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| − | '''Editorial history'''
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| − | [Image P1090001]
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| − | [f. 167v.]
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| − | '''Cooke and Johnson ag:st Batson.
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| − | Smith Clements
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| − | The four and twentyeth day of Aorill 1656
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| − | Examined upon an accon on y:e behalfe of y:e sayd Batson
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| − | WILLIAM TICKELL of Birchen Lane London merchant aged
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| − | forty three yeares or thereabouts, a witness sworne and
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| − | examined saith and deposeth as followeth ?vizt
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| − | To the first Arle of the sayd Accon, This deponent saith that he went
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| − | as merchant in the shipp ''Tankervale'' Robert Cooke ma:r the last
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| − | voyage she made which was fron this port of London to Norway
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| − | and there to take in horses; and was from hence to have gone to y:e Barbados
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| − | and so back agayne to this port. And knowth that the sayd
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| − | Robert
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| − | [f. 168r.]
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| − | Cooke had order from his Imployers to hire and agree with Mariners
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| − | for y:e sayd voyage to receyve their wages att y:e barbadoes in
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| − | Muscavadoe sugars att the rate of four pence p pound. And he
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| − | knoweth y:t the sayd James Cooke and Johnson were two of y:e Mariners
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| − | hired for that voyage, and he this deponent did sevearall tymes
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| − | heare them y:e sayd Cooke and Johnson say and acknowledge that they
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| − | were so hired and had so agreed, that is to say that they had
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| − | contracted and agreed that what wages should be due to them for
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| − | their service in the sayd shipp and voyage they were to receave y.e
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| − | same att y:e Barbados in Muscavadoe sugar att y:e rate of
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| − | four pence per pound. And y.e like he heard, the sayd Robert
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| − | Cooke y:e Ma:r severall tymes say and affirme, and also that the most
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| − | of the Mariners had signed to a written Agreement to that purpose
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| − | and having now veiwed and perused the paticular to y:e sayd accon
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| − | annexed he doth beleive by the names and markes of y.e Mariners
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| − | att y:e foot thereof especially by the name of William Jeffery
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| − | who was one of the mates the sayd voyage (whose handwriting he is well
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| − | acquainted with, and is well assured that he did subscribe his sayd
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| − | name thereto as now it appeareth) that y:e says schedule was and
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| − | is the originall written Agreement, touching the p:rmisses. And
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| − | otherwise hee saith he cannot depose
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| − | To y:e second arle of y.e sayd accon This deponent saith That att y:e sayd shipps
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| − | arrivall in Norway the sayd batsons and Companies facto:r here did
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| − | putt on board the sayd shipp forty five horses or thereabouts for their
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| − | use and accompt, to be carryed and transported from thence to the
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| − | Barbadoes And y:e sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson as matee
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| − | and Boatswayne were by their plans to looke unto and have
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| − | care of the stowage thereof, and to see that y:e stanchions in which
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| − | they were to be placed were strong and good. And they had and
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| − | were provided of such materialls for that purpose as they sayd were
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| − | good and sufficicient, and theire was enough of ither boards spanns
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| − | and materialls to have made the sayd stanchions more strong and
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| − | they might have had them if they had pleased of y:e certayne knowledge
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| − | of this deponent who was then gone as merchant of y:e sayd shipp
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| − | and had provided such materialls as were strong and sufficient
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| − | and they y:e sayd James Cooke, and maynard and y:e rest of the
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| − | Mariners concerned in y:e stowing of the sayd horses did refuse to
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| − | make use of them, saying that such as they had was sufficient. And
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| − | otherwise he cannot depose
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| − | To y:e third arle of y:e sayd accon This deponent saith that the sayd horses
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| − | being so putt on board, the sayd shipp ''Tankervale'' putt out to sea
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| − | and soone after upon the shippes working, the stanchions in which
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| − | the sayd horses were placed did breake downe in regard they
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| − | were too weake, and the sayd horses by reason of such bad stowage
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| − | fell
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| − | [f. 168v.]
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| − | fell one upon another, and thereby one killed another and all of
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| − | them dyed except one horse and y.e sayd Cooke and Company
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| − | in stead of goeing with the sayd shipp to y.e barbadoes brought
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| − | her to Newcastle, of all which this deponent was an eye witnesse
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| − | and believeth that they so came to Newcastle without the order
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| − | of the sayd Richard Batson<ref>See PROB 11/424 Carr 59-116, Will of Richard Batson, June 16th 1667, cited in Simon David Smith, ''Slavery, family, and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic: the world of the Lascelles,1648-1834'' (Cambridge, 2006), fn. 60, p. 26. See possibly related PROB 11/329 Coke 1-56 Will of Henry Batson, Merchant of London 13 May 1669</ref> or any other of the Owners of y:e
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| − | sayd shipp. And otherwise he cannot depose
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| − | To y:e fourth arle This deponent saith that upon y:e sayd shipps comong
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| − | to newcastle there was advertisement given to y.e sayd Batson
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| − | and Company of the sayd shipp being there and of y:e losses
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| − | of y:e sayd horses whereupon this deponent afterwards received
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| − | a lre from y:e sd Batson & Company directed to him this
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| − | deponent and y.e sayd Robert Cooke wherein they ordered y:e
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| − | sayd shipp to come about to y:e XXope in this River of Thames
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| − | there to be fitted with sich things as she needed for her
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| − | voyage to y:e Barbadoes to to that effect
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| − | To y:e fifth arle hee saith he cannot depose not being aboard y:e says
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| − | shipp when y.e sayd James Cooke and y:e s:d Maynard were imprest
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| − | To y:e sixth arle of y:e sayd accon he saith hee cannot depose, being not
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| − | well acquainted with y,e worke and duty of Mariners att sea
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| − | To y:e seventh arle of y:e sayd accon This deponent saith that for
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| − | the reasons aforesayd he knoweth it to bee true, that the onely
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| − | cause of the losse of all y.e horses was because the
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| − | stanchions were not made strong as they ought to have
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| − | bene, and as they might have bene had they when the stowage
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| − | did concerne made use of the sparrs which this deponent had
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| − | provided for that purpose, which hee saith were strong and
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| − | good: And he is well assured that in case the sayd stanchions
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| − | had bene made as they ought and might have bene the
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| − | sayd horses had been p:rserved. And further hee saith that the
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| − | care and lookeing to y:e making of y:e s:d stanchions did
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| − | proply belong to y:e sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson
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| − | as mate and Boatswayne, which hee knoweth by the observation
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| − | he hath made of the dutyes of Mates and Boatswaynes in y:e
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| − | like case, for many years that he hath used y:e sea as a merchant
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| − | And otherwise hee cannot depose
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| − | To y:e 8:th arle of y:e s.d accon This deponent saith that y.e sayd Batson
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| − | and Company by reason of the losse of the sayd horses have suffered
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| − | dammage to y:e balue of fifteene hundred pounds stocke att the
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| − | Least And so much the sayd horses so lost would have yeilded
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| − | and given in case they had come safe to y:e Barbadoes, which
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| − | he deposeth upon his knowledge in that trade, having used the
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| − | trade
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| − | [f. 169r.]
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| − | y:e trade of the Barbadoes with horses and other merchandises for
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| − | this ten yeares past and having cast upp the price of y.e sayd
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| − | horses so lost with y:e usuall gayne made of like horses att y:e Barbadoes
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| − | findeth that y:e same would have yeilded att y:e usuall rate the syd
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| − | summe of fifteen hundred pounds sticke and upwards. And otherwise
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| − | he cannot depose
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| − | To y.e nynth arle hee saith that y:e sayd James Cooke att y:e tyme of his
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| − | hiring into y:e sayd shipp was but a young man about twenty yeares
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| − | of age, and in this deponents Judgment had not exoerience
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| − | and moral (Or, "merit") sufficent to be of a shipp for such a voyage as
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| − | was intended. And saith that he y:e sd James was and is by common
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| − | repute the sonne of the sd Robert Cooke Ma:r of y:e sayd shipp
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| − | and was hired by his sayd father to serve in her. And further
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| − | he cannot depose
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| − | [SIGNED] WILLIAM TICKELL
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| − | The same day Examined upon y:e sayd accon
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| − | WILLIAM LOWE a planter & inhabitant of y:e Barbados one of y:e Caribee Islands
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| − | aged forty years of thereabouts a witnesse sworne and
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| − | examined sauth as followeth. vizt.
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| − | To y:e first artle of the sayd accon and to y:e schedule therto annexed now
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| − | showne him hee saith amd deposeth That being a planter in y:e sayd Island
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| − | of Barbados whither hee was to returne from England hee putt
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| − | himselfe as a passenger on board y:e sayd shipp ''Tankervale'' Robert
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| − | Cooke Ma:r which was designed to goe from this port to Norway
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| − | and hence to take in horses and so to goe to y:e Barbadoes and
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| − | from hence to returne for England, and by this meanes came to
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| − | heare and know that all or most of y:e mariners belonging to y:e
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| − | sd shipp and pticularly the sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson
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| − | were to have their wages payd att y:e Barbadoes in Muscavadoes
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| − | Sugars att y:e rate of four pence p pound; to which purpose hee did
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| − | severall tymes see the foresayd schedule in y:e hands of y:e sayd
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| − | Robert Cooke and heard him read y:e same to his Mariners and heard
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| − | them acknowledge that they had subscribed it as now is to be seene
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| − | and that they had agreed and contractedas therein is conteyned. And
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| − | otherwise hee cannot depose.
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| − | To y:e second and third artes of y:e sayd accon, This deponent saith that upon
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| − | y:e arrivall of y:e sayd shipp att Norway there were putt on board her
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| − | for y:e sayd Richard Batson and Companies Accompt by their facto:r
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| − | there forty five horses to be from thence transcported to y:e Barbadoes
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| − | and the stowing of y:e sayd horses did belong to y.e Mariners of y:e sayd
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| − | shipp, and the making of y:e sanchions for that purpose as to thee
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| − | ?care of the worke that they should be stronge and sufficient did belong
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| − | to y:e sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson as mate and Boatswayne
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| − | And
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| − | And there was materialls sufficient to have made y:e sayd stanchions strong
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| − | enough in case there would have made use of them. But he
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| − | saith the sayd stancheons were made too weake and insufficeint
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| − | the indeed so weake that soone after y:e sd shipp was hone to sea with
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| − | sayd horses by reason of such bad stowage fell one upon another
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| − | and so one killed another and all of them dyed one horse
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| − | onely excepted. all which hee knoweth for that he was a passenger
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| − | and heard his ?p:rcontest William Tickell offer y:e Master and
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| − | Mariners of y:e sayd shipp strong and good sparrs which hee
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| − | had provided some whereof hee brought aboard, for y:e making
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| − | saying the stanchions, but they refused the same
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| − | saying the stanchions they had made were strong enough, or to
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| − | that purpose. And saith that y:e sd master and Company did,
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| − | not proceed on to y:e Barbadoes but came to Newcastle, which
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| − | as this deponent hath heard and beleives, was without order
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| − | of his Owners. And otherwise he cannot depose.
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| − | To y:e fourth arle hee saith that y:e sd Owners being M:r Batson &
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| − | Company (as by letters which he hath seene he came to know) having
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| − | notice of y:t y:e sd horses were lost and sayd shipp XXXXXX some
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| − | such and was come to Newastle, ordered her to come into this
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| − | River of Thames neer to Gravesend there to be supplyed of what
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| − | she wanted and so to proceed on her sayd intended voyage. And
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| − | otherwise he cannot depose.
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| − | To y:e fifth artle of y:e sd accon he saith It is not usuall to impress the
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| − | mates or Boatswaynes of any shipp being upon a voyage and
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| − | in case and such be prest it is isuall upon their makeing knowne
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| − | their imployment to release them and accordingly he saw that
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| − | y:e sayd James Cooke and maynard Johnson having bene once prest
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| − | were released probably upon their making knowne their offices
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| − | on boarding y:e sd shipp. And further he cannot depose not being
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| − | on board when y:e sd persons were last pressed, and submitted XXXX
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| − | without returning to their respective imployments on board y:e
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| − | sd shipp
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| − | To y:e 6:th arle of y:e sayd accon hee saith that y:e says Maynard Johnson
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| − | did behave himselfe stubbornely and peversely on board y:e sayd
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| − | shipp not onely neglecting and refusing to obey y:e Masters Commands
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| − | but discouraging his fellows in their dutyes, and pticulaly saith
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| − | that when y:e sd shipp lay att Newcastle he hearde y:e Master
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| − | call to him y:e sd Johnson to call upp y:e Company to assist att y:e
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| − | removing of a ??playne for y:e Carpenters who were there doeing some
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| − | reparis to y:e sayd shipp, and heard y:e sd Johnson resused to
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| − | call them, and heard him allso say, that y:e Mariners were XXX
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| − | if they gave their aXX XXXXX or to that purpose. And further he
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| − | cannot depose
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| − | To y:e seventh arle hee saith taht y:e losse of y:e sayd horses was caused by
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| − | and through the weaknes and insufficciency of the sayd stanchions w:ch
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| − | were not made so strong and sufficient as they ought to have
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| − | beene, as this deponent for y:r reasons aforesayd knowth they
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| − | might have bene; and that y:e oversight or care of making y:e
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| − | sayde stanchions strong did proply belong to y:e sd James Cooke as
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| − | mate and sayd Johnson as Boatswayne. And hee doth verily beleive
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| − | ought and might have bene y:e sayd horses had not perished, but had
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| − | bene p:served. And otherwise he cannot depose.
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| − | To y:e 9:th arle of y;e sayd accon, This deponent saith he dothe verily
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| − | beleive by what he hath seene and observed being a planter in
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| − | the Barbadoes as aforsd that the sayd horses so lost in case they
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| − | had come safe to y:e Barbadoes would have ?reached a thousand
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| − | pounds sterling. And that y:e sayd Batson and Company over
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| − | and besides what might have bene made of y:e sayd horses have
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| − | sufficient losse and dammage to the meanes aforesd to a goad value, but how much in
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| − | certayne he cannott sett forth. And
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| − | otherwise he cannot depose
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| − | The same day Examined upon y:e accon
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| − | NICHOLAS HAMMOND of S:t Michaels Cornhill London Barber
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| − | Chirurgion of and belonging to y:e sayd shipp ''Tankerviale''
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| − | aged thirty yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and
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| − | examined deposeth and saith as followeth, vizt.
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| − | To y:e first acle of y:e sayd accon, This deponent saith That y:e sayd shipp the
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| − | ''Tankervale'' Robert Cooke Ma:r was imployed by the sayd Richard Batson
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| − | and Company upon a voyage from this port to Gottenburron in Norway
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| − | there to take in horses and then to transport them to y:e Barbados
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| − | and so to returne for England which he knoweth for that hee was shipped
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| − | as Barber Chirugion on board y:e sd shipp for that voyage. And
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| − | he severall tymes heard y:e Mariners of y:e sayd shipp and the
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| − | sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson in pticular say and affirme
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| − | that they were hired and had agreed to receive their wages for y:e
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| − | sayd voyage att y:e Barbadoes in Muscavadoe sugars att y:e rate
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| − | of four pence p pound, and that y:e sayd agreement was drawne up
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| − | in writing to which most of y:e sd Mariners had sett their names, and
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| − | he
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| − | he y:e sayd Johnson sayd he had sett his marke to y:s same. And he
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| − | beleived y:t y:e schedule to y:e accon annexed and now shewne him
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| − | is the sayd written Agreem:t
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| − | that y:e sayd Cap:t Ma:r Tobert Cooke shewd y:e s:d schedule to this depon:t and sayd it was y:e sd Ag
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| − | To y:e second arta of y:e says accon hee saith That y:e y:e sayd shipp in proYYYY
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| − | tion of y:e sayd voyage arrived safely att Gottenburgh, and
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| − | there y:e sd Batson and Companies factors did for there Accompt
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| − | putt on board y:e sayd shipp about forty five horses to be from
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| − | thence transported to y:e Barbadoes, which he knoweth seeing
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| − | the sayd horses so putt on board. And saith that y:e care for
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| − | stowage and providing and making sufficient stancheons to place
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| − | y:e sayd horses did belong to y:e sayd James Cooke as mate and
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| − | Maynard Johnson as Boatswayne of y:e sayd shipp; And he
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| − | saith that there were boards and materialls enough to have made
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| − | the sayd stanchions strong and sufficient and they might have had
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| − | the same for that and in case they had pleases, which he knoweth
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| − | for that he heard one of y:e sd Batsons and Companies Agents
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| − | offer them such materialls of all sorts as were fitt and sufficient
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| − | Andotherwise hecannot depose
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| − | To y:e third arte of y:esayd accon This deponent saith That within a small
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| − | tyme after y:e sayd shipp was putt out to sea from Gottenburgh
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| − | with y:e sayd horses, the stanchions in which they were placed did
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| − | all or most of them breake, being made as then appeared too weake
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| − | and thereupon upon the working and rolling of y:e sayd shipp
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| − | in y:e sea the sayd horses fell one upon another and beat and
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| − | killed one another so as all of them dyed and were left, one onely
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| − | excepted, which hee knowteh to be true being then on board the
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| − | sayd shipp in y:e quality aforesayd. And afterwards y:e sayd Cooke
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| − | y:e Ma:r and Company brought y:e sayd shipp to Newcastle leaving
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| − | the direct course for y:e barbadoes without y:e order or knowledge
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| − | of y:e sd batson and Company as hee beleiveth . And otherwise
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| − | hee cannot depose
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| − | To y:e 4:th arte he saith y:t whilst y:e sd shipp lay att Newcastle notice
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| − | was given to y:e sd Batson & Company of y:e losse of y:e sd horses
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| − | and order came from them to bring y:e sd shipp into this River
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| − | neer to Gravesend. And otherwise cannot depose.
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| − | To the 5:th arte hee saith after y:e sayd shipp came into this River
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| − | the sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson were im prested into y;e
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| − | service of y:e Commonwealth and y:e sayd Johnson as seemed to this
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| − | deponent and as he beleiveth did like well thereof and used
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| − | noe meanes to be freed from y:e service, which he concyveth hee might
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| − | have bene if he had made knowne to y:m that pressed him that
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| − | he was Boarswayne of the sayd shipp and that he was upon
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| − | a voyage, it being usuall for such to be freed in that case, And
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| − | saith y:et both y:e sg James Cooke and Johnson had bene formerly
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| − | prest and gott both off agayne upon making knowne ther
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| − | quality and imployment on board y:e ''Tankervale'' which he
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| − | knoweth being on board y:e sayd shipp att both y:e sd tymes of impresting
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| − | And otherwise cannot depose
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| − | To y:e 6:th arte of y:e sayd Accon he saith, that y:e sayd Maynard Johnson
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| − | did severall tymes carry himselfe untowardly and ?disrespectively to y.e
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| − | Ma:r of y:e sayd shipp ?whilst he continued XXXX the sayd voyage
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| − | and more pticulaly once in a certayne storme that befell the sayd
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| − | shipp in which y:e sd ma:r calling him upp, he in this deponents
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| − | hearing refused to come upp and swore he would not come And anot
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| − | her tyme att Newcastle where y:e sd Master bidding him to call
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| − | upp y:e Company to assist y:e Carpenters in removing their ?stayes,
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| − | sayd it was not worke belong to y:e Mariners, and that they were
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| − | fooles if they gave assistance: And y:e sd Master then bidding him
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| − | to give his helping hand he the sayd Johnson swore he would not
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| − | the deponent being p:rsent. And the truth is he the sd Johnson was
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| − | much given to, and did often use swearing and cursing on board
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| − | y:e sayd shipp. And otherwise he cannot depose.
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| − | To y:e seventh arte he saith , that he doth verily beleive that in case
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| − | y:e sayd stanchions had bene strong enough as they ought and might
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| − | have bene the sayd horses had not bene lost, but had bene p:rserved
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| − | for he saith y:e sayd stanchions were made onely of deale board
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| − | whereas y:e sd Robert Cooke and the Mariners upon y:e stowage did
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| − | concerne might have had ?backs and spars to have made them
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| − | strong and sufficeint if they had pleased y:e same being in this
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| − | deponents hearing offered them att Gotenburgh aforesd so as
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| − | in this deponents judgments the weaknes of y:e sd stanchions (of
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| − | the making whereof y:e sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson
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| − | should have had care as mate and Boatswayne) was y:e cause
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| − | of the losse of the sd horses in manner as aforesd. And otherwise
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| − | he cannot depose.
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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
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | English shipp, whuch had beene tradeing in thoses parts of Guinney and
| + | |
| − | was then bound thence to y:e east Indies, by name the ''Lion and
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | shipp in manner of Defiance, or that they would to their power defend
| + | |
| − | themselves, as is usually understood in such Casesm thereupon
| + | |
| − | the said Scroll tooke up a sword and brandishing y:e same said in Dutch
| + | |
| − | theise words or the like in effect, ''[Italics added by this editor] Ick hebbe mel een sweerde, ick
| + | |
| − | sal straax bÿ u comen,'' and soe by the said Scrolls order and direction
| + | |
| − | severall great gunns were discharged at and against the said English shipp
| + | |
| − | till such time, as shee was necessitated to submitt and surrender to y:e
| + | |
| − | said shipp the ''Mary'' then Admiral of the said Dutch shipps
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | West India shipps of the said United Netherlands came
| + | |
| − | neere them, they constantly carried the Middelborough Colo:rs and
| + | |
| − | 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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| − | [f. 630v.]
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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
| + | |
| − | this depo:t intended to have procured with the XXX of the XXX outward
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | least, this depon:t before hee sett forth upon y:e voiage aforesaid
| + | |
| − | haveing here at London been offered 25:li sterling ready money ?for
| + | |
| − | ?such Negroes hee should procure and deliver at Virginia XXXX
| + | |
| − | and to have the benefitt of the moneys for y:e whole voiage, XXXX
| + | |
| − | would have procured rather more than ??less benefitt than that XX
| + | |
| − | is by him preXXXed, And further saith, That hee this depo:t
| + | |
| − | verily veleeveth, That the 160 negroes or thereabouts in and on
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | ?produced to the Owners 30:li XXXX p head, or the worth thereof
| + | |
| − | in goods and ?Commodities of those Countreyes, And this dep:t
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | was credibly??informed by M:r Giles Thornbury Master of and English
| + | |
| − | Vessell then newely come in therewith Negroes from y:e XXX
| + | |
| − | of Guinney aforesaid, that hee had sold and disposed of them XXX
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | were all of them lusty young persons and soe hee intended to
| + | |
| − | have procured the remaining hundred of negroes, soe that they
| + | |
| − | would without any difficulty have procured the valew by him
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | further or otherwise than hee predeposed, for that hee this
| + | |
| − | depo:t was not at any time about y:e said shipp ''Sarah'' XXX XXX
| + | |
| − | their at the said Scroll and Companie had taken all y.e goods
| + | |
| − | 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''
| + | |
| − | being a shipp of the burthen of 220 tunns or thereabouts
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| − | [Image P1090067]
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| − | [f. 631r.]
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| − | bearing eight peeces of Ordinance togeather with her tackle apparell
| + | |
| − | furniture and provisions for y.e shipps companies and negroes were
| + | |
| − | at the time of the seizure aforesaid really worth the summe of Two
| + | |
| − | Thousand seaven hundred pounds sterling money of England, which
| + | |
| − | hee knowth for that a sixteenth pt of the said shipp before shee was
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | Owner thereof, sold unto y:e said Jeffereys and Colclough for ine
| + | |
| − | hundred pounds at the least, soe y:t the whole shipp in the condition shee
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | all conveniences for such a boiage and service, this depon:t is in his Conscience
| + | |
| − | and to the best of his Judgement fully convinced and assured of the value
| + | |
| − | of the premisses as hee hath predeposed y:e same, And as to y:e said
| + | |
| − | shipp y:e ''Sarah'', hee cannot depose anything knowlingly, as to the value
| + | |
| − | thereof, nor touching the freight or mens wages in and aboard y:e same
| + | |
| − | the voiage in question. And further or otherwise hee cannot depose
| + | |
| − | | + | |
| − | To the 11:th hee saith, That about two moneths after y:e
| + | |
| − | seizure of the said shipp ''?Xappahanmark'' the said Scroll and Companie
| + | |
| − | redelivered unto the Companies of the said surprized shipps, and of two
| + | |
| − | other English shipps, which they had alsoe thereabouts surprized and taken,
| + | |
| − | the said shipp ''Sarah'', they haveing taken out of the same all the provision
| + | |
| − | of Victualls, saveing two butts of beanes, two barrells of beefe, one hundred
| + | |
| − | of Stockfish and about 5. or 600. weight of bread, togeather with
| + | |
| − | some tunns of water, the Company then by them putt aboard y:e said
| + | |
| − | shipp ''Sarah'' being about 70. psons, and being strictly ordered and
| + | |
| − | enjoyned by the said seizo:rs to goe directly for England upon paine of
| + | |
| − | forfeiture of the said shipp if they deviated or tooke any other Courses or ?voiages ??20:th
| + | |
| − | would have required about three moneths time, but this depon:t and the said
| + | |
| − | Arthur Perkins & the rest of the seized shipps companie soe putt on board
| + | |
| − | the said shipp ''Sarah'' finding that such provisions were altogeather insufficient
| + | |
| − | for such a Companie and voiage, and haveing but one ?entire anchor; and one
| + | |
| − | peece ofa cable of about 50. or 60. fathom, and one suite of sailes very
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | Cape de Lopes aforesaid to y:e Island of S:t Thomas, where they were
| + | |
| − | necessitated to sell the said shipp y:e ''Sarah'' for Victualls to keepe them
| + | |
| − | alive and to furnish another small Vessell, which they there procured to
| + | |
| − | 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
| + | |
| − | intent aforesaid, they must in all probability have perished for want of
| + | |
| − | 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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| − | ===Possible primary sources===
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| − | '''Related to Cooke & Johnson vs. Batson'''
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| − | '''TNA'''
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| − | C 6/136/169 Short title: Watkins v Merchants of London. Plaintiffs: Mary Watkins widow. Defendants: Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies [East India Company] and Richard Batson. Subject: money matters, London, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1657
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| − | C 6/140/88 Short title: Mackleir v Batson. Plaintiffs: Sir John Mackleir kt. Defendants: Richard Batson and William Chamberlayne. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, inventory. 1657
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| − | '''C 6/163/3 Short title: Batson v Bendish. Plaintiffs: Richard Batson. Defendants: Sir Thomas Bendish baronet and John Bendish. Subject: property in Haverhill, and Helions Bumpstead, Essex. Document type: bill, answer. 1663'''
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| − | '''C 10/13/142 Peter Thelwall v Richard Batson: money matters 1651'''
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| − | C 10/57/150 East India Co. v. Batson 1650
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| − | PROB 11/424 Carr 59-116, Will of Richard Batson, June 16th 1667
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| − | PROB 11/329 Coke 1-56 Will of Henry Batson, Merchant of London 13 May 1669
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| − | PROB 11/460 Dyer 46-88 Will of Thomas Batson of Stepney, Middlesex 23 April 1701, pp. 8
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| − | PROB 11/367 North 95-141 Will of Edward Lewin of Stepney, Middlesex 11 August 1681, pp. 6 (identical to "Edmond Lewin", a partner of Richard Batson in a Minories Glasshouse?)
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| − | '''Essex Record Office'''
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| − | Essex Record Office: D/DQ 41/39 : 2 October 1663: Deed to lead to the uses of a common recovery<ref>http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/%5CViewCatalogue.asp?ID=146017, viewed 17/12/11</ref>
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| − | (i) Sir Thomas Bendish of Steeple Bumpstead Baronet, John Bendish son of Sir Thomas Bendish, his wife Martha Bendish
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| − | (ii) Richard Batson of London, merchant, Thomas Batson the younger of London, merchant
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| − | (iii) Thomas Plampin of London, silkman and and Francis Pemberton of the Inner Temple, London
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| − | In consideration of the marriage of John Bendish and Martha, daughter of Richard Batson. Recites marriage settlement of £6000 and articles of agrrement of 13 July 1663
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| − | The manors and lordships of Steeple Bumpstead, Bower Hall, Royley, Robtofts, Bendish, alias Old Hall, Bloyes [Blois] and Waltons, in the parishes of Steeple Bumpstead, Ridgewell, Hempstead, Stambourne, Helions Bumpstead and Haverhill, farms called Waltons, Old Hall, Old Parke, New Parke, an unnamed farm in the tenure of Robert Bun, Stambourne Farm, Bloyes, Smith Green, the Mill Ground, farms in the tenure of Mrs Perry, widow, Dean Farm, unnamed farms in the tenure of Richard Pepys, John Renolds, Thomas Arnett, Thomas Fitch, George Whale and all other messuages owned by Sir Thomas Bendish and John Bendish in the above parishes
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| − | ===Notes===
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| − | '''Related to Cooke & Johnson vs. Batson'''
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| − | '''Richard Batson land holdings on Barbados'''
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| − | "Table 11: Merchants who bought land in Barbados in 1647<ref>Russell R. Menard, ''Sweet negotiations: sugar, slavery, and plantation agriculture in early Barbados'' (XXXX, 2006), p. 53</ref>
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| − | Martin Noell, James Noell, William Seeman 67.5 acres Consideration: £800 8 March
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| − | Colleton, John 80 acres Consideration: £250 14 March
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| − | Henry Quintyne 77 acres 10 April
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| − | Martin, James, Stephen, and Thomas Noell 5 acres Consideration: £30 14 April
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| − | Thomas Walker, John Webster, Nathan Grafty, Philip Holman 10 acres 17 April
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| − | Walker, Webster, Grafty, Holman 80 acres 18 May
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| − | M.,J., and T. Noell 21 acres Consideration: £160 29 May
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| − | Laurence Chambers 300 acres Consideration: £20,000 2 June
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| − | Walker, Webster, Grafty, Holman 30 acres Consideration: £300 9 June
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| − | Richard Ellis 25 acres Consideration: £40 11 June
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| − | Thomas Mathew 184 acres Consideration: £5000 13 June
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| − | Richard Batson 40 acres 1 July
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| − | Walker, Webster, Grafty, Holman 18 acres 1 July
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| − | M., J., S., and T. Noell 20 acres Consideration: £200 July
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| − | Nathaniel Starkey 23.5 acres 7 August
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| − | M., J., S., and T. Noell 6.5 acres Consideration: £32.6 20 August
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| − | Beatrice Odiarne 60 acres 9 September"
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| − | "17 December [1660]. Declaration made by Richard Batson, merchant of London, that he had appointed his nephew Thomas Batson of Barbados, merchant, to confirm a sale made by him on 7 May 1658 through his attornies William Tickell and Nicholas Martin of Barbados, merchants, of 200 acres known as Spring Plantation to Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados. (''MCD 10'')<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660'', vol. 1 (XXXX, 1987), p. 482</ref>
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| − | "Minories or Goodman's Yard Glass House
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| − | This glass house is known to have been in use before 1641, when it was owned by Sir Bevis Thelwell, who had been a partner in a glass making enterprise 30 years earlier. In 1651, two merchants Richard Batson and Edmond Lewin obtained a twenty-five and a half year lease on the property and later sub-let it to practical glass makers. It was the subject of a Chancery Law suit between them which dragged on from 1657 to 1663. By 1677 Batson had dropped out and Lewin was apparently making bottles (but probably elsewhere). Lewin was probably one of the four furnace masters mentioned by Alberti, the Venetian ambassador in February 1673/4 as wanting to prohibit the import of Venetian glass. On 1st April 1678, Michael Rackett 'Master of a Glasshouse...for making white and green glasses in the Minories without Aldgate' made an agreement to supply the Glass Sellers Company to regularly supply them with 'white glasses'. From 1661, this glass house supplied the newly-formed Royal Society with glassware and it was one of two glass houses mentioned by the scientist Robert Hooke in his diary. He visited it on Thursday December 4th 1673 and again on Tuesday January 1st 1677/8, but on the latter occasion the fire was out (probably due to the change over between Lewin and Rackett at the end of the lease). It is also a likely source of information for Christopher Merret in 1662 when he was compiling his notes on his translation of the Italian glass making work by Neri. In December 1680 Michael Racket was recorded as shipping glasses to Jamaica. He was last mentioned working there in 1691. In 1692 Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth and their shareholders bought-out a number of London glass houses, including one "manufacturing green glass at the Minories outside Aldgate". On 16th March 1699/0, the Flying Post mentioned that this glass house was making drinking glass and all other sorts of glasses and it was then owned by "Craven Howard Esq. and other trustees". Earlier that year it had been advertised to be let."<ref>http://www.cbrain.mistral.co.uk/minories.htm, viewed 17/12/11</ref>
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