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of ffebruary or before the Gallions were provided, their designe would
be lost and overthrowne, and that this deponents maine aime was to
get to Cadiz and Malaga before the Gallions were gonne or provided
or the [?XXX] spent that soe hee might come with the said lading to a good
market, or to the same effect, howbeit the said Wyngaerts not regarding
such pressing and urging of this deponent, neglected and lost oportunities
of winde and weather, as if hee had purposely intended to retard the
said voyage, of this deponents knowledge, And soe likewise in comming
from Cadiz for London hee forstowed and neglected his passage and
lost oportunities as aforesaid, soe that hee was longer in comming with
the said shipp (then otherwise hee needed to have bin) by the space of
six or seaven dayes or thereabouts.

To the 23th and last articles hee saith that in the whole voyage the said Wyngaerts
spent more time and was longer in performing the same than
hee needed to have bin by the space of foure monethes, which delay
hee (as this deponent conceiveth) purposely sought and [?more]
because his shipp was freighted by the moneth. And saith tha the
said hopkins, dunster, Gregory and company by reason of the
many and severall neglects, omissions and misdemeanours of the said
Wyngaerts the said voyage and his loosing opportunities of winde and
weather, insufficiencie of his shipp., losse of markets by his meanes
and other his miscarriages the said voyage, have suffered losse and damage
to the summe and valew of five thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts in his estimation
And further deposeth not.

[?Repetit] cora, doctor Exton [?surrogate]

John ham[?eltoune] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The nineteenth of September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

Rp. 2dus:

Roger Halden of Amsterdam Mariner aged 27 yeares or
thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth.

To the articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee very
well knoweth the shipp the Golden Sun and Adolph Wingaerts her master
mentioned in the said allegation, and that this deponent in the shipp Lionesse
of Amsterdam (whereof hee was Gunner) was in the Bay of Cadiz when
the said shipp the Golden Sun under conduct od the said Wingaerts arived
there, which was in or about the beginning of May last past (old stile), And saith
that there the Commannder of the lionesse after arivall
of the Golden Sun having occasion to weigh anchor to goe out to sea off
Saint Lucars, did for some time borrow certaine of the said Wingarts men
and while they were aboard the Lionesse this deponent heard some of them
namely John Gazet a ffrenchman William Hach, Michall de Lea and
John Bryan (in discoursing with this deponent and other of company of the lionesse
about the Golden Suns voyage and the cause of her being soe long on [?XXXX]
ere shee came to Cadiz) lay fault on their master (speaking
of the said Wingaerts) for delaying the said voyage, and in particular this deponent
asking the said ffrenchman how it could come to passe that they were foure
monethes in comming from Amsterdam to Ireland (as this deponent
said hee had heard they were) the said ffrenchman made answer that it
was the masters negligence, and that it was [?XXXXX], and that they might have
made two voyages in the same space of time, if they had toke oportunitie of winde
and weather which their master as hee said neglected upon the coast of England
And this deponent demannding of the said ffrenchman if hee (comming from
Ireland