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aboard belonging to himselfe, and the same … aboard belonging to himselfe, and the same day they tooke away alsoe<br />
a greate deale of sugar out of two other chests, and embeazeld or made<br />
all the said goods away, depriving this deponent and company and the<br />
said shipp of the same together with two [?line ?towes] belonging to the shipp,<br />
wherewith they hoisted over the chests that they soe tooke away. And<br />
saith that having soe plundred the said shipp that day, they in the<br />
evening brought this deponent in on of the boates to Portsmouth<br />
and there this deponent was taken alonge with the said Captaine ashore<br />
into a Victualling house or Inne and there kept all that night,<br />
and the next day this deponent was carried before some Commissioners<br />
or other officers to be examined, who behaved them selves with soe much<br />
eagernesse to intrap him in his examinination, and to seeke advantage from<br />
his words (as hee apprehended by them) that hee refused to proceede<br />
unlesse hee might have some knowne and indifferent interpreter, whereby<br />
hee might be sure not to be wronged; whereupon this deponent<br />
wasa committed to the common gaole in Portsmouth or a worse prison<br />
then the Common gaole, and there kept all the say without eating or<br />
drinking, untill eveing when hee was taken out and put into a<br />
Chamber in the Sergeant or Gaolers house and there kept seaven or<br />
eight dayes, and then examined, being constrained to be examined by<br />
the same Commissioners or Officers and Interpreter that first tooke in<br />
hand as aforesaid to examine him. And saith the said captaine<br />
after the seizure used opprobious and vilifying termes to this deponent<br />
calling him Sea-rover, and otherwise reproaching him.<br />
And when this deponent spake to him and asked him whie hee made<br />
such spoile of this deponents oranges and lemmons, and goods, hee answered<br />
that it was for his pleasure.
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The 16th of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Simon Beame, Peter}<br />
Linson and others, owners of the shipp the ''Pile''}<br />
of fflushing (Jaspar Tange Master), and}<br />
her lading. ffrancklin.}
'''ffra. dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''Peter Wariner''' of Middleborowe in<br />
Zealand Marchant, aged 40 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
(as in the acts of the said Court) and examined upon<br />
certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said Simon<br />
Beane and companie, saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith tht hee hath well knowne the<br />
said shipp the ''Pile'' for theise foure yeares last or thereabouts, and<br />
saith shee as built at fflushing in Zealand aforesaid, and that<br />
Simon Beane, Peter Linson, Adrian Pile<br />
and Christian Adrianson of fflushing, and others of the same place, whose<br />
names hee cannot nowe call to minde, John de Nare of Tervier, hee<br />
this deponent of Middleborowe, and the said Jaspar Tange the<br />
Skipper, alsoe of fflushing, were and are the true and lawfull owners<br />
and proprietors of the said shipp, tackle and furniture, and that they<br />
as owners thereof sett her out from fflushing in January last past<br />
bound for the Canaries and thence for the Charibbe Ilands, which hee<br />
knoweth being one of the said owners, and going out Merchant in her<br />
the said voyage. And saith that all the said owners were and are subiects<br />
of the Lords the States of the united Netherland Provinces.
Toes of the united Netherland Provinces.
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