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thereof, as being then a Prisoner in the s … thereof, as being then a Prisoner in the said dutch fleet.
To the 10th article hee saieth, That he conceiveth and verily<br />
beleeveth, That when the said sugars were laden in on board the<br />
said shipp ''ffortune'', the said Master thereof did according to the<br />
general use and Custome in the Like Cases, signe severall bills<br />
of lading for the same, and this deponent also verily beleeveth, that the<br />
said Master did bring some of the said bills of lading soe by him<br />
signed and also diverse other papers, as Invoyces letters Coquets<br />
or other writings concerneing the said shipp and her said Lading<br />
from the Bahia and fernambuco aforesaid to be delivered,<br />
this deponent verily beleeveth, to severall persons in Lisbone, and [?XXXX]<br />
by which the distinct and severall persons to whom the said [?XXXX]<br />
were severally to be delivered were, as this deponent also beleeveth [?XXXX]<br />
downe, And this deponent further verily beleeveth That the said<br />
Dutch Captaines Commanders or Companies or some of them<br />
upon the surprizing and taking of the said shipp the ''fortune''<br />
did unduely and by force take and carry away the said papers<br />
writings out of the said shipps as this deponent hath most credibly<br />
heard, and hath great reason to beleeves, for that the said seizer[?XXX]<br />
did in like manner deale with this deponents shipps - papers; And<br />
this deponent further beleeveth, That by meanes of such seizure of<br />
the said writings, and for that there is no conveyance from<br />
Lisbone to London by the ordinary Poast, but onely by sea, which<br />
requires a long time, the dist[XXXX] specificall and particular [XXXX]<br />
of each person to each or only part of the said Lading cannot for the<br />
present be distinctely and specifically sett downe. And further<br />
to this [said] Article hee deposeth not./
To the 11th he saieth, That the said shipp the ''fortune'' with as<br />
much of her lading as was not by the said Dutch seizors taken<br />
out of her as aforesaid was by the said Dutch seizors or some of<br />
them brought to Plimouth arlate where this deponent hath seene the same<br />
where, the propertie of the same remaining still in the said Brazeele<br />
Companie [?and] others the Subjects of the said king of Portugall, the<br />
same have at their suite beene arrested, (as this deponent hath heard<br />
and beleeveth) by a warrant of this Court, as belonging to them<br />
in point of propertie, And that the said goods have beene since by Commission of<br />
this Court unladen out of the said shipp, and the quantities [?XXXX]<br />
and markes thereof have beene removed into this Court, as this<br />
deponent also beleeveth, and for his full certainety therein referreth<br />
himselfe to the acts and proceedings of this Court./
To the last he saieth, his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated with his precontesters before<br />
Colonell Cocke./
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