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HCA 13/71 f.677r Annotate
First transcribed 27 May 2016  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 677  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; partially transcribed on 27/05/2016  +
Transcription 26th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING] On th26th of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING] On the behalfe of John Blake late}<br /> Captaine of the shipp the ''ffreindshipp''}<br /> and of Thomas Davies concerning their}<br /> losses in the said shipp} Upon the Interrogatoryes ministred<br /> on the behalfe of Blake and Davies. '''1)''' '''Benjamin Clarke''' of the Liberty<br /> of the Tower of London Mariner<br /> where he hath lived about 2 yeares last<br /> past, aged about 31 yeares, a wittnes<br /> sworne before the right worshipfull John Godolphin<br /> Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high<br /> Court of Admiralty, saith and deposeth as followeth. That he the deponent was in March 1651 interrate aboard<br /> the shipp interrate the ''ffreindshipp'' as a ffactor for<br /> the Guiney Company, unto whom the said shipp and her Lading<br /> did belong, and that in the said month of March 1651 the said<br /> shipp riding at Anchor in the River Cambray in Guiney<br /> neere a Towne called [?Bintam] was taken and seized by a<br /> fleete of shipps under Prince Ruperts command and carryed<br /> into Saint Jago, And he saith that of his this deponents knowledge<br /> there were aboard her at the time the said Prince Rupert<br /> seized on her about twenty hundred weight of Elephants<br /> teeth worth (as he verily beleiveth) 7 ''li'' 10 ''s'' per hundred, tenne<br /> hundred of waze or thereabouts worth about five pounds per<br /> hundred Little more or lesse tenn cases (or thereabouts) of strong<br /> waters really worth twelve pounds, and that the wearing apparrell and<br /> the Instruments which the interrate John Blake the Master<br /> of the said shipp the ''ffreindshipp'' then lost were well worth<br /> the summe of XV [15] ''li''. All which sayd Elephants teeth, waxe<br /> and strong waters were alsoe the proper goods of the sayd John<br /> Blake, And he alsoe saith that there were then on board her at<br /> the time the sayd shipp was seized by Prince Rupert for the<br /> account of the said Thomas Davies some Brandy wine,<br /> waxe, hides, wearing apparrell and instruments, apperteyning to<br /> navigation, All which he lost, But he saith he cannot certainly depose the value thereof, but beleiveth they were well worth<br /> twenty pounds./ Ben: Clarke [CENTRE HEADING] **************************** On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING] '''2)''' '''Thomas Davies''' of the parish of Rederith in the County<br /> of Surry Mariner, aged 22 yeares or thereabouts, a<br /> wittnes, sworne before the right worshipfulll John Godolphin<br /> Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges et cetera deposeth and saith. That he the deponent was servant unto the interrate John<br /> Blake in the moneth of March 1651 interrate, at which time he<br /> the sayd Blake was Master or Captaine of the interrate<br /> shipp the ''ffreindshipp... [ADD DATA] ...and deposeth that he this deponent had aboard<br /> the said shipp at the time of her said seizure by Prince Rupert<br /> aaid seizure by Prince Rupert<br /> a  +
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