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Comvoy sett saile togeather homewards bpou … Comvoy sett saile togeather homewards bpound for England, and in such their<br />
passage neere unto the Island of Corsica they first discovered eleaven saile<br />
of ducth men of warr, ten whereof not long after came up with the said Convoy<br />
neere the Island of Planosa, where they engaged in fight, in which the said<br />
shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' was very much damnified in her sailes rigging<br />
masts and hull, but to what valew this deponent knoweth not nor can certainely depose,<br />
And saith That after the said engagement all the other English shipps then in<br />
Companie with her made in for Porto Longoone for their securitie, and had<br />
otherwise in all probability been lost and taken by the said dutchmen of warr<br />
Of the premisses hee saith hee was an Eye wittnesse, And further cannot<br />
depose:-/
To the 10th hee saith, That the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' with the other<br />
English shipps sp forced into Porto Longoone by the said dutch fleet were<br />
there blocked up for about five moneths, Which hee knoweth belonging to her<br />
all that time in the Condition aforesaid/:-
To the 11th article hee saith, That during such time as the said shipp the ''Thomas<br />
Bonadventure'' lay at Porto Longoone as aforesaid, An Order from the then<br />
Councell of State of this Commonwealth was brought and publiquely read<br />
aboard the said shipp togeather with a Commission, importing and ordering<br />
the said shipp and her Companie to be imployed in a warlike service<br />
for the said Commonwealth against the dutch, and commannding her to that<br />
purpose to be unladen and fitted for the said imployment, which orders and<br />
Commission, the said hughes and Companie were constrained to obey, and<br />
accordingly shortly after to unlade and serve as predeposed. The premisses hee<br />
well knoweth, for that hee heard the said Order read as aforesaid, and<br />
saw and perused the same together with the said Commission./
To the 13th hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure''<br />
continued in the Merchant imployment in the Voiage in Controversy from<br />
the moneth of November <u>1651.</u> arlate untill the moneth of february <u>1652</u><br />
arlate being the time that her said lading was fully discharged at Porta<br />
fferrara by order as aforesaid, Which hee well knoweth for that hee this<br />
examinate all the time belonged to and served in her, and accordingly received<br />
his wages due for such his service, wherein hee by the Computation aforesaid<br />
continued about 15. moneths./
Upon the rest of the articles of this Allegation hee is not examined by the direction<br />
of the partie producent./
The same day, the said '''William Jefferey''' examined<br />
upon <u>another</u> Allegation of the said producents conteyning<br />
23. articles./
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That the<br />
shipp the ''dart frigatt'' arlate arrived at Cyprus about the 15th day<br />
of May <u>.1652:</u> being then fully laden according as was there reported<br />
And saith shee staied there or thereabouts for about three daies (as hee<br />
now remembreth) after such her arrivall before her depaarture thence<br />
(forore her depaarture thence<br />
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