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true for that hee was and is the person wh … true for that hee was and is the person who by the Owners aforesaid was<br />
employed and entrusted in and about the management of the said ladeing<br />
together with the said Isbrant Rodenburch whose transactions therein hee<br />
was very well and particularly acquainted withall upon the occasion aforesaid<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the third article hees aith and deposeth, That hee this deponent and Company<br />
being at Souters aforeaid and the Island Saint Martin neere Rochell upon the<br />
Voiage in Controversy in or about the moneths of January and ffebruary last<br />
past did there buy and lade in and aboard the said shipp the ''Scaep'' for their<br />
owne respctive accompts twenty six hogsheads of Vinegar three hogsheads of<br />
wine one hogshead of brandewine and a quantity of wallnutts to be transpor=<br />
ted for their said accompt to Edam aforesaid, the same being the proceed of<br />
some cheese, tarre, and other goods which were caarried in the said shipp from<br />
Edam to ffrance and there sold by this deponent and Companie. The premisses hee<br />
well knoweth to be true being Master of the said shipp the whole Voiage in<br />
Controversy and thereby well knowing the interest and propriety of himself and<br />
Company in the goods now by him deposed of. And further cannot depose./
To the 4th article hee saith, That the said Vessell the ''Scaep'' or ''Mutton'' in her passage<br />
from Rochell towards Edam aforesaid being the place for which shee and her said<br />
lading were designed meeting with very badd and misty weather did upon the 14th<br />
day of february last past new style come to an anchor Under the Command<br />
of Port Land Castle, and there this deponent payd the dueties of fight money and<br />
anchorage, and did ride there a night and a day, and upon the second night of<br />
her so rising there a private man of warr whereof one Cotterell was<br />
Commander came in the night and surprized and seized the said shipp and goods<br />
without any the least enquiry from whence they were or whither bound, but<br />
using this deponent and Company in a very barbarous and inhumane manner they<br />
cutt the Cable whereby the said shipp did ride and rann away with her and<br />
her goods setting this deponent and his shipps did ride and rann away with her and<br />
her goods setting this deponent and his shipps Carpenter ashoare at Weymouth<br />
where this deponent being had intelligence that his said shipp was brought to<br />
Studland bay neere Poole, and thereupom this deponent and his Contest went to<br />
Poole, and there tooke boate and went aboard his shipp, And there found and<br />
observed that the same was plundered of all and singular the goods and<br />
necessaries ensueing by the said Cotterell and Companys videlicet If about<br />
fifty tonns of salt, but of what valew this deponent cannot estimate, as also of<br />
the valew of fortie fower pounds sterling in Rixdollers, ducatoons, pistolls<br />
and double styvers belonging to this deponent plundered and taken out of this<br />
deponents Chest, one new mayne topsayle worth one hundred and fourty gelders<br />
Dutch or fourteen pounds sterling money, one hawser worth about <u>16 ''li''</u><br />
sterling one maine saile worth sixtie gilders or 6, pounds sterling, one foresaile<br />
bonnett worth 7: ''li'' sterling, one port saile or saile to shoote ballast over<br />
worth .12. shillings, two barrells of butter worth foure pounds, two<br />
rowles of sayle cloath worth one pound, all the said shipps provision<br />
really worth six pounds and upqards, a paire of Compasses worth foure<br />
shillings at the least, this deponents linnen and woolen cloathes to the full<br />
(valueen cloathes to the full<br />
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