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To the 7th. 8th and 9th articles hee saith … To the 7th. 8th and 9th articles hee saith and deposeth that in the yeere<br />
and monethes allegate, the said shipp being in her course from Cormantine<br />
for the parts of East India come with the said gold and goods as farr as<br />
or neere to Casa Lopez in a peaceable and quiet condition on her<br />
said trading voyage, was there on or about the eleaventh of September<br />
last old style, met with, forcibly assaulted shot at and by violence<br />
taken and seized together wuth all the foresaid gold and goods<br />
by two dutch shipps, the one called the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and<br />
the other said to be of Middleborowe, both under the command<br />
(in cheife) of one Captaine John Scrawle a dutch man, and the halfe<br />
at least of the said shipps companies were dutch, and commonly<br />
said and accounted to be with the said commander subiects of the<br />
States of the United Netherlands, and the said twoe shipps came (as<br />
their companies acknowledged) from the Texel the said voyage for<br />
the said coast of Ginney for Negroe's, and that mr Vandergoos<br />
was one of their setters forth. And saith the said shipp Mary<br />
was dutch built, and the said other vessell was originally Portugueze<br />
and rebuilt or altered in the said United Netherlands. And saith the<br />
''Lyon and Providance'' being soe seized, her master company and<br />
factors were quite dispoiled and deprived of her and of all the said<br />
golds and goods, which were and are thereby utterky lost to the owners<br />
thereof, and besides the said shipp, gold and goods, the said Scrowle<br />
and company tooke away the papers, bookes and writings of the<br />
master, company and factors of the said shipp the lyon and Providance<br />
All which hee knoweth being present and seeing the same soe donne.
To the tenth hee cannot depose.
To the 11th 12 13th 14 15 and 16 hee saith that in all probabilitie had not the said<br />
seizure and spoile happened, the said shipp had and would have<br />
arived with her said gold and goods at the parts of<br />
East India, and there have invested the same in goods of theise<br />
parts, and have brought the same for theise parts, and here<br />
in theise parts the same would have yeelded two for one and upwards, namely the said<br />
gold and goods of the said shipps owners, would have produced and<br />
made out five and twenty hundred pounds sterling and upwards by<br />
com mon reputation, and the said Alderman and Maurice Tomsons gold and<br />
goods proportonably according to the valew thereof, and soe to<br />
have yeelded seaven thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 17th hee saith that the said James Bridgeman Thomas<br />
Preston and company, owners of the said shipp were to have had and<br />
received for her freight in case of her safe arivall at this port<br />
(where in all probabilitie shee would safely have arived if the said<br />
spoile had not happened,) the summe of two thousand sixe hundred<br />
and fiftie pounds sterling of the said Alderman and Maurice Tomson<br />
besides the freight of private adventurers goods.
To the eighteenth the hee saith the said shipp ''lyon and Providance''<br />
at the time of the said seizure with her tackle furniture and provisions<br />
were worth two thousand five hundred pounds sterling. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
Thomas Preston [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]pose.
Thomas Preston [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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