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deponents judgement really worth the summe … deponents judgement really worth the summe of eight hundred pounds sterling<br />
or thereabouts, shee being a new-built flye boate of the burthen of<br />
80 Tunn's or thereabouts. The premisses hee deposeth, and for reason of<br />
his judgement saith, hee knoweth that the said William Beck had been offered<br />
three hundred pounds for his said shipp before hee bestowed upon her last<br />
reparation or new makeing at Shoreham aforesaid, which was there generally<br />
estimated at 200: ''li'' sterling more; besides her new tackle apparrell and furniture<br />
and the provisions of Victualls and goods aboard her at the time of her said<br />
seizure, which hee in conscience beleeveth to have been really worth three<br />
hundred pounds more or thereabouts, this deponent having been Master and Owner<br />
of a shipp himselfe, and having long time used navigation and thereby knowne<br />
and observed what belongeth to shipping and whereabout the worth of such as shipp may be<br />
And further cannot depose; saving hee beleeveth, the said William Beck by<br />
meanes of the said seizure and detention of his said shipp, and<br />
consequently the losse of his time and employment hath undoubtedly been much<br />
damnified, but to what value, this deponent hee doeth not know<br />
neither can hee estimate the same:/.
Georg street [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Allegation:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
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'''2:us'''
'''Jacob Gerard''' of the parish of Alhallowes Barking<br />
in Tower street London Mariner aged 56. yeares or<br />
thereabouts, a Wittnes sworne and examined saith<br />
as followeth videlicet:
To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith, That<br />
hee this deponent hath knowne the shipp the ''hopefull William'' whereof the arlate<br />
William Beck was Master, or Commander and reputed and generally<br />
estimated the sole Owner and Proprietor of her tackle apparrell and furniture<br />
for about 2 yeares before her seizure hereaforeafter expressed and saith, That in or about the moneth of July 1655 last past hee this<br />
deponent being at Saint Sebastians in Spaine, saw and observed the said shipp then<br />
lyeing there, and being under the Command of the said William Beck,<br />
And saith, That upon or about the 28. or 29th day of August next<br />
ensueing the said shipp with her tackle apparrell and furniture were in the<br />
said Port of Saint Sebastians seized upon stopped and deteyned by the Officers<br />
or Ministers of the King of Spaine, and the said William Beck<br />
turned out and utterly deprived of the same Which the premisses hee saith hee<br />
well knoweth, being at Saint Sebastians at the time of the seizure aforesaid, and<br />
suffering amongst the English that then were stopped and deteyned both there<br />
and in other Ports of Spaine. And further cannot depose:-
To the third and fowerth articles hee saith, That this deponent doeth in Conscience<br />
beleeve and estimate that the said shipp the ''hopefull William'', togeather with<br />
her tackle apparrell furniture provisions and goods aboard her at the<br />
time of her said seizure were really worth eight hundred and eight pounds<br />
(his losses and dammage by the reasons aforesaid therein comprized) And the reason<br />
of this his judgement is, for that hee this deponent hath for many yeares used<br />
navigation, and thereby become well acquainted and versed in the valew of<br />
shipps, and saw and observed the shipp aforesaid to be a shipp of the burthen<br />
of neere upon one hundred Tunns being newly rebuilt at Shoreham aforesaid<br />
and provided with very good and sufficient tackle apparrell and furniture.<br />
And further cannot depose:-/
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
doctor Godolphin:.
Jacob Jezard [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Allegation:- [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. .3us.'''
'''Henry Colequiste''' of Redriffe in the County of Surrey<br />
Mariner aged 40. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the first and second Articles of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee this<br />
(deponentsaith, That hee this<br />
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