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and perused he deposeth and saith That he … and perused he deposeth and saith That he the deponent<br />
was Chirurgeons=Mate aboard the shipp the ''Constant''<br />
which was sett out and imployed as a private man of<br />
warr by the allegate Captaine Phillips, And that<br />
he the deponent was present and aboard her at her<br />
taking and seizure of the severall prizes hereafter<br />
mentioned videlicet a hoye laden with herrings, a shipp<br />
called the ''Joseph'' laden with salt, prunes, vinegar and<br />
other goods, a shipp called the ''Concord'' laden with<br />
Bahia sugars, shewmack and other goods, a shipp<br />
called the ''Dolphin'' loaden with pitch and rossin, a<br />
shipp called the ''Winter king'' loaden with Rye, a shipp<br />
called the ''Iland of [?Wearing]'' loaden with rozin<br />
skinns and other Merchandizes of a great value, a hoye<br />
called the ''hope'' laden with Corne and a vessell called the<br />
''fflowerpott'' loaden with pewter and nayles, And<br />
that all the sayd prizes were of this deponents knowledge<br />
(who went in the allegate shipp the ''Constant''<br />
out of this River of Thames, and returned thither after<br />
her seizure of the sayd prizes, which was about eight<br />
monthes time) brought into Portsmouth and there<br />
delivered unto, and made sale of by the allegate Captaine<br />
Philipps, And that all the persons named in the<br />
schedule allegate were of the said ''Constants'' Company<br />
at the time she was out at sea upon the said<br />
Philipps his employment, but that he knoweth not<br />
who particularly was at the taking of each particular<br />
prize because that some were employed in bringing<br />
to Ports=mouth a prize, when in the interim another<br />
prize was taken, and soe others sent away with the<br />
latter prize to Portsmouth And further he cannot<br />
depose saving that the said Captaine Philipps did<br />
promise before the Governor of Portsmouth to pay<br />
the said shipp the ''Constant'' her Company their thirds<br />
outt of all the aforementioned prizes.
Repeated before Doctor Clerke.
Thomas Greene [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27th of February <u>1654:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Clayme of the heires of [?G]onsalo de Gamboa dyalo}<br />
for sugars and tobacco in the shipp ''Nostra Seignora de''}<br />
''Rosario''. Suckley. Budd}
Examined upon an Allegation on the<br />
behalf of the said producents./
'''Diego Fernandez Blanco''' of Lisbone in Portugall<br />
Merchant aged 44. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined deposeth as followeth/
To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth,<br />
That in the yeare <u>1649.</u> last past hee this deponent being at the Bahia in<br />
Brazile saw and observed the arrivall of the shipp or Vessell allate<br />
called the ''Nostra Seignora de Rosario'' laden with Negroes, which at<br />
(the saidth Negroes, which at<br />
(the said +
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