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Transcription

having received the same from on board the said shipp hee reladed the said
shipp with ffiggs Almonds, Corke, and Oyle, and Consigned the same to the
foresaid William Bulkeley in this City of London. And the said Browning by [XXX]
of the said Johnson on the [?ffirst] of ffebruary or thereabouts saile with the said Merchandizes in the said ship [XXX XXXX] towards
this Port, and in her Course hetherwards coming neere the Isle of Wight
shee was (on or about the 19th. day of ffebruary 1655/ met with and was
seized by an Ostend man of warr, and by her Carried to
Ostend, and there made Prize, The Premisses hee deposeth
for that hee helped to unlade and relade the foresaid goods at Pharaoh
and was alsoe taken in the said ship, and Caried to Ostend in her
and further hee cannot depose./:

To the 15th hee saith that the said ship the Plaine Dealing was in the service
and Imployment of the said Bulkeley and Company from the said
28th (or thereabouts) of May 1655, untill the said Nineteenth day of ffebruary
following, and further deposeth not./.

To the 16th hee saith hee hath heard that in the monethes of September
and October 1655: the Spaniards tooke and surprized severall English ships
and goods. and Confiscated the same and further cannot depose.

To the 17th hee saith hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./

To the 18th hee cannot depose./.

To the 19th hee cannot depose, referring himselfe to the Registry of this Court.

To the 20th hee saith the said William Brownin and Company have suffered
great dammage by reason of the non=payment of the money[?es]
to them for the freight of the said ship, but cannot as he saith estimate
the said dammage; and further cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp.

To the first hee saith hee was Mate, and Boatswaineof the said
ship the Plaine dealing the voyage in Controversy, and saith the
foresaid Mault did shrinke in the voyage (as all mault will doe as hee
saith) and were as it amounted here in England to about 300 Quarters
hee saith that upon the said delivery at New England it amounted but to
about 290 Quarters, And saith none of the said Mault was [XXXXX]
and saith there was some damage happened to the foresaid Mault
amounting to about 5. li which was occasioned (as hee beleeveth by
the unskillful puttinhg up of the same in the Caske wherein they were
put, and otherwise Negatively./:

To the second hee saith the said ship the Plaine dealing sailed from
New England towards Mallega, and in her Course, (coming beere of
wanting water the said Browning sent his Boate on shore to Pharaoh
neereby to get fresh water, and being informed of a warr betweene
England and Spaine, as aforesaid was the occasion of his [XXXXX]
to Mallegas; and saith that while the said ship the Plaine dealing [was]
at ffarro, there was two Captaines of two English ships that did give [?out]
that they would goe neere Mallega, but saith hee knoweth not if
they went or not, and otherwise Negatively:/.

To the 3d hee saith the said Brunning did assure some money [XXXX]
the said ship, but how much hee knoweth not, And saith the said [XXX]
made now hostile resistance to the said man of warr, It being [?in]
vaine for him soe, to doe in regard the Plaine Dealing had [XXXX]
peeces of Ordnance, and tenn men, and the man of warr had [XXX]
peeces of Ordnance, and had about 100 men in her, and [?said ?the]
said Browning, by the said seizure lost as hee beleeveth [XXXX]
of five hundred Pounds, and otherwise Negatively./:

James B[XXX GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]