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transported to this port of London and her … transported to this port of London and here to be delivered to them or their<br />
order and for their account, The premisses hee knoweth<br />
because hee was constituted master of the said shipp by the said proprietors<br />
and went master of her the said voyage, and received the said goods aboard<br />
for their account, and as master had the commande of the said shipp committed<br />
unto him by the said owners, And otherwise hee cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the second third and fourth articles hee saith and deposeth that within the foresaid<br />
time and more particularly on the thirteenth day of May<br />
1654 (old stile) hee this deponent being in his course proceeding<br />
with the said shipp and goods from f[?i]nall for this port, came neere the Streights<br />
mouth, was there mett with by a dutch shipp commanded<br />
by one Captaine Albert Cock, named or called the ''Golden dove''<br />
of twenty nine guns or thereabouts, and then and there the said<br />
Captaine Cock and company in his said shipp the ''Golden dove'' set<br />
upon, surprized and forcibly tooke the said shipp the ''Pa[?c]ket frigot''<br />
and all the foresaid goods that were as aforesaid laden aboard her<br />
and by them the said shipp the ''Pa[?c]ket frigot'' and her said<br />
lading were thence carried to Cadiz in Spaine, where this deponent<br />
and company were by the said takers turned out of her, and the<br />
said shipp and goods were possessed by the saiid Captaine<br />
Cock and company.<br />
All which hee knoweth being master as aforesaid and aboard [?the]<br />
said shipp the ''Parker frigot'' at the time of the<br />
said seizure, and carried to Cadiz in her, and there turned ashore<br />
with his company by the said takers. And saith that being soe<br />
disposest of his shipp and goods by the said Captaine Cock, and the<br />
said Captaines refusing to show him any Commission for such seizure<br />
this deponent neare Cadiz applied himselfe to the duke of M[?a]dina<br />
who [?caused] the said Captaine to produce his Commission, and<br />
show it in Court, and that in and by the said Commission it<br />
appeared (as this deponent was informed by thise that saw and<br />
understand it) that the said Captaine was thereby set out from<br />
holland as a man of warr in a vessell called the ''Revenge'', which<br />
vessell hee loosing at sea (as it was there said and acknowledged by the<br />
said Captaine himselfe) hee bought the said shipp the ''Golden dove'' at [?Saint XXXXs]<br />
and carried his said Commission in her which hee had for the ''Revenge''<br />
And saith the said Captaine was (as hee and his company confessed)<br />
a hollander, or other subiect of the States of the United Netherlands<br />
and soe were most of his company, and soe commonly accounted<br />
And that it was upon the said thirteenth day old stile of the<br />
said moneth of May 1654 that the said seizure was made and<br />
not before, which hee knoweth being master as aforesaid and<br />
taking a note in writing of the day, and the said Captaine said<br />
and acknowledged that hee soe tooke the ''Parker frigot'' and lading<br />
by vertue of the said Commission. And further hee cannot depose.
To the fifth, sixth and seaventh articles hee saith and deposeth<br />
that albeit the said shipp and some of her goods were after the premisses<br />
restored by the authoritie of the duke of M[?a]dina, that there were<br />
severall of her tackle and furniture and marchandizes embeazeld<br />
and taken away by the said takers and by occasion of the said seizure<br />
videlicet eleaven tonnes and an hundred fourtie nine [XXXXX] of the said oille[?s]<br />
which were worth and would here have yeelded fiftie five pounds,<br />
at such time as shee might have and could here have arived<br />
if seized not bin soe interupted, as this deponent was afterwards<br />
informedponent was afterwards<br />
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