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'''BBB''' [LH MARGIN]
27th October 1659
… '''BBB''' [LH MARGIN]
27th October 1659
A busines of examination of witnesses on the}<br />
behalf of Edmond Lemmon and company}<br />
owners of the shipp the ''Redd Rose'' whereof the sayd}<br />
Lemmon was Master and her tackle apparrell}<br />
and furniture against Wygart Wigarts and}<br />
John drewes in particular and all others in}<br />
general which take upon them to justifie the}<br />
siezure and surpriz all of the sayd shipp the ''Redd''}<br />
''Rose'' and her ladeing Smith}
Examined on an allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of Edmond Lemmon and Company
'''William Hone''' of the parish of<br />
ffanchurch London Mariner aged twenty<br />
fower yeares or thereabouts a witnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the allegation he saith that in the monethes<br />
of April and May last past one thousand,sixe hundred and fifty nyne<br />
the arlate Edmond lemmon and Company nowe Commonly reputed<br />
to be the lawfull Owners and proprietors of the arlate shipp the ''Redd''<br />
''Rose'' and of her tackle and furniture And hee this depondent being<br />
then a passenger in the sayd shipp knoweth that the sayd Lemmon was<br />
the Master of the sayd shipp and had commande of her as Master of her<br />
and hee the sayd Lemmon and Company all English Merchants subjects of the Commonwealth of England were as hee verily beleeveth<br />
Owners of her and her tackle apparell and furniture and knoweth they were for commonly<br />
reputed and further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2 and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
being a passenger on board the sayd ''Redd Rose'' and bound in her to goe<br />
to the English Fleete at Elsenore in denmark, knoweth that in the moneth<br />
of May 1659 the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'' did remayne in a peaceable<br />
condition in the River Eames arlate, about a league distant from<br />
Embdem where the sayd Lemmon and Company were taking aboard the<br />
sayd shipp a ladeing of salt which (as he believeth and hath Credibly<br />
heard from the sayd Lemmon and other of the sayd shipps Company) was<br />
soe laden aboard her for Accompt of English Merchants subiects of this Commonwealth<br />
to be carried in her to Stockholme a place in the East sea in the dominions<br />
of the King of Sweden, and in amity with this Commonwealth, And hee<br />
saith that hee this deponent and some others who were of the shipps Company<br />
of the ''Redd Rose'' aforesayd, being aboard her thereby knoweth that while the<br />
sayd shipp soe rode peaceably in a free stream neere Embden as aforesayd taking in her<br />
sayd ladeing of salt the arlate Wigart Wygarts and John drewes (who were reputed<br />
subiects of the State of the United provinces, did (whilst the sayd<br />
Edmond Lemmon and severall of his sayd shipps Company were on<br />
shoare at Embden about provideing and<br />
getting provisions or victuals and other necessaries for the<br />
sayd shipp) came on board the sayd shipp the ''Redd Rose'' in the sayd moneth<br />
of May last in a warlike manner, and brought with them in a smack<br />
or small vessell above thirty seamen and souldiers and therewith in a<br />
hostile manner siezed the sayd shipp the ''Redd Rose'' and soe many of her<br />
company as were on board her, and her ladeing of salt and having<br />
in a warlike manner placed their sayd souldiers and seamen on<br />
board her, the said Wigards and drewes commanded the keys of the<br />
trunksmmanded the keys of the<br />
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