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at all estimate or value the same, forasmu … at all estimate or value the same, forasmuch as he sayth<br />
he never saw any goods of that nature laded onboard<br />
any ship before the voyage in question, nor hath he any<br />
insight therein. And therefore cannot further depose./
John Gouldstone [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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[?eod die] [CENTRE HEADING]
super Allegatione predicta
'''4us'''
'''Johannes Broadgate''' de Redriffe in Comitatu Surria<br />
nauta annos natus 25 aut de ciriter testis<br />
productus juratus et examinatus dicit put sequintas./
Ad ju Arlum Allegationis deponit et dicit that for the space<br />
of eight moneths or upwards next before the seizure of the<br />
''ffreetrade'' hereafter mentioned, this deponent served in her<br />
as a Common man, and knoweth that for all that time the<br />
Arlate John Gregory John Bence and John Allen were<br />
the Imployers of her, and sent her out during the said time<br />
with a lading of goods from this port upon their owne account<br />
on a trading voyage to Alicant and thence to Scanderoone;<br />
And for as Imployers of her he sayth they were and are<br />
generally accounted reputed and taken.
Ad. 2. et 3um Articles dicit that within the time aforesaid they<br />
the said producents John Gregory, John Bence and John Allen<br />
were the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of five<br />
hundred bags of galls and two bales of silke, and so com=<br />
monly esteemed and reputed to be; which said galls and silke<br />
he sayth were laden and put aboard the ''ffreetrade'' by<br />
their ffactors at Scanderoone, and were to have beene<br />
transported in her from thence to this port of London<br />
for the use and account of them the said producents, as<br />
was generally said and reputed. Et alr nescit./
Ad 4u. et 5u. deponit that shortly after the lading the said<br />
Galls and other goods onboard the ''ffreetrade'' at Scanderoone,<br />
she departed therewith from thence bound for London, and<br />
that in her course thither as she was sayling in a quiet<br />
and peaceable manner, she was upon the fifteenth day<br />
of May last upon the high and open sea met with seized and surprized with her foresaid lading on board her by a certain<br />
Dutch ship called the ''Saint Mary'' of Amsterdam, whereof one<br />
Laurence Andreas was Commander./
To the 6th he sayth that when the Captaine and Company in the ''Saint Mary''<br />
so seized the ''ffreetrade'' and her lading, the ''Saint Mary'' sayled<br />
under the Dutch Colours, and most of her Company were Dutch menrs, and most of her Company were Dutch men +
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