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Transcription

The 4th day of April 1660/

The Keepers of the Liberty of England}
by authority of Parliament against Edmund}
Lemman, Budd, Smith}

Examined upon the Allegation given in
by the said Lemman./

Rp. jus.

Godfrey Hembling of Waborne in
[?Clay] in Norfolke aged 40 yeeres or
thereabouts sworne and Examined./.

To the first hee saith that the arlate Edmund Lemman
came first onboard the Arlate Ship the Virgin Mary
alias the All Saints of Cartagena about three or fower days
after the said Ship was brought into the Downes, by the
Yarmouth ffrigot arlate, and saith that at such time as the
said Leman soe came onboard her. shee was in the
power and possession of Severall Mariners belonging to
the said Yarmouth ffrigot which tooke her, And the said
Mariners had then in their possession divers parcells
of Tobaccoe, Some wooll and Some Tortois Shells
which they found at the taking of the said Ship. upon her
Gun Deck. halfe Deck Roundhouse. Cabbin and fore
Castle, which hee knoweth for that hee then belonged to
the said Yarmouth ffrigot and helped to seize the said
Ship, and came to the Downes in her. and further cannot depose

To the 2d he saith that when, or a little before the said Lemman
came first on board the said Ship about three Gentlemen
came with a boate on board
her. Shee then ryding in the Downes: and the said Gentlemen
were Commonly said and Accomted to be the Commissioners
of Prize Goods and soe this Deponent verily beleeveth they
were, And saith that the said Gentlemen did see and
well knowe that the Mariners on board the said Ship
had plunder in their hands and possession which they had found in the places aforesayd and the
said Gentlemen did not disallowe or disprove thereof
nor forb[?a]d the said Mariners to sell the same, as this
Deponent knoweth of, nor did offer to take the same [XXXX GUTTER]
nor declare that they should not have the same, [XXX GUTTER]
saith that the Mariners or Watermam which brought
the said Gentlemen onboard the said Ship, did [?while GUTTER]
the said Gentlemen were on board buy, Diverse Rolls
of Tobaccoe of this Deponents sight and knowledge and ladid the same in the said boate [?when GUTTER]
the said Gentlemen went ashore, soe that the said [XXX GUTTER]
could not choose but see or knowe the same as this deponent beleeveth but notwithstanding
they did not expresse their dislike thereof, And further
cannot depose./

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