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and comming thence to Cursoe, one of the W … and comming thence to Cursoe, one of the West India Ilands in or about<br />
the moneth of ffebruary last met the said shipp there, and there this<br />
deponent was hired by John [?Leanderson] Rosca[?n] her master to goe Cooke of<br />
her, and there this deponent (being then one of her company) sawe putt aboard her ffoure horses and<br />
two hundred and odd goates for accompt of the said shipps owners,<br />
And saith the said Iland of Cursoe in the West Indies, is belonging<br />
to the dutch West India Company, and under the power and subiection<br />
of the Lords the States if the said United Netherlands. And saith that<br />
the said shipp having taken in the said horses and goates, and the master<br />
having before hand a passe or brief for his free comming to and trading<br />
at Barbadas, grannted by the English Governour of the Barbadas (as<br />
the said master told this deponent) shee departed from Curse to goe thither<br />
and this deponent in her, and arrived on the coast of the Barbadas neere a<br />
place called the Holl, whereunto shee was intended to goe, and being<br />
soe arived there came a boate manned with nine or tenn English men<br />
aboard her and welcomed the master and company<br />
as friends, whereupon they of the ''king david'' threw them a towe<br />
to fasten their boate to the shipp and come aboard, to be carried in<br />
the said shipp for their ease to their frigot which was at a distance,<br />
and comming to the said frigot, the Captaine and company instead of<br />
welcomming them as the others had donne, presently told them they<br />
were prize, and soe forth with seized the said shipp, horses and<br />
goates and all things in the said shipp, and this hee saith was<br />
in or about the beginning of March last, and having soe seized<br />
her they carried her to Specksies and there turned this deponent<br />
and foure others of her companie ashore and kept the master and<br />
six other of his companie aboard, and thence they carried the<br />
said shipp and lading to the Bridge where the horses and goates<br />
were landed saving some of the goates which were dispursed to the<br />
other shipps of the fleete, and soe the said shipp and goods and [?XXXX]<br />
were and are taken away and the owners deprived thereof [?and ?that]<br />
the said frigot that tooke them was an English frigot called the ''dover'' and<br />
manned with an English Captaine and company. The<br />
premisses hee deposeth being as aforesaid one of her companie<br />
and sailing in the ''kinge david'' till such seizure and turning<br />
ashore at Sperksies, whence hee went on foote and met her<br />
at the Bridge, and there seeing the master and the rest of<br />
her company ashore and turned out of her, and the shipp wholly<br />
at the disposall of the English. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin and<br />
Collonel Cock.
[MARKE] The marke of the<br />
said John Peterson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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