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and tyme arlate in the yeare 1658 was Mast … and tyme arlate in the yeare 1658 was Master and part Owner of the<br />
arlate shipp the ''Willing Adventure'' and for such commonly reputed this<br />
hee the better knoweth for that hee was and went Mate of the sayd shipp the<br />
voyage in question and alsoe was present when the sayd ffisher bought<br />
his parts of the sayd shipp whereof hee is still Owner./
To the second article hee saith that hee knoweth that the arlate Edmond<br />
Tassell did in the moneths and tyme arlate cause to be laden aboard the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Willing Adventure'' at Linne a certayne quantitie of Mault<br />
but the number of lasts hee knoweth not, of which mault the sayd Tassell<br />
was Comonly reputed to be the Owner which mault was to be trans<br />
ported in the sayd shipp to Quinborrowe arlate And there<br />
to be delivered unto the sayd Edmond Tassellor order and<br />
for his account, and that the said Tassell sent one Edmond Bignet along in<br />
the said shipp to dispose of the said mault, yeelding a reason as before
To the third article hee saith that after the lading and putting<br />
the said mault aboard the said ship the said ffisher and company departed<br />
threwith for Quinborowe (the said Bignet as aforesaid going also along<br />
n her) and that in her passage shee was met with by two Ostend men<br />
of warr, who set upon and endeavoured to take her, but the said ffisher<br />
and company made stout resistance and maintained fight with the said<br />
Ostenders by the space of six houres, in defence of their said shipp and<br />
lading, and in that fight one of the said ffishers men was soe shott that hee<br />
died very shortly after, and three others were sorely wounded, and at length the<br />
said ffisher and companie being over powered by the said Ostenders, were<br />
taken with his said shipp and lading by the said two men of warr, who<br />
made and tooke her and all his company prisoners, and deprived them<br />
of the possession of thE said shipp and goods, which hee knoweth being<br />
masters mate as aforesaid, and present and one of them that [?XXXX]<br />
in the said defence, and was taken.
To the fourth and 5th hee saith that there being severall packs of goods about the<br />
said shipp at the time of her seizure, the said Ostenders tooke them [?XXX] [?XX]<br />
and away and put them aboard their owne vessells, and leaving [?XX]<br />
the said mault, they offered the shipp and mault to sale to the said<br />
Edward [?Bignet], who expressely refused to buy the same, whereupon<br />
they offered the sale thereof to any that would buy them, and then the said<br />
ffisher seeing that sawe [?dawes] come aboard and would buy the malt
[ADD DATA] aboard and would buy the malt
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