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1. áway the papers, bookes and writings of the master companies and factors
2. of the said shipp Lyon and providence, and only this deponent while hee was
3. kept prisoner in the said shipp found three of the said bookes which had bin
4. throwne by some of the takers into the skuppers, and preserved there and
5. hath them with him, whereby hee the better remembreth the particularities
6. of the said gold, goods and valew. And after they had bin kept about five
7. or six weekes prisoners, the said Scrawle put the master of the Lyon and
8. Providence and company and factors into a small vessell with a very small
9. pittanse of badd victualls, and fXXX sent them away, and they were
10. shorty soe distressed with want of victualls, that they were forced to put
11. into Saint thoma, and sell their vessell and get a smaller, and with the
12. rest of the money to get victualls. And with the said John Scrawle was
13. by his owne confession a native of Munickendam neere Amsterdam
14. and a subiect of the States of the united Netherlands, and for such ˹hee was˺ commonly
15. accounted, and the companies of the said two shipps were most of them
16. also dutch and subiects of the said States by their owne confessions,
17. and the said two shipps were dutch built and belonging the mary
18. to Amsterdam, and the unicorne to Middleborowe where this deponent
19. (who was borne and lived long there) hath bin often aboard ˹the unicorne˺ her, and
20. ˹and that both the shipps˺ and sailed both out ˹of˺ the texel the said voyage for the coast of Guinney
21. on a trading voyage for Negroes, and that their owners lived at
22. Amsterdam and Middleborowe and were subiects of the said Stattes
23. and named mr Caymans and ˹Marsellis˺ vandergoos for two of their owners,
24. which Marsellis vandergoos, this deponent well knoweth to be a dutchman
25. living in Middleburowe and a subiect of the said States. And
26. otherwise hee cannot depose.

27. To the tenth article hee saith and deposeth that the said Alderman and
28. William ˹Morrice˺ Thompson before the departure of the said shipp from this port, lent the summe of one hundred pounds sterling upon bottomerie
29. upon the said shipp, for which they were to have and receive upon her retourne
30. to London one hundred and fourtie pounds, which is utterly lost by the
31. said seizure and spoile, which lending this deponent knoweth seeing
32. the money delivered.

33. To the 11th ˹and 12th˺ hee saith that in case the said spoile and surprizall had not
34. happend, the said shipp and her lading of gold and goods might
35. have and would in all probabilitie have arrived at the parts of East
36. India and invested the same into goods of the parts, and brought
37. the same into theise parts and quarters, which if shee had donne, the
38. said ninetie five markes, one ounce and six angles of gold might
39. be and other goods of the said Alderman and William Tho Morrice
40. Thompson soe seized and taken away, might have and would in all
41. probabilitie have and produced and yeelded their seaven thousand
42. pounds sterling, and that saith that according to the common repute and
43. report, the produce of godl from Guinney to the East Indies and
44. thense in East India commodities to theise parts is two for one.
45. and saith each marke of the said gold at the time of the said seizure was
46. worth two and thirtie pounds sterling.

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