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fustians, English bees-waxe and butter,< … fustians, English bees-waxe and butter,<br />
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent sawe<br />
the same soe laden out of the warehouses of the said Mr Greene<br />
at River portoby him the said Mr greene and his servants, and [?tooke GUTTER]<br />
particular notice thereof in writing, they being consigned to bee<br />
disposed of at Saint Sebastians by this deponent<br />
(who went factor or Cape merchant in the said shipp, and was ordered<br />
by the said Mr greene to dispose thereof for his accompt, and<br />
saith the said lading of the said goods happened in or about the [?end GUTTER]<br />
of the moneth of November last past of this deponents sight and knowledge<br />
But the valew thereof hee saith hee knoweth not. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp<br />
departing as aforesaid with the said goods aboard her from<br />
Liverpoole, intending to saile directly (as winde, weather and the<br />
fortunes of the seas would permit, for Saint Sebastians, there to<br />
make her discharge, and comming off the Seames on the coast of<br />
ffrance, was on the fourteenth day of March last old stile met<br />
with by a Brestman of warr, which after about three or<br />
foure houres space and seveerall shotts made at the ''Guifte'', took<br />
and surprized he said shipp the ''Guift'' and all the said goods of<br />
the said Mr greene, which were then all aboard her, and carried<br />
the said shipp and goods to Port Louis in Bretanie, where the same<br />
were confiscated, and soe the said goods were and are utterly lost<br />
to the said Alexander Greene, without any manner of satisfaction<br />
or recompence [?X] given for the same. All which hee knoweth being<br />
aboard and seeing the said seizure, and being carried in the said<br />
man of warr in company of the ''Guift'' and lading to<br />
Port Lewis, where hee sawe the said goods (after confiscation)<br />
made away and disposed of by the ffrench, before this deponent<br />
cooming thence. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
Tho: Christian [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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