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fustians, English bees-waxe and butter,
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent sawe
the same soe laden out of the warehouses of the said Mr Greene
at River portoby him the said Mr greene and his servants, and [?tooke GUTTER]
particular notice thereof in writing, they being consigned to bee
disposed of at Saint Sebastians by this deponent
(who went factor or Cape merchant in the said shipp, and was ordered
by the said Mr greene to dispose thereof for his accompt, and
saith the said lading of the said goods happened in or about the [?end GUTTER]
of the moneth of November last past of this deponents sight and knowledge
But the valew thereof hee saith hee knoweth not. And otherwise
hee cannot depose.

To the third Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp
departing as aforesaid with the said goods aboard her from
Liverpoole, intending to saile directly (as winde, weather and the
fortunes of the seas would permit, for Saint Sebastians, there to
make her discharge, and comming off the Seames on the coast of
ffrance, was on the fourteenth day of March last old stile met
with by a Brestman of warr, which after about three or
foure houres space and seveerall shotts made at the Guifte, took
and surprized he said shipp the Guift and all the said goods of
the said Mr greene, which were then all aboard her, and carried
the said shipp and goods to Port Louis in Bretanie, where the same
were confiscated, and soe the said goods were and are utterly lost
to the said Alexander Greene, without any manner of satisfaction
or recompence [?X] given for the same. All which hee knoweth being
aboard and seeing the said seizure, and being carried in the said
man of warr in company of the Guift and lading to
Port Lewis, where hee sawe the said goods (after confiscation)
made away and disposed of by the ffrench, before this deponent
cooming thence. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

Repeated before doctor Clarke.

Tho: Christian [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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