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|Person=Jasper Devenish
|First name=Jasper
|Last name=Devenish
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Master's mate
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Jasper Devenish
|Has signoff text=Jasper Devenish
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Liberty of the Tower of London
|Res town=London
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1622
|First deposition age=32
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.101r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 8 1654
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Private man of war
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
Jasper Devenish (b. ca. ?; d.?). Mariner.

Master's mate of the ship the ''Affrican ffrigot'' (Master: [[Captaine Isaac Woodgreene]]).

Resident in 1654 in the liberty of the Tower of London.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-two year old Jasper Devenish deposed on September 8th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Isaac Woodgreene and Company in "A busines of Examination of witnesse for perpetuall remembrance of the matter promoted by Isaac Woodgreene and Company, owners and imployers of the Shipp the ''Affrican ffrigot'' whereof the sayd Woodgreene was captaine against a certayne ffrench shipp called the ''Madam Guardiana'' whereof Peter Martin was captaine and whatsoever goods and money in the same".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.100r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.100r]]</ref>

Jasper Devenish stated that Isaac Woodgreene and Company had a Commission under the Great Seale of the High Court of Admiralty "to manne and sett forth the ''Affrican ffrigott'' arlate as a private man of warr to seize and surprize the shipps and goods of the ffrench King and his subiects".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.101r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.101r]]</ref>

Devenish gives details of the surprisal of a French ship named the ''Madam Guardiana'' off the Island of Scio. After her seizure, Isaac Wooodgreene took his own ship and the seized ship to Smirna, requiring provisions. At Smirna "Peter Martyne and all the rest of the mariners of the sayd ffrench ship got on shoare and soe put them selves under the protection of the ffrench Consull there and by that meanes got them selves shipped into other shipps of their owne Nation then lying there soe that the sayd Woodgreene could not get any of them againe to bring them to England to be examined".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.101v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.101v]]</ref>

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Jasper Devenish - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet at 19:55, November 7, 2016

ColinGreenstreet at 19:00, October 27, 2016

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