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To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith tha … To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith that the said vessell having<br />
received the said malt and beere aboard, departed aforesaid on<br />
the said voyage, and that in the course of her proceedinge<br />
comming off harwich, and meeting with fowle weather, in the<br />
night time of the nineteenth of this instant August being darke<br />
shee ran upon a sand called the Sunck, and was with all her<br />
said lading and all other goods aboard her, cast away and<br />
utterly lost, whereby the said producents have quite lost their interest<br />
and parts of the said vessell as alsoe all their said malt and<br />
beere of this exáminates sight and knowledge, the master and<br />
company (whereof this deponent was one) and the said mr Smith<br />
very hardly escaping with their lives.
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
doctor Godolphin.
The marke of<br />
[MARKE] Peter Smith. [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The fourth of September 1657.
On behalfe of the State}<br />
touching tobaccoes taken}<br />
in the ''Nicholas''}
'''Row d. 1'''
'''Edward Phillips''' of debtford Sailer, one of the<br />
Company of the ''Maidstone frigot'' in the immediate<br />
service of this Commonwealth, aged 24 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts, sworne, and exámined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories ministred in behalfe of the State saith<br />
as followeth, videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that the shipp the<br />
''Nicholas'' (Nicholas Johnson Master) next before her seizure<br />
came from Santa Domingo in hispaniola. where shee tooke<br />
in her lading of tobacco, hides, and Cuckaw, and was<br />
bound therewith for Cadiz in Spaine, there to deliver the<br />
same, for account of Spaniards, subiects of the king<br />
of Spaine, living some in Civill and some in Cadiz, this<br />
their proprietie hee deposeth, because severall of them came<br />
passengers in the said shipp and declared the said goods to be<br />
belonging to them and other Spaniards, which hee knoweth for<br />
that hee was a prisoner and passenger in the said shipp<br />
''Nicholas'', and saw the most part of the said goods<br />
laden at Santa Domingo aforesaid, whense hee came in her.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp the ''Saint Nicholas''<br />
in her course of proceeding from Santa Domingo for Cadiz<br />
being met with and taken by the ''Maidstone frigot'' in the<br />
immediate service of this Commonwealth, there were certain<br />
Potaccás of tobacco taken out of her into the said frigot, and<br />
thereino the said frigot, and<br />
therein +
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