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frequented the said Navigation and trade o … frequented the said Navigation and trade of and in the parts<br />
of Brazeele aforesaid for all that time, and thereby is well<br />
versed and experienced therein, and hath thereby observed the<br />
premisses to be reall and true and consonant to the common judgment<br />
and repute of all persons using and frequenting those parts, And<br />
further to this article hee deposeth not:/
To the eighth article hee saieth, That the said shipp the ''fortune''<br />
having received her said Cargaison of sugars did sett sayle with<br />
the same from the Bahia to ffernambuco, where this deponent then was with<br />
his said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'', and<br />
that the said shipp ''fortune'' did shortly after such her arrivall<br />
at ffernambuco as aforesaid sett sayle and was in Companie<br />
of this deponent and of his said ship, (which shipp was laden with<br />
Brazeele wood sugars and Tobaccoes at the Brazeele and was bound<br />
for the Port of Lisbone in POrtugall) and that in the Course<br />
thitherwards and in or about the moneth of November 1657, the<br />
said shipp the ''fortune'' with her said lading of sugars in her together<br />
with the said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo''<br />
and her lading also was about 20. or thirtie leagues from the<br />
Coast of Portugall mett with seized and surprized by a certaine<br />
number or Squadron of shipps in the service of the said Lords<br />
the States or of their Subjects, and by the Captaines Commanders<br />
and Companies of the said shipps were by force seized taken and<br />
surprized as the shipps and goods of the king of Portugall and of<br />
his subjects, as and under the notion of the goods of the enemies<br />
of the Lords the States of the United Provinces aforesaid and<br />
their Subjects, and so much in effect the said Captaines Commanders<br />
and Companies or some of them did declare and expresse in<br />
this deponents presence and hearing shortly after the said seizure<br />
as also that they the said seizors were dutchmen and Subjects<br />
of the said Lords the States of the United Provinces. And<br />
further to this article hee deposeth not./
To the nyneth hee saieth, That hee hath credibly heard and doeth<br />
verily beleeve That the said seizors upon and shortly after the<br />
said seizure did some of them unduely and by force and violence<br />
at sea take and plunder out of the said shipp the ''fortune''<br />
a considerable quantity of sugar, but how much this deponent doeth<br />
not certainely know (otherwise than by report that they did<br />
amount to the number of seaven and twenty Chests of sugar or<br />
thereabouts) for that he this deponent was not an eyewittnesse<br />
(thereofs not an eyewittnesse<br />
(thereof +
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