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and therewith comming upon the ''Reformati … and therewith comming upon the ''Reformationes'' quaarter gave aher a broad side<br />
and a volley of small shott, and shee plied upon her and continued shooting<br />
untill the ''Reformations'' maine mast and [?MXXX] mast were shott by the board<br />
and then some of the other shipps of the ''Marias'' company (which albeit they<br />
shott on the ''Reformation'' came not up to board her untill her said maine mast<br />
and [?misur] mast were by the board) came up and board her, and soe by<br />
the said shipp ''Santa Maria'' and other shipps of her company the said<br />
shipp the ''Reformation'' with all her lading of silkesm hrogeran yarne<br />
gawles, cottons, and other such merchandizes comming from Scanderoon, were seized<br />
and taken, and the owners deprived thereof, of this deponents sight and knowledge<br />
being aboard and Purser of her, and saith that hee well knoweth the owners<br />
of the said shipp ''Reformation'' and of her said lading, who hee saith were<br />
and are all English men merchants and subiects of the kingdome<br />
of England, and were and are by name Sir William Vincent knight, William<br />
Dennis Henry Spurstow and others their company, by whom hee saith the<br />
said shipp ''Reformation'' was set out from this port of London: And<br />
lastly that the said shipp ''Santa Maria'' (which this deponent and others of the company<br />
of the ''Reformation'' tooke and beleeved upon her approach to be<br />
a shipp of Holland, for soe her company said shee was) was of the<br />
burthen of betwixt three hundred and fiftie and foure hundred tuns and<br />
had thirtie peeces of ordnance or upwards aboard, And being asked of the valew<br />
of the said shipp ''Reformation'' and of her said lading soe seized, hee saith<br />
that hee had good knowledge thereof being Purser as aforesaid, and tooke<br />
account and entrie of the same was it was put aboard, and that in<br />
his estimation the said shipp and lading were of the valew of<br />
fourscore thousand pounds sterling. And further hee deposeth not.
Geo; Lewis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 22th of September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?On ?behalfe] of John Gregory John}<br />
[?XXX] John Allen and company, merchants}<br />
[??XXX] and subiects of England touching}<br />
[?the] ''free Trade'' of London Simon fflew Comander}
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Edward Berriman''' of Limehouse in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner aged 42 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne in the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
of England saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath, that hee well knoweth<br />
the said shipp the ''ffreetrade'' and Simon fflew her comannder when shee<br />
was seized by the shipps hereafter mentioned, and that the said shipp ''ffree''<br />
''trade'' comming out of the Levant in company of the shipp ''Reformation''<br />
whereof this deponent was commannder, was near the streights mouth<br />
on the fifteenth of may last set upon by the shipp ''Santa Maria'' whereof<br />
Laurance Andrissen (or having some such name) was commannder and was<br />
as her company said belonging to Amsterdam and by the said shipp the<br />
''Santa Maria'' and other shipps of her company seized and taken (as this<br />
deponents said shipp and Lading were) and carried away and the owners<br />
thereof thereby dispoiled and deprived thereof. And saith that as hee<br />
hath heard it credibly affirmed and as hee beleeveth the said<br />
shipp ''ffreetrade'' and her lading (which consisted in silkes, gawles cotton<br />
yarne and other goods) were worth betwixt twenty and thirtie thousand<br />
pounds sterling And further deposeth mot saving that the ''Santa Maria''<br />
was then of the burthen in his estimation of betwixt three hundred and<br />
sixtie and foure hundred tonnes, and had two<br />
and thirtie or foure and thirtie peeces of ordnance aboard her, and saving that<br />
Mr Allen and Mr Gregory of London merchants and company Englishmen and<br />
subiects of this kingdome are commonly said to be and are esteemed owners of<br />
the ''freetrades'' lading and freighters of the vessell herselfe.
Edward Berryman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lfe.
Edward Berryman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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