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at all estimate or value the same, forasmuch as he sayth
he never saw any goods of that nature laded onboard
any ship before the voyage in question, nor hath he any
insight therein. And therefore cannot further depose./

John Gouldstone [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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[?eod die] [CENTRE HEADING]

super Allegatione predicta

4us

Johannes Broadgate de Redriffe in Comitatu Surria
nauta annos natus 25 aut de ciriter testis
productus juratus et examinatus dicit put sequintas./

Ad ju Arlum Allegationis deponit et dicit that for the space
of eight moneths or upwards next before the seizure of the
ffreetrade hereafter mentioned, this deponent served in her
as a Common man, and knoweth that for all that time the
Arlate John Gregory John Bence and John Allen were
the Imployers of her, and sent her out during the said time
with a lading of goods from this port upon their owne account
on a trading voyage to Alicant and thence to Scanderoone;
And for as Imployers of her he sayth they were and are
generally accounted reputed and taken.

Ad. 2. et 3um Articles dicit that within the time aforesaid they
the said producents John Gregory, John Bence and John Allen
were the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of five
hundred bags of galls and two bales of silke, and so com=
monly esteemed and reputed to be; which said galls and silke
he sayth were laden and put aboard the ffreetrade by
their ffactors at Scanderoone, and were to have beene
transported in her from thence to this port of London
for the use and account of them the said producents, as
was generally said and reputed. Et alr nescit./

Ad 4u. et 5u. deponit that shortly after the lading the said
Galls and other goods onboard the ffreetrade at Scanderoone,
she departed therewith from thence bound for London, and
that in her course thither as she was sayling in a quiet
and peaceable manner, she was upon the fifteenth day
of May last upon the high and open sea met with seized and surprized with her foresaid lading on board her by a certain
Dutch ship called the Saint Mary of Amsterdam, whereof one
Laurence Andreas was Commander./

To the 6th he sayth that when the Captaine and Company in the Saint Mary
so seized the ffreetrade and her lading, the Saint Mary sayled
under the Dutch Colours, and most of her Company were Dutch men