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said shipp the ''fortune'', which was also … said shipp the ''fortune'', which was also laden with sugars at<br />
the Brazeele and was bound for the Port of Lisbone in Portugall<br />
and in her Course thitherwards in or about the moneth of<br />
November. 1657. the said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora'' with all<br />
her said lading of sugars Tobacco and Brazil wood in her,<br />
togeather with this deponents said shipp the ''ffortune'' and her lading<br />
also were about twenty or thirtie leagues from the Coast of<br />
Portugall mett with and seized by a certiane number of squadron<br />
of shipps in the sevice of the Lords the States of the United<br />
Provinces or of their Subjects, and by the Captaines Commanders and<br />
Companies of the said shipps by force taken and surprized for<br />
and as the shipps and goods of the said king, and under the notion<br />
of the goods of the enemies of the Lords the States of the United<br />
Provinces and their Subjects, and that at the time of the said<br />
seizure; the Dutch seizors aforesaid or some of them did openly<br />
declare and give out themselves to be dutchmen and Subjects<br />
of the Lords the States of the said United Provinces, The premisses<br />
this deponent well knoweth as being present at and a sufferer in<br />
the said seizure, and brought a prisoner upon one of the said dutch<br />
shipps. And further to this article hee deposeth not./.
To the 9th article hee saith, That this deponent hath very credibly<br />
heard and firmely beleeveth, That the said Dutch seizors of<br />
some of them shortly after the said seizure did plunder severall<br />
goods and merchanises out of the said shipp ''Nostra Seniora''<br />
unduely and by force, as they had also done to this deponents shipp, but the<br />
certaine quantity or quality of the goods by them so plundered<br />
or taken away out of the said shopp ''Nostra Seniora'' this deponent<br />
saieth he knoweth not for that hee was not present at nir an<br />
eyewittnesse of the said plunder, onely this deponent hath credibly<br />
heard, that the said seizors did so plunder about 50. or 60. chests<br />
or fetches of sugars and Tobaccoes. And further to this article saieth not
To the 10th hee saieth, That he beleeveth, That according to the<br />
usuall style and custome, the said Master of the shipp ''Nostra''<br />
''Seniora'' did signe severall bills of lading for the severall goods ny<br />
him received on board his said shipp at fernambuco aforesaid, and<br />
that some of the said bills of lading, and other writings letters<br />
and papers concerning the said shipp and her lading aforesaid<br />
did, come to the hands of the said seizors<br />
or some of them who wilfully in this deponents sight did throw them overboard by meanes of which seizure of the said<br />
papers and writings, this deponent (who suffered the like force in<br />
his owne shipp at the same time of seizure) is fully assured<br />
that (there being no conveyance from Lisbone to London but bu<br />
(Sea Lisbone to London but bu<br />
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