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shipp the ''Dolphin'' arlate for and during the time arlate and alsoe of her lading of Coales and was for and during the time arlate Master of her, and did of his this deponents certaine knowledge make within the time arlate many voyages with her as Master and part Owner of her, and that he the said Grant did behave himselfe onestly in his said place The premisses he deposth because of his this deponents acquaintance with the said Grant, and by reason of such acquaintance well knew that the said Grannt bought the said shipp at Yarmouth (she being taken prize from the Dutch in the late warrs) for himselfe and Owners And further he cannot depose./ To the second and third articles he deposeth and saith that in or about the moneth of JUne 1654, the arlate John Grant the producent did bring the said shipp the ''dolphin'' with her lading of coales from Newcastle to Ramsgate Road in the Downes, and thence came ashoare at Sandwich to take orders from the rest of the Owners of the said shipp whither he sowld bring her into the haven of Sandwich, or to goe to some other Port, where the Markett was better, and that the sayd Grant being soe on shoare at Sandwich, he was arrested, and the arlate Mathew Pinder did about 10 of the clock of the same night after The said Grant was arrested, with about five mens [?XXX] without any lawfull authority goe aboard the said shipp the ''Dolphin'' and by force take possession of her and her said lading of coales, and hath ever since kept the possession of her and gone in her as Master of her, and hath disposed of the part of the shipps laoading belonging to the producent The premisses he deposeth for that he was in Sandwich when the said Grant the producent was arrested, and was with him in the Jayle after he was arrested, and went to the shipp side and saw the said Mathew Pinder aboard the said shipp And further he cannot depose./ To the fourth article he deposeth that on the next day after the sayd Grant the producent was arrested, he this deponent and his contest Andrew harris were bayle for the said Grannt, and that thereupon he was released from the said arrest, And that within a day or two after the said producent had his said discharge, he procured from the Vice=Admiraltie Court at Dover a decree to bee putt into the possession of the said shipp the ''Dolphin'' as Master of her, and came with the said decreee and an officer of the said Court to have been putt into possession of her, accordingly but that the said [?PXXX] would not lett the said Grannt come aboard the said shipp nor would in any wise yeild obedience to the said decree The premisses he deposeth for that he was present and sawe the producent come towards the said shipp with the said decree and
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