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nor write, this examinate entred the said … nor write, this examinate entred the said goods and marks and for whose accounts<br />
the same were, into the said boateswaines booke at the time of the lading<br />
thereof, but for the exact quantity of the said goods, or their quality, further<br />
then by him is predeposed, or their worth and value this examinate saith hee<br />
knoweth not the value thereof being alterable according to the convenienece<br />
of place and markett where they might happen to arrive. And further hee<br />
cannot depose:-/
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith, hee well knoweth That the said shipp about<br />
the latter end of June<u>1654.</u> last past sett sayle and departed from Mevis<br />
with the goods and Merchandizes predeposed bound for this Port of London<br />
for the accompt before mentioned And saith That the said shipp and her<br />
lading in such their Course was upon or about the 2. day of September last mett with about the Lands end of England<br />
by an Irish man of war, who surprized and tooke the said shipp and<br />
lading, and carried the same into Port Lewis in ffrance, notwithstanding<br />
the Master and Companie of the said shipp used all possible resistanc, care<br />
and industry to prevent the said seizure, and to preserve the said shipp and<br />
lading, And saith the said shipp and all her lading, and particularly the said<br />
28. chests butts or hogsheads or thereabouts of sugar to the said Valentine Austin belonging<br />
were at Port Lewis aforesaid condemned and made Prize, by meanes<br />
whereof the said Valentine Austin was utterly deprived of his said goods<br />
and they lost to him. The premisses hee knoweth by sadd experience, for that hee<br />
was as aforesaid Steward of and aboard the said shipp during her said<br />
voyage and at her seizure, and was brought up in her to Port Lewis where<br />
hee observed the said shipps condemnation and saw and was assistant in the<br />
unlading of the said goods for the said Irish seizors And further hee<br />
cannot depose:-/
Tho: Phillipps [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Interrogatories:- [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2us:-/'''
'''Hamlet Fisher''' of the Plantation commonly called<br />
Paradise in the Island of Nevis or Mevis in the<br />
West Indies Planter aged 22. yeares or thereabouts<br />
a Wittnesse sworne as before said, and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet:-/
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth, That hee well knoweth<br />
the shipp the ''fortune'' of Carickvergus interrate, whereof the<br />
interrate Arthur Crowther was Master, and saith the said shipp<br />
was last at Mevis aforesaid in the moneths of June and July<br />
last past being thence directly bound for this Port of London, which<br />
hee knoweth for that this examinate came passenger in her in and<br />
upon the said designe and voiage:/
To the second hee saith, That hee this examinate being at Mevis aforesaid<br />
the time predeposed was present and aboard the said shipp the ''fortune'' of<br />
Carickvergus when the interrate Valentine Austin and one Captaine<br />
(Moretonstin and one Captaine<br />
(Moreton +
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