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morning and seized this deponents said shi … morning and seized this deponents said shipp and lading, and carried<br />
them to the roade of Saint Christofers, and there the captaine<br />
of the said shipp (named or called Captaine Blacke) and company<br />
tooke this deponent and company and turned them ashore at Saint Christofers,<br />
and tooke and carried away the said shipp with the said fleete<br />
for hispaniola, to carry souldiers, and made away and<br />
disposed her lading, soe that the said shipp and lading (which hee<br />
saith were then well worth the summe of foure hundred pounds sterling)<br />
were and are taken away from and quite lost to her said owners<br />
And saith that neither the said shipp the ''Seahorse'' her boate nor this<br />
deponent nor any of his company had bin ashore at Mountserrat<br />
before or at the time of the said seizure, nor had the said shipp then<br />
bin in any English plantation, nor sold any goods to or received any from<br />
any of them. All which hee deposeth and knoweth being master of<br />
the said shipp and going all the said voyage in her to the time of his<br />
being soe taken and turned out of her, upon which turning out this<br />
deponent and company were put to shift for them selves, and<br />
to get passage home aswell as they could, and [?then] this deponent<br />
got passafe from Saint Christofers to Saint Eust[?athies]. and thence<br />
home./
Jacob pris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 8th of September 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of the said Goldsmith in}<br />
the ''hare in the ffield''}
Examined on the foresaid allegation an<br />
schedule.
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'''Gifford Bale''' of the parish of Great Saint<br />
hellens London Marchant, aged 46 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the fourth article of the said allegation and the schedule therein<br />
mentioned nowe showne unto him, hee saith and deposeth that in the<br />
moneth of May last past the arlate Mr John Tivell merchant<br />
of this citie caused and procured the summe of two thousand pounds<br />
sterling to be assured upon a parcell of linnen namely seaven<br />
and fourtie bales, laden aboard the shipp the ''hare in the field'' of<br />
Middleborowe (John kein master) in the assurance office London<br />
from haver de Grace in ffrance to Cadiz and Saint Lucar and any<br />
parts and places thereabouts, which hee knoweth because hee this<br />
deponent was and is one of the assurers thereof, and hath<br />
for two hundred pounds of the said moneys, subscribed the pollicie<br />
of Assurance in that behalfe made and passed, and was privie to<br />
the subscription of the rest of the Assurers, and saith the said schedue<br />
nowe showed unto him, was and is the same pollicie soe by him<br />
and the rest of the said assurers subscribed, and that the contents thereof<br />
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contained.<br />
And further that before such subscription by this deponent as an assurer<br />
the said Mr Tivell produced and showed him a letter, purporting that<br />
the said goods were laden for the accompt of Mr Goldsmith of Antwerp<br />
andof Mr Goldsmith of Antwerp<br />
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