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<document-start>
1. Contents thereof soe farr as hee can in his foregoeing deposition./
2. To the 2 hee saith hee hath not receaved his wages but hopeth to recover it
3. if the parties in this suite doe recover theirs, and saith hee this deponent being
4. a Prisoner as aforesayd till such tyme as hee could gett his Paroll, never sawe
5. the sayd shipp Elizabeth and dorothy since her seizure, nor knoweth
6. where shee is, and therefore did not desert her service, and to the rest of the
7. Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for that hee knoweth the Master and the
8. shipp company ˹did˺ doe their endeavour to defend the sayd shipp and did traverse the
9. gunnes according to command, and the Interrate henry Kenyon did not take
10. downe the Auncient nor crye out for Quarter till hee was Commanded soe to doe
11. by William Blunt one of the Owners of the shipp and Masters Mate of her./
12. To the last hee saith hee did not desert the shipp Interrogate, being a prisoner
13. as aforesayd and therefore never heard any thing of her retakeing till hee
14. came into England ˹and to London˺./
15. the marke of the sayd
16. James JX [MARKE] Massey./ MARKE, RH SIDE
17. Repeated with his precontest
18. before doctor Godolphin.
19.
20. The thirtieth of July 1657.
21.
22.
23. <margin value="Left">On behalfe of the foresaid}
24. Sherwill and Crew touching}
25. the Suckley (sic).}</margin>
26. <margin value="Left">Rp. EA 3</margin>
27. William Winter of London Merchant aged 28
28. yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the fore said
29. John Godolphin doctor of lawes, Judge
30. afore said, and examined as aforesaid saith as
31. followeth./
32. To the first second, third and fourth Interrogatories hee saith hee well knew the shipp the
33. Suckley interrate (whereof Thomas Wells was Commander) in
34. her last voyage interrate, and saith hee imbarqued himselfe in her
35. at Lisbone in or about the beginning of ffebruary last to goe
36. ˹merchant˺ of her to Tituan on the coast of Barbary thense
37. to fetch her lading of corne to Lisbone; and that shee departing
38. from Lisbone was by contrary windes and stresse of weather
39. driven back into the bay of Biscay, where the said Wells
40. her commander (having gotten some others of the company
41. into his confederacie) set upon and surprized the rest of the
42. company and this deponent on the 2{5}th of ffebruary last
43. old stile and bound this deponent with match and bound
44. alsoe some of the company, and the rest (that were not in confedracie with them) they put in hold and in cabbins
45. and put a guard with swords and pistoles upon them, and
46. then carried the said shipp into ˹Saint Antonios˺ in
47. Biscay under the command of the officers of the king of
48. Spaine, whether shee was carried by error of the pilot, whereas
49. hee the said pilot and the said captaine and confederates intended
50. to carry her to Passage; And both upon the said seizure and
51. surprizall and alsoe at her bringing in the said shipp to Saint Antonio's
52. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">the</margin>
</document-end>

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Places

Tituan

• The port of Tituan (alias Tetuan) is located in the modern state of Morocco. Early-C17th English state papers refer to "Algier, Tunis, Sallie, Tituan and other portes of Barbary"

  Sources

  Secondary sources

Lancelott Anderson, 'An account of West Barbary' in John Pinkerton, A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world, vol. 15 (London, 1814), pp. 403-441