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'''A.6.'''
The 9th of March 165 … '''6.'''
'''A.6.'''
The 9th of March 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against the}<br />
shipp the ''Leopard'' and the goods in the}<br />
same, lately seized at Bristoll.}<br />
Budd. ffranklin.}
Examined upon an<br />
allegation in the acts of Court<br />
made by mr Budd the<br />
7th instant on behalfe of his<br />
highnesse.
'''dt. Budd.'''
'''Thomas Barrowe''' of the parish of Porteshead<br />
in the County of Sommerset husbandman, aged<br />
30 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation and the exhibit therein mentioned nowe showed<br />
unto him, hee saith and deposeth that the said vessell the ''Leopard''<br />
being on the fifth of december last past (or thereabouts) seized in<br />
kingroade, this deponent was the same day put aboard her as a<br />
waiter by mr Gill Searcher of that port: and that about a<br />
weeke after such his comming aboard, namely on or about the 12th<br />
of december last past hee this deponent sitting in the said shipp<br />
in the masters Cabbin, and casually casting his eie up, hee perceived<br />
the edge of a paper sticking betweene the ioist and the deck, which this<br />
deponent tooke downe and opened, being the same paper exhibited<br />
and nowe showne unto him, and hee remembreth it to be the same<br />
by the forme and fashion thereof and manner of the writing that<br />
is therein, and by the numbers thereon sett downe and more particularly<br />
by the double rowe of figures tending downewards on the right<br />
hand part of the first side, which hee tooke especiall notice of.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth negatively referring himselfe to his<br />
foregoing deposition.
To the second hee saith hee can neither write nor read the dutch<br />
language.
To the third hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the fourth hee knoweth not of any other paper or writing hat<br />
was found aboard the said shipp saving that exhibitedd and before<br />
deposed of, which hee saith was alone when it was found and<br />
was sticking as aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith that having soe found the said paper hee<br />
kept the same two dayes space or thereabouts in his custodie, and<br />
thenouts in his custodie, and<br />
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