dwelt there as this deponent was informed, and went thence in the
said shipp, and while shee rade at Anchor in the Roade of Dublin aforesaid hee
ashore privated in the night and came aboard againe the next morning of the
deponents knowledge, Et alr nescit saving hee said hee were to enquire about
his estate./

Ad 5 dicit that the said Peter Diamond reported to the effect arlate in this depont
hearing, alr nescit.

Ad arlum dicit et deponit that the arlate Edward Clemens was not one
master of the said shipp the Charitie from Milford to Liverpoole, but hee was
to goe into another shipp at Dublin Baye, and then the said John Browne
was to goe master of the said shipp and to carry thither the said goods, the said
Clements being at London hired and contracted withall at London to that part
and not otherwise of this deponent knowledge as this deponent well orders
alled the Adventure
was
and this
in the said voyage, the said Clements being to bringe a shipp ⁁ from Dublin
for London, which his collest Mr Smith went to fetch of thence, this deponent
seeing the said Mr Smith passe in the said shipp the Charitie from Milford for
Dublin xxx to that purpose. Et alr nescit.
dicir

Ad decim or him that while the said shipp the Charitie was at Milie
aforesaid the arlate Captaine Motton laden laded two baggs of hopp in
hee to bee thence transported for Liverpoole, this deponent seeing the same a
laded. Et alr nescit.

Ad undecium dicit that all the parties arlate were and are accompted men well
affected to the Parliament alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.
Abrany use
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117

16º Junij 1648

Humphry Sheere of Cherston fferrers in the County
of Devon Merchant aged 38. yeares or therabouts sworne before
Mr Doctor Clerke one of the Judges of his Matyes highe
Court of the Admiralty sayeth & deposeth uppon his oath
That about five weekes since this examinate and Edward
ffollett of Dartmouth Merchant and Nicholas
Shepheard of Walton in the parish of Stoake Gabriell
in the County of Devon  Esquire were and still are the
sole, true and lawfull Owners of a hoy of the
burthen of about forty tonnes called the Mary of
Dartmouth, and appointed John Martyn of Dartmouth
aforesaide to saile to Wales to fetch  Culme from
thence, and therwith to returne to Dartmouth againe,
and having (as hee hath bin infomrmed by a Mesinger
sent purposely to him with letters to that effect)
taken in her lading of Culme in Wales, and
returned therewith for Dartmouth was surprized
and taken by an Irishman of Warr and from him
retaken, by the shipps in the Parliament=service
and brought to Bristoll and there now remaineth
and two of her Company taken in her were
brought in her to Bristoll with her ladeing of
Calme, And this hee affirmeth uppon his oath
to bee true:/

Humfry Shear [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
29o Junij 1648

Stephen Rose of the Citty of Canterbury in the County of
Kent gentleman aged 28 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the
Worshipfull John Exton Doctor of lawes and one of the Judges of his Maies
tyes high Court of the Admiralty sayeth and deposeth uppon his
oath That hee this examinate being a leivetennant in the shippe
called the Convertine whereof John Mann was Captaine
was sett on shoare by the Companye
of the said shippe at North Yarmouth uppon the one and Thirtieth
day of May last past or thereaboutes, And this examinate sayth that
the said shippe revolteing from the obedience of the Parliament
uppon or about the fourth day of this instant June hee this
examinate was enforced to leave behand him in the said shipp
in wollen and linnen cloathes bedding and
other goodes and Comodities belongeing to him this examinate
to the sume of fortye Three poundes and eight shillinges besides
the summe of fourteene poundes in ready money amounteing in
the Whole to the sume of fiftye seaven poundes and eight
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shillinges of lawfull money of England, which said goodes and
money are kept and detayned from him this examinate by the Compa=
nye of the said shippe and this examinate never had or receaved any
of the said goods or money againe, nor any satisfaction for
same And this hee saieth is true by vertue of his oath./

Stephen Rose [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
dicto die./

PhElipps Ludone of Mayden Bradley in the County of  [?Wiltshire]
gentleman aged Twenty yeares or therabouts sworne before the Worshipfull
John Exton doctor of lawes and one of the Judges of his Maiesties high Court
of the Admiralty sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath That hee this
examinate being of the retinue of the shippe called the [?CXXXX]
Reformation in which said shipp Collonell Rainsborowe
was Viceadmirall was by the Companye of the said shippe
the sixe and dwentieth day of May last past, put on board a [?WXXX]
Pinke bound for London, and this examinate saith that the said [?XXXX]
then revolteing from the obedience of the Parliamente hee this examinate
was enforced to leave behind him in the said shippe in cloathes, [?XXX]
linnen woollen and other Comodities to the summe or vallue of 40li
besides the summe of 20li in ready money, which said goodes and [?XXX]
did properly belonge to him this examinate And this deponent
further saith that hee never had or received any parte of the
goods againe or any satisfaction for the same, And this hee [?XXX]
meth uppon his oath to bee true/
----
dicto die/

Richard ffuller of Hethfeild in the County of Sussex yeoman aged [?XX]
yeares or thereabouts sworne before the worshipfull John Exton doctor of lawes one
of the Judges of his Majesties high Court of the Admiralty saith and deposeth
uppon his oath That hee this examinate being a servant to [?one]
Rose leiutennant in the shippe the Convertine whereof John [?XXXX]
was Captaine, was sett on shoare by the Companye of the said shippe
together with his Master at North Yarmouth upon the 31:th day of May last
past or thereabouts and this examinate sayth that the said shippe [?XXX]
[?teing] from the obedience of the Parliament upon or about the [?XXX]
day of his instant June, hee this examinate was enforced to
leave behind him in the said shippe in linnen and woollen
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118

Apparrell and bootes and other Comodities belongeing to him
this examinate to the summe of 9:li. 10.s at the least besides
the summe of 5li in ready money amounteing in all to the summe
or value of 14:li 10s of lawfull money of England, which said
goodes and money are kept and detained from him
this exte by the Companye of the said shipps and this examinate
never had or receaved any of the said goods or
money againe, nor any satisfaction for the same And this
hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true

Richard ffisher [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
ultimo die, Junij 1648

Wood contra centum tonnellos ligni)
[?Richi] [?XX] contra ffutter, Ireland et al)

[?XXXX] .1.

Super allegacone arlate ex parte wood 24º Junij
instantis dat, examinatus.

Jacobus Sammis de Dartmouth in Comitatu Devon Nauta, aetatis 30 annoru aut
eo circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the
River of Cerbero in Ginney arlate for twelve monethes and upwards
during wch time hee hath lived in those parts, and saith it is a River of longe
and large extent, and that some parts or streames thereof were and are
commonly called and knowne by the names of kiddam, Maray and Melyn
and all the said River, and the parts and streames thereof have bin for all
the time aforesaid and are under the power and command and in the possession
of certaine Negroes and heathens, whoe (as hee hath heard) have not at
any time bin in league or amitie or had freedome of trade and commence
with any Prince or state in Eucope, and
particularly not with our kinge of England,
Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad secundu dicit that the said Negroes by all such time as this deponent
hath lived there, the said Negroes have sold and disposed of the said Rivers
and streames, and lands thereabouts and under their dominion, and have
suffered and prohabited trade or commence therein at their pleasure salvis subscripts Et
alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit that for the said twelve monethes, and (as hee hath he bin in those
parts credibly informed for at least theise twenty yeares last past the
arlate John Wood by and with a the leave and approbacon of the kinge or
Commannder of the said Negroes and consent of the said Negroes, natives of
that countrey, hath bin and is admitted and allowed by himselfe, his factors
agents or servants to trade, traffique and commerce in that countrey and
in the Rivers thereof, and hee hath used that trade accordingly, and noe
other of the Britesh Nation except those & imployed by or on his
behalfe or such as have bin in partnershipp with him, have bin admitted
or suffered to trade in the said River and parts aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the Negro
that his Commander and Captaine of the places arlate, but knoweth not his
name, and saith hee is called the kinge of those parts, and that about
a twelve moneth since ended in or about March last the said Kinge (as this deponent was
credibly informed) did sell and transferr his right title and interest therein
for
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for matter of trade and traffique to the said James holder the factor of the
said John Wood to and for his the said woods use, with full power of the
hindering and forbidding of trade there to others as hee the said know
might have donne or doe, and hee saith that when complaint was made
by Mr holder unto him the said Kinge of the interlying and mading of the said
and company
Captaine Ireland into his places of trade, the said Kinge in this deponents
Twas
presence and hearing at Towers port in middam speaking by an Interpreter
avouched and acknowledged that hee had sold the said river and places to be
said holder and the trade and traffique there, and said that hee alone in
and commanded that or Ireland and his men should be driven from thence
have it and this deponent sawe some of the goods delivered in clothes, but
and stronge waters and other goods which to were for 8 part of payment
the kinge aforesaid for the said Mr Holders purchase of the said privie
and trade. Et alr nescit.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said John James Holder for
the time that this deponent lived there as aforesaid, and (as hee hath heard
for theise fourteene yeares last past and more and untill the time of her
death, (wch was as hee hath heard in ffebruary last) was servant and for
tyme
of and for the said Mr Wood, whoe for all the said the hath had a factory
there setted, and for the said two yeares of this deponents knowledge hath
there
kept and maintained factors and servants (this deponent being for that time
bin
one of his said servants) and of late a preaching minister, and was in and
and peaceable possession of all the premisses. Et alr nescit.
most part of the

Ad 6 arlum dicit et deponit that the Redward arlate ⁁ was and is the Native and
of the parts and places arlate vizt of that part of Ginney in Africa of
lieth upon or within the River and streames aforesaid, vizt Carbero and
the Rivers or streames of hiddam Mary and Melyn belonging to the said Mr
wood, and where hee alone and such as are in his imployment and by him
followed, maye of trade & traffique, Et alr nescit, this deponent saving
two shallops lade thereof brought downe from Laddam. Et alr nescit

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad 8 nescit.

Ad 9 nescit.

Ad 10 nescit rendet dicit that hee hath heard to the effect xxx arlate six
cannot say any thinge thereof of his owne knowledge, for smuch as hee cometh
away from those parts on or about the 16th day of ffebruary last past, or
was before the said orneltie was comitted as hee hath heard./

Ad 11 nescit nec audivit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Idem Jacobus Skamis super allegacone arlate ex parte
wood 29 June pred dat examinatus.

Ad primu nescit, for hee was gone from those parts before the time and
the Roade of Gerally

Ad 2 nescit.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that before the coming of the said shipp the bee
of the Pinnace the George
of London

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the end of Ober
past there were some men sent in a Pinnace called the lesse and
Captaine Holland and company) wch came into the River of the
where the factory of the said Jon wood is sailed, this deponent beinge
in which came but one Mr Mereton factor for the said Ireland and companye
came to Towas port a place where one of the factors and of the said
wood named not keyes and to others the said Mr woods servants did soe
reside, and did there indeavour to get redeed of this deponent to the
but when the complaint of the said Mr holder to the king, as hee
downe and discharged them from trading there, and soe being were 
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119

and hindred by the said Mr Holder from buying of any read wood of the Negroes
being told and made acquainted that the Redwood there was the proper goods of
the said John wood, they retourned to their the Pinnace then lying downe further
in the River. Et alr nescit.

Ad secundu nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that before the coming of the said Pinnace
as hee hath heard
the said James Holder and servants of the said Mr Wood had bin ⁁ by diverse yeares
and monethes in quiet and peaceable possession of all and singular the redd
wood in those parts to the use of the said John Wood, and soe hee
(to this day
beleeveth they might have continewed if the said Pinnace and parties
had not come thither. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4 nescit.

Ad 5 arlum dicit et deponit that the place where the said Mr woods factors and
servants resided, and where they were (as hee hath heard) some of them killd
and others beaten and abused is 70 miles or thereabouts up in the countrey
from that part of the River to which shipps can corne up, wch is to
Limberman, alr nescit.

Ad 6 et 7 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera./

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee beleeveth the controversie interrogate doth arise about

the trade in Ginney, and more especially about the trade for Redwood in the Rivers
of Carbero, Kiddam and places thereabouts, and the said mr wood doth endeavor
to appropriate the trade in those parts and places solely to himselfe and such
as are imployed and allowed by him, and to hinder the other parties interrogate
from trading and buying redd wood there. Et alr nescit.

Ad secundum refert se ad predepoita and saith the said Negroes and heathens cannot
write or reade, alr nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that the factors and servants of the said mr wood endeavoured to
hinder the factors and servants of the said ffutter and Company from trading
there, aliter negative.

Ad 8 rendet quod nescit.

Ad 9 nescit.

Ad 10 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 11u nescit.

Ad ult rendet that hee hath bin imployed by the said mr wood in the Ginney
trade, aliter negative.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone ministratis.

James Sameis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

2

Richardus Contin de Limehouse parochia de Stepney in Com Midd
Nauta, etatis 40 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa pductus
et juratus.

2
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath knowne the
River Corbero in the parts of Ginney arlate for theise thirteene yeares last
past or thereabouts having used that voyage from this port of London for
soe longe time, and saith the same is a river of longe and baggs extent,
some parts or streames whereof are commonly knowne by the names of
Lilliam, Mary and Melyn, and saith that all the said xx River and the
parts and streames thereof have bin for all the said time and are under the
power
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power and Command and in the possession of certaine Negroe and heathens
whoe have not had not have any league or amitie touching freedome of trade
and commerce with any Prince or State of Europe, and in particular
with his majestie of greate Brittanie, and this hee saith is commonly said and hee
spoken of in these parts. Et alr nescit.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that the said Negroes have by all the time aforesaid
disposed of and solde the said River and streames and places and lands arlate
and suffered or prohibited trade and commence therein when and to whom they
pleased untill they had solde the same to mr Wood as hereafter is menconed
which hee knoweth having used those parts for theise thirteene yeeres last
past. Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that for the said thirteene yeares last past
the arlate mr wood and Company by himselfe his agents, factors and servants by and
with the leave and license of the Kinge or Commander in cheife for the time
being of those places and parts and approbacon and consent of the Negroes there
inhabiting, Natives of the countrey was and is admitted and allowed to
trade, traffique and use commerce in that countrey and in the Rivers thereof
and soe by all the said time the said John Wood
hath had trade and traffique there, and noe other of the
English or British nation except those that have bin imployed by
or on the behalfe of the said John Wood or in partnershipp with him have
bin admitted or licensed to trade in the said river or parts adiacent, reddens
raconem scientia sua ut supra.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee the arlate Towa a Negroe was
for the time arlate as this deponent hath heard Captaine and Commannder
of the Streames of Kiddam Marey and Melyn and of the River [?Cerbero]
thereabouts and countrey or parts adiacent, and had the Commannd and
disposall of all the Red wood, Elephants teeth and others merchandizes
therein, and was in full possession thereof, and being soe in possession thereof
hee sold and transferred all his right thereto to the arlate James
Holder factor of the said John Wood to and for his the said mr woods use
together withall power of trade traffique and commerce there, and
letting or hindering of trade and traffique there to others, as hee the said
Towa might have or doe, and this hee saith was and is commonly
said, reported and spoken of in those parts and places. Et alr nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the time aforesaid
that this deponent hath as before used those parts the said James Holder
was the factor agent and servant of and for the said Mr Wood and Company, and the
said mr wood and Company for all the said time have had a factory there settled
kept and maintained factors and servants there, and of late the said
mr wood hath had and keepeth a preaching minister there, whom this
deponent carried over in the shipp the James of London, whereof this deponent
was and is master, and for all the said time untill the interrupcon
and by Captaine Ireland and company the voyage in [?question]
they the said mr wood and Company have bin in quiet and peaceable
possession of all and singular the premisses, this deponent seeing
them from time to time as hee came there, in such quiet possession
freedome of trade in these parts and places. Et alr nescit.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that the most part of the Redd wood in
this cause controverted, brought home in the said shipp the Releife was and is
the Native Commoditie of that part of Ginney in Africa which [?XXX]
upon or within the rivers and streames aforesaid of Keddam Maray and Melyn
and places thereabouts belonging to the said Mr Wood, and where hee the said
mr wood and Company have alone traded for soe longe time as before
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which hee knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent xxx lying then with
the said shipp the James at Limberman did in the monethes of January
and ffebruary last past soe foure shallopps loading of the same amounting
twelve
d
to six or seaven tonnes or thereabouts brought downe out the river of
Carvero from the of the said mr word by the agents and factors
or servants of the said Captaine Ireland and company and sawe the
same putt ashore at Limberman against the coming of the said Mr
wth the shipp the Releife
Ireland. Et alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that quod refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 8 arlum nescit.

Ad 9 nescit.

Ad 10 arlum dicit et deponit that while this deponent remained as before with the
said shipp in the James xx the River of Lumberman aforesaid, vizt about the
beginning of the moneth of ffebruary last past & George ffranck and
John Crofford masters of two of Mr Irelands shallopps being aboard this deponents
said shipp and speaking of their trade in those part, that the xxx meanning
one Richard Clowde master of one of Mr woods pinnaces going ashore xxxxx
and having bin in company of the George ffrancke and John Crofford masters
of two of Mr Irelands shallopps, came aboard this deponents said shipp with
his head all broken and bloody, wch hee said was donne by the said George
ffrancke and Et alr nescit deponere, for hee was come away before
the said shipp the Releife arrived there the voyage in question is instant
this instant
Ad 1u arlum dicit et deponit that on or about the fifteenth day of the moneth
of June, this deponent meeting the arlate Captaine Ireland upon the
Exchange shortly after his arrivall hither from the voyage in question
and sking him sayeing howe doe all our friends in Clerker, the said
Ireland answered, saying, mr holder and Jare good friends nowe and
this deponent saying hee was glad to heare of it, the said Ireland
replied yes wee are nowe good friends, for the Negroes have knowe
him (meanning him the said holder) wth head, and John Charles with
him (meanning a younge man, a drunner belonging to mr wood) and that
the Negroes had taken away their goods, and either had trackt dick
Clowed (meanning the said Richard Clowed oth head, or would knock him
on the head, xx or hee the said Ireland then used words to the same
effect. Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

29 Juning instantes dat

Super altera allegacone

Ad primu arlum refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that before the coming of the said
shipp the Releife in her last voyage into the River of Carbero, there
were some men that arrived there in a shallop from Geralyon in the
went to the
to in the River of Cerber aforesaid and places where the factory of
as hee beleeveth
the said Mr wood was settled, and aboute endeavoured to xx incense
the Negroes against the said Mr Holder and the rest of Mr Woods servants
from them
to the end to gett away theired wood ⁁ and insimated with the said Negroes
to that purpose for hee saith that about the beginning of ffebruary
twoe of the said mean, was
last past George ffranck and John Crofford masters of twoe of
& Companies
Mr Irelands allons xx and seeing aboard this deponents said shipp
the said ffrancks
at timberman aforesaid and ⁁ petiting of the trade in those ports
said that mr holder had wranged the countrey and kept them as his
saves in making them take what goods hee pleased for their redd wood,
and that the Negroes had bidden him the said holder) to goe out
of the countrey, and for Thomas Jenne (speaking of Thames
ten not his contest noe was factor to there for Mr good under Mr
it meanes the factors or serveing of Mr Ireland and Company
any
holder) they ⁁ could have him dicke off the barck when they pleased
Et alr nescit deponere.
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Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that before the said parties came in
those parts, the said James houlder and other the factors and servant of
of the said Mr wood had bin for diverse yeares in quiet and peaceable
possession of all and singular the Redwood in these parts to the s
and company
of the said Mr wood for the trade and commoditie thereof, and had
as hee beleeveth bin still in quiet possession thereof, if the said ports
had not come thither. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4 nescit, saying hee was come away before

Ad 5 dicit that the place where it is said the said mr holder and the
runner were slaine, and other of mr woods servant beaten and abused
is about 50 miles up in the Countrey from that porte of the River
where shipps can come neerest up, Et alr nescit.

Ad 6 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad ult refert se ad predepoita, alr nesci dicit predepoita sua eo ve

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee beleeveth the cause of this controverse belong
the parties interrogate doth arrise about the trade in Ginney, and noe
especially about the trade for redd wood in the Rivers and places interr
and beleeveth the said Mr Wood doth endeavour to appropriete the
trade in and about the places aforesaid solely to himselfe and such as and
imployed and allowed by him, and to hinder the said Mr ffutter, nor
Ireland and Company from trading in redd wood there, Et alr nescit

Ad 2 rendet that the Inhabitants of the places aforesaid are Negroes and
heathens, and such whoe cannot to or reade, alr nescit.

Ad 3 negative et nescit.

Ad 6 nescit.

Ad 9 nescit nec audivit.

Ad 10 nescit.

Ad 11u nescit.

Ad 12 rendet that hee hath bin imployed to goe out in the imployment of her
wood in the Ginney trade, alr negative.
Super reliquis non interrogatur ex direccone partis ministrantis.

Richard Howlings
----
Eadem die.

Super allegacone predca 24 Juis pred dat examinatus.


3us

Thomas Pemmer moram facious in Burgo de Southwarke in Et
Olaves streete, annos agens 26 aut eo circiter, testis in hac causa
productus et juratus

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that for theise there was and is
in the parts of Ginney upon the Coast of Africa a certaine dive
of longe and large extent called Carvero, some parts and streames of
river hee saith were and are commonly called and knowne by the noe
of Livedam Mary and Melyn, and all the said River and parte
streames thereof have bin and are under the power, command and
the possession of certaine Negroes, heathens, whoe have not alr
make, hold or keepe any league, or amitie or bin in freedome of the
the kinge of England or
and commence with any Prince or State of knoe, and this hee saith
and is publique and notorious, the premisses hee knoweth, have to
twelve yeares last past and better ended in about the moneth xx
1
last past lived in these parts. Et alr nescit.
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121

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that the said Negroes have by and for all
twelve
the said thirteene yeares given disposed of the said River and streames, and of
all other their rivers, streames and lands and have suffered and prohibited
Johis subscript and age words trade and commerce therein to whom they
pleased and have thought fitt. Et alr nescit salvis subscriptis
and Company

Ad tertiu arlum that the arlate Mr Wood by the space of the said twelve
yeares by and with the leave consent and approbacon of the said Negroes
their Kinge or Commander in cheife of other the natives of that countrey,
was and is admitted and allowed by themselves, their factors agents servant
and assignes to trade traffique and commence in that countrey and in the
divers thereof, and soe by all or a great part of the time aforesaid
to
the said wort wood and Company have used trade and traffique there, and
noe other of the British nation, except such bin as have bin imployed
by or in partnershipp with him the said master wood, have bin admitted
or suffered.
or licensed to traffique in the said river and parts, The premisses hee
and Companies
knoweth having bin Mr woods servant there for all the said time. Et
alr nescit.

Ad quartum arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the articulate
Towe a negree, and saith hee was for all the time arlate Captaine, master
about
Commander and owner of the said river of Carbaro and of the
Rivers and streames of beddam mary and Melyn aforesaid and
of all the lands arlate and of all the Redwood, and oth elephants
and alsoe of the said Greame
teeth and other Merchandizes therein, and was in full and quier
possession thereof and was called and accompted kinge of those places, and
for owner and commander thereof hee was for all the time arlate
commonly accompted and reputed by and amongst the said Negroes,
Natives and Inhabitants of the places aforesaid, And hee saith that
did
the said Towe being soe in possession thereof, that sell and transferr
and make over all his right title and interest and to the trade
under his common
and traffique in and about those rivers and places ⁁ to the arlate
James holder the factor of the said Mr Wood to and for his the
said Mr woods use, with power to dispose of all the trade and
traffique there and to hinder and forbidd trade and traffique there
by all others as fully as hee himselfe might doe, wch this deponent
knoweth to bee true because hee hath heard some principall persons
belonging to the said Kinge Towa acknowledge and declare the same
part of the
acknowledge
and to their receipt of the goods given by the said Mr Holder
upon and in performance of the said pichase, and hath seene and
heard read over the writings made betweene the said Tava and Mr
holder thereupon, purporting the effect predeposed. Et alr
nescit deponere, saving Captaine John Blake, Wood Seames, and
George hey were witnesses to the said writing, and this deponent
sawe and knewe their hands thereat. Et alr nescit.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that for the said twelve yeares the
said James holder hath bin the factor and servant of and for the said
Mr wood and company, whoe for all the said time have had a ffactory
were
there settled and kept and maintained factors and servants, and lately
a preaching minister there, and have bin for all the said time of this
sole
deponents knowledge in full quiet and peaceable possession of all the said
trade traffique and commence as of their owne proper rights and
goods, saving the interrpon lately made the voyage in question by
Captaine Ireland and Company. Et alr nescit deponere, saving hee
knoweth the prmisses to bee true, because hee having bin for all the said
time a servant unto and imployed by the said Mr wood and his assignes
in these places and parts./

Ad
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Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that the most part of the redd and
controverse was and is the native Commoditie of that part of
Ginney in Africa wch lieth upon or within the rivers and streames
her
aforesaid, vizt the River of Cerlero and the rivers and streemeth
arlate and of the land and places belonging to the said Mr wood
aforesaid, and where hee alone and such as have bin and are imployed
by him his partners factors, or servants agents and by them alloe
have used to trade traffique and commence, and none other or others
this deponent seeing two shallopps lande thereof the said wch
came from those parts and places aforesaid, and was landed at Lime
there to lie till the coming of Captaine Ireland with the Releife
to take in the same, and some more thereof of the said send wood the
this deponent sawe there ashore before the coming downe of the said
to beates loade, but the quantitie or number of tonnes thereof
hee knoweth not, Et alr nescit./
salvis predepoits

Ad 7 nescit, for this deponent was come away before the arrivall there
of the said shipp the Releife.

Ad 8 nescit, salvis predepoits.

Ad 9 nescit.

Ad 10 refert se ad predepoita alr nescit, for hee was corne away as afore

Ad 11 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Super allegacone pred 21 uj dat examinatus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that about a moneth or six weekes
before the shipp the Releife in her last voyage in controversoe came
into the River of Carbero, there were certaine men sent in a Pinne
who
by and from the said Captaine Ireland and company, wch arrived in
the said river and went into the River and streames of Midd, being
and was aforesaid and places where the factory of the said Mr was
as settled, this deponent seeing Mr Marriton the said Ireland and
Companies factor and George ffrancke and John Browne theire said
and others of their company there that came in the said Pinnace and
this deponent sawe the said Meriton at xxxxx accompanied of
two or three other Englishmen at Sangra were xxt above and
place and neere another where the factors and servants of the said
Mr wood dwelt and resided, vizt betweene the said residing the
said
2
his
her goods
of factory and of the said Mr Wood, and hee
an
&
one John Crofford this (being alsoe of their company
said John Browne hee sawe at other places, all within the parts
aforesaid
places aforesaid and within the factor ⁁ of the said Mr Wood and
neere unto the places where the said Mr woods factors and servant
lived and resided, and did endeavour to gett read wood, but were
of oppressed, and hindred at the first from buying of any Et
Negroes by the said Mr Holder and other of the said mr Woods beste
without mr ffolders com
and denied by the said Towe the Kinge to have any trade there
alr nescit.
Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that the said persons or and of
soe sent and imployed by the said Ireland and Company did end
insinate with the Negroes to gett away redd wood xxx the sd
woods for this deponent hath heard diverse of the Negroes say the
the said Norton and others of his company did, roffer and give the
or belonged
more for their redd wood then they of the said Mr wood did a
used to doe, and insomuch that afterwards the said Mr woods for
and servants could not have their owne commoditie of well
of the Negroes but at greate and extraordinary rates of this deponts
knowledge. Et alr nescit.
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122

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the said time of this
deponents dwelling there as aforesaid before and untill the said persons
imployed by the said Ireland and Company came into those parts the said
James holder and other the factors and servants of the said Mr wood
had bin in quiet and peaceable possession of all and singular the
trade of Redwood in those parts to and for the use of the said
nor wood and company, and as hee verily beleeveth, they might
sd
have bin and had bin and continewed in quiet and peaceable possession
thereof, if the said persons had not come thither. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4 nescit, being come away before the said outrage was comitted

Ad 5 arlum deponit that the place where it is said the said Mr woods
servants were assanted and some of them staine, was and is about
be miles up in the countrey from that port of the River where
to wch shipps can come upp. Et alr nescit.

Ad 6 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 7 nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee beleeveth this controverse betweene the
said Mr wood and the other persons and parties interrogated in this sute
doth arise about the trade in Ginney, for Redwood in the Rivers of
place
Cerbero hiddam and thereabouts, and that the said mr Wood doth
endeavour to appropriete the trade of in and about the said places to
himselfe alone and such as are of his partnershipp and imployed and
allowed by him, and to hinder the said Mr ffutter, Mr Ireland and
Company from trading and buying any read wood in and about the
places aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad secundu refert se ad predepoita, and saith the said Negroes cannot
write or ridid reade, alr negative.

Ad tertiu interrium rendet that the factors and servants of the said
Mr wood did endeavour to hinder the factors and servants of the said
mr ffutter, Mr Ireland and company from trading there, as they ought
there
to doe as hee to conceiveth, the trade ⁁ belonging to their said Mr Mr wood
alr nescit.

Ad 8uj nes nescit.

Ad 9. 10. et 11u nescit.

Ad ult rendet that hee hath bin imployed by nor wood in the Ginney trade,
alr negative et nescit

Thomas Jennett
----
Primo Julij 1648, Super alle pred 24 Junij dat examinatus.

Michael Woodrock parochia betta Maria Matsellon als Whitechappell
in Com Midd Nauta, annos agens 36 aut eo circiter testis in hac
call productus et juratus.
Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne
R.
and bin acquainted in the ports of Ginney arlate for theise fourteene yeares
last past or thereabouts, and saith there hath bin and is in those parts
certaine River of longe and large extent called Cerber, some parts
and streames whereof were and are commonly called and knowne by
the names of Liddon Mary and Melyn, and saith that all the said
River and the parts and streames thereof by all the time aforesaid
have
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and in the possession
have bin and are under the power and command of certaine Negroes, but
whoe have not bin nor action league or amitie for freedome of and and and
with any prince or State of kippe, and in particular not with his or
of England, and this hee saith was and is true and notorious, The premisses
hee knoweth to bee true, having used those parte ffor all the said time and
alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that by and for all the said time the said
Negroes have disposed of the trade and libertie of commence in and abord
the said River and streames and when and to whom they pleased and hee
thought fitt. Et alr nescit

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that the said John Wood and Company for all
said fourteene yeares of this deponents knowledge by have by and with the
leave and approbacon of the said Negroes their Kinge or Commander
Cheife and consent of the Natives of that countrey bin admitted and all
and are suffered and allowed to trade and traffique by themselves, their
factors agents and servants in the said River of Carbero, and places and to
aforesaid of Liddam, Mary and Metyn and of Boone and places therefor
a brauch alsoe of the said River of Cerbord, and accordingly they have
had free trade and traffique there for all the said time, and none others
have traded there either of the Brith nation, but such as have bin
imployed by or on the behalfe of the said John wood, or in partnershipp
with him, or bin suffered to trade there for all the time aforesaid. At
wch hee knoweth to bee true having bin imployed in those ports by and
on the behalfe of the said Mr Wood and Company for all that time of
alr nescit deponere.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate and
and saith hee hath bin for all the time arlate and is Kinge and Command
of the River of Carbero about Liddam Mary, and Melyn, and of the said
reames and places of Middam Mary and Matyn and of the lands and
and people there inhabiting, and Commander and disposer of the trade
of for Lodward Way to fetch and other. a commodities.
traffique in those places, and in quiet possession of all the premisses
alr nescit deponere, saving hee hath heard both the said Mr Holder and a
same that the said Tona had salved him the places and parts and tradeing
as is arlate

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that for the said fourteene yeares the said
arlate James holder (whom this deponent hath well knowne for all the
time) hath bin the factor of and for the said Mr wood and Company
in those parts, and the said Mr Wood and Company for all the said
have had a ffactory there settled and have there kept and mainter
factors servants and have nowe a preaching Minister there, and his
bin for all the said time in quiet and peaceable possession of all
singular the premisses and of the trade and traffique there, untill this lest
voyage of the said Captaine Ireland nowe in question.
Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that part of the Redwed in his cost
proverted was and is the Native Comoditie of that part of his
Africa wch lieth upon and within the Rivers and streames of Lildam
Mary and Melin and that is under the command of the said To
of the River at Boon aforesaid by all belonging to the factor and hee
being places of trade of the said Mr Wood and Company, and where
have bin and
alone the said Mr wood and Company and such as are by compted
and none of
and allowed have used for all the said fourteene yeares to trade and but
this deponent seeing foure shallopps lade thereof, amounting to bee
twelve tonnes of Redwed brought downe the said River of Carte
a
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123

from these parts by the servants of and such as were imployed by the said
namely by in Crabord and George ffranck
Captaine Reland and Company or their factors and brought to timberman
there to attend the cominge of the said shipp the Reliffe, which was then at
Saralion it being in or about the moneth of January last past that hee
sawe the same soe brought thither. Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad septium arlum refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 8 nescit.

Ad 9 nescit.

Ad 10 arlum dicit et deponit that the while this deponent he was and abode
with the shipp the James (whereof was master his contest Richard Houten)
at Limberman aforesaid in service of the said wood, vizt within the time
arlate one of their company named Richard Clowde having bin ashore and
as hee said in the company of the said Crofford and ffranck, was soe came
aboard sorely beaten and his head broken and the blood runninge about
downe being wounded in two or three places in the head, and hee said
the same was donne by the said Crofford and ffranck, Et alr nescit.
for hee this deponent was corne away from Limberman thence before the
arrivall there of the said shipp the Releife

Ad undecium arlum dicit et deponit that in above hee hath heard the
said George Ireland diverse times before his departure from the porte
of London on the voyage nowe in question saye and affirme that hee intended
to goe to Carbero, where mr woods factory is, because (as hee said) the
Dob Golder (speaking of and meanning the foresaid James Holder) should
knowe, that another could doe asmuch there as hee, and other words
at distaste this deponent hath heard the said Ireland utter and speake of
and against the said James holder before the said voyage, and (which hee
doth not nowe remember) and wish that hee were at home that hee
the said Ireland might have his will of him, and then ⁁ hee would have
satisfaction of him for the wrongs hee had donne at him, or wordes
to that effect, Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu eo vera.

Super Int allegacone 29o Junij dat examinatus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that shortly before such time as hee hath
understood that the said shipp the Releife in this her last voyage nowe
in controverse came into the River of Cabber, there were certaine men
ne
a
amongest whom was the said ffrancks and John Browne and mr Meriton
sent out in a Pinnace by the said Ireland and Company into the said
those men aforenamed hee shipp went
River of Carbero, and came upp to the other places and streames arlate
are
this deponent seeing their arrive there with the said Prinnace in her
about the moneth of November last past, and Et alr nescit, salvis
predepoits, ad qua se refert.

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that hee heard the said ffranck both on board
and ashore at Limberman aforesaid speaking of the said Mr Holder say,
negroes
that hee had wronged the countrey, in not giving them soe much as was
fitt for their Redwood, and that nowe they sawe that they were abused
by him, and that if they (speaking of and meanning himselfe and those
that were there there imployed by the said ffutter, Ireland and
Company) would but speake the word, they could have him beck
off the place where hee was when they pleased, or to that effect
wch wordes hee uttered about in or about the moneth of ffebruary
shorts
last past in this deponents hearing, and ⁁ before the cominge there
of the said shipp the Releife, and after hee the said ffranck had bin
up in the commoney about Middon and those other places where the
factory
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factory of the said Mr wood was and is settled, and Et alr nescit depon

Ad 3 arlum dicit et deponit that before the said persons came into those and
the said James Horder and other the factors and servants of the said
John word had bin for all the time of this deponents being these one
as afore in haires and peaceable possession of the trade of all and a
singular the Redwood in those parts to the use of the said John Made
and soe hee beleeveth they had continued to this xxx day if the said
persons had not come thither. Et alr nescit.

Ad 4 nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 5 arlum dicit et deponit that the place interr was and is by made
and more up in the countrey from that porte of the River whether
shipps can come up, and the Et alr nescit.

Ad 6 nescit salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

Ad 7 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee beleeveth this controversie betweene the said
Mr wood and the said Mr ffutter and Mr Ireland and company dothing
about the trade in Ginney for Redwood in the Rivers of Corber
Middam and places thereabouts, and that the said Mr wood doth and
to approymate the trade in and about the places aforesaid solely
himselfe and such as are imployed and allowed by him, and to have
the said futter and company from trading or buying any redd was hee
Et alr nescit.

Ad 2 rendet quod refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 3 nescit salvis predepoits.

Ad 4 rendet that in the yeare arlate hee went forth master and factor
of the shipp Salmon in the service and imployment of the ship and
ffutter, Cooper, Cast and Ireland, when hee saith ordered him by
into the River of Geration to trade and bry goods for them, and the
into the River
and a Pinnace which went out with him at Carvero, there to traffiq
8
and bay wood or other commodities for them, and saith hee mett with
interr mr holder at Garalion, whoe there alr negative.

Ad 5 negative.

Ad 6 rendet that the said Pinnace being lost by the way and not
to him till two monethes or thereabouts after his arrivall at Sera
put him by his designe, that hee could not and soe did not goe
the river Corber the trade being over, hee being ordered not to
from Seralion with the shipp till the trade was donne at their
at Berater) and saith hee came home dead freight, and
was since imployed by mr wood to Ginney, this last voyage with
the shipp the James, and thincketh and beleeveth hee shall shee
one forth againe in the imployment of the said mr wood to Ginney
master of a shipp, alr nescit.

Ad 7 rendet that the time when hee was imployed by the said ffactors
company aforesaid hee had order to demeane himselfe faireth
towards the factors and servants of the said Mr Wood in those partes
and that if they offered to abuse him, to come away, alr nescit.

Ad 8 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad quescit, saving hee heard nor order aboard the James aforesaid, all being
complaimes of Sope disgrarefull words used against him by the said ffranck, and lade the

Ad 10 nescit and goe ashore and aske him the reason thereof, and this

Ad 5 nescit. him no satisfaction, to give him, a cutt on the arr of the
Ad 12 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad primu Interr 2º loco mistrat rendet negative
de
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124

duodecimo Julij 1648.

Super allegacone predca ex parte Hawkins dat
examinatus.

Robertus Ellis de Ratcliffe in Com Midd Nauta, etatis 40 annoru aut eo
circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.

the
1
6
Rp.

Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that about twelve
yeares since hee this deponent was at Trimazine in Barbary and at Butter
in the shipp the William of London whereof was master Abraham Stephens
and that Button is about foure leagues distant from Alberine arlate on the
in the
same coast, Att wch places of Butty and Trimazine and countrey thereabouts
the Inhabitants and Governours are as hee saith for the greatest part of them
Moores, Josidells and heathers, and a barbarous people, and such Christians
as goe to trade with them doe usually imploy some moore or Jewe to goe
betweene them and the Inhabitants and Governours aforesaid about getting them
trade, and contracting and obtaining commodities for them, hee being a Moore
and a dweller there that the said Abraham Stephens imployed to that purpose
the time aforesaid. Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad 3 arlum nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that the time aforesaid when this deponent
was at the places aforesaid their said master after they had att libertie to
trade required and had hostages on board from the Maries for his securitie
of his men that had occasion to goe on shore, Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that the time aforesaid when this deponent
was at the foresaid places, as often as they had occasion to send their men
on shore for wood and water for their necessary use (which hee saith was diverse
times) they sent two boates one whereof was to bringe their said necessaries
and the other was armed with men and pikes and musketts and swords and
such like weapons for the defense of their fellowes, least they should bee
surprized by the Mares, and soe if they went ashore they went armed
as aforesaid, this deponent being one of the company that hath gonne in the
manner aforesaid, and this hee saith hath bin the they did though they
had hastage aboard as aforesaid, and although they had contracted for trade
and were in trading with the said Moores, Et alr dicit quod nescit depone.
Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis producents.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu respondet negative.

Ad secundu rendet that hee hath not bin at the places aforesaid at any time
lading the time predeposed, and was never at Alborne interr, quoad
contera refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit

Ad 3 rendet that hee hath heard that it is an ordinary and ease thinge for
Masters of shipps to obtaine leave from the cheife Governours in the
places and parts interr to trade and traffique with them, and that the
said Governours doe as ordinarily and easily give such leane, they offering
trade to the said Abraham Stephens the time aforesaid, Et alr nescit.
salvis predepoits ad qua se refert

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone partis ministratis.
Robert this
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13o Julij 1648.

Querela Abrahamis de Veischer)
quoad bona in nave the)
Saintt Jacob et cetera)

Budd. dt.

Petrus Rowe als super allegacone arlata ex parte de
Vischer et alr examinat, et [?jam] super Interrys ex parte
adversa [?ministrat] examinatus.

Ad primu rendet that in the or about the moneth of January last past the rendent
being imployed by the interrogate Abraham de Veisher and other merchants was by
vertue of a Commission of Enquirie out of this Court for looking after the goods
that were taken by severall persons in the County of Essex out of
the shipp the Saint Jacob of Dantsike, the said de Veisher gave this rendent

order to looke after 216 plates, which were consigned unto him from one
Sarrariere, and wch were all the goods that hee the said de Veischer claimed
in the said shipp, and there was not any merchant or other person that claimed
any plates but only the said de Veisher; besides hee saith that
the master of the said shipp the acknowledged to this rendent that there were not
copper plates but only the 216 aforesaid laden aboard the said shipp the
voyage in question, Moreover there was a bill of lading delivered unto
him this rendent at the time aforesaid wherein there were two
hundred and sixteene copper places consigned unto the said Abraham de
Veischer, unto the which bill of lading, hee saith the name of the said
master (Jacob Lawrence) was subscribed; And for theise reasons this
respondent conceiveth and verily beleeveth that the said copper plates
controverted were laden for the accompt and did properly belonge unto
him the said Abraham de Veischer, Et alr rendet negative.

Ad secundu Interrium rendet that the master and all or most of the company
of the said shipp the Saint Jacob after shee was stranded came safe and
alive on shore, this rendent seeing and speaking with most of them
at Wivenhoe in Essex in or about the moneth of January last past and
after the said shipp was soe stranded: And saith hee did not then heare
of any of the said company that were cast away, Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu rendet that the Copper plates in this cause controverted at the
time when this rendent was imployed upon the said Commission as aforesaid
were marked, and for the reasons in this rendents answer to the first Interrogatory
hee beleeveth them to bee the same that were laden aboard the Saint
Jacob for the said de Veischers accompt, Et alr nescit salvis pred
suisad qua se refert.

Ad ult rendet quod nescit nec audivit.

Pr: Rowe/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
----
14º Julij 1648

Dickens et alij vontra Hawkins)

Rp. EA. 3.us

Super allegacone predca ex parte dickons et al
dat examinat./

Johannes Banner de civitats [?RuffXX] Nauta, annos agens 30 aut
eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et juratus.

Ad primu et secundum arlos dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this
deponent hath bin thrice at Albozine within theise two yeares by
past in the shipp the Caesar of London whereof Captaine [?Vincent]
was Commannder and whereof this deponent was master, and at both
of those times hee saith that they had free trade and traffique with the Moores
and Inhabitants there, and had such freedome and libertie there, that hee
saith at the first of those two times this deponent and the said Captaine
Harris and their merchant (Mr Gabriel Hill of Bristoll) went ashore at
Albozine and went about a mile or two into the countrey a birding and
returned freely and quietly aboard againe without any interrupcon from the
Moores, although they had not then contracted for trade nor had any
(hostages
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125

hostages from the Moores on board, and this hee saith some of them did
diverse times, not withstanding that they mett with sundry Moores, whoe
hee saith offered them noe violence at all, And hee saith that at both
the times aforesaid wherein they obtained leave there to trade, after
they had gotten such leave their company went hee saith frequently ashore
there to fetch their lading of corne aboard and to fetch wood and water
for the shipps use, and from to time to time hee saith they went
unarmed and without any weapons, and retourned safe againe
aboard without receiving any wronge or violence from the Inhabitants or others
on shore and without any molestacon whatsoever, wch said Inhabitants did not
offer them any hurte or wronge but used them very civilly and friendly
And at one of the times aforesaid vizt about twenty monethes since whiles
they soe remained and had free trading as aforesaid at Albozine, a storme
arising they were forced to sett saile with their said shipp the Caesar and
goe to Cadiz in Spaine, leaving the foresaid Mr Gabriel Hill, and
two of their company ashore at Albozine, and retourning about six
weekes after backe againe for Albozine, the said men soe as before left
there behinde, came safely aboard by the free permission and consent
of the Moores, having bin (as they reported) freely and lovingly treated
by the said Moores, and then hee saith they traded againe with the moores
and their company went and came freely to and from shore unarmed
as before, And although at their first beginning to trade with
them, they tooke hostages of the Moores, yet hee saith that when they
had such freedome and faire usage from them, they suffered
their hostages to goe againe on shore, and traded without hostages, and
still their company were and came as freely as when they had hostages
aboard without any molestacon whatsoever though they were still
unarmed as formerly, And this deponent hath heard others that have
traded there saye and affirme that they went freely ashore and retourned
unarmed, and went up into the Countrey a hunting and had noe
molestacon from the Moores. Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad tertiu nescit.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per [?eu eo] vera.

Ad Interria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad primu rendet that hee was not any of the Company of the shipp the
Talbott the voyage in question,
Et alr nescit salvis predepoits.
ad qua se refert.

Ad secundu rendet that in their first voyage aforesaid they carried a Spaniard
their shipp (that could speake the language of the place) to goe ashore and
treat about obtaining trade for them at Albozine, and the other two times they carried two Jewes
for the same purpose, and hee hath heard that it is an usuall thing
for Christions that goe thither to trade to come a Jewe or Moore aboard
for the conveniencie of the language and to bee sent ashore as
aforesaid, And saith that neither profitt nor losse will ensue to him this
rendent whether Sentence in this cause be given for or against Captaine
Hamkins, alr nescit et negative salvis predepoits, ad qua se refert.

Ad tertiu rendet that at the first making of their contract or agreement
for traffique, they sent their boate well armed to shore
and their men went not (saving as before) out of commannd of their
boates, but afterwards when they sawe the faire usage of the Moores, they
went and retourned unarmed as aforesaid, Et alr nescit salvis
predepoits ad qua se refert

Super reliquis Interr primo loco ministrat non exaiatur ex direcconis [?pts] [?XXXXX]
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Ad 6 Interr and xxx l ministrat rendet et hee hath not bin at
Alaine, saving the trie times aforesaid, which hee went in the shipp the Cartaine
aforesaid wch is of the burthen of six hundred tonnes or thereabouts, and saith
they gott as much come as they desired and had money to pay for saving of
first of the said thre time, hee saith they did nor trade there or as being
they found the price of corne two deare greate at that time, and was
traded the other times aforesaid they procured the lading with their money the
day
saith they had hostages aboard for two or three, but when the people of the and
use them soe fairely as aforesaid, they sent them againe ashore, Et alr nescit.
salvis predepoits ad qua se refert.

John Bonner

15º Julij 1648

Super allegacone predca ex parte Hawkins dat examinatus.

Richardus Russell de Redriffe in Com Surria Nauta, agens annos agens
aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus.

Dicons et al con

Hawkins
of
Rp EA.

Ad primu articulum dicit quod nescit deponere, for hee was never at All
in the shipp the Samaritan where hee was et
the shipp the Samaritan wherof hee was ut
as hee saith, but hath bin at Saffarines in Barbary, but did not trade and
and therefore hee cannot as hee saith depose of the condicon of the peoppinge
parts, nor had hee as hee saith any Jewe or Moore on board him that
which was about six yeares since.

Ad secundum arlum nescit deponere ut dicit.

Ad tertiu arlum nescit deponere./

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet negative.

Ad 2 negative salvis predepoits.
Ad 3 nescit.

Super reliquis non interrogator ex direccone ministratis.

Richer Russell
----
18º Julij 1648

Super lilo in hac caa dat examinatus.

Porty et socij con Budd

1us

Smith

Rp EA.

Jacobus Edmunds de Alborowe in Comitatu Suffs Nauta, annos agens
annorum aut eo circiter testis in hac causa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time arlate and when the at
in question was comitted the arlate John P Port and company were owne
Proprietors of the shipp the God Patent arlate and of her tackle, ape
and furniture ⁁, wch hee knoweth for that hee this deponent was then in
and of her called and others.
of the said shipp, and for Lawfull owners and proprietors thereof the said
John Porte and company were and are commonly accompted reputed and hee
alr nescit deponere./

Ad secundum arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate
Rodds, and saith hee was the time aforesaid master of the shipp the or
ffoy of dcor Judge and had the ⁁ charge thereof, for master of the and hee
of the said shipp and of her tackle apparell and furniture hee the said
Rodes was the said time commonly accompted and reputed. Et alr nescit

Ad tertiu arlat dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the said shipp
xxx arlum
the Good Intent did ride at anchor in a safe and convenient place of
neere the month of humber free from doing or receiving any hurt or
to any shipp or vessell, and had soe ride there by the space of thirtie he
at the least before the dammage in question happened, wch hee knoweth
then master of the said shipp and on board her. Et alr nescit.

Ad quartum arlum dicit et deponit that the time aforesaid the said shipp to
Hargetts Johe did likewise ride and remaine at anchor in or neereth to
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of humber aforesaid while the said shipp the Good Intent soe ride there, of this
deponents sight and knowledge. Et alr nescit.
Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time aforesaid and during such
time as the said shipp the Goodntent did ride and remaine at Anchor
in or neere the month of humber as aforesaid, the said Thomas Rudds and
the Company of the said shipp the Margetts Joye weighed their anchors,
and carelessly and negligently brought their said shipp crosse the hawse of
the said shipp the Good Intent then riding there at anchor as aforesaid, and
thereby endangered the casting away of the said shipp the Good Intent
and her company aboard her, this deponent being present and seeing the same
soe donne. alr nescit.

Asextum arlum dicit et deponit that assoone as this deponent and company
of the Good Interr
xxxx and perceived that the said shipp the Margetts Joyer was coming fowle
the Margets for
of their said hawse, they called out unto the Company of the said shipp ⁁ and
desired them to lett fall an Anchor to prevent their said shipps coming
fowle of the Good Intent, and the said Rudds and company heard them
when they soe called out, for they answered them, but did not let fall
their Anchor as they requested them. Et alr nescit.
Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that soe soone as this deponent and company
of the doe Intent arlate found and perceived that the said shipp the Margetts
saye was comminge fowle of their hawse as aforesaid, having bent or splaced
that
there
another cable to one of them where by they redd, they veered ⁁ both that at
least 1000 fathome to prevent and avoide all danger and hurt that
might befall their said shipp the Good Intent, calling all the while out
Joy
to the company of the Margetts ⁁ to lett fall an anchor as aforesaid, and at
last not having more cable to veere, and the said Company of the Margetts
ant letting fall an
say nor casting ⁁ Anchor, the said Company of the Good Intent were
constrained to cutt and did cutt away both their said cables and anchore
bee veered as aforesaid, only to prevent and avoide other dammage which
might and in likelisoned would have befallen them (in case they had not
gone their said cables by the said shipp the Margetts ffoye, The prmisses
hee knoweth being present thereat, and helping to were as aforesaid
and seeing the danger they were in by reason of the said shipp the Margetts
boy being ready to come foule of them as aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Company of the Good
content had not cutt away their cable and Anchor as aforesaid the said
shipp the Good Intent had in all likelisoned bin lost and cast away by
the said shipp the Margetts Johe coming fowle of her as aforesaid,
and saith that the cutting of the said cables was (under God) shee only
meanes that prevented the losse and casting away of the said shipp the
Good Intent as aforesaid, there being ⁁ hee saith noe other meanes to prevent
the same. Et alr nescit.

Ad novu arlum dicit et deponit carry the said Anchor and soe much of the
by the occasion aforesaid.
said cables as was cutt away (which hee saith was all saving foure or five
fathorne of the warrser and of one of them) were well worth the same
Lawfull money
of sixtie pounds in this deponents iudgement and estimacon, and saith
that the anchor and one of the said cables cost & 18 of the money, for this
deponent bought the same for the use of the said owners. Et alr nescit.

Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Company of the said shipp
the Margetts Joye had according as they ought to have donne lett full an
anchor when they were coming fowle of the Good Intent as they were desired
they might in all likelied have prevented the foresaid dammage which befull
the Good Intent as aforesaid. alr nescit.
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Ad Interria.

ye

R. E.

Ad primu refert se ad predepoita, and saith all his wages are paid him for
service in the said shipp that voyage, alr negative.

Ad 2 rendet that hee cometh required by the owners of the said shipp the Gent
to be a witnes in this cause, and saith hee shall neither gott nor losse well
John Porty prevaile or be overthrowne in his cause./

Ad 3 rendet that the shipp the Margetts Johe came first into or neere fard
of Humber and to an anchor neere the place where the dammage in question
happened, and saith it was about noone of a Sunday happening aboard
Merchaelmas 1648 att this rendent and company came to an anchor were
their said shipp the Good Intent in the place aforesaid, being to his remembred
the 20th of September 1648 the 19th daye of September 1648, and in
the morne about seaven of the clock at night the dammage in question
happened. alr nescit.

Ad 4 rendet negative salvis predepoitis ad qua se refert

Ad 5 refert se ad predepoita, alr rendet negative.

Ad 6 nescit, nec audivit nec credit, salvis subscriptis

Ad 4 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative rendet.
this deponent

Ad ult rendet that the master and Company of the Good Intent did not mate
shipp rope and a bough fast to the end of the cable when they cutt the same
they not having time soe to doe, but saith their Anchor had a bough to the
and that they endeavoured to weigh their said anchor and cable, and the
said bough rope broke, and hee beleeveth that in case the said rope had
not broken, the said anchor and cable might have bin saved and recovered
and saith the anchor was weighed before the said baggs rye booke
James Edmond

Eadem die.

Super lilo predca examinatus.

Edwardus Edmands parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Mate
annos agens 46 aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus.
2

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth the arlate John
the said Port and Company were
Porty and saith hee was ⁁ for all the time arlate commonly accompted and
reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp the God
and of her tackle apparell and furniture, and of all the cables and
thereunto belonging. Et alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that hee likewise well knoweth to
arlate Thomas Rudds and saith hee was for all the said time come
accompted and reputed xx part owner of the shipp the Margetts of
good bridge arlate and of her tackle apparell and furniture, and with
for all the said time master of the said shipp, and had the charge and
command of her, Et alr nescit.
Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the moneth of the said
anno 1648 and within the time arlate) the said shipp the Good Stokeing
did ride at anchor in a safe and convenient place in or neere the bee
of Humber arlate free from doing any hurt to any shipp, and the
ride by the space of thirtie houres or thereabouts, before the damage
in question happened, which hee knoweth to bee true, because hee this depot
was then masters mate of the said shipp and was then aboard her, of
alr nescit.

said
Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time aforesaid the is
Margetts Joye did likewise ride and remaine at anchor neere the and
of humber aforesaid, while the good sitten soe ride there of this deponent and

Ad
and knowledge, alr nescit.
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Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the said moneth of September
1648, during such time as the said shipp the Good Intent did ride and remaine
at Anchor neere the month of Humber as aforesaid the said Thomas Rudds
and the Company of the said shipp the Margets Joy did weigh their anchors
of the said shipp the Margetts Day and through their negligence and
carelesnes brought their said shipp crosse the hawse of the said shipp the
Good Intent then riding at anchor as aforesaid and thereby endangered the
casting away of the said shipp the Good Intent and her company on board
her, and saith hee is the better able to say it was through the carelesses
of mr Wilfullnes) of the said Rudds and Company, because they made noe
endeavour to prevent the same although his contest and James Sounds
master of the said shipp the Good Intent and Company tolde them that they
said shipp the Good Interes
were at an anchor, and therefore desired them to let full an anchor, wch they
did not./

Ad 6 dicit that assoone as the said Company of the Good Intent sawe
that the said shipp the Margotts Johee was coming fowle of their hawse
some of the Company of the Good Intent called out unto the Company of
the Margetts Joye and desired them to lett full an anchor, that soe they
might prevent their said shipps coming foule of the Good Intent, and the
said Rudds or some of his company heard them when they soe called out
and made answer that their anchor was downe (which this deponent saith
was not soe Et alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that when and assoone as the Company
of the Good Intent sawe and perceived that the said shipp the Margetts
Cope was coming fowle of their hawse as aforesaid, they having
before hand splaced another cable to the xxx by wch they did ride, did
were them both at least 100 fattham to prevent the hurt and danger
that might before the Good Intent, and at last not having more cable
to veere, and the Company of the Margets say not letting full another
anchor as they were desired as aforesaid, the said Company of the
good Intent were inforced to cutt and did cutt away both their said cables
and anchor soe veered as aforesaid meerly to prevent and avoide all such
dammage as might and in all likeligood would before have befallen them
by the said shipp the Margetts Joye in case they had not cutt their
same cables, all which hee knoweth to bee true ut dicit, because hee was
present and sawe the said danger, and did xxx assist in the said veering
aboard the said shipp the Good Interr. Et alr nescit.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Company of the said shipp the
Goods Intent had not cutt away their cables and anchor as aforesaid in all
likelised and probabilitie the said shipp the Good Intent had bin lost and
cast away by the said shipp the Margets Johe coming fowle of her
as aforesaid, and that the cutting of the said cable was under God
the only meanes that prevented the losse of the said shipp the Goodsontent
as aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that the said Anchor and Cables that were
cutt away as aforesaid (both the said Cables being wholly cutt away, saving
some small quantitie of the worst and of goe of them) were worth in this dept
Rendente and estimacon the same of sixtie pounds lawfull English money
Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad decium dicit that in case the said master and Company of the Margetts
Coye had according as they ought to have donne and as they were intreated
as aforesaid lett full their Anchor when they were coming foule of the Dovd
Intent as aforesaid, in all likelyhood they might have prevented the dammage
aforesaid which befell the Good Interrt. Et alr nescit.
Super
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Ad Interria.

Ad primu refert se ad predepoita, and saith all his wages are paid him wth
time hee served in the said shipp the voyage in question, alr negative.
and endu rendet and went rates prdam as distian in at
saith hee expecteth neither proffitt or losse whether the said Mr Port
company prevaile or be overthrowne in this sute

Ad tertiu rendet that the shipp the Margets Johe came first were to
of Humber and came first to an anchor there neere the place where the said
dammage was donne, and saith that he both the said shipps came thither
one and the same daye, being a sunday, the said shipp the Good Roter
coming about noone of the said sundaye to anchor there about Michas and
and the said dammage was donne about 7 or eight of the clocke at night and
the next daye, Et alr nescit.
a
Ad 4 negative salvis predepoits ad qua se refert, saying the xxxxx and did
shipp the said corne.

Ad 5 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad 6 nescit nec audivit, salvis subscripts.

Ad 7 negative, referendo se ad predepoita.

Ad ult rendet that the master and Company of the Goods Intent had did none
a shipp rope and a boye fast to the end of the cable when they cutt the same
by reason they had not time as hee saith soe to doe
⁁ but saith their anchor had bough to it, and saith they endeavoured to be
bring
their said Anchor and cables, and their shipp ⁁ rope brake, and is is
wth broken, and that other had had the help and assistance of soule of the
company of the Margets Jaye time enough (as they desired) hee beleeveth
the said Anchor and cables might have bin ⁁ saved and recovered, and a
the said Anchor was weighed before the bough rope brooke. Et alr nescit
salvis predepoits./

Edward Edmonds
----
Eadem die.

Super lilo predca examinatus.

Willimus Corket de Alborough in Com Suff Nauta, etatis
annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.
3

Ad primu arlum dicti lili dicit et deponit that hee hath well knoweth
July
shipp arlate Porty and the shipp the Good Intent arlate for all this
arlate, and saith the said Porty and Company have bin for all the said
commonly accompted and reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the
shipp, and of her tackle, apparell furniture, anchors and called
alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that in the yeere and monethes aforesd
and for all the said time the said Thomas Budd was master of the said
charge and
Margets Joye of Woodridge and of her tack had the government
her, and was commonly Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that in the time aforesaid, and parte
in or about the moneth of September 1648 the said shipp the Goodson
did lie and ride at anchor in a safe and convenient place in or hee
the month of humber arlate, free from doeing any hure her preiudice
to any shipp or vessell, and there had rided about 50 houres before
dammage in question happened, which hee knoweth, being one of the said
of the said shipp at that time, and then on board her. Et
1
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Ad det quartu arlum dicit et deponit that at the time aforesaid the said shipp
the Margetts Joye did likewise ride and remaine at Anchor neere the
month of humber aforesaid during such time as the good at Road Intent
ride and remaine at Anchor neer there as aforesaid of this deponents
sight and knowledge. Et alr nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that in or about the moneth of September
1648, and during such time as the Good Intent did ride and remaine at
Anchor neere the month of humber as aforesaid, the said Thomas Rudds and the
Company of the said shipp the Margetts Joye did weigh their Anchors
of the said shipp the Margets boye, and by their negligence brought their
shipp crosse the hawse of the said shipp the Good Intent then riding at
Anchor as aforesaid, and thereby endangered the casting away of the said
shipp the Good Interr and of her company then on board her, Reddens
raconem scientia sua ut supra.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that assoone as the Company of the said
shipp the God Intent perceived and sawe that the said shipp the Margets
Joye came of would come fowle of their hawse, some of the said
Company of the Good Intent called out unto the Company of the
Margetts Joye requesting them to lett fall an anchor, to prevent their
said shipps coming fowle of the Good Intent, and some of the
said Company of the Mongetts Joye heard them soe call but, and
in this deponents hearing answered them, and lade them cutt their cable
Reddens raconem ut supra. Et alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the Company of the Good
Intent having against all adventures newly spliced another cable to
that by wch they rode and perceiving that the said shipp the Margetts
John was coming fowle of their hawse as aforesaid, they veered their
said cables by which their said shipp soe rided at anchor at least 100 fathan
to prevent any dammage or hurt that might befall the said shipp the
Good Intent, and at last not having more cable to veere, and the
said Company of the Margetts Johe not casting out or letting for
another anchor, the said company of the Good Intent were inforced
to cutt and did cutt away both their said cables and Anchor soe veered
the said
as aforesaid, and that to prevent and avoide the dammage wch would
in all likelyhood have befallen them by the said shipp the Margetts
Joye in case they had not soe cutt their said cable, The premisses
hee deposeth, being then on board the Good Intent as aforesaid and
seeing the said danger, and helping his followes to were as aforesaid
Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Company of the
Good Intent had noe cutt away their cables and anchors as aforesaid
in all probabilitie and likelyhood the said shipp the Good Interr had
bin lost and cast away by the said shipp the Margetts Johe coming
fowle of her, and that the cutting of the said cables was the only
meanes under Good of preventing the losse of the said shipp the
God Interr, and without the doing thereof, hee saith the said shipp
being sunck
and Company had undoubtedly perished and by xxxxxx in the
by the said shipp the Marget John her coming fowle of her
sea ⁁ Et alr nescit

Ad 3 arlum deponit that the said Anchor and soe carry of the said cables
as a cutt away as aforesaid (which hee saith was almost all) was very
the sume of 60£ lawfull English money. Et alr nescit.

Ad
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Ad decium arlum dicit et deponit that in case the Company of the said
Joye had according as they ought) lett full their anchor when they hee
coming fowle of the Good Intent they might in this deponents ladeing
and in all likelyhood have prevented the foresaid dammage, Et alr nescit

Super reliquis non examinatur er.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that hee hath received all his wages for the voyage in
and that there remaineth none of his wages unpaid him, quoad ceter
refert se ad predepoita.

Ad secundu rendet quod venit regatus per Johem Porty predete
in hac caa, and saith it will be all one to him whether mr Porty and
Company prevaile or be overthrowne in this sute, only hee wisheth the
right may take place.

Ad 3uj rendet that the Margetts Joye came first into the month of the
River of humber and first to an anchor there neere the place where the
said dammage was donne, and the said shipp the Good Intent came
to anchor there about on a sunday about noone, and on the next did
at night about seaven of the clock the foresaid dammage happened
Ad 4 et 5 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad 6 nescit nec audivit salvis subscripts.

Ad 7 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad ult rendet that the Anchor of the Good Interr had a bough to it, and
that their company endeavoured to weigh their Anchor and cable, and used
they were soe dannge their beigh rope broke, and hee beleeveth that if
their said bough rope had not soe broke, the said Anchor and called
night have bin recovered, alr negative. saving that they and
gett their said anchor about three fathome from the ground, to whereof
said bough roye brake as aforesaid./

William Com
----
19º Julij 1648.

Super lilo predca examinatus.

1s

Willimus Shurlord parochia de Stepney in Com Midd Nauta, in
40 annoru aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et juratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee hath well knowne the arlate Johnson
and alsoe the shipp the Good Intent arlate for all the time arlate and longe
saith the said John Porty and company have bin for all the said time common
accompted and reputed lawfull owners and proprietors of the said shipp and
and anchors
her tackle apparell and furniture together with the cables unto her belonging
Et alr nescit.

Ad secundu dicit et deponit that hee likewise well knoweth the arlate
foundes and saith hee hath bin for all the time aforesaid lega Master
said shipp the Margets Joye of woodbridge arlate and soe comonly accomte
and had the charge and command of her. alr nescit.
Ad tertiu arlum deponit that in the time aforesaid and more especiall in the
the moneth of September 1648 the said shipp the Goods Inter hee
anchor in a safe and convenient place in or neere the month of the River and
Humber, free from doinge any hurt or preiudice to any shipp and the
in saftie
ridd and remained ⁁ for the space of thirtie houres or thereabouts before the
dammage in question was donne. which hee knoweth to bee being the
the said shipps company and on board her. Et alr nescit.
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Ad quartu arlum deponit that in the time aforesaid and while the said shipp the Good
Patent soe ride and remained in the place aforesaid the said shipp the Margetts Johe did
likewise ride and remaine at anchor in or neere the month of humber of this deponents
sight and knowledge. Et alr nescit.

Ad 5 arlum deponit that in or about the said moneth of September 1646 and
during such time as the said shipp the Good Intent did ride and remaine at
Anchor as aforesaid the said Rudds and Company of the said shipp the Margets
fore did weigh their anchors of the Margetts Joye and by carlesnes and
negligence brought her crosse the hawse of the said shipp the Good Intent then
riding as aforesaid, and thereby endangered the casting away of the said shipp
the good Intent and of her company aboard her, Reddens raconem scientia sua
being then aboard her, and seeing the Margets Joye soe came crosse her
hawse, and endanger them as aforesaid, Et alr nescit.

Ad sextum arlum dicit et deponit that xxxxxx when the Company of the said
shipp the Good Intent perceived that the said shipp the Margets Jay came was
some of
coming fowle of their heese, the said Company of the Good Intent called
and unto them of the Margets Jope, and desired them to be fall an Anchor
by which meanes they might prevent their said shipps coming fowle of the Good
Interr, and some of the said Company of the Margets Joye heard them soe
fell out unto them and spake to them, asking them of the Good Intent of they
and desired them filled an anchor to keepe cleere of them
were at an anchor and they answered yes, Et alr nescit.

Ad septium arlum dicit et deponit that the Company of the Good Intent and
having before hand splaced another cable to that by wch they rode, and seeing
that the Margets Je was coming fowle of them as aforesaid, they veered
both their said cables with all past and diligence at least 10 fathos to
prevent the danger that was otherwise likely to befall them by the said
shippe the Margets Johe coming fowle of them, and at last having noe
more cable to veere, and the Company of the Margets Johe not letting
fall an anchor (though thereunto importuned by the Company of the Good
Intent) the said company of the Good Intent were constrained to cutt and
did cutt away both their said cables and anchor soe neered as aforesaid, and
that meerly to prevent and avoide the dammage which was like by
befall them by the Margets Jope in case they had not out their cable of
aforesaid. Et alr nescit.

Ad octavu dicit that in case the Company of the God Intent had not
cutt away their cables and Anchor as aforesaid, the said shipp the Good Intent
had in all likelived bin lost and cast away by the said shipp the Margetts
store coming fowle of her as aforesaid, and that the cutting of the said
cable was under God the only meanes that prevented the losse of the said
shipp the Good Intent. Et alr nescit.

Ad novu arlum deponit that the said cables and anchor soe cutt away as
aforesaid were worth the sume of 600£ lawfull English money in this deponents
Judgement. Et alr nescit.

Ad decium dicit that in case the Company of the Margets Joye had according
as they should and ought to have donne) let fall xx an anchor when they
were coming fowle of the Good Intent as aforesaid, in all probabilitie the damage
aforesaid had (hee saith) bin prevented. Et alr nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatur er
Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that all his wages are paid him for that voyage, and none of his
wages are detained, alr satisfecit supra.

Ad
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Ad quod venit regatus per dam John Port and estificand in hac caa, and the
will beinge advantage to him if Mr Casely and company prevaile in the
nor dammage to him if they be therein overthrowne.

Ad tertiu rendet that the Margetts Johe came first to the place interr and the
there, and that the Good Intent came to an anchor there on a side of
were the in the time aforesaid, and on the morne might about sawe other
Clocke the dammage aforesaid was donne. alr nescit salvis predepoits.
Ad 4 et 5 nescit et negative salvis predepoits.

Ad 6 nescit nec audivit salvis subscripts.

Ad 7 refert se ad predepoita, alr negative.

Ad 8 rendet that Mey did not make a shipp repe and abough fast to the sd
nor haveing time futo doe
the cable when they cutt the same, and that their anchor had a boy to it
that they endeavoured to weigh their said anchor and cable, but their being
from the good
beigh rope broke when their Anchor was some three fathome good
Et alr nescit./

William
Tholock
Signu
1
----
20º July xxx

Downish con and

1us

Rp EA

Martin


Super allue arlate ex parte Rand 13 die mensis instantes dat examinat
Janus Isaacke parochia Sta Maria Alder bury London Mr
aetatis 47 annoru aut eo circiter testis productus et iuratus.
hath well knowne

Ad primu arlum dicte allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth to
arlate George Potter and hath soe donne for theise tenn yeares last past
thereabouts, and hath likewise well knowne the arlate Abraham Mr
for theise five yeares last past or thereabouts, and as hee hath often hee
they lived the time arlate in one house together at Mallega and were puted
together, and did doe busines the one for the other, and hee this deponent
beleeveth the same to bee true, because hee hath nowe with him a well
from the said George Potter and Abraham Master, made by the said at
Master here in London, and subscribed in the presence and sight of his
this deponent by the said Abraham Master for himselfe, and the said
at the time of
George Potter, wch hee leaveth annexed to this his examinacon for
further information of this Court in that particular, Et alr nescit
deponere.

Ad secundu arlum dicte allegaconis et ad schedulam arlatam in dicte ren
it rendet termina put in dco arle menconatur, et tempere eius exámine
Ostenson dicit et deponit that hee bee verily beleeveth the said bee
for schedule to bee wholly written and subscribed with the proper him
writings of the said Abraham Miter, and hee the rather beleeveth
same as hee saith, because hee saith hee is acquainted with the had
writing of the said Abraham Meter, and hath nowe with him and
tyme of his exámination a letter written unto him this deponent by
from the said Abraham Mitter from Mallega aforesaid, which uppon
hee findeth to bee of the same character and forme of letters as they
schedule is, Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eum ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Rp.

Ad primu negative et nescit, saying hee did not soe Archis
the note interrogate.

Ad secundum rendet quod nescit.
hee
Sivill in omnibus ut in privit deposicon or rendet
quod non exaiatur sper Interroga, et quod Malla in a can and travit
Rassellwood con and

Mr R E

Ad
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130

Q Dept knowne unto all men by this rents Satwoe George Potter &
Abraham Witer of London Marchts in either of as doe thereby
eise release and forever quite come unto Paul Tranck of
London who March alland manner of accons course arles
of are reccons tes tresses debtedities accompts
reckonings bonds bills bookes specialties varances differences
clames and demands whatsoever from the beginning
of the would untill the Lighteenth day of this instant
moneth of July witnes whereof wee have hereunto
putt hands and seales dated the Nyneteenth day of
July Anno 1643 And in the lyneteenth yeare of
the eigue of Dovereigne Lording Charles
signed sealed and delivered
by the abord menconed Abraham
Miter in the pence of
Josiah Tompson ser
o Jonathan lackwell or
Abraham Miller
for my else Ex
George Hotter

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4 22º Julij 1648. super lilo predca examinatus.

Susanna Golding de Redriffe in Com Surria da, etatis 30 annoru aut
eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.
were
said
secundam

Ad quintu arlum dicti lili et ad schedulam in eadem menconat dicit et deponit that
the arlate Thomas Gollinge, the younger being this deponents some in Lawe lived
in house with her after the decease of her husband the arlate Thomas Golinge
the elder, and about whitsontide last past was a twelve moneth, the said
Thomas Gosing the younger being then master of the shipp the Merchant
Adventure arlate, and being to goe out in her upon a voyage, gave order to
his men in this deponents presence and hearing in her said house in Redriffe to
weakinge
goe to Mr Greene meanning Mr Greene arlate) and fetch such things as are
Lond
menconed in the said schedule for the said shipps use, whereof hee said shee was
then in neade. Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad octavu arlum dicit et deponit that about whitsonside last past was a twelve moneth
and after the said Thomas Gossing the elder his death, and when his said some
was preparing to goe out with the said shipp, this deponent being the Relict of
the said Thomas Gossinge the elder, and desiron to have his accompts with
the owners cleared, having received the first schedule arlate of Mr Greene
for goods taken upp by her said husband for the said shipps use, this deponent
endeavoured a meeting amongst the said owners that soe her husbands accompte
might bee stated, and procured not bee a merchant for his brother a part owner
living at Rotterdam, and Mr Andrewes of Ipswich for his brother another owner
one
and Mr Church an owner and alsoe the arlate Alderman witham to meete
own
at his the said Merman within his house in Aldermanbury, and then
and there this deponent made them acquainted with the said first schedule
arlate and touching the delivery of the goods therein menconed and showed the
same unto them. Et alr nescit deponere.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producents./

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that shee cometh to testifie by the meanes of Mr Greene
the producent, whoe spake to her to that purpose, and saith hee expecteth
noe proffitt of William Greene prevaile in this sute, nor dammage though
hee bloweth none therein, alr negative.

Ad 2 negative et nescit salvis predepoits ad qua nescit.

Ad 3 rendet that her this rendents said husband Thomas Bishing the elder
was master of the said shipp the Merchant Adventure when the goods menconed
in the said first schedule arlate were delivered, and her said some in
one Thomas Gosing the yonger was master of her at such time as the
goods mentioned in the said second schedule were delivered, alr nescit salvis prdepoita.
Ad 4 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit.

Ad 5 nescit.

Sivan Delling
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5º Julij 1648

Peterson and in
pred examinatus.

Quarte Gin paroa sancti Olavi Hartstreete London is
Barbaraton or London etatis 4 annoru aut citer testis producent
iuratus.

Subermater et Sorietas Mercatoru India

Qrients con Thompson et alios

1us

Rp. EA.

sd

Ad primu et secundum arlu dce allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee this deponent
Chirurgeon of the shipp the Ruthe arlate the voyage in question, and was not in
upon the said voyage for the space of theire yeares and three monethes and by the and
ended about a moneth since, and by that meanes tooke notice and was againe
with the lading of a greate part of the said shipps lading in the parts and
fast Indies, and saith that within the time arlate the arlate Edward That
being Commander of the said shipp the voyage aforesaid) and William and
masters mate aboard her did lade and cause to be laden aboard the said shipp
dutch in the parts beyond the seas vizt in the part of the East Indies aforesd
the nineteene bales of waterges, three bales of callicon and the but of the
menconed in the schedule annexed to the allegacon and marked as therein hee
saving the three baggs of pepper, which hee saith were not marked, this dept
and seeing them laded
being made acquainted with the buying of them well knoweth that there
bought and laded for the accompt of the said Edward Thompson and willing
Thereon, and they were hee saith laded aboard the said shipp in the parte
aforesaid to be transported in her to this port of London for the use and
accompt aforesaid ffurther more hee saith that the two facles of and
menconed in the end of the said schedule
and foure bales of callicoe were alsoe brought have laded in the part
be and the seas and brought home in the said shipp the voyage aforesaid, and
for whose accompt hee knoweth not, And hee said otherwise hee confedge
as hee saith, saving the said Thompson and Trewe and were and are
10 bales of
6
R
three but bale
lawfull owners and proprietors of the said ⁁ utmaggs and ⁁ callice and ved
of pepper aforesaid for hee saith they bought and paid for them in the ye
aforesaid of this deponents xx and knowledge, and for lawfull owners
thereof they were and are commonly accompted and reputed. Et alr

Ad 1u arlum et sched pred dicit et deponit that in heareing
aforesaid same arte is time arlate the said shipp the Road
said goods wares and merchandizes schedulate came from the said ports
the seas and about a moneth since safely arrived in this port of the
wch hee knoweth because hee went the said voyage in her as aforesaid
arrived the time and place aforesaid, Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad 4 nescit, saving they are liable to paye the said excise and custome and
in case they have not already paid the same./

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that at the arrivall aforesaid of the said shipp
this port of London, the said Antonnes, callicoe and pepper were in there
of the said Edward Thompson and William Trewen, and the were as
commonly accompted lawfull possessions thereof. Et alr nescit salvis pred
ad qua se refert.

Ad Interria.
a
Ad primu rendet quod venit requisitus per mr Thom or Tre
testificand in hat an and was one of the said shipps company of the said
the Dutch, and saith it will be noe benefitt of the
and company prevaile in this sute, and nor preiudice to him in his
overthrowne, Et alr nescit refert se ad predepoita.

Ad 2 rendet negative.

Ad 3 rendet that some of the foresaid goods arland at
same at Cope Bon servante in the party in the sd hee
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25º Julij 1648

Super allegacone predca examinatus.

Richardus Wagge civitatis London Mercator, etatis et 38 annoru aut
eo circiter testis in hac cause productus et juratus.

Smith are and
2
1
at
Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that hee this deponent hath well knowne the arlate
George Potter and Abraham Mater for theise twelve yeares last past or thereabouts
and knewe the said Potter and Miter live in house together in Mallega for the
with the foresaid time
space of three yeares or thereabouts ride about nine yeares since, and afterwards
Porters god from then the said
the said Miter rived ⁁ and continewed longe in Mallega and and while they
were
the said Miter and Petter were hee saith partners, and did usually
and ordinarily take up and receive goods and relade and shipp goods
as presence
and Merchandizes one for another aswell in the obsence ⁁ one of another
for
and ordinarily did busines one another, and for such they were generally
knowne and reputed to be by all English Merchants and others that lived
at Mallega the time aforesaid, this deponent being an English merchant
then living there, and what was donne by each of them in the obsence of
the other concerning the taking up of goods consigned to either of them
was accompted lawfull and as well donne, Et alr nescit deponere.

Ad secundu arlum et ad schedulam nescit deponere.

Ad ult dicit predepoita per eu ea vera.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu refert se ad predepoita alr negative et nescit.

Ad secundu rendet that the said Potter and Mater the time all interrogate were
and broken
comonly accompted and reputed to bee both failed in their estates, Et alr nescit.
Silla, salvis quod non exaiatu sup Interria./

Richard Wye
Richard Wy
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26º Julij 1648

Super lilo predca examinatus.

Silly con Capt

jus

2dus

Guiliatus Wood de Dover in Com Cantis Shipp Carpenter annos agens
32 aut eo circiter testis in hac caa productus et iuratus.

Ad primu arlum dicit et deponit that for all the time arlate the arlate William
wheately was master of the shipp ⁁ willing minde arlate and soe commonly accompted
this deponent seeing him in exte quation of that place and charge for the said time. Et
alr nescit.

Ad secundu arlum dicit et deponit that within the time arlate the arlate John
Baptista Guyat did at Dover here and take to freight the said shipp the
willing minde for a voyage to be made with her from the said Port of Dover
to
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to Bilboe there to lade and take in for his the said Gugats accompt the quantitie
of two hundred and eighte baggs of Spaine wooll, and to returne with the
same to Dover or the Downes, and the said Guyet did then and there provisions
and contract to pay unto him the said wheately the summe of eighteene
shillings sterl for freight for every bagge of wall that hee should she
transport and beinge in his said shipp from Bilboe to the Downes or deed
as aforesaid, The premisses hee knoweth to bee true being present of and
acquainted with the said contract. Et alr nescit.

Ad tertiu arlum dicit et deponit that betwixt Michaelmas and Christant
thereabouts in the yeere aforesaid the said Gayat his factor or agent (ut
this deponent nowe remembreth not) did lade aboard the said shipp at William
the quantitie of two hundred and eightie baggs of Spanish well, wch as
the said wheately did transport and bringe over in his said shipp from Bell
into Dover Roade and thence into the Downes and there safely arrived at
the said shipp and woolls, which hee knowledge knoweth to the true being
hee was one of the said shipps company the said voyage and went carried
on board her, and sawe the said woolls soe laded at Bilboe and did are
and well
stowe the same, and arrived with the said shipp in the Downes aforesaid
in the downes hee saith that voyage did end and deteraine, and soe for
noe further this deponent, and the other marriners were hired (this deponent
being present at the hiring of them) and accordingly hee saith diverseth
them were a cleered and had their wages paid them upon the arrivall of
the said shipp in the Downes, as having finished the said voyage, where hee
saith would goe noe further. And there was and is (as hee saith de
the said wheately the sume arlate according to the foresaid contract made the
by the said Guynt. Et alr referendo se ad predepoita nescit.

Ad quartu arlum dicit et deponit that after the arrivall of the said shipp in the
Downes the said Guyer and depeately being together in xxxx in twenty that
the transportacon of the said arrells to Amsterdam, the said Guyer did de
now contract and agree with the said wheately to transport and carryed
280 baggs of wooll to Amsterdam, and promised to pay unto the said wte
for transportacon thereof after the rate of three gilders and tenn stivers proceed
this deponent seeing the effect of the said contract in writing after the same was
soe made. Et alr nescit.

Ad quintu arlum dicit et deponit that the said shipp in her passages
Amsterdam was taken by an Mastend frigott, this deponent being then
in her, and being upon taken out of her and put aboard the said frigott of
and carried to Ostend and there imprisoned, hee saith hee cannot depose
the coming on shore and casting away of the said shipp, but beleeve hath heard
some of the company that were then on board, that shee was soe cast any
alr nescit.

Super reliquis non examinatur ex direccone producentis.

Ad Interria.

Ad primu rendet that about six pounds of his wages are behinde and voyage
wch this rendent hath bin content to for beare, because the said wheately hath the
received his fraight for the said voyage, alr satisfecit supra.
Ad secundu rendet that there was a charter partie made betwixt he said was
and Sugar for the personance of the said first voyage, which this deponent
and saith it was to the effect of the contract predeposed touching the said hee
voyage, and accordingly this deponent was hired ut dicit, alr nescit salvis

Ad 3 rendet that hee had noe share in the said wells, alr nescit salvis predepose

Ad ult nescit deposuit.

Signum
William
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HCA 13/61 f.232v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.233r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.233v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.234r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.234v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.235r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.235v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.236r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.236v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.237r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.237v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.238r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.238v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.239r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.239v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.240r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.240v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.241r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.241v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.242r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.242v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.243r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.243v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.244r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.244v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.245r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.245v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.246r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.246v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.247r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.247v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.248r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.248v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.249r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.249v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.250r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.250v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.251r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.251v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.252r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.252v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.253r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.253v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.254r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.254v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.255r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.255v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.256r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.256v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.257r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.257v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.258r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.258v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.259r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.259v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.260r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.260v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.261r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.261v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.262r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.262v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.263r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.263v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.264r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.264v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.265r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.265v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.266r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.266v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.267r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.267v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.268r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.268v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.269r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.269v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.270r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.270v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.271r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.271v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.272r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.272v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.273r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.273v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.274r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.274v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.275r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.275v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.276r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.276v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.277r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.277v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.278r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.278v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.279r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.279v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.280r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.280v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.281r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.281v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.282r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.282v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.283r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.283v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.284r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.284v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.285r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.285v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.286r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.286v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.287r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.287v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.288r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.288v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.289r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.289v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.290r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.290v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.291r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.291v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.292r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.292v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.293r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.293v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.294r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.294v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.295r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.295v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.296r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.296v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.297r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.297v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.298r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.298v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.299r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.299v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.300r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.300v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.301r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.301v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.302r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.302v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.303r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.303v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.304r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.304v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.305r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.305v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.306r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.306v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.307r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.307v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.308r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.308v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.309r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.309v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.310r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.310v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.311r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.311v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.312r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.312v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.313r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.313v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.314r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.314v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.315r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.315v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.316r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.316v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.317r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.317v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.318r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.318v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.319r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.319v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.320r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.320v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.321r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.321v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.322r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.322v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.323r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.323v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.324r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.324v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.325r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.325v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.326r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.326v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.327r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.327v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.328r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.328v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.329r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.329v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.330r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.330v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.331r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.331v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.332r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.332v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.333r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.333v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.334r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.334v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.335r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.335v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.336r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.336v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.337r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.337v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.338r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.338v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.339r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.339v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.340r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.340v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.341r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.341v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.342r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.342v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.343r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.343v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.344r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.344v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.345r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.345v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.346r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.346v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.347r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.347v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.348r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.348v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.349r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.349v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.350r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.350v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.351r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.351v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.352r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.352v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.353r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.353v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.354r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.354v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.355r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.355v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.356r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.356v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.357r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.357v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.358r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.358v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.359r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.359v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.360r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.360v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.361r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.361v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.362r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.362v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.363r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.363v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.364r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.364v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.365r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.365v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.366r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.366v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.367r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.367v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.368r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.368v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.369r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.369v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.370r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.370v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.371r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.371v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.372r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.372v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.373r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.373v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.374r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.374v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.375r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.375v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.376r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.376v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.377r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.377v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.378r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.378v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.379r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.379v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.380r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.380v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.381r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.381v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.382r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.382v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.383r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.383v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.384r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.384v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.385r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.385v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.386r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.386v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.387r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.387v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.388r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.388v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.389r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.389v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.390r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.390v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.391r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.391v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.392r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.392v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.393r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.393v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.394r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.394v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.395r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.395v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.396r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.396v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.397r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.397v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.398r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.398v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.399r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.399v Annotate
HCA 13/61 f.400r Annotate
HCA 13/61 f.400v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.401r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.401v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.402r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.402v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.403r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.403v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.404r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.404v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.405r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.405v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.406r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.406v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.407r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.407v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.408r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.408v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.409r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.409v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.410r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.410v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.411r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.411v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.412r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.412v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.413r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.413v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.414r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.414v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.415r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.415v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.416r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.416v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.417r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.417v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.418r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.418v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.419r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.419v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.420r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.420v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.421r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.421v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.422r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.422v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.423r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.423v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.424r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.424v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.425r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.425v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.426r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.426v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.427r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.427v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.428r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.428v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.429r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.429v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.430r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.430v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.431r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.431v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.432r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.432v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.433r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.433v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.434r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.434v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.435v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.436r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.436v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.437r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.437v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.438r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.438v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.439r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.439v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.440r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.440v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.441r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.441v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.442r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.442v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.443r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.443v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.444r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.444v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.445r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.445v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.446r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.446v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.447r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.447v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.448r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.448v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.449r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.449v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.450r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.450v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.451r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.451v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.452r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.452v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.453r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.453v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.454r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.454v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.455r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.455v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.456r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.456v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.457r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.457v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.458r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.458v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.459r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.459v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.460r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.460v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.461r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.461v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.462r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.462v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.463r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.463v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.464r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.464v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.465r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.465v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.466r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.466v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.467r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.467v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.468r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.468v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.469r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.469v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.470r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.470v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.471r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.471v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.472r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.472v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.473r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.473v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.474r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.474v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.475r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.477v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.478r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.478v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.479r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.479v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.480r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.480v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.481r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.481v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.482r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.482v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.483r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.483v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.484r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.484v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.485r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.485v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.486r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.486v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.487r Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.487v Annotate

HCA 13/61 f.488r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.488v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.489r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.489v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.490r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.490v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.491v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.492r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.492v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.493r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.493v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.494r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.494v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.495r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.495v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.496r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.496v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.497r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.497v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.498r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.498v Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.499r Annotate
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HCA 13/61 f.499v Annotate