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deponents names in the place and stead the … deponents names in the place and stead thereof. And he saith that the<br />
sayd Bill of sale of and for the sayd shipp made signed and sealed<br />
by this deponent as aforesayd was made and done without any money<br />
for the sayd shipp, or any other valwable consideration, and was<br />
and is colourable and not reall nor intended or meant by<br />
him this deponent to be of any forme or vertue, otherwise then<br />
as aforesayd to accomodat the sayd Taswell in order to his sayd Commission<br />
which sayd colourable bill of sale this deponentw as the rather induced<br />
to make att the desire of him the sayd Taswell, because the sayd<br />
Taswell did pretend that in regard the sayd shipp was a fforeigners<br />
and was according to Agreement with him to be sett out as a Mann<br />
of Warr against the Enemyes of this Commonwealth there might<br />
some dammage come to the sayd shipp upon some penall law unlesse<br />
a Bill of sale were made thereof unto him the sayd Taswell<br />
or to that effect. And moreover This deponent saith, That about<br />
the tyme of sealing the sayd bill of sale as aforesayd there<br />
was with the consent of the sayd Taswell and in the sight and<br />
presence of this deponent, one Mr Desham, Mr Symon [?aschwXXX]<br />
and another whose name this deponent remembreth not, a subscription<br />
or writng made under the sayd Bill of Sale and upon the [?same]<br />
paper wherein the bill of sale was written, In which subscription<br />
or underwriting was exprest that the sayd Bill of sale was<br />
colourable, and that thej sayd Taswell was to take noe benefit or<br />
advantage thereby in relation to the property of the sayd shipp or<br />
other interest therein of like nature, or to the same effect. And<br />
saith that the sayd Taswell in truth had not nor hath nor ought to<br />
have any right or title to the sayd shipp by vertue of the sayd<br />
bill of sale, And saith that the aforesayd subscription [?XXXX]<br />
writing thereof is cutt off as this deponent beleiveth by the fraud of<br />
him the sayd James Taswell , and on purpose to conceale the<br />
truth and to Clayme the sayd shipp by the sayd colourable bill of<br />
sale. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the eleventh article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the said<br />
James Taswell about 2 monethes agoe tooke and gott by force<br />
the possession of the sayd shipp the ''Dorset'' formerly called the [?XXX]<br />
and first of all called the ''Saint James'' of Dunquerque, and dispossed<br />
the arlate Emannuel de Croys thereof. And the manner of taking<br />
the saud violent and forcible possession as this deponent hath himselfe<br />
heard and beleiveth was by the assistance of a Mann of warre<br />
as is arlate, he this deponent being a shoare when the sayd forcible<br />
possession was taken, and the sayd Emannel de Croiz dispossessed as<br />
aforesayd. And saith the sayd violent possessionw as taken before the<br />
Arrest of the sayd shipp made by the Authority of this Court And<br />
otherwise he cannot depose.
To the last he saith his depositions are true./e last he saith his depositions are true./ +
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