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lading, and because he denied that he had any, we sent 

 certaine with him, who caused him to goe to the place 

 where he had hid them, and by the differences of his 

 billes of lading, and his talke, we gathered, as before, 

 that they had Frenchmens goods. Whereupon we 

 examined them straightly, and first the Purser of the 

 Unicorne, which was the smaller shippe, confessed that 

 they had two and thirty tunnes and a hogshead of a 

 French mans. Then we examined the Master in like 

 case, and he acknowledged the same to be true. Then 

 we examined also the Master of the great ship, and he 

 confessed that he had an hundred and eight and twenty 

 tunnes of the same French mans, and more they would 

 not confesse, but sayd that all the rest was laden by 

 Peter Lewgues of Hamburg, to be delivered to one 

 Henry Summer of Camphire, notwithstanding all their 

 letters were directed to Hamburg, and written in Dutch 

 without, and within in French. 



When they had confessed that they had thus much 

 French mens goods within their shippes, we conferred 

 together what was best to be done with them. William 

 Cretton and Edward Selman were of the opinion, that 

 it should be good either to carry them into Spaine, and 

 there to make sale of the goods, or els into Ireland, 

 or to returne backe againe into England with them, if 

 the winde would permit it. But I, waying what charge 

 we had of our Masters, first by mouth, and afterwards 

 by writing, that for no such matter we should in any 

 case prolong the time, for feare of losing the voyage, and 

 considering that the time of the yeere was very farre 

 spent, and the money that we should make of the wines 

 not very much, in respect of the commodity which we 

 hoped for by the voyage, perswaded them that to goe 

 into Ireland, the winde being Easterly as it was, might be 

 an occasion that we should be locked in there with that 

 winde, and so lose our voyage : and to cary them into 

 Spaine, seeing they sailed so ill, that having all their sailes 

 abroad, we kept them company onely with our foresailes, 



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