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HCA 13/68 f.135v Annotate
First transcribed 1 August 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 135  +
Parent volume HCA 13/68  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 01/08/2013  +
Transcription The 23th of September 1653. Examined uponThe 23th of September 1653. Examined upon the sayd allegation. '''3/''' '''Robert Tibbet''' of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex<br /> Mariner Master of the sayd shipp the ''harry Bonadventure''<br /> aged six and forty yeares or thereabouts a witnes<br /> sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth<br /> videlicet To the first and second articles of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith<br /> that the arlate shipp the ''harry Bonadventure'' from about the beginning<br /> of January 1652 till the month of June 1653 was imployed in a warlike<br /> voyage under the Command of the sayd Robert Swanley in the service<br /> of this Commonwealth by vertue of a Commission (which this deponent saw and<br /> heard read) to take all dutch and ffrench shipps, and the shipps of all or any the<br /> Enemies of this Commonwealth. And saith that in Pursuance of the sayd<br /> Commission the sayd shipp sett sayle from Messina in Scicilia about the<br /> 19th day of may 1653 and in her course for Tunis whither she stood bound<br /> off the Cape Ppertevento mett with two dutch shipps, and chased them<br /> and one of the Dutch shipps videlicet the ''Saint Peter'' aforesayd giveing the first fire before the<br /> ''harry Bonadventure'' made any shott, a sharp fight was begun and<br /> continued four or five howres, till att Last the ''Saint Peter'' was subdued<br /> and taken together with all her lading and the master<br /> of her killed in the fight, and all or most part of her Company taken<br /> aboard the sayd ''harry Bonadventure'', whereby the sayd Captaine Swanley<br /> and Company became absolute Masters and Possessors of the ''Saint Peter'' and<br /> her lading, all which this deponent knoweth being master of the sayd<br /> ''harry Bonadventure'' and present att and in the sayd fight, and seeing<br /> the sayd seizure made and otherwise he cannot depose. To the .3. he saith the sayd shipp the ''Saint Peter'' was an able shipp of about<br /> 400 Tonnes and 24 Guns with powder and other necessaries, and was<br /> in her masts and rigging much damnified in the sayd fight, And saith<br /> she was very full laden with Currants Anniseeds, Almonds quicksylver<br /> Venice glasses, stones for looking glasses, and Manna and other rich<br /> Commodityes the particulars of all or any whereof this deponent<br /> knoweth not nor the certayne value of all or any of them, but doth<br /> beleive that being a shipp of a large a burthen and Laden with goods<br /> of that quality she might well be worth with her Ladeing the summe of<br /> fifty thousand pounds sterling. And saith he heard the Steeresman of the<br /> ''Saint Peter'' say she was a very rich shipp. And further cannot depose To the 4 and .5th he saith that the ''harry Bonadventure'' during the sayd Chase and<br /> fight wore the English Colours of this Commonwealth, and the says shipp the<br /> ''Saint Peter'' being the bigger of the sayd dutch shipps, and the other Dutch<br /> shipp during all the sayd tyme wore the Holland Colours and fought against<br /> the ''Harry Bonadventure'' four or five howres. And further saith That<br /> the Steeresman and others of the Company of the ''Saint Peter'' speaking broken<br /> English did after their seizure confesse and acknowledge that they<br /> and the shipps Company or most of them were Hollanders, and that their sayd shipp<br /> did belong to Holland, and was with her sayd Lading bound for Holland<br /> and there was to discharge the same for the use and Accompt of Hollanders<br /> whichnd Accompt of Hollanders<br /> which  +
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