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carrying to Birke, the said Master was sen … carrying to Birke, the said Master was sent for and went to the said<br />
Princes lodging in Birke, where hee as hee told this deponent besought the sayd Prince<br />
to permitt him and his Company to goe downe and soe to save<br />
their said shipp and goods, to which the said Prince (as hee said) answered<br />
that hee would himselfe looke to the sayd shipp and lading and that hee<br />
would give the sayd John Love the Master an Account thereof, or to<br />
the like effect And Withall told the sayd Master and Company. that they must goe to Montreile, and accordingly hee sent them<br />
thither with a guard of Souldiers, and kept them that garrison, for<br />
the space of foure and twenty howers and upwards, in which time this deponent<br />
sawe severall cart Loades of the sayd Lading of Oranges, and<br />
Lemmons and Sumack, brought into<br />
Montreil all drye and well conditioned and put into the sayd<br />
Princes house in the sayd Towne, And saith that<br />
after they had bin soe detained there the sayd Prince sent them<br />
away with a passe and a Souldier to Bullen, and thence to Callice, to gett passage home place to place And lastly, hee saith that the sayd<br />
shipps Lading at the time of the sayd coming ashore consisted<br />
of two hundred and ffifty thousand (or thereabouts of Oranges<br />
and Lemons, Eight baggs of Sumack, nineteene Elephants teeth<br />
foure Chests and a halfe of Sugar, a Considerable parcell of<br />
Linnen Cloth, Twenty Gammons of bacon two and ffortie<br />
boxes of Sweetemeates; a parcell of Earthen Ware, two quarter<br />
Caskes of wine; One Cabinet, and a parcell of curtaine<br />
ffringe, and Lace. And saith the said Elephants teeth were (as this<br />
deponent beleeveth( for the account of Nathaniell Townsend Merchant<br />
(the true vallue whereof this deponent knoweth not) And that the sayd<br />
sumack was (as hee hath heard) for the accompt of Roger Hatton<br />
of London Merchant, And the Oranges and Lemons hee saith were for<br />
the Accompt of Ro this deponents master Robert Turner, of<br />
London Salter, and Company; And the sayd foure Chests and<br />
a halfe of Sugar, and the sayd Linnen Cloth, and sixteene Gammons<br />
of bacon, the sayd Sweetemeats, and fringe and Lace were (as<br />
this deponent beleeveth and hath heard) for the accompt of the Master<br />
John Love and Company; but the vallue of the goods (saving of the said oranges and lemmons which hee saith were worth betweene seaven and eight hundred pounds<br />
cannot estimate, And otherwise he cannot depose, saving the ffrench<br />
upon possessing themselves of the sayd shipp and lading, tooke and<br />
detained all the bills of Lading, and all other writings of and belonging<br />
to the sayd shipp:/: and saving that this deponent had oranges and lemmones<br />
([XX]had oranges and lemmones<br />
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