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sayd Emanuel de Croiz really and actually till about ten weekes agoe that the sayd James Taswell gott the possession thereof by force and violence. And fruther he cannot depose To the seventh article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith he doth not know or ever heard that the sayd Emanuel de Croiz or any for him or by his order did make any sale or transport of the sayd shipp unto the sayd James Taswell, nor did the sayd James Taswell or any for him ever pay any money att all or any other consieration for the same unto the sayd Emanuel de Croiz that this deponent ever heard knoweth or beleiveth, And otherwise saving his depositions to the three next subsequent aArticles he cannot depose To the eighth articel of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that all the right or title so farr as this deponent ever heard which the sayd James Taswell did or doth pretend to the sayd shipp was and is by colour of a Bill of sale pretended to be made thereof to him by this deponent, And this deponent hath severall tymes heard the sayd Taswell confesse and affirme that he hath not any title [?or] to the sayd shipp but by the sayd pretended Bill of sale onely. And otherwise cannot depose To the nynth and tenth he saith that he this deponent never had any power direction or Authority from the sayd Emanuel de Croiz to make any bill of ale of or for the sayd shipp. Howbeit This deponent saith that after his Arivall att Cowes as aforesayd videlicet within three or four dayes as he now remembreth the tyme, the sayd James Taswell takeing a phancy and good likeing of the sayd shipp as he pretended, treated with this deponent to ymploy the sayd shipp as a private Man of warr in the service of this Commonwealth in the name of him the sayd James Taswell as ymployer of her, he the sayd James Taswell then having as he sayd, a Commission graunted him by warrant from the right honourable the Councell of State for the setting forth of a private Mann of warr: And this deponent saith that after treaty, he did accept of the sayd Taswells proposalls and did agree to serve for him with his shipp as a private man of warr upon termes and conditions that the sayd Taswell finding victuall and provisions should have one third part of this deponent and Company [?mXXX] 3d part And saith the better to accommodat the sayd James Taswell in this ymployment he did att the earnest request and sollicitation of the sayd James Taswell make signe and seale a Bill of sale for the sayd shipp, from which tyme the sayd shipp formerly called and knowne by the name of the ''Saint Jacob'' of Dunkirke was called by the name of the ''Robert'', the reason whereof was for that the Commission which the sayd Taswell had obtained as aforesayd went for a shipp called the ''Robert'' And saith whereas in the sayd Commission mention was made of another Captaine, the sayd James Taswell with a knife scraped out the name of the other captaine written therein, and with his owne hand rerote this deponents
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