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thence to Scanderoon to that purpose and t … thence to Scanderoon to that purpose and then returned againe for Cyprus<br />
the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' remaining all that time at Cyprus<br />
and receiving in goods and merchandizes by order of the said Richard Chewne<br />
who had caused some of the sayd goods to be unladen out of the ''dart frigott'', and putt<br />
and laden aboard the ''Thomas Bonadventure'', the fore-peake whereof the said<br />
Chowne caused to be steeved with Cotton wooll[?s] after the departure of the<br />
said ''dart frigott'' from Cyprus, And further saith That the said shipp<br />
being fully laden, this deponent being ashoare at Cyprus in Company of the<br />
said Richard Chowne and Captaine hughes, heard the said hughes<br />
demand of the said Chewne whether hee should proceed upon his Voyage<br />
from thence or attend the said Convoy from Scanderoon, whereupon th said<br />
Chewne replied, That it would not be long ere the said Convoy returned<br />
and that in regard the times were dangerous it was best for him to attend<br />
the said Convoy for the security of his shipp and ladeing, or words to that<br />
or the like effect, which passed and were spoken in this deponents presence<br />
and hearing, And saith That accordingly the said Convoy being returned<br />
from Scanderoone to Ciprus the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' for<br />
her better securitie sailed under the Conduct thereof from Ciprus to<br />
Zant, where shee received and tooke in by order of the said Richard<br />
Chewne three and twenty butts of Currans or thereabouts to be<br />
transported in the same for this Port of London. The premisses this<br />
deponent well knoweth being as aforesaid Chirurgions mate of and aboard<br />
the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' during the whole Voyage in<br />
Controversie, And further cannot depose./
Upon the rest of the articles of this said Allegation hee is not examined<br />
by direction of the producent./:-
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first negatively to every part thereof./
To the second hee saith hee this rendent served in and aboard the shipp<br />
interrate during the whole Voyage in Controversie, and saith That in<br />
the said shipp at her departure from England in the yeare <u>1651.</u> there sailed as<br />
passenger one Mr Abraham Rowse, who came aboard the said shipp at Gravesend<br />
and was landed at Ciprus, and two other Merchants who were taken in at<br />
Gravesend and landed at Ligorne, And otherwise negatively:-/
To the 3. hee saith, That hee this examinate first came to know the interrate<br />
Richard Chewne at Scanderoon, when the said shipp as last there<br />
upon the Voyage in Controversie, and saith the said Richard Chewne both<br />
there and at Cyprus caused the said shipp to be laden, in the notion and<br />
name of factor[?s] but whose factor in particular hee was or is this deponent<br />
knoweth not, and saith that the English Convoy interrate consisted in<br />
three men of warr, videlicet the ''Paragon'' under the Command of Captaine<br />
Bodiley as Admirall, the ''Phoenix'', Captaine Wadsworth Commander<br />
the ''Elizabeth'', Captaine Reeves Commander And otherwise<br />
savingCommander And otherwise<br />
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