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Transcription

To the 3d hee saith that the said lading being soe put on board
the said Ship shee set saile therewith on her intended voyage
to Bourdeaux, and in her course thither upon the high Seas
and on the 6th. of October last shee was met withall, and
seized with her said Lading by a Ship called the Charles
whereof one Browne was Captaine, And the sayd Browne
and his Company possessed themselves of the said Ship the
Cock, and kept her Master Prisoner, onboard the Charles And
saith that hee this Deponent who was taken in the Cock and kept in
her) heard the said Browne and severall of the Company of the Charles say that
if the Master of the Cock and the Master of the Ship Hope (which was
taken at the same time that the Cock was) would not buy their
Ships of them they would carry them to the seaven Isles where
they could sell their ffathers for money, or to that effect
But further deposeth not./:

To the 5th. and 6th. hee saith that hee this DEponent and all or most
of the Company of the Golden Cock . did tell the Comapny
of the Charles, that were in the Cock, that both the Cock, and
alsoe the said Ship the Hope did belong to
Scotland, and that Scotchmen were Owners of them and
their Ladings, and all of their Companyes were Scotts exxcept
the said Thompson who is an Englishman, And saith
that notwithstanding the said Browne and Company
would not release the said Ship, unlesse sayd Thompson
and Henry Hart the Master of the Hope would procure and
pay a Summe of money, which they were constrained to doe
and did pay unto the said Browne about 225. li or 250. li
this Deponent seeing the two Masters goe on board the Charles
therewith And saith that hee verily beleeveth that if the
said Thompson and Hart had not procured and paid
the said money, the said Browne and Company would
have carried away the said Ships and Ladings and sold
the same, and soe much they declared, and further deposeth
not./.

To the 7th. 8th. and 9th hee saith that the said Thompson to procure
the money which hee oaid to the said Browne was forced to
engage the said ship Cock and lading for payment of the same
and was afterward likewise forced to sell the said ships Lading
at Garnesey to pay the same, and could bot proceed with the said
voyage to Bourdeaux where this Deponent saith. hee verily beleeveth
it would have yeilded as much more as it did at Garnesea
And saith that in his Judgment the Owners of the said Ship
Cock and her Lading by reason of the said seizure and detention
and hinderance of the voyage and being forced to sell the
said lading at Garnesey suffered losse and damage to the
vallue of about a thousand pounds Sterling And further Deposeth
not.

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