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To the .16th. he saith he was one of the M … To the .16th. he saith he was one of the Mariners of the ''Hopewells''<br />
Company and att the tyme the Prince men entred her was flying in<br />
a boat for life and Liberty having bene parted from the sayd shippe<br />
anout halfe a quarter of an howre before she was actually seized.<br />
and otherwise cannot depose.
To the 17 hee saith that the sayd Henry Powell was in the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Hopewell'' upon the 27th of October att night and not afterwards<br />
and saith the sayd night he went with 4 of his men to Barbadas<br />
as also did Captaine Swift with 5 of his men, being in all about<br />
11 persons, and saith there was onely one man<br />
of the ''Hopewells'' aboard her att the tyme of seizure being taken<br />
prisoner in her the rest being immediately before fledd out of<br />
her for life and liberty And otherwise saving his foregoeing<br />
depositions he cannot depose.
To the eighteenth Interrogatorie he saith he did not goe to cutt wood nor<br />
hawle turtles during the stay of the shipp ''Hopewell'' att Antegoe<br />
but saith he went twice a fishing during that tyme, and spent<br />
therein about one howre and noe more. And saith there was about<br />
halfe a dozen turtles eaten a shipboard by the Company of the<br />
''Hopewell'', which he knoweth because he did partake thereof<br />
himselfe. and otherwise cannot depose.
Repeated in Court<br />
before the Judges/
Nath:ll Wade [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 28th of October <u>1653.</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Samuell [?Palvache] touching}<br />
his Jewells}
'''6.'''
'''David Ben Mordeku''' of Morocco merchant aged<br />
one and forty yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet.
That he this deponent came along as a fellow passenger with the sayd Samuell<br />
[?Palcache] otherwise Jacob Carlos in the sayd shipp the ''Elias'' from Hamburg<br />
in this present voyage wherein the sayd shipp with severall others in Company<br />
with her was seized by some of the shipps of this Commonwealth, And saith<br />
that about the tyme of the sayd seizure the foresayd [?Palvache] calling this deponent<br />
to him and acquainted him that he the sayd [?Palvache] had a parcell of Jewells<br />
and precious things which to preserve from plundering he intended to deliver<br />
the Gunner of the ''Elias'' to hide for him, and thereupon produced a small<br />
box covered with black leather and guilt, which being by him opened this deponent<br />
saw severall Jewells and precious things therein and amongst the rest [?one]<br />
diamond ring. one golden parrat covered over with Emerald stones, and one<br />
golden Cockrell with a large pearle in the [?bunch] thereof, and other Jewells<br />
which in particular he cannot specify; and the sayd box being shut againe<br />
he the sayd [Palvache] taking some writings with him in his hand to [?XXX]<br />
with the sayd box sayd he would deliver them to the sayd Gunner to hide [?XX]<br />
lay upp for him, desiring this deponent to take notice what he had seene [?in]<br />
the sayd little Chest r box; And saith that one Alderman was appoynted<br />
to Command the sayd shipp the ''Elias'' on behalfe of the Captaine of the ''Elizabeth''<br />
''frigat'' that made the seizure, And saith that toward [?night] of the same day<br />
the sayd shipp ''Elias'' was brought to an anchor in the River of Thames And<br />
the sayd Alderman in the hearing of this deponent called the Carpenterring of this deponent called the Carpenter +
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