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Transcription

out of this deponents chest and sawe that the masters chest
and other of the companyes and boxes were broken open and all writings
and two bills of exchange taken out of them and kept and detyned from them by the sayd [Lemmon? GUTTER]
Wygarts and drewes and the souldiers and mariners that accompanyed
them and made the sayd seizure who still keepe and detyne them, and
the sayd Wigarts and drewes and Company did alsoe take away and
keepe the Cloathes of this deponent and of the masters and others the sayd shipps company
and a case of strong waters of this deponents, and did imbezell the
breads and other provisions of the sayd shipp And further to this
article he cannot depose/

To the 4th and 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee the
deponent sawe the Masters Mate of the sayd shipp the Redd Rose a
prisoner under guard of the sayd Wigarts and drewes souldiers at delfe
Island and sawe the sayd shipp the Red Rose at Anchor there and being
Carpenters mate of her did observe
after hee this deponent and
the sayd Lemmon the Master and others of her company where permitted
to come on board her) that whereas the sayd ship was before the
sayd seizure a strong tight and staunch ship shee was by the sayd
Wigarts and drewes and their Company in the tyme they had her
in their possession soe hurt and damnified in her hull and other
wayes that shee became very leakie in soe much that her company
after the sayd damage received were forced to pumpe her
continually to preserve her from sinking, And by reason hee
this deponent went Carpenters mate and pylott in her the whole voyage out
sawe the unladeing of her sayd ladeing of salt, hee knoweth that
the sayd salt was much damnified by the leakinesse of the sayd ship
which leakinesse as hee hath credibly heard by his Contest
William howe and others who were aboard the sayd ship at her seizure
and when the sayd Wygarts and drewes brought her to an Anchor at Delfe
Island saye and affirme) was occasioned by reason the sayd Wygarts
and drewes brought her onground there and seated her upon her [?XXX GUTTER]
Anchor soe as shee hoisted and wrung the shanke thereof and alsoe
wrung her upon the ground in a strong tyde And her saith that the
sayd shipp Red Rose and her sayd ladeing of salt were by the
sayd disaster hurt and dammified to the value (in this deponents
judgement of three hundred pounds sterling or thereabouts All which
hee knoweth might have bin prevented if the sayd Wygarts
and drewes and their Company had not removed her but left her
alone in the River of Eames neere Embden where she first was
And further to the articles he cannot depose./

To the 6th hee saith that he sayd shipp the Redd Rose by the meanes
aforesaid became soe leakie that the sayd Lemmon after shee
was restored to him by the sayd seizers by reason of such her
leakinesse could not take aboard her soe much goods as
otherwise hee would have done by thirty tonnes or thereabouts but
was forced to proceede on his voyage about thirty tonnes dead
freighted (though hee were offered so much more ladeing) by reason
hee durst not receave it aboard because of such her leakinesse soe
occasioned