The same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. 4''' '''John Morwell''' of Waymouth in the County of dorset Mariner Purser of the shipp ''handmayde'' aged 29 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the first and 2 articles hee saith hee well knoweth that at the tyme arlate and for divers moneths before the arlate Charles Wills was Captaine of the shipp ''Handmayde'' and had a Commission under the seale of this Court to seize the shipps and goods of the ffrench king and his subiects the premisses hee the better knoweth having seene and coppyed the sayd Commission And saith the sayd Captaine Wills being at sea and this deponent and others of his Company with him in the moneth of September last in the shipp ''handmayde'' aforesayd, did on or about the 20th day of the sayd moneth of September last seize and take the arlate shipp the ''Saint Jaques'' and her ladeing consisting of drye ffish Corn ffish and traine oyle and carried the sayd shipp and her ladeing imediately after her seizure togeather with the Master and three or fower of the Company of the ''Saint Jaques'' into Plymouth, intending as this deponent beleeveth to have them there examined by authority of this Court. And further hee cannot depose./ To the third and schedule therein specified hee saith hee cannot depose of his certayne knowledge for that hee was not present at any examination before the Maior of Plymouth, nor sawe the sayd Maior subscribe or seale the schedule arlate./ To the 4th hee saith by her mould the ''Saint Jaques'' appeareth to bee a ffrench built shipp And saith the Master and Company all of them spake ffrench and as hee beleeveth were all ffrench men and subiects of the ffrench Kinge And the ladeing of the sayd shipp (as this deponents contest Captaine Wills and others of the Company of the ''hand='' ''mayde'' who could speake ffrench told this deponent the Master of the ''Saint Jaques'' and Company did confesse to them) did belong to ffrench men subiects of the sayd King and was bound for ffrance when she was seized And further hee cannot depose./ To the last hee saith this foregeing deposition is true./ John M[?XXX]ll [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ******************************* The 19th of december 1654. [CENTRE HEADING] Touching the shipp the} ''Leopard'' of Courland.} '''ffra: B[?oeve] [?debet]''' '''1.''' '''Claes Tuneson''' of fflushing Mariner, master of the shipp the ''Leopard'' of Courland aged 26 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the acts of Court saith and deposeth as followeth. That the said shipp the [''?Lapert''] with all her lading that was in her when shee was staid neare Bristoll was and is belonging to his Excellence the duke of Courland, saving fourtie three barrells of ginger which are for one Peter Johnson hoofstaen of Amsterdam. And saith that about eight monethes since the said shipp the [''?Lapaert''] came and arived at Martinica one of the Charibbe Islands (where this deponent then was) under the conduct of Cornelius ffreka or ffrederickson and company; and there the said Cornelius ffrederickson his Stiersman leaving the said shipp to goe home to Amsterdam, the (said
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