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the sayd Purser and others of the Company of the ''Saint Peter'' did make the sayd Confessions and declarations freely and voluntarily without any monaies offered to them or any of them; And further saith that he this deponent saw severall Letters ?found aboard the said shipp ''Peter'' which by the endorsements thereof were directed to Amsterdam, and severall persons inhabiting there And otherwise he cannot depose. To the sixth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that upon the taking of the sayd shipp the ''Saint Peter'', she being not able to keepe the sea and the wind being contrary to goe to Tunis, and the sayd shipp the ''Harry'' ''Bonadventure'' being much dammaged in her masts and rigging by reason of the fight aforesayd, the arlate Captaine Swanley and Company about the beginning of June last the tyme otherwise he remembreth not returned with both the sayd shipps into Messina, and there provided themeselves of masts and other necessaries requisit to in able the sayd shipps to proceed to Tunis aforesayd, the premisses he knoweth being aboard the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and returning in her to Messina in Company of the ''Saint Peter''. And otherwise cannot depose- The seventh article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith and deposeth that the Governors and Inhabitants of Messina being subiects of the King of Spaine taking notice that the English had brought thither a prize of great value taken from the dutch as aforesayd used meanes to dispossesse the sayd Captaine Swanley and his Company of the sayd Prize, and to that purpose have intelligence to a Dutch shipp called the ''Great Lyon'' that came from Smyrna and into the Road of Messina to avoyd the sayd Road much to the preuîudice of the English And more over saith that he this deponent by the order of Captaine Swanley after treaty had with the sayd Governor for necessary provisions, to facilitate that service presented and delivered to the sayd Governor as a present fifty ?Chiqueenes of gold and a faire Chest of Venice glasses, being in all to the value of 150 Crownes, whereupon the sayd Governor promised the sayd Captaine Swanley all fitting accomodations, But this deponent saith that the premisses notwithstanding, the sayd Governor and Inhabitants of Messina would not nor did suffer the sayd captaine Swanley and Company to fetch from the shoare the masts which they had provided as aforesayd but kept and deteyned the same from them, this deponent being an eye witnesse of their deportment and carriage in that particular. And further he cannot depose. To the eigth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith That the sayd Captaine Swanley thereupon sent John Merrick the leiftenant of the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and him this deponent Corporall thereof a shoare att Messina to procure and buy fresh pieces of timber as might make their old masts serviceable for supply of their present necessity, who being come a shoare, he the the (sic) sayd John Merrick and this deponent were by order of the Governor of Messina and without any offence given, or iust cause shewed by the Governor cast in to prison without any examination, and saith the premisses happened in the moneth of June XX last past. the tyme otherwise he remembreth not. An otherwise he cannot depose saving, he heard the Governo:r of Messina Don Antonio XXX
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