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HCA 13/68 f.249v Annotate
First transcribed 21 September 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 249  +
Parent volume HCA 13/68  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 21/09/2015  +
Transcription The 17th day of December 1653:- [CENTRE HEThe 17th day of December 1653:- [CENTRE HEADING] [?Chelston] against the shipp the ''great Christopher''}<br /> and against John ffalzbergh and others. Smith Suckley} Examined upon the sayd Allegation '''2.us''' '''John Pruyse''' of Riga in Liefland [?Merchant]<br /> aged 40. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne<br /> and examined/ To the first article hee saith hee cannot depose otherwise then by the relation of<br /> the arlate Joachim Wise, saving that the arlate Adrian a ffrenchman<br /> who came a Passenger in the shipp the ''great Christopher'' from Riga, told and<br /> acquainted this deponent upon the exchange London about the middle of the<br /> moneth of October last past, that hee had beene very much solicited by<br /> severall of the Company pf the English private man of warr who had seized<br /> the said shipp the ''Christopher'', to declare on their behalfe, that the said shipp at<br /> the time of her seizure was bound for Holland or ffrance:/ To the second hee saith that the arlate Cornelius alias [?neels] Peterson one of<br /> the parties examined in the prepatorie on the behalf of the said Chelston and Companie<br /> was and is of this deponents certaine knowledge of him at Riga in [?Luifland] and since a very poore indigigent and extremely necessitous person, whom<br /> this deponent knew very lately goe as a beggar and loose person at Riga, after which he was taken<br /> on for a Souldjer by the souldjery there, and being altogether iinfitt for service<br /> by reason of his sloathfull condition and miserable accoutrement, the Master<br /> of the said shipp the ''great Christopher'' by name Michael Cruyger of this<br /> deponents knowledge bought him of one Captaine Jacob Wingaerden for 9 rix dollars<br /> and brought him aboard his said shipp some daies before she sett sayle from<br /> Riga, and the said Neels Peterson shortly after absenting himselfe from the<br /> shipp the said Michael Cruyger sent to seeke him out, and bring him aboard<br /> againe, as hee accordingly was and being in such a poore condition that hee was<br /> full of vermin, the said Cruyger gave him some sleight cloathes to Cover him<br /> in which necessitous and verminous condition the said Peterson was at the<br /> time of the said shipps seizure, and as this deponent hath credibly heard, he<br /> hath since the time of his examination in this Court, been supplied with [?XXX]<br /> and cloathes, which this deponent verily beleeveth (in regard hee the said Peterson had<br /> no friends in theise parts being merely a stranger and having received no monie<br /> for his service in the said shipp) the said Peterson had ontained by the [?XXX]<br /> meanes of deposing in thos Cause contrary to the trueth, and so much hee<br /> verily beleeveth (in reagard of the loose life and conversation of the said Peterson<br /> well knowne to this deponent and many others) that hee might easily bee and really<br /> was induced to doe, either by Lieutenant Mowat or some others concerned in the<br /> presentation of this Cause against the right Owners of the said shipp and goods<br /> And otherwise cannot depose./ To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING] To the 1.st hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate Lieutenant by name [?XXXX]<br /> Mowat, as the said Lieutenant himsellfe declared to this deponent after the seizure of<br /> the said shipp the ''great Christopher''./ (To theshipp the ''great Christopher''./ (To the  +
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