'''A8''' Ad 8n and 9n. Articles deponit et dicit that after the arrivall of the said ship and lading at Brazeele the said SSm Croxon did those unlade the same from onboard his said ship, and sold and bartered the same away for the account of the producents arlate; and in him thereof caused to be put on board the said ship about eleven or twelve hundred chests of white sugar, twenty five hundred rolls of tabaccoe, and a quantity of hides and Brazille wood, all which he sayeth were also for the account of the produc= ents, and were the producent of their goods so sent from Lisbone to Brazille as aforesaid et ulterius ad hos articles non deponit salris predepositis, ad que se refert./ Ad 10 et 11nd dicit that after the lading and putting the aforesaid goods and merchandises on board the ''Experience'' at Brazeelle, she do parted therewith towards Lisbone there to discharge and unlade the same (according to the foresaid security there given) for the use and act of the producents, and to pay the King of Portugall his Customs And that in her passage thither, the aforesaid John Kingsman her Captaine, and Company did on or about the twenty seventh day of May last (being Sunday) in the morning about breake of day espy three ships (in sight of the Rocke of Lisbone) making towards the ''Experience'', which three ships afterwards proved to be three Dutch men of warre and further deposeth not? to these articles; saying that when the Captain and Company onboard the ''Expe='' ''rience'' first espyed the said three Dutch ships it was so early in the morning that they could not discerne whether they were enemies or friends./ Ad 12nd he sayeth that one of the said three ships called the ''Zelandia'' (which was the Reare Admirall) whereof the Captain Tyson Quarts was commander came sayling on the weather side of the ''Experience'' (which is contrary to the custome of friends at sea) and never hayled her at all. Whereapon Captain Kingsman on board the ''Experience'' did in this deponents hearing hayle the ''Zelandia'' and wished she said Quarts to keepe to the leeward, to which the said Quarts made no answer at all, but sailed on his course to the windward still as an enemie. And then he sayeth Captain Kingsman caused a shot to be made onboard the ''Experience'' athwart the ''Zelandia’s'' foot (according to the custome of the seas in such case.) which shot as he affirmeth, did not touch the ''Zelandia'' at all nor was intended soo to doe, but only to give her Captain and Company warning to fall to the Leewards. Notwithstanding all which means used, he sayeth they kept on still to the windwards of the ''Experience'', and would not, nor did they come to the Leeward, which he knoweth being then on board the ''Experience'' and seeing and hearing the premisses Ad 13nd dicit that the ''Experience'', when first her Captain and Company espyed the said three Dutch ships making towards her, had up and sayled with the English colours, and had them up when she was seized, as here after is declared; And sayeth the Captan and Company of the ''Zelandia'' and also the Captains and Companies of the other two dutch ships might and did see the same and he verily beleeveth they all know the experience to be an English ship. Et alr nescit./
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