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to this Article hee deposeth not/
To the … to this Article hee deposeth not/
To the 8th hee saieth, That the said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora da''<br />
''Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' having received on board her her said<br />
Lading of sugars Brazeele wood and Tobaccoes as aforesaid did<br />
sett saile with the same from ffernambuco aforesaid in Companie<br />
of a certaine Portugall shipp called the ''ffortune'', whereof one<br />
Cipriano Pa[?chao] was commander which shipp was laden with<br />
sugars at the Brazeele and bound for the Port of Lisbone in<br />
Portugall, and in her Course thitherwards and in or about the<br />
moneth of November 1657. the said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora''<br />
''da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' with all the said Lading of sugars<br />
Tobaccoes and Brazeele wood in her, togeather with the said<br />
shipp ''ffortune'' and her lading about twenty or thirtie leagues<br />
from the Coast of Portugall was mett with seized and surprized<br />
by a certaine number or squadron of shipps in the service of the<br />
Lords the States of the United Provinces or their Subjects, and by<br />
the Captaines Comanders and Companies of the said shipps were<br />
by force seized taken and surprized for and as the shipps and<br />
goods of the said king or of his subjects as and under the notion<br />
of the goods of the enemies of the Lords the States of the said<br />
United Provinces and their Subjects. And that the said Captaines<br />
Commanders and Companies of the said dutch shipps or some<br />
of them did at the time of the said surprizall and seizure give<br />
themselves out for and confesse themselves to be dutchmen in the<br />
presence and hearing of this deponent who was an eye Wittnesse<br />
of and a sufferer in the premised seizure, And further to this<br />
Article deposeth not./
To the nyneth article he saieth, That the said Commander and<br />
Cmpanies of the said dutch shipps or some of them upon the<br />
said taking and surprizing of the said shipp ''Nostra Seniora''<br />
''da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' and of her said lading did unduely<br />
and by force at Sea take and plunder out of the said shipp<br />
about 60. Chests or fetches of sugar and Tobaccoes and carried the same<br />
away, as this deponent hath just reason to conceive and beleeve, for<br />
that although this deponent as being then a Prisoner did not actually<br />
see the said plunder, yet he hath since found so much of the said<br />
shipps Cargaison missing and imbeazeled, which could not be<br />
done by any other then by the said seizors And further to the<br />
article he deposeth not./
To the tenth hee saieth, That when and at such times as the said<br />
(sugarssuch times as the said<br />
(sugars +
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