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Transcription

was in a quiet and peaceable condition in her said trading voyage,
shee was met with by two dutch shipps, one whereof was called the Mary
of Amsterdam, and the other the Unicorne of Middleborowe both under
the command of John Scrawle, a dutchman, belonging as himselfe
acknowledged to Amsterdam, by which two shipps hee saith shee was without
any cause or offense at all given or offered, set upon, assaulted in a hostile
maner and forcibly taken and surprized together with her said gold and
goods; and the commander, factors and company of the Lyon and Providence
utterly dispoiled and deprived thereof, whereby the said shipp the Lyon
and Providence with the golds and goods aboard her were and are utterly
lost to the owners thereof, all Englishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth
and were possessed and taken away by the said Captaine Scrawle and
companies of the said two dutch shipps, who put kept all the company
of the Lyon and Providence above five weekes prisoners, and in that space
kept all or most of the common men in chaines, and they sent them
away with soe scant allowance of sustenance, that they were almost [?perish]ed
with hunger and had bin [?perish]ed had they not got to Saint Thoma and there sold their vessell for a [#]

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some provisions
of food.

and saith they alsoe tooke away from the commander
factors and others of the Lyon and Providence bookes and papers. And
that the said two shipps the Mary and the Unicorne were dutch built
and had and carried dutch colours, when the Lyon and Providence came
first neere them when at the said Cape, and were both belonging as the
said Captaine Scrawle and others of their companies acknowledged to the
United Provinces and places under dominion of the States of the said
Provinces, namely the Mary of Amsterdam and the Unicorne of
Middleborowe and were set out thense with a cargo of goods to come
and trade for Negroes at Guinney, and the most of the said two shipps
companies were dutch and (as was acknowledged by and amongst them)
subiects of the States Generall of the United Netherlands, and came from
the said Netherlands in the said two shipps, the premisses hee deposeth
seeing and hearing the same. Amd otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the tenth hee cannot depose.

To the eleaventh article hee saith and deposeth that in all probabilitie
the said shipp the Lyon and Providence (had shee not bin soe hindered
and taken as aforesaid) might with her gold and goods have arived
in the parts of East India to which shee was bound, and there have
sold and trucked away her said lading and brought the proceed[?e] thereof
to this port to the greate proffit and advantage of the adventurers,
And saith the usuall profitt of gold carried from Guiney to East
India and there invested in goods of the place and brought to this port
is above cento per cent, and frequently yeeldeth
it selfe treble, namely the valew of an hundred pounds sterling, retournes
three hundred pounds, and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser summe; and
soe much hee saith is well knowne amongst merchants trading to
those parts. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the twelveth hee saith that each marke of the said gold was and
upon the said coast of Guinney worth twenty five pounds and twelve shillings
sterling by common account and estimation, at the said time of seizure
of the said shipp. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

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