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the shipp called the ''dolphin'' laden wit … the shipp called the ''dolphin'' laden with pitch and resin, And saith<br />
That upon or about the fowerth day of July <u>1651.</u> the said Captaine<br />
and Companie schedulate in the said shipp ''Constant'' did meeta with<br />
surprize and take a shipp called the ''Winter king'' laden with Corne<br />
All which sewerall shipps with their respective laadings so seized by the<br />
''Constant'' were brought or sent up to Portsmouth, where they came to the<br />
hands possession and disposall of the said Isaac Philips or his Agents.<br />
The premisses this deponent declareth for that hee served as Quarter master in<br />
and aboard the said shipp ''Constant'' in and at the time of the seizure of<br />
the said respective shipps and ladings, and saw them brought up to Portsmouth<br />
and there delivered, And for that hee this deponent with Simon Ba[?r]ly the<br />
Younger Master of the said Vessell the ''Constant'' and others the Officers<br />
of the said shipp caused a list to be taken or made of all the said shipps<br />
Companie present at the seizures aforesaid, together with their respective<br />
qualities and imployments and aboard the said shipp and of their sewerall<br />
shares due unto them proportionable to their said qualities, and employments<br />
by reason whereof, and of the notice this deponent tooke of the persons schedulated<br />
in the sewerall Voiages aforesaid, hee saieth hee is well assured that the said<br />
persons schedulate did serve in and aboard the said ''Constant'' at the respective<br />
seizures aforesaid as in the said schedule is expressed. And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/
William Smith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation and schedule./
'''Rp. 2us.'''
'''John Diett''' of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney<br />
Mariner late Cooper of the shipp the ''Constant'' aforesaid<br />
aged 50. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the said Allegation in the Acts of Court and schedule hee saith and deposeth<br />
that he this deponent being Cooper of the shipp the ''Constant''<br />
allegate was present aboard her when that Captaine hurly<br />
and the said shipps Company, which were the persons nominated<br />
in the allegate schedule tooke and surprized at severall<br />
times one hoye laden with herrings, that alsoe<br />
tooke and surprized a shipp called the<br />
''Saint Jospeh'' laden with salt, prunes, vinegar abd other<br />
goods, and that the sayd shipp the ''Concord'', which was laden<br />
with Bahia Sugars, with Shewmack and other goods<br />
which said shipp the ''Concord'' and the goods in her were<br />
worth about two thousand five hundred pounds (as he<br />
beleeveth) And he alsoe deposeth and saith that the<br />
allegate shipp the ''Constant'' and her Company being<br />
the persons schedulate did take and surprize a shipp<br />
called the ''Dolphin'' laden with pitch and rosin and<br />
a shipp called the ''Winter king'' laden with Rye, and<br />
alsoe another shipp called the ''[?Is]land'' of [?XXXX] with<br />
her?Is]land'' of [?XXXX] with<br />
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