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and this deponent was present at the said … and this deponent was present at the said buying and selling and was<br />
a witnes to the bargaine, and to payment of a good part of the money agreed on by the said John legg and John<br />
Downer to the said Stephen keech<br />
and since hee hath heard the said Stephen keech acknowledge that they have<br />
fully paid and satisfied the rest unto him according to agreement
Rowland Searchfeild [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 17th of March 1656.
On the behalfe of Robert Lucas and}<br />
others touching a losse in the ''Teneriff''}<br />
''Merchant'', in a busines of Assurance.}
'''Rp. X X Cop. .1.'''
'''Francis Robinson''' of the parish of Saint Buttolph without<br />
Bishopsgate London Merchant, aged 36 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull John Godolphin<br />
Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high Court<br />
of the Admiraltie and exámined upon certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the behalfe of the said Robert Lucas and<br />
others saith as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the producents<br />
Robert Lucas, John Ladd, henry James and Charles Rich, and likewise<br />
well knew the shipp the ''Teneriffe Merchant'' arlate.
To the second hee saith that in or about the beginning of January last past<br />
there were put and laden aboard the shipp the ''Teneriff Merchant'' arlate at<br />
the Isle of Wight sixtie eight horses and some hoopes and other goods by John<br />
Ladd aforesaid, for account of himselfe and company namely the said Robert Lucas<br />
henry James and Charles Rich, and alsoe of ffrancis [?Sens] and hugh Powell, all<br />
which six persons in company were commonly accounted owners of the said horses<br />
and goods, and were all (saving the said Lucas and Rich) present at some of˺ the said lading,<br />
and they were all six owners thereof˺ in equall shares (as hee understood) soe that foure shares<br />
or parts of the said horses and goods were belonging to the said Robert Lucas, henry james,<br />
John Ladd and Charles Rich, all which hee knoweth being then and there present<br />
and seeing the said imbarquing and lading aboard the said shipp, whereon hee imbarqued himselfe {as}<br />
passenger for the Barbada's. And otherwise hee cannot depose, not coming aboar{d}<br />
till her comming to the Ile of Wight.
To the third and fourth Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that after the said imbar{quing}<br />
and lading the said horses and goods at the Ile of Wight, the said shipp on or abo{ut}<br />
the nineth of January last departed therewith and prosecuted her voyage directly<br />
for the Barbad'as, whereunto shee was bound, but comming in her said course<br />
about fourtie leagues west ward of the land of England, shee was on or about<br />
the twelveth of the said moneth met with set upon and by force seized and taken<br />
by an Ostend man of warr (Anthony [?Suip] commander) after firing severall gunns<br />
upon the ''Teneriff Merchant'', and killing her master [XX XXXXX] and a passenger, and xi [ROMAN NUMERALS] wounded and with<br />
her horses that were living and all her other lading shee was by the said man of warr carried<br />
to Passaga in the Bay of Biscay in the king of Spaines dominion, and<br />
at the Court of Saint Sebastians the said shipp, such of the said horses as were living and other goods were proceeded against<br />
and made prize and confiscate unto the takers, and saith the same were and<br />
are utterly lost to the said Lucas and company, without any manner of satifaction<br />
for the same, All which hee knoweth, seeing the premisses soe donne being carried<br />
to Passaga in her. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
ffra: Robinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]pose.
ffra: Robinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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