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The third of March 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
… The third of March 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined upon the fore said allegation.
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Nicholas Sperman''' of Offham in the County of kent<br />
Chyrurgen aged twenty seven yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the producent Alderman William Thompson, Maurice<br />
Thompson, James Bridgeman and Thomas Preston and other persons<br />
with them concerned in this business, and likewise well knoweth the<br />
articulated shipp the ''Lyon and Providence'', of which shipp and of<br />
her tackle, apparrell and furniture hee saith the said James Bridgeman<br />
Thomas Preston and company were the time arlate owners and<br />
proprietors and for such commonly accompted, and that within the<br />
said time shee was set out from this port of London and sailed from<br />
Gravesend on or about the fourteenth of ffebruary, and thense to goe<br />
to East India and to retourne to this port of London<br />
and saith the said Alderman William Thompson, Maurice Thompson and<br />
others there here before her proceeding laded a cargo of goods to be carried<br />
in her to Guinney, there to be bartered away for gold, and that the said<br />
shipp safely arived therewith at Cormantine on the coast of Guinney<br />
and there bartered away the said exported goods or most part thereof<br />
which hee knoweth going Chyrugeon of and in the said shipp, and<br />
ariving there in her and seeing the premisses soe donne.
To the third 4th. 5. and 6 árticles hee saith and deposeth that within the said time<br />
namely in or about July last the factors of the said shipp the said<br />
voyage did in the roade of Cormantine aforesaid on the coast<br />
of Guinney get and receive aboard the said shipp upon such barter or<br />
buying for the exported goods a quantitie of gold, and were in the<br />
quiet possession thereof aboard the said shipp on the high and open sea<br />
on the said coast, and were the said shipp arived therewith off Cape lop[?u]s<br />
or lobo G[?on]salva on the foresaid coast, intending to carry the same for<br />
the parts of East India there to be invested in goods to be brought for<br />
England, and saith that the persons arlated were interessed in the said<br />
gold namely Alderman William Thompson, Maurice Thompson and<br />
company, James Bridgeman Thomas Preston and company, Lionell<br />
Skinner and severall other private adventurers amongst which hee<br />
this deponent was one, who had alsoe gold and silver and oth{er} goods aboard the said shipp<br />
and soe had sevrall others, The premisses hee deposeth being aboard and<br />
seeing the same.
To the seaventh, eighth and nineth articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
within the said time, namely in the moneth of September last past<br />
as the said shipp soe arived with the said gold and diverse goods and<br />
merchandizes at or neere Cape Lop[?u]s or Lobo G[?o]nsalva aforesaid<br />
(there intending to water and soe to proceede for the parts of East India)<br />
[XXXX GUTTER]s of East India)<br />
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