At the request of John Fryer, the petitioner, they certify that he went to sea as master gunner of the Gift of London, a year ago. Shortly afterwards, she sank in a storm on the Irish Coast. All her cargo was lost and the crew barely escaped with their lives. Not long afterwards, the ship was recovered and was freighted again, but on 2 Feb. last was captured off Sapin by Captain Parker, a pirate. Fryer and others, numbering 12 in all, were held prisoner for 4 months. Parker then took away 7, and turned Fryer and the others away, ransacked. On their way homewards, they were captured on about 2 July by another pirate, Captain Easton, who robbed them of the remainder of their estates, and maltreated them. All these misfortunes occurred within 11 months. Fryer has lost his entire estate of L300 and friends stand surety for part of his adventure.

Hugh Mearit, William Bygatt, Robert Salmon, William Hare, Robert Rickman, Thomas Best, Robert Kytchen, Thomas Norries.

Before 10 Feb 1614 - Mary Temple, widow of Limehouse, to Trinity House.

John Temple, her late husband, was captured by pirates on several occasions during the last three years. In 1611, he lost goods worth L85 in the Goodwill of London on a voyage to Ireland and Calais. In 1612, Captain Easton and his consorts captured him in the Marye and John of Sandwich on a voyage to Faro, whereby he lost gods worth �50 and ____ pounds.� Then in May 1613, when Master of a small ship, the Peter of London, he was captured off the coast of Barbary by 3 ships of war manned by Turks and Moors, and 4 christians. He was taken to Sallee in Barbary and so misused that he died within 8 days. One of the crew was murdered, the rest tortured, and the boy forced to be circumcised and turn Turk. Tenple lost L120 in the Peter and his widow and small children are in great poverty.

William Monsones, Richard March, John Busfield, Ralph Bradshawe, Edward Stevens, Michael Miryvall, Brian Tashe, Lewis Taites, James Benet, Jo. Graves, William Beck, Richard Harris, Robert Bence, Michael Johns [ _____ ], at the request of their neighbours, certify the truth of this which is known to most of the addresses who are asked to petition the lord chancellor for letters patent for a collection in the Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Westminster, Canterbury and Chicester.