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HCA 13/68 f.65r Annotate
First transcribed 17 November 2016  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 65  +
Parent volume HCA 13/68  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 17/11/2016  +
Transcription '''Q.Q.''' The 14th of October 1653. [CEN'''Q.Q.''' The 14th of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING] On the behalfe of Pallache}<br /> touching his jewells}<br /> seized in the ''Elias''} '''Rp.''' '''jius. 2.us''' '''Samuel Pallache''' otherwise Jacob Carlos of Hamborough<br /> Merchant, aged 36 yeares or thereabouts and '''John Hendrickson'''<br /> of Hasselm in Westfalia Shoomaker aged 17 yeares<br /> or thereabouts, sworne in Court before the Judges of the<br /> High Court of the Admiraltie say and depose by certue<br /> of their oathes as followeth. And first the said Samuel Pallache otherwise Jacob Carlos saith and<br /> deposeth that hee came passinger from Hamborough in the shipp named<br /> the ''Prophet Elias'' of that place (Simon Cornelis Prophet master)<br /> bound for Rochell in ffrance, which said shipp comming in her course in the<br /> Channell betwixt England and ffrance off Callice was met with and<br /> seized by the ''Elizabeth frigat'' about a fortnight since and brought into<br /> the River of Thames, And that hee this deponent brought along with<br /> him from Hamborough in the said shipp ''Elias'' and had in his custodie aboard her<br /> in his trunck at such time as the ''Elizabeth frigot'' came up with her<br /> a wooden box gilded on the out side with gold of about halfe a foote longe<br /> and about a quarter of a foote broade, and in the same box had another<br /> of about a quarter of a foote longe alsoe gilded on the outside, and that<br /> in the said boxes hee had severall Jewells<br /> and precious stones of valew, namely in the said outer box three diamond<br /> Rings, the diamond of one of which rings was of the weight<br /> of eleaven graines and a halfe, the diamond of another of eight graines<br /> and a halfe weight, and that of the third of the weight of six grains<br /> and a quarterne, and a golden bodkin with a pearle in the [?greete] and thereof<br /> two bracelets of pearle containing five hundred pearles, each pearle of a<br /> graine and a halfe weight, two bracelets of gold the weight whereof<br /> hee knoweth not, the figure of a parrot of gold set all over the bodie<br /> with emeralds, and having a small chaine of gold fastned to the head<br /> and taile, and a pearle in the middle of the said chaine. A figure<br /> of a Camell of gold set alonge on the back with Mother of pearle<br /> a hat band in gold in severall peeces, A little looking glasse having the<br /> frame in fashion of a booke to shutt, in silver, and two redd stones<br /> each of the bignesse of a small nutt peirced, and some other small things<br /> of silver whereof hee remembreth not the particulars. And that in the said<br /> inner box hee had five gold rings, each with a rubie therein, and a<br /> sixth ringe of gold with the picture of Lewis the 13th late kinge of ffrance<br /> therein appearing through a christall, and doth not remember the<br /> other particulars, saving that in the said outer box there was the picture of<br /> this deponents mother in a copper plate, and that on the said outer box<br /> there was a key whereof hee hath the key in his custodie, and the inner<br /> box had noe lock. And further deposeth that when the said shipp was<br /> boarded and taken by the Captaine and companie of the ''Elizabeth frigot''<br /> namely two daies after the said seizure hee this deponent tooke the said<br /> boxes with the said iewells and particulars therein and caused his contest and<br /> servant John Hendrickson to sewe the same with some papers into<br /> a peece of canvas and then delivered the same to the Gunner of the said<br /> shipp the ''Elias'' to be by him laid up and [?preserved] for this deponent who<br /> feared that the souldiers or mariners of the ''Elizabeth'' might breake up his<br /> trunck and take the same away, and sawe the said Gunner hide the same in<br /> the powder under the greate cabbin, and after that hee was sett<br /> ashore in the Downes, leaving the said boxes and Jewells aboard i the<br /> gunners custodie in the said powder. And the said John Hendrickson<br /> deposeth hee tooke a box of about halfe a foote longe of his said<br /> contest and master Samuel Pallache otherwise Jacob Carlos, and by his order<br /> and in his presence sewed the same with some papers into a canvas case, and<br /> sawe his said master deliver the same to the Gunner of the said shipp to [?XX]<br /> said up for him and further sawe the said Gunner open the [?skull] of the greate<br /> cabbin [?skull] of the greate<br /> cabbin  +
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