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Oastend of which Adrian Vanhide Master) an … Oastend of which Adrian Vanhide Master) and to be in<br />
the sayd vessell transported to Rotterdam and there delivered to<br />
theire factors or Agents to be disposed for their use and accompt which<br />
he knoweth for that he was then Master of the said Ketch and did<br />
receyve the sayd serges on board him to be disposed of as aforesayd<br />
by direction of the sayd ffurley and Page and otherwise he ćannot<br />
depose
To the second Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith, That soone after the lading<br />
of the sayd searges the sayd vessell the ''Coronation'' alias the ''ffortune''<br />
did sett sayle with the sayd goods towards the Port of Rotterdam, and<br />
in her Course thither she was mett withall and sett upon by a Galliot<br />
hoy being a Private Man of Warr of dover under the Command of<br />
dirick Hendrix alias Swayne neere unto the Maze about the beginning<br />
of March <u>1653.</u> aforesayd and the sayd Hendrix with some of his<br />
Company did come on board the sayd Ketch, and this deponent being present<br />
they seized and tooke in their possessions and perused the Cocketts and<br />
other dispatches that concerned the sayd searges and notwithstanding that they<br />
did see by the sayd Cocketts and other writings, that the sayd searges did<br />
belong to the sayd John ffurley and John Page of Colchester aforesaid,<br />
yet the sayd Hendrix did take and carry away out of the sayd Ketch<br />
the sayd twenty peices of mixed serges which were made up in two<br />
packes belonging to the sayd John ffurley Jun; and the sayd ten<br />
pieces of white serges which were made up allso in two other packs<br />
belonging to the sayd John Page, and did ćarry away the same and<br />
dispose them at his owne will and pleasure. All which this deponent<br />
knoweth to be true being then Master of the sayd Ketch and an eye<br />
witnesse of the sayd premisses. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the third and fourth articles of the said allegation, This deponent saith that by the experience<br />
he hath of Colchester serges and the usuall prices they yield in<br />
Holland where he hath often tymes sold such serges, he doth verily<br />
believe that the sayd twenty pieces of mixed serges were att the<br />
tyme of their lading with the Customes and other dutyes discharged<br />
to be sold in Holland worth eighty pounds sterling or thereabouts, and the sayd ten<br />
pieces of white serges which the Customes and other dutyes worth<br />
the sume of seventy pounds sterling or thereabouts and that the sayd<br />
twenty and ten peices would then have yeilded the sayd respective prices<br />
or neere thereabouts att Rotterdam and otherwise he ćannot depose<br />
saving that he saith that the sayd serges had they not bene so seized by the<br />
said Hendrix had in and would in all probability have arrived in safety<br />
att Rotterdam and saving that he saith It is very probable that by<br />
reason of the scarcity of English serges att that tyme in Holland (the<br />
trade being interrupted by the warr) such goods would and might have<br />
yeilded there a farr greater summe than this deponent hath predeposed<br />
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