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'''HCA 23/19'''

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HCA 23/19 Interrogatories 1658-64
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P1100662

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===Case: XXXX===

P1100663

//Interria ministrat et ministrand ex parte et per partem Illustris
Sini principis Jacobi DXXX Eboras et Albanne xr Dm : mag in
Admiralli Angli testis, quibustung, ex parte et per partem
MXXthatlis dreist, Samuelis Poplot et seriord quoad Navem the
Nativity, of Johis Eastman et al pro bonis in eadem seizit pro
Durt, sen producend sequirit.

1. Let every wittnesse bee asked whether hee was in the shippe
The Nativity when shee began her last voyage and from
What port was shee sett out when she was bound for Oporto Port
& what Lading did shee carry thither & to whence was itt
Delivered, And howe long hath the said wittnesse belonged to
The said shippe, and what Office had hee in her, Ad interr
Con:m et dX:m ar de quolibet

2. I :m interrr, Whether was hee in the shippe, when shee was seized
(as is prtended) by one Captaine ?Colarte, and was hee alsoe in the said
Shippe, when shee was stayed neere ffalmouth, or howe long
Since, and att or neere what place did hee leave the said shippe
And lett him declare upon his Oath when and whenre hee last sawe
The said shippe and howe hee doth knowe her to bee the same
That belonged (as is p:rtended) to Michael ?Alweist, Samuel RXXXX
And Company, And lett itt bee done as above.

3. Lett him bee asked, whether hee the said witnesse had any parte
Or share in the said shippe the Nativity or in any part of the
Goods or lading, and whether Michael Dweist a witnesse pro
Duced in this Cause bee the same partie where in this Cause
Is a Clayment of parte of the shippe Et fiat ut sup:r

4. Itmm: interr. When had the Claymers or the mittnesse first
Notice that the shippe Nativity was stayed neere ffalmouth
Howe long time was there betweene the seizure made by Colarte
And the saty of the said shippe made neere ffalmouth and
Whether in that time, was nott the said shippe used and imploy
Ed as a shippe of Warre by those that had her then in possession
And whether one Michell and his Company did nott with the
Said shippe Nativity take and seize some other shippes and
Goods , and XXXX many shippes and what sorts or quantities of
Goods Et fiat at sup:X

5. Itmm: interr. Howe sooth hee knowe that the said Michael
Dweist and the other Clayments are Owners of the said shippe
Did they build itt, or buy itt, When and where was itt bought
& paid for, Is the wittnesse in the cause a witnesse to the
Bill of sale made of the said shippe or was p:rsent att the
Buying, or howe else doth hee knowe the Propreto:rs. Ex parte
His Reason. Et fiat ut sup:a//
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P1100663

//6. Itmm : interr. Whether did the partie that prormed the GXXX
Or deputy of S:t Manes Castle, or did any other on his behalfe
Agree with the said Governo:r or deputy to give him satisfact
Tion for his paines & Charges that hee should nee att, as
Stay of the said shippe, And what satisfaction hath been
Given or is promised for the same; Et fiat at sup:a.

7. Itmm:interr, Whether Before the said shippe Nativity
was stayed neere ffalmouth had nott they whoe were in
possession of her beene by the space of 1. 3. 5. Or more monthes
weeks, or daies sailing and ?roaving up and ddowne in the
English Channell and used and imployed the said shippe as
a Man of warre to take pXXXXX, And within that time in
and with the said shippe had nott Michell p:rtending hm
-selfe Captaine thereof, and the Company of the said shuppe
taken & dubdued & gott into theire possession some other shippe
or shippes & goods , and spoiled the Right Owners thereof
att least had indeavoured soe to doe, and were aiding abetting
or assistant to the Commander & Company of some other shippe
whoe seized and made spoile as aforesaid Et fiat ut supp.

8. Itmm: interr Whether Immediately before the said shippe was
tayed neere ffalmouth was shee nott chased by a dutch man
of Warre or some other shippe upon the seas neere the Coast
of Cornwall on the West of ffalmouth and Pendennis, or S:t
Manes Castle, And did nott the shippe Nativity flee from the
Said other shippe, and in her flight might shee nott have made
Pendennis or S:t Manes Castle or ffalmouth harbo:r her Refuge
And have beene there surrXXed XX the Commander and Comp
-any of the Nativity had beene true men & friends, And yett did
They nott shun and avoide the said Castle & harbo:r and run their
Shippe aground a league or thereabouts to the Eastward of the
Said castle, And lett itt bee done as above.

9. Itmm: interr. Whether when the said shippe was soe stayed neere
Ffalmouth, was nott the said Michell or hee that was the then re
Puted Commander of the shippe Nativity and his Company or
Some of them examined howe they came by the said shippe &
The goods in her and howe long they had beene in possession
Thereof or to such effect, and did they nott then answeare that
The same were taken att Sea from a dutchman or hollander
Some monethes or weekes then next before, and doe nott you knowe
That the said Michell & Company did nott, nor cold then pro-
-duce any Commission to warrant the taking of the said shippe
Or goods, And lett itt bee done as above.

10. Itmm Lett him bee asked Whether att the time when the said Nativity
Was stayed neere ffalmouth and seized to the use of his Royall
Highness the Lord High Admirall aforesaid by his Officers and//
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P1100665

//Ministers and whilest they remayned aboard the said shippe, did
nott the Commander and Company of the said shippe designe &
contrive and indeavo:r to blowe the said shippe up with Gunpowder
and were there nott severall Barrells of Gunpowder n the said
shippe, opened & prepareed by the Commander & Company of
her for that purpose, And have yo:u nott heard & beleeve that they
would have soe done if they had nott beene timely discovered
and prevented, Et fiat ut sup:a

11. Itmm interr. What Colo;es did Captaine Colartes shippe weare
att the time when (as itt is p:rtended) shee seized the Nativity
did shee weare the Swedish, or hwat other Colo:es and did nott
the shippe the Nativity ware the Holland Colo:es or what
colo:es did she ware or had shee nott the holland colo:es
aboard her declare the trueth, Et fiat ut sup:a

12. Itmm. Interr. Whether the sd shipp ethe Nativity when (as itt
is p:rtended) shee was seized by Captaine Colarte was nott
she seized in the English Channell and in sight of land, Et
fiat ut sup:a
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===Case: ex Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon Johis Godschall Edidy Thomas===
P1100762

//INTERROGATORIA ministrand a ex
Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon
Johis Godschall Edidy
Thomas, et seriorum M:rcatorum Anglirosa
Quoad bona in navem quandum corat the
Oporto M:chant (?Cujus Elias drew fuit
Madd) XXXXta jup quibus p:tunt testes
Examinat ad perpetuain XXXmoriam
Sequintur vizt.

1. IMPRIMIS Interr quitebet whether doe you know
Or have seene the said shippe called the Oporto
Merchant, whether doe you not know or howe heared
That the said Elias Drew was the Master of
The said shippe and the Owners of the said
Shippe were, and are English men and subjects
Of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second
And that the said shippe in the monethes of
Jan:ry and ffeb:ry 1662 (English style) and for
Some time before and after and at the time of
The seizing of the said shippe and her lading by
The subjects of the King of Spaine doe
Belong unto the port of Londona nd that the said
Shippe was upon and at the time of her departure
From this Port of London upon the voyage to
Lizboa of the Burthen of one hundred and eighty
Tunnes or thereabouts declare what you know
Beleive or have heard to this purpose Et interr
XXXX divs et de quolibel.

2. ITEM Interr quilibel whether doe you XXX know or
Have heard that the said Thomas Breton
Abraham Sayon John Godschall
And//
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P1100763

//and Giles Travers or some of them did by Charter party
25:th of ffeby 1661 take the said shippe the Oporto Merchant
To freight of John ?Pill and Rowland XXXX
M:rchants owners of the said shippe for a voyage to be
Made with the said shippe from this port
To Lisboa and from thence to the XXXX
Or any other place within the straights of Gibraltar
Being in ffriendshipp with the King of England
In such manner as XX the Charter parties
For the said voyage is conteined declared and
Know beleive or have heard to this purpose
Real XXXXX.

3. ITEM Interr quilibet whether doe you XX knowe
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===Case: XXXX: Document: Charterparty for Opporto Merchant of London===

P1100772

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this Charterparty indented of a freightment made the Eight &
Our soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of England and Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender
Merchants owners of the good ship called the OPPORTO MERCHANT OF LONDON of the burthen of one hundred and Eight
Thames within the port of the Citty of London (of which ship Elias ?Drew Mariner is Master)
Breton Abrham Sayon Andrew Midleton John ?Goosthall GilesXXavervband Nichols Vanaker of London
The said owners have granted and letten to freight the said ship unto the said Merchants by the
Certaine from the departure of the said ship from Gravesend outwards
At and for the rate and price of one hundred and thirty and eight
The Calendar and for such and solongtime after the said
Factors or assignes to keepe the said ship in their service
Of England p month and soeafter the
And hired the same ship for a voyage with her to be made by Gods blessing in manner and forme following (that is to say
Administrators doe covenant grant and free to and with the said merchants theri executors and administrators by the
And next faire winds and weather that God shall send after ffoure and twenty houres notice given to the master
Gravesend with such goods and merchandizes as the said merchants their factors or assigne sof XXXX
May reasonably carry and ?store in her over & above her victuall tackle and apparell after her arrivall there shall after she shall be cleared at Gravesend & y;e XXXX with the first fair XXXX weather then XXXX happens
The perils and dangers of the seas excepted saile unto Lisboa in the Kingdom of Portugall there to discharge the goods and merchandizes carried
In her thither and being then dispatched shall directly saile from thence to the ?Madera Islands XX
The straights of Gibraltar being in league of friendship with the King of England here she may
Directed by the said merchants to their factors and assignes to saile unto to receive & take into her her freight
Said merchants thero factors ?or assignes shall lade & put aboard her so as she may reasonably XXX
Apparell as aforesaid and being XXXX from her last port of employment abroad shall by Gods
& the perills & dangers of the setting XXX saile is XXX & come backe into the said port of the XXX
Arrive thereat an anchor to make discharge and and of her said intended voyage AND the said
Doe iointly and severally covenant grant & agree to and with y:e said owners to
And directtion to the master of the sd ship for
The streights of Gibraktar inamity with England where she may safely arrive
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P1100799

//INTERRA MINISTRANDA ex pts
William Curtis Testibus oibus, et
singulis ex pte Thoma Hussey,
Samuelis Harwar et serior con en
utruq:r p:rduct et p:ducent Sequuntur
viz:t

1. IMPRIMIS Exponatur Civitibi Testi perXXculu
et prba Testis falsdii, et tum inter de XX atate,
sonducone mora et orta XXXX, Et quamdin novit ptes
in humoi Caa litigands Et Interr Con:m div:m et de
quatibi.

2. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether were you any of
the Company of the Shipp the ''May fflower''
mencconed on the Allegaccon whereupon you are
examined, if yea whether were you areofficer of
the said shipp or a Common marriner if an
officer what office did you beare in the said
Shippe Et fiat et supra.

2. Item Inter quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have credibly heard reported That at the
tyme of the makeinge of the Charter Partie mencconed
in the Allegaccon whereupon you are examined
and alsoe some tyme before and at the tyme That
the said Willm Curtis was by the said Thomas
Hussex William HaXXXXard and Companie
appointed master and Commander of the said shipp
the ''May fflower'', the said Thomas Hussey,
William Harvard and Companie or some of them
did know, and take notice of, That the said William
Curtis was ymployed by and in the Service of the
East India Company & that he was untertXXXXX
XXXX//
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P1100800

//into and in the Service of the East India
Companie before he was master of the sd
Shipp the ''May fflower'' & that the said XX
Hussey, Samuel Harward and Companie XX
soe much at the tyme of the said makeing of y:e
said Charter Partie nor did take any off
exception at all to the same but were content
therewith. Declare what you know, beleive, and
heard to this purpose: Et fiat et sapra.

4. Item Inter Quilibi Whether doe you ?know
have credibly heard what daie of the moneth
what yeare of our Lord the said Shipp the ''May
fflower'' was dispatched and cleared at Madras ?by
factors and Agents of the East=India Companie XX
Madras upon her voyage homewards for England if
yea, expressed the precise day of the moneth and
what yeare of our Lord it was, whoe by name
the Cheife ffactor and Agent of the East India
Companie at Madras the tyme when the XXX
was dispatched from thence and had the CXXXX
Cheife of the officers of the East India Companie
Et fiat ut supra.

5. ITEM Interr quilib Whether doe you
What pXXXX and Custome XX
the moneth and in what yeare of our Lord XX
shipp ''Mary Gold'' mencconed in the sd XXX
whereupon you are examined did depart and
saile from Madras if yea expresse the XXXX
day of the moneth and what yeare the sd
''Mary Gold'' sett saile from Madras. WhXXXXXX//
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P1100801

6. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have Credibly heard That from, &
continually after the tyme that the said shipp
the ''Mary Gold'' did saile from Madras the
voyage in Question untill the 29:th day of
January 1659 about XXXX the wind was
sent XXXdly and the Streame did constantly
comme to XXX Northward, soe as both the wind &
Streame duringe the said tyme were both
contrary to the said shipp the ''Mary Gold'',
to her Comeinge for England & that she did
not nor could duringe the said tyme advance, or
make any proresse ?foward in her course for
England, and that two daies after her departinge
from Madras she was seene off from thence and
observed to have made noe advance or progresse for
England. Declare what you know, beleive, or have
heard to this purpose Et fiat ut surpra.

7. Item Interr quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have Credibly heard reported. That
Thomas Chamber<ref>Thomas Chamber took over as chief agent in Madras in 1659, after the death of William Greenhill</ref> whoe was Cheife Agent
for the East India Company at Madras in, &
dureinge the monethes of December and
January 1659 and for some tyme before and
after did not, did not, nor would dispatch the
said Captaine Curtis from thence ?give him
his dispatched soe as he might be in a
Capacity to sett saile from thence untill the
29:th of January 1659//
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P1100802
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P1100803
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P1100804
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P1100805
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P1100806

//the same were and are and soe usually have
beene Accustomed to be carried aboard the
Shipps there in the Service of the East
India Companie by the boates of the
County there. Declare what you
know beleive or have heard to this purpose. Et
fiat ut supra

12. Item Inter quilibt Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have heard reported That
by the meanes and default of the said Agent
and for want of the said boates some of the
said provisions were not, nor could be gott
aboard the said shipp untill the 28:th of
January 1659 and that upon the 24:th and 25:th
of january 1659 there was not water and
other provisions aboard the said Shipp
sufficient for the companie of the said Shipp
in her voyage for England & that without
the same the said Shipp could not, nor was
in a Capacity to saile if the wind had beene
then faire as in truth it was not. Declare
what you know, beleive, or have heard to this
purpose. Et fiat ut supra.

14. Item Inter quilib Whether doe you not
know//
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P1100807

//know beleive, or have heard reported that the
''May fflower'' before her arrivall at Madras
the voyage in Question did Come fromMeslepatan for Madras & that being XX
with goods she was dispatched from XXXX
for madras by W;m Johnson Cheife XXXX
for the East India Companie there, upon y:e
14:th of January 1659 and not before & XX
soe soome as ever the said Shipp was XXX
from thence the said 14:th of January 1659
the said Captaine Curtis did upn the
14:th of January 1659 sett saile with y:e
said Shipp from Mesloputan for Madras
and arrived there with the said Shipp &
goods in her upon the 25:th of January 1659
then the said Goods brought thither in the
said Shipp were unladed out of her XX
expedicionne That the said Captaine Curtis &
his Company Could make or that the Agent XX
the Company there Could prmitt & XXX
sent the boates for the same the XXXX
were with all Diligence unladed out of the
said Shipp & that it was the 24:th or 25:th of
January 1659 before the last of the goods//

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P1100808

//there were unladed out of the said Shipp
and whether were not you the wittnesse
ymployedd in the unladinge of the said goods
out of the said shipp there, and did your
diligence therein. Et fiat ut supra.

15. Item Inter quilibi Whether did not the
said Captaine Curtis after his dispatch
at Mesloputan make all spaces he could
from thence for Madras & that the said
voyage from Meslepatan to Madras was
furnished in in, and with the said Shipp
''May fflower'' in as soone a tyme as wind &
weather did, or could prmitt from her
departure from Mesleputan for Madras
aforesaid & that there was noe default at all
in the said Captaine Curtis therein &
whether have not you the wittnesse said, &
affirmed soe much. Et fiat ut supra

16. Item Inter quilibi Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have heard reported that
after the arrivall of the said shipp at Madras
from Mesleputain as aforesaid the said Capt
Curtis did by himselfe and other sby him
ymployed write, p:suafe and importance the
said//
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P1100809

said Thomas Chamber the said Agent
of the said Companie at Madras to XXX
away the said Shipp form thence &
he the said Captaine Curtis used all his Diligence therein & that he
was in noe default at all therein & XXX
notwithstandinge he could not procure
obtaine his disptaches from the sad
Agent untlll the 29:th of January 1659
whether hand not you the wittnesse before
examined as a wittnesse touchinge this pXXX
and have XXXed upo youre oath that the
Agents if the East India Company XXX
Mesleputan and Madras were in default
that the said Shipp was not sooner XXX
at Mesleputan and Madras and that XXX
deteyned and kept thereby by the Agent of
the said Companies, & she saith Cap:t XXX
was in noe default at all therein. Discover
what you know, beleive or have heard to the
purpose. Et fiat ut supra.

17. ITEM Interr Quilibb Whether XXX
not know, beleive, or have heard XXX
That upon the 29:th of January 1658 x:r
as the wind came fXXXX a sett to XXX XXX//
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P110810

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==Notes==

MRP: HCA 23/19

2012-04-26T21:52:53Z

StellaWisdom:

'''HCA 23/19'''

'''Editorial history'''

26/04/12, CSG: Created page
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__TOC__
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==Suggested links==

See [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty court cases]]

See [[MRP: Lisbon|Lisbon]]
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==To do==

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==Listing of imaged cases==

HCA 23/19 Interrogatories 1658-64
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P1100662

Double paged image showing document is "No: 4"
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===Case: XXXX===

P1100663

//Interria ministrat et ministrand ex parte et per partem Illustris
Sini principis Jacobi DXXX Eboras et Albanne xr Dm : mag in
Admiralli Angli testis, quibustung, ex parte et per partem
MXXthatlis dreist, Samuelis Poplot et seriord quoad Navem the
Nativity, of Johis Eastman et al pro bonis in eadem seizit pro
Durt, sen producend sequirit.

1. Let every wittnesse bee asked whether hee was in the shippe
The Nativity when shee began her last voyage and from
What port was shee sett out when she was bound for Oporto Port
& what Lading did shee carry thither & to whence was itt
Delivered, And howe long hath the said wittnesse belonged to
The said shippe, and what Office had hee in her, Ad interr
Con:m et dX:m ar de quolibet

2. I :m interrr, Whether was hee in the shippe, when shee was seized
(as is prtended) by one Captaine ?Colarte, and was hee alsoe in the said
Shippe, when shee was stayed neere ffalmouth, or howe long
Since, and att or neere what place did hee leave the said shippe
And lett him declare upon his Oath when and whenre hee last sawe
The said shippe and howe hee doth knowe her to bee the same
That belonged (as is p:rtended) to Michael ?Alweist, Samuel RXXXX
And Company, And lett itt bee done as above.

3. Lett him bee asked, whether hee the said witnesse had any parte
Or share in the said shippe the Nativity or in any part of the
Goods or lading, and whether Michael Dweist a witnesse pro
Duced in this Cause bee the same partie where in this Cause
Is a Clayment of parte of the shippe Et fiat ut sup:r

4. Itmm: interr. When had the Claymers or the mittnesse first
Notice that the shippe Nativity was stayed neere ffalmouth
Howe long time was there betweene the seizure made by Colarte
And the saty of the said shippe made neere ffalmouth and
Whether in that time, was nott the said shippe used and imploy
Ed as a shippe of Warre by those that had her then in possession
And whether one Michell and his Company did nott with the
Said shippe Nativity take and seize some other shippes and
Goods , and XXXX many shippes and what sorts or quantities of
Goods Et fiat at sup:X

5. Itmm: interr. Howe sooth hee knowe that the said Michael
Dweist and the other Clayments are Owners of the said shippe
Did they build itt, or buy itt, When and where was itt bought
& paid for, Is the wittnesse in the cause a witnesse to the
Bill of sale made of the said shippe or was p:rsent att the
Buying, or howe else doth hee knowe the Propreto:rs. Ex parte
His Reason. Et fiat ut sup:a//
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P1100663

//6. Itmm : interr. Whether did the partie that prormed the GXXX
Or deputy of S:t Manes Castle, or did any other on his behalfe
Agree with the said Governo:r or deputy to give him satisfact
Tion for his paines & Charges that hee should nee att, as
Stay of the said shippe, And what satisfaction hath been
Given or is promised for the same; Et fiat at sup:a.

7. Itmm:interr, Whether Before the said shippe Nativity
was stayed neere ffalmouth had nott they whoe were in
possession of her beene by the space of 1. 3. 5. Or more monthes
weeks, or daies sailing and ?roaving up and ddowne in the
English Channell and used and imployed the said shippe as
a Man of warre to take pXXXXX, And within that time in
and with the said shippe had nott Michell p:rtending hm
-selfe Captaine thereof, and the Company of the said shuppe
taken & dubdued & gott into theire possession some other shippe
or shippes & goods , and spoiled the Right Owners thereof
att least had indeavoured soe to doe, and were aiding abetting
or assistant to the Commander & Company of some other shippe
whoe seized and made spoile as aforesaid Et fiat ut supp.

8. Itmm: interr Whether Immediately before the said shippe was
tayed neere ffalmouth was shee nott chased by a dutch man
of Warre or some other shippe upon the seas neere the Coast
of Cornwall on the West of ffalmouth and Pendennis, or S:t
Manes Castle, And did nott the shippe Nativity flee from the
Said other shippe, and in her flight might shee nott have made
Pendennis or S:t Manes Castle or ffalmouth harbo:r her Refuge
And have beene there surrXXed XX the Commander and Comp
-any of the Nativity had beene true men & friends, And yett did
They nott shun and avoide the said Castle & harbo:r and run their
Shippe aground a league or thereabouts to the Eastward of the
Said castle, And lett itt bee done as above.

9. Itmm: interr. Whether when the said shippe was soe stayed neere
Ffalmouth, was nott the said Michell or hee that was the then re
Puted Commander of the shippe Nativity and his Company or
Some of them examined howe they came by the said shippe &
The goods in her and howe long they had beene in possession
Thereof or to such effect, and did they nott then answeare that
The same were taken att Sea from a dutchman or hollander
Some monethes or weekes then next before, and doe nott you knowe
That the said Michell & Company did nott, nor cold then pro-
-duce any Commission to warrant the taking of the said shippe
Or goods, And lett itt bee done as above.

10. Itmm Lett him bee asked Whether att the time when the said Nativity
Was stayed neere ffalmouth and seized to the use of his Royall
Highness the Lord High Admirall aforesaid by his Officers and//
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P1100665

//Ministers and whilest they remayned aboard the said shippe, did
nott the Commander and Company of the said shippe designe &
contrive and indeavo:r to blowe the said shippe up with Gunpowder
and were there nott severall Barrells of Gunpowder n the said
shippe, opened & prepareed by the Commander & Company of
her for that purpose, And have yo:u nott heard & beleeve that they
would have soe done if they had nott beene timely discovered
and prevented, Et fiat ut sup:a

11. Itmm interr. What Colo;es did Captaine Colartes shippe weare
att the time when (as itt is p:rtended) shee seized the Nativity
did shee weare the Swedish, or hwat other Colo:es and did nott
the shippe the Nativity ware the Holland Colo:es or what
colo:es did she ware or had shee nott the holland colo:es
aboard her declare the trueth, Et fiat ut sup:a

12. Itmm. Interr. Whether the sd shipp ethe Nativity when (as itt
is p:rtended) shee was seized by Captaine Colarte was nott
she seized in the English Channell and in sight of land, Et
fiat ut sup:a
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===Case: ex Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon Johis Godschall Edidy Thomas===
P1100762

//INTERROGATORIA ministrand a ex
Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon
Johis Godschall Edidy
Thomas, et seriorum M:rcatorum Anglirosa
Quoad bona in navem quandum corat the
Oporto M:chant (?Cujus Elias drew fuit
Madd) XXXXta jup quibus p:tunt testes
Examinat ad perpetuain XXXmoriam
Sequintur vizt.

1. IMPRIMIS Interr quitebet whether doe you know
Or have seene the said shippe called the Oporto
Merchant, whether doe you not know or howe heared
That the said Elias Drew was the Master of
The said shippe and the Owners of the said
Shippe were, and are English men and subjects
Of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second
And that the said shippe in the monethes of
Jan:ry and ffeb:ry 1662 (English style) and for
Some time before and after and at the time of
The seizing of the said shippe and her lading by
The subjects of the King of Spaine doe
Belong unto the port of Londona nd that the said
Shippe was upon and at the time of her departure
From this Port of London upon the voyage to
Lizboa of the Burthen of one hundred and eighty
Tunnes or thereabouts declare what you know
Beleive or have heard to this purpose Et interr
XXXX divs et de quolibel.

2. ITEM Interr quilibel whether doe you XXX know or
Have heard that the said Thomas Breton
Abraham Sayon John Godschall
And//
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P1100763

//and Giles Travers or some of them did by Charter party
25:th of ffeby 1661 take the said shippe the Oporto Merchant
To freight of John ?Pill and Rowland XXXX
M:rchants owners of the said shippe for a voyage to be
Made with the said shippe from this port
To Lisboa and from thence to the XXXX
Or any other place within the straights of Gibraltar
Being in ffriendshipp with the King of England
In such manner as XX the Charter parties
For the said voyage is conteined declared and
Know beleive or have heard to this purpose
Real XXXXX.

3. ITEM Interr quilibet whether doe you XX knowe
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===Case: XXXX: Document: Charterparty for Opporto Merchant of London===

P1100772

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this Charterparty indented of a freightment made the Eight &
Our soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of England and Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender
Merchants owners of the good ship called the OPPORTO MERCHANT OF LONDON of the burthen of one hundred and Eight
Thames within the port of the Citty of London (of which ship Elias ?Drew Mariner is Master)
Breton Abrham Sayon Andrew Midleton John ?Goosthall GilesXXavervband Nichols Vanaker of London
The said owners have granted and letten to freight the said ship unto the said Merchants by the
Certaine from the departure of the said ship from Gravesend outwards
At and for the rate and price of one hundred and thirty and eight
The Calendar and for such and solongtime after the said
Factors or assignes to keepe the said ship in their service
Of England p month and soeafter the
And hired the same ship for a voyage with her to be made by Gods blessing in manner and forme following (that is to say
Administrators doe covenant grant and free to and with the said merchants theri executors and administrators by the
And next faire winds and weather that God shall send after ffoure and twenty houres notice given to the master
Gravesend with such goods and merchandizes as the said merchants their factors or assigne sof XXXX
May reasonably carry and ?store in her over & above her victuall tackle and apparell after her arrivall there shall after she shall be cleared at Gravesend & y;e XXXX with the first fair XXXX weather then XXXX happens
The perils and dangers of the seas excepted saile unto Lisboa in the Kingdom of Portugall there to discharge the goods and merchandizes carried
In her thither and being then dispatched shall directly saile from thence to the ?Madera Islands XX
The straights of Gibraltar being in league of friendship with the King of England here she may
Directed by the said merchants to their factors and assignes to saile unto to receive & take into her her freight
Said merchants thero factors ?or assignes shall lade & put aboard her so as she may reasonably XXX
Apparell as aforesaid and being XXXX from her last port of employment abroad shall by Gods
& the perills & dangers of the setting XXX saile is XXX & come backe into the said port of the XXX
Arrive thereat an anchor to make discharge and and of her said intended voyage AND the said
Doe iointly and severally covenant grant & agree to and with y:e said owners to
And directtion to the master of the sd ship for
The streights of Gibraktar inamity with England where she may safely arrive
----
P1100799

//INTERRA MINISTRANDA ex pts
William Curtis Testibus oibus, et
singulis ex pte Thoma Hussey,
Samuelis Harwar et serior con en
utruq:r p:rduct et p:ducent Sequuntur
viz:t

1. IMPRIMIS Exponatur Civitibi Testi perXXculu
et prba Testis falsdii, et tum inter de XX atate,
sonducone mora et orta XXXX, Et quamdin novit ptes
in humoi Caa litigands Et Interr Con:m div:m et de
quatibi.

2. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether were you any of
the Company of the Shipp the ''May fflower''
mencconed on the Allegaccon whereupon you are
examined, if yea whether were you areofficer of
the said shipp or a Common marriner if an
officer what office did you beare in the said
Shippe Et fiat et supra.

2. Item Inter quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have credibly heard reported That at the
tyme of the makeinge of the Charter Partie mencconed
in the Allegaccon whereupon you are examined
and alsoe some tyme before and at the tyme That
the said Willm Curtis was by the said Thomas
Hussex William HaXXXXard and Companie
appointed master and Commander of the said shipp
the ''May fflower'', the said Thomas Hussey,
William Harvard and Companie or some of them
did know, and take notice of, That the said William
Curtis was ymployed by and in the Service of the
East India Company & that he was untertXXXXX
XXXX//
----
P1100800

//into and in the Service of the East India
Companie before he was master of the sd
Shipp the ''May fflower'' & that the said XX
Hussey, Samuel Harward and Companie XX
soe much at the tyme of the said makeing of y:e
said Charter Partie nor did take any off
exception at all to the same but were content
therewith. Declare what you know, beleive, and
heard to this purpose: Et fiat et sapra.

4. Item Inter Quilibi Whether doe you ?know
have credibly heard what daie of the moneth
what yeare of our Lord the said Shipp the ''May
fflower'' was dispatched and cleared at Madras ?by
factors and Agents of the East=India Companie XX
Madras upon her voyage homewards for England if
yea, expressed the precise day of the moneth and
what yeare of our Lord it was, whoe by name
the Cheife ffactor and Agent of the East India
Companie at Madras the tyme when the XXX
was dispatched from thence and had the CXXXX
Cheife of the officers of the East India Companie
Et fiat ut supra.

5. ITEM Interr quilib Whether doe you
What pXXXX and Custome XX
the moneth and in what yeare of our Lord XX
shipp ''Mary Gold'' mencconed in the sd XXX
whereupon you are examined did depart and
saile from Madras if yea expresse the XXXX
day of the moneth and what yeare the sd
''Mary Gold'' sett saile from Madras. WhXXXXXX//
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P1100801

6. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have Credibly heard That from, &
continually after the tyme that the said shipp
the ''Mary Gold'' did saile from Madras the
voyage in Question untill the 29:th day of
January 1659 about XXXX the wind was
sent XXXdly and the Streame did constantly
comme to XXX Northward, soe as both the wind &
Streame duringe the said tyme were both
contrary to the said shipp the ''Mary Gold'',
to her Comeinge for England & that she did
not nor could duringe the said tyme advance, or
make any proresse ?foward in her course for
England, and that two daies after her departinge
from Madras she was seene off from thence and
observed to have made noe advance or progresse for
England. Declare what you know, beleive, or have
heard to this purpose Et fiat ut surpra.

7. Item Interr quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have Credibly heard reported. That
Thomas Chamber<ref>Thomas Chamber took over as chief agent in Madras in 1659, after the death of William Greenhill</ref> whoe was Cheife Agent
for the East India Company at Madras in, &
dureinge the monethes of December and
January 1659 and for some tyme before and
after did not, did not, nor would dispatch the
said Captaine Curtis from thence ?give him
his dispatched soe as he might be in a
Capacity to sett saile from thence untill the
29:th of January 1659//
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P1100802
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P1100803
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P1100804
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P1100805
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P1100806

//the same were and are and soe usually have
beene Accustomed to be carried aboard the
Shipps there in the Service of the East
India Companie by the boates of the
County there. Declare what you
know beleive or have heard to this purpose. Et
fiat ut supra

12. Item Inter quilibt Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have heard reported That
by the meanes and default of the said Agent
and for want of the said boates some of the
said provisions were not, nor could be gott
aboard the said shipp untill the 28:th of
January 1659 and that upon the 24:th and 25:th
of january 1659 there was not water and
other provisions aboard the said Shipp
sufficient for the companie of the said Shipp
in her voyage for England & that without
the same the said Shipp could not, nor was
in a Capacity to saile if the wind had beene
then faire as in truth it was not. Declare
what you know, beleive, or have heard to this
purpose. Et fiat ut supra.

14. Item Inter quilib Whether doe you not
know//
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P1100807

//know beleive, or have heard reported that the
''May fflower' before her arrivall at Madras
the voyage in Question did Come fromMeslepatan for Madras & that being XX
with goods she was dispatched from XXXX
for madras by W;m Johnson Cheife XXXX
for the East India Companie there, upon y:e
14:th of January 1659 and not before & XX
soe soome as ever the said Shipp was XXX
from thence the said 14:th of January 1659
the said Captaine Curtis did upn the
14:th of January 1659 sett saile with y:e
said Shipp from Mesloputan for Madras
and arrived there with the said Shipp &
goods in her upon the 25:th of January 1659
then the said Goods brought thither in the
said Shipp were unladed out of her XX
expedicionne That the said Captaine Curtis &
his Company Could make or that the Agent XX
the Company there Could prmitt & XXX
sent the boates for the same the XXXX
were with all Diligence unladed out of the
said Shipp & that it was the 24:th or 25:th of
January 1659 before the last of the goods//

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P1100808

//there were unladed out of the said Shipp
and whether were not you the wittnesse
ymployedd in the unladinge of the said goods
out of the said shipp there, and did your
diligence therein. Et fiat ut supra.

15. Item Inter quilibi Whether did not the
said Captaine Curtis after his dispatch
at Mesloputan make all spaces he could
from thence for Madras & that the said
voyage from Meslepatan to Madras was
furnished in in, and with the said Shipp
''May fflower'' in as soone a tyme as wind &
weather did, or could prmitt from her
departure from Mesleputan for Madras
aforesaid & that there was noe default at all
in the said Captaine Curtis therein &
whether have not you the wittnesse said, &
affirmed soe much. Et fiat ut supra

16. Item Inter quilibi Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have heard reported that
after the arrivall of the said shipp at Madras
from Mesleputain as aforesaid the said Capt
Curtis did by himselfe and other sby him
ymployed write, p:suafe and importance the
said//
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P1100809

said Thomas Chamber the said Agent
of the said Companie at Madras to XXX
away the said Shipp form thence &
he the said Captaine Curtis used all his Diligence therein & that he
was in noe default at all therein & XXX
notwithstandinge he could not procure
obtaine his disptaches from the sad
Agent untlll the 29:th of January 1659
whether hand not you the wittnesse before
examined as a wittnesse touchinge this pXXX
and have XXXed upo youre oath that the
Agents if the East India Company XXX
Mesleputan and Madras were in default
that the said Shipp was not sooner XXX
at Mesleputan and Madras and that XXX
deteyned and kept thereby by the Agent of
the said Companies, & she saith Cap:t XXX
was in noe default at all therein. Discover
what you know, beleive or have heard to the
purpose. Et fiat ut supra.

17. ITEM Interr Quilibb Whether XXX
not know, beleive, or have heard XXX
That upon the 29:th of January 1658 x:r
as the wind came fXXXX a sett to XXX XXX//
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P110810

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==Notes==

MRP: HCA 23/19

2012-04-26T21:13:07Z

StellaWisdom:

'''HCA 23/19'''

'''Editorial history'''

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P1100662

Double paged image showing document is "No: 4"
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===Case: XXXX===

P1100663

//Interria ministrat et ministrand ex parte et per partem Illustris
Sini principis Jacobi DXXX Eboras et Albanne xr Dm : mag in
Admiralli Angli testis, quibustung, ex parte et per partem
MXXthatlis dreist, Samuelis Poplot et seriord quoad Navem the
Nativity, of Johis Eastman et al pro bonis in eadem seizit pro
Durt, sen producend sequirit.

1. Let every wittnesse bee asked whether hee was in the shippe
The Nativity when shee began her last voyage and from
What port was shee sett out when she was bound for Oporto Port
& what Lading did shee carry thither & to whence was itt
Delivered, And howe long hath the said wittnesse belonged to
The said shippe, and what Office had hee in her, Ad interr
Con:m et dX:m ar de quolibet

2. I :m interrr, Whether was hee in the shippe, when shee was seized
(as is prtended) by one Captaine ?Colarte, and was hee alsoe in the said
Shippe, when shee was stayed neere ffalmouth, or howe long
Since, and att or neere what place did hee leave the said shippe
And lett him declare upon his Oath when and whenre hee last sawe
The said shippe and howe hee doth knowe her to bee the same
That belonged (as is p:rtended) to Michael ?Alweist, Samuel RXXXX
And Company, And lett itt bee done as above.

3. Lett him bee asked, whether hee the said witnesse had any parte
Or share in the said shippe the Nativity or in any part of the
Goods or lading, and whether Michael Dweist a witnesse pro
Duced in this Cause bee the same partie where in this Cause
Is a Clayment of parte of the shippe Et fiat ut sup:r

4. Itmm: interr. When had the Claymers or the mittnesse first
Notice that the shippe Nativity was stayed neere ffalmouth
Howe long time was there betweene the seizure made by Colarte
And the saty of the said shippe made neere ffalmouth and
Whether in that time, was nott the said shippe used and imploy
Ed as a shippe of Warre by those that had her then in possession
And whether one Michell and his Company did nott with the
Said shippe Nativity take and seize some other shippes and
Goods , and XXXX many shippes and what sorts or quantities of
Goods Et fiat at sup:X

5. Itmm: interr. Howe sooth hee knowe that the said Michael
Dweist and the other Clayments are Owners of the said shippe
Did they build itt, or buy itt, When and where was itt bought
& paid for, Is the wittnesse in the cause a witnesse to the
Bill of sale made of the said shippe or was p:rsent att the
Buying, or howe else doth hee knowe the Propreto:rs. Ex parte
His Reason. Et fiat ut sup:a//
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P1100663

//6. Itmm : interr. Whether did the partie that prormed the GXXX
Or deputy of S:t Manes Castle, or did any other on his behalfe
Agree with the said Governo:r or deputy to give him satisfact
Tion for his paines & Charges that hee should nee att, as
Stay of the said shippe, And what satisfaction hath been
Given or is promised for the same; Et fiat at sup:a.

7. Itmm:interr, Whether Before the said shippe Nativity
was stayed neere ffalmouth had nott they whoe were in
possession of her beene by the space of 1. 3. 5. Or more monthes
weeks, or daies sailing and ?roaving up and ddowne in the
English Channell and used and imployed the said shippe as
a Man of warre to take pXXXXX, And within that time in
and with the said shippe had nott Michell p:rtending hm
-selfe Captaine thereof, and the Company of the said shuppe
taken & dubdued & gott into theire possession some other shippe
or shippes & goods , and spoiled the Right Owners thereof
att least had indeavoured soe to doe, and were aiding abetting
or assistant to the Commander & Company of some other shippe
whoe seized and made spoile as aforesaid Et fiat ut supp.

8. Itmm: interr Whether Immediately before the said shippe was
tayed neere ffalmouth was shee nott chased by a dutch man
of Warre or some other shippe upon the seas neere the Coast
of Cornwall on the West of ffalmouth and Pendennis, or S:t
Manes Castle, And did nott the shippe Nativity flee from the
Said other shippe, and in her flight might shee nott have made
Pendennis or S:t Manes Castle or ffalmouth harbo:r her Refuge
And have beene there surrXXed XX the Commander and Comp
-any of the Nativity had beene true men & friends, And yett did
They nott shun and avoide the said Castle & harbo:r and run their
Shippe aground a league or thereabouts to the Eastward of the
Said castle, And lett itt bee done as above.

9. Itmm: interr. Whether when the said shippe was soe stayed neere
Ffalmouth, was nott the said Michell or hee that was the then re
Puted Commander of the shippe Nativity and his Company or
Some of them examined howe they came by the said shippe &
The goods in her and howe long they had beene in possession
Thereof or to such effect, and did they nott then answeare that
The same were taken att Sea from a dutchman or hollander
Some monethes or weekes then next before, and doe nott you knowe
That the said Michell & Company did nott, nor cold then pro-
-duce any Commission to warrant the taking of the said shippe
Or goods, And lett itt bee done as above.

10. Itmm Lett him bee asked Whether att the time when the said Nativity
Was stayed neere ffalmouth and seized to the use of his Royall
Highness the Lord High Admirall aforesaid by his Officers and//
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P1100665

//Ministers and whilest they remayned aboard the said shippe, did
nott the Commander and Company of the said shippe designe &
contrive and indeavo:r to blowe the said shippe up with Gunpowder
and were there nott severall Barrells of Gunpowder n the said
shippe, opened & prepareed by the Commander & Company of
her for that purpose, And have yo:u nott heard & beleeve that they
would have soe done if they had nott beene timely discovered
and prevented, Et fiat ut sup:a

11. Itmm interr. What Colo;es did Captaine Colartes shippe weare
att the time when (as itt is p:rtended) shee seized the Nativity
did shee weare the Swedish, or hwat other Colo:es and did nott
the shippe the Nativity ware the Holland Colo:es or what
colo:es did she ware or had shee nott the holland colo:es
aboard her declare the trueth, Et fiat ut sup:a

12. Itmm. Interr. Whether the sd shipp ethe Nativity when (as itt
is p:rtended) shee was seized by Captaine Colarte was nott
she seized in the English Channell and in sight of land, Et
fiat ut sup:a
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===Case: ex Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon Johis Godschall Edidy Thomas===
P1100762

//INTERROGATORIA ministrand a ex
Parte Thoma Breton Abrahami Sayon
Johis Godschall Edidy
Thomas, et seriorum M:rcatorum Anglirosa
Quoad bona in navem quandum corat the
Oporto M:chant (?Cujus Elias drew fuit
Madd) XXXXta jup quibus p:tunt testes
Examinat ad perpetuain XXXmoriam
Sequintur vizt.

1. IMPRIMIS Interr quitebet whether doe you know
Or have seene the said shippe called the Oporto
Merchant, whether doe you not know or howe heared
That the said Elias Drew was the Master of
The said shippe and the Owners of the said
Shippe were, and are English men and subjects
Of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second
And that the said shippe in the monethes of
Jan:ry and ffeb:ry 1662 (English style) and for
Some time before and after and at the time of
The seizing of the said shippe and her lading by
The subjects of the King of Spaine doe
Belong unto the port of Londona nd that the said
Shippe was upon and at the time of her departure
From this Port of London upon the voyage to
Lizboa of the Burthen of one hundred and eighty
Tunnes or thereabouts declare what you know
Beleive or have heard to this purpose Et interr
XXXX divs et de quolibel.

2. ITEM Interr quilibel whether doe you XXX know or
Have heard that the said Thomas Breton
Abraham Sayon John Godschall
And//
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P1100763

//and Giles Travers or some of them did by Charter party
25:th of ffeby 1661 take the said shippe the Oporto Merchant
To freight of John ?Pill and Rowland XXXX
M:rchants owners of the said shippe for a voyage to be
Made with the said shippe from this port
To Lisboa and from thence to the XXXX
Or any other place within the straights of Gibraltar
Being in ffriendshipp with the King of England
In such manner as XX the Charter parties
For the said voyage is conteined declared and
Know beleive or have heard to this purpose
Real XXXXX.

3. ITEM Interr quilibet whether doe you XX knowe
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===Case: XXXX: Document: Charterparty for Opporto Merchant of London===

P1100772

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this Charterparty indented of a freightment made the Eight &
Our soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of England and Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender
Merchants owners of the good ship called the OPPORTO MERCHANT OF LONDON of the burthen of one hundred and Eight
Thames within the port of the Citty of London (of which ship Elias ?Drew Mariner is Master)
Breton Abrham Sayon Andrew Midleton John ?Goosthall GilesXXavervband Nichols Vanaker of London
The said owners have granted and letten to freight the said ship unto the said Merchants by the
Certaine from the departure of the said ship from Gravesend outwards
At and for the rate and price of one hundred and thirty and eight
The Calendar and for such and solongtime after the said
Factors or assignes to keepe the said ship in their service
Of England p month and soeafter the
And hired the same ship for a voyage with her to be made by Gods blessing in manner and forme following (that is to say
Administrators doe covenant grant and free to and with the said merchants theri executors and administrators by the
And next faire winds and weather that God shall send after ffoure and twenty houres notice given to the master
Gravesend with such goods and merchandizes as the said merchants their factors or assigne sof XXXX
May reasonably carry and ?store in her over & above her victuall tackle and apparell after her arrivall there shall after she shall be cleared at Gravesend & y;e XXXX with the first fair XXXX weather then XXXX happens
The perils and dangers of the seas excepted saile unto Lisboa in the Kingdom of Portugall there to discharge the goods and merchandizes carried
In her thither and being then dispatched shall directly saile from thence to the ?Madera Islands XX
The straights of Gibraltar being in league of friendship with the King of England here she may
Directed by the said merchants to their factors and assignes to saile unto to receive & take into her her freight
Said merchants thero factors ?or assignes shall lade & put aboard her so as she may reasonably XXX
Apparell as aforesaid and being XXXX from her last port of employment abroad shall by Gods
& the perills & dangers of the setting XXX saile is XXX & come backe into the said port of the XXX
Arrive thereat an anchor to make discharge and and of her said intended voyage AND the said
Doe iointly and severally covenant grant & agree to and with y:e said owners to
And directtion to the master of the sd ship for
The streights of Gibraktar inamity with England where she may safely arrive
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P1100799

//INTERRA MINISTRANDA ex pts
William Curtis Testibus oibus, et
singulis ex pte Thoma Hussey,
Samuelis Harwar et serior con en
utruq:r p:rduct et p:ducent Sequuntur
viz:t

1. IMPRIMIS Exponatur Civitibi Testi perXXculu
et prba Testis falsdii, et tum inter de XX atate,
sonducone mora et orta XXXX, Et quamdin novit ptes
in humoi Caa litigands Et Interr Con:m div:m et de
quatibi.

2. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether were you any of
the Company of the Shipp the ''May fflower''
mencconed on the Allegaccon whereupon you are
examined, if yea whether were you areofficer of
the said shipp or a Common marriner if an
officer what office did you beare in the said
Shippe Et fiat et supra.

2. Item Inter quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have credibly heard reported That at the
tyme of the makeinge of the Charter Partie mencconed
in the Allegaccon whereupon you are examined
and alsoe some tyme before and at the tyme That
the said Willm Curtis was by the said Thomas
Hussex William HaXXXXard and Companie
appointed master and Commander of the said shipp
the ''May fflower'', the said Thomas Hussey,
William Harvard and Companie or some of them
did know, and take notice of, That the said William
Curtis was ymployed by and in the Service of the
East India Company & that he was untertXXXXX
XXXX//
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P1100800

//into and in the Service of the East India
Companie before he was master of the sd
Shipp the ''May fflower'' & that the said XX
Hussey, Samuel Harward and Companie XX
soe much at the tyme of the said makeing of y:e
said Charter Partie nor did take any off
exception at all to the same but were content
therewith. Declare what you know, beleive, and
heard to this purpose: Et fiat et sapra.

4. Item Inter Quilibi Whether doe you ?know
have credibly heard what daie of the moneth
what yeare of our Lord the said Shipp the ''May
fflower'' was dispatched and cleared at Madras ?by
factors and Agents of the East=India Companie XX
Madras upon her voyage homewards for England if
yea, expressed the precise day of the moneth and
what yeare of our Lord it was, whoe by name
the Cheife ffactor and Agent of the East India
Companie at Madras the tyme when the XXX
was dispatched from thence and had the CXXXX
Cheife of the officers of the East India Companie
Et fiat ut supra.

5. ITEM Interr quilib Whether doe you
What pXXXX and Custome XX
the moneth and in what yeare of our Lord XX
shipp ''Mary Gold'' mencconed in the sd XXX
whereupon you are examined did depart and
saile from Madras if yea expresse the XXXX
day of the moneth and what yeare the sd
''Mary Gold'' sett saile from Madras. WhXXXXXX//
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P1100801

6. ITEM Inter quilibi Whether doe you not
know, beleive, or have Credibly heard That from, &
continually after the tyme that the said shipp
the ''Mary Gold'' did saile from Madras the
voyage in Question untill the 29:th day of
January 1659 about XXXX the wind was
sent XXXdly and the Streame did constantly
comme to XXX Northward, soe as both the wind &
Streame duringe the said tyme were both
contrary to the said shipp the ''Mary Gold'',
to her Comeinge for England & that she did
not nor could duringe the said tyme advance, or
make any proresse ?foward in her course for
England, and that two daies after her departinge
from Madras she was seene off from thence and
observed to have made noe advance or progresse for
England. Declare what you know, beleive, or have
heard to this purpose Et fiat ut surpra.

7. Item Interr quilibi Whether doe you not know,
beleive, or have Credibly heard reported. That
Thomas Chamber whoe was Cheife Agent
for the East India Company at Madras in, &
dureinge the monethes of December and
January 1659 and for some tyme before and
after did not, did not, nor would dispatch the
said Captaine Curtis from thence ?give him
his dispatched soe as he might be in a
Capacity to sett saile from thence untill the
29:th of January 1659//
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P1100802

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* Corruption and kickbacks (prevalence; function)

* Greenland fishing

* Timber merchants

* Workings of Vice Admiralty courts outside London

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Original leather cover, but damaged in top RH front corner
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23 January 1654
The personal answers of Arnold and Elias Beake of this Citty of London Merchants

NOTES:
''St John the Baptist''; John Claeson M:r
Goods etc seized by the Black raven, Robert Sedgwick M:r
''St John the Baptist'' was a Dutch built ship, built in Holland or Zealand, taken as lawfull prize in late war between England and Dutch and sold by the Commissioners of the Prize Office
"The States Generall of the United Netherlands"
Rnold and Elias Beake and John Johns, all of London, merchants, bought the above ship
"Arnold & Elias Beake & Comp:ie"
"The States of Holland"
Goods seized were for the greatest part of the growth & manufactory of France, and were laded aboard by the factors and correspondents of the Beakes at bayon, France. The factors were either frenchmen or ducthmen, subjects of the King of France
Vesell and goods was taken ca. March 1653, but were never brought to any adjudication or triall according to lawe, and were worth ca. 3000 pounds
Many English were impressed, so also employed some "strangers" – "believe they were all or most of them dansickers & Easterlings and such as were free persons"
"the M:r of the said shipe was a dansicker and in amity with this Comonwealth"
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20:th of ffeb:ry : 1654

The psonalll Answeres of George
Hughes made to the poisons of an
Allegacon given in ag:t him on behalfe
Of Alderman ffrederick & Company cont.
4. Arles doe followe

NOTES:

Arlate Roger ffowke is ffactor at Cyprus for other men as well as the said Alderman ffrederocke & Companie
''Thomas Bonadventure''
Richard Chowne
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15:th ffeb:ry 1654
Personal answers of William Haddocke on behalf of Hugh Bowden

NOTES:

"the said Samuel Howe was and is a notary publique lawfull and honest and assumed Actuary of this Courte"
William Haddocke was a part-owner of a ship in question
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26:th Junij 1655

Personal answers of John & Edw:d Bushell on behalf of John Salmon

NOTES:

M:r jacques youngrix of Dover
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Personal answrs of John Page on behalf of Sidrack Blake and others
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Swanly agt Wood
Edward Wood
?1655

NOTES:

George Swanley
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The personal answeres of Robert Abdy Esq
13th December1655

NOTES:
Abdy ag:t Case

The ship the ''Stambolme'' at Smirna in 1653
Estate of S:r John Sayers deceased, now belongs to this rend:t
Specifies goods
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John Langley, Samuell Moyer & Wi:m Williams
6th March 1655 (i.e. 1666)

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==Listing of imaged cases==
===Case: Miller con W:m Vincent et al: Deposition: Henry Johnson, of Blackwall, Middlesex, Shipwright, aged 36===

P1090611; P1090612
f. 11r.

Miller con W:m Vincent et al

28th of January 1660 iuxta xr.
upon the fore s:d Allon
on the behale of S:r W:m Vincent

Deponent: Henry Johnson of Blackwall in the County of Midds shipwright aged 36 yeares or thereabouts

Henry Johnson of Blackwall
in the County of Midds shipwright
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts
sworne & examined sayth and
deposeth as followeth viz:t

To the 8:th and 9:th Arles of the s:d Allocb (upon w:ch
alone he is examined by direccon) he sayth that on
or about the 22:th day of November in the yeare of our
Lord 1659 This dept togeather with one Thomas Good
also a shipwright did at the request of John Elliot &
the rest of the owners of the ''Coast frigat'', foe downe
to Bugbee hole to view the ship ''John & Katharine''
& to see what damage she had rec:d by meanes of
the ''Coast frigats'' falling foule of her as it was said before y:t time
at Gravesend. And saith that upon such their viewing
her, they found that a small piece of her head was
only broken off by the ''Coast frigat'', w:ch was noe
hinderance unto her at all in her sayling, foreasmuch
as she (the s:d ship ''John & Katharine'') had after y:e s:d damage XXXX before
this dep:ts viewing of her made a voyage to Virginia
without mending the same, & was then going out to
sea on another voyage without menting thereof
had not the rest of her head been broken of by two other
ships coming foule of her, viz:t the ''Virginia Merchant'' &
the ''Hanniball''; aAnd that most of what was broken off was for ornament only. And he saith that the
whole damage done by the ''Coast frigat'' to the ''John
& Katharine'' by breaking off a piece of her head and
spoyling the Guilding & painting thereof could not
amount to above seaven pounds XXXXX. And for soe
much this dep:t would have undertaken to have
made her head as good as at y:e time of y;e damage done by y:e ''Coast frigat''. And further
he cannot depose saving he saith that the ''John &
Katharine'' might & would have (as he beleeveth) made many more voyages without re-
pairing the damage done her by the ''Coast frigat'', had
not the second damage predeposed of happened.

To the Interries

To the first (it being done as the Interrie requireth)
he sayeth he knoweth nothing of the matter Interr
& therefore cannot answer to this Interrie.
To
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P1090612
f. 11v.
'''Image needs to be reimaged - fuzzy'''

To the 2:nd he referreth himselfe to his foregoing
depoXX. And further or otherwise cannot answer
not knowing ir seeing any other damage doen to the
''John & Katharine'' by the ''Coast frigat'', than what he
hath predeposed of.

To the 3:rd he cannot answ:r otherwise than as aforesaid

To the 4:th he answereth negatively for his part

To the 5:th he hath not so deposed

To the 6:th he XX
he is not to pay any there of the damages XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
flopped from XXXX
nor hath he any dependency upon any of the
owners of the ''Coast frigat'', or relXXXX to them, saveing
is acquainted with XXX of them And sayth XXX
worth a thousand pounds XXX debts being paid
further cannot answ:r

HENRY JOHNSON [His signature]

?Blacke con Scattergood afores:d
XXX January 1660
XXXX
Henricus Lobery ?portia S:t Buttolphs extra Algate XXX XXXX aged XXX yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: East India Company v. Francis Dashwood, John Sweeting, & John Connis: Deposition 1. Henricus Thurseros, of Broadstreet, London, Merchant, aged 35===

P1090613;
f. 26r.

21 die mensis ffebruary 1660.

Gubernator et Societas Mercator AngloXXX ad)
India ozidentales cXXXX XXXX contra)
ffranciscum Dashwood Johannem Sweeting et)
Johannem Connis xr ?Budd ?Suckley)

Sup Libelle ex parte dirtXXX Gubernatorie et
Societatis Mercator Anglorum ad Indias oriental commerze
exXXXX da Examinatus.

?I;nd HENRICUS THURSEROS de Broadstreete London
Mercator annosagens 35 ant do criter testis in
hoc causa productis et Juratus dictit et deponit prXXX
seq:r . viz:t.

Ad 1:nd dictit That for these tenne yeares last past there hath bin and
at present is a Company or Society of English Merchants commonly
called or known by the name of the Governo:r and Company
of English Merch:ts trading to the East Indies, And this Dep:t for
all or most pt of the said time was Imployed by them as a ffactor
in the East Indies, And to the rest hee referrs himselfe to the
Charter ?lilate

Ad 2:d 3:d et 4:d positiones dei Lilli dictit that hee referrs himselfe to
the Charter party therein mentioned:

Ad 5:d nescit deponXXX:

Ad 6:nd dictit that hee this depo:t being at Maccassar in the East Indies in the
months of Aprill May and June 1659: well knoweth that the Lilate
ship the ''Marigold'' (John Connis Comand:r arrived att Maccassar
aforesaid in or neere about the beginning of the sd month of
Aprill, and on the same day of such her arrivall there, this depo:t
went onboard her, and found and sawe that there were many
passeng:rs onboard her to the number of twenty at the least, w:ch
the said Connis tooke in (as this dep:t was credibly in formed)
on the Coast of Cormandell, but tpon whse account the same
were brought to Macassar hee saith hee knoweth not, but the said
Connis hath confessed unto him that two or three of them were
upon his the sd Connis his owne Account, And the said Connis
hee saith alsoe brought to Maccassar in the sd ship the said ?time
about twelve or fourteene bales of Callicoes upon his owne
account (as this dep:t verily beleeveth) and some of them hee
saith hee knoweth that the said Connis did dispose of at Macassar
for his owne account And further to the petition hee cannot
depose.

Ad 10 dictit that the said ship from Maccassar sailed back tp y:e
Coast of Cormandell, this depo:t goeing thither in her, And saith the said
Connis carried in the s:d ship from Macassar foresd to the Coast of Cormandell
about sixty or seaventy XXXX of Brimston (as hee confessed to this
depo:t) hee bought at Maccassar, and said that hee putt it aboard to
ballast the said ship And the said Connis of this depo:ts knowledge XXX carried in the
said ship from Maccassar aforesaid to the Coast of Cormandell XXXXXXXXXXXXX
about fourty or fifty pcell of ?Cassia (Or, China) Rootes, about fifty or sixty
pcell of TXXXXXXX and about five or six Bahare of Tortoise shells
and in the said ships passage the said Connis did ?Jappara take
aboard
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P1090614
f 26v.

aboard the said ship some Long pepp to the quantity (as hee likewise confessed unto him this depo:t
of about forty or fifty prcell , and in the XXX
of Bantam (also in the said ships passage to the Coast
of Cormandell) about One hundred jarrs of Greene Ginger
All w:ch aforementioned goods hee saith were carried in the sd
ship to the Coast of Cormondell , but not upon the Account of
the foresaid Governo:r and Company of English Merchants
trading to East India, but upon the Account of the said Connis
or other psons, not of the said Company, And the said
Connis confessed to this depo:t that hee sold the said Brimston
& ?Tutenagge on the Coast of Cormondell, or the greatest part XXX And the rest XX the
said Goods the said Connis brought in the said ship
''Marigold'' to the port of London and further cannot depose.

Ad

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===Case: East India Company v. Francis Dashwood, John Sweeting, & John Connis: Deposition 2. Edward Winter Esq., of Battersey, Surrey, aged 40===

P1090615; P1090616
f. 27r.; f. 27v

The 4:th of March 1660
Examined upon the foresaid Libell
2n:d EDWARD WINTER of Battersey in the County of Surrey Esq:r aged 40 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXX: Deposition: William Blake, of London, Merchant, aged 29===

P1090616; P1090617
f. 27v.; f. 28r.

The fifth day of March 1660
Examined upon the fore s:d Libell
r:nd WILLIAM BLAKE of London Merchant
aged 29 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Andreas Blankinsoppe, of Sheilds, Sailor, aged 23===

P1090617
f. 28r.

19:th die Marty 1660:
Robertis ?Laube; Oswald Whitleym Johnes Dove; Randulph Ferreby; et Oswald ?Trossett con navem the Providence XXX Edwardus ?Carrest Mag:r, et con dictum XXXX Suckley, Smith
Sup ?Mone ex pte dicte Laube Whitley, Dove, ?Ferreby, et ffossett dat Exam:xx
ANREAS BLANKINSOPPE de Sheilds in ?Exatu Dunnelsi Nauta annos agens 23 ant xx XXXX
- Ship the ''Providence'', at Shelds, to go from Newcastle to Amsterdam to deliver a lading of Goods

[The deposition is incomplete, due to images stopping]
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===Case: XXX: Deposition: Henry Booth, of London, XXXX, aged 66===

P1090618; P1090619; P1090620
f. 49r.; f. 49v.; f. 50r.

On the behalfe of Captaine Mathew Pennyer touching the seizure of the ''Charles'' by the French
The Thirtieth day of March 1661
Examined upon an Allon given in on behalfe of the said Mathew Pennyer
HENRY BOOTH of London Gent aged 66 yeares or thereabouts
- The action refers to events in 1649
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Thomas Holloway, of Greenwich, Sailor, aged 30===

P1090621; P1090622; P1090623; P1090624
f. 50v., f. 51r., f. 51v., f. 52r.

Eadem Die Suo Allon pradra Examinatus
2.dne THOMAS HOLLOWAY<ref>Thomas Holloway. Possibly Thomas Holloway (b. ca. 1631, d. ca. 1688) (PROB 11/391 Exton 45-86 Will of Thomas Holloway, Mariner of East Greenwich, Kent 05 April 1688)</ref> de Greenwich Nauta anno agens 30 XXXX.
- M:r Boone acclate
- The ship ''Great Alexander'', a Dutch built ship
- Voyage 19 months since
- The ship the ''Golden Starr'', Cap:t Garland
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Richardus Pil(l)es, of Limehouse, Sailor, aged XXX===

P1090624, P1090624, P1090624, P1090625, P1090626
f. 52r.; f. 52v.; f. 53r.

10. die May 1661
3:re RICHARDUS PIL(L)ES de Limehouse Nauta
- The acclate shipp the ''Golden Starr''
- Acclate Captain ?Warrop

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P1090627
f. ?

Image is unreadable
Case?
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P1090628
f. 54v.

- Mentions Captain Garland, Warton & Owen, who went aboard the ''Parr''
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P1090629
f. ?

Die mensis May 1660
Mordant Johnson, in parish of St Gregory, aged 22 or thereabouts
Acclate John Giles, who was part owner of the acclate ship the ''Hopewell''
- 12 months ago the deponent was with the said Drawatter and Giles at the ffalcon on the Banke side in a roome up one paire of staires when and where the said Drawatter and Giles had discourse together concerning a Bill of Bottomry which the said M:r Drawatter had then with him
- Mentions Richard Dover and Rowland Booth
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P1090630
f. ?

- The East India Company ag:t Cap:t ?Connis (OR, Commis)<ref>Capt. (John) Connis. This HCA case may have been referred to by the Court of Committees of the EEIC, September 5, 1660: "The Court demurs to granting the request of Captain Connis for some money on account of freight, until satisfaction has been received for a very great breach of charterparty committed by him in his late voyage, and directs certain Committees to examine and report on this matter; at the same time it is ordered that 1,000/. be paid to the owners of the ''Marigold'', on Connis promising to deliver in a true list of all goods taken into or delivered out of his ship." ('A Court of Committees, September 5, 1660' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 287 in [http://archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/32/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 32-33]; Captain Connis is possibly mentioned in several Chancery cases (C 10/74/1 Roger Andrewes, John Connis, William Pennoyer, Francis Dashwood and Edward Crispe v Frederick Skinner: money matters, Middx 1664; C 10/108/15 Barham, Russell v. Connis, Crispe: Middx 1667; C 6/247/64 Short title: Russell v Russell. Plaintiffs: Anne Russell. Defendants: Elias Russell, John Connis and Anne Connis his wife. Subject: property in Deptford, Kent. Document type: bill, answer. SFP 1683)</ref>
- 30th May 1661
- Edward Shrimpton of XXXXwall Gent aged 50 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. John Wright, of Stratford Bowe, Middlesey, Merchant, aged 20===

P1090631
f. 60r.

- The same day Examined upon the foresaid Libell
- 5. JOHN WRIGHT Living in Stratford Bowe in the County of Midd Merchant aged 20 yeares or thereabouts
- In December 1657 the Governor and Company of English Merchants trading to East Indies did by Charterpty take the libellate ship the ''Marigold'' John Connis Command:r to freight to goe to the Gold Coast of Guiney & thence to ffort St George in the Coast of Coromandell
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P1090632
f. 60v.

- The ''Marigold''<ref>The ''Marigold'' is mentioned in several secondary sources (Margaret Makepeace, ''Trade on the Guinea Coast, 1657-1666: the correspondence of the English East India Company'' (XXXX, 1991), pp. 1, 2, & 16; Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), ''A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-16639'' (Oxford, 1922), e.g. pp. 48, 79, & 337 (31 mentions in total))</ref> arrived at the Coast of Guinney at Cormantine Castle in ffebruary 165??7 (English Stile)
- John Connis carried thither two parcels of Tappaselle comonly called Guinnney Cloths and alsoe a peece or XXX of Callicoe in his Chest, about fforty Musketts, some pewter Basons, some small barrs of Lead about a foot long, All w:ch said Goods hee saith were for the Accomte of the said John Connis, or some other pson or psons not of the foresaid Company, w:ch hee knoweth for that hee goeing purser of the said ship on the said voyage did take notice in writing of what was laden for the said Companyes Accomt
- The Mate & Trumpeter of the said ship carried out in her about A hundred or one hundred and fifty weight of Iron
- The said Lead was carried to the Coast of Coromandell, did goe from thence to Maccassar, and the said Connis did carry in the said ship from Coromandell to Maccassar about ?fowre bales six faXXXX & one chest w:th white, red & blew callicoes & others XXXXXXXXXXXX & alsoe hee saith there were a parcell of ?Lungyes and ?Tapperserasses carried from Cormandell to Maccassar together w:th some other goods w:ch hee saith hee cannot particularly specify
- Several passengers were carried by order of the Companyes agent resident at ffort S:t George
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P1090633
f. 61r.

- The ship went from Maccassar to the Coast of Cormandell againe
- Carried from Maccassar were twenty six ?Dandy (OR, Candy) of Brimstine, anout Twenty Dandy of ?Tatenago, a parcell of China Rootes (of above six hundred weight, a parcell of Tortoise shells (but the quantity he cannot specify) and two pcells of Cloves weighing about threescore pounds a peece And ar ?Japarra there were taken on board the said ship severall peclls of Long Pepp, and neere Bantam in the said shipps passage from Maccassar to Cormandell there were taken onboard her about One hundred Jarres of Greene Ginger All w:ch aforementioned goods were carried in the said ship to Cormandell and some of them were there disposed of by the said Connis or his order and the rest brought to England
- Besides the foresd Goods not disposed of at Cormandell the said John Connis did bring to England in the said ship, about six or seaven small parcells of XXXcloathes, shirts, and callicoes, w:ch were belonging to himselfe or ffreinds
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P1090634
f. 61v.

- Doesn't know what damages the Company has sustained
- Cannot estimated the freight costs of the goods referred to
- Knows the Lillate ffrancis Dashwood and John Sweeting and also teh said John Connis were subiects of this Kingdome

- Signed JOHN WRIGHT

<nowiki>**********************************************************</nowiki>

===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Guilelmus Finney, of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, Sailor, aged 30===

XXXX the ''Guinney ffrig:t'' con Jacobi ?Jerry, Johann ?Drap, XXXX de Marcado, JacobXXXX Navarre XXX
5:th die Hunij 1661
XXX

- GUILELMUS FINNEY de Limehouse in ?portia de Stepney in Comitate Middlesex, nauta anno agens 30...

- He knows the ship the ''Guiney ffrigett'' for two yeeres and a halfe before shee was burnt as hereafter is mentioned. And saith that the said ship i the month of May 1660 departed from Amsterdam with a Lading of ?Goods and Merchandize for the Barbadoes, where the said Lading as to have bin delivered, And saith that the said ship att ?the time of her goeing from Amsterdam on the said Voyage was very XXX and XXXX, and well fitted with masts XX and other necessaryes for such a ship and such a voyage
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johnes Hamilton, of London, Merchant, aged 35===

P1090635
f. 71r.

Josephi Throckmorton milities et John Read XXXXX navis XXXX the ''Hope'' XXXX Jacob Peterson fuit magr et Dui Richi fford militis et dei Dui Throckmorton et XXXX XXXX seizua dXX navis et XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

?Viresimo primo de mensis Maij 1661
Sup Allone ex pte XXXX Dui Josephi Throckmorton et Johannis Read et XXXX Dui Richardi fford militis XXXX

- JOHNES HAMILTON de London Mercator annos agens 35 XXXX

- The deponent knows the ship the ''Hope'' James Peterson M:r for all the yeere 1657 and longer And alsoe then and nowe Knoweth the acclate S:r Joseph Throckmorton Knights John Read (both subjects of this Kingdome of England) who hee saith were as he verily beleeveth the true lawfull and sole Owners of the said ship the ''Hope'' for and during all the said yeere 1657 (English Stile) and for such they were and are Comonly accomted & reputed and as Own:ers they set her out upon the voyage in question and saith that the said ship the ''Hope'' was the said XXX of the burthen of about a hundred and Forty Tonnes w:ch hee knoweth goeing the said voyage in the said ship
- In the months of December and january 1657 English Stile S:r Richard fford Knight, the said S:r Joseph Throckmorton, and others all subiects of this Kingdome of Emgland did lade and cause to be laden onboard the said ship ''Hope'' here in the River of Thames a Cargoe of Goods consisting in Perpetuana Bayes Stocking hatts, and other Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, for their owne accounts to be transported in the said ship from hence to the Harbour of Bilboa or some other place neere thereunto, there to bee sold bartered away and disposed of for and upon the Account aforesaid w:ch hee knoweth seeing most of the said Cargoe laden on board the said ship, and hearing forenamed persons give order to the said Master about the said Lading, XXXX
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XXXXXXXX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. ffrancesco Perera, of Island of Terrera, Portugal, aged 31===

P1090655
f. XX

Johannis Wilmot Simonis Delbo XXXX

15:o Janny 1661

Supra allon aclate ex parte dui Regis in XXXX XXXX

1. FFRANCISCO PERERA Insula Terrera in Territoria Regis Portugallia generaosus, annos agens 31 XXXX XXXX Baldwins gardens<ref>Baldwins gardens. A coffee house token exists, dated 1666, showing: "Nicholas Smith. 1666 - A wheatsheaf, in the field. Rev. In Baldwyns garden - In the field, N.H.S. 172. Note: 'Baldwins gardens, neare Grayes-inn lane,' is said to have derived that name from Richard Baldwin, who erected some houses here in 1589" ([http://archive.org/stream/adescriptivecat00beaugoog#page/n120/mode/2up Jacob Henry Burn, A descriptive catalogue of the London traders, tavern, and coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century (2nd edn., London, 1855), p. 18]</ref> XXXXX

- The aclate Captaine ffrancisco de MerXXX frequenting this deponents then house (being a Coffee-house in XXX Lane[ Baldwins gardens is crossed out in manuscript] in March and Aprill last past near a twelve moneth, and having often discourse with him in that time about his shipp the PXXXX and his voyage in her wherein hee was seized XX and acknowledged that the logwood taken in the sid shipp was the prXXX of goods w:ch was XXX carried the sid voyage outwards with him and the XXX logwood belonged wholly to himselfe and others, Spaniards subiects of the King of Spaine And this deponent beleeveth that he did XX diego do XXXXX BoatsWain of the said shipp would often taunt the sid Captaine and tell him heee XXXX the Spanish Merchants goods amongst whome, being supplied with five pounds per weeke by M:r Delbo who had got the sid logwood into his possession, then and there being ?person as the said discourse MaXXX XXX, and others
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P1090656
f. XX
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P1090657
f. 82r.

- Signed FFRANCISCO PERRERA
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Thomas de Gurman, Merchant, aged 38===

P1090658
f. 82v.

2. THOMAS DE GURMAN alias Sweetman...Cripplegate London ... mercator ..aged 38 or thereabouts
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P1090659
f. 83r.
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P1090660
f. 83v.
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P1090661
f. 84r.

- Signed XXXXX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Johnes Lightfoort, of Rochester, Kent, Gentleman, aged 31===

P1090662
f. 84v.

3. JOHNES LIGHTFOOT de Rochester in Comitas Canty Gent ...aged 31....

- Lightfoot was commander of the frigate the ''Nightingale'' and seized the XXXX in the month of December 1659 neere the Canaryes and the beginning of ffebruary ffollowing hee brought the said ffrancisco do Morates into the Downes in the said ffrigatt the ''Nightingale'' and soone after his arrivall there and before the siad Morales his being Examined touching the said shipp XXX and Lading the aclate M:r Symon Delboe and M:r Wilmott ?Living in neere Newgate market & one M:r Syon & one M:r MXX came onboard the said ffrigatt, and there, and alsoe aXXX at Deale they had of this dep_ts certaine knowledge very much private discourse w:th the said Morales. but to what ?effect the said discourse was hee knoweth not

To the 11:th hee saith that the said Captaone Morates agXXX this depo:ts bringing him into the Downes remained & ?confined here in England for the space of avove twelve ?moneths or beginning of March last, And the aclate Diego de GuevaXX XXX M:r & Purser of the said ship PXXion did alsoe staye ?confined here for all the timeof the XXX said Morales his said staying here, or very neere soe long: And saith the said Morales during his sd stay in England was very Expensive, and went constantly in very Good apparrell, and spent very much XXX at Tavernes and otherwise, this Depo:t having bin severall times in his Company att Tavernes & knowing of such his Expensivenes, And further cannot depose

To the 12:th hee saith that about foure or five monthes since this depo:t having discourse upon the Exchange London with the foresd M:r Willmot about the expensiveness of the said Morales, the said Willmot did XXX and declare to this depo:t that hee the said Willmot had furnished him w:th about two hundred pounds. And further XXX not

To the 17:th hee saith that about the latter end of January or beginning of ffebruray last past, this depo:t and the said Captain Morales having some discourse about this business at this depo:ts XXXX house on Snow Hill, the said Morales did ackXXXXX and declare to him this depo:t that M:r Delboe and M:r Willmott
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P1090663
f. 85r.

had dealt very unworthily with him, and that they did owe him above a Thousand pounds upon the Account of the prize (meaning the PeaXion & Lading) or to that effect, And said that hee should be pritty well satisffyed for hath hee doubted not but to recover the rest of M:r Willmott in Spaine, And saith that then, and severall times before, the said Morales asked this depo:t whether hee could tell howe the logwood was sold (XXX the Logwood in question) and was very solicitous to knowe certainely how and at what rate was disposed of. And further to this arrle hee cannot depose.

Sup reliquis non Examinate ex direccone Magri Cheeke

To the Interries

To the first Interrie hee saith that hee was Command:er of the ''Nightingale'' as aforesaid, and therefore cannot answeer hereto

To the 2:d hee saith hee very well knoweth the foresaid ffrancisco de Morales, And saith that in a business that Concernes his CCC Owne advantage, hee cares not (as hee beleeveth) what hee sayes or sweares, and hee this depo:t hath heard that the said Morales hath said that it was lawfull for a man to forsweare him selfe to save his goods or to that effect and this depo:t beleeveth that the said Morales conceives hee may have a dispensaconn foreso doing and saith that hee beleeveth that the said Morales was & is a papist And hee this depo:t is a protestant, and otherwise cannot Answer

To the *:d hee saith hee doth make conscience of an oath, and doth beleeve that hee cannot have a sidpensaccon from any man for swearing falsely, and beleeveth that perjury is a Mortall Sinne, And saith that hee doth verily beleeve that the sd Captaine Morales hath perjured himselfe. And to the rest hee referrs himselfe to his Answer to the next p:rodent Interrogatory

To the 4:th hee referrs himselfe to his depon made to the fourth acle and further cannt depose.

To the 5:th hee saith that hee was warned to come and be sworne & Examined in this busines by one M:r Mathew Nicholls or Nicholas & saith hee hath not received, nor expects to receive ought for his testimony herein. And saith that hee doth not endeav:r to get the Logwood, in question or the proceed thereof out of the hands of the said Delboe & Company otherwise than by speaking the truth in this business and saith that hee conceiveth hee is not bound to answer to the rest of the Interrie

To the last hee saith that the Interrate M:r Guzman did of this depo:t certaine knowledge often keepe Company with the said Captaine Morales And further hee cannot Answer

- Signed J LIGHTFOOT
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Tomas Stanton, XXXX, XXXX===

P1090664
f. 107r.

TOMAS STANTON
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P1090667
f. XX
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P1090671
f. XX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: James Perice alias Diego Gonsalve, native of Jamaica, resideing at St Catherines, London, aged 18===

P1090672
f. 191r.

2:dub JAMES PERICE als Diego Gonsalve native of Jamaica but at present lodging at the signe of the young prince in S:t Catherines agens 18 yeeres & upwards sworne & Examined sath & deposeth as followeth

To the ffirst hee saith that hee well knowe and served in the Acllate shipp the ''S:t John'' of flushing for about nine monthes before her cominge to XXaXsaw as hereafter is menconned suring all w:ch time the Aclate Jasper Tonge was M:r of the said shipp and was accompted to bee a ptowner of the said shipp and soe this deponent beleeveth hee was

To the second acle of the said Allon hee saith that the said shipp the ''t John'' being beere XXXperlia in the West Indies in or about y:e month of June last did then and there meet with an English ?privateman of warre commanded by one Edward Mansell w:ch said Mansell did soone after the said meeting upp on the sea speake w:th y:e aforesd Tonge whoe was the M:r of the said shipp about transporting six and thirty tonns of Camperlia wood to S:t Christophers or StaXXXX in the said shipp and the said Tonge being unwilling to take the same the said Mansell importuned him soe to doe and threatened if hee did not hee would sinke the ''S:t John'' And the said Mansell did voluntaryly proffer and promise and likewise agree to XXX the said Tonge nine pounds tenn shillings y tonn for transportacon of the said wood to either of the aforesaid places Whereuppon hee saith the said
Thirty
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Richard Pendarves, of London, Merchant, aged 41===

P1090673
f. 251v.

3.nd RICHARD PENDARVES de London Mercator agens 41 XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

- Richard Pendarves, kinsman of the deponent, resided at Mallaga
- Mentions a Thomas Smith who was to make haste to Amsterdam to take possession of the said ship, then called the ''Venetian Merch:t'' and now the ''Golden Doublet''
- Mentions Richard Pendarves & Company
- Thomas Smith became master of the sd ship

- Signed RICHARD PENDARVES
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===Case: William Browne con Edwardam Webb: Deposition: Guilelmus Hartford, of XXXX, Barking, London, aged 44===

P1090673
f. 252r.

Willimus Browne con Edwardam Webb

Super XXXX

X GUILELMUS HARTFORD parorCC Sancta Barking London --annios ahhens 44 ...

- MentiomsRichard Babson late M:r of the Lighter called the ''Anne'', who he has known since July 1658
- The Lighter was in the service of the Officers of the Ballast Office by whom teh deponent was employed

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==Notes==

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==Possible primary sources==

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==Listing of imaged cases==
===Case: Miller con W:m Vincent et al: Deposition: Henry Johnson, of Blackwall, Middlesex, Shipwright, aged 36===

P1090611; P1090612
f. 11r.

Miller con W:m Vincent et al

28th of January 1660 iuxta xr.
upon the fore s:d Allon
on the behale of S:r W:m Vincent

Deponent: Henry Johnson of Blackwall in the County of Midds shipwright aged 36 yeares or thereabouts

Henry Johnson of Blackwall
in the County of Midds shipwright
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts
sworne & examined sayth and
deposeth as followeth viz:t

To the 8:th and 9:th Arles of the s:d Allocb (upon w:ch
alone he is examined by direccon) he sayth that on
or about the 22:th day of November in the yeare of our
Lord 1659 This dept togeather with one Thomas Good
also a shipwright did at the request of John Elliot &
the rest of the owners of the ''Coast frigat'', foe downe
to Bugbee hole to view the ship ''John & Katharine''
& to see what damage she had rec:d by meanes of
the ''Coast frigats'' falling foule of her as it was said before y:t time
at Gravesend. And saith that upon such their viewing
her, they found that a small piece of her head was
only broken off by the ''Coast frigat'', w:ch was noe
hinderance unto her at all in her sayling, foreasmuch
as she (the s:d ship ''John & Katharine'') had after y:e s:d damage XXXX before
this dep:ts viewing of her made a voyage to Virginia
without mending the same, & was then going out to
sea on another voyage without menting thereof
had not the rest of her head been broken of by two other
ships coming foule of her, viz:t the ''Virginia Merchant'' &
the ''Hanniball''; aAnd that most of what was broken off was for ornament only. And he saith that the
whole damage done by the ''Coast frigat'' to the ''John
& Katharine'' by breaking off a piece of her head and
spoyling the Guilding & painting thereof could not
amount to above seaven pounds XXXXX. And for soe
much this dep:t would have undertaken to have
made her head as good as at y:e time of y;e damage done by y:e ''Coast frigat''. And further
he cannot depose saving he saith that the ''John &
Katharine'' might & would have (as he beleeveth) made many more voyages without re-
pairing the damage done her by the ''Coast frigat'', had
not the second damage predeposed of happened.

To the Interries

To the first (it being done as the Interrie requireth)
he sayeth he knoweth nothing of the matter Interr
& therefore cannot answer to this Interrie.
To
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P1090612
f. 11v.
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To the 2:nd he referreth himselfe to his foregoing
depoXX. And further or otherwise cannot answer
not knowing ir seeing any other damage doen to the
''John & Katharine'' by the ''Coast frigat'', than what he
hath predeposed of.

To the 3:rd he cannot answ:r otherwise than as aforesaid

To the 4:th he answereth negatively for his part

To the 5:th he hath not so deposed

To the 6:th he XX
he is not to pay any there of the damages XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
flopped from XXXX
nor hath he any dependency upon any of the
owners of the ''Coast frigat'', or relXXXX to them, saveing
is acquainted with XXX of them And sayth XXX
worth a thousand pounds XXX debts being paid
further cannot answ:r

HENRY JOHNSON [His signature]

?Blacke con Scattergood afores:d
XXX January 1660
XXXX
Henricus Lobery ?portia S:t Buttolphs extra Algate XXX XXXX aged XXX yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: East India Company v. Francis Dashwood, John Sweeting, & John Connis: Deposition 1. Henricus Thurseros, of Broadstreet, London, Merchant, aged 35===

P1090613;
f. 26r.

21 die mensis ffebruary 1660.

Gubernator et Societas Mercator AngloXXX ad)
India ozidentales cXXXX XXXX contra)
ffranciscum Dashwood Johannem Sweeting et)
Johannem Connis xr ?Budd ?Suckley)

Sup Libelle ex parte dirtXXX Gubernatorie et
Societatis Mercator Anglorum ad Indias oriental commerze
exXXXX da Examinatus.

?I;nd HENRICUS THURSEROS de Broadstreete London
Mercator annosagens 35 ant do criter testis in
hoc causa productis et Juratus dictit et deponit prXXX
seq:r . viz:t.

Ad 1:nd dictit That for these tenne yeares last past there hath bin and
at present is a Company or Society of English Merchants commonly
called or known by the name of the Governo:r and Company
of English Merch:ts trading to the East Indies, And this Dep:t for
all or most pt of the said time was Imployed by them as a ffactor
in the East Indies, And to the rest hee referrs himselfe to the
Charter ?lilate

Ad 2:d 3:d et 4:d positiones dei Lilli dictit that hee referrs himselfe to
the Charter party therein mentioned:

Ad 5:d nescit deponXXX:

Ad 6:nd dictit that hee this depo:t being at Maccassar in the East Indies in the
months of Aprill May and June 1659: well knoweth that the Lilate
ship the ''Marigold'' (John Connis Comand:r arrived att Maccassar
aforesaid in or neere about the beginning of the sd month of
Aprill, and on the same day of such her arrivall there, this depo:t
went onboard her, and found and sawe that there were many
passeng:rs onboard her to the number of twenty at the least, w:ch
the said Connis tooke in (as this dep:t was credibly in formed)
on the Coast of Cormandell, but tpon whse account the same
were brought to Macassar hee saith hee knoweth not, but the said
Connis hath confessed unto him that two or three of them were
upon his the sd Connis his owne Account, And the said Connis
hee saith alsoe brought to Maccassar in the sd ship the said ?time
about twelve or fourteene bales of Callicoes upon his owne
account (as this dep:t verily beleeveth) and some of them hee
saith hee knoweth that the said Connis did dispose of at Macassar
for his owne account And further to the petition hee cannot
depose.

Ad 10 dictit that the said ship from Maccassar sailed back tp y:e
Coast of Cormandell, this depo:t goeing thither in her, And saith the said
Connis carried in the s:d ship from Macassar foresd to the Coast of Cormandell
about sixty or seaventy XXXX of Brimston (as hee confessed to this
depo:t) hee bought at Maccassar, and said that hee putt it aboard to
ballast the said ship And the said Connis of this depo:ts knowledge XXX carried in the
said ship from Maccassar aforesaid to the Coast of Cormandell XXXXXXXXXXXXX
about fourty or fifty pcell of ?Cassia (Or, China) Rootes, about fifty or sixty
pcell of TXXXXXXX and about five or six Bahare of Tortoise shells
and in the said ships passage the said Connis did ?Jappara take
aboard
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P1090614
f 26v.

aboard the said ship some Long pepp to the quantity (as hee likewise confessed unto him this depo:t
of about forty or fifty prcell , and in the XXX
of Bantam (also in the said ships passage to the Coast
of Cormandell) about One hundred jarrs of Greene Ginger
All w:ch aforementioned goods hee saith were carried in the sd
ship to the Coast of Cormondell , but not upon the Account of
the foresaid Governo:r and Company of English Merchants
trading to East India, but upon the Account of the said Connis
or other psons, not of the said Company, And the said
Connis confessed to this depo:t that hee sold the said Brimston
& ?Tutenagge on the Coast of Cormondell, or the greatest part XXX And the rest XX the
said Goods the said Connis brought in the said ship
''Marigold'' to the port of London and further cannot depose.

Ad

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===Case: East India Company v. Francis Dashwood, John Sweeting, & John Connis: Deposition 2. Edward Winter Esq., of Battersey, Surrey, aged 40===

P1090615; P1090616
f. 27r.; f. 27v

The 4:th of March 1660
Examined upon the foresaid Libell
2n:d EDWARD WINTER of Battersey in the County of Surrey Esq:r aged 40 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXX: Deposition: William Blake, of London, Merchant, aged 29===

P1090616; P1090617
f. 27v.; f. 28r.

The fifth day of March 1660
Examined upon the fore s:d Libell
r:nd WILLIAM BLAKE of London Merchant
aged 29 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Andreas Blankinsoppe, of Sheilds, Sailor, aged 23===

P1090617
f. 28r.

19:th die Marty 1660:
Robertis ?Laube; Oswald Whitleym Johnes Dove; Randulph Ferreby; et Oswald ?Trossett con navem the Providence XXX Edwardus ?Carrest Mag:r, et con dictum XXXX Suckley, Smith
Sup ?Mone ex pte dicte Laube Whitley, Dove, ?Ferreby, et ffossett dat Exam:xx
ANREAS BLANKINSOPPE de Sheilds in ?Exatu Dunnelsi Nauta annos agens 23 ant xx XXXX
- Ship the ''Providence'', at Shelds, to go from Newcastle to Amsterdam to deliver a lading of Goods

[The deposition is incomplete, due to images stopping]
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===Case: XXX: Deposition: Henry Booth, of London, XXXX, aged 66===

P1090618; P1090619; P1090620
f. 49r.; f. 49v.; f. 50r.

On the behalfe of Captaine Mathew Pennyer touching the seizure of the ''Charles'' by the French
The Thirtieth day of March 1661
Examined upon an Allon given in on behalfe of the said Mathew Pennyer
HENRY BOOTH of London Gent aged 66 yeares or thereabouts
- The action refers to events in 1649
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Thomas Holloway, of Greenwich, Sailor, aged 30===

P1090621; P1090622; P1090623; P1090624
f. 50v., f. 51r., f. 51v., f. 52r.

Eadem Die Suo Allon pradra Examinatus
2.dne THOMAS HOLLOWAY<ref>Thomas Holloway. Possibly Thomas Holloway (b. ca. 1631, d. ca. 1688) (PROB 11/391 Exton 45-86 Will of Thomas Holloway, Mariner of East Greenwich, Kent 05 April 1688)</ref> de Greenwich Nauta anno agens 30 XXXX.
- M:r Boone acclate
- The ship ''Great Alexander'', a Dutch built ship
- Voyage 19 months since
- The ship the ''Golden Starr'', Cap:t Garland
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Richardus Pil(l)es, of Limehouse, Sailor, aged XXX===

P1090624, P1090624, P1090624, P1090625, P1090626
f. 52r.; f. 52v.; f. 53r.

10. die May 1661
3:re RICHARDUS PIL(L)ES de Limehouse Nauta
- The acclate shipp the ''Golden Starr''
- Acclate Captain ?Warrop

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P1090627
f. ?

Image is unreadable
Case?
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P1090628
f. 54v.

- Mentions Captain Garland, Warton & Owen, who went aboard the ''Parr''
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P1090629
f. ?

Die mensis May 1660
Mordant Johnson, in parish of St Gregory, aged 22 or thereabouts
Acclate John Giles, who was part owner of the acclate ship the ''Hopewell''
- 12 months ago the deponent was with the said Drawatter and Giles at the ffalcon on the Banke side in a roome up one paire of staires when and where the said Drawatter and Giles had discourse together concerning a Bill of Bottomry which the said M:r Drawatter had then with him
- Mentions Richard Dover and Rowland Booth
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P1090630
f. ?

- The East India Company ag:t Cap:t ?Connis (OR, Commis)<ref>Capt. (John) Connis. This HCA case may have been referred to by the Court of Committees of the EEIC, September 5, 1660: "The Court demurs to granting the request of Captain Connis for some money on account of freight, until satisfaction has been received for a very great breach of charterparty committed by him in his late voyage, and directs certain Committees to examine and report on this matter; at the same time it is ordered that 1,000/. be paid to the owners of the ''Marigold'', on Connis promising to deliver in a true list of all goods taken into or delivered out of his ship." ('A Court of Committees, September 5, 1660' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 287 in [http://archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/32/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 32-33]; Captain Connis is possibly mentioned in several Chancery cases (C 10/74/1 Roger Andrewes, John Connis, William Pennoyer, Francis Dashwood and Edward Crispe v Frederick Skinner: money matters, Middx 1664; C 10/108/15 Barham, Russell v. Connis, Crispe: Middx 1667; C 6/247/64 Short title: Russell v Russell. Plaintiffs: Anne Russell. Defendants: Elias Russell, John Connis and Anne Connis his wife. Subject: property in Deptford, Kent. Document type: bill, answer. SFP 1683)</ref>
- 30th May 1661
- Edward Shrimpton of XXXXwall Gent aged 50 yeares or thereabouts
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 5. John Wright, of Stratford Bowe, Middlesey, Merchant, aged 20===

P1090631
f. 60r.

- The same day Examined upon the foresaid Libell
- 5. JOHN WRIGHT Living in Stratford Bowe in the County of Midd Merchant aged 20 yeares or thereabouts
- In December 1657 the Governor and Company of English Merchants trading to East Indies did by Charterpty take the libellate ship the ''Marigold'' John Connis Command:r to freight to goe to the Gold Coast of Guiney & thence to ffort St George in the Coast of Coromandell
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P1090632
f. 60v.

- The ''Marigold''<ref>The ''Marigold'' is mentioned in several secondary sources (Margaret Makepeace, ''Trade on the Guinea Coast, 1657-1666: the correspondence of the English East India Company'' (XXXX, 1991), pp. 1, 2, & 16; Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), ''A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-16639'' (Oxford, 1922), e.g. pp. 48, 79, & 337 (31 mentions in total))</ref> arrived at the Coast of Guinney at Cormantine Castle in ffebruary 165??7 (English Stile)
- John Connis carried thither two parcels of Tappaselle comonly called Guinnney Cloths and alsoe a peece or XXX of Callicoe in his Chest, about fforty Musketts, some pewter Basons, some small barrs of Lead about a foot long, All w:ch said Goods hee saith were for the Accomte of the said John Connis, or some other pson or psons not of the foresaid Company, w:ch hee knoweth for that hee goeing purser of the said ship on the said voyage did take notice in writing of what was laden for the said Companyes Accomt
- The Mate & Trumpeter of the said ship carried out in her about A hundred or one hundred and fifty weight of Iron
- The said Lead was carried to the Coast of Coromandell, did goe from thence to Maccassar, and the said Connis did carry in the said ship from Coromandell to Maccassar about ?fowre bales six faXXXX & one chest w:th white, red & blew callicoes & others XXXXXXXXXXXX & alsoe hee saith there were a parcell of ?Lungyes and ?Tapperserasses carried from Cormandell to Maccassar together w:th some other goods w:ch hee saith hee cannot particularly specify
- Several passengers were carried by order of the Companyes agent resident at ffort S:t George
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P1090633
f. 61r.

- The ship went from Maccassar to the Coast of Cormandell againe
- Carried from Maccassar were twenty six ?Dandy (OR, Candy) of Brimstine, anout Twenty Dandy of ?Tatenago, a parcell of China Rootes (of above six hundred weight, a parcell of Tortoise shells (but the quantity he cannot specify) and two pcells of Cloves weighing about threescore pounds a peece And ar ?Japarra there were taken on board the said ship severall peclls of Long Pepp, and neere Bantam in the said shipps passage from Maccassar to Cormandell there were taken onboard her about One hundred Jarres of Greene Ginger All w:ch aforementioned goods were carried in the said ship to Cormandell and some of them were there disposed of by the said Connis or his order and the rest brought to England
- Besides the foresd Goods not disposed of at Cormandell the said John Connis did bring to England in the said ship, about six or seaven small parcells of XXXcloathes, shirts, and callicoes, w:ch were belonging to himselfe or ffreinds
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P1090634
f. 61v.

- Doesn't know what damages the Company has sustained
- Cannot estimated the freight costs of the goods referred to
- Knows the Lillate ffrancis Dashwood and John Sweeting and also teh said John Connis were subiects of this Kingdome

- Signed JOHN WRIGHT

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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Guilelmus Finney, of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, Sailor, aged 30===

XXXX the ''Guinney ffrig:t'' con Jacobi ?Jerry, Johann ?Drap, XXXX de Marcado, JacobXXXX Navarre XXX
5:th die Hunij 1661
XXX

- GUILELMUS FINNEY de Limehouse in ?portia de Stepney in Comitate Middlesex, nauta anno agens 30...

- He knows the ship the ''Guiney ffrigett'' for two yeeres and a halfe before shee was burnt as hereafter is mentioned. And saith that the said ship i the month of May 1660 departed from Amsterdam with a Lading of ?Goods and Merchandize for the Barbadoes, where the said Lading as to have bin delivered, And saith that the said ship att ?the time of her goeing from Amsterdam on the said Voyage was very XXX and XXXX, and well fitted with masts XX and other necessaryes for such a ship and such a voyage
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Johnes Hamilton, of London, Merchant, aged 35===

P1090635
f. 71r.

Josephi Throckmorton milities et John Read XXXXX navis XXXX the ''Hope'' XXXX Jacob Peterson fuit magr et Dui Richi fford militis et dei Dui Throckmorton et XXXX XXXX seizua dXX navis et XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

?Viresimo primo de mensis Maij 1661
Sup Allone ex pte XXXX Dui Josephi Throckmorton et Johannis Read et XXXX Dui Richardi fford militis XXXX

- JOHNES HAMILTON de London Mercator annos agens 35 XXXX

- The deponent knows the ship the ''Hope'' James Peterson M:r for all the yeere 1657 and longer And alsoe then and nowe Knoweth the acclate S:r Joseph Throckmorton Knights John Read (both subjects of this Kingdome of England) who hee saith were as he verily beleeveth the true lawfull and sole Owners of the said ship the ''Hope'' for and during all the said yeere 1657 (English Stile) and for such they were and are Comonly accomted & reputed and as Own:ers they set her out upon the voyage in question and saith that the said ship the ''Hope'' was the said XXX of the burthen of about a hundred and Forty Tonnes w:ch hee knoweth goeing the said voyage in the said ship
- In the months of December and january 1657 English Stile S:r Richard fford Knight, the said S:r Joseph Throckmorton, and others all subiects of this Kingdome of Emgland did lade and cause to be laden onboard the said ship ''Hope'' here in the River of Thames a Cargoe of Goods consisting in Perpetuana Bayes Stocking hatts, and other Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, for their owne accounts to be transported in the said ship from hence to the Harbour of Bilboa or some other place neere thereunto, there to bee sold bartered away and disposed of for and upon the Account aforesaid w:ch hee knoweth seeing most of the said Cargoe laden on board the said ship, and hearing forenamed persons give order to the said Master about the said Lading, XXXX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 1. ffrancesco Perera, of Island of Terrera, Portugal, aged 31===

P1090655
f. XX

Johannis Wilmot Simonis Delbo XXXX

15:o Janny 1661

Supra allon aclate ex parte dui Regis in XXXX XXXX

1. FFRANCISCO PERERA Insula Terrera in Territoria Regis Portugallia generaosus, annos agens 31 XXXX XXXX Baldwins gardens<ref>Baldwins gardens. A coffee house token exists, dated 1666, showing: "Nicholas Smith. 1666 - A wheatsheaf, in the field. Rev. In Baldwyns garden - In the field, N.H.S. 172. Note: 'Baldwins gardens, neare Grayes-inn lane,' is said to have derived that name from Richard Baldwin, who erected some houses here in 1589" ([http://archive.org/stream/adescriptivecat00beaugoog#page/n120/mode/2up Jacob Henry Burn, A descriptive catalogue of the London traders, tavern, and coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century (2nd edn., London, 1855), p. 18]</ref> XXXXX

- The aclate Captaine ffrancisco de MerXXX frequenting this deponents then house (being a Coffee-house in XXX Lane[ Baldwins gardens is crossed out in manuscript] in March and Aprill last past near a twelve moneth, and having often discourse with him in that time about his shipp the PXXXX and his voyage in her wherein hee was seized XX and acknowledged that the logwood taken in the sid shipp was the prXXX of goods w:ch was XXX carried the sid voyage outwards with him and the XXX logwood belonged wholly to himselfe and others, Spaniards subiects of the King of Spaine And this deponent beleeveth that he did XX diego do XXXXX BoatsWain of the said shipp would often taunt the sid Captaine and tell him heee XXXX the Spanish Merchants goods amongst whome, being supplied with five pounds per weeke by M:r Delbo who had got the sid logwood into his possession, then and there being ?person as the said discourse MaXXX XXX, and others
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P1090656
f. XX
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P1090657
f. 82r.

- Signed FFRANCISCO PERRERA
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 2. Thomas de Gurman, Merchant, aged 38===

P1090658
f. 82v.

2. THOMAS DE GURMAN alias Sweetman...Cripplegate London ... mercator ..aged 38 or thereabouts
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P1090659
f. 83r.
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P1090660
f. 83v.
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P1090661
f. 84r.

- Signed XXXXX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Johnes Lightfoort, of Rochester, Kent, Gentleman, aged 31===

P1090662
f. 84v.

3. JOHNES LIGHTFOOT de Rochester in Comitas Canty Gent ...aged 31....

- Lightfoot was commander of the frigate the ''Nightingale'' and seized the XXXX in the month of December 1659 neere the Canaryes and the beginning of ffebruary ffollowing hee brought the said ffrancisco do Morates into the Downes in the said ffrigatt the ''Nightingale'' and soone after his arrivall there and before the siad Morales his being Examined touching the said shipp XXX and Lading the aclate M:r Symon Delboe and M:r Wilmott ?Living in neere Newgate market & one M:r Syon & one M:r MXX came onboard the said ffrigatt, and there, and alsoe aXXX at Deale they had of this dep_ts certaine knowledge very much private discourse w:th the said Morales. but to what ?effect the said discourse was hee knoweth not

To the 11:th hee saith that the said Captaone Morates agXXX this depo:ts bringing him into the Downes remained & ?confined here in England for the space of avove twelve ?moneths or beginning of March last, And the aclate Diego de GuevaXX XXX M:r & Purser of the said ship PXXion did alsoe staye ?confined here for all the timeof the XXX said Morales his said staying here, or very neere soe long: And saith the said Morales during his sd stay in England was very Expensive, and went constantly in very Good apparrell, and spent very much XXX at Tavernes and otherwise, this Depo:t having bin severall times in his Company att Tavernes & knowing of such his Expensivenes, And further cannot depose

To the 12:th hee saith that about foure or five monthes since this depo:t having discourse upon the Exchange London with the foresd M:r Willmot about the expensiveness of the said Morales, the said Willmot did XXX and declare to this depo:t that hee the said Willmot had furnished him w:th about two hundred pounds. And further XXX not

To the 17:th hee saith that about the latter end of January or beginning of ffebruray last past, this depo:t and the said Captain Morales having some discourse about this business at this depo:ts XXXX house on Snow Hill, the said Morales did ackXXXXX and declare to him this depo:t that M:r Delboe and M:r Willmott
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P1090663
f. 85r.

had dealt very unworthily with him, and that they did owe him above a Thousand pounds upon the Account of the prize (meaning the PeaXion & Lading) or to that effect, And said that hee should be pritty well satisffyed for hath hee doubted not but to recover the rest of M:r Willmott in Spaine, And saith that then, and severall times before, the said Morales asked this depo:t whether hee could tell howe the logwood was sold (XXX the Logwood in question) and was very solicitous to knowe certainely how and at what rate was disposed of. And further to this arrle hee cannot depose.

Sup reliquis non Examinate ex direccone Magri Cheeke

To the Interries

To the first Interrie hee saith that hee was Command:er of the ''Nightingale'' as aforesaid, and therefore cannot answeer hereto

To the 2:d hee saith hee very well knoweth the foresaid ffrancisco de Morales, And saith that in a business that Concernes his CCC Owne advantage, hee cares not (as hee beleeveth) what hee sayes or sweares, and hee this depo:t hath heard that the said Morales hath said that it was lawfull for a man to forsweare him selfe to save his goods or to that effect and this depo:t beleeveth that the said Morales conceives hee may have a dispensaconn foreso doing and saith that hee beleeveth that the said Morales was & is a papist And hee this depo:t is a protestant, and otherwise cannot Answer

To the *:d hee saith hee doth make conscience of an oath, and doth beleeve that hee cannot have a sidpensaccon from any man for swearing falsely, and beleeveth that perjury is a Mortall Sinne, And saith that hee doth verily beleeve that the sd Captaine Morales hath perjured himselfe. And to the rest hee referrs himselfe to his Answer to the next p:rodent Interrogatory

To the 4:th hee referrs himselfe to his depon made to the fourth acle and further cannt depose.

To the 5:th hee saith that hee was warned to come and be sworne & Examined in this busines by one M:r Mathew Nicholls or Nicholas & saith hee hath not received, nor expects to receive ought for his testimony herein. And saith that hee doth not endeav:r to get the Logwood, in question or the proceed thereof out of the hands of the said Delboe & Company otherwise than by speaking the truth in this business and saith that hee conceiveth hee is not bound to answer to the rest of the Interrie

To the last hee saith that the Interrate M:r Guzman did of this depo:t certaine knowledge often keepe Company with the said Captaine Morales And further hee cannot Answer

- Signed J LIGHTFOOT
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: Tomas Stanton, XXXX, XXXX===

P1090664
f. 107r.

TOMAS STANTON
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P1090667
f. XX
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P1090671
f. XX
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: James Perice alias Diego Gonsalve, native of Jamaica, resideing at St Catherines, London, aged 18===

P1090672
f. 191r.

2:dub JAMES PERICE als Diego Gonsalve native of Jamaica but at present lodging at the signe of the young prince in S:t Catherines agens 18 yeeres & upwards sworne & Examined sath & deposeth as followeth

To the ffirst hee saith that hee well knowe and served in the Acllate shipp the ''S:t John'' of flushing for about nine monthes before her cominge to XXaXsaw as hereafter is menconned suring all w:ch time the Aclate Jasper Tonge was M:r of the said shipp and was accompted to bee a ptowner of the said shipp and soe this deponent beleeveth hee was

To the second acle of the said Allon hee saith that the said shipp the ''t John'' being beere XXXperlia in the West Indies in or about y:e month of June last did then and there meet with an English ?privateman of warre commanded by one Edward Mansell w:ch said Mansell did soone after the said meeting upp on the sea speake w:th y:e aforesd Tonge whoe was the M:r of the said shipp about transporting six and thirty tonns of Camperlia wood to S:t Christophers or StaXXXX in the said shipp and the said Tonge being unwilling to take the same the said Mansell importuned him soe to doe and threatened if hee did not hee would sinke the ''S:t John'' And the said Mansell did voluntaryly proffer and promise and likewise agree to XXX the said Tonge nine pounds tenn shillings y tonn for transportacon of the said wood to either of the aforesaid places Whereuppon hee saith the said
Thirty
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===Case: XXXX: Deposition: 3. Richard Pendarves, of London, Merchant, aged 41===

P1090673
f. 251v.

3.nd RICHARD PENDARVES de London Mercator agens 41 XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

- Richard Pendarves, kinsman of the deponent, resided at Mallaga
- Mentions a Thomas Smith who was to make haste to Amsterdam to take possession of the said ship, then called the ''Venetian Merch:t'' and now the ''Golden Doublet''
- Mentions Richard Pendarves & Company
- Thomas Smith became master of the sd ship

- Signed RICHARD PENDARVES
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===Case: William Browne con Edwardam Webb: Deposition: Guilelmus Hartford, of XXXX, Barking, London, aged 44===

P1090673
f. 252r.

Willimus Browne con Edwardam Webb

Super XXXX

X GUILELMUS HARTFORD parorCC Sancta Barking London --annios ahhens 44 ...

- MentiomsRichard Babson late M:r of the Lighter called the ''Anne'', who he has known since July 1658
- The Lighter was in the service of the Officers of the Ballast Office by whom teh deponent was employed

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==Notes==

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==Possible primary sources==

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'''Editorial history'''

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==Index of abstracted and/or transcribed Admiralty court documents==
===Data===

[[MRP: HCA13/64|HCA13/64]] (1650-1651)

[[MRP: HCA13/69|HCA13/69]] (1654)
[[MRP: HCA13/71|HCA13/71]] (1656-1657)
[[MRP: HCA13/72|HCA13/72]] (1657-1659)
[[MRP: HCA13/73|HCA13/73]] (1659-?)
[[MRP: HCA13/74|HCA13/74]] (1660-1661)

[[MRP: HCA 13/76|HCA 13/76]] (1666-1669)
[[MRP: HCA 13/76 Part One|HCA 13/76 Part One]] (1666-1669)
[[MRP: HCA 13/76 Part Two|HCA 13/76 Part Two]] (1666-1669)

[[MRP: HCA13/126|HCA13/126]] (1654-1655)
[[MRP: HCA13/127|HCA13/127]] (?-?)
[[MRP: HCA13/128|HCA13/128]] (1656-1658)
[[MRP: HCA13/129|HCA13/129]] (1658-1664)

[[MRP: HCA 23/19|HCA 23/19]]

[[MRP: HCA 24/112|HCA 24/112]]
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===Analysis===

[[MRP: HCA 13/76 Analysis|HCA 13/76 Analysis]]

[[MRP: Marine History Sources|Marine History Sources]]
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==TNA index==

HCA 13 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinations and Answers 1536-1826

- This series consists of examinations and answers relating mainly to the civil jurisdiction of the Court in instance and prize causes, although a few relate to criminal jurisdiction. An examination, in the legal sense, consisted of the statements or depositions made by a witness or accused person when examined, and is the the record of such statements. An answer, specifically in law, was the counter-statement made in reply to a complainant's bill of charges (such a bill in civil law being termed a libel)

The examinations cover 1536 to 1750, the answers 1577 to 1770, and the examinations on commission 1564 to 1678, with some extra material from 1694 to 1826. HCA 13/1 relates to the Vice-Admiralty of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1536 to 1537. Some volumes contain their own indexes. 272 bundles and volumes

High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinations and Answers 1536-1826

- HCA 13/64 1650-1651
- HCA 13/65 1651-1652
- HCA 13/66 1652-1653
- HCA 13/67 1653
- HCA 13/68 1653-1654
- HCA 13/69 1654
- HCA 13/70 1654-1656
- HCA 13/71 1656-1657
- HCA 13/72 1657-1659
- HCA 13/73 1659-1661
- HCA 13/74 1661-1664
- HCA 13/75 1664-1666
- HCA 13/76 1666-1669
- HCA 13/77 1669-1675

Answers to Bills of Complaint

- HCA 13/123 1650
- HCA 13/124 1650-1652
- HCA 13/125 1652-1653
- HCA 13/126 1654-1655
- HCA 13/127 1655-1656
- HCA 13/128 1656-1658
- HCA 13/129 1658-1662
- HCA 13/130 1662-1664
. HCA 13/131 1673-1682

HCA 14 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Exemplars (Drafts) Files 1531-1768

HCA 15 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Early Instance and Prize Papers 1586-1778

HCA 23 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Interrogatories Files 1541-1733

- HCA 23/15 1649-1653
- HCA 23/16 1649-1653
- HCA 23/17 1649-1653
- HCA 23/18 1653-1658
- HCA 23/19 1658-1664
- HCA 23/20 1664-1667
- HCA 23/21 1667-1676¨

HCA 24 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations, Decrees, Sentences and Miscellaneous Documents 1526-1814

HCA 25 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Warrants, Bonds and Bails for Letters of Marque 1549-1815

HCA 32 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Papers 1592-1855

HCA 34 High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Sentences and Interlocutories 1643-1854

HCA 38 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Warrant Books 1541-1859

HCA 39 High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Warrants, Monitions and Decrees Files 1515-1761

HCA 49 High Court of Admiralty: Vice-Admiralty Courts: Proceedings 1593-1875

HCA 65 High Court of Admiralty: Miscellaneous Objects, Artefacts and Documents extracted from Prize Papers 1578-c1852

- All items examined so far in subindex relate to 1745 and later
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==Possible secondary sources==

Coldham, Peter Wilson, ''English adventurers and emigrants, 1609-1660: abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America'' (Baltimore, 1984)

- Wilson states in his preface that he has worked largely from the Examination Books, and has omitted merchants' accounts and balance sheets
- He observes that equity examination books are unfit for 1610-20, 1625-29, and 1645-47
- He observes:
** '''HCA 13/39-73''': Examinations in equity causes; each volume covers a two year span; personal details of the deponents are in latin, but most text is in English. Entries are day by day, so details of one case may be stretched over a number of days and months
** '''HCA 13/226ff.''': Depositions taken outside London
** '''HCA 24:''' Libels
** '''HCA 13/100ff''': Answers to bills of complaint
** '''HCA 1/1-27:''' Indictments and proceedings
** '''HCA 23:''' Interrogatories

Coote, Henry Charles, ''The new practice of the High Court of Admiralty of England: with the Rules of 1859, and a collection of forms, and bills of costs, &c., &c'' (London, 1860)

Prichard, M J and D E C Yale (eds.), ''Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction'', Selden Society CVIII (London, 1993)
- Sir Mathew Hale, 1609-1676

Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, ''High Court of Admiralty Examinations 1637-1638'' (XXXX, 1932)

Steckley, George F., 'Collisions, Prohibitions, and the Admiralty Court in Seventeenth-Century London,' ''Law and History Review'', Spring 2003 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.1/steckley.html> (10 Nov. 2011).

Steckley, George F., 'Instance cases at admiralty in 1657: A court "packed up with sutors"', ''The Journal of Legal History'', vol. 7, issue 1, 1986, pp. 68-83