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'''A: 9''' Joseph Tolley Abraham van den=Post} and Company late Owners of the shipp} ''ffortune'' against Thomas Braining} the Master thereof. and Robert Braining} the Mate. Suckley Clements} The third day of April. 1656./. Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Tilley Vanden=Post and Company '''Rp. 2.us''' '''William Andersonn''' of Stockdon within the Bishoprick of Durham late Gunner of the sayd shipp the ''Fortune'' aged ninetene yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith as followeth. videlicet. To the 3d. article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that the sayd shipp the ''ffortune'' departed from this port about twenty monethes agoe under the Command of the arlate Thomas Braining as master of her bound for Barbary laden with gunnes, or fowling peices, iron, tobaććo lead bales of Cloath and other goods, with which shee arrived safely att Sally and there a good part of the Cloath, Lead and Iron was sold, to be payd some in waxe, and some (as he heard) in gold. And from thence the sayd shipp went to Santa Cruz and there disposed of the sayd gunnes and all the other goods the sayd Tobacco onely excepted. And the sayd shipp being to returne from Santa Cruz to Sally to receyve the proceed of the foresayd goods there sold, tooke in about forty Jewes and Moores and severall quantities of merchandizes belonging to them, all to be transported to Sally aforesayd upon freight. And saith that the sayd shipp being upon her Course was driven something too farr to seaward by a Northerly wind, and after making use of a westerly wind to reach Salley was by the force of that westerly wind driven about seaven leagues to the Eastward of Sally and so over shott the sayd port of Sally and was not able to come thither, where= upon the sayd Jewes and Moores bećame much troubled and very angry, and caused the sayd Braining to putt his shipp into Tittuan. saying they would goe to Sally by land, and so for that tyme the sayd shipp not coming att Sally received not the proceed of some goods there sold as aforesayd. But what dammage thereupon happened this deponent who was onely as Gunner aboard the sayd voyage ćannot sett forth. And further he ćannot depose saving that of what he hath deposed hee was an eye=witnesse. The fourth article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that from Tittuan the sayd shipp was to goe to Cadez to sell some of her Barbary merchandize which she had on board, and in her Course having made Cape Seratt the sayd Braining having discovered a shipp
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