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and tyme arlate in the yeare 1658 was Master and part Owner of the arlate shipp the ''Willing Adventure'' and for such commonly reputed this hee the better knoweth for that hee was and went Mate of the sayd shipp the voyage in question and alsoe was present when the sayd ffisher bought his parts of the sayd shipp whereof hee is still Owner./ To the second article hee saith that hee knoweth that the arlate Edmond Tassell did in the moneths and tyme arlate cause to be laden aboard the sayd shipp the ''Willing Adventure'' at Linne a certayne quantitie of Mault but the number of lasts hee knoweth not, of which mault the sayd Tassell was Comonly reputed to be the Owner which mault was to be trans ported in the sayd shipp to Quinborrowe arlate And there to be delivered unto the sayd Edmond Tassellor order and for his account, and that the said Tassell sent one Edmond Bignet along in the said shipp to dispose of the said mault, yeelding a reason as before To the third article hee saith that after the lading and putting the said mault aboard the said ship the said ffisher and company departed threwith for Quinborowe (the said Bignet as aforesaid going also along n her) and that in her passage shee was met with by two Ostend men of warr, who set upon and endeavoured to take her, but the said ffisher and company made stout resistance and maintained fight with the said Ostenders by the space of six houres, in defence of their said shipp and lading, and in that fight one of the said ffishers men was soe shott that hee died very shortly after, and three others were sorely wounded, and at length the said ffisher and companie being over powered by the said Ostenders, were taken with his said shipp and lading by the said two men of warr, who made and tooke her and all his company prisoners, and deprived them of the possession of thE said shipp and goods, which hee knoweth being masters mate as aforesaid, and present and one of them that [?XXXX] in the said defence, and was taken. To the fourth and 5th hee saith that there being severall packs of goods about the said shipp at the time of her seizure, the said Ostenders tooke them [?XXX] [?XX] and away and put them aboard their owne vessells, and leaving [?XX] the said mault, they offered the shipp and mault to sale to the said Edward [?Bignet], who expressely refused to buy the same, whereupon they offered the sale thereof to any that would buy them, and then the said ffisher seeing that sawe [?dawes] come aboard and would buy the malt [ADD DATA]
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