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of the Company of the ''Saint Peter'' say and confesse some in the Englishe tongue and others in dutch but to the understanding of this deponent that the sayd shipp ''Saint Peter'' and her lading were bound for Amsterdam, and were there to make their discharge. And this deponent saith that he found severall bills of lading aboard the sayd shipp ''Saint Peter'', and delivered them to the sayd Captaine Swanley who p:rsently after the perusing of them told this deponent that according to the entryes in the sayd bills of lading all the goods therein mentioned were consigned for Amsterdam. And further he cannot depose. To the .6th. he saith that upon the taking of the sayd shipp ''Saint Peter'', which happened about the 22th day of May 1653 the sayd shipp being much disabled, and the ''Harry Bonadventure'' hurt in fight the sayd Captaine Swanly appoynted this deponent Master of the prize. and returned with both the sayd shipps to Messina a foresayd a Citty in Scicily under the dominion of the sayd King of Spaine, arriving there about the 25th day of May, and there fitted and provided a new foremast for the ''Saint Peter'' and a new maintopmast for the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and other necessaryes to enable the sayd shipps to proceed to tunnis aforesayd which this deponent knoweth for the reasons aforesayd and otherwise cannot depose. To the .7th and 8th he saith the Governour of the sayd place and Officers of the sayd Citty of Messina did hinder and would not permitt the sayd Captaine Swanley and this deponent to make use of and bring aboard the sayd masts provided and fitted ashoare as aforesayd notwithstanding that the sayd Governour upon Captaines Swanleyes sending to him a present of good value in gold and venise glasses had promised him all fitting a[?tt] [?occasions] whereupon this deponent taking a Broker an Inhabitant of Messina with him went a shoare to buy and procure such timber as might serve to make good the old masts, And saith that both himselfe and the sayd broker were by the Magistrates of Messina putt in prison and there detayned for twelve dayes, And saith that not long after this deponent was seized and layd in hold as aforesayd the Corporall of the ''Harry Bonadventure'' being a Spaniard and goeing to the sayd Governour to make way for this deponents release was likewise by the officers of the sayd Governour seized on and brought and putt into the same prison where this deponent was, being one of the worst prisons in the sayd Citty, And saith that during the tyme of their such ymprisonment severall pilotts of Messina were clapt into the dungeon of the same prison and Irons putt upon them by authority of the Magistrates of Messina to drive or force them to confesse or declare that the sayd Captaine Swanley and Companie had landed some goods contrary to the rules and rders of that place that there by they might find occasion to detayne and confiscat the sayd prize shipp the ''Saint Peter'' and her lading, as the sayd Pilotts themselves did declare to this deponent. And saith that he this deponent and the sayd Spanish Corporall Lorenzo Michael and the broker aforesayd were so putt and deteyned in prison without anie offence given or cause showne that ever this deponent heard of, and after 12 dayes the sayd shipps the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter'' being departed from Messina were without cause shewne or any examination taken [?dismissed] and
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