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The 12th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
O … The 12th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the said May and}<br />
[?XXXXfeild] touching the death of}<br />
Richard dorrington.}
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'''Richard Barker''' of London Merchant, aged 38<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne before the said<br />
right worshipfull doctor Clarke, saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet:
That in or about the moneth of August 1652 hee this deponent being at<br />
Porta vedra received a letter from Mr Richard dorrington from Viego advising<br />
this deponent that the shipp called ''Your Servant'' (whereof Robert<br />
davies was master and whereof hee the said Richard dorrington was<br />
Merchant) comming from the Westerne Ilands, bound for Portugall<br />
there to discharge, and comming off Penarch on the coast of Portugall<br />
was mett with and seized by an [?Coast] [?and] man of warr and brought up to<br />
Viego in Gallicea, where hee the said Mr dorrington was turned ashore<br />
And thereupon this deponent went from Porta vedra to Viego to<br />
the said Mr dorrington to give him assistance in his businesse. And<br />
this deponent well knoweth that from that time, the said Richard<br />
dorrington was and remained at Porta<br />
Vedra and Viego and foing to and from those places about prosecuting<br />
the matter of recoverie of the said shipp and lading, untill the moneth<br />
of March 1653 newe stile, at which time the said Mr dorrington<br />
fell sick of a Calenture at Porta Vedra in the house of Mr<br />
Samuell Travers English merchant, where the said Mr dorrington<br />
(after about tenn or twelve dayes sicknesse (in which this deponent<br />
severall times visited him) departed this life. And this deponent<br />
after such his departure sawe and viewed his dead corps in the<br />
roome of the said Mr Travers his house where the said Mr<br />
dorrington died, and accompanied the same to funerall, which<br />
happened the next day after such his death. And saith the<br />
said Mr dorrington being a Protestant, and it not being there<br />
permitted to bury Protestants in the church or churchyard, his<br />
said corps was carried to and interred in the Lemmon garden of<br />
the said Mr Travers without the towne of Porta Vedra of this deponents<br />
soght and knowledge in the said moneth of March 1653 new stile
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