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Transcription

for that hee knoweth not what tyme de La Rosse sett out from ffrance,

To the 6th article hee saith hee this deponent being Master of the sayd shipp
Justice at the tyme of her seizure and being alsoe by profession a shipp wright
thereby well knoweth that the sayd shipp at her seizure was of the burthen of
about one hundred and forty tonnes, and was a very stronge serviceable and
new built shipp (videlicet of about fower yeares of age or lesse according to this deponents Judgment and estimate of her age) and was of this deponents knowledge newly
sheathed and rigged, and provided with double sayles, and had sixe gunnes
and very well provided with shrouds, powder, ammunition, and all other necessaries
and hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that her gunnes sayles
shroudes powder ammunition tackle apparrell and furniture to her belonging
at the tyme of her sayd seizure were really worth one thousand two hundred
pounds sterling at the least, And for that hee this deponent was privie to
the buying of the sayd shipps ladeing of barrs Copper barrs and other
goods necessaries and provisions put on board her at Barbadoes, and
tooke a particuler noate of them, hee knoweth that they new well worth at
the tyme of seizure of the sayd shipp one thousand two hundred and eighty
pounds sterling at the least And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 7th hee saith that the sayd shipp of Justice of Dover at her
seizure was in pay, to be paid by the sayd Naylor horne and Company to the
foresayd Kerwan and Company reputed Owners of her, after the rate of
fiftie pounds sterling a moneth for seaven moneths whereof about two moneths were then past and was to
have bin delivered to her Owners at the Barbados after her returne
from Guinney, this hee knoweth being present when the sayd Naylor and Company
did agree with the sayd Owners for the sayd shipp at that rate And
further hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

John ffishbell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation/

Rp. EA. 2

William Buckland of Stepney in the County of Middlesex
Mariner aged forty fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnes
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate Samuell
Lucas Thomas Wade David Kirwan and Company all subiects of this Commonwealth
were in the yeare 1655 and moneths therein concurring commonly accompted
the lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the Justice of Dover and
her tackle apparrell and furniture of which shipp the arlate John ffishbell this
deponents contest was Master this hee deposeth being one of the sayd shipps company
the voyage in question And further hee cannot depose/

To the second hee saith that the sayd shipp the Justice of dover being in the moneth
of October 1655 shee was there hyred by the arlate Nayler, horne
and Company for seaven moneths certaine and nyne moneths uncertayne to goe
from thense to Ginney and to returne back to the Barbados, And saith shee laded at
the Barbadoes a ladeing of Copper barrs and severeall other Merchandize for Accompt
of the sayd Nayler horne and Company to be disposed of at Guinney for their Accompt
and