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Transcription

The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

2

John Thistlethwaite of Portsmouth gentleman aged 37 yeeres or
thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first second and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
the shipp the lyon arlate being by Captaine Parker commander of the
[?Cheriton] frigott in the immediate service of this Commonwealth
taken at sea and brought up to Portsmouth, there were on or about the
thirteenth day of may last about foure hundred and twenty Spanish
souldiers landed out of her at Portsmouth into the custody of this deponent and of
his precontest mr ffrancis holt subcommissioners for prize goods there
together with the papers and evidences of the said shipp which were brought
thether. And saith that this deponent and mr holt upon such receipt of them
carried the arlate Robert Baggaert Captaine or master of the said
shipp lyon, together with his Stiersman and Carpenter and the commander in
cheife of the said souldiers before the Major of Portsmouth, who
in the presece of his towne clarke and of this deponent and of his
said contest examined them at Portsmouth on the
said thirteenth of May last or thereabouts, and upon their said examination
the said Baggaert said and acknowledged upon oath that the said
shipp the Lyon came then from the Groyne where (as hee
said) shee was freighted by the Governour in the service of
the king of Spaine to carry the said souldiers to Ostend where
they were to be landed and imployed in the said kings service. And
soe much in effect his said Stiersman alsoe acknowledged and said
withall that shee lay out of command at Santa Antonio before
such her freighting, and further they both and the said Captaine or
commander in cheife of the souldiers, confessed and acknowledged
that the said souldiers were there taken into the said shipp, and were all Spaniards and
subiects of the king of Spaine, and that the said shipp was bound to
goe with and discharge them at Ostend, And further deposeth not
saving what followeth.

To the fourth and fifth hee saith that the said thirteenth of May last or thereabouts
the said Captaine Parker delivered the foresaid papers to the said mr
holt and this deponent in the presence of the said Baggaert who
alsoe himselfe delivered some papers unto them, and saith that upon
such examination of the said Baggaert this deponent desiring the
towne clerke mr Mullins to aske him what hee gave further said [XXX]
and hee asking him succeedingly, the said Baggaert refused to give any
positive answer thereunto, but said hee referred himselfe therein to
his papers, pointing to the said papers, which this deponent and
the said mr holt had soe received and which were then lying [?upon ?the]
table before him, and which the said Baggaert acknowledged to be
all his shipps papers, And for and as such this deponent and the said
mr holt received the said papers of him and of Captaine Parker
which