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Ad 20um Arlum deponit et dicit that the Ca … Ad 20um Arlum deponit et dicit that the Captaine and Companie<br />
of the ''Experience'' did not fight with any of the said three<br />
Dutch ships in Defence of either of the said Portugall ships<br />
or ladings, nor did they the said Captaine and Company of the ''Expe=''<br />
''rience'' fight with or shoot any Guns at any of the said Dutch<br />
ships in defence of the ''Experience'' and her lading, untill<br />
they first came to windward of her as enemies, and had fired<br />
a broadside upon her without hayling her as aforesaid;<br />
which he knoweth for that he tooke speciall notice thereof./
Ad 21um deponit that all the said sugars Tobaccoes and other<br />
goods soe laden on board the ''Experience'' at Brazeele were<br />
on board her at the time of her seizure by the said Dutch<br />
Captains and Companies, and were worth the summe<br />
of fourty five thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts<br />
Et ulterius ad hunc Articulum (salvis praedepositis ad qua<br />
se refert) nescit deponere./
Ad 22um dicit that the ''Experience'' was and is a ship of the<br />
burthen of foure hundred Tons and upwards and<br />
carried thirty great Guns, and had in her at her seizure<br />
tackle and furniture for a voyage of two and twenty<br />
moneths, and a great quantity of provisions, and further<br />
that the said ship togeather with her provisions tackle and<br />
furniture was well worth at the time of her seizure the summe of foure thousand pounds sterling and upwards in this deponents estimation.<br />
Et alr nescit deponere./
To the last he sayth that the producents Bretton Delboe, Mid=<br />
dleton and Company by meanes of the seizure of their ship<br />
and lading togeather with her provisions, tackle and furniture<br />
by the said Dutch Captains and Companies in manner<br />
as aforesaid have suffered losse and dammage to the value<br />
of fifty thousand pounds sterling as neare as this deponent can<br />
estimate the same. Et alr nescit./
Repitus coram Doctor Master Surro[?gatus]./
Tho: Sawki[?in] [SIGNATUR, RH SIDE]
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25th die Octobris 1660./
Super Allega[?cone] predicta./
'''7us'''
'''Georgius Whately''' parochia Sancti [?Petsi] in Viculis infra<br />
Libertatem Tu[?ris] London Mercatoribus a libellis<br />
annos natus 42. aut eo circiter testis in hac<br />
causa productus juratus et examinatus dicit<br />
et deponit put sequitur videlicet.
Ad primum dictae Allonis deponit that for all the tyme arlate<br />
The producents Thomas Bretton, Symon Delboe, Andrew Middleton<br />
Abraham Sayon, Giles Travers, Robert Biddulph and John<br />
Godstall (all merchants of this city of London) were and still are<br />
and ought to be the true and lawfull owners and Proprietors<br />
of the Arlate ship the ''Experience'' and of her tackle apparrell<br />
and furniture, and for as such he sayth they were and<br />
areuch he sayth they were and<br />
are +
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