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ánd being with her in Marget Roade at an a … ánd being with her in Marget Roade at an anchor, and this deponent<br />
and company hearing many guns goe off, and supposing they<br />
might have occasion to stand in defence of the said vessell, and lading,<br />
desired some powder to be brought aloft for the guns, whereupon<br />
Edmund Lemmon that was aboard on behalfe of the Commissioners<br />
for prize goods, having the key of the powder roome went<br />
downe accompanied with William Tufnall another prize officer into the said powder<br />
roome, and being there, they spent about an houre and<br />
and halfe searching there, and at length under the br[XXXd] found a parcell of<br />
Spanish tobaccoe of nine rolls, which they brought aloft<br />
and said they beleeved the same had bin there hidd by the men<br />
of the ''yarmouth frigot'', And saith they tooke the said tobaccoe and<br />
put the same into the prizes boate, and carried the same<br />
the betwixt eleaven and twelve of the clock at night (of the<br />
one and twentieth day or thereabouts of Aprill last) aboard the<br />
ketch that was Convoy for bringing up the said prizes,<br />
and soe the same was taken away by the said Lemmon and<br />
Tufnall and disposed of by them. And saith the said<br />
mr Lemmon and mr Tufnall spoke to and desired this deponent<br />
and the company that they would take noe notice nor marke<br />
any words of the taking away of the said tobaccoes, and to the<br />
end the men should hold their peese concerning the same,<br />
they the said Lemmon and Tufnall gave them five and twenty<br />
shillings a peese, and when the shipp came to London they<br />
gave this deponent three pounds in money, and praid him not<br />
to speake of the taking away the tobaccoe aforesaid.
George Craynell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The twelveth of June 1657.
A busines of exámination of Witnesses}<br />
on the behalfe of Roger Phillips against one}<br />
two and thirtieth part of the ''dover Marchant''}<br />
and against Peter Bultele. Smith.}
Exámined upon an allegation given on<br />
the behalfe of the said Phillips.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Thomas Rodberd''' of the parish of Saint Buttolphs<br />
Bellamsgate London Cheesemonger, aged 48 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.<br />
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the arlate Phillips who hee saith was the<br />
time arlate Commander of the shipp the ''dover Merchant'' arlate<br />
(which hee likewise well knoweth) and had the charge and command<br />
thereof committed unto him by the arlate Bultele and the rest of<br />
her owners, and that the said Bultele was the said time owner<br />
of one two and thirtieth part of the said shipp and of her tackle and<br />
furniture, and for such commonly accompted, which hee knoweth seeing the<br />
said Phillips in the execution of the said command and this deponent being alsoe a<br />
part owner,<br />
, and seeing the said Bultele was an owner at a meeting of said Bultele was an owner at a meeting of +
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