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in the Realme of ffrance to be carried and … in the Realme of ffrance to be carried and transported in the said shipp to<br />
Middleborowe and there to be delivered to them or their use and for their accounts.<br />
And further that the persons that were imployed in the said lading and putting<br />
the said goods aboard were and are alsoe friends and in amitie with this Common<br />
wealth. And saith moreover that the said shipp in her passage from Bayon<br />
for Middleborow was on the high sea at or neere Goodwin sands on the 28th<br />
of October last (new stile) wrecked by occasion of storme, only it pleased<br />
God to preserve the lives of this deponent and company and some of the<br />
passengers, and severall of the goods and to bring them safe ashore. And<br />
that severall of the said wines and brandewines saved and found out by<br />
vertue of a Commission of Enquirie from this Court, were and are at<br />
Colchester and Winenhoe and places thereabouts, and are part of the said<br />
lading of the said shipp. And lastly touching the names of the proprietors,<br />
Were and are as followeth, videlicet Christofer Wouterss and Company<br />
hee saith were and are owners of the said shipp and of two and thirtie tonnes<br />
of the ffranch wine of her lading of the first marke in the margent, John
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ffret and company of nineteene tonnes of ffranch wine of the second and third<br />
markes, [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] hallart and Adrian Wesdorp of 20 peeces of brandewine<br />
of the 5th, 6 and 7th markes, Peter Bowdan Courten for 10 tonnes of<br />
brandewine of the 8th marke and fferdinand and Martine da Silva of X 89<br />
peeces of brandewine of the 9th marke, all which persons hee saith are of<br />
Middleborow and fflushing, saving the said da Silva who is of<br />
Amsterdam, All which premisses hee knoweth to be true because hee<br />
was master of the said shipp and received the said goods aboard and signed<br />
bills of lading for the same.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith the said shipp belongeth to the port of Middleborow and<br />
came last thense the 4th of January last New stile, and hath bin at<br />
noe other port since such her departure thense but Nantes and Bayon, and<br />
lay long at Bayon under the late Embargo made in ffrance of holland shipps
To the second hee saith that besides the said wines and brandewines there were<br />
three hundred bales of wooll and an hundred bales or baggs of feather<br />
alsoe and fiftie fats of rozin alsoe laden aboard the said shipp at bayon<br />
and three bundles or small packs of saffron, all belonging alsoe to the<br />
foresaid proprietors, and further that there were a box of Jewells and<br />
three boxes of amber greese in this deponents chest which boxes are all<br />
lost in the sea with his said chest, and saith the said shipp was going to and<br />
would have dischardged at Middleborow, And otherwise hee referreth himselfe<br />
to his foregoing deposition.
To the third hee saith that together with the said Christofer Wouterss, harman<br />
Potten, Peter Uddmans, Cornelius Christianss Nicholas da Silva, and<br />
Claus Corneliss all of Middleborow and all subiects of the said States<br />
were and are owners of the said shipp, and otherwise negatively.
To the fourth hee saith hee signed bills of lading for the said goods<br />
and that they were true and reall and whereof<br />
together with his seabrief and all his papers and writings were alsoe<br />
cast away by the said disaster, and that hee signed noe colourable bills<br />
or billd noe colourable bills<br />
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