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'''B.14.'''
The 24th day of January 1656 … '''B.14.'''
The 24th day of January 1656 English style/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Goodwin and Company against the goods taken}<br />
in the shipp the ''Saint John'' (whereof of derricke Rim}<br />
was Master) and against Symon and Lewis}<br />
Rodrigues da Sousa and others comming in for}<br />
their interest: Smith ffrancklin}
Examined upon an allegation dated<br />
the 19th of November 1656 given in<br />
and admitted on the behalfe of the sayd<br />
Symon and Lewis Rodrigues da Souza and<br />
others./
'''dt. ffrancklyn'''
'''jus'''
'''Peter de Bert''' of London Merchant aged twenty<br />
five yeares of therabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith saving his subsequent<br />
depositions hee cannot depose thereto./
To the 2 and third articles saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
being the arlate Peter de Bart with the arlate John de Thieulieur and<br />
one William ffownes Marchants of London did all shipp themselves<br />
in a dutch shipp (whereof one Souldate was Master) belonging<br />
to the port of Rotterdam in holland and (by common repute) to dutch<br />
men subiects of the states of the united Provinces, and shipped them<br />
selves to goe in her from fflushing in Zealand to Roane in<br />
ffrance, And saith that in the month of september one thousand six hundred<br />
fifty sixe the sayd dutch shipp being in her course for ffrance betweene<br />
Callice and Bulloigne did meete with a Man of Warr belonging to<br />
Ostend, and the Master of the sayd dutch shipp having espied the<br />
sayd mann of warr did declare to this deponent and the sayd Thieulieur<br />
and others on board him that hee much doubted that the say mann of<br />
warr would come on board of his shipp and search his shipp and<br />
take away such things as they pleased notwithstanding the league<br />
made between the King of Spaine and the Lords of the United Provinces<br />
and sayd it was a usuall thinge for men of warr belonging to<br />
the king of Spaine or his subjects soe to doe notwithstanding the sayd<br />
league or words to that effect and therefore to prevent as much as might bee any plunder<br />
the sayd Master hidd his money in his stockings, and this<br />
deponent alsoe hidd what money hee had the most of it being Gold in Cranyes or chinkes in<br />
the Cabbin and kept only one dollar or two about him, that soe if they<br />
did search him hee might escape beateing by them, if being (as the<br />
sayd dutch shipps company sayd) a usuall thinge with them when they<br />
found noe money about a man to beate and abuse him, And this deponent<br />
hidd his Cloake bagg or Portmantua in the holde of the shipp and the rest<br />
of the company on board hidd such thinges as they had and were portable<br />
out of the way as much as they could, and some of the shipps Company<br />
the better to prevent their best cloathes from being taken, did putt them upon their<br />
backsdid putt them upon their<br />
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