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offerd the Mault Interrate to sale to the sayd Edward Bignett in a harbour
called ffayrie Sound nor farr from the Maze aforesayd which is about a [?half]
[?dXXX] and twenty leagues from any port of the King of Spaine And further saving his
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./

To teh 3 hee saith the agreement made betweene the Takers and the sayd Robert ffisher
was made aboard one of the Ostenders the takers aforesayd in ffayry Sound afore
sayd in the moneths of June or July last And further he cannot answere./

To the 4th hee saith that Bignett and da[?rie] who were sureties with the sayd
ffisher as aforesayd, were and are both Englishmen and subiects of this Common
wealth and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere

To the 5th hee saith fflackery is a Port in the dominions of the King of
denmarke And saith to the best of his remembrance it was about three [?XXX]
betweene the tyme of the first capture of the Willing Adventure and the tyme
that the sayd Robert ffisher was [?taken]
from aboard her at fflackery and carried to Amsterdam And further he
cannot answere./

To the 6th Interrogatory hee saith that Robert ffisher was only kept a prizoner [?at]
Amsterdam aboard one of the Pastend men of warr who soe seized the
Willing Adventure and the sayd ffisher did procure the foresayd [?XXX]
to petition the Lords the States at Amsterdam in his behalfe and thereby to make
knowen to them that hee being an Englishman was there kept prizoner [?XX]
and Ostend man of warr Amsterdam being a free port for English men
whereupon the sayd Lord the States did give order that the sayd ffisher should
bee discharged of his imprizonment and put on shoare and then
the sayd ffisher did give the sayd dereile a bond or writing under his
hand to secure the sayd dereile from all trouble that might befall
the sayd dereile by reason of his the sayd ffishers enlargement which
the sayd dereile had procured, and having soe done the sayd ffisher made
escape from Amsterdam in company of this deponent feareing the
Ostenders (if hee stayed) might there bring some further trouble
upon him by reason of the bond hee had formerly entered into to them
And further saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot answere/

Ti the last videlicet the 7th Interrogatory hee saith hee cannot answere knowing
nothing touching the contents thereof more than in his foregoeing
deposition is declared./

Mathew Coppin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

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The 26th of November 1658. [CENTRE HEADING]

Cullen against Greenleafe}
Suckly. Budd.}

Examined on the allegation given in on the behalfe of the said
Greenleaf.

Rp.

1.

Henry Collins of Limehouse in the County of Stepney (sic) Mariner
aged 31 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the fifth and 6th articles hee saith and deposeth that during all the
time as the shipp the West India Merchant was and remained in the
Barbada's after her arival there the voyage in question the arlate John
Mortimer was and lay sick at a place in the Barbadas called [?XXX]
bay about twelve English miles distant from Carlisle Bay [?XXXXX]
[?XXX]