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touch at Lisbone to the end they may there … touch at Lisbone to the end they may there pay the Customes which are due<br />
to the King of Portugall out of such Merchandize as are brought<br />
from thence which said security he sayth the said Croxon<br />
was necessitated (for the reason aforesaid) to give in, and did give in<br />
sa[?XXX] or procure it to be given in, And further deposeth not to<br />
this Article saving that one Mr Abraham Jacobs an Englishman then<br />
residing at Lisbone was one of the security, and saving that<br />
the said security was soe given in, in or about the month of October<br />
last was twelve moneth./
Ad 6th deponit et dicit that after the said Croxon had given such<br />
security at Lisbone and had put on board the said ship her full lading<br />
of goods for the use and account of the foresaid Producents, he de-<br />
parted with the said ship and lading onboard her Towards Brazile<br />
where he safely arrived about the latter end of December last;<br />
And he further sayth the said Cargoe of goods soe laded at Lisbone<br />
and carried out from thence was worth at their departure<br />
from Lisbone in this Deponent’s estimacion the summe of five thousand<br />
pounds sterling at least. Et article nescit./
Ad 7th dicit that the arlate Bretton Delboe Middleton and Company<br />
(for whose account he sayth all the foresaid goods were so laden at Lisbone<br />
and carried to Brazeele ) were and are all Englishmen and subiects<br />
of the King of England. Et article nescit salvis predepoitis ad qua<br />
se refert./
Ad 8th deponit et dicit that after the arrivall of the said ship the<br />
''Experience'' with her said lading on board her at Brazill as aforesaid, the<br />
Arlate William Croxon did there receive, take and unlade the same<br />
out of the said ship, and sold and bartered it away for sugars Tobaccoe<br />
hides and Brazill wood for the use and account of the producents English<br />
men as aforesaid The premisses he deposeth seeing and assisting in the<br />
unlading and disposing thereof./
Ad 9th Arlticle dicit that the said William Croxon did at Brazeele aforesaid lade<br />
or cause to be laden on board the ''Experience'' twelve hundred chests<br />
of white sugar and two thousand five hundred Rolls of Tobaccoe<br />
or upwards, about fifty or threescore hides and neare twenty<br />
Tunnes of Brazeele wood; all which goods he sayth were for the use and<br />
account of the producents Thomas Bretton Simon Delboe Andrew Middleton<br />
and Company aforesaid and were the proceed of their goods carried out in<br />
the said ship from Lisbone to Brazill; And soe much he the said<br />
Croxon did severall times declare during the time of their lading<br />
at Brazeele, Et reddit causas scientia sue ut supra./
Ad 10th dicit that after receipt of the said sugars and other goods on<br />
board the ''Experience'' at Brazeele, she departed therewith bound<br />
for the port of Lisbone there to discharge the same according to the<br />
security there given in as aforesaid and to pay the King of Portugall his Cus-<br />
toms out of them. Et article refert se ad predepoita./
Ad 11th dicit that in the said ships passage from Brazeele towards Lisbone<br />
being come in sight of the Rocke of Lisbone, the said Captain Kingsman and<br />
Company in these [?preXXXed] did on the twenty seaventh day of May last about<br />
breake of day being Sunday morning espy three saile of ships coming<br />
up towards the ''Experience'', which said ships afterwards proved to be three<br />
Dutch men of warre; but sayth it was soe Early in the morning<br />
when the Captain and Company of and in the ''Experience'' first espyed<br />
them that they could not at first discerne whether they were<br />
enemies or friends./they were<br />
enemies or friends./ +
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