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The tenth day of ffebruary .1653.

On the behalfe of Richard Bromwell}
and Company touching the losse}
of the Mary Bonadventure.}

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Clements dt.

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Richard Bromwell of Ipswich in Suffolke Marinner
Captaine or Master of the sayd shipp the Marie
Bonadventure aged 37 yeares or thereabouts
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith
as followeth videlicet.

To the .1 and 2 articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in
the yeares 1652 and all and every the monethes therein and
particularly in April May June July August September October
November December January and ffebruary 1652 and for many
yeares before and continually since he this deponent and Company
to say Major Thomas Chamberlin John Smith Peter Talbot
Beniamin Harrison, Jeremy Cole, Edmund
Gibson John Harrison and others
all English men were and att presnt are or ought to be the
the (sic) lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the Mary
Bonadventure and of her tackle apparell munition and furniture
and for such were and are accounted, having built the same in the
yeare 1643. and having continued in the quiet possession
of her ever sithence till the seizure hereafter sett forth. And
further saith that about the Month of Aprill 1652. the sayd shipp
under Conduct of this deponent was by the sayd Owners imployed
out to sea for a lading of east Countrey Commodityes to returne
with the same for this Port of London. and accordingly did in
persuance of the sayd voyage arrive safely att Dantzick about
the end of May 1652. and att Quuinsborough in June next following
and there tooke in her lading now in question and therewith in or about the month
of August then next ensueing arrived safely att Copen hagen
in Denmarke under the Conduct of this deponent who went and
was master of her, and thereby knoweth the premisses to be true
And otherwise he saith he cannot depose.

To the third article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that upon the
arrivall of the sayd shipp att or neere Quinsborough and in the monthe
of June 1652. Hee this deponent as master of the sayd
shipp and factor forhimselfe and Mr Smith and Beniamin Harrison aforesaid two of his Common Owners did with their moneyes and for his owne and their
accompt att Quinborough buy procure and
lade aboard the sayd shipps (sic), the severall goods hereafter particu
larly named, which were really worth and in England would
have yeilded as this deponent conceyveth the severall rates prices or summes of sterling money
hereafter likewise particularly specifyed that is to say xij
Bundles of Rine hemp poiz 151 lb weight att xxxiiij s per Quarter
is 307 li 14 s sterling. And Cxx small bundles of hemp of
[?Poulavis] att xx s per peice is 50 li. And 6 C of Clapboard
att 6 li per C is .36 li sterling and one hundred of great Clapboards
worth