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they the sayd Sedgewick and Levert refused to deliver the same and sayd to this deponent that the examinations taken in the Admiralty Court concerned not them the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret, and that they conceived the sayd Admiralty Court had nothing to doe with the matter, and sayd that they the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret had taken the sayd shipp and her ladeing by authority of their Commission, and that they had power enough by their Commission to condemne her for lawfull prize, and that by a Councell of Warr they had condemned her and her ladeing for lawfull prize according to writings they found in her, and alsoe then sayd that without order from the Lord Protector or the Commissioners of the Admiralty from whome they had their Commission they would not deliver the sayd shipp or goods, or they then spake words to the like effect in the presence of this deponent and the forenamed witnesses And this deponent further saith that upon teh 26th day of June 1654 for this deponent went againe accompanied with the sayd Woods and Garrett and one Mr Edward Grey and Nathaniell South a Notary Publique unto the sayd Sedgewick (the sayd Leveret being gone forth and not present) and againe of him the sayd Sedgwick demanded the sayd shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' and her ladeing to the use of the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company to Owners in the presence of the sayd witnesses, but hee the sayd Sedgewick persisted in his refusall to deliver the same, and this deponent thereupon did the sayd sixe and twentith day of June make a profitt in the presence of the sayd publique Notary and witnesses next aforenamed against the sayd Sedgewick and all others whome it may or doth concerne for all costs and damages which had happened or should happen to the sayd Owners by reason of the sayd Sedgwick and Leveret their seizure and deteyning and disposing of the sayd shipp ''Saint'' ''John Baptist'' and her ladeing, And hee saith that having perused the schedule in the fowerth article mentioned hee well knoweth the same to be the originall protest which hee this deponent caused the sayd Nathaniell Souther to drawe up and sawe the sayd Nathaniell and James Garrett Edward Grey and Thomas Wood subscribe their names thereto in manner as they now appeare upon the sayd schedule And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose To the 5th article hee cannot of his certayne knowledge depose any thing but hath heard one who was Stiersman of the ''Saint John Baptist'' when shee was seized and continued on board her till her arrivall at Boston in New England and her arrivall then at London, sayd that the Company put on board the sayd shipp ''Saint John'' ''Baptist'' by the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret did drinke nothing but wine a shipp board for a good while videlicet during the tyme of her being unladeing at Boston
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