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The second of March 1656./
A business of … The second of March 1656./
A business of exámination of witnesses on the behalfe of}<br />
Witnesses on the behalfe of James Bridgeman Thomas}<br />
Preston and Company Owners of the shipp the ''Lyon''}<br />
''Providence'', and her tackle ffurniture and ffreight and of}<br />
Alderman William Thompson, Maurice Tompson, and others English}<br />
Merchants subiects of this Commonwealth, ffreighters of the said shipp}<br />
and Owners of her lading against John Scroll, Captaine and Commander}<br />
of the shipp the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and of the ''Unicorne'' of Middleborow against}<br />
Vandergoos and Coymans, and all others owners and Imployers}<br />
of the said shipps and against all others which}<br />
will take upon them to Justify the seizure of the said shipp the ''Lyon Providence'', and her lading}<br />
Smith:./.}
Examined upon an<br />
Allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of the said<br />
Bridgeman, Preston and<br />
Company, And alsoe<br />
of on the behalfe of the<br />
said Alderman<br />
Tompson, Maurice<br />
Tompson and others:/
'''Rp. 1:'''
'''Timothy Craven''' of Ratcliff neare London Mariner<br />
aged twentie eight yeeres or thereabouts, sworne in the Acts of Court
To the first and second árticles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the producents James Bridgeman, Thomas<br />
Preston and Company, Alderman William Thompson, Maurice Thompson<br />
and others articulated, and likewise well knoweth the shipp the ''Lyon and''<br />
''Providence'' arlate, and saith that for all the time arlate they the<br />
said James Bridgeman, Thomas Preston and company were owners<br />
and proprietors of the said shipp, and of her tackle furniture and<br />
apparell and for such commonly accompted and reputed, which shipp<br />
hee saith was about thirteene monethes since victualled and set out<br />
from this port of London on a trading voyage to goe and saile to Guiney<br />
and thense to the East India's, and thense to retourne for London, and<br />
that Alderman William Thompson, Maurice Thompson and others tooke<br />
out one hundred and fiftie tonnes of the said shipp to freight for the said<br />
voyage, and did in there in and upon their said tonnage lade and put<br />
aboard the said shipp a cargo of goods proper for the coast of Guiney,<br />
to be transported hense to the said coast of Guiney, and there to be<br />
bartered away for gold, which hee knoweth for that hee this examinate<br />
was acquainted with such proprietie, setting out and lading, and<br />
went out hense masters mate of her, and was well acquainted with<br />
the designe of their intended voya{g}e.
To the third árticle hee saith that in the said voyage within the said<br />
time, the said shipp safely ariving at Carmantine on the coast of<br />
Guiney the factors that went in the said shipp on the said voyage, did<br />
there, upon barter for their said exported goods, take in and<br />
receive on board her a quantitie of gold, amounting to ninetie five<br />
markes of gold or thereabouts for the use and account of the said Alderman<br />
William Tompson, Maurice Thompson and company, and were in<br />
the quiet possession thereof on the high and open seas aboard the<br />
said shipp on the said coast to the use of them the said Alderman<br />
Thompson, Maurice Thompson and company, and were ready to have<br />
proceeded thense therewith on the said voyage for the parts of East India<br />
there to have trucked or disposed the same for goods of those parts, to be<br />
brought for England for the same account, which hee knoweth for that hee thiscount, which hee knoweth for that hee this +
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