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the goods of and belonging to the said Rob … the goods of and belonging to the said Robert Browne, and was<br />
laden for his accompt at the said Ile of Matt by his factor there<br />
(whose name hee doth not more remember) and consigned to bee delivered<br />
to him the said Robert on his order at Algier; and with that the said Robert Browne<br />
and his brother Thomas Browne were Commonly accounted sole<br />
owners of the said shipp and her tackle and furniture on and after<br />
the said first of June 1655, but what part or there belonged<br />
to any of them hee knoweth not. The premisses touching the said<br />
voyage and lading hee deposeth being boatswaine of the said shipp and<br />
going the said voyage from place to place in her. And further<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the third hee saith that the said shipp after the premisses going<br />
from Algier to Ligorne and thence to Smyrna, did at Smyrna<br />
in the moneth of October 1655 (or thereabouts) take in her ladeing<br />
of Buffalo hides, Cardinants, Cotton yarne, grogeram yarne wax<br />
Allum, and silke; and set saile thence therewith on or about<br />
the 28th day of the said moneth of October 1655 bound for Ligorne<br />
her intended port of discharge, and that after shee had bin<br />
by stresse of weather put in at Malta, and was thence departed<br />
to prosecute her said voyage for Ligorne, shee was in december 1655<br />
about two dayes before Christmas chased by a man of warr,<br />
which showing {noe} colours, gave the master of the ''Starr'' and company<br />
reason to thinke him a Turkish pirate, and for safeguard made with<br />
the ''Starr'' for the shore of Sicilia, where ariving and comming to<br />
an anchor under command of a Castle, the pirate<br />
stood off againe to sea, and that the Castle shooting to force them<br />
ashore, they to avoid that, and seeing the pirate gonne, cutt<br />
cables and lost their anchor and set saile for Ligorne, but the<br />
said pirate perceiving them under saile, stood after them againe<br />
and in the evening fetched them up,<br />
and sending his boate manned to [?board GUTTER]<br />
them they, namely the master and company of the ''Starr'' were forced to run and<br />
did run the said shipp and lading ashore on the coast of Sicilia<br />
where the Spaniards possest them selves of such of the lading as<br />
could be saved, but the shipp was there staved to in peeces against<br />
the rocks, and quite lost together with the rest of her lading<br />
that was not saved by the Spaniards; and saith the said Robert<br />
Browne and his said brother at the said time of casting away and<br />
losse of the said shipp were commonly accounted sole owners of her<br />
but whether the said Robert had any share in the said goods or not<br />
hee saith hee doth not knowe, The premisses touching the said<br />
voyage and losse hee deposeth being boatswaine of the said shipp<br />
and seeing the said premisses soe happen, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
Toosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
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