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After the seizure of the said ship ''Godliffe'' this deponent went on board the ''Royall'' to see the said Sansier his brother in law then on board the ''Royall'' And saith that the said Sansier on board the said private Man of Warr swore to this deponent that if her had known the said ship the ''Royall'' had bin of doe little strength her would never have yielded but would have fought her and runn her over And said that his said ship and lading was good prize to the takers and that the ship belonged to Merchants of Middleborow. and as her remembreth her also told this deponent that his lading beloved to Middleborow also which words he soe spake in the presence of this deponent and John duplessis Master of the ''fortune'' of Dantsick and one Kennet who was then his keeper and many others. And saith that above a twelve month since this deponent sailed in a private man of ward or a sholop with three Gunns the ablate Sansier Commander who had a Dutch Commission to take all english ships and goods which Commission this deponent hath seen on board the said slope. And whilst this deponent was one of the Company and sailed in the said slope the said Captaine by vertue of his said Commission took six English prizes, And of one of the said prizes one George Westerly living in Saint Catherins was the Master, at whose house her hath bin since at, but the names of the others or their ships he remembreth not, And saith that the said Captaine also declared to this deponent and several others that her knew now that he should loose his owns ship. But her cared not for that he would get another or a better ship and take five English ships for it And then shewed a great pair of silver buttons at his breeches and said that her had taken them from an Englishman and would then have a better pair or he sow spake in words to the same or like effect in dutch and ffrench on board the said ffrigott whilst she was at the Isle of Wight and in her passage to Chichester before the persons aforesaid, And saith this deponent knoweth the Stiersman of the said ship ''Godliffe'' to be a native of Middleboro and to live and keep house i the Britt neer Rotterdam with his wife and children this deponent having bin at his house and one Cornelis the Carpenter to bee a Hollander and living in North Holland. One Peter a ffrenchman an inhabitant and housekeeper in Middleborow, all natives and subjects of the States of the United Provinces, and the Boatswaine is living and an inhabitant with his wife and chidden in Dunkirke as also the Cooke of the said ship, and saith that at Chichester hee hath seen one Rowe in private with the said Sansier both on board the ffrigott and ashore. And hath seen them together at the sign of the Spreadeagle in Chichester. And saith that the Stiersman of the ''Godliffe'' and the Master of the ''Royall'' are very like one another Et alr nescit deponere Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING] Ad primum fit ut petitwi et reedit that he was borne at Ostend and is now in his majesties service in the ''Parrador ffrigott'' and hath served in her about five or six months last but his home is in the Ile of Wight where he married his wife an English woman and there hath lived for about two years last hee knoweth not the parties Interrogated. Alr nescit Ad 2 rendit that her was not one of the man of wars Company Alr nova. Alr rendit that if the ship bee found good prize her wisheth she were condemned And in case she bee doe Expecteth noe part or share therein. Ad 4 rendit that her took with the assistance of the [?XXXXXX] of the ''Royall'' a parcel of saffron out of the said ship ''Godliffe'' by order of Captaine Bourn Captaine of the ''Royall'' unto whom he delivered the same. Et apr nescit [?XXXX] part sua nova. Ad 5 rendit that the said ship was about a day and a night going from the Ile of Wight to Chichester whether the Captain of the privateer carried her. Et apr nescit.
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