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with surprized and seized by a certaine nu … with surprized and seized by a certaine number or Squadron<br />
of shipps in the service of the Lords the States of the United<br />
Provinces or their Subjects, and by the Captaines Command:rs<br />
and Companies of the said shipps they were by<br />
force taken for and as the shipps and goods of the king of Portu-<br />
-gall and of his Subjects, and under the notion of thegoods of the<br />
enemies of the said Lords, the States of the United Provinces and<br />
their Subjects, And the Captaines Commanders and Companies of<br />
the said Dutch shipps, or severall of them did in this deponents presence<br />
and hearing declare and affirme at the time of the seizure aforesaid<br />
that they were Dutch men and Subjects of the Lords the States<br />
aforesaid. The premisses he deposeth upon the grounds and reasons<br />
of knowledge heretofore by him declared and expressed in his<br />
examination to and upon the precents articles of this Allegation<br />
and more saith not:-
To the nyneth Article hee saieth, That the Captaines Commanders<br />
and Companies of the said Dutch shipps or some of them upon<br />
the sizure of the said shipp the ''ffortune'' and her Lading aforesaid<br />
did unduely and by force at Sea take and plunder out of the said<br />
shipp about seaven and twenty Chests of sugar, and carried and<br />
brought the same on board one of the said Dutch men of warr<br />
wherein this deponent then was a prisoner and there did see and<br />
observe the said passage or transaction. And more saieth not<br />
to this article.
To the tenth article hee saieth, That when the said sugars were<br />
Laden and putt on board the said shipp the ''fortune'' at the<br />
Bahia aforesaid he this Deponent as Master of the<br />
said shipp did signe severall bills of lading for the same, being bill<br />
all of one tenor to witt for each ?distinct parcell and propertie<br />
of the said goods, and that some of the said bills and also diverse<br />
other papers Invoyces Letteres Cocquetts and writings which concerned<br />
the said shipp and hee said Lading weree brought in the said shipp<br />
from the Bahia and ffernambuco aforesaid and were to be<br />
delivered to severall persons in Lisbone, in and by which the<br />
distinct and severall persons to whom the said goods were<br />
severally to be delivered were sett downe, And this deponent further<br />
saieth That all the said papers writings Invoyces, bills of Lading<br />
letteres and Cocquetts or other Documents whatsoever to the said shipps<br />
Lading belonging and in her brought from the Bahia and fernambuco,<br />
aforesaid, were on board the said shipp the ''ffortune'' at the time<br />
of the seizure aforesaid, and that the same and all others the<br />
writings of the said shipp were then taken and carried away<br />
by the taken and carried away<br />
by the +
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