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To the third Interrogatorie This deponent … To the third Interrogatorie This deponent saith that the sayd shipp departed<br />
with her lading from Bilboa about the latter end of January 1653.<br />
last past of English stile, and in her passage towards the Te[?vrera]<br />
and when she was come within about three leagues of the sayd Island<br />
she was sett upon and assualted by a man of warr belonging<br />
to Sally and after an houres fight wherein the sayd Browne<br />
and others of his Company were wounded and hurt and her mizzend<br />
mast shott downe she was by the sayd man of warr subdued<br />
and taken, and the sayd Sally men did deseyre<br />
the sayd shipp ''Unity'' and her lading being so seized for Sally<br />
and putt about thirty Moores on board her for that purpose,<br />
and tooke this deponent and the rest of the ''Unities'' Company into<br />
their owne man of warr and carryed them to Sally, where this<br />
deponent did credibly heare that the sayd shipp ''Unity'' and sayd<br />
Moores in her neere to Santa Cruz was cast away and perished<br />
And saith It is most certayne that the sayd shipp ''Unity'' and<br />
her lading were and are wholly lost to the sayd Mr Andrewes and<br />
Mr Y[?oo], and that they no reyther of them ever had any satisfaction<br />
or restitution made unto them for the losses by them susteyned in<br />
the taking and surprizall of the sayd shipp and her sayd lading<br />
or eyther of them. And further or otherwise he cannot depose.
Philip '''+''' Cabbin [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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Th esame day Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories.
'''2.'''
'''William Morris''' of Charles=Towne in New England<br />
mariner late Carpenter of the sayd shipp the ''Unity''<br />
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
before the sayd right worshipfull John Godolphin doctor<br />
of Lawes one of the Judges of the sayd Court of<br />
Admiralty, and examined saith by vertue of<br />
his oath as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second Interrogatories he saith he knew well the<br />
shipp the ''Unity'' interrate and knew of her building in New England<br />
and Mr Samuel Andrewes and Abraham Y[?oo] merchants interrate<br />
were partowners of her and so accounted and were interested<br />
in two thirds of her as he conceyveth. and this deponent sayled<br />
in her from Charles towne to Bilboa, and was Carpenter in<br />
and on board her this her last voyage begun from Bilboa. And<br />
saith that in January last past 1653. English stile she tooke in<br />
her lading att Bilboa to say Iron Iron hoopes some silkes, some<br />
silkehoopes some silkes, some<br />
silke +
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