"13 August, 1657.â€â€Recognizances, taken before Sir John Barkstead knt. Lieutenant of His Highnesses Tower of London and J. P., of Clement Halsey of the Tower Liberty gentleman and Giles Gall of Poplar CO. Midd. vintner, in the sum of forty pounds each, and of Stephen Hamocke of the said hamlett of Poplar mariner, in the sum of eighty pounds; For the said Stephen Hamocke's appearance at the next S. P. for Middlesex, to answer &c. 'for being suspected to have seduced and inticed Richard Deverell aboard his ship and feloniously to have transported him and sold him beyond sea contrary to his owne or friends or parents consent.' S. P. R., 17 Sept., 1657." (1)
(1) John Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, Vol. 3 (London: The Middlesex County Records Society, 1888), 262.