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the master of the said shipp to come aboard the frigot, which hee
did, and after some discourse with the Captaine, the said master
of the Golden Parrot came into the Cabbin of this deponent
who was then master of the said frigot, and demanded of this
deponent whether hee thought the said shipp would prove prize
or not, and this deponent thereupon asking him whether he
had traded with or any of her English plantations in America
or not, hee answered that hee had traded in the English Plantations
there with nothing but what was the produce of
his owne country (speaking of the united Netherlands) but said
that some Merchant passengers that hee had brought over, had
traded with some goods that were brought out of ffrance, and
saith that shotly after the premisses this deponent being at
Saint Christofers was there told by English Planters, that the
said master of the Golden Parrot had received a hundred and odd rolls of tobaccoe there
which were brought out of the English ground or Plantation
The Premisses hee deposeth and knoweth to be true, hearing and
being the same soe said and donne as aforesaid and lastly hee
saith that the said shipp being soe found trading contrary to the act was seized by the said frigot and at the time of the said seizure the said shipp had
tobaccoe, sugar and ginger aboard her of the growth and make
of America, and otherwise he referreth himselfe to the foresaid
Act and the law, hee cannot depose.

Repeated before Collonel Cork.

Rowland [?Bowtill] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 5th of November 1656

examined upon the foresaid allegation

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Captaine John Clarke of London Mariner, aged 42
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth
that hee well knoweth the shipp the Golden Parrot arlate, and
saith that at the time of her seizure hereafter mentioned shee
was a foraine shipp, belonging to fflushing in zealand
and her master and company were all dutch and strangers, and
for and as such they were commonly accounted and reputed, And
otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the second article hee refereth himselfe to the Act arlate

To the third, 4: 5 and 6th articles hee saith and deposeth that
on the twelveth of ffebruary 1654, hee this deponent with the
Selby frigot whereof hee was commander, in the
immediate service of this Commonwealth riding at anchor
under the Iland of Mountserrat in the West Indies espyied a
Saile in the offing, and sent out men in his pinnace to goe and
see what shee was, and that his said men tooke and brought
her (being a dutch sloop) to the frigot, and being soe brought
and some of her company coming aboard the frigot, this deponent examined them where
they were, to which they answered that they were of fflushing
and confessed that they were bound for Mount Serrat (an English
Plantation)