Jacob Leisler The Lybell at the sute of our Sovr Lord the King exhibited by Major Jacob Milborn attorney Generall for & in behalfe of our s'l Sovr Lord the King ag* the ship the home friggott as foUoweth anno R: R: Gulielmi et Maries &c Secundo To the honble pieter dLanoy president & the rest of the Justices commissionated for the loyall examination & condemnation of the ship called «& known heretofore by the name of L'Esperance of Haverdu Grace in the kingdom of ffrance Captn Guilaine Bigoir Commander now the home frigott, Captn Robert CoUiford now master for the time being &c Captn william Masson Commander of the ship the blissed William & Captn ffrancis Goderis Commander of the Jacob & company naturall borne subjects & freemen of the kingdom of England &c by way of lybell sett forth & shew to your hours for diverse & sundry reasones causes & allegations hereafter mentioned & sett forth, to shew cause why & wherefore the s<l ship the home friggott formerly the L:Esperance of haverdu Grace belonging to the subjects or vassalls of the french King Together with her furniture gunns & apparrell as also all & every part and parcell of her loading now on board may not be adjudged condemned & sold at a certaine day & disposed of as the Law in such cases makes &, provides. flFrst that they the sd Captn Wilham Masson & Captn ffrancis Goderis Commanders of the ships afores^, did receive under the hand of the honble Jacob Leisler Lievt Governor of this his Mamies province of Newyork & seale of the s'^ province, a certaine Commission bearing date the nynteenth day of May one Thousand six hundred