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<document-start>
1. dutch seamen (whose language hee well understand having lived tenn
2. yeeres in ˹that citie˺) and in discourse about Ivory, which this deponent
3. being a Turner, said hee hoped would shortly be plentifull and cheape or to that
4. effect, one of them made answer noe, hee know the
5. contrary of that, for there were two shipps fitted ˹in˺ holland, which were
6. to goe thense to the king of Spaines dominions (and named the place which this
7. deponent hath forgot) where hee said the commanders
8. or cheife of the said shipps were to enter them selves Burgers, and take
9. Spanish Commissions, and soe to goe thense to the Coast of Guiney
10. to take what English shipps they could meet withall, and to his remembrance
11. it was then said that one of the owners of the said shipps ˹lived in˺
12. And otherwise hee cannot depose,/
13.
14. John fenner SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
15. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
16.
17. The second of May 1657.
18. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
19. <margin value="Left">dt. 2.</margin>
20. Peter Silvester of London Merchant, aged 27 yeeres or
21. thereabouts sworne and exámined.
22. To the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh árticles
23. of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the
24. producents Constant Silvester, ánd henry Colleton, and saith ˹that˺ they ˹and company˺ were
25. the time arlate and are ..... ought to be by common repute and estimation
26. ˹owners˺ of the shipp the ffortune arlate of which George Paris was commander
27. and of the Negroes and Merchandizes allegate, and soe hee verily beleeveth
28. them to be, for hee saith that hee this exáminate being correspondent
29. of the said Constant Silvester who liveth at the Barbada's, received
30. a lettere from him on the fourteenth of ffebruary last, dated at Barbada's
31. the nineteenth of November last, wherein hee thus writeth, I have
32. an eighth part in a Guiney shipp of ninetie tonnes or thereabouts
33. which went from hense on the nineth of ffebruary last, shee hath sixe guns
34. and two Musketeres, two and twenty men and boyes, named the ffortune
35. whereof is master George Paris, shee hath taken in upward of two hundred
36. Negroes at her part, and is well as farr as any one knoweth, but
37. hearing a flying report there are two or three dutch men upon the coast
38. that have Spanish Commissions, I would have you if possible to get
39. 250li sterling assured upon her, And by the said lettere which this deponent
40. nowe showeth and is readie againe to produce is to be seene. ffurther
41. that on the eleaventh of ffebruary last hee received another lettere from the
42. said Constant Silvester dated at the Barbadas the 22th of december
43. last whereby hee adviseth this deponent in theise words (touching the said
44. shipp) The vessell, George Paris, whereof I writ you in my former
45. is taken by the.. two Roguish dutchmen. hee had two hundred brave
46. Negroes, whereof an eighth part was in one, and of the shipp alsoe.
47. They have taken three other shipps alsoe, whereof the Commander
48. came home in this shipp. Speake with them about the whole business-
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