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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined u … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation.
'''Rp.'''
'''3.'''
'''Thomas Wallop''' of dover in the County of Kent Mariner<br />
aged 41 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the first, second and third articles hee saith and deposeth,<br />
that hee well knoweth the shipp the ''Vincent'' now called the<br />
''Elizabeth'' arlate, and well knoweth that about five yeares since<br />
and during the warrs betwixt this nation and holland shee was<br />
a prize taken from the dutch by a private man of warr set<br />
out from dover which brought her in thither, this deponent then<br />
seeing her soe brought in, and after such her bringing in the<br />
producents Vincent dela barr, Thomas dela Val , Michael<br />
de haze, and company bought her at dover of the setters out<br />
of the said man of warr, and having fitted her they afterwards<br />
namely in and about October 1655 sent her for Ostend with<br />
a lading of coales under the conduct of Michaell Wallop her then<br />
master, and comming to Ostend shee ws there as this deponent<br />
hath heard seized by the officers of the kinge of Spaine and the<br />
said owners delabarr and company divested and dispoiled of her<br />
And further that the said shipp being since retaken, and being<br />
in the downes, this deponent on the 23th of August last went<br />
aboard her from dover, and having bin severall times aboard<br />
her before such her setting out for Ostend hee this deponent<br />
presently knew her to be the same shipp by a fish in her<br />
maine mast, and a graze with ashott on the foremast iust above<br />
the coller of the mainestay, and by two ports for<br />
guns cut out of midshipp, made of English planck, and by<br />
the [?connings] of the main hatches made of English oke, and<br />
other signes, all which shee had when shee was soe set out for<br />
Ostend. And further deposeth not.
To the fourth hee saith hee well knoweth the producents to be<br />
all Inhabitants and subiects of this Commonwealth, and for<br />
such comonly accounted.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first and second hee remembreth not the whole cost of<br />
the said shipp when shee was soe bought, but this deponent being<br />
then an eighth part buyer, paid fiftie pounds sterling for the<br />
same, and afterwards sold it to Mr [?Renier] one of the producents<br />
for the same summe, and hath nowe noe interest in her, and<br />
otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin.
Thomas: wallop [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]phin.
Thomas: wallop [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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