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Transcription

consigned to be here delivered to the said Mr Bradick or his assignes,
which hee knoweth becasue hee sawe the lading thereof, and being master
as aforesaid, received the same aboard for the said Mr Brodickes accompt
and signed bills of lading for the same, which bills and all other his
papers and writings were alsoe seized and taken away by the said
Dillon

Wm Ware [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 13th of Aprill 1654.

On the behalfe of Roger Hatton of}
London merchant concerning the losse}
of the shipp Expedition of Plimouth}

Rp.

William Sowden of Plimouth Mariner
master of the shipp the Welfare of the
said port, aged 36 yeares or thereabouts

To the first, second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knewe the shipp interrogated, the Expedition of Plimouth
whereof George Mathewes was master, at the time of her last
being at the Island of Zant in the Mediteranean seas, and saith
shee departed thence on or about the thirteenth of ffebruary last
past old stile, bound for this port of London and here to make
her dischardge of her lading of Currance. And saith that in her
right course of proceeding from Zant for this said port, comming
about fourtie leagues off the Rock of Lisbone, shee was met
withall and set upon by a man of warr having Holland colours
and about 26 guns, and soe was this deponents said shipp the
Welfare which came in company of the Expedition, and after
about two howres hott fight betweene the said man of warr (which endeavoured to take them) on
the one part and the Expedition and the Welfare on the other
the said shipp the Expedition being extremely battered
and torne with the fight, sunck with her said lading of currance
downe in the sea and soe shee and her lading were and are utterly
lost, and this hee saith happened on the seaventeenth day
of March last past of the stile aforesaid; All which hee knoweth
because hee this deponent in his said shipp the Welfare went out
from England the said voyage in company of the Expedition and
was in her companie at Zant and saw her take in her said
lading, and carrie thence in her companie bound alsoe for this [?port]
and was present and active (as master of the Welfare) in the
said fight and sawe the said shipp Expedition sincke, and [?doe ?did]
her men in this deponents said shipp, And saith that the
[?boughes] and masts of the enemie (the said man of warr) were alsoe torne
and the shipp very much shattered, soe that shee fell off, and
as this deponent beleeveth shee alsoe afterwards sanck, but this deponent
could not see what became of her by reason the night was come and
that hee quickly lost sight of her.

William [?GoodXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]