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Transcription

The 16th day of March 1658./:

On the behalfe ofRobert Blackleech}
merchant concerneing a losse in}
the willing minde}

Rp. [X X ?cop] 1

Robert Blackleech of Saint Catherines
Court London mariner aged 18
yeeres or thereabouts sworne
before the right worshipfull Charles George
Cock Esquire one of the Judges
of the high Court of the Admiralty
and Examined on the Certaine Interrogatories
given in on the behalfe of Robert Blackleech
Merchant saith and deposeth by vertue
of his oath./:

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate
ship the willing minde (Adam Broughton Master) in the moneth of November 1657
at which time shee was at Rochell in ffrance, and saith
shee was bound from thence to Rosse in the River
of Waterford in Ireland. from whence shee came to
Rochell. And this hee deposeth for that hee came onboard
the said ship at Rochell, and Continued one of her
Company till shee was seized as hereafter is declared.
And further hee cannot depose:/:

To the second hee saith the said ship being safely arrived
(from Rosse) at Rochell in ffrance, and haveing receaved
in her Lading of Goods and merchandizes shee departed
from Saint Martins on or about the Eleaventh day of
December 1657: bound for Rosse aforesaid, and as shee
was proceeding thitherwards about ffive or six of the Clock
in the afternoone of the said Day that shee departed
from Saint Martins shee was assaulted surprized and taken
by a Ship of Warr called the Saint Antonio of Saint Sebastian
furnished with sixteene Gunn's, whereof one Captaine
Barnard Dyn was Comander, and by her Caryed into
Saint Sebastians, where the said ship willing minde was made
Prize and utterly lost. to her owners. The Premisses
hee deposeth being on board the said ship at the time of
her said seizure as aforesaid and alsoe saw the said
ship at Saint Sebastians after shee was taken: where hee
saith shee was Condemned and sold And otherwise cannot
answer:/:

To the 3d hee saith that of his Certaine Knowledge the Interrate
Robert Blackleech, was at the time the said ship departed
from Rosse aforesaid on the said voyage, the true and lawfull
owner and Proprietor of a third part of the said ship and
of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and soe Continued
and was at the time of the said surprizall, and saith the
said Blackleech bought the said 3d Part of the said ship
at Middleborowe of Mr Dela villet, and Mr Williams
Merchants there dwelling, about three yeeres since,
and having nowe seene, and perused the bill of sale nowe
(Exhibited