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ninetie five markes, one ounce and six ang … ninetie five markes, one ounce and six angles of gold, and was in<br />
the quiet possession thereof on board the said shipp on the high and opem<br />
seas on the said coast to their use; and arived therewith as farr as<br />
Cape Lopez on the said shipps voyage for the parts of East India, in which<br />
parts the said gold was to have bin invested in goods for theise parts<br />
for the account aforesaid, which hee knoweth being factor as aforesaid<br />
and receiving the said gold aboard and keeping a note thereof.
To the fowrth hee saith hee the said James Bridgeman, Thomas<br />
Preston and company owners of the said shipp had alsoe gold and goods<br />
aboard the said shipp, wherewith shee arived to or neere Cape Lopez<br />
but the quantitie or valew thereof hee knoweth not.
To the fifth article hee saith that the arlate Lionell Skinner who<br />
alsoe went in the said shipp, had alsoe gold and goods aboard the said<br />
shipp when shee arived at or neere Cape Lopez to the valew (in this<br />
deponents estimation) of eleaven hundred pounds sterling, which hee<br />
knoweth because hee sawe the same, and was acquainted with the said<br />
Skinner his trading for and getting the said gold in Cormantine hee<br />
and this deponent assisting each other. And saith the said gold and<br />
goods were alsoe to have bin carried to the East India's and there invested<br />
in commodities for theise parts, and soe were the said gold and goods<br />
of the said Bridgeman and company.
To the sixth hee saith there was alsoe and remained aboard the said<br />
shipp the ''lyon and Providence'' in gold and other goods for the account of<br />
other private adventurers subiects of this Commonwealth to the valew<br />
of seaven or eight and twenty hundred pounds sterling of this deponents<br />
sight and knowledge, which were alsoe to have bin carried to the East<br />
Indias and there to have bin invested in goods of those parts.
To the 7th, 8th and 9th articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that within the said time namely in September last past the said shipp<br />
with all the foresaid gold and goods aboard her comming to or neere<br />
Cape Lopez aforesaid on her said trading voyage towards the East Indias, and being in a<br />
peacable condition, shee was there met withall, set upon,<br />
often shot at and forcibly and in an hostile manner with all her said<br />
gold and merchandizes seized and taken on the eleaventh of the said<br />
moneth of September last, old stile, by two dutch shipps the one called the ''Mary'' of<br />
Amsterdam, and the other the ''Unicorne'' of Middleborowe, on both<br />
which John Scrawle a dutchman commanded in cheife, and having<br />
mastered the said shipp the ''lyon'' and ''Providence'', the said John<br />
Scrawle and companie possessed themselves of her and of all her said gold and<br />
goods, and dispossessed her master and companie and factors thereof,<br />
and tooke and kept them prisoners, and soe utterly deprived them<br />
and the said owners thereof, the said Scrawle and company carrying<br />
away the said shipp ''lyon and Providence'' and all her said gold and<br />
goods and disposed thereof at their pleasures, all which hee knoweth<br />
being present and seeing the same soe donne, and saith they alsoe tooke<br />
awaynd saith they alsoe tooke<br />
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