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Childe ffishman and others}<br />
ag … Childe ffishman and others}<br />
against Batson and Beane}<br />
Suckley Smith}
'''Tuesday the 18th day of Aprill'''<br />
'''1654''' before the worshipfull William<br />
Clarke and John Godolphin doctors<br />
of Lawes Judges et cetera in the dyninge<br />
Chamber et cetera in the presence of Samuell<br />
howe notary publique Appeared the<br />
parties on both sides, and forasmuch as<br />
the wittnesses on the behalf of the saide<br />
Childe and ffishman and Company are bound<br />
out to Dea, and cannot stay to be examined in<br />
writinge The Judges did order their testimonies<br />
to be delivered Viva Voce And then James Goldinge<br />
and William Welch by vertue of their corporall oath<br />
to them administred by the Judges did depose that they<br />
beinge in the shipp the ''Mathewe'' bound for Greeneland<br />
did in their course thither see the said shipp The ''Peace''<br />
Whereof the said Child was master surprize and take a<br />
certaine dutch shippe, and that after the taking the<br />
same the said Childe tooke out of the said shippe five<br />
men and putt them on board his owne shippe and putt<br />
five of his owne men on board the said prize, the said<br />
Child arrived with the said shippe at the [?XXXX] at<br />
Greeneland, and had there killed Three Whales before the<br />
rest of the shippes in whose Company she came from<br />
London came and arrived at Greeneland, and they<br />
likewise deposed that it was reported by the Company<br />
of the said shippe the ''Peace'' That those men whoe were<br />
taken out of the said Prizem and putt on board the said<br />
shippe The ''Peace'' did after their arrivall at Greeneland<br />
performe their service very carefully and were very<br />
industrious in their imployment wherein they were busied<br />
in soe much that the voyage was much furthered by their<br />
Industrie and labour, and that it was likewise reported<br />
that those five men which were putt out of the said shipp<br />
The ''Peace'' into the said dutch prize were very idle and<br />
sluggish persons, Then doctor Walker Advocate for the<br />
said Childe, ffishman, and the rest of the Marriners<br />
of the said shippe desired the Court would proceede to<br />
the [?interpretinge] theor order for the distribution of the said<br />
prize proceedinge to the order or reference of the Councell<br />
to them in that behalf made in the presence of the said<br />
Batson and Beane alleadginge that they have severall<br />
obiections against the said master and wittnesses to prove<br />
the same, and desired a tyme for the givinge in of the<br />
same and the production of the said wittnesses, Where=<br />
upon the Judges assigned the said Batson and Beane<br />
to give in their allegations upon Satterday next and<br />
to produce all their wittnesses the same day or upon<br />
Monday next at the farthest/
Conrado de Br[?aell] and others}<br />
against Breedon and yeo, Smith}<br />
Suckley}
'''Wednesday the 19th day of'''<br />
'''Aprill 1654''' before the said<br />
Judges in the dyninge Chamber<br />
et cetera in the presence of Samuell howe<br />
notary publique Appeared the saide<br />
Suckley and upon the allegation by him in<br />
this cause given and admitted produced for<br />
a wittnes John durden whome the Judges<br />
receaved and administred an oath unto him to<br />
speake the truth at the time of his examination in the<br />
presence of Smith dissentinge and havinge the<br />
usuall tyme for Interrogatories.;br />
usuall tyme for Interrogatories. +
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