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Re[?minson] would (as hee said) send a ves … Re[?minson] would (as hee said) send a vessell to receive the hides and Brazil<br />
wood to be carried to Amsterdam, and about three dayes after such retourning<br />
of the said Mollar there came (as hee saith) a fflute or vessell of the burthen<br />
of one hundred and eightie lasts or thereabouts (commanded by Jacob M[XXXtz]<br />
of Schadam) from the said Re[?iarson] to receive the said hides and<br />
Brazil wood, and met the ''Santa Maria'' as shee was going towards Cales and they both came to an anchor and fell [?#]
[#] to taking out the hides and some<br />
Brazil wood into the fflute, and<br />
then by storme were forced back<br />
into the said bay of Gilbraltar where<br />
they fell to the same worke [LH MARGIN]
and saith that after about sixe thousand and two hundred of<br />
the said hides and some of the said Brazil wood were put into the fflute, and<br />
while their companies were busie thereabouts and intended to deliver out<br />
the rest of the said hides and wood into the said fflute or vessell (called the ''Propatria'')<br />
there came the ''ffairfax frigot'' aforesaid (commanded by the said Captaine<br />
St[?orey], and on or about the nineth of November last (new stile) seized<br />
and tooke the said shipp the ''Santa Maria'', and the said vessell the ''Propatria''<br />
with their said respective goods in them, and carried them to Tituan<br />
roade, and there hee tooke all the said hides that had soe bin put<br />
into the said vessell the ''Propatria'' and such Brazil wood as she had received<br />
out of the said shipp ''Santa Maria'', and with the said Brazil wood put part<br />
of the said hides back againe into the ''Santa Maria'', and tooke the rest<br />
of the said hides out of the ''Propatria'' being (upwards of two thousand)<br />
into his said frigot the ''ffairfax'', and soe dismissing the said shipp the<br />
''Propatria'' emptie, carried the said shipp the ''Santa Maria'' and all her<br />
said goods soe brought from the West Indias to Thylon, and there<br />
delivered the said shipp the ''Santa Maria'' and all the said goods<br />
(which were all that shee brought from the West Indias)<br />
to Captaine Stokes<br />
arlate, and there this deponent alsoe saw some of the said hides<br />
that were soe taken into the frigot the ''ffairfax'', taken out and<br />
delivered ashore, but whether they were all delivered or not hee knoweth<br />
not. but heard that severall of them were dlivered from the said frigot<br />
aboard Newfound land men riding in the said port of Th[?u]lon<br />
further hee cannot depose, saving<br />
as aforesaid.
To the seaven and twentith article hee saith and deposeth That upon the<br />
said seizure the said Captaine Story alsoe seized and tooke into his hands<br />
all the papers, writings and dispatches of the ''Santa Maria'', and amongst<br />
them her said bills of lading for the said goods soe taken in at Santa<br />
Domingo. the foresaid Charter partie soe made at Amsterdam for the said<br />
voyage betweene the said von hulten and this deponent, whereof the<br />
said first schedule is as hee saith a true copie, and alsoe this deponents<br />
Seabrief made by the Magistrates of Amsterdam, a paper or ticket<br />
of the said ships being visited upon her said proceeding from the said port<br />
of Amsterdam, a passe from the said Magistrates touching the freedome<br />
of the said shipp and lading, with bookes of Account, Invoices and other<br />
documents or dispatches concerning her both outwards and homewards<br />
lading, and having soe possessed himselfe of them, hee carried the<br />
same with the said shipp to Th[?o]lon, and there delivered thgem to the<br />
said Captaine Stokes, in whose hands this deponent saw them or most<br />
of them, and the said Captaine Stokes still keepeth or hath disposed thereof<br />
And further hee cannot depose.
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And further hee cannot depose.
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