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sayd Emanuel de Croiz really and actually … sayd Emanuel de Croiz really and actually till about ten weekes agoe<br />
that the sayd James Taswell gott the possession thereof by force and<br />
violence. And fruther he cannot depose
To the seventh article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith he doth not know<br />
or ever heard that the sayd Emanuel de Croiz or any for him or by his<br />
order did make any sale or transport of the sayd shipp unto the sayd James Taswell, nor<br />
did the sayd James Taswell or any for him ever pay any money att<br />
all or any other consieration for the same unto the sayd Emanuel de<br />
Croiz that this deponent ever heard knoweth or beleiveth, And otherwise<br />
saving his depositions to the three next subsequent aArticles he cannot<br />
depose
To the eighth articel of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth<br />
that all the right or title so farr as this deponent ever heard which the<br />
sayd James Taswell did or doth pretend to the sayd shipp was and is<br />
by colour of a Bill of sale pretended to be made thereof to him by this<br />
deponent, And this deponent hath severall tymes heard the sayd Taswell<br />
confesse and affirme that he hath not any title [?or] to the sayd shipp<br />
but by the sayd pretended Bill of sale onely. And otherwise cannot depose
To the nynth and tenth he saith that he this deponent never had any<br />
power direction or Authority from the sayd Emanuel de Croiz to make<br />
any bill of ale of or for the sayd shipp. Howbeit This deponent<br />
saith that after his Arivall att Cowes as aforesayd videlicet within<br />
three or four dayes as he now remembreth the tyme, the sayd James<br />
Taswell takeing a phancy and good likeing of the sayd shipp as he<br />
pretended, treated with this deponent to ymploy the sayd shipp as a<br />
private Man of warr in the service of this Commonwealth in the name<br />
of him the sayd James Taswell as ymployer of her, he the sayd<br />
James Taswell then having as he sayd, a Commission graunted<br />
him by warrant from the right honourable the Councell of State for the<br />
setting forth of a private Mann of warr: And this deponent<br />
saith that after treaty, he did accept of the sayd Taswells proposalls<br />
and did agree to serve for him with his shipp as a private man of<br />
warr upon termes and conditions that the sayd Taswell finding victuall and provisions should have one third part of this deponent and Company [?mXXX] 3d part And saith the better<br />
to accommodat the sayd James Taswell in this ymployment he did<br />
att the earnest request and sollicitation of the sayd James Taswell<br />
make signe and seale a Bill of sale for the sayd shipp, from<br />
which tyme the sayd shipp formerly called and knowne by the<br />
name of the ''Saint Jacob'' of Dunkirke was called by the name of<br />
the ''Robert'', the reason whereof was for that the Commission which<br />
the sayd Taswell had obtained as aforesayd went for a shipp called the ''Robert''<br />
And saith whereas in the sayd Commission mention was made of another<br />
Captaine, the sayd James Taswell with a knife scraped out the name<br />
of the other captaine written therein, and with his owne hand rerote this<br />
deponentswne hand rerote this<br />
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