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'''A: 9'''
Joseph Tolley Abraham van den= … '''A: 9'''
Joseph Tolley Abraham van den=Post}<br />
and Company late Owners of the shipp}<br />
''ffortune'' against Thomas Braining}<br />
the Master thereof. and Robert Braining}<br />
the Mate. Suckley Clements}
The third day of <u>April. 1656.</u>/.
Examined upon an allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Tilley Vanden=Post<br />
and Company
'''Rp. 2.us'''
'''William Andersonn''' of Stockdon within the Bishoprick<br />
of Durham late Gunner of the sayd shipp the ''Fortune''<br />
aged ninetene yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the 3d. article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that the sayd shipp the<br />
''ffortune'' departed from this port about twenty monethes agoe under the<br />
Command of the arlate Thomas Braining as master of her bound for Barbary laden<br />
with gunnes, or fowling peices, iron, tobaććo lead bales of Cloath and<br />
other goods, with which shee arrived safely att Sally and there<br />
a good part of the Cloath, Lead and Iron was sold, to be payd some<br />
in waxe, and some (as he heard) in gold. And from thence the sayd<br />
shipp went to Santa Cruz and there disposed of the sayd gunnes<br />
and all the other goods the sayd Tobacco onely excepted. And the<br />
sayd shipp being to returne from Santa Cruz to Sally to receyve<br />
the proceed of the foresayd goods there sold, tooke in about forty<br />
Jewes and Moores and severall quantities of merchandizes belonging<br />
to them, all to be transported to Sally aforesayd upon freight.<br />
And saith that the sayd shipp being upon her Course was driven<br />
something too farr to seaward by a Northerly wind, and after<br />
making use of a westerly wind to reach Salley was by the<br />
force of that westerly wind driven about seaven leagues to the<br />
Eastward of Sally and so over shott the sayd port of Sally and was not able to come thither, where=<br />
upon the sayd Jewes and Moores bećame much troubled and very<br />
angry, and caused the sayd Braining to putt his shipp into Tittuan.<br />
saying they would goe to Sally by land, and so for that tyme<br />
the sayd shipp not coming att Sally received not the proceed of some<br />
goods there sold as aforesayd. But what dammage thereupon happened<br />
this deponent who was onely as Gunner aboard the sayd voyage ćannot<br />
sett forth. And further he ćannot depose saving that of what<br />
he hath deposed hee was an eye=witnesse.
The fourth article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that from Tittuan<br />
the sayd shipp was to goe to Cadez to sell some of her Barbary<br />
merchandize which she had on board, and in her Course having<br />
made Cape Seratt the sayd Braining having discovered a<br />
shippning having discovered a<br />
shipp +
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