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loose his Cloathes and instruments which were of considerable
value but what to estimate them at hee knoweth not And saith the
sayd shipp and all the sayd goods and other things soe seized were by the
sayd captaines Vandimon and [?Goorner] and their Companyes carried
to Brest and there deteyned from the arlate Nevin Kerr and Company
and the sayd Kerr and this deponent and the rest of the
shipps company were pillaged and thrust out of the sayd shipp at
Brest and after a while sent away to Morlaix And further
to this article (saving his foregoeing deposition) hee cannot depose saving
hee saith that while hee this deponent stayed at Brest hee sawe
some of the ffrench Kings officers there (notwithstanding the peace
betwixt England and ffrance) take some of the foods seized in the
sayd shipp for the ffrench Kings tenths of the sayd shipp and
goods./

To the 4th hee saith hee beleeveth that the arlate Neaven Kerr and
Company besides their shipp and goods lost as aforesayd did suffer
much other dammage by losse of Markett in what profitt they might
have made of the goods seized and in want of the proceeds of them to imploy
in their Merchandizing affayres and by want of the sayd shipp to use
alsoe in their affayres, but what to value their sayd losse at hee knoweth
not. And further saith hee experimentally knoweth being one of the Company
that the sayd shipps Company in generall suffered great miserie by
being pillaged after their seizure and through want of necessaries to
supplie them at Brest and in their passage to Morlaix in soe much that one of them
named hunter dyed by reason of the want and misery hee
suffered by the meanes aforesayd, this hee the better knoweth for that
hee helped to burie the sayd hunter, hee dyeing presently after his getting
into England, by reason of his weakness by his evell usage. And
further hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

the marke of the sayd [MARKE, RH SIDE]
John O Smith

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The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation./

Rp. 2

John Watson of Ayer in Scotland Mariner
aged twenty two yeares or therabouts a wittnes
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth

To the first article hee saith hee this deponent was one of the
Company of the Speedewell the voyage in question, and know
the sayd shipp from her first building in Eyre which was about
sixe or seaven yeares last past and saith that from her building till
her seizure hereafter specified the arlate Kerr and one Theophilies
Rankin both of Eyre aforesayd were commonly reputed lawfull
Owners of her and her tackle and furniture each of them of an equall halfe
thereof and the sayd Kerr was also Commander of her for the
voyage in question./

To the 2 article hee saith hee being one of the Company as aforesayd
knoweth

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