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Transcription

said shipp the fortune, which was also laden with sugars at
the Brazeele and was bound for the Port of Lisbone in Portugall
and in her Course thitherwards in or about the moneth of
November. 1657. the said shipp the Nostra Seniora with all
her said lading of sugars Tobacco and Brazil wood in her,
togeather with this deponents said shipp the ffortune and her lading
also were about twenty or thirtie leagues from the Coast of
Portugall mett with and seized by a certiane number of squadron
of shipps in the sevice of the Lords the States of the United
Provinces or of their Subjects, and by the Captaines Commanders and
Companies of the said shipps by force taken and surprized for
and as the shipps and goods of the said king, and under the notion
of the goods of the enemies of the Lords the States of the United
Provinces and their Subjects, and that at the time of the said
seizure; the Dutch seizors aforesaid or some of them did openly
declare and give out themselves to be dutchmen and Subjects
of the Lords the States of the said United Provinces, The premisses
this deponent well knoweth as being present at and a sufferer in
the said seizure, and brought a prisoner upon one of the said dutch
shipps. And further to this article hee deposeth not./.

To the 9th article hee saith, That this deponent hath very credibly
heard and firmely beleeveth, That the said Dutch seizors of
some of them shortly after the said seizure did plunder severall
goods and merchanises out of the said shipp Nostra Seniora
unduely and by force, as they had also done to this deponents shipp, but the
certaine quantity or quality of the goods by them so plundered
or taken away out of the said shopp Nostra Seniora this deponent
saieth he knoweth not for that hee was not present at nir an
eyewittnesse of the said plunder, onely this deponent hath credibly
heard, that the said seizors did so plunder about 50. or 60. chests
or fetches of sugars and Tobaccoes. And further to this article saieth not

To the 10th hee saieth, That he beleeveth, That according to the
usuall style and custome, the said Master of the shipp Nostra
Seniora did signe severall bills of lading for the severall goods ny
him received on board his said shipp at fernambuco aforesaid, and
that some of the said bills of lading, and other writings letters
and papers concerning the said shipp and her lading aforesaid
did, come to the hands of the said seizors
or some of them who wilfully in this deponents sight did throw them overboard by meanes of which seizure of the said
papers and writings, this deponent (who suffered the like force in
his owne shipp at the same time of seizure) is fully assured
that (there being no conveyance from Lisbone to London but bu
(Sea