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would himselfe looke to the said shipp and … would himselfe looke to the said shipp and lading and give this deponent<br />
an account thereof, or to that effect, but withall said that this deponent<br />
and company must goe to Moutreil, and accordingly thither hee went this<br />
deponent and company with a guard, of souldiers, and kept them<br />
there in that garrison for the space of foure and twenty houres, in which time this<br />
deponent sawe severall cart loades of his lading of oranges and lemmons<br />
and sumack and some linnen cloth brought<br />
into Montreil, all drie and well conditioned and put into the said P[XXXX] house in the said towne And saith further that<br />
after they had bin so detained there, the said P[XXX] sent them away<br />
with a passe and a souldier to Bull[?a]n, and thence to Callice to get<br />
passage thence. And lastly that the said shipps lading at the time of her said comming ashore constituted of<br />
two hundred and fiftie thousand (or thereabouts) of oranges and lemmons,<br />
eight baggs of sumack, nineteene Eliphants teeth, foure chests and<br />
a halfe of sugar, two thousand and odd hundred ells of linnen cloth,<br />
twenty gammons of bacion, fourtie two boxes of sweet meates,<br />
a parcell of earthen ware, two quarter [XXkes] of wine, one cabinet<br />
and a parcell of curtaine fringe and lace: And saith the said Eliphants<br />
were worth one hundred pounds sterling of thereabouts,<br />
said Sumack worth seaventie pounds or thereabouts, and that the said<br />
Sumack was were laden for the accompt of Roger hatten of this citie<br />
merchant, the oranges and lemmons (the valew whereof hee cannot<br />
estimate) were for account of Robert Turner of London, Salter,<br />
and company, But for the said foure chests and halfe of sugar<br />
the said linnen cloth, the said sweet meates, and [XXXXX] gammons of bacon, and<br />
the earthen ware, and fringe and lace hee saith the same were belonging<br />
to this deponent and company and were worth all together<br />
with this deponents clothes and Instruments (that were lost by the<br />
said seizure of the ffrench) three hundred and twentie pounds<br />
sterling. And otherwise cannot depose, saving the french upon possessing
[GUTTER XXXX] of the said ship<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX], tooke and kept away [LH MARGIN]
all the bills of lading and other writings of the said ship
To the last hee saith that Mr Thomas Broderick, William Scut<br />
and Robert Turner and John Parker of London were owners of<br />
the said vessell tackle, apparell and furniture, whereof one of<br />
the said ffrennch that possessing themselves of her were worth<br />
the skinns of two hundred and twenty pounds sterling: which said shipp<br />
tackle and furniture, and all the foresaid lading of goods, were and<br />
are wholly lost to the said owner thereof by the said two seizure by<br />
the ffrench
Repeated before Collonel Cock./::
John Love [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
'''Cheeke dt.'''
'''2us.'''
'''William Childe''' of the parish of Saint Mary at Hill<br />
London Salter, aged 2[?1] yeeres or thereabouts Sworne<br />
as aforesayd./
To the first hee saith hee well knewe and was Sopra Cargo, of the shipp<br />
the ''Elizabeth'' in her late voyage from London for Porto Port, and<br />
thence bound back for this Port of London In which her retourne from<br />
Porto Port aforesayd namely in the moneth of August last past, hee<br />
saith shee mett with very fowle and tempestious weather and was<br />
bytempestious weather and was<br />
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