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cabbin, and hide the said box and papers i … cabbin, and hide the said box and papers in the said [?XXXX] [?amongest] [?XXXX]<br />
powder lying under the said cabbin, the said cabbin being the masters cabbin<br />
and the place where this deponents master and hee kept and lodged before<br />
and at the time of the said seizure. And saith that after his said master<br />
was carried ashore, hee this deponent continued still aboard and<br />
lodged in the said cabbin, and continued in her to the time of her<br />
bringing up and to an anchor at Limehouse, and that on Sunday [?in ?the]<br />
night last one Thomas Alderman a sea man put aboard by the Captaine<br />
of the said frigot as master to bring her up, comming into the said cabbin<br />
called the Carpenter of the said shipp unto him thether, and after the<br />
said Carpenters comming to him, hee the said Alderman put this deponent<br />
out and shutt the dore, and after the Carpenter and hee had bin about<br />
halfe an hower within, the Carpenter came out, and this deponent [?and]<br />
John Henderockson asking him what Mr Alderman did within, the Carpenter<br />
presently asked him what there was under the cabbin in the [?case]<br />
of canvas, and this deponent telling him a box and some papers, the<br />
Carpenter said that Mr Alderman had found it, and would have the box<br />
opened; and this deponent offering to open it for him, the said Alderman<br />
said noe I will not have it opened I will carrie it to the [?PXXXX]<br />
and soe tooke and laid it in his bedd in the said cabbin, and<br />
this was a sunday night last. And the next morning the said Alderman<br />
[?XXXX] tooke the said box and papers wrapt up in the said canvas and<br />
put them uner his coate to carry them as hee said to the [?Parliaments] [?XXX]<br />
and this deponent who lay in the cabbin seeing that offered to open<br />
the said box for him againe, which the said Alderman refusing, [?XX]<br />
deponent tooke hold of it and desired to have the papers that were<br />
with it which being denied, hee said hee would goe alonge therewith<br />
and soe got into the boate with the said Alderman, but this deponent<br />
was by the souldiers forced out of the boate into the shippe, and [?soe]<br />
the said Alderman carried the said box and papers away.
Jacob P[?XXrtof] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]<br />
Joson [?hXXXs] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 17th of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of [?Nissin] Giovelli}<br />
Abraham Gregia, Mosses Lacluke and}<br />
Mayluff Palach merchants of Alexandria}<br />
for their goods in the ''Saint ffrancis'', John Arnoud master.}
Examined upon an allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the said claimers.
'''Smith dt.'''
'''1.'''
'''Alexander Gallico''' of Ligorne Marchant<br />
aged 45 yeares or thereabouts, sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
in or about the moneth of July in the yeare of our Lord 1651. the said<br />
Beneditto Teresa, did att Leghorne lade and puttt on board the arlate shipp<br />
the ''Saint ffrancis'' whereof John Arnao was Captaine or Master one bagg<br />
of moneyes conteyning nynety and nine peices of eight coyne of peru<br />
marked with the first marke in the margent, for the use and Accompt<br />
of the arlate [?Nisson] Giovalli, which sayd Nissen Giovalli then was and [?still]<br />
is the true and lawfull Owner of the sayd nynety and nyne peices of eightf the sayd nynety and nyne peices of eight +
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