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HCA 13/70 f.596r Annotate
First transcribed 27 October 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 596  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 27/10/2014  +
Transcription and saith this voyage was to and at haver and saith this voyage was to and at haver de Grace, and otherwise<br /> cannot depose, not being acquainted with the freight nor payment thereof. To the sixth hee saith hee cannot depose, but beleeveth that such papers<br /> as were aboard the said shipp, came to the hands of the Captaine that made<br /> the said seizure. Repeated in Court before doctor Godolphin amd Collonel Cock [XXXXX XXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ********************************** The same day [CENTRE HEADING] On the behalfe of the said fflorison and companie}<br /> touching the ''king david''.} '''dt.''' '''2us''' '''Cornelius Peterson''' of Gracht in North holland<br /> Mariner, late boatswaine of the said shipp<br /> the ''king david'' aged 41 yeares or thereabouts<br /> sworne and examined as aforesaid. To the first Interrogatory hee saith hee hath knowne the said shipp the<br /> ''king david'' about two yeares and a halfe last, during all which space<br /> shee hath belonged and at present belongeth to the port of Amsterdam, and<br /> that mr ffoxe, myn heer Basse and companie, all of Amsterdam, dutch,<br /> and subiects of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands were and are her<br /> owners. And saith the said vessell on or about the 18th of October last went<br /> from the Texel with 16 horses aboard her and some bricks and tiles bound<br /> for the Charibbe Ilands, and that shee was not in any port from the<br /> time of her departure from the Texel, and her<br /> comming neere the Barbada's, all which hee knoweth being Boatswaine<br /> and going the voyage in her. To the seceond hee saith that the said shipp in her voyage ariving neere<br /> the greate Roade of the Barbada's, there came English aboard and<br /> understanding whence shee came, and seeing the said horses aboard, desired<br /> to buy some of them, but Claes fflorison the master refused to sell any of<br /> his horses unto them, telling them hee could not doe it without license from<br /> the Governour, and soe the said Claes going ashore to get leave of the Governour<br /> to take in fresh water, hee at his retorne aboard reported to this deponent<br /> and the rest of the companie, that the Governour had offered and given him<br /> leave to trade there freely, promising him asmuch libertie and freedome<br /> in such his trading as any of the shipps that were in the roade enioyed or<br /> had, whereupon the said master after the bringing his shipp to an anchor<br /> further within the roade traded and sold his said horses to the<br /> English, two whereof the Governour himselfe had, and having soe delivered them ashore, and obtained license (as hee said) from the<br /> Governour to take in water and goe to [?kersawe] (an island under the dutch)<br /> and fetch more horses to the Barbados, the said master tooke in water at<br /> the Barbadoas and went accordingly and fetcht 30 horses and some<br /> goates from [?kersaw] and retourned with them (saving one horse that<br /> dyed by the way) and comming to the South corner of the Barbada's<br /> about foure dutch miles off the Roade, as they were under saile, the<br /> ''Grantham frigot'' in the service of this Commonwealth came and<br /> seized the said shipp, 29 horses and the said goates, and carried them<br /> into the Roade, where the master, this deponent and the rest of the<br /> company were taken out, and turned ashore and the said shipp horses<br /> and goates confiscated and disposed of by the English, and this hee saith<br /> was in or about the beginning of March last new stile,out the beginning of March last new stile,  +
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