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<document-start>
1. The second of November 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">The Lord Protector against}
3. Lemmon and Tuffnell.}</margin>
4. Exámined upon the Libell annexed to the
5. Commission/
6. Stephen Cranbrooke of Deale in the County of kent
7. Mariner aged 36 yeares or thereabouts, sworne and
8. exámined.
9. To the first árticle hee saith and deposeth that within the time
10. arlate, namely in the monethes of March Aprill and May last
11. past or thereabouts (as hee remembreth the time) his highness the
12. Lord Protector was in possession of the shipp arlate called the
13. Virgin Mary and of tobaccoes and other goods that were aboard
14. her, as being lately before seized by some shipp or shipps in the
15. immediate service of this Commonwealth, and brought in as
16. prize and to the Downes, which hee knoweth being put aboard her
17. there as a waiter for the Customes.
18. To the second árticle hee saith and deposeth that within the time aforesaid
19. after such bringing in of the said shipp and lading into the downes, shee
20. was sent for to be with her said lading brought up for this port; and
21. that in her passage betweene the North foreland and the River mouth
22. this deponent about twelve .... or one of the clock at night comming
23. upon the deck ˹of the said shipp which was then at ... anchor˺ espied the shipps boate lying by her side and three or
24. foure baggs like bejket baggs which were full or neere full in the said
25. boate, and some rolls of tobaccoe lying on a heape in the said boate
26. amounting in his estimation to a dozen or fourteene rolls or thereabouts,
27. and hee conceiveth that the said baggs contained some of the said shipps prize
28. wooll, and this deponent asking what was the matter there was
29. answered by the seamen that were in the boate, that there was only a
30. little wooll and tobaccoe going aboard the Eagle ketch, and therewithat
31. put off the boate and went towards the said ketch which lay there
32. not farr off, and at the same time hee saith the ............ arlate
33. mr Lemmon and another man named Tuffnell or Tufnet or some
34. such name were both (as officers of to or belonging to the prize office)
35. aboard the said shipp the Virgin Mary, and such carrying away the said
36. tobaccoes and baggs of goods from the said shipp the Virgin Mary was
37. within the ebb ebbing and flowing of and upon the high sea
38. withinn the Jurisdiction of this Court, and was donne as hee ............. ˹thinketh˺
39. ˹and imagineth˺ with the knowledge of the said Lemmon and the said other prize officer
40. for without their knowledge hee saith the same could not have bin carried
41. and conveyed away from the said shipp, ˹as hee beleeveth˺ And otherwise hee cannot depose.
42. To the third hee cannot depose, not knowing ....... the quantitie of the
43. said goods otherwise than as aforesaid, nor knowing the weight or worth
44. thereof, or of any part thereof.
45. To the fourth hee saith there was alsoe in th said prize amongst
46. the goods seized in her a Spanish sea-bedd made of cannes and stuff
47. with halfe a hundred weight (in his estimation) of wooll, which hee
48. knoweth for that hee this deponent had laine thereupon two or three
49. nights before the said Lemmon and the said other officer (that came with
50. him) came aboard the said shipp in the Downes, and that the next day
51. after their said comming aboard, this deponent missing the said bedd
52. asked what was become of it; and was informed by some of the
53. seamen (who pretended thereto as plunder belonging to them) that they
54. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">XXX</margin>
</document-end>

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