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Transcription

Commission or letters of Reprizall against ffrench and dutch,
And saith the said Love and
Companie being destitute of a Vessell fitt for the execution and imployment of the
said Commission this deponent furnished them with a Vessell to him belonging
called the Prosperous, which by Vertue of the said Commission was sett out to sea
under the Conduct of one Captaine White, who happening to be slayne in an
engagement against the ffrench, the said Philip Marshall then Lieutenant of
and to the said White, was, by order of this deponent by a letter sent to him to Bilboa
in the name of himselfe and of the rest of the Owners and Armours of the said
shipp, constituted Captaine and Commannder thereof, and ordered to Conduct her
for the Port of London, in obedience to which order the said Philip Marshall with the
said Vessell coming into Torbay, and being destitute of provisions, went ashoare
with his boate and nine of his Crew, carrying along with him the said Commission
or letter of Reprizall expressely for the satisfaction of the Magistracie or
Officers of this Commonwealth there residing. And afterwards the said Captaine
and those other nyne of his Companie coming from ashoare with their boate,
and designed to goe aboard their said shipp, they were all of them cast away
and perished in the sea, and the said Commission or letters of Reprizall were
also lost with the said Captaine, The premisses hee knoweth, for that hee this
deponent upon the first newes of the said desaaster sent downe his brother and
7. men expressely to informe himself thereof, and to bring about the said Vessell
for London where shee is at present, at this deponent by the credible and constant
affirmation of such of the said shipps Companie as remained aboard her when
the said disaster happened, and for that the said Commission can by no meanes be
found in or aboard the said shipp or elswhere, is fully Convinced and assured
the same together with the said Captaine Marshall was lost and sunke in the
sea, so that the Armourers and Imployers interresed therein are by that meanes
totally deprived thereof. And further cannot depose./

Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/

John Greene [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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