| First transcribed
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16 February 2018 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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62 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/68 +
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 16/02/2018 +
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| Transcription
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The 9th day of November 1653
On behalfe o … The 9th day of November 1653
On behalfe of Captaine ffawther deposeth et cetera.}<br />
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''2'''
'''Adam Wolley''' of Ostend in fflanders [?merchant]<br />
aged 21. yeares or thereabouts a wites sworne<br />
and examined deposeth and sayeth as followeth.
To the first and the rest of the articles of the sayd allegation and to the [?papers]<br />
thereunto annexed this deponent saith and deposeth that the arlate [?XXX]<br />
fframncis ffawther in the monethes of June and July last past was [?the]<br />
sole Owner of the sayd shipp the ''ffrancis'' her tackle and furniture and<br />
so accounted, and that he by vertue of Letters of Reprizall under the<br />
great seale of this Court was authorized to seize all shipps belonging<br />
to the States of the united Provinces ffrench King and their subiects<br />
and that by vertue of the sayd Commission or Letters of Reprizeall<br />
he the sayd ffawther and Company did with the sayd shipp about the<br />
latter end of June or beginning of July last past take and surprize<br />
a certayne vessell belonging to fflushing whereof Cornelius [?BerghXX]<br />
was master and that by stresse of weather the sayd shipp ''ffrancis'' and Berg[?hanaer]<br />
vessell were forced into the Port of Ostend, and that soone after the<br />
sayd shipp ''ffrancis'' was there arrested and stayd, and the sayd ffawther<br />
imprisoned, and the sayd prize shipp delivered back againe to the<br />
foresayd Cornelius Berghanaer all by vertue of warrants and<br />
decrees from the Court of Admiralty of Bridges. And that the<br />
sayd shipp of fflushing when she was taken and brought into Ostend<br />
by stresse of weather as aforesayd was a new vessell of about 60 tonnes<br />
and of the cleare value of 200 ''li'' sterling and upwards, and that there were<br />
att the same tyme provisions and other things aboard the ''ffrancis'' the<br />
value whereof he knoweth not. And moreover saith that albeit<br />
it be notorious that there is firme league and amity betweene the<br />
King of Spaine and this Commonwealth and their respective subiects<br />
and that the sayd ffawther did by all legall and fair meanes [?desire ?the]<br />
liberty to repair to England with his sayd prize vessell to cause the<br />
same to have his owne shipp released as by the dutch papers to the sayd<br />
allegation annexed this deponent beleiveth may appeare, which are [?the]<br />
two Copies of the proceedings had and made att Bridges touching<br />
his busines and receyved by this deponent from the Clarkes [?of]<br />
the Admiralty Court there as and for true Copies, yet the sayd<br />
shipp of fflushing is released and delivered back to the sayd Berg[?hanaer]<br />
to the great dammage and preiudice of the sayd ffawther but to how<br />
great a value he knoweth not The premisses he knoweth for hee<br />
hath seene the foresayd Commission, and saw the sayd ffawther [?arrive] [?with]<br />
his sayd shipps att Ostend being forced in by stresse of weather and<br />
saw the sayd shipp ''ffrancis'' under arrest, and the sayd ffawther [?XXX]<br />
and heard the sayd Berghanaer confesse that his sayd vessell was<br />
belonging to the port of fflushing and that the owners thereof [?there]<br />
lived, saw the sayd vesssell restored to him the sayd [??Berghanaer]<br />
and was ayding and assisting to the sayd Captaine ffawther att [?XXX]<br />
and Bridges in the sollicitation of this busines there on his behalfe<br />
And otherwise or fyrther referring himselfe to the Records of this Court hee<br />
cannot depose.
Adam Woolley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before Doctors Clarke<br />
and Godolphine Doctors Clarke<br />
and Godolphin +
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