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The third day of February <u>1654< … The third day of February <u>1654</u>:- [CENTRE HEADING]
Richard Rice James Cole and Companie}<br />
against the shipp called the ''Charity'' of which}<br />
Robert harrigate was Master and against}<br />
George Grigg et cetera Suckley ffrancklyn}
Examined upon an Allegation on the behalf of<br />
the said [?Rice] and Companie./
'''Rp j,us'''
'''William Evans''' of New-Castle upon Thyne<br />
Mariner aged 32 yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes<br />
sworne and examined./.
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That in the<br />
yeares <u>1651</u> and <u>1652</u>. arlate and moneths therein respectively concurring<br />
the arlate Richard Rice James Cole Garrett Starkey Robert Cooke<br />
Miles Barnes and Companie all inhabitants of New-Castle upon Tyne<br />
were Owners and lawfull Proprietors of the shipp the ''Charity'' arlate and<br />
of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and for such they and the arlate<br />
Robert harrigate her Master were then commonly accompted and reputed at<br />
New-Castle, Which hee knoweth for that in or about the said yeare<br />
<u>1651</u>. the said shipp being taken and brought up as a Scotch Prize<br />
to Newcastle, was there publiquely sold to the said harrigate for the<br />
accompt of himself and others of Newcastle, who continued in the<br />
peaceable possession thereof. And further cannot depose saving that this<br />
deponent served under the said harrigate in the said shipp for about a yeare and a halfe:-
To the second article hee saith and deposeth, That in the yeare <u>1652</u>:-<br />
the said shipp being at ffalmouth, this deponent there left her under the<br />
Conduct of the said Robert harrigate, who as this deponent credibly heard<br />
did shotly after saile her from thence to Waxford in Ireland, from<br />
whence, as hee hath also credibly heard, shee was in her passage thither<br />
intercepted by a dutch-shipp which had no Commission. And further<br />
cannot depose, not being in the Voiage in question./
To the third hee saith and deposeth, That about nyne moneths since<br />
as this deponent now remembreth, hee this deponent in Companie with the said<br />
Richard Rice one of the Owners of the Vessell in question, went aboard the<br />
same shee then lyeing at or neere Saint Saviours dock in the River of<br />
Thames, where this deponent well observed, and tooke serious notice of the<br />
said shipp, and of her fashion and fabrique, and thereby knoweth, and did<br />
then declare aboard the said shipp in the presence of the then Master<br />
of her, that shee was the shipp ''Charity'', whereof the said harrigate<br />
had been Master and hee and the said Rice and others the Lawfull Owners<br />
of the same, and that it was one and the same shipp ''Charity'' belonging to<br />
such Newcastle men as predeposed, and that hee well knew her so to be<br />
having sailed sewerall Voiages in her. And further hee cannot depose/:-
To the 4th hee saith, hee referreth himself to the Acts of this Court<br />
And further cannot depose./.
To the 5th hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated in Court
William E[?vans] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]urt
William E[?vans] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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