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Exhibited hee saith hee verily beleeveth t … Exhibited hee saith hee verily beleeveth the same to be the<br />
reall bill of sale made by the said Mr Dela villette and<br />
Mr Williamson to the said Robert Blackleech and to be<br />
really and truely subscribed by the said dela Villette and<br />
of the said 3d part of the said ship the said Blackleech at<br />
Middleborowe. and did there heare the said Dela Villette<br />
and Williamson severall times acknowledge and affirme<br />
that they were satisfyed for the same; And saith that by<br />
meanes of the foresaid seizure the said Robert Blackleech<br />
was and is utterly deprived of his said third part of<br />
the said ship ''willinge minde'', and it is utterly lost unto<br />
him without any manner of Satisfaction or recompence<br />
for the same, and further cannot depose./:
Robert Blackleech [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 17th of March 1658:/.[CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Mr}<br />
Edward lewes of London}<br />
Merchant touching the}<br />
ship the ''Gray hound''}<br />
(John hubbard Master)}
[XX] '''jus'''
'''George Palmer''' of London Mariner aged 39<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
worshipfull John Godolphin Doctor of Lawes and one of the<br />
Judges of the high Court of Admiralty of England<br />
saith and Deposeth by Vertue of his Oath./.
That hee this deponent well knoweth the ship the ''Grayhound''<br />
of London (whereof one John Hubbard ws Master) and saith<br />
in the moneth of December last past as the said ship was<br />
coming from Pharu (sic) in Portugall bound for this Port of<br />
London, shee was met with off Scilly by two Ostend<br />
men of warr, and by them taken and seized, together<br />
with her Lading onboard her Consisting in figgs Oranges and<br />
Lemans and [?GaXXes], and saith. that hee this deponent (who was<br />
Mate of the said Ship ''Grayhound'' at the time of her seizure.) was<br />
taken out of the said ship, by the said Seizors and Put into<br />
one of the said Ostend men of warr; and upon his Paroll<br />
was afterwards by the said Seizors put aboard a Dutch ship<br />
at sea, and Caried in her to Bourdeaux, and afterwards<br />
came thence to England, and saith that the said two Ostend<br />
men of warr sent the said ship ''Grayhound'' for Ostend<br />
and as shee was ryding at an Anchor in Ostend Road, shee was by Storme, driven and forced from<br />
her Anchor (as hee hath bin Credibly Informed)<br />
and was forced and driven (as hee hath bin likewise informed) to Dunborowe neere Middleborowe<br />
and at the time of such her forcing from her said Anchor<br />
, there were onely two men and a boy. of her<br />
owne Company on board her, namely Charles Andrewes<br />
Boatswaine, John ffisher Carpenter, of the said ship, and<br />
Joseph Hart the Cabbin boy of the said ship: And further deposeth notof the said ship: And further deposeth not +
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