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and hee saith that one of the sayd shipps company but which of them hee now remembreth not thereupon told the sayd Robert
that hee was mistaken in makeing to that Tower for Saint Sebastian or to that effect
whereith the sayd Robert was ffended, and speaking to him who soe
sayd hee was mistaken sayd her would laye a wager with him that hee the
sayd Robert was not therein mistaken or to that effect, And saith that afterwards
the sayd shipp meeteing with fowle weather was forced to anchor on the back
side of Cadiz whither shee came nigh shoare, with such sayles as
shee boare out, standing, And saith it is usuall for shipps when they come [?or ?XXXXXX in]
and lye neere Cadiz to shoote off a gunne and hange out Colours, And saith
that some of the sayd shipps Company after they came to an Anchor on the
back of Cadiz did hange out colours on the sayd shipp, but whether without
the order of the sayd Thomas Browning the Master hee knoweth not, but saith
the sayd Colours were taken in againe by Command either of the sayd Thomas
or Robert Browning (but which of them hee now remembreth not) And hee
saith that the sayd shipp having ridd on the back of Cales anight and a day
or thereabouts and noe gunne fyred nor colours out saving as beforeis expressed the sayd Thomas Browning
commanded the sayd shipps boate to be hoysed out and Commanded the
Company of the shipp to come into the boate and they being all come therein
it was concluded by the sayd Master and Company that it was fitt to forsake the shipp and to
rowe in the sayd Boate for Cales and there get helpe to save the
sayd shipp if they could, And hee saith that while the sayd Master and Company
were soe gone toward Cales certaine Spaniards came (by order of
the Governor as they afterwards sayd) and finding noebody aboard her cut her
cable and the winde being then turned and serving to bring her off from
shore the sayd Spaniards brought the sayd shipp and her ladeing to
Cales, which while they were doeing, the master of the ffortune and Company
having hyred at Cales a boate and men to helpe to get the sayd
shipp ffortune and goods to Cales mett the sayd Spaniards on board her
bringing her to Cales, by meanes whereof it cost the Owners of the
sayd shipp and goods some moneys to redeeme the sayd shipp and goods
out of the Spaniards hands, but how much hee knoweth not, but hath
heard the Interrogants Joseph Tilly and Mr Vanderpost saye that the
redemption of the sayd shipp and goods from the sayd Spaniards
cost them neere upon five hundred pounds the premisses hee deposet being one of the shipps company and onboard and an eye and eare wittnes of them And further to this
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./

To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith that the shipp ffortune after shee had delivered
most

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