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Transcription

receaved the Lading which the said ship brought to Glascoe about
August last, and well knowing that they bought and Laded on board
the said ship the Lading which was taken in her, which said lading
hee saith consisted in about seaven lasts of Herrings, and about
ffive tonnes of Butter and tallowe, and the same was to be
Transported in the said Ship to Bourdeaux, and there to be
Delivered to one Mr Peter Pallet upon, and for the Account
of the said Andersons and Ker
and the said Pallet (as this Deponent hath bin credibly Informed) was
to returne the said Ship with wines upon the same Accompt.
The Premisses hee Deposeth living at Glascoe, and being well
acquainted with the said Andersons. and for that hee this Deponent [XXX] satisfy
a person of Greenock neere Glascoe for some of the said Lading
and the said John Anderson hath allowed the same to this
Deponent upon account. And further cannot depose./:

To the 3.d 4.th 5.th 6.th and 7.th hee saith that the said Lading being
soe put onboard the said ship shee Departed from Glascoe
on her said Voyage in September last and not long after
shee was at sea forcibly seized by a ship called the Charles Comanded by
one Browne as this Deponent hath bin Credibly Informed from the Governour of Garnisea; and otherwise who would
not (as hee hath likewise bin informed) discharge the said Ship untill
her Master paid him a Summe of money. And further deposeth
not./.

To the 8.th and 9.th hee saith that hee is a Merchant of Glacoe and
useth to Trade from thence to Bourdeaux in ffrance with and for the
foresaid Merchandizes, and thereby knoweth that Herrings at Bourdeaux
the last yeere were sold for about twenty foure and twenty six
Livers Per barrell, and butter and Tallow about 28 and 30 Livers Per
Cent. And saith that the said Lading would have produced
at Bourdeaux, above fforty Tonns of wine, which would have
yeilded at Glascoe and thereabouts in Scotland twenty foure
pounds per Tonne Cleere of Customs and Excise. And this
Deponent the yerre before there sold above sixty Tonns of wine which hee
received from Bourdeaux at the same rate And saith that
hee verily beleeveth the Owners of the said ship and lading
by meanes of the said Ships seizure and detention, and breaking of
the Voyage, have suffered losse and Damage to the summe or vallue
of One Thousand pounds Sterling, and upwards, And further deposeth
not:/:

To the 10.th hee saith that since the seizure of the said ship hee
this Deponent hath severall times spoke with the arlate Morgan Jones
and the said Jones hath acknowledged and confessed that hee
Imployed the foresaid Browne as Captaine of the Charles in his absence or
to that effect, and the said Jones mainaines what the said Browne did
touching the seizure of the said ship, And the sayd Jones hath alsoe
told this Deponent that hee is a Part owner of the Charles. And further cannot depose.

To the last hee saith that the said John Anderson Ninian Anderson and
James Ker are as aforesaid Inhabitants and Merchants of Glascoe (and Scotchmen
and Subjects of the King of England, and for such Commonly accounted./:

To the