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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2.' … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Thomas Hicks''' of London ffishmonger, aged 39 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right worshippfull doctor Godolphin and<br />
examined as aforesaid.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrogated Robert Lucas, John Ladd, henry James and Charles Rich, and well knew the<br />
shipp the ''Teneriff Merchant'' arlate.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that there were imbarqued and laden<br />
aboard the said shipp at her last being in the Ile of Wight about the<br />
beginning of January last by the said John Ladd for account of himselfe<br />
and company namely Robert Lucas, Charles Rich, henry James, ffrancis<br />
[?Sone] and hugh Powell, sixtie eight horses or thereabouts, and that the<br />
said sixe persons were owners in equall shares of the said horses, and saith<br />
there were foure hogsheads of sh[?eer]s and other goods alsoe laden aboard the<br />
said shipp but for whose account the said sheres and goods were hee knoweth<br />
not, the premisses touching such proprietie in the said horses hee knoweth<br />
because hee this deponent was imployed in taking and keeping the account<br />
of their said lading, and was imbarqued and went the Merchants<br />
servant to see to the disposall of them for the said owners their account.
To the third and fourth hee saith that the said shipp having soe received<br />
the said horses and other goods aboard, shee upon or about<br />
the nineth of January last departed therewith and steered her course for<br />
the Barbada's the place of her intended discharge, but comming about<br />
30 or fourtie leagues to the westward of the lands end of England shee was met<br />
with on or about the twelveth of the said moneth by an Ostend man<br />
of warr, Antony S[ui]p commander, with the king of Spaines Commission,<br />
which fired severall guns at the ''Teneriff Merchant'', and killed the<br />
Master and one of the company and a passenger, and wounded eleaven others,<br />
and at length by force boarded and tooke her and all the said horses<br />
(saving foure that were dead after the shipps departure from the Ile of Wight)<br />
and all her goods whatsoever, and carried them to Passage<br />
in the Bay of Biscay and dominion of the king of Spaine, and after her<br />
arrivall there, the said shipp, and all the said horses that were alive and<br />
all her goods and lading were confiscated and made prize and the said<br />
shipps company and passengers turned out and dispossessed,<br />
soe that the said shipp and horses and other goods were and are utterly<br />
lost to the owners thereof, without any [XXXXXXXXX] whatsoever<br />
for the same. All which hee knoweth being present and seeing the<br />
same soe donne.
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin
Tho: Hickes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]odolphin
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