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having received the same from on board the … having received the same from on board the said shipp hee reladed the said<br />
shipp with ffiggs Almonds, Corke, and Oyle, and Consigned the same to the<br />
foresaid William Bulkeley in this City of London. And the said Browning by [XXX]<br />
of the said Johnson on the [?ffirst] of ffebruary or thereabouts saile with the said Merchandizes in the said ship [XXX XXXX] towards<br />
this Port, and in her Course hetherwards coming neere the Isle of Wight<br />
shee was (on or about the 19th. day of ffebruary 1655/ met with and was<br />
seized by an Ostend man of warr, and by her Carried to<br />
Ostend, and there made Prize, The Premisses hee deposeth<br />
for that hee helped to unlade and relade the foresaid goods at Pharaoh<br />
and was alsoe taken in the said ship, and Caried to Ostend in her<br />
and further hee cannot depose./:
To the 15th hee saith that the said ship the ''Plaine Dealing'' was in the service<br />
and Imployment of the said Bulkeley and Company from the said<br />
28th (or thereabouts) of May 1655, untill the said Nineteenth day of ffebruary<br />
following, and further deposeth not./.
To the 16th hee saith hee hath heard that in the monethes of September<br />
and October <u>1655:</u> the Spaniards tooke and surprized severall English ships<br />
and goods. and Confiscated the same and further cannot depose.
To the 17th hee saith hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./
To the 18th hee cannot depose./.
To the 19th hee cannot depose, referring himselfe to the Registry of this Court.
To the 20th hee saith the said William Brownin and Company have suffered<br />
great dammage by reason of the non=payment of the money[?es]<br />
to them for the freight of the said ship, but cannot as he saith estimate<br />
the said dammage; and further cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp.'''
To the first hee saith hee was Mate, and Boatswaineof the said<br />
ship the ''Plaine dealing'' the voyage in Controversy, and saith the<br />
foresaid Mault did shrinke in the voyage (as all mault will doe as hee<br />
saith) and were as it amounted here in England to about 300 Quarters<br />
hee saith that upon the said delivery at New England it amounted but to<br />
about 290 Quarters, And saith none of the said Mault was [XXXXX]<br />
and saith there was some damage happened to the foresaid Mault<br />
amounting to about 5. li which was occasioned (as hee beleeveth by<br />
the unskillful puttinhg up of the same in the Caske wherein they were<br />
put, and otherwise Negatively./:
To the second hee saith the said ship the ''Plaine dealing'' sailed from<br />
New England towards Mallega, and in her Course, (coming beere of<br />
wanting water the said Browning sent his Boate on shore to Pharaoh<br />
neereby to get fresh water, and being informed of a warr betweene<br />
England and Spaine, as aforesaid was the occasion of his [XXXXX]<br />
to Mallegas; and saith that while the said ship the ''Plaine dealing'' [was]<br />
at ffarro, there was two Captaines of two English ships that did give [?out]<br />
that they would goe neere Mallega, but saith hee knoweth not if<br />
they went or not, and otherwise Negatively:/.
To the 3d hee saith the said Brunning did assure some money [XXXX]<br />
the said ship, but how much hee knoweth not, And saith the said [XXX]<br />
made now hostile resistance to the said man of warr, It being [?in]<br />
vaine for him soe, to doe in regard the ''Plaine Dealing'' had [XXXX]<br />
peeces of Ordnance, and tenn men, and the man of warr had [XXX]<br />
peeces of Ordnance, and had about 100 men in her, and [?said ?the]<br />
said Browning, by the said seizure lost as hee beleeveth [XXXX]<br />
of five hundred Pounds, and otherwise Negatively./:
James B[XXX GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
James B[XXX GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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