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or the voyage wherein she was seized; And … or the voyage wherein she was seized; And further<br />
saith that they the said Bence Allen and Company were the<br />
true and lawfull owners and proprietors of five hundred<br />
bags of Galls and upwards and two bales of silke (which were<br />
in the said ship at the time of her seizure) as this deponent<br />
verily beleeveth. Et alr ad hos Arlos nescit deponere./
Ad 3.um Arlum dicit that the foresaid goods were in the latter end<br />
of the yeare one thousand six hundred fifty nine, or in the<br />
beginning of the yeare 1660, laden and put onboard the<br />
''ffreetrade'' at Scanderoone, and were to be brought in her to<br />
this port of London. Et alr nescit salvis predepositis<br />
ad qua se refert./
Ad 4.um et 5.um Arlos deponit et dicit that shortly after the<br />
lading the said galls and other goods on board the said ship<br />
at Scanderoon, she set sayle and departed<br />
from thence with the same onboard her, bound for London,<br />
And that in her passage hither sailing peaceably on the fifteenth day of the moneth of<br />
May last upon the high and open sea, violently and in an<br />
hostile manner set upon seized and taken with the foresaid<br />
goods on board her by a Certaine Dutch ship (whose name<br />
this deponent doth not now remember) the company whereof did<br />
in this deponents hearing, confesse her to be of Amsterdam,<br />
and sayth that her Captaines name was Laurence Andreas<br />
or Anderson. And further to these Articles he cannot<br />
depose./
Ad 6.um Arlum dicit that at such time as the ship ''ffreetrade''<br />
and her lading were seized as aforesaid by the said dutch ship<br />
she the said Dutch ship had up and sayled with the Holland<br />
Colours, and was manned wholly or for the most part with<br />
Hollanders r others subjects of the states of the inited<br />
Netherlands; and soe much the said Captaine Andreas or<br />
Anderson and company did affirme,<br />
Et alr ad hunc Arlum salvis predepositis ad<br />
qua se refery mescit deponere./
Ad 7um Arlum deponit et dicit that after the said Laurence Andreas<br />
or Anderson and company had seized the ''ffreetrade''<br />
as aforesaid they carried her and her lading into the<br />
port of Gibraltar within the Dominions of Spaine, and there<br />
broke the ships bulke and disposed of her lading at their wills.<br />
and despoyled the said John Bence, John Allen and Companie<br />
of all the foresaid Galls and silkes, and also despoyled the<br />
Arlate Simon fflew the Master of the ''ffreetrade'', and the rest of the<br />
mariners of all their goods, moneys, clothes and instruments which<br />
they had in the said ship; the premisses he deposeth for that<br />
hemisses he deposeth for that<br />
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