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Transcription

To the 13th hee cannot depose.

To the 14th and 15th hee cannot depose.

To the 16th hee saith that the said good and goods of this deponent
which hee had aboard, and lost by the said seizure, would
having bin invested into merchandizes in the parts of East India and
brought to this port, have yeelded here with his clothes, necessaries and
wages seaven hundred and fiftie pounds sterling, And otherwise hee
cannot depose.

To the 17th hee cannot depose.

To the last hee cannot depose.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

Nicholas Sperman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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[DEPOSITION OF STEPHEN WEBB BELOW IS STRUCK THROUGH WITH THREE DIAGONAL LINES]

The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.

3.

Stephen Webb of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate
London Merchant, aged 24 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
ánd exámined.

To the first árticle of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth
that

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The fourth of March 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

Collier pred [?qurad] the}
Brotherhood}

Exámined upon the foresaid allegation

Rp. 3

Peter du Bois of London Mariner, aged 24 yeares or
thereabouts sworne and exámined.

To the first article hee saith and deposeth that as for the time arlate
the producents (whom hee well knoweth) Peter and Abraham Caultier
and company Englishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth, have
bin (and at present ought to be) the true and rightfull proprietors
of the shipp or vessell called the Brotherhood arlate and of
her tackle apparell and furniture, and alsoe of ninetie foure
Negro's and a quantitie of Elephants teeth, and for such commonly
accounted and reputed, which hee knoweth for that hee this exáminate
went the was Gunner of her.

To the second árticle hee saith and deposeth that within the said time
namely about thirteene monethes since the said shipp the Brotherhood
with the said Negro's and Elephants teeth aboard her was at or
neere Cape Lopas or Lopez da Gonsalvez on the coast of Guiney