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loose his Cloathes and instruments which were of considerable value but what to estimate them at hee knoweth not And saith the sayd shipp and all the sayd goods and other things soe seized were by the sayd captaines Vandimon and [?Goorner] and their Companyes carried to Brest and there deteyned from the arlate Nevin Kerr and Company and the sayd Kerr and this deponent and the rest of the shipps company were pillaged and thrust out of the sayd shipp at Brest and after a while sent away to Morlaix And further to this article (saving his foregoeing deposition) hee cannot depose saving hee saith that while hee this deponent stayed at Brest hee sawe some of the ffrench Kings officers there (notwithstanding the peace betwixt England and ffrance) take some of the foods seized in the sayd shipp for the ffrench Kings tenths of the sayd shipp and goods./ To the 4th hee saith hee beleeveth that the arlate Neaven Kerr and Company besides their shipp and goods lost as aforesayd did suffer much other dammage by losse of Markett in what profitt they might have made of the goods seized and in want of the proceeds of them to imploy in their Merchandizing affayres and by want of the sayd shipp to use alsoe in their affayres, but what to value their sayd losse at hee knoweth not. And further saith hee experimentally knoweth being one of the Company that the sayd shipps Company in generall suffered great miserie by being pillaged after their seizure and through want of necessaries to supplie them at Brest and in their passage to Morlaix in soe much that one of them named hunter dyed by reason of the want and misery hee suffered by the meanes aforesayd, this hee the better knoweth for that hee helped to burie the sayd hunter, hee dyeing presently after his getting into England, by reason of his weakness by his evell usage. And further hee cannot depose/ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/ the marke of the sayd [MARKE, RH SIDE] John '''O''' Smith ********************************* The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation./ '''Rp. 2''' '''John Watson''' of Ayer in Scotland Mariner aged twenty two yeares or therabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth To the first article hee saith hee this deponent was one of the Company of the ''Speedewell'' the voyage in question, and know the sayd shipp from her first building in Eyre which was about sixe or seaven yeares last past and saith that from her building till her seizure hereafter specified the arlate Kerr and one Theophilus Rankin both of Eyre aforesayd were commonly reputed lawfull Owners of her and her tackle and furniture each of them of an equall halfe thereof and the sayd Kerr was also Commander of her for the voyage in question./ To the 2 article hee saith hee being one of the Company as aforesayd knoweth
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