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The 9th of June <u>1655:</u>_ … The 9th of June <u>1655:</u>_ [CENTRE HEADING]
A business of Examination on the behalfe of dick}<br />
Phillipps and Myn herr Bucker and Company}<br />
concerning the shipp the ''Peace'' of Amsterdam}<br />
herman Barenson Master) lately seized}<br />
neere the Barbadoes.}
Examined upon certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the behalfe of the<br />
said dick Philips and Companie
'''1us.'''
'''Garret Gillison''' of Alckmaer in holland Mariner<br />
aged 23. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne before<br />
the right worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of Lawes one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of Admiraltie, saith<br />
and declareth as followeth videlicet./
To the first hee saith, That hee this examinate hath knowne the shippe the<br />
''Peace'' interrate for about 12. moneths last past, during most of which<br />
time hee hath served aboard her and thereby well knoweth that the said<br />
shipp did and doeth belong to the Port of Amterdam, where this rendent<br />
hath seene and observed, that dick Phillips and one Mr Bicker of<br />
Amsterdam were there aboard the said shipp before her departure upon<br />
her last voiage thence to Guiney and so for the West Indies, and saith, That the<br />
said Philips and Bicker and Companie were then and have ever since been commonly<br />
and generally esteemed taken and reputed to bee the true and lawfull<br />
Owners of the said shipp and of her Tackle apparrell furniture and lading<br />
and that they were and are Burghers of Amsterdam and subjects of the<br />
United Netherlands and for such were and are well knowne and generally<br />
reputed Amd otherwise cannot depose:-
To the second hee saith, That the said shipp upon her Voiage interrate<br />
came last before her seizure from the high-land of Ambo[?g]es in Guiney<br />
laden with Negroes about 250. in number, and a great quantity of<br />
Elephants teeth which were for the accompt of the said shipps Owners<br />
and of her Master and Companie, but what the value thereof was<br />
hee saith hee cannot particularly expresse, saving hee beleeveth the said<br />
shipps Cargazoon was really worth ten thousand pounds sterling
To the third hee saith, That the said shipp and lading were at the time<br />
of their seizure by the English under sayle about 6. leagues from the<br />
Barbadoes being designed for some of the West India Islands, where they<br />
might come to the best markett, but for what particular place or plantation<br />
this deponent saith hee knoweth not, neither was it (soe farr as hee knoweth)<br />
resolved upon by the Master or knowne by the said shipps Companie And<br />
further cannot depose.
To the 4th hee saith the said shipp the ''Peace'' and her lading were surprized<br />
and taken being under saile upon the high and open seas about 6. leagues as aforesaid<br />
from the Barbadoes by an English friggatt in the service of this Commonwealth<br />
whose name or Commannder hee saith hee knoweth not, but saith that<br />
hee this rendent was then aboard the said shipp the ''Peace'', and was one of<br />
her Companie, and saw the said shipp and her said Master harman<br />
Baronson and Companie were brought ashoare at Barbadoes where<br />
this rendent left the said Master and the shipps Carpenters Gunner and<br />
others, and some others of them (besides this rendent) are as hee beleeveth<br />
since arrived here in England and in the Netherlands, And that the said<br />
shipps and goods are in the Custodie of the said seizors in which this deponent [?XXX XXX XXX GUTTER]
Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/
The marke of<br />
Garret '''+''' Gillison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]rret '''+''' Gillison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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