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The first day of May 1660./.
A Busines of … The first day of May 1660./.
A Busines of Examination of witnesses on behalfe}<br />
of John Anderson, Ninian Anderson and}<br />
Company owners of the ''Golden Cock''}<br />
Robert Thomson Master, and her Lading against}<br />
Morgan Jones. Comander of the ''Charles''.}<br />
Smith. Suckley./.
Examined upon an Allegation<br />
given in on the behalfe of<br />
the said John Anderson<br />
Ninian Anderson and<br />
Company::/::
'''Rp. jus.'''
'''Henry hart''' of ffalkirke [?neere ?Glascoe GUTTER]<br />
in Scotland Mariner aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and Examined./:
To the first article hee saith that for and during all the monethes<br />
of July August September October November December and January last the arlate John Anderson senior Ninian Anderson and<br />
James Kerr (all well knowne to this deponent) being all Merchants of<br />
Glascoe, and Subjects of this Comonwealth were (as this Deponent verily beleeveth) and alsoe [?att GUTTER]<br />
this Present are the true and Lawfull Owners and<br />
Proprietors of the arlate ship the ''Golden Cock'' whereof<br />
Robert Thomson was and is Master and for Owners they were and are Comonly accounted<br />
And the said Anderson and Kerr have seriously told this Deponent that [?they GUTTER]<br />
bought the said ship at Rotterdam, and they of this Deponents knowledge<br />
paid the Customs for the Bulke of the said ship at [?Glascoe GUTTER]<br />
and made the said Thomson Master of her, in the<br />
moneth of September, last, And further cannot depose.
To the second and third. hee saith that in the said moneth of<br />
September last, the said Owners of the said ship. did provide and<br />
cause to be Laden onboard the said ship ''Golden Cock'' at Glascoe<br />
in Scotland a cargoe of Herrings Butter and Tallowe to be<br />
transported in the said ship to Bourdeaux in ffrance, upon<br />
their Account, and there to be delivered to their ffactor who was<br />
to Lade wines on board the said ship upon their Account in<br />
proceed of the said outward Cargoe, and the<br />
said wines was to be brought in the said ship to Glascowe, and saith that the said ship having<br />
received the said outward Lading onboard departed and<br />
set saile with the same, and on the 6th of October last in her<br />
Course for Bourdeaux shee and her said Lading upon the high and open Sea were in<br />
a hostile and Piraticall manner seized by a ship called the<br />
''Charls'' whereof one William Browne (who was her Lietenant)<br />
was then Comander her Captaine (called Morgan Jones)<br />
being left ashore, The Premisses hee deposeth being with the [??said GUTTER]<br />
ship the ''Hope'' whereof hee was Master) at Glascowe [XXX] by the ''Golden Starr'' all the time And said [XXX GUTTER]<br />
was taking in her said outward Lading, and being the same [XXX GUTTER]<br />
put on board her, and sawe the said Owners often come on board the<br />
said ship, and give order to the said Thomson touching the<br />
said Lading, and sailed from Glascoe in Company of the said<br />
ship ''Cock'' and was taken the same time and by the same<br />
ship. that the ''Cock'' was, And further cannot depose.
ToCock'' was, And further cannot depose.
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