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The 18th of July 1660. [CENTRE … '''A:5:'''
The 18th of July 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
[GUTTER ?Claudius] Le Bat and James Sonnier owners}<br />
of a shipp called the ''T[?h]omas'' of Callice formerly}<br />
[GUTTER ?called ?the ?''?Blew''] ''dove'' against Samuel Angier and}<br />
[GUTTER XXXX] Suckly. ffrancklin.}
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of the said Le Bat and Company.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Nicholas Burgoigne''' of Callice in the<br />
Realme of ffrance Mariner, aged 42 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts, sworne and examined.
To the first, second and third articles hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth that the producents Claud[?ius] le Bat and James Sonnier and hath<br />
soe donne for theise twenty yeeres last and upwards they and hee have<br />
for the space swelt in Callice aforesaid and bin well acquainted with each<br />
other, and saith that in or about the moneth of September 1659 the said<br />
James Sonnier came and spake to this deponent and his contest Peter<br />
[?Trikes] at Callice and hired them (being mariners) to goe along with him<br />
to Ostend to fetch a vessell which (hee said) hee and Claude le Bat (speaking<br />
of the other producent) had bought there, whereat they went with him<br />
by land to Ostend, and there went aboard the said vessell which was then<br />
called the ''Blew dove'', and after thesaid James Sonnier had cleared her<br />
there touching her buying and duties, the said James accompanied with<br />
this deponent and contest and a boy sailed her thence for fflushing and<br />
soe to Callice in the said moneth of September last or thereabouts, to which<br />
port of Callice shee hath ever since belonged and was upon such her<br />
buying and bringing from Ostend named the ''Tomas'' by the said<br />
Le Bat and Sonnier, who have ever since such passage and fetching<br />
her from Ostend bin in possession of her as owners, and commonly<br />
accompted the lawfull owners of her, and ever since such bringing of her<br />
to Callice the said vessell the ''Thomas'' formerly called the ''Blew dove''<br />
hath bin imployed from port to port and place to place by and at the service<br />
of the said le Bat and Sonnier, which hee knoweth for that this deponent<br />
as one of her company and being hired by the said producents went the first<br />
voyage in her from Callice for Rochell which began in October last and<br />
having taken in her lading of wine, shee went from Rochell and<br />
dischardged at Saint Vallery, and thence shee went (and this deponent in her)<br />
to Nantes and there laded salt for [?Apsam] in devonshire, and from time<br />
to time the said Sonnier being her master mannaged the voyage and received<br />
the profitt and earnings of the said vessell to the use of himselfe and of the<br />
said Le Bat as owners thereof; And saith that it was in or about the<br />
moneth of May last and after the said producents had bin about eight monethes in the quiet<br />
and peaceable possession of the said vessell that shee arrived at A[?psam]<br />
aforesaid, where shee was alsoe in their quiet possession in the<br />
River of [?Aysham] where the sea flowes and ebbs, and saith that after shee<br />
had soe bin there about tenn dayes in their quiet possession at [?Aylsham]<br />
there came the arlat Mr Bella[?n]y (whom this deponent had before knowne)<br />
accompanied with six or seaven others, whereof three or foure were<br />
armed with swords and one with a pistoll, the night time about<br />
midnight and by violence turned this deponent<br />
and the rest of her company out of her into their boate and soe tooke<br />
forcible possession of the said vessell, tackle, apparell and furniture<br />
and have ever since kept the said possession, dispoiling the said owners thereof, The premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge.<br />
And further cannot depose.
To the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producent.
see his answer to the Interrogatories over leafe./.
signed dicti
'''+''' [?NicXXX] Burgoigne [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation.
'''2.'''
'''Peter Triket''' of Callice in the Realme of ffrance Mariner<br />
aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined. +
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