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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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| − | [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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| − | habitations in 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 upon y:e said seizure being brought on bord XXX
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| − | and there continueing a prisoner for about 6 weekes after) did
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| − | sevearall times declare in the hearing of this depon:t that the said ships
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| − | were sett out, as aforesaid, by the said Vandergoes and others subject
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| − | of the States of y:e said United Provinces, and saith that XXX
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| − | said Scroll and one Claes or Nicholas ?Praine Merchant or
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| − | Supra Cargo of the said shipp ''Marie'' did aboard y:e said shipp
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| − | ''Unicorne'' declare to this depon:t that they had in and about y:e
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| − | said shipps a Cargaison for y:e procureing of two Thousand
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| − | ffive hundred Negroes to be transported to ??Carthagona in the
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| − | West Indies there to be disposed of and sold for y:e use of XXX
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| − | of such their Dutch ?Proprietors And further said That soe long as
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| − | this depo:t continued a prison:r in and aboard the said shipp ''Unicorne''
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| − | hee well observed that all or the most pt of their shipps XXX
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| − | and provisions consisted in ?grett, ?horse ?beXxanes and other XXXX
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| − | usually employed in shipps fitted and victualled from Holland and
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| − | other united provinces, and that severall of the said shipps ?Companie
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| − | then confessed, that the provisions of beef, and sundry XXXX of
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| − | water which they then had aboard y.e said shipps had beene by XX
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| − | taken in, in the said united Netherlands, or words and expressions
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| − | to that or the like effect. Hee further saith That hee this depon:t
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| − | [f. 630r.]
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| − | was not present at the seizure of the said shipp y:e ''Sarah'' and therefore
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| − | doeth not know, what colours y:er said Dutch shipps carried at the time
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| − | of the said seizure otherwise than that hee hath credibly understood both
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| − | by the said Captaine Perkins and by severall of his Companie, thyt y:e
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| − | said Dutch Shipps at the time of the said seizure were or carried the
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| − | Hollands or Middleborough colours as this XXXXX now remembreth
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| − | And further cannot depose
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| − | To the 7:th hee saith, That by and according to y:e confession of the said
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| − | John Scroll and severall of his companie made to this depo:t during his
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| − | said imprisonment, hee the said John Scroll was an inhabitant of or
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| − | neere ??Monnisbondam in Holland, and that this depo:t during his said
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| − | restraint well observed abnd to the pticular notice y:t the said Scroll and
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| − | the Gunner, Steeresman, Chirurgion, Boatswaine, Carpenter and
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| − | Saile-maker and many others both Officers and common men aboard
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| − | y:e said shipp were Dutchmen subjects of the said States of the United
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| − | Netherlands; and that they generally acknowledged themselves soe to
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| − | bee, and that they were sent and employed out of the said United
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| − | Provinces for Guinney aforesaid. Hee further saith, That during
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| − | such this depon:ts restraint, the said Dutch shipps giving chase to enother
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| − | English shipp, whuch had beene tradeing in thoses parts of Guinney and
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| − | was then bound thence to y:e east Indies, by name the ''Lion and
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| − | Providence'', whereof was Captaine Timothy Craven, the said John
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| − | Scroll within this depo:ts sight and observation caused two gunns to be
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| − | fired at or against y:e said English shipp with intent to make y:e
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| − | same strike sayle to them & y:t a sword being brandished upon y:e said English
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| − | shipp in manner of Defiance, or that they would to their power defend
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| − | themselves, as is usually understood in such Casesm thereupon
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| − | the said Scroll tooke up a sword and brandishing y:e same said in Dutch
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| − | theise words or the like in effect, ''[Italics added by this editor] Ick hebbe mel een sweerde, ick
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| − | sal straax bÿ u comen,'' and soe by the said Scrolls order and direction
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| − | severall great gunns were discharged at and against the said English shipp
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| − | till such time, as shee was necessitated to submitt and surrender to y:e
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| − | said shipp the ''Mary'' then Admiral of the said Dutch shipps
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| − | which during all y:e said Conflict carried the Spanish Colors, but
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| − | when they first espyed any strange shipps, and particulalry when any of
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| − | West India shipps of the said United Netherlands came
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| − | neere them, they constantly carried the Middelborough Colo:rs and
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| − | saith that that place being beyond the Line, upon occasion of such
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| − | meeting, if the said shipps the ''Mary'' and ''Unicorne'' had beene
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| − | Spanishe, they and the said other Dutch West India shipps
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| − | would in all probability, and according to common and usuall custome
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| − | either have ?attacked or beene attacked by the Dutch, for y:t this XXXX
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| − | ?Doth not usually tolerate any shipp or shipps of other nations ??tradeing ??in
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| − | y:e West Indies And further hee cannot depose
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| − | To the Eighth Actle hee saith, That every one of the said XX XX XX
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| − | Negroes which this depon:t had on board his said shipp y:e ''XXXXXX''
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| − | at the time of the XXXX XXXXX, and alsoe the hundred Negroes XXXXXX
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| − | this depo:t intended to have procured with the XXX of the XXX outward
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| − | Cargoe would have given and produced in Virginia being the
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| − | place to which they were designed, thirty pounds ?ster:g at y:e
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| − | least, this depon:t before hee sett forth upon y:e voiage aforesaid
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| − | haveing here at London been offered 25:li sterling ready money ?for
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| − | ?such Negroes hee should procure and deliver at Virginia XXXX
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| − | and to have the benefitt of the moneys for y:e whole voiage, XXXX
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| − | would have procured rather more than ??less benefitt than that XX
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| − | is by him preXXXed, And further saith, That hee this depo:t
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| − | verily veleeveth, That the 160 negroes or thereabouts in and on
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| − | board the said shipp ''Sarah'' at the time of her said ?surprisall by
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| − | by being designed for Virginia or the Barbadoes, would have XXXXXX
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| − | ?produced to the Owners 30:li XXXX p head, or the worth thereof
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| − | in goods and ?Commodities of those Countreyes, And this dep:t
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| − | saith That about the eighteenth or 20:th day of December ?thatt this
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| − | depo:t after y:e seizure aforesaid being come to y:e Barbadoes, ?there
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| − | was credibly??informed by M:r Giles Thornbury Master of and English
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| − | Vessell then newely come in therewith Negroes from y:e XXX
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| − | of Guinney aforesaid, that hee had sold and disposed of them XXX
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| − | with another for 27 hundred weight of sugar p head, ?and a
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| − | hundred being there valewed at five and XXXX shillings, which is
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| − | more than y:e summe by him predeposed, And further cannot depose
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| − | saveing that the Negroes ?psons, which hee this depon:t had soe pcured
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| − | were all of them lusty young persons and soe hee intended to
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| − | have procured the remaining hundred of negroes, soe that they
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| − | would without any difficulty have procured the valew by him
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| − | predeposed and upwards. And further hee cannot depose
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| − | To the 9:th hee saith, hee knowing nothing of the contents of XXXX
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| − | further or otherwise than hee predeposed, for that hee this
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| − | depo:t was not at any time about y:e said shipp ''Sarah'' XXX XXX
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| − | their at the said Scroll and Companie had taken all y.e goods
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| − | and Negroes in question out of the same
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| − | To the 10:th Actle hee saith, That the said shipp y:e ''XXXXXXXXXXX''
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| − | being a shipp of the burthen of 220 tunns or thereabouts
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| − | bearing eight peeces of Ordinance togeather with her tackle apparell
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| − | furniture and provisions for y.e shipps companies and negroes were
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| − | at the time of the seizure aforesaid really worth the summe of Two
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| − | Thousand seaven hundred pounds sterling money of England, which
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| − | hee knowth for that a sixteenth pt of the said shipp before shee was
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| − | soe fitted and furnished to sea upon y:e voiage aforesaid, of this depon:ts certaine knowledge was by Richard Bull the former Master and pt
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| − | Owner thereof, sold unto y:e said Jeffereys and Colclough for ine
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| − | hundred pounds at the least, soe y:t the whole shipp in the condition shee
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| − | then was did after y:t rate amount unto 1600:li or thereabouts and with
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| − | y:e addition of all necessary tackle apparrell furniture provisions and
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| − | all conveniences for such a boiage and service, this depon:t is in his Conscience
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| − | and to the best of his Judgement fully convinced and assured of the value
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| − | of the premisses as hee hath predeposed y:e same, And as to y:e said
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| − | shipp y:e ''Sarah'', hee cannot depose anything knowlingly, as to the value
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| − | thereof, nor touching the freight or mens wages in and aboard y:e same
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| − | the voiage in question. And further or otherwise hee cannot depose
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| − | To the 11:th hee saith, That about two moneths after y:e
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| − | seizure of the said shipp ''?Xappahanmark'' the said Scroll and Companie
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| − | redelivered unto the Companies of the said surprized shipps, and of two
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| − | other English shipps, which they had alsoe thereabouts surprized and taken,
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| − | the said shipp ''Sarah'', they haveing taken out of the same all the provision
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| − | of Victualls, saveing two butts of beanes, two barrells of beefe, one hundred
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| − | of Stockfish and about 5. or 600. weight of bread, togeather with
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| − | some tunns of water, the Company then by them putt aboard y:e said
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| − | shipp ''Sarah'' being about 70. psons, and being strictly ordered and
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| − | enjoyned by the said seizo:rs to goe directly for England upon paine of
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| − | forfeiture of the said shipp if they deviated or tooke any other Courses or ?voiages ??20:th
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| − | would have required about three moneths time, but this depon:t and the said
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| − | Arthur Perkins & the rest of the seized shipps companie soe putt on board
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| − | the said shipp ''Sarah'' finding that such provisions were altogeather insufficient
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| − | for such a Companie and voiage, and haveing but one ?entire anchor; and one
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| − | peece ofa cable of about 50. or 60. fathom, and one suite of sailes very
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| − | thin and insufficient for such a voiage, and being unwilling to expose their
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| − | lives to such imminent and almost inevitable danger, they sailed from
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| − | Cape de Lopes aforesaid to y:e Island of S:t Thomas, where they were
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| − | necessitated to sell the said shipp y:e ''Sarah'' for Victualls to keepe them
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| − | alive and to furnish another small Vessell, which they there procured to
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| − | carry them to y:e Barbadoes, there to gett passage for England, and saith
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| − | if they had not steered y:e Course and sould the said shipp to the use and
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| − | intent aforesaid, they must in all probability have perished for want of
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| − | Victualls. The premisses hee declareth and knowth by sadd experience
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| − | to bee true And otherwise to this Acle hee cannott depose
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