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Wm Warren [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 29th of November 1653./
Joson against Read and Wilson for their}<br />
Interest in the ''Golden Lyon'' Smith Budd}
Examined upon an allegation [?XXXX] on the behalfe of<br />
the sayd [?Read] and Wilson./
'''Ius'''
'''James Wilson''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner Masters [?second] Mate of the shipp the ''Charles'' (whereof<br />
the sayd Thomas Wilson is Master) aged 36 or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the shipp the ''Golden Lyon'' arlate was seized and taken on a [?XXXX]<br />
happening in the moneth of ffebruary 1651 English style in a River<br />
in Virginia called James River and neere a place there called<br />
[?Pagan] Creeke, which River Ebbeth and floweth and is within the dominions<br />
of the Commonwealth of England there, the premisses hee knoweth, being<br />
Masters second Mate of [and XXXXX] the shipp the ''Charles'' which shipp was one of the three<br />
shipps which tooke and seized the sayd shipp the ''Golden Lyon'', and he this<br />
deponent did assiste in the takeing and seizeing thereof And further to<br />
these articles hee cannot depose/
To the third and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee being Masters second Mate of the ''Charles'' aforesayd and present and Privie<br />
to the agreement by him this deponent now deposed of well knoweth that<br />
before the seizure aforesayd of the sayd Shipp the ''Golden Lyon'', the arlate<br />
Nathaniel Joson Captaine [XXXX XXXX] of the ''William and John'', Abraham R[XXXX] Commander<br />
of the shipp the ''Seaven Sisters'' arlate, and the arlate Thomas Wilson<br />
Commander of the Shipp the ''Charles'' arlate, having arrived all in safety<br />
at Virginia aforesayd and having all Commissions by authority of<br />
Parliament to seize all shipps and goods whatsoever which they should<br />
then finde tradeing at Virginia, did enter into mutuall agreement<br />
each with other to assiste each other in the surprizeing of all such [?XXX]<br />
as they were by their sayd Commissions authorized to surprize, And<br />
did alsoe at the same tyme agree each with other that they would<br />
proportionally share and divide amongst them the sayd J[X]sson [?Read] and Wilson<br />
and their severall Mariners and SEamen of their severall companyes<br />
allf their severall companyes<br />
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