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for Martinica or Saint Christofers, but saith that the said shipps being met with by fowle weather and stressie stormes, and her victualls and beverage failing in her course, the said masters and companies were forced with them into Santa domingo in Hispaniola in the West India's in or about October 1653 stile aforesaid, and in the next moneth following or thereabouts, they as hee saith there sold all such of their said Negro's as were remaining and died not in the voyage, namely they there sold three hundred and sixtie Negro's or thereabouts for commodities of that place and countrey, to be thence transported for Spaine in Spanish bottomes for their said owners account, and the reason of such designe of transportation in Spanish bottomes hee saith was because that dutch shipps were not permitted to lade in those parts, And this hee saith was and is true and notorious, and very well knowne to this deponent who went master of the shipp the ''Yellow Sunn'', in company of the ''Angell'' (whereof his said brother was master) and saw the premisses soe happen and donne. To the third article hee saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth of december 1653 stile aforesaid, and before the said lading of the said proceed of the Negro's in Spanish bottomes, the Spaniards at Santa domingo having a designe upon a little Iland lying neere hispaniola called Tertoodas, possessed by the ffrench, imbargoed and impressed the said two shipps the ''Angell'' and the ''Sunn'' for transportation thither of their soldiers; in consideration of which imployment of the said shipps they promised this deponent and his said brother (commanders of the said vessells) that they should have leave to make their retournes and Lade the said proceed of their said Negro's in their said owne shipps the ''Angell'' and the ''yellow Sun''. But after they had served their turnes, with such transportation oof their men in the said shipps, and that the said shipps were retourned to Santa domingo, where the masters hoped of leave to lade them as was promised, the Governour and officers were soe farr from making their said promise good, that they put this deponent and his said brother (masters andcommanders of the said vessells) in prison, and there detained them prisoners from May 1654 untill March next following and tooke away their shipps and goods and this they did upon pretence of the said commanders comming to trade there with the said shipps without License, And this was and is true and publique. To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that on or about the eighteenth day of March (new stile) next following the said moneth of May 1654, and about six weekes before Generall Penn and the English fleete came to hispaniola (according as hee hath heard of the time of their arivall there) the Governour and officers of Santa domingo caused this deponent and his said brother to be imbarqued in a Spanish frigot and sent them away prisoners for Spaine, in regard of such their comming (as was by the Spaniards pretended) to trade at Santa domingo, And saith that in their course of proceeding for Spaine comming to the Westward of the T[?e]rc[XX]a Ilands they met a fflushing man of warr, which being of greater strength than the Spanish frigot tooke this deponent out of the frigot, but with [?consent] of this deponent and of his said brother
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