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frequented the said Navigation and trade of and in the parts
of Brazeele aforesaid for all that time, and thereby is well
versed and experienced therein, and hath thereby observed the
premisses to be reall and true and consonant to the common judgment
and repute of all persons using and frequenting those parts, And
further to this article hee deposeth not:/

To the eighth article hee saieth, That the said shipp the fortune
having received her said Cargaison of sugars did sett sayle with
the same from the Bahia to ffernambuco, where this deponent then was with
his said shipp the Nostra Seniora da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo, and
that the said shipp fortune did shortly after such her arrivall
at ffernambuco as aforesaid sett sayle and was in Companie
of this deponent and of his said ship, (which shipp was laden with
Brazeele wood sugars and Tobaccoes at the Brazeele and was bound
for the Port of Lisbone in POrtugall) and that in the Course
thitherwards and in or about the moneth of November 1657, the
said shipp the fortune with her said lading of sugars in her together
with the said shipp the Nostra Seniora da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo
and her lading also was about 20. or thirtie leagues from the
Coast of Portugall mett with seized and surprized by a certaine
number or Squadron of shipps in the service of the said Lords
the States or of their Subjects, and by the Captaines Commanders
and Companies of the said shipps were by force seized taken and
surprized as the shipps and goods of the king of Portugall and of
his subjects, as and under the notion of the goods of the enemies
of the Lords the States of the United Provinces aforesaid and
their Subjects, and so much in effect the said Captaines Commanders
and Companies or some of them did declare and expresse in
this deponents presence and hearing shortly after the said seizure
as also that they the said seizors were dutchmen and Subjects
of the said Lords the States of the United Provinces. And
further to this article hee deposeth not./

To the nyneth hee saieth, That hee hath credibly heard and doeth
verily beleeve That the said seizors upon and shortly after the
said seizure did some of them unduely and by force and violence
at sea take and plunder out of the said shipp the fortune
a considerable quantity of sugar, but how much this deponent doeth
not certainely know (otherwise than by report that they did
amount to the number of seaven and twenty Chests of sugar or
thereabouts) for that he this deponent was not an eyewittnesse
(thereof