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and dispossessed and dispoiled the said ma … and dispossessed and dispoiled the said master of the ''Brotherhood'' and<br />
company of the same, and turned them all out of her into the said<br />
boate that soe came aboard her and after they had carried them on board the said Coxes frigot and there detained them one night, they were all the<br />
next day by the order of the said Cox and Japoon turned on shoare at Cape Lopez, saving a French man whom<br />
Captaine Cox tooke and retained, who was all the strangers<br />
that were of the ''Brotherhoods'' company, the rest being all<br />
English, and subiects of this Commonwealth: and saith that<br />
they were soe put on shoare at Cape Lopez in a very sadd and<br />
furlorne condition, destitute of all necessaries, and there they were<br />
left and remained the space of twenty dayes or thereabouts, and<br />
then another English shipp named the ''happie ffortune'' by gods providence arriving<br />
there, they got passage in her for the Barbada's. And saith that after<br />
such seizure, the said company by whom her seizure was soe made<br />
tooke and carried the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'', and brought her to<br />
an anchor betwixt the said frigots of the said Cox and Japoon,<br />
and soe the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' with the said Elephants teeth<br />
and Negro's were taken into the possession or disposed of by them<br />
the said Captaine Cox and Captaine Japoon on their order or<br />
of one of them. All which hee knoweth being present and<br />
seeing the same soe donne
To the fifth hee saith that the said ninetie foure Negro's at the<br />
time of the said surprizall were very lustie and healthfull, and<br />
would each of them have yeelded and produced at the<br />
Barbada's two thousand, three hundred pounds weight of<br />
good Barbada's sugars, one with another, for at that coast<br />
hee saith that the like Negro's carried thither in the said shipp<br />
the ''Happie ffortune'', Nicholas P[?o]pperell master, wherein this<br />
deponent and the rest of the ''Brotherhoods'' company got passage<br />
from Cape Lopez, were sold and bartered away upon her arrivall<br />
there, where the ''Brotherhood'' might in all<br />
probabilitie (had shee not bin soe seized) have arrived a moneth<br />
sooner than the said shipp ''happie fortune'', namely shee<br />
might (in all probabilitie) have bin there at the furthest<br />
by the beginning of Aprill last past, at which time Negro's<br />
(as it was there commonly said) were there commonly sold at the<br />
rate aforesaid; and saith that each pound of the said sugar was then<br />
ordinarily worth and sold for five pence per pound one pound<br />
with another.
To the sixth article hee saith that at the time of the said seizure<br />
there were aboard the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' and belonging to<br />
her master and company upwards of one hundred of large Elephants teeth,<br />
a quantitie of Guinea gold, together with sea Instruments<br />
clothes and necessaries all to the valew and worth in his opinion<br />
of five hundred pounds sterling, all which were taken away by<br />
the said seizure and they thereof deprived and dispoiled, which hee<br />
knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.
To the seventh hee saith the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' was then of<br />
the burthen of sixtie tonnes or thereabouts, and was very well fitted,<br />
and and was very well fitted,<br />
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