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1. and being ˹was˺ in a quiet and peaceable condition in her said trading voyage,
2. shee was met with by two dutch shipps, one whereof was called the Mary
3. of Amsterdam, and the other the Unicorne of Middleborowe both under
4. the command of John Scrawle, a dutchman, belonging as himselfe
5. acknowledged to Amsterdam, by which two shipps hee saith shee was without
6. any cause or offense at all given or offered, set upon, assaulted in XXXXXXX
7. maner and forcibly taken and surprized together with her said gold and
8. goods; and the commander, factors and company of the Lyon and Providence
9. utterly dispoiled and deprived thereof, whereby the said shipp the Lyon
10. and Providence with the golds and goods aboard her were and are utterly
11. lost to the owners thereof, all Englishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth
12. and were possessed and taken away by the said Captaine Scrawle and
13. companies of the said two dutch shipps, who put kept all the company
14. of the Lyon and Providence above five weekes prisoners, and in that space
15. kept all or most of the common men in chaines, and they sent them
16. away with soe scant allowance of sustenance, that they were almost XiXXXXed
17. with hunger ˹and had bin XiXXXed had they not got to Saint Thoma and there sold their vessell for a#˺ and saith they alsoe tooke away from the commander

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some provisions
of food [LH MARGIN]

23. factors and others of the Lyon and Providence all XXX bookes and papers. And
24. saith the ˹that the˺ said two shipps the Mary and the Unicorne were dutch built
25. and had and carried dutch colours, when the Lyon and Providence came
26. first neere them when at the said Cape, and were both belonging as the
27. said Captaine Scrawle and others of their companies acknowledged to the
28. United Provinces and places under dominion of the States of the said
29. Provinces, namely the Mary of Amsterdam and the Unicorne of
30. Middleborowe and were set out thense with a cargo of goods to come
31. and trade for Negroes at Guinney, and the most of the said two shipps
32. companies were dutch and (as was acknowledged by and amongst them)
33. subiects of the States Generall of the United Netherlands, and came from
34. the said Netherlands in the said two shipps, the premisses hee deposeth
35. seeing and hearing the same. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

36. To the tenth hee cannot depose.

37. To the eleaventh article hee saith and deposeth that in all probabilitie
38. the said shipp the Lyon and Providence (had shee not bin sXXXXXered
39. and taken as aforesaid) might with her gold and goods have arived
40. in the parts of East India to which shee was bound, and there have
41. sold and trucked away her said lading and brought the proceede thereof
42. to this port to the greate proffit and advantage of the adventurers,
43. And saith the usuall profitt of gold carried from Guiney to East
44. India and there invested in goods of the place and brought to this port
45. is above cento per cent, and frequently yeeldeth two for any XXXXX
46. it selfe treble, namely the valew of an hundred pounds sterling, retournes
47. three hundred pounds, and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser summe; and
48. soe much hee saith is well knowne amongst merchants trading to
49. those parts. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

50. To the twelveth hee saith that each marke of the said gold was and
51. upon the said coast of Guinney worth twenty five pounds and twelve shillings
52. sterling by common account and XX estimation, at the said time of seizure
53. of the said shipp. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

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