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of London a Cargoe of goods and merchandizes amounting to the
value of ten thousand pounds sterling and
upwards for their owne use and account and sent out the
said ship (with the same on board her) on a trading voyage
to goe from this port to Lisbone, and thence to Brazeele
thence to Lisbone againe, and soe to returne for this port of London; on
which voyage he sayth she proceeded from Gravesend
in or about the moneth of August 1659 and arrived at Lisbone
shortly after in safety with her foresaid lading on board her, All
which he knoweth for that he arrived there in her in the quality aforesaid./

Ad 3rd he says that during the the time of lading the foresaid Cargoe on
board the said Ship in this port as aforesaid the said Bretton Delboe
Middleton and Company constituted and made on John Kingsman
Captain or Command of her for the said voyage, and one
William Croxon was by then als made and constituted Supra Cargoe
of her for the said voyage which he knoweth for the reasons
aforesaid and for that the said Captain Kingsman shipped this
Deponent in the quality aforesaid. And further sayth that the
said Kingsman and Croxon were and are Englishman and
subiects of the king of England, and soe generally knowne
and reputed to bee./

Ad 4nd articlum he says that after the said shipp Experience arrived
at Lisibone the said William Croxon her supra Cargoe did
there unlade and take out of her severall of the goods and
merchandizes which she carried out in her from this port, and
there disposed of the same, and tooke in other goods in lieu
thereof, as oyles, Linnen clothes and other merchandizes which
were to be transported in the said ship from thence to Brazile
and there to be barted away for sugars, hides tobaccoe
and Brazile woods all for the use and account of the foresaid
producents which he knoweth for the reasons aforesaid./

To the 5nd he sayd that during the time that the said Croxon remained
with the ship Experience at Lisbone he did there procure a
Licence from the King of Portugall to trade at Brazeele
and sayth that noe such licence are or may be may be procured
except the procurers of them doe first give security to the King of Portugall or his officers to
returne with their said ships from Brazeele to Lisbone, and
there to unlade the same, that the King of Portugall may
receive the Custome(s) which are due to him out of such goods which are
so brought thence which security the said Croxon was necessitated(for
the reason aforesaid)to put in and did not as he sayth put in the same accordingly
And further to the Article deposeth not saving that Mr
Abraham Jacobs (an Englishman and Factor of the producents
residing at Lisbone) and another English merchant there also residing
(whose name this deponent doth not now remember) were the security
soe put in by the said Croxon tso the intent aforesaid/.

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