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and their shipp was bound for Holland and … and their shipp was bound for Holland and was to touch att Leghorne<br />
and the?nce to goe into Holland in Company of other dutch shipp with a<br />
Convoy of Holland Men of warr. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 6th he saith that after the sayd fight was over the sayd shipp ''Harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' and the sayd prize shipp being hurt and damnifyed in<br />
their masts and tackling the sayd Captaine Swanley returned back with them<br />
both to Messina there to fitt them with such necessaries as were requisit<br />
this deponent going back to Messina in the ''Harry Bonadventure'' And<br />
otherwise cannot depose.
To the 7th he saith that Captaine Swanly after he came to Messina did provide<br />
two new masts for the sayd prize the ''Saint Peter'' and fitted them and made XXX<br />
ready by his owne carpenter ashoare, but saith the sayd masts were never<br />
brought aboard; which as this deponent heard y:e sayd Captaine Swanly<br />
and others say came to passe by the default and injurious dealing of the<br />
Governor of Messina, which is a place subiect to the King of Spaine.<br />
and saith the sayd Captaine Swanly was forced to make use of the old broken<br />
masts of the ''Saint Peter'' and to ?peice them and mend them with peices of<br />
timber, being deprived of the sayd new masts by him provided as aforesd.<br />
this deponent being aneye witnes thereof. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .8th. he saith that Captaine Swanly sent John Merrick then newly<br />
appoynted Master of the ''Saint Peter'', and the Corporall of his owne shipp being<br />
a Spaniard to provide some timber and other necessaries a shoare in<br />
Messina who were there detained prisoners severall dayes till the sayd<br />
Captaine Swanley was gone out to sea with his sayd shipp of warr and<br />
the sayd prize shipp, and came not aboard againe till the sayd shipps had bene<br />
att sea about two dayes. And saith the sayd Captaine Swanley depted from<br />
Messina with his sayd prize shipp about the 12th day of June 1653. This<br />
deponent being in the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and goeing out to sea<br />
with him. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .9th he saith that the Governor and Inhabitants of Messina or some<br />
of them by his authority did take and seize the ffelensa or shipps boate<br />
belonging to the ''Harry Bonadventure'' whilest Captaine Swanley remained<br />
att Messina as aforesd, and kept and still do keepe the same, and tooke allso<br />
and detajned, six mariners serving under the sayd Captaine Swanley in the<br />
sayd ffelensa, by meanes whereof the sayd Captaine Swanley and the service<br />
of this Commonwealth was much prejudiced, the meanes of sending abroad<br />
for intelligence being thereby cutt off. the premisses this deponent knoweth<br />
being att Messina when the sayd ffelensa and men in her were so seized and<br />
deteyned. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .10th. he saith That on or about the 12th day of June English stile the<br />
sayd Capt Swanley taking the Advantage of a wind sett sayle with his owne<br />
shipp and the sayd prize shipp with her lading aforesd from Messina and sayled along by the Coast<br />
of Scicily intending for Tunis, this deponent then being in the<br />
sayd ''Harry Bonadventure''. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the .11.th and 12th he saith that on or about the 25th day of June newstile the sayd<br />
Captaine Swanley and Company with their two shipps the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
and ''Saint Peter'' saling along the Coasts of Scicily and beating to windward<br />
the wind being contrary, espeyed, under the Isles of Trapany 7 dutch<br />
shipps, and three shipps more comeing off from Trapany; and thereupon<br />
finding.rapany; and thereupon<br />
finding. +
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