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Transcription

To the first hee saith doming Vas da Britto and Edward Bushell of
London were the Owners of the shipp the Blessing and the sayd da Britto
was alsoe a freighter, having 15 bales of linnen and 400 deale boards
laden for his Accompt aboard her and Manuell Swarez Merchant of
Roane was the other of her ffreighters, and laded aboard her twenty bales
of linnen and peece of Scarlett and a truncke with about a dozen hatts in
it and further saving his foregoing deposition to the Interrogatorie given on
behalfe of the sayd Swares hee cannot answere/

To the 2 third and 4th Interrogatories hee saith that the sayd shipp went with the goods aboard
specified from Roane and when there was out at Sea the winds proving
Contrary shee put in at the Isle of Wight where shee stayed about
fower or five dayes for a fayre winde and thense went directly
for without stay toward the Canaries till such tyme as shee was surprized together
with her sayd ladeing by three Sally men of warr about the seaventeenth
or eighteenth of March 1656 neere the North Cape And further
saving his foregoing deposition to the Interrogatories ministed
on the behalfe of the sayd Swares hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith that as hee was informed by some at Sally
(in the tyme hee this deponent was in Captivity there as a Slave) the sayd
shipp was sold to certayne Moores, but for what hee knoweth not, neither
can hee estimate the value of her or her ladeing aforesayd/
And further hee cannot depose/

Jo [?Soon] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The sayd Soon to the Interrogatories on the
behalfe of the Assurrers./ in the cause touching
Vas da Britto./

To the first hee saith domingo Vas da Britto and Edward Bushell
Merchants of London were Owners of the Blessing and the sayd
da Britto was alsoe a ffreighter, having 15 bales of linnen and 400
deale boards laden for his Account aboard her and Manuell Swarzes Merchant
of Roane was the other of her ffreighters, and laded aboard her
20 bales of linnen, one peece of Scarlett and a truncke with about
a dozen hatts in it which was all the sayd shipps ladeing the voyage in
question And further saving his foregoing deposition to the Interrogatorie given
on behalfe of the sayd Vas da Britto hee cannot answere/

To the 2: 3 and 4th Interrogatories hee saith the sayd shipp went with the
goods above specified from Roane, and being at Sea and the winde proveing
Contrary shee put in at the Isle of Wight where shee stayed about 4 or
5 dayes for a fayre winde and thense went directly without stay toward
the Canaries till such tyme as shee and her sayd ladeing were taken
by three Sally men of warr neere the North Cape aforesayd about the 17th
or eighteenth of March 1656 And further saving his foregoing
deposition