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a certaine shipp named the ''hart'' for th … a certaine shipp named the ''hart'' for the summe of foure thousand<br />
three hundred and thirtie gilders and tenn stivers, which they really<br />
and truely paid and disbursed for the said shipp tackle and furniture<br />
and soe they became the true and lawfull proprietors thereof and<br />
soe continue to this present, And saith further that this<br />
deponent and company gave order to their said factor to man the said<br />
shipp soe bought for their accompt partly with dutch,<br />
and the rest with English and Scots subiects of this Commonwealth<br />
under the conduct of Peter Gerre[?brantsen ?bas] whom this deponent<br />
ordered to be put master of her, having good assurance of his<br />
fidelitiem, the said Peter having sailed in this deponents service<br />
for severall yeares before, and ordered the said master that both at<br />
sea and in ffrance hee should declare himselfe master of the said shipp<br />
and in the ports of the dominion of this Commonwealth hee<br />
should appoint one of the company of the said shipp that was<br />
a subiect of this Commonwealth to declare himselfe her master,<br />
According to which Instructions and orders the said Peter Gerrebrantsen<br />
Bas sailed with the said shipp from Rotterdam in or about September<br />
last to Croisick in ffrance, where shee was laded with salt for<br />
the accompt of this deponent and company for Wexford in Ireland<br />
for making the said herrings, and thether the said master transported<br />
the said salt in the said shipp, where the said salt was accordingly<br />
imployed and spent, and afterwards namely in or about the<br />
moneth of November last past, the said shipp (which at Wexford<br />
was received and dispatched as a free English shipp) was reladen<br />
with the said herrings for Nantes for the accompt aforesaid, and<br />
thither the said shipp carried and delivered the same for the said<br />
accompt. And further this deponent saith that in the moneth<br />
of ffebruary last past the said shipp was there reladen by the<br />
order and for the accompt of this deponent and company with<br />
eightie and two quarter caskes of aqua vita, fiftie tonnes of<br />
wine, twenty punchions of prunes, and fourtie quarter caskes of<br />
vinegar for the Barbadas, and consigned there to be delivered<br />
to Mr Phillip Cheeke their factor there, as by the bill of<br />
lading thereof were by him produced and left to be hereunto<br />
annexed more fully may appeare, which bill hee saith was and<br />
is true and reall, and received by this deponent and company from<br />
George [?Rosee] their factor at Nantes. And this deponent further
[LH MARGIN, NOTE]<br />
[?This bill of lading}<br />
[?annexed] to the}<br />
[?exemplification] hereof}<br />
[?XXX] by mr ford}<br />
[?XX] May 1655. EA.}
saith that according to advise dated in Nantes the 30th of<br />
March last new stile, and received from the said George [?Rosee], the<br />
said shipp with her said lading departed from the River of Nantes<br />
on her said voyage for the Barbada's the seaven and twentie<br />
day of March last new stile, and saith that hee this deponent and company have not since<br />
heard ought of or from the said shipp, whether shee be arived<br />
at the Barbadas or what els is become of her [?they] knowe or have heard that shee is under any seizure or restraint in any port or place<br />
yet in regard of such uncertaintie of her condition and being, and least the said dutch being dutch built<br />
and some of the company hollanders might or may in any place or part be pretended to be a dutch<br />
shipp and company, this deponent and company have by way of provision and<br />
to intimate the truth to whomsoever it doth or may concerne [?cXXX]<br />
this intimation and declaration of the truth to be here made, and doe<br />
desire a testimoniall thereupon
Richard ford [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ereupon
Richard ford [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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