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To the third Article hee saith. that in or about the moneth of January 1655. English style, the arlate Robert Lewellin having hyred and called to freight the said shipp the ''Sarah'' upon the Voiage aforesaid, did at this Port of London lade and putt on board her a Cargoe of goods wares and merchandise consisting in Copper barres, iron, and [?bowdges] to bee transported in the said shipp to Guinney aforesaid, and there to be bartered away and disposed of for Negroes to be thence in the said shipp carried and conveighed to Barbadoes or Virginia there to bee sould and disposed of for the proper accompt and benefitt of the said Robert Lewellin, and saith the said shipp the ''Sarah'' [?with GUTTER] the said outwards Cargoe of goods did upon the first Day of May 1656. safely arrive and came to an anchor neere the said Coast of Guinney The premisses hee [this] deponent well knoweth being Purser of the said shipp and sayleing in her the whole voiage aforesaid./ To the 4th hee saith, That after the arrivall of the sayd shipp ''Sarah'' at or neere the said Coast of Guinney, the said Arthur Perkins Master thereof in quality of Master and ffactor for the said voiage did there traffique and barter way the greatest part of the said Outwards Cargoe, and did therewith gaine and procure the full number of the one hundred fifty and eight Negroes, and was in [?quiet GUTTER] and peaceable possession of the same upon the high Sea neere Cape de Lopes upon the Coast aforesaid and was ready to proceed with the same from thence upon his said voiage towards Barbadoes or Viriginia, there to dispose of the said Negroes according to the order and for the best advantage of his said imployer. Which the premisses this deponent saith hee very well knoweth for and upon the grounds of knowledge predeposed, And further cannot depose, To the 5th Article of the said Allegation hee saith, that in the moneth of August and particularly upon the second day of the same moneth in the yeare 1656: the said shipp the ''Sarah'' being at an anchor neere Cape de Lopes aforesaid in a quiett and peaceable Condition Two Dutch shipps nearing the dutch Colonies one of them being called the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam, and the other, (whose name hee now remembreth not) being said to bee of Middelborough in Zeeland both under the Command of John Scroll a Dutchman of the United Provinces, did in a violent and hostile manner invade surprize and seize the said shipp the ''Sarah'' togeather with her tackle apparrell furniture and lading of Negroes and other goods and tooke out the Master and most of the said shipps Companie out of the same and disposed of them aboard the said dutch shipps, and utterly dispoyled and deprived them or their said shipps, lading and appurtenances. The premisses hee knoweth for the reason aforesayd
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