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severall other goods and Merchandizes for … severall other goods and Merchandizes for Accompt of them the sayd Nayler<br />
horne and Company to bee disposed of at Guinney for their best advantage<br />
this hee knoeth being Master of the sayd shipp imediately after the hireing<br />
thereof and soe constituted by the sayd Nayler horne and company who alsoe<br />
made this deponent Cape Merchant for the disposeing of the goods thereby<br />
them laden for their best advantage at Ginney, as alsoe for that hee was<br />
present when the sayd Nayler horne and Company soe hyred the sayd shipp<br />
and saw the sayd goods laden aboard her for their Accompt and signed bills of<br />
ladeing for the same and thereby knoweth that they were the true and lawfull<br />
Owners and proprietors of the sayd goods and soe ˹generall˺ accompted And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the articles of the Peace arlate And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the moneth<br />
of January 1655 (the sayd shipp the ''Justice'' being then lyeing at a place in<br />
Guinney called Cape Sarrillon which is a place of ffree trade for shipps of this<br />
Commonwealth) the arlate Mounsieur de La Rose Commander of the<br />
Shipp the ''dutchesse'' arlate and three other french shipps of warr and their<br />
Companyes subiects of the king of ffrance did there upon the second day<br />
of the sayd moneth of January 1655 English style in a hostile manner<br />
sett upon and surprize the sayd shipp the ''Justice'' of Dover and all her<br />
ladeing of Copper barrs and other Merchandizes laden aboard her as<br />
aforesayd for Accompt of the sayd Nayler horne and Company, and all<br />
her tackle apparrell and furniture and provisions and materialls belonging<br />
to her, and saith that hee this deponent at the tyme of such seizure did<br />
acquainte the sayd de La Rosse and Company that there was then a [?peace GUTTER]<br />
and amity concluded and agreed upon betweene England and ffrance<br />
and the subiects of each Nation and therefore hee ought not to [?XXXXX GUTTER]<br />
him this deponent in the quiet enioyment of the sayd shipp and goods therein<br />
nor make any seizure thereof or words to that effect whereto the sayd de La<br />
Rosse replyed and sayd thus or to the like effect videlicet what is that to mee<br />
I care not for that, whereto this deponent replying to the sayd de La Rosse<br />
and adviseing him to have a care what hee did and telling him that there<br />
were more shipps in England, and that hee this deponent did not doubt<br />
but hee should gett an other shipp whereby to bee able to defend him selfe<br />
from him the sayd de La Rosse and recover satisfaction of him the sayd de la<br />
Rosse at some other tyme for the wrong hee then offered him contrary to<br />
the peace concluded betweene both nations, the sayd de La Rosse threatened<br />
him this deponent to hange him, and soe notwithstanding hee was by this<br />
deponent advertized of the sayd peace concluded did still continue his sayd<br />
seizure of the sayd shipp and ladeing aforesayd whatsoever, and all her<br />
masts, sayles, rigging, Anchors, Cables, provisions, and other appurtenances<br />
whatsoever to her belonging, and Converted them to his the sayd de La Rosse<br />
and Company their owne use and benefitt and afterwards sett the sayd shipp<br />
on fyre and burnt the same, and turned this deponent and his Company<br />
the ''Justice'' on shoare amongst the Negroes at Cape Sarillon<br />
this hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge the premisses being<br />
and done in manner aforesayd in sight not only of this deponents but [?also GUTTER]<br />
all the part of the Company of the ''Justice'', and of<br />
the company of a dutch vessell then alsoe present called the shipp [?''Euphrana''] and [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
Mr Garrett Bremer Merchant of her And further to these articles hee cannot deposeurther to these articles hee cannot depose +
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