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to procure an English shipp to touch at th … to procure an English shipp to touch at the said Island, and to deamnd the<br />
said Oyles of the Governor thereof, which was accordingly done, but<br />
the said Governor absolutely refused to deliver the same, saying they<br />
were by his order used and employed to and for the service of the<br />
sayd Island, or to that or the like effect, as this deponent hath seene and<br />
observed by credible letters of advise since received from those parts [?and GUTTER]<br />
by a Certificate from the said Island to that purpose./
To the 5th hee saith, hee beleeveth, That the sayd Oyles in case they<br />
had not been so detained as aforesaid, but had safely come to and arrived<br />
in England would have amounted here to the full summe or value of<br />
one Thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts; but how much the said<br />
Owners are otherwise damnified by the detention and losse of the sane hee<br />
saith hee cannot particularlize. And further cannot depose
To the 6th hee saith the arlate Edward Noseworthy Peter [?kXXX GUTTER]<br />
and John hallett for all the time predeposed were and still are<br />
commonly and generally accompted reputed and taken./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated in Court/
Roger Hatton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 15th day of ffebruary .<u>1654</u>:./. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Clayme of Arnold and Elias Beake}<br />
for the shipp ''Saint John Baptist'':}
Examined upon the said Allegation./.
'''2us/'''
'''Elizeus Spillebaut''' of Buttolphs<br />
Lane neare Billingsgate London Boake-keeper to the said<br />
Arnold Beake aged 34. yeares or thereabouts a<br />
Wittnesse sworne and examined saith as followeth
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That<br />
in the moneth of January <u>1653.</u> arlate, being severall moneths before<br />
the Peace was concluded upon between this Commonwealth and the [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
of the United Netherlands Provinces the shipp the ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
arlate (John Claesson Master) was by Mr Arnold Beake, Elias<br />
Beake and Companie sett out from dover upon the Voiage in Controversy<br />
for Bayon in ffrance, with a Cargaizon of goods for their accompt Which<br />
hee this deponent well knoweth, for that hee was before and at that<br />
time and till this present Booke-keeper to the said Arnold Beake<br />
and thereby hath particular knowledge of his merchandizing affaires<br />
and amongst the rest of the employment of the said shipp ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
And saith that at that time the danger of suprizall of English<br />
shipps and goods by the dutch was publique and notorious./
To the second article and schedule therein hee saith and deposeth, That the said Arnold<br />
and Elias Beake well knowinge the then imminent danger of the<br />
(surprizallnent danger of the<br />
(surprizall +
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