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The third day of February 1654:- [CENTRE HEADING] Richard Rice James Cole and Companie} against the shipp called the ''Charity'' of which} Robert harrigate was Master and against} George Grigg et cetera Suckley ffrancklyn} Examined upon an Allegation on the behalf of the said [?Rice] and Companie./ '''Rp j,us''' '''William Evans''' of New-Castle upon Thyne Mariner aged 32 yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and examined./. To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That in the yeares 1651 and 1652. arlate and moneths therein respectively concurring the arlate Richard Rice James Cole Garrett Starkey Robert Cooke Miles Barnes and Companie all inhabitants of New-Castle upon Tyne were Owners and lawfull Proprietors of the shipp the ''Charity'' arlate and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and for such they and the arlate Robert harrigate her Master were then commonly accompted and reputed at New-Castle, Which hee knoweth for that in or about the said yeare 1651. the said shipp being taken and brought up as a Scotch Prize to Newcastle, was there publiquely sold to the said harrigate for the accompt of himself and others of Newcastle, who continued in the peaceable possession thereof. And further cannot depose saving that this deponent served under the said harrigate in the said shipp for about a yeare and a halfe:- To the second article hee saith and deposeth, That in the yeare 1652:- the said shipp being at ffalmouth, this deponent there left her under the Conduct of the said Robert harrigate, who as this deponent credibly heard did shotly after saile her from thence to Waxford in Ireland, from whence, as hee hath also credibly heard, shee was in her passage thither intercepted by a dutch-shipp which had no Commission. And further cannot depose, not being in the Voiage in question./ To the third hee saith and deposeth, That about nyne moneths since as this deponent now remembreth, hee this deponent in Companie with the said Richard Rice one of the Owners of the Vessell in question, went aboard the same shee then lyeing at or neere Saint Saviours dock in the River of Thames, where this deponent well observed, and tooke serious notice of the said shipp, and of her fashion and fabrique, and thereby knoweth, and did then declare aboard the said shipp in the presence of the then Master of her, that shee was the shipp ''Charity'', whereof the said harrigate had been Master and hee and the said Rice and others the Lawfull Owners of the same, and that it was one and the same shipp ''Charity'' belonging to such Newcastle men as predeposed, and that hee well knew her so to be having sailed sewerall Voiages in her. And further hee cannot depose/:- To the 4th hee saith, hee referreth himself to the Acts of this Court And further cannot depose./. To the 5th hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./ Repeated in Court William E[?vans] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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