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saith that he hathh heard the said Streete … saith that he hathh heard the said Streete being a<br />
Captive with this Rendent in Sally say that he was<br />
pursued and chased at sea, and that thereupon he<br />
and his Company betooke themselves to their boate and<br />
left the shipp And further he cannot answeare
To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth that though he was not<br />
present at the bargaine=making concerning the sale of the<br />
sayd shipp, yet it was evidently appaarent unto him that the<br />
said Ashwin had bought her, and as the generall report<br />
went of the Governor of New Sally aforesaid And further he<br />
cannot answeare./
To the last Interrogatory he answereth that he did not see the<br />
money payd for the shipp interrate by the producent<br />
But he saith that he did well know the shipp the<br />
''Returne'', and that she was a stanch and tight shipp<br />
and that she had not any Gunns or Anchors at the<br />
time the producent parted with her in part of payment<br />
of the shipp in controversy, And further he cannot<br />
answeare.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin<br />
togeather with his precontest./
John Rowe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the tenth of August 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
'''3)'''
'''Robert Steevens''' of Plymouth in the County<br />
of Devon Mariner, aged about 28 yeares, a<br />
wittnes produced and sworne and being examined<br />
he deposeth as followeth
To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and saith<br />
That he the deponent was a Slave in Sally in the months arlate<br />
and that he being as a Slave or Captive on board a certaine<br />
ffrigott belonging unto the Governor of New Sally was presente<br />
when about the latter end of October last past (as he<br />
best remembreth the time) the sayd ffrigott tooke the shipp<br />
in this cause controverted, floating upon the streame and<br />
having in her noe living thing that he this deponent knoweth<br />
of, and that it was about fower Leagues from New Sally<br />
where she was found floating and aken And further he<br />
cannot depose.
To the second article he deposeth and saith that after the sayd<br />
shipp now in controversy was brought into New Sally, In the<br />
montht into New Sally, In the<br />
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