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Eighteene busts of Rubarbe or thereabouts, … Eighteene busts of Rubarbe or thereabouts, about ffifty bales<br />
of Grogram Yarne about seaventeene bales of Cordevant Skins, and<br />
severall other Goods and Merchandizes to be brought in<br />
the said ship from Scanderoone to this Port upon the<br />
Account of the said Owners and other English Merchants<br />
(all Subjects of this Kingdome) and here to be delivered<br />
to them or their order. And the said Goods, wares, and<br />
Merchandizes being soe Laden on board the said ship [?XXX]<br />
shee departed and set saile with the same from Scanderoon<br />
for this Port, and in her course hither neere the Streights<br />
Mouth on the ffifteenth of May English stile shee was met<br />
with and violently and hostily set upon and seized<br />
together with her Lading by a ship called the ''Santa Maria''<br />
(Laurence Anderson Captaine) and other ships in her<br />
Company. The Premisses hee deposeth being Master of and<br />
onboard the said ship when shee was seized, and seeing<br />
the Lading of the said Goods at Scanderoone, et alr nescit.
d 6um dicit that when the said ship the ''Santa Maria'' was haled<br />
by the Boatswaines Mate of the said ship ''Reformation''<br />
one of her Company, in this deponents hearing made answer she<br />
was of Amsterdam, and shee had then Hollands Colours<br />
up, and saith shee was Dutch Built and soe her Captaine told this deponent and severall of her Company<br />
were Dutch men. et alr nescit./
Ad 7um dicit that the said ship and all her said Lading being<br />
soe seized as aforesaid shee was by the said Seizors carried<br />
to the Mould of Gibraltar, where this deponent and Company<br />
were by the said seizors turned ashore and dispoiled and<br />
dispossessed of the said ship, and thereby<br />
the said William Dennis, Silvester Dennis, John Buckworth<br />
Henry Spurstow, Richard Boyleston and Company and<br />
others Owners of the said Ship and Lading were and are<br />
spoiled and deprived thereof. Et alr nescit./.
Ad 8um the said lading taken and seized in the<br />
said ship as aforesaid was then worth in this deponents judgement<br />
and estimation the summe of ffower score thousand pounds<br />
sterling And the said ship tackle apparell furniture and<br />
things belonging to her were then worth in his estimation the<br />
summe of ffoure thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts<br />
shee being of the burthen of about foure hundred tonns<br />
and having then in her thirty peeces of ordinance. The<br />
premisses hee deposeth being master of the said ship as aforesayd<br />
and having used the sea for about six or seaven and twenty<br />
yeeres. et alr nescite.
Ad 9um that the said Owners of the said ship and Lading, besides<br />
the vallues of the same have suffered very great dammage by meanes<br />
of the losse of the Imloyment of their Moneyes, but how much hee<br />
cannot estimate et alr nescit./t;br />
cannot estimate et alr nescit./ +
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