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furniture and of most part of the said lad … furniture and of most part of the said ladings and went him selfe in<br />
the said shipp to dispose thereof and to invest there in wines for this<br />
port, and saith that on or about the 4th of October last the said shipp<br />
with the said lading arived at the said Iland of Teneriff, and came<br />
to an anchor in the valley da Gasti, and the next day a frigot of<br />
the kinge of Spaine came aboard and forcibly seized the said shipp and<br />
lading, and tooke out the master and company (whereof this deponent was<br />
one) and carried them ashoare and imprisoned them, and alsoe imprisoned<br />
the said Coxeter and wholly deprived him of the said shipp and lading<br />
by which and by his being defeated of the said voyage, and other losses sustained<br />
by the said seizure, this deponent [?came] with him to be damnified and to<br />
have sustained losse to the valew of five and twenty hundred<br />
pounds at the least, And otherwise hee cannt depose.
Repeated with his precontest before Doctor Godolphin:/:-
The marke of Peter<br />
[MARKE] Chadwick. [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th of June<br />
1656.
horne and others against}<br />
Mills and Richards.}
Examined upon the libell.
'''Rp. .jus.'''
'''William Tomkins''' of Fleet neare Southampton<br />
Mariner, aged 52 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
exámined.
To the first and second articles of the said libell hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth and was pilot of the shipp the ''Prosperous'' arlate<br />
(George Garneham master) in her late voyage outwards bound from Southampton<br />
for Bourdeaux and thense returned for Southampton againe, on which voyage<br />
hee saith hee proceeded from Southampton in or about January last was a<br />
twelvemoneth, being ffreighted by william horne Thomas Cornelius<br />
and Robert Richbell, who hired her of Thomas Mills and Paul<br />
Richard who were then her owners and for such commonly accounted<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose saving what followeth, referring himselfe<br />
to the Chaterpartie annexed.
To the third árticle hee saith and deposeth that at the time of the said<br />
shipps said proceeding from Southampton on the said voyage it was notorious<br />
to and taken notice of by the generalitie of Merchants<br />
owners Masters and Mariners frequenting the port of Southampton and dwelling<br />
there and thereabouts, and commonly found that diverse Brest men<br />
of warr were and used to be out at sea, and used to fight and take<br />
such English shipps as they could meete with and master with their<br />
lading, and hee beleaveth the said Mills and Richards had notice thereof<br />
it being a matter notorious.
To the fourth fifth 6. and 7th árticles hee saith and deposeth that at the<br />
time of the said shipps departure on the said voyage from Southampton<br />
shee carried with and onboard her two Peeces of ordnance and seaven<br />
muskets for her owne use, and noe more and had not above foure or five shot<br />
serviceable for the said ordnance, and but one small bagg of gunpowder<br />
containing in his estimation about thirtie pounds weight of powder, only that<br />
said shipp stopping at ffalmouth there were there foure great shott more<br />
delivered to the said master, and (as the gunner related) a small parcell of musket shott, with<br />
which hee saith shee proceeded to Bourdeaux, without spending any of<br />
the powder by the way, unlesse {INK BLOT}e upon occasion of a health or<br />
salutation, and saith that {having} delivered the outward lading of<br />
wheated the outward lading of<br />
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