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To the 7th hee saith hee cannot answer, th … To the 7th hee saith hee cannot answer, thereto:/:
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Richard Rolfe [SIGNATURE RH SIDE]
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The 8th day of January:<br />
1658: [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:/:
'''Rp. 2:dus:'''
'''Richard Man''' of Southampton, Mariner aged<br />
31 yeeres or thereabouts sworne, and Examined:/:
To the first and 2d articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the arlate ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' all the voyage in question, and before<br />
was, and is at this Present a Ship belonging here to England, and for<br />
all the said time shee hath belonged to Englishmen and Subjects<br />
of this Commonwealth, And saith that all the Mariners that went out<br />
of the said Ship the said Voyage were English men; and Subjects<br />
of this Comonwealth, and none of them fforraigners:<br />
saving one Caroro Tye what was an Italian. who was taken in<br />
at Ligorne. and saith that the whole number of Master, and Mariners<br />
in the said Ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' Consisted the said Voyage<br />
onely of Eleaven men, and one boy, and noe more; The premisses<br />
hee deposeth goeing the whole voyage in question in the said ship<br />
And further hee cannot depose.
To the third and 4th hee saith the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' arrived in<br />
the said Road of Oratava upon the ffive and twentieth day of July<br />
1658 and the same day, and somewhat before the said ship went<br />
into the said Road, this Deponent sawe the arlate Bartholomew<br />
Ketcher Master of the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' give unto the foresaid<br />
Carolo Tye. the bill of health. and other papers for the obtaineing<br />
License for the said Ships freely trading there, which the said Tye<br />
tooke; and put in his pocket, and the said Ketcher desired him to goe<br />
on shore and use his utmost endeavour and care for getting and<br />
obtaining Practick on shore: and soe soone as ever the said Ship<br />
the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' was come into the said Road, one Captaine<br />
Cornelius Master of a Dutch ship. lying there, sent his boate to the<br />
''Lisbone ffrigots'' side to visit her Company. and the said Boate<br />
being ordered to goe from thence to shore, and the said Carolo<br />
Tye being ready to goe on shore, went in the said Dutch Boate<br />
to get Practick, and Carried all the foresaid papers with him,<br />
obtaineing the same, This hee knoweth being on board the said<br />
ship, and hearing and seeing the foresaid Premisses, And further he cannot<br />
depose./:
To the 5th hee saith that about foure houres after the said Dutch Boate<br />
returned and told the Master and some of the Company of the<br />
said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' that they had set the said Tye upon a Rock neere the shore, and that<br />
some of their owne Company must goe in their Boate and fetch him<br />
from thence, and thereupon the said Ketcher sent his boate and foure<br />
men ashore to fetch the said Tye who brought him aboard the said<br />
ship, and at his Coming hee told the said Ketcher that hee the said<br />
Tye could not upon any Termes get Prattick for the said ship, in regard<br />
shee came from Italy, and had goods aboard her that came, (as the said<br />
Spaniards said) from Roone, where the Plague then was, or to that<br />
effect; and further hee cannot depose:/.<br />
(Torther hee cannot depose:/.<br />
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