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this deponent went the said voyage in her … this deponent went the said voyage in her to the said time and place<br />
and sawe the premisses soe done, and happen.
To the fourth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
besides the said gold soe taken in for the use and account of the said<br />
Alderman William Thompson Maurice Thompson and company, there<br />
was a quantitie of gold, goods and merchandizes aboard the said shipp at<br />
the said Cape to and for the use and account and belonging to the said<br />
James Bridgeman, Tomas Preston and company her said owners,<br />
but the valew thereof hee cannot depose, the same being taken in by<br />
Nathaniel Ewens, who commanded the said shipp before this deponent<br />
(who succeeded in that command upon his the said Ewens his death) to and s[?XXly XXX XXXX] of her.<br />
The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith that the arlate [?Lionel] Skinner had alsoe<br />
gold and goods at the said Cape aboard the said shipp, which were<br />
alsoe to have bin carried to East India or parts thereof on trade, but<br />
the quantitie or valew thereof hee alsoe knoweth not.
To the 6th hee saith that over and besides the premisses hee this<br />
exáminate at the said Cape within the said time had áboard the said<br />
shipp the ''Lyon and Providence'' for áccount of himselfe<br />
and John Morgan and other freinds in gold, goods, merchandizes, clothes and<br />
necessaries to the valew of five hundred pounds sterling,<br />
, which such said gold and goods of this deponent<br />
and said company were alsoe to<br />
have bin carried trucked and disposed in the parts of East Indias, and<br />
that they were and are subiects of this Commonwealth and the<br />
said gold and goods were upon private adventure.
To the seaventh, eighth and nineth articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
within the time a foresaid and while the said shipp the ''Lyon and''<br />
''Providence'' soe remained on the coast of Guiney in a trading voyage<br />
in a peaceable manner and condition, and had all the said gold and goods<br />
(soe taken of in for the parts of East India) aboard her,<br />
shee was there met with by two dutch<br />
shipps the one called the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and the other the<br />
''unicorne'' of Middleborowe, both under the command of John<br />
Scrawla a dutchman, and commonly said and reputed to be a<br />
subiect of the States of the United Netherlands, which said two<br />
dutch shipps in an hostile manner in or about the eleaventh of September last attacked and set upon the said<br />
shipp the'' Lyon and Providence'', and by force and violence mastered and<br />
took her, and seized her˹said lading and possessed the same and<br />
utterly dispoiled and deprived her master and company of and owners<br />
of her and her lading, and carried her away, together with<br />
all the papers bookes and writings belonging to the said shipp<br />
her master and company and further, which hee knoweth for hee this deponent<br />
was then master or commander of her (the said Ewens being dead)<br />
and sawe the premisses soe donne, And saith the said shipps the ''Mary''ne, And saith the said shipps the ''Mary'' +
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