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To the 3d hee saith that the said lading b … To the 3d hee saith that the said lading being soe put on board<br />
the said Ship shee set saile therewith on her intended voyage<br />
to Bourdeaux, and in her course thither upon the high Seas<br />
and on the 6th. of October last shee was met withall, and<br />
seized with her said Lading by a Ship called the ''Charles''<br />
whereof one Browne was Captaine, And the sayd Browne<br />
and his Company possessed themselves of the said Ship the<br />
''Cock'', and kept her Master Prisoner, onboard the ''Charles'' And<br />
saith that hee this Deponent who was taken in the ''Cock'' and kept in<br />
her) heard the said Browne and severall of the Company of the ''Charles'' say that<br />
if the Master of the ''Cock'' and the Master of the Ship ''Hope'' (which was<br />
taken at the same time that the ''Cock'' was) would not buy their<br />
Ships of them they would carry them to the seaven Isles where<br />
they could sell their ffathers for money, or to that effect<br />
But further deposeth not./:
To the 5th. and 6th. hee saith that hee this Deponent and all or most<br />
of the Company of the ''Golden Cock'' . did tell the Comapny<br />
of the ''Charles'', that were in the ''Cock'', that both the ''Cock'', and<br />
alsoe the said Ship the ''Hope'' did belong to<br />
Scotland, and that Scotchmen were Owners of them and<br />
their Ladings, and all of their Companyes were Scotts exxcept<br />
the said Thompson who is an Englishman, And saith<br />
that notwithstanding the said Browne and Company<br />
would not release the said Ship, unlesse sayd Thompson<br />
and Henry Hart the Master of the ''Hope'' would procure and<br />
pay a Summe of money, which they were constrained to doe<br />
and did pay unto the said Browne about 225. ''li'' or 250. ''li''<br />
this Deponent seeing the two Masters goe on board the ''Charles''<br />
therewith And saith that hee verily beleeveth that if the<br />
said Thompson and Hart had not procured and paid<br />
the said money, the said Browne and Company would<br />
have carried away the said Ships and Ladings and sold<br />
the same, and soe much they declared, and further deposeth<br />
not./.
To the 7th. 8th. and 9th hee saith that the said Thompson to procure<br />
the money which hee oaid to the said Browne was forced to<br />
engage the said ship ''Cock'' and lading for payment of the same<br />
and was afterward likewise forced to sell the said ships Lading<br />
at Garnesey to pay the same, and could bot proceed with the said<br />
voyage to Bourdeaux where this Deponent saith. hee verily beleeveth<br />
it would have yeilded as much more as it did at Garnesea<br />
And saith that in his Judgment the Owners of the said Ship<br />
''Cock'' and her Lading by reason of the said seizure and detention<br />
and hinderance of the voyage and being forced to sell the<br />
said lading at Garnesey suffered losse and damage to the<br />
vallue of about a thousand pounds Sterling And further Deposeth<br />
not.
To And further Deposeth<br />
not.
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