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shipp departed from Cyprus with all her sa … shipp departed from Cyprus with all her sayd homewards ladeing on<br />
board her and full sayle thense towards Legorno but in her course thitherwards<br />
mett with very fowle and tempestious weather by meanes whereof the hinges and<br />
Irons of her Rudder were broken and the Rudder washed off into the sea, (but rec[?overed GUTTER]<br />
againe and gotten aboard the sayd shipp) and the sayd shipp sprang a leake or two by)<br />
violence of the sayd storme whereat shee receaved much water soe that the sayd<br />
shipp by reason of the sayd leakes and alsoe for want of her rudder to guide and<br />
steere her by, was forced to returne back to Cyprus it being her neerest port<br />
and there un lade the greatest part of her ladeing thereby to new hange her Rudder<br />
and stopp her leakes which were deepe under water And hee saith her Rudder<br />
being hunge and her leakes stopped and repayred the Interrogate John<br />
Harris the Master of her and Company fell to reladeing the goods by them soe<br />
there unladen, but were (after they had reladen some of them) hindered from<br />
reladeing the rest by some officers of the Grand signior who pretended that<br />
the goodes being there unladen new customes was due to the Grand signiour for<br />
them before they might bee reladen, and the sayd Master being a stranger and<br />
not knowing what was to be done in such case did apply him selfe to the Interrogate<br />
Roger ffooke who was and is reputed the English Consull at Cyprus<br />
and the sayd ffowke having had conference with the sayd Officers of the Grand signiour<br />
soe pacified them either with rewards or other perswasions that they did<br />
permitt the sayd Master and Company to relade the rest of the sayd goods on<br />
board the sayd shipp, but saith the same being laden, the sayd ffowke did<br />
in presence of this deponent and his Contests Robert Pembridge and Symon<br />
Roe and others of the sayd shipps company demand of the sayd Harris the Master<br />
as due to him the sayd Consull for Consullage and other moneys paid for<br />
cleereing the sayd goods there eighteene hundred peeces of eight, and the sayd Master<br />
answered and told the sayd ffooke that hee had noe money and was a stranger<br />
there or to that effort, whereupon the sayd ffowke imprisoned the sayd Master<br />
for not paying the same, and kept him in his his the sayd ffowkes house<br />
under custody of Janizaries, and the sayd Roe, Pembridge and one Turner being of<br />
the sayd shipps company and coming on shoare to the Master hee seized upon<br />
them alsoe, and kept them under like restraint, and afterwardes sent sent or pe[?rmitted GUTTER]<br />
some officers of the sayd Grand signiour to be sent aboard the sayd shipp<br />
and released the sayd Roe Pembridge and Turner who came aboard the sayd shipp<br />
And the sayd officers being come aboard did cause the hatches to bee opened<br />
and tooke there out three bayles of silke part of the sayd shipps ladeing and<br />
carried the same a shoare, and disposed thereof at their will and pleasure for non<br />
payment of the sayd eighteene hundred dollers, which done, the sayd<br />
ffooke then released the sayd Master the<br />
premisses hee deposeth of his knowledge being an eye and eare wittnes of<br />
them and saith the sayd bayles were taken from on shipp board in presence of<br />
this deponent and the sayd Roe Pembridge and Turner and the rest of the sayd shipps<br />
Company who were all then on boarde, And hee saith hee verily beleaveth and<br />
is perswaded in his conscience that unlesse the sayd 18 hundred dollers h[?ad GUTTER]<br />
bin paid or other satisfaction made for them neither the sayd Master nor any of<br />
the rest of the sayd shipps ladeing could or would have bin discharged [?soe GUTTER]<br />
that the sayd three bayles were taken away meerely meerely for preservation<br />
of the rest of the sayd shipps ladeing And further to these Interrogatories hee<br />
cannot depose/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
Thomas Metford [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]phin/
Thomas Metford [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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