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áway the papers, bookes and writings of th … áway the papers, bookes and writings of the master companie and factors<br />
of the said shipp ''Lyon and providence'', only this deponent while hee was<br />
kept prisoner in the said shipp found three of the said bookes which had bin<br />
throwne by some of the takers into the skuppers, and preserved them and<br />
hath them with him, whereby hee the better remembreth the particularities<br />
of the said gold, goods and valew. And after they had bin kept about five<br />
or six weekes prisoners, the said Scrawle put the master of the ''Lyon and''<br />
''Providence'' and company and factors into a small vessell with a very small<br />
pittance of badd victualls, and sent them away, and they were<br />
shorty soe distressed with want of victualls, that they were forced to put<br />
into Saint Thoma, and sell their vessell and get a smaller, and with the<br />
rest of the money to get victualls. And with the said John Scrawle was<br />
by his owne confession a native of Munickendam neere Amsterdam<br />
and a subiect of the States of the united Netherlands, and for such hee was commonly<br />
accounted, and the companies of the said two shipps were most of them<br />
also dutch and subiects of the said States by their owne confessions,<br />
and the said two shipps were dutch built and belonging the ''Mary''<br />
to Amsterdam, and the ''Unicorne'' to Middleborowe where this deponent<br />
(who was borne and lived long there) hath bin often aboard the ''Unicorne'',<br />
and that both the shipps sailed out of the Texel the said voyage for the coast of Guiney<br />
on a trading voyage for Negroe's, and that their owners lived at<br />
Amsterdam and Middleborowe and were subiects of the said States<br />
and named mr Caymans and Marsellis vandergoos for two of their owners,<br />
which Marsellis vandergoos, this deponent well knoweth to be a dutchman<br />
living in Middleburowe and a subiect of the said States. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the tenth article hee saith and deposeth that the said Alderman and<br />
Morrice Thompson before the departure of the said shipp from this<br />
port, lent the summe one hundred pounds sterling upon bottomerie<br />
upon the said shipp, for which they were to have and receive upon her retourne<br />
to London one hundred and fourtie pounds, which is utterly lost by the<br />
said seizure and spoile, which lending this deponent knoweth seeing<br />
the money delivered.
To the 11th and 12th hee saith that in case the said spoile and surprizall had not<br />
happened, the said shipp and her lading of gold and goods might<br />
and would in all probabilitie have arrived at the parts of East<br />
India and invested the same into goods of the parts, and brought<br />
the same into theise parts and quarters, which if shee had donne, the<br />
said ninetie five markes, one ounce and six angles of gold<br />
and other goods of the said Alderman and Morrice<br />
Thompson soe seized and taken away, might have and would in all<br />
probabilitie have and produced and yeelded their seaven thousand<br />
pounds sterling, and that saith that according to the common repute and<br />
report, the produce of gold from Guinney to the East Indies and<br />
thense in East India commodities to theise parts is two for one.<br />
and saith each marke of the said gold at the time of the said seizure was<br />
worth two and thirtie pounds sterling.
Toworth two and thirtie pounds sterling.
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