| First transcribed
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8 January 2016 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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26 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/76 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 08/01/2016 +
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| Transcription
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After the seizure of the said ship ''Godli … After the seizure of the said ship ''Godliffe'' this deponent went on board the ''Royall''<br />
to see the said Sansier his brother in law then on board the ''Royall'' And saith that<br />
the said Sansier on board the said private Man of Warr swore to this deponent that if her<br />
had known the said ship the ''Royall'' had bin of doe little strength her would<br />
never have yielded but would have fought her and runn her over And said<br />
that his said ship and lading was good prize to the takers and that the ship belonged<br />
to Merchants of Middleborow. and as her remembreth her also told this deponent<br />
that his lading beloved to Middleborow also which words he soe spake in the presence<br />
of this deponent and John duplessis Master of the ''fortune'' of Dantsick and one Kennet who was then his<br />
keeper and many others. And saith that above a twelve month since this<br />
deponent sailed in a private man of ward or a sholop with three Gunns the ablate Sansier<br />
Commander who had a Dutch Commission to take all english ships and goods which Commission<br />
this deponent hath seen on board the said slope. And whilst this deponent was one<br />
of the Company and sailed in the said slope the said Captaine by vertue of his said Commission took<br />
six English prizes, And of one of the said prizes one George Westerly living<br />
in Saint Catherins was the Master, at whose house her hath bin since at, but the names<br />
of the others or their ships he remembreth not, And saith that the said<br />
Captaine also declared to this deponent and several others that her knew now<br />
that he should loose his owns ship. But her cared not for that he would get<br />
another or a better ship and take five English ships for it And then<br />
shewed a great pair of silver buttons at his breeches and said that her had taken them<br />
from an Englishman and would then have a better pair or he sow spake in words<br />
to the same or like effect in dutch and ffrench on board the said ffrigott whilst she was at the Isle of Wight<br />
and in her passage to Chichester before the persons aforesaid, And saith this deponent<br />
knoweth the Stiersman of the said ship ''Godliffe'' to be a native of Middleboro and to live and keep house i the Britt<br />
neer Rotterdam with his wife and children this deponent having bin at his house<br />
and one Cornelis the Carpenter to bee a Hollander and living in North Holland. One Peter<br />
a ffrenchman an inhabitant and housekeeper in Middleborow, all natives and subjects of the States<br />
of the United Provinces, and the Boatswaine is living and an inhabitant with his<br />
wife and chidden in Dunkirke as also the Cooke of the said ship, and saith that at<br />
Chichester hee hath seen one Rowe in private with the said Sansier both<br />
on board the ffrigott and ashore. And hath seen them together at the sign<br />
of the Spreadeagle in Chichester. And saith that the Stiersman of the ''Godliffe''<br />
and the Master of the ''Royall'' are very like one another Et alr nescit deponere
Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad primum fit ut petitwi et reedit that he was borne at Ostend and is now in<br />
his majesties service in the ''Parrador ffrigott'' and hath served in her about five or<br />
six months last but his home is in the Ile of Wight where he married<br />
his wife an English woman and there hath lived for about two years last<br />
hee knoweth not the parties Interrogated. Alr nescit
Ad 2 rendit that her was not one of the man of wars Company Alr nova.
Alr rendit that if the ship bee found good prize her wisheth she were condemned<br />
And in case she bee doe Expecteth noe part or share therein.
Ad 4 rendit that her took with the assistance of the [?XXXXXX] of the ''Royall'' a parcel of saffron out of the said ship ''Godliffe'' by order of Captaine<br />
Bourn Captaine of the ''Royall'' unto whom he delivered the same. Et apr nescit [?XXXX] part<br />
sua nova.
Ad 5 rendit that the said ship was about a day and a night going from the Ile of Wight to<br />
Chichester whether the Captain of the privateer carried her. Et apr nescit. the privateer carried her. Et apr nescit. +
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