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To the 3d hee saith that the said lading being soe put on board the said Ship shee set saile therewith on her intended voyage to Bourdeaux, and in her course thither upon the high Seas and on the 6th. of October last shee was met withall, and seized with her said Lading by a Ship called the ''Charles'' whereof one Browne was Captaine, And the sayd Browne and his Company possessed themselves of the said Ship the ''Cock'', and kept her Master Prisoner, onboard the ''Charles'' And saith that hee this Deponent who was taken in the ''Cock'' and kept in her) heard the said Browne and severall of the Company of the ''Charles'' say that if the Master of the ''Cock'' and the Master of the Ship ''Hope'' (which was taken at the same time that the ''Cock'' was) would not buy their Ships of them they would carry them to the seaven Isles where they could sell their ffathers for money, or to that effect But further deposeth not./: To the 5th. and 6th. hee saith that hee this Deponent and all or most of the Company of the ''Golden Cock'' . did tell the Comapny of the ''Charles'', that were in the ''Cock'', that both the ''Cock'', and alsoe the said Ship the ''Hope'' did belong to Scotland, and that Scotchmen were Owners of them and their Ladings, and all of their Companyes were Scotts exxcept the said Thompson who is an Englishman, And saith that notwithstanding the said Browne and Company would not release the said Ship, unlesse sayd Thompson and Henry Hart the Master of the ''Hope'' would procure and pay a Summe of money, which they were constrained to doe and did pay unto the said Browne about 225. ''li'' or 250. ''li'' this Deponent seeing the two Masters goe on board the ''Charles'' therewith And saith that hee verily beleeveth that if the said Thompson and Hart had not procured and paid the said money, the said Browne and Company would have carried away the said Ships and Ladings and sold the same, and soe much they declared, and further deposeth not./. To the 7th. 8th. and 9th hee saith that the said Thompson to procure the money which hee oaid to the said Browne was forced to engage the said ship ''Cock'' and lading for payment of the same and was afterward likewise forced to sell the said ships Lading at Garnesey to pay the same, and could bot proceed with the said voyage to Bourdeaux where this Deponent saith. hee verily beleeveth it would have yeilded as much more as it did at Garnesea And saith that in his Judgment the Owners of the said Ship ''Cock'' and her Lading by reason of the said seizure and detention and hinderance of the voyage and being forced to sell the said lading at Garnesey suffered losse and damage to the vallue of about a thousand pounds Sterling And further Deposeth not. To
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