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| − | '''Editorial history'''
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| − | 16/12/11, CSG: Created page
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| − | [Image P1090061]
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| − | [f. 628r.]
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| − | <u>Notes, not a full transcription</u>
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| − | Examinacon upon an Allegation on the behalf of the said John Jeffreys, Colelough, Beane, Lewellin and others
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| − | Thomas Clarke of
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| − | Rederhithe or Redriffe in y:e
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| − | County of Surrey late
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| − | Master and Commander of
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| − | the said shipp y:e Xappahawarke
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| − | aged 42: yeares or thereabouts
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| − | sworne in Court and examined
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| − | saith as followeth-
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| − | The ship, the ''Sarah'', was freighted "from London to Guiney and from thence to Barbadoes and Virginia and from thence to London, in which voyage the said shipp was surprized and seized as hereafter shall bee dexxxxxxx."
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| − | [Image P1090062]
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| − | [This image is out of focus]
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| − | [Image P1090063]
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| − | [f. 629r.]
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| − | "the ''Sarah'' had XXXXXXX been there bartered away and XXXX
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| − | 16X Negroes or thereabouts, and that they were in the quiett and
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| − | peaceable possession of the same upon the high and open seas neere
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| − | unto a place called XXXX de Lopez in Guiney aforesaid as such since as
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| − | the said shipps and their respective ladings more XXXXXed and to bee
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| − | XXX hereafter reste to bee XXXXed, And further hee cannot depose
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| − | To the 5:th Article of the said Accon hee saieth That in or about the
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| − | moneth of September 1656, and upon y:e 11:th day of the said moneth
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| − | according to y.e English style, the said shipp the Xappahamarck and or
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| − | y:e XXuct of this depon:t being at sea with y:e said 53 or 54 Negroes
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| − | and the residue of her said Cargo, and sayling towards and
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| − | being in sight of the said Cape de Lopes upon her quiett and peaceable trading
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| − | was mett with by two duch shipps the one called the ''Mary'' of
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| − | Amsterdam, and the other called the ''XXXX'' of Middleburgh both
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| − | of them being commanded by the aclate John SXXoll a Duchman
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| − | and Subject of the States of the United Provinces, which did then in
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| − | a violent and hostile manner sett upon surprize and take the said
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| − | shipp y:e Xappahammarke togeather with her Tackle furniture and
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| − | Negroes and the rest of her lading, and dispoyled and utterly ?deprived
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| − | this depon:t and Companie thereof and ?converted y:e same to the use
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| − | and benefitt of the said John Scroll and Companie. The premisses hee
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| − | knoweth by sadd a psonall experiences. And further saith, That by and
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| − | according to the credible relation of the said Arthur Perkins and Comp:nie
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| − | the said two Dutch shipps in the moneth of August, immediately
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| − | precedent had alsoe in a violent and
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| − | hostile manner assaulted surprized and taken y:e said shipp y.e ''Sarah''
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| − | and her tackle furniture and Negroes aforesaid shee being at an anchor
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| − | at or neere Cape de Lopes aforesaid, and had dispoyled and depXXXed
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| − | said Master and Companie thereof. And that indeed this depo:t being
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| − | himselfe and his said shipp shortly after surprized and taken as afores:d
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| − | did soe the said shipp ''Sarah'' in the power and possession of the said
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| − | John Scroll and of those under his Command in the said Dutch shipps
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| − | And further cannot depose
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| − | To the 6:th hee saith That the said shipps the ''Marye'' and y:e
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| − | ''Unicorne'' at the time of the surprizeall of this deponents said shipp y:e
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| − | ''Rappahamarrke'' were Dutch shipps, that is the ''Mary'' was and is a
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| − | shipp built at Amsterdam in Holland, and the said shipp y:e ''Unicorne''
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| − | a shipp which had beene taken by the Holland:ers or Zealanders from y:e
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| − | Portugueze and had been repaired and built upon in Zeeland, and saith
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| − | That at the time aforesaid both the said shipps carried Spanish Colours
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| − | but the night immediately prceeding the said seizure, this depon:t had
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| − | seene them carry the Colours of Middleborough in Zeeland And farther
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| − | saith that the said shipps were from y:e said United Provinces sett out
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| − | [Image P1090064]
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| − | [f. 629v.]
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| − | to sea each of them with a cargo of goods to trade at Guiney [?for]
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| − | Negroes, and pticulalry that one ?Vandergoes of Zeeland XXX XXX
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| − | principall ?Owner and imployer of the said shipp the ''Unicorne''
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| − | was alsoe interested in the other shipp y:e ''Mary'' and that the ?said
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| − | Vandergoes and others the Own:rs of the said shipps the ''Mary'' and
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| − | ''Unicorne'' were Dutchmen and Subjects of the said States of y:e
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| − | United Netherlands Provinces, ??All which the premisses of this dep:t
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| − | saith hee hath understood and beene very credibly informed of XXX
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| − | before the seizure of the said shipp the ''XXappahamarck'' and the
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| − | one Lucas ?carrots Master of a shipp in XXXX belonging to Holland
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| − | then trading in these parts with whom this dep:t XXX at the XXX
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| − | dayes before y:e seizure of the said shipp ''XXappaXXXX'' XXXX the
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| − | depon:t asking whether there were any men of warr upon y:e XXX
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| − | answered noe, but that there were some Dutch Merchant shipps
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| − | and that hee knew where their Own:rs and Imployers lived, XXXX XX
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| − | hee know where his owne Own.rs lived, and that if hee were in
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| − | Amsterdam hee could presently goe to their or severall of their houses
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| − | habitationsin that place, and moreover that therefore hee did not
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| − | feare them under any such notion, And ptly for y:t the said
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| − | Commander John Scroll and the Gunner of the said shipp y:e
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| − | ''Unicorne'' (this depo:t
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