Captured ship: Green Parrot of Stettin, otherwise Il Papagallo Verdo (master Jan...

Captured ship: Green Parrot of Stettin, otherwise Il Papagallo Verdo (master Jan Jansen Braeggele of Greenock, Scotland (resident of Stettin), otherwise John Johnson Brackhill) [first capture: see also HCA 32/1947/27].

History: a Swedish merchant ship (dogger, 30-40 tons/30 lasts, built in Holland, [bought at Rotterdam in January 1671/1672, previously named Golden Butt]), bound from Amsterdam to Londonderry in Ireland (and from thence to Phiall [Fayal, the Azores]), laden with deals, soap, madder, currants, raisins, prunes, starch, nutmeg, cloves, mace, cinnamon, pepper, aniseed, sweet oil and Swedish iron and other goods; taken on 21 September/1 October 1672 off the Start, after a 2-hour chase from about 2 leagues off Dartmouth, by HMS Dragon (John Chamberlain commanding) and brought first into Torbay and then into Plymouth on 6/16 October 1672. The master burnt his instructions during the chase, and said he had thrown the bill of sale overboard about 8 months earlier, during another chase.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-4:-

• [CP 1]: standing interrogatories;
• [CP 2]: four examinations taken at Plymouth, 9 and 11 October 1672;
• [CP 3]: appraisal (inventory) of ship, 9 December 1672.
• [CP 4]: original wrapper with note of examination [at Plymouth], 9 October 1672.

Extra information:-

• See IND 9012, f.68: ship to be restored on bail, 12/22 November 1672;
• HCA 30/882, p. 58: 12 papers (including bills of lading) were received by the court on 11 November 1672, but these are not here (probably restored), and some may be in the ship's papers papers from the second capture of this ship, for which see HCA 32/1947/27;
• See the long allegation and claim at HCA 24/147/50, Bundle 2.