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P1090611; P1090612
f. 11r.

Miller con W:m Vincent et al
28th of January 1660 iuxta xr. upon the fore s:d Allon on the behale of S:r W:m Vincent
Deponent: Henry Johnson of Blackwall in the County of Midds shipwright aged 36 yeares or thereabouts

P1090612
f. 11v.

?Blacke con Scattergood afores:d
XXX January 1660
XXXX
Henricus Lobery ?portia S:t Buttolphs extra Algate XXX XXXX aged XXX yeares or thereabouts

P1090613; P1090614; P1090615
f. 26r., f 26v., f. 27r.

21 die mensis ffebruary 1660
Gubernator et Societas Mercator AngloXXX ad India ozidentales cXXXX XXXX contra ffranciscum Dashwood Johannem Sweeting et Johannem ?Commis xr ?Budd ?Suckley
Sup Libelle ex parte dirtXXX Gubernatorie et Societatib Mercator Anglorum ad Indias oziental commerze exXXXX da Examinatus

XXX HENRICUS THUSEROS de Broadstreete London Mercator annoXagens 35 antXXXXX

P1090615; P1090616
f. 27r.; f. 27v

The 4:th of March 1660
Examined upon the foresaid Libell
2n:d EDWARD WINTER of Battersey in the County of Surrey Esq:r aged 40 yeares or thereabouts

P1090616; P1090617
f. 27v.; f. 28r.

The fifth day of March 1660
Examined upon the fore s:d Libell
r:nd WILLIAM BLAKE of London Merchant
aged 29 yeares or thereabouts

P1090617
f. 28r.

19:th die Marty 1660:
Robertis ?Laube; Oswald Whitleym Johnes Dove; Randulph Ferreby; et Oswald ?Trossett con navem the Providence XXX Edwardus ?Carrest Mag:r, et con dictum XXXX Suckley, Smith
Sup ?Mone ex pte dicte Laube Whitley, Dove, ?Ferreby, et ffossett dat Exam:xx
ANREAS BLANKINSOPPE de Sheilds in ?Exatu Dunnelsi Nauta annos agens 23 ant xx XXXX
- Ship the Providence, at Shelds, to go from Newcastle to Amsterdam to deliver a lading of Goods

[The deposition is incomplete, due to images stopping]

P1090618; P1090619; P1090620
f. 49r.; f. 49v.; f. 50r.

On the behalfe of Captaine Mathew Pennyer touching the seizure of the Charles by the French
The Thirtieth day of March 1661
Examined upon an Allon given in on behalfe of the said Mathew Pennyer
HENRY BOOTH of London Gent aged 66 yeares or thereabouts
- The action refers to events in 1649

P1090621; P1090622; P1090623; P1090624
f. 50v., f. 51r., f. 51v., f. 52r.

Eadem Die Suo Allon pradra Examinatus
2.dne THOMAS HOLLOWAY^[1] de Greenwich Nauta anno agens 30 XXXX.
- M:r Boone acclate
- The ship Great Alexander, a Dutch built ship
- Voyage 19 months since
- The ship the Golden Starr, Cap:t Garland

P1090624, P1090624, P1090624, P1090625, P1090626
f. 52r.; f. 52v.; f. 53r.

10. die May 1661
3:re RICHARDUS PIL(L)ES de Limehouse Nauta
- The acclate shipp the Golden Starr
- Acclate Captain ?Warrop

P1090627
f. ?

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P1090628
f. 54v.

- Mentions Captain Garland, Warton & Owen, who went aboard the Parr

P1090629
f. ?

Die mensis May 1660
Mordant Johnson, in parish of St Gregory, aged 22 or thereabouts
Acclate John Giles, who was part owner of the acclate ship the Hopewell
- 12 months ago the deponent was with the said Drawatter and Giles at the ffalcon on the Banke side in a roome up one paire of staires when and where the said Drawatter and Giles had discourse together concerning a Bill of Bottomry which the said M:r Drawatter had then with him
- Mentions Richard Dover and Rowland Booth

P1090630
f. ?

- The East India Company ag:t Cap:t ?Connis (OR, Commis)^[2]
- 30th May 1661
- Edward Shrimpton of XXXXwall Gent aged 50 yeares or thereabouts

P1090631
f. 60r.

- The same day Examined upon the foresaid Libell
- 5. JOHN WRIGHT Living in Stratford Bowe in the County of Midd Merchant aged 20 yeares or thereabouts
- In December 1657 the Governor and Company of English Merchants trading to East Indies did by Charterpty take the libellate ship the Marigold John Connis Command:r to freight to goe to the Gold Coast of Guiney & thence to ffort St George in the Coast of Coromandell

P1090632
f. 60v.

- The Marigold^[3] arrived at the Coast of Guinney at Cormantine Castle in ffebruary 165??7 (English Stile)
- John Connis carried thither two parcels of Tappaselle comonly called Guinnney Cloths and alsoe a peece or XXX of Callicoe in his Chest, about fforty Musketts, some pewter Basons, some small barrs of Lead about a foot long, All w:ch said Goods hee saith were for the Accomte of the said John Connis, or some other pson or psons not of the foresaid Company, w:ch hee knoweth for that hee goeing purser of the said ship on the said voyage did take notice in writing of what was laden for the said Companyes Accomt
- The Mate & Trumpeter of the said ship carried out in her about A hundred or one hundred and fifty weight of Iron
- The said Lead was carried to the Coast of Coromandell, did goe from thence to Maccassar, and the said Connis did carry in the said ship from Coromandell to Maccassar about ?fowre bales six faXXXX & one chest w:th white, red & blew callicoes & others XXXXXXXXXXXX & alsoe hee saith there were a parcell of ?Lungyes and ?Tapperserasses carried from Cormandell to Maccassar together w:th some other goods w:ch hee saith hee cannot particularly specify
- Several passengers were carried by order of the Companyes agent resident at ffort S:t George

P1090633
f. 61r.

- The ship went from Maccassar to the Coast of Cormandell againe
- Carried from Maccassar were twenty six ?Dandy (OR, Candy) of Brimstine, anout Twenty Dandy of ?Tatenago, a parcell of China Rootes (of above six hundred weight, a parcell of Tortoise shells (but the quantity he cannot specify) and two pcells of Cloves weighing about threescore pounds a peece And ar ?Japarra there were taken on board the said ship severall peclls of Long Pepp, and neere Bantam in the said shipps passage from Maccassar to Cormandell there were taken onboard her about One hundred Jarres of Greene Ginger All w:ch aforementioned goods were carried in the said ship to Cormandell and some of them were there disposed of by the said Connis or his order and the rest brought to England
- Besides the foresd Goods not disposed of at Cormandell the said John Connis did bring to England in the said ship, about six or seaven small parcells of XXXcloathes, shirts, and callicoes, w:ch were belonging to himselfe or ffreinds

P1090634
f. 61v.

- Doesn't know what damages the Company has sustained
- Cannot estimated the freight costs of the goods referred to
- Knows the Lillate ffrancis Dashwood and John Sweeting and also teh said John Connis were subiects of this Kingdome

- Signed JOHN WRIGHT

XXXX the Guinney ffrig:t con Jacobi ?Jerry, Johann ?Drap, XXXX de Marcado, JacobXXXX Navarre XXX
5:th die Hunij 1661
XXX

- GUILELMUS FINNEY de Limehouse in ?portia de Stepney in Comitate Middlesex, nauta anno agens 30...

- He knows the ship the Guiney ffrigett for two yeeres and a halfe before shee was burnt as hereafter is mentioned. And saith that the said ship i the month of May 1660 departed from Amsterdam with a Lading of ?Goods and Merchandize for the Barbadoes, where the said Lading as to have bin delivered, And saith that the said ship att ?the time of her goeing from Amsterdam on the said Voyage was very XXX and XXXX, and well fitted with masts XX and other necessaryes for such a ship and such a voyage

P1090635
f. 71r.

Josephi Throckmorton milities et John Read XXXXX navis XXXX the Hope XXXX Jacob Peterson fuit magr et Dui Richi fford militis et dei Dui Throckmorton et XXXX XXXX seizua dXX navis et XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

?Viresimo primo de mensis Maij 1661
Sup Allone ex pte XXXX Dui Josephi Throckmorton et Johannis Read et XXXX Dui Richardi fford militis XXXX

- JOHNES HAMILTON de London Mercator annos agens 35 XXXX

- The deponent knows the ship the Hope James Peterson M:r for all the yeere 1657 and longer And alsoe then and nowe Knoweth the acclate S:r Joseph Throckmorton Knights John Read (both subjects of this Kingdome of England) who hee saith were as he verily beleeveth the true lawfull and sole Owners of the said ship the Hope for and during all the said yeere 1657 (English Stile) and for such they were and are Comonly accomted & reputed and as Own:ers they set her out upon the voyage in question and saith that the said ship the Hope was the said XXX of the burthen of about a hundred and Forty Tonnes w:ch hee knoweth goeing the said voyage in the said ship
- In the months of December and january 1657 English Stile S:r Richard fford Knight, the said S:r Joseph Throckmorton, and others all subiects of this Kingdome of Emgland did lade and cause to be laden onboard the said ship Hope here in the River of Thames a Cargoe of Goods consisting in Perpetuana Bayes Stocking hatts, and other Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, for their owne accounts to be transported in the said ship from hence to the Harbour of Bilboa or some other place neere thereunto, there to bee sold bartered away and disposed of for and upon the Account aforesaid w:ch hee knoweth seeing most of the said Cargoe laden on board the said ship, and hearing forenamed persons give order to the said Master about the said Lading, XXXX

XXXXXXXX

P1090655
f. XX

Johannis Wilmot Simonis Delbo XXXX

15:o Janny 1661

Supra allon aclate ex parte dui Regis in XXXX XXXX

1. FFRANCISCO PERERA Insula Terrera in Territoria Regis Portugallia generaosus, annos agens 31 XXXX XXXX Baldwins gardens XXXXX

- The aclate Captaine ffrancisco de MerXXX frequenting this deponents then house (being a Coffee-house in XXX Lane[ Baldwins gardens is crossed out in manuscript] in March and Aprill last past near a twelve moneth, and having often discourse with him in that time about his shipp the PXXXX and his voyage in her wherein hee was seized XX and acknowledged that the logwood taken in the sid shipp was the prXXX of goods w:ch was XXX carried the sid voyage outwards with him and the XXX logwood belonged wholly to himselfe and others, Spaniards subiects of the King of Spaine And this deponent beleeveth that he did XX diego do XXXXX BoatsWain of the said shipp would often taunt the sid Captaine and tell him heee XXXX the Spanish Merchants goods amongst whome, being supplied with five pounds per weeke by M:r Delbo who had got the sid logwood into his possession, then and there being ?person as the said discourse MaXXX XXX, and others

P1090656
f. XX

P1090657
f. 82r.

- Signed FFRANCISCO PERRERA

P1090658
f. 82v.

2. THOMAS DE GURMAN alias Sweetman...Cripplegate London ... mercator ..aged 38 or thereabouts

P1090659
f. 83r.

P1090660
f. 83v.

P1090661
f. 84r.

- Signed XXXXX

P1090662
f. 84v.

3. JOHNES LIGHTFOOT de Rochester in Comitas Canty Gent ...aged 31....

- Lightfoot was commander of the frigate the Nightingale and seized the XXXX in the month of December 1659 neere the Canaryes and the beginning of ffebruary ffollowing hee brought the said ffrancisco do Morates into the Downes in the said ffrigatt the Nightingale and soone after his arrivall there and before the siad Morales his being Examined touching the said shipp XXX and Lading the aclate M:r Symon Delboe and M:r Wilmott ?Living in neere Newgate market & one M:r Syon & one M:r MXX came onboard the said ffrigatt, and there, and alsoe aXXX at Deale they had of this dep_ts certaine knowledge very much private discourse w:th the said Morales. but to what ?effect the said discourse was hee knoweth not

To the 11:th hee saith that the said Captaone Morates agXXX this depo:ts bringing him into the Downes remained & ?confined here in England for the space of avove twelve ?moneths or beginning of March last, And the aclate Diego de GuevaXX XXX M:r & Purser of the said ship PXXion did alsoe staye ?confined here for all the timeof the XXX said Morales his said staying here, or very neere soe long: And saith the said Morales during his sd stay in England was very Expensive, and went constantly in very Good apparrell, and spent very much XXX at Tavernes and otherwise, this Depo:t having bin severall times in his Company att Tavernes & knowing of such his Expensivenes, And further cannot depose

To the 12:th hee saith that about foure or five monthes since this depo:t having discourse upon the Exchange London with the foresd M:r Willmot about the expensiveness of the said Morales, the said Willmot did XXX and declare to this depo:t that hee the said Willmot had furnished him w:th about two hundred pounds. And further XXX not

To the 17:th hee saith that about the latter end of January or beginning of ffebruray last past, this depo:t and the said Captain Morales having some discourse about this business at this depo:ts XXXX house on Snow Hill, the said Morales did ackXXXXX and declare to him this depo:t that M:r Delboe and M:r Willmott

Notes

Possible primary sources

1. ↑ Thomas Holloway. Possibly Thomas Holloway (b. ca. 1631, d. ca. 1688) (PROB 11/391 Exton 45-86 Will of Thomas Holloway, Mariner of East Greenwich, Kent 05 April 1688)
2. ↑ Capt. (John) Connis. This HCA case may have been referred to by the Court of Committees of the EEIC, September 5, 1660: "The Court demurs to granting the request of Captain Connis for some money on account of freight, until satisfaction has been received for a very great breach of charterparty committed by him in his late voyage, and directs certain Committees to examine and report on this matter; at the same time it is ordered that 1,000/. be paid to the owners of the Marigold, on Connis promising to deliver in a true list of all goods taken into or delivered out of his ship." ('A Court of Committees, September 5, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 287 in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 32-33; Captain Connis is possibly mentioned in several Chancery cases (C 10/74/1 Roger Andrewes, John Connis, William Pennoyer, Francis Dashwood and Edward Crispe v Frederick Skinner: money matters, Middx 1664; C 10/108/15 Barham, Russell v. Connis, Crispe: Middx 1667; C 6/247/64 Short title: Russell v Russell. Plaintiffs: Anne Russell. Defendants: Elias Russell, John Connis and Anne Connis his wife. Subject: property in Deptford, Kent. Document type: bill, answer. SFP 1683)
3. ↑ The Marigold is mentioned in several secondary sources (Margaret Makepeace, Trade on the Guinea Coast, 1657-1666: the correspondence of the English East India Company (XXXX, 1991), pp. 1, 2, & 16; Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-16639 (Oxford, 1922), e.g. pp. 48, 79, & 337 (31 mentions in total))