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Deponent in order thereunto to returne aga … Deponent in order thereunto to returne againe on board the said ship<br />
and bring her with her said lading within the sight of<br />
Cales, and said, that hee would ffreight a vessell, and send<br />
her without Cales to them to receive the hydes and Brazil<br />
wood.. (as much as such vessell soe ffreighted should Containe<br />
out of the ''Santa Maria'' into such vessell, and Carry the same<br />
for Amsterdam, and for the Cacoa, and Tobaccoe and<br />
Ginger, hee said that hee would there receive and sell<br />
them. or otherwise dispose of them, as the sayd Van hulten should afterwards<br />
order, and appoint him, for account of the said Imployers<br />
And otherwise referring himselfe to the said Letter, or<br />
fourth schedule hee Cannot depose./.
To the 24th 25th and 26th articles hee saith and deposeth that having<br />
soe seene the said letter and received the said order from the said Re[?nnier]son as<br />
aforesaid, this deponent departed and went back to the said shipp to the Roade<br />
of Gibraltar, where shee was put at an anchor, and being come aboard<br />
caused her anchor to be weighed with intent to saile her with her said goods<br />
neere Cadiz, and saith that in her course, about five or six miles from<br />
Cadiz, shee met with a dutch shipp called the ''Pr[?opatr]ia''<br />
of Skedam (Jacob [?Mutz] master) belonging to hollanders subiects of the states<br />
of the united Netherlands, which had bin freighted by the said Re[?nniers]son and<br />
was comming towards them to take in all or the greatest part of the ''Saint Marias''<br />
hides (to her the said ''Prop[?a]trias's'' full lading) and soe meeting hee saith<br />
they came to an anchor in sight of Cadiz, and being soe at an anchor<br />
in persuanace of the said order they fell to taking out the hides out of the<br />
''Mary'' into the ''Propoatria'', and intended wholly to take the said shipp<br />
''Propatria'' for Amsterdam therewith there to be delivered to the said<br />
Van hulten for the account of him and Partners aforesaid, but that being<br />
thereon busie, a storme arose which forced them from their anchors, out to sea,<br />
and that afterwards the winde being more convenient to retourne into the Bay of<br />
Gibraltar then [?neere] Cadiz, they went with both the said shipps into<br />
the Bay of Gibralt[?e]r, and there anchoring fell againe to worke to<br />
finish the said lading of the ''Propatria'', and while they were soe busie<br />
and had taken out of the ''Mary'' into the ''Propatria'' six thousand two<br />
hundred and four score of the said hides, and three hundred twenty three<br />
peeces of Brazill wood for Amsterdam as aforesaid, namely on or<br />
about the nineteenth of November last (holland stile) there came the<br />
''ffairfax frigot'' (Robert Stor[?e]y Commander) and tooke and seized both the<br />
said vessells the ''Mary'' and the ''Propatria'' with their respective ladings<br />
and carried them to Tituan, and being there arived this deponent delivered<br />
to the said Captaine under the hand of the said Skipper of the ''Propatria''<br />
the said Skippers receipt of the said 6280 hides and 323 peeces of Brazil wood<br />
into the ''Propatria'', of which hides the said Captaine Story caused three<br />
thousand five hundred and twenty three to be retourned or reladed into the<br />
''Saint Mary'', and the rest [XX] two thousand seaven hundred seaven and fiftie<br />
hee tooke into his said shipp or frigot the ''ffairfax'' together with the said<br />
three hundred twenty three peeces of Brazill wood, and soe dismissed and<br />
sent the ''Popatria'' [XXXX] away, and carried the ''Saint Mary'' and all her<br />
foresaid lading and what was soe taken into the frigot to Tolon, and<br />
there delivered them to the power of Captaine Stoakes, all which hee<br />
knoweth, seeing the premisses soe donne.
To the 27th hee saith that at and upon the said seizure the<br />
said Captaine Story alsoe seized and tooke in and from the ''Saint Mary'' all<br />
androm the ''Saint Mary'' all<br />
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