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then and there stay and abide in expectati … then and there stay and abide in expectation of the said Convoy of<br />
Captaine Bodiloe for their better security under which both they and the said shipp the ''Thomas''<br />
''Bonadventure'', and after their departure from Ciprus, the shipp the ''William''<br />
''and Thomas'' of London from Cephalonia came together in Company<br />
to Porta Longone. Which hee knoweth being aboard the said shipp the<br />
''Thomas Bonadventure'' and seeing and observing the premisses And<br />
further cannot depose./.
To the 14th hee saith, That at such time as the said shipp the ''Thomas''<br />
''Bonadventure'' was at Porto Longone aforesaid taken into the service of<br />
this Commonwealth, the shipp the ''Mary Rose'' and the shipp ''William''<br />
''and Thomas'' aforesaid being as predeposed laden with Merchants goods<br />
and bound for Englannd, were then also taken into the said service, and they<br />
and the said ''Thomas Bonadventure'' were forced to unlade and [?there]<br />
unlade their respective Cargaisons of goods at Porta ferrara of this<br />
deponents sight and knowledge, And this deponent verily beleeveth That the<br />
Master of the said shippe did receive moneys for freight, for that<br />
they severally at Porta fferrara aforesaid paid some part of the wages<br />
then due to their shipps Companie. And further cannot depose/.
To the 15th hee saith, That the 200 baggs or thereabouts of Cotton wooll laden aboard the<br />
said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' at Ciprus were so laden by the<br />
direction of the said Roger and William ffowke and Richard Chowne<br />
as this deponent then and there was informed, and that because the said<br />
shipp should not goe home without her full freight but what number<br />
of Tunns the same amounted unto this deponent remembreth not, nor<br />
knoweth what fraight was paid for the same at Porta fferrara, or<br />
by whom, And further cannot depose saving the said Cotton woolls<br />
were discharged at Porta fferrara together with the rest of the said shipps<br />
Cargaison./
To the 16th hee saith, That of this deponents sight and knowledge the whole<br />
Cargaison of the said shipp aken in at Scanderoone and Ciprus upon<br />
the Voyage in question was delivered and brought ashoare at Porta [?fferrara]<br />
and there putt into a place called the Lazaretta being the usuall generall storehouse<br />
there, being close by the place where shipps there usually discharge, and<br />
being a very strong and secure place for the preservation of goods and merchan=<br />
dizes putt into the same, as this deponent thena nd there observed, and beleeveth<br />
not that any goods can be purloyned or stole out of the said place, it<br />
being kept by speciall Officers thereunto appointed and employed, And further<br />
cannot depose, save that the said goods remained in the said Storehouse, when<br />
this deponent with the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadadventure'' departed from the<br />
Port after her discharge as aforesaid, and did as hee beleeveth come<br />
safely to the hands of the Owners thereof, or of their ffactors or Agents.
To the 17th hee saith, That the galls and Cotton woolls laden on<br />
(board Cotton woolls laden on<br />
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