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For their once proper uses and accounts
goods and merchandises, to the value of ten thousand
pounds sterling and upwards, to be in the said ship sailing
for Lisbone, and thence for Brazille, and so backe to Lisbone
and from thence to returne toLondon, and after such
lading put on board the said ship, he sayeth the producents
constituted and made one John Kingsman. Captaine of
his and one William Croxon supra cargoe of her for the
said voyage, and then set her out to sea with her [?foresayd]
lading on board her, wherewith he sayth she shortly
after such her departure from this port arrivd in safety at
Lisbone. The premisses he deposeth being the [?XXX]
of her the vvoyage in question, and seeing some of the producents at
times on board her before her departure giving orders to her Captaine and
Supra Cargoe concerning the management of the said voyage
for that he was shipped by the aforesaid Captain Kingsman in
the quality aforesaid and arrived in the said ship at Lisbone
ulterius ad hos Arlos non deponit.

Ad 4um deponit et dicit that after the arrivall of the Experience
at Lisbone, the forsaid William Croxon did there unlade
severall of the merchandizes carried in her from thence
and disposed of them, and tooke in in lieu carried thereof severall
other goods as Poore John, fflower, oyle and other merch
andizes for the use and account of the producents Bretton,
Delboe, Middleton and Company which said goods were to be traded
in the said ship thence to Brazille and these to be batrered
away for sugars, hides, tobacoe and Brazille woods
for the account aforesayd. The premisies he deposeth for
the reasons aforesayd.

Ad 5um et 6um arlos dicit that no English or other ships are
permitted to trade at Brazille, unlesse they have a
licence therefore from the King of Protugall, which licence
cannot be purchased unless the procurers of them do first put
in security to returne with their ships from Brazille to
Lisbone and there unlade them, that so the King of Portugall
may receive the Customes which are due to him
of such goods bought thence. And further that the said
William Croxon did (during his stay with the Experience
at Lisbone as aforesaid) procure such a licence to trade with
his said ship there, and also gave in such security to returne
with her to Lisbone to the end aforsayd And sayeth that
after such licence procured and security given in, the sayd
William Croxon departed with the sayd ship fully laden for [?XXXXXXXXXXXXX]
Brazeele, where she arrived in safety in or about [?January]
last, this deponent arriving there in her
in the quality aforesaid And further cannot to these Articles [?depose] [#]

[#] saving he sayeth the
sayd Cargoe of goods
at their departure
from Lisbone was
worth the summe
of seaven or eight
thousand pounds
sterling
Ambrose Gooding [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]

Ad 7n dicit that the producents Bretton, Delboe, Middleton and
company (for whose acount he sayeth all the goods and merchandises
soe carried from Lisbone to Brazille were) are all English
men and subjects of the king of England, and so generally reputed and taken

vide A8