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18th decembris 1650 [CENTRE HEADING]

Repetit coram
doctor Clerk Jud
uno et cetera

The personall Answers of John
Treleague and Charles Sumpter
made to the pretensed positions and
Articles of a certaine pretensed
Allegation given and admitted
against them and others on the
behalfe of Richard Wilson as
followeth

To the first pretensed position they answer
and accept the Contents in that soe farre
as they make for them and beleeve that
in the passage of the arlate shippe the
Ulisses from Naples to Genua the voyadge
in question about the moneth of Aprill
1649 shee mett with and was chased by a
ffrenchman of warre whereupon these
Rendents and the rest of the Companye
of the said shippe by the masters Com
mand and as is usuall in all shipps
upon such an occasion did repaire to
theire respective Quarters and were
in a readines to have fought and defended
the said shipp but were Commanded not
to fire any Ordniance nor to fight
against the said ffrench shippe untill they
had notice order or the word from the
said Wilson And otherwise they nor
either of them doe beleeve the said
pretensed position to bee true in any parte
thereof.

To the second pretensed position they
answer and beleeve and each of them
answereth and beleeveth that the said
ffrenchman of warre laid the Ulisses
onbord three times the time aforesaid