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<document-start>
1. The first of October 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">Thomas Cowell and company}
3. against the Tobaccoes brought to}
4. this port in the Successe.}</margin>
5. <margin value="Left">dt. Cowell</margin>
6. <margin value="Left">Rp. </margin>
7. Richard Harris of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate
8. London Mariner, aged 27 yeeres or thereabouts
9. sworne and exámined.
10. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that there were certaine
11. tobaccoes amounting to about fourtie or fiftie thousand weight (as hee
12. estimateth the same) brought to this port of London from Jamaica in
13. the shipp the Successe, whereof Captaine Zachary Browne was commander
14. which hee knoweth being Purser of the said shipp and comming from
15. Jamaica hether ˹in˺ her with the said tobaccoes. And saith the said
16. Tobaccoes were of the Growth of the West India's under the power
17. of the king of Spain, and were brought thense to Jamaica in a
18. Spanish vessell, and there taken out of the said Spanish vessell and
19. landed in expence, taken and put aboard the said shipp the Successe
20. to be brought for England, all which this deponent being
21. then at Jamaica saw donne, and saith the same ˹said tobaccoe˺ was really
22. bef belonging to Spaniards as hee that brought it to Jamaica
23. confessed often times in this deponents heareing, and of it, there were
24. three Manoco's of cherie tobaccies which were for á present for
25. the Vice Roy of Cartagena, to which place the said vessell was
26. designed, which Manoco's were alsoe landed at Jamaica, And
27. saith that by the make of the said tobaccoes, they are clearly knowne
28. to such as are acquainted with that commoditie (as this deponent saith
29. hee is) to be of the privity ˹and make˺ of the Spanish West Indias.
30. To the second hee saith that after the arrival of the said tobaccoes
31. in the said shipp the Successe in this port, they were seized by the
32. interrogated Captaine Consell, who as hee said had a Commission from
33. this Court for seizure of the goods of the Subiects of the king
34. of Spaine, And otherwise hee cannot answer.
35. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
36. Richard Harris SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
37.
38. The first of October 1657.
39. <margin value="Left">On behalfe of the owners of}
40. the shipp Patience}</margin>
41. <margin value="Left">Rp. 1.</margin>
42. Hendrick Hendrickson of Larwick in Norway mariner
43. aged 32 yeares or thereabouts, and Tomis Barentse of Skane
44. in Norway Mariner aged 37 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right
45. Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges
46. of the high Court of the Admiraltie ˹of England˺ say and
47. depose respectively by vertue of their oathes being examined
48. upon an Interrogatorie, as followeth videlicet
49. That they very well know the shipp the Patience interrogated
50. whereof hee this deponent hendrick hendrickson is master and this deponent
51. Tomis Barentsen Stiersman, and have soe donne ever since shee was built
52. which was at Larwick about tenn yeares since, and that shee is of the
53. burthen of fiftie lasts, or thereabouts, and hath noe guns, And say
54. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">that</margin>
</document-end>