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whereof Eustace Smith was Commander and di … whereof Eustace Smith was Commander and did serve in the<br />
sayd shipp as mariners in the Moneths of October and November<br />
in the yeares 1649 and that hee very well knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesayd that in the sayd yeare 1649 there were shipt and put on board<br />
the sayd shipp the ''John Adventure'' a great quantitie of goods wares<br />
and Merchandizes to be carried in the sayd shipp to Cales and<br />
Saint Lucars in Spaine which were laden by English Merchants and<br />
that there were alsoe put and laden on board the sayd shipp divers<br />
goods wares and Merchandizes for the Accompt of the Mariners<br />
belonging to the sayd shipp, more particulerly for the Accompt of<br />
this deponent and his sayd brother Robert there were laden on board<br />
the sayd shipp all and singular the goods hereafter specified and<br />
mentioned which did cost and were worth the severall and respective<br />
summes hereafter following videlicet Three peeces of serges at fifty<br />
two shillings per peece which comes to seaven pounds sixteene shillings<br />
three ends of dyed fustian which did cost and were worth twelve<br />
shillings sixe pence per peece, in the whole one pound seaventeene<br />
shillings and six pence , sixe peeces of coloured bindeing at two<br />
shillings two pence per peece, thirteene shillings, three grosse of thredd<br />
laces at three shillings sixe pence per grosse, tenn shilling six pence<br />
Three grosse of thredd laces at fower shillings fower pence per grosse<br />
thirteene shillings, One bagg of Myrabalins conteyning eighty two<br />
pound at sixe pence per pound, two pounds one shilling, Two payre<br />
of bootes at seaven shillings per payer, fowerteene shillings, One<br />
Rundlet two shillings, Canvas and packing one shilling and sixe<br />
pence, seaven cases of strong waters seaven pounds seaven shillings<br />
Three ferkins of butter two pounds seaventeene shillings, Wearing<br />
apparell bedding bookes and Instruments worth twenty pounds And<br />
this deponent further saith that after the shipping of the sayd sewerall<br />
goods on board the sayd shipp for the Accompts aforesayd the sayd<br />
Shipp did departe and set sayle therewith towards Cales and<br />
Saint Lucars aforesayd and in her passage thither hee saieth the sayd<br />
shipp and all her ladeing aforesayd were mett withall surprized and taken<br />
by the ffleete of Prince Rupert and by those of that ffleete carried<br />
into Lisbone, where by the Owners of the sayd shipp and of her<br />
ladeing of goods were utterly deprived both of the sayd shipp and all<br />
their sayd goods and that at the tyme of her sayd surprizall which was<br />
in the moneth of November in the aforesayd yeare the sayd shipp was<br />
fully laden with peece goods for the Accompt of English Merchants<br />
and Mariners and that the sayd shipp was not carried into any Port<br />
before she was brought to Lisbone nor the bulke of the sayd<br />
goods broken up all which hee deposeth for that hee this deponent<br />
wasfor that hee this deponent<br />
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