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and candles, which hee saith were all very … and candles, which hee saith were all very good sorts of those provisions, and<br />
such as manifested that if the said Wingaerts had come while the maarket<br />
lasted namely before the end of lent or that the Gallions were furnished<br />
(as hee was expected to doe but did not) hee would have come with his<br />
cargo to a soeciall good market and his goods would have yeelded very much<br />
proffit, but in truth (as his pilot told this deponent while hee was soe<br />
aboard) hee the said Wingaerts by putting into soe many severall ports and<br />
neglecting the oportunities of winde and weather and through want of<br />
one skilfull to pilot the shipp for dublin, the merchants designe was<br />
overthrowne or to that effect, and to the same purpose it was declared by<br />
other of the said Wingaerts men in this deponents hearing. And further the<br />
said Oilot or masters mate said that hee was shipped as masters mate, and<br />
that the said Wingaerts undertooke to be skilfull emough to pilot the shipp for<br />
dublin himselfe, but the said mate found that when hee came on those coasts<br />
the master was unacquainted with the course, and had farr overshott his<br />
port adding withall tyhat had not the said Wingaerts borne up for the<br />
downes, nor gonne into Waterford, they might have made their voyage from<br />
holland to Ireland, Cadiz, Mallaga and back to London before they had<br />
then (as the matter was carried through the masters neglect) dispatched<br />
from Ireland. Moreover hee deposeth that about three weekes since<br />
this deponent meeting the said mate in Saint Catherins neare London and falling againe<br />
into discourse about the said shipp the ''Golden Sun'' her said voyage, and<br />
this deponent (who had heard that they had the company of a shipp called<br />
the ''fflower de luna'' which plied on her voyage, when they bore up againe<br />
with the ''Golden Sun'' in the downes) asking him why they kept not their<br />
voyage on with the ''fflower de luna'', the said mate answered, that the<br />
''fflower de luna'' sailed by the voyage, but the ''Golden Sun'' by the moneth,<br />
which words hee having uttered blushed, and seemed sorry for<br />
having made that acknowledgement. And further deposeth not, saving<br />
that at Cadiz before the arivall of the said shipp the ''Golden Sun'' this deponent<br />
heard Mr Wilky a factor there and his partner who expected her, much<br />
lamment her long stay and complaine thereof, in regard the market was<br />
then soe good that shee could not have come to a better, and that the<br />
merchants had lost the best voyage that had bin made in a longe space, or<br />
to the same effect.
Robert halden [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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[?versimo] secundo die Septembris 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?XXXX] [?dmi] Guilielmi Vincent militis}<br />
[?XXXX XXX] armigeri, henrici Spurstow}<br />
[?XXXX XXX} [?Anglormi], moratormu,}<br />
[XXX] Regia Anglia quoad navem}<br />
''Reformation'' et bona in eordem [?XXXX]}
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Edwardus Berriman''' de Limehouse Comnitatu Middlsex<br />
Nauta, annos agens 42 aut eo circiter, testis productus<br />
et super Interryes ex parte dicton dui [?Willimis]<br />
[?Vincent] et [?alionnd] ministratis examinatus deponit<br />
ut sequitur.
Ad primum secundum et 3um Interrogatoria decit et deponit that hee well knew<br />
and was commannder of the said shipp the ''Reformation'', which shipp with her<br />
lading gee saith were at the time of her surprizall hereafter mentioned<br />
belonging to the producents Sir William Vincent knight, William dennis<br />
henry Spurstow and Company, who hee saith were and are all Englishmen<br />
Merchants and subiects of the kinge of greate Brittaine our sovereigne Lord<br />
and as owners fitted and set out the said shipp and constituted this deponent<br />
,master and commannder of her, and that at the time of her said surprizall shee<br />
was bound and comming for London with her said lading, And that in such her<br />
courseg, And that in such her<br />
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