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Transcription

The hands of the said Dutch Captains and and Companies the
seizure. Which said goods and merchandises he sayeth were then
worth the summe of fifty thousand pounds sterling
at least in this deponents Judgement of all which the said
Bretton, Delboe, Middleton and Company by means of the
said seizure and uttetly dispoiled and dispossessed as this
deponit readily beleeveth. Et alr nescit./

Ad 22um deponit et dicit that the Experience was and is a
ship of the burthen of foure hundred Tonns and upwards
and had in her at the seizure thirty great guns and
victualls and provisions, tackle and furniture for a voyage
of two or three and twenty moneths. And that she and
her provisions, tackle and furniture and all belonging to her
could not be lesse worth, nor more they (in this deponents judgement)
lesse worth then five thousand five hundred pounds sterling.
The premises he deposeth for that he hath used the seas
for many years last together and thereby it well acquainted
with the rates of ships and of the tackle and furniture unto
them belonging ./

Ad ultimate Arlum dicit that the producents Thomas Bretton,
Simon Delboe, Andrew Middleton and Company have by
means of the said seizure of their ship the Experience
and her lading, and of her tackle apparell and furniture
and provisions in manner as is predeposed, suffered losse
and dammage to the value of fifty five thousand pounds
sterling and upwards, reddens causas scientiae sua ut
supra./

Thomas Annott [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repetit coram Doctor Exton Surrogat

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15.o Octobris 1660./

4.

Ambroseus Goodwinde Stepney in Comitatu
Middlesex nauta annos numerans 23. aut do
circiter testis in hac causa productuss, iuratus
et super Allegatione predicta examinatus dicit
et deponit put sequitur videlicet.

Ad 1um 2um et 3um Arlos dicta Allegationis dicit and deponit that this
deponent very well knoweth the producents Thomas Bretton,
Simon Delboe and severall others of their company, who he
sayeth were and are the true and lawfull owners and proprietors
of the ship the Experience arlate and of her tackle, apparrell
and furniture and so have been of this deponents certaine knowledge
ever since June last was twelve month, and for sure they
were and are generally accounted reputed and taken. And
further sayeth that in or about the latter and of July beginning
of August in the year 1659 they the said Thomas Bretton, Simon
Dolboe, Andrew Middleton and Company did here in this
port, cause to be put on board the Experience a cargo of goods.