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and the masters having paid the duties of … and the masters having paid the duties of lights and anchorage, weighed<br />
and with their shipps set saile to goe the West way out and when they<br />
were come somwhat past Yarmouth, were taken with a calme<br />
whereby they were occasioned to turne back and come to anchor under<br />
Yarmouth, and all this while of their being in the Ile of Wight they saith the arlate Captaine Welch<br />
was in their company with his vessell of warr and went from<br />
Cowes and come back to Yarmouth with them and that when the winde<br />
[?served] againe and that they were departing from Yarmouth alsoe and [?haul]<br />
their anchors aboard, and had taken their leaves of the Castle, the<br />
said Welch shott off a Gun and commanded them aboard him,<br />
whereupon the said foure masters went aboard him to see what hee<br />
would have, carrying their passes and documents with them, which<br />
they showed unto him, All which hee knoweth, being one of the said<br />
foure, namely master of the said shipp the ''Winbeck'', And saith the<br />
premisses were and are true. And further hee doth not depose.
To the third, fourth, and fifth articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
by the said Sea-Passes and documents they made it appeare to the<br />
said Welch that the said shipps and goods were belonging to hamborowe<br />
and were going to Portugall, howbeit hee detained them, and sent<br />
this deponent and the other three masters ashore, and there caused them<br />
to be detained prisoners, and while they were soe there detained,<br />
hee saith they were there severally interrogated and examined in<br />
writing, wherein this deponent for his part declared that his said<br />
shipp belonged to hamborough and that his goods were belonging to<br />
hamburgers (as the truth was they were) and were bound for<br />
Portugall to be delivered for hamburgers accounts, and the like hee<br />
beleeveth the other masters declared, All which notwithstanding<br />
and albeit it was cleare to the said Welch and some of his owners<br />
(who now were come to him, and whereof Captain Greene was one)<br />
that they were hamburgers and their goods belonged to hamburgers,<br />
yet they would not dismisse them, but threatened them with longe sute<br />
and demanded much money of them for their libertie, And they<br />
being upon a voyage with perishable goods as wheate and other goods and in hazard to loose<br />
their market and have their goods spoiled, were forced to yeeld to<br />
give five and twenty pounds sterlinge for the libertie of each of the<br />
said foure shipps and goods, and not having much money, they<br />
said welch and owners sent aboard their shipps and<br />
took severall goods thereout, namely out of this deponents said<br />
shipp about a last of wheate, foure barrells of beefe, a parcell<br />
of cheeses, and as much money as made the said goods to<br />
the valew of twenty five pounds sterling, and from the ''Catherin''<br />
whereof hendrick meyer was master they alsoe tooke wheate<br />
and alsoe other goods, to the valew in all of 25 ''l'' sterling as this<br />
deponent heard the said hendrick affirme, and from the other two<br />
shipps they alsoe exacted and had the like valew as their masters<br />
affirmed, namely from each 25 ''l''sterling in valew,<br />
and this exaction they saith was<br />
against the said masters wills, and they were forced thereto to paid<br />
likewise to prosecute their voyage. All which hee knoweth being<br />
one of the said masters, and seeing the premisses soe donne. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
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