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1. furniture and of most part of the said ladings and went him selfe in
2. the said shipp to dispose thereof and to invest there in wines for this
3. port, and sith then on or about the 7th of October last the said shipp
4. with the said lading arriued at the said Iland of Teneriff, and came to
5. to an ancher in the valley de Gasti, and the next day a frigot of
6. the kinge of Spaine came aboard and forcibly seized the said shipp and
7. lading, and tooke out the master and company (whereof this deponent was
8. one) and arrived here aftere and imprisoned them, and after imprisoned
9. the said Cexetr and equally depriued him of the said shipp and lading
10. by which and by his being defeated of the said voyage, and other losses sustained
11. by the said scithere, this deponent XXX with this to be demnified and to
12. haue sustained losse and to the valew of fiue and twenty hundred
13. pounds at the least, and otherwise hee cannt depose.
14. Repeated with his pcor to XX before Dr Godolphine :/ Courte of Peter
15. 'youre and others against' The 12th of June '[signature]: Rodwick]'
16. 1656.

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12th June 1656.

horne and others against}
Mills and Richards.}

Examined upon the libell.

Rp. .jus.

William Tomkins of Fleet neere Southampton
Mariner, aged 52 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined.

25. To the first ˹and second˺ articles of the said libell hee saith and deposeth that
26. hee well knoweth and was pilot of the shipp the Prosperous arlate
27. (George Garneham master) in her late voyage outward bound from Southampton
28. for Bourdeaux and thense returned for Southampton againe on which voyage
29. hee saith hee preceded from Southampton in or about January last was a
30. twelvemoneth, being affreighted by william horne Thomas Cornelius
31. and Stephen Richbell, who hired her of Thomas Mills and Paul
32. Richard who were then her owners and for such commonly accounted
33. and otherwise hee cannot depose saving what followeth, referring himselfe
34. to the Chaterpartie annexed.

35. To the third árticle hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said
36. shipps said proceding from Southampton on the said voyage it was notorious
37. owners and well known taken notice of by the generalitie of Merchants
38. Masters and Mariners frequenting the port of Southampton and dwelling
39. there and thereaboute, and commonly found that diverse Brest men
40. of warr were and used to be out at sea, and used to fight and take
41. such English shipps as they could meete with and master with their
42. lading, and hee beleaveth the said Mills and Richards had notice thereof
43. it being a matter notorious.

44. To the third fourth and fifth ˹6. and 7th˺ árticles hee saith and deposeth that at the
45. time of the said shipps departure on the said voyage from Southampton
46. shee carried with and onboard her two Peeces of ordnance and serten
47. muskets for her owne use, ˹and noe more and˺ had not aboue foure or five shot
48. serviceable for the said ordnaunce, and but one small bagg of gunpowder
49. containing in his estimation about thirtie pounds ˹weight˺ of powder, which the
50. said shipp stopping at ffalmouth there were there foure ˹great˺ shott were
51. delivered to the said master, and ˹(as the gunner related)˺ a small parcell of musket shott, with
52. which hee saith shee proceded ˹to˺ Bourdeaux, without spending any of
53. the powder by the way, unlesse [words obliterated by mark]e upon occasion of a health or
54. salutation, and saith that hauing delivered the outward lading of
wheate

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