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Transcription

other of the said passengers who came aboard as a Portugese and was not
knowne for other to this deponent, is since staid and imprisoned at Plimouth as
being a Spaniard, and saving that one other of them was a Greek or Armenian
And further hee cannot depose, saving what followeth, and saving alsoe that one of the

[LH MARGIN]
[GUTTER ?Spaniards], who came to
[GUTTER ?xxxxx] at Amsterdam
[GUTTER ?XXXX] of him for
[GUTTER ?XXXX] which this deponent
[GUTTER ?XXXX] him
[?GUTTER XXXXX] [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]

said six or seaven that did eate below, was a poore souldier that had bin taken by the English

To the seaventh hee saith that this deponent alone was Captaine or commander
of the said shipp and that shee had noe Spanish master or Spanish merchant
in her or belonging to her while shee was at Amsterdam or in the Texell or any wherein the [?XXXX]
nor any Spaniard at all in her unlesse the said poore souldier who came aboard for passage were a Spaniard which whether hee was or not hee knoweth not, only hee saith that
there was alsoe a boy that came aboard to get passage, which is staid
alsoe at Plimouth and said there to be a Spaniard, which if hee be
hee saith is more than hee this deponent knew or knoweth, this deponent
not asking whence hee was. And saith hee neither knoweth nor hath
heard that any of his passengers were ever imployed in the service of the
king of Spaine in any shipp or otherwise, or have bin assisting or present
at the seizure of any English shipps or shipp, nor knoweth what to beleeve
therein.

To the eighth hee saith that when the said shipp came neer Portland
the said Stranger who soe came aboard when the shipp was ready to
saile from the Texel, went out of her into the man of warr that was
a Convoy to this and other shipps of holland, and that the said other poore
souldier that soe begged passage of this deponent went out of her
into some other shipp at Plimouth while this deponent was there
ashore, but into what shipp hee knoweth not, but upon what occasion
they soe left the said shipp Marcus Aurelius hee saith hee knoweth not.
And otherwise negatively referring himselfe to his foregoing deposition.

To the nineth hee saith that through want of water and
by contrary winde this deponent being hindered from getting out of
Texel to goe with his Convoy and other shipps of his company
this deponent could not overtake his said convoy till hee came into
Portland roade, where hee this deponent with his said shipp overtooke
his said Convoy (being a dutch man of warr of holland) and the said
other shipps by him convoyed, and there this deponent alsoe found
two English friggots riding, but what the names of the said friggots
or of either of them were, or in what service they were hee saith hee
knoweth not.

To the tenth hee saith that the said two friggots had the English colours out
when this deponent soe arived, and one of them sent her boate aboard
this deponents shipp and the persons that were therein signified to this
deponent that they were sent by their Captaine to visit this deponents shipp,
to which this deponent as hee saith made answer, that they should please
to goe aboard his Commandeur (speaking of the commannder of the
said Convoy shipp), and
that if hee said they should visit him, and that the other dutch shipps
under that Convoy were alsoe visited, this deponent was content to bee
visited, and therewithall the said persons in the English boate going
aboard the said Convoy this deponent followed them in his boate, and
comming aboard the convoy found the said persons in speech with the said
Commannder about the said visiting, and heard the said Commannder
tell them saying, friends goe to your Captains and tell them that I
will goe with this man (speaking of this deponent) aboard his shipp