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HCA 13/72 f.240r Annotate
First transcribed 16 September 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 240  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 16/09/2013  +
Transcription Christophers intending there to gett passChristophers intending there to gett passage for England and saith that the sayd Claes<br /> Johnson and his brother Bernard Johnson had then the Command of two shipps of warr<br /> manned with Spaniards and came and sett upon and surprized the sayd shipp the ''John''<br /> and two ffrench shipps as they were in the roade of Zerludas and landed divers<br /> Spaniards upon the Ter[su]das and dispossessed the English and ffrench thereof which<br /> being done the sayd Claes departed with his shipp whereof he was Commander<br /> to goe for Santo domingo leaving this deponent and the rest of the company of the ''John''<br /> ashoare at the Torludos in the custody of Spaniards, and after his departure a dutch<br /> shipp which came from Brazeele coming in sight of the Torludas the sayd Claes<br /> Johnsons brother Barnard Johnson put forth dutch colours upon his shipp and thereupon the sayd dutch<br /> shipp supposing him to bee a friend came in and was by that meanes surprized<br /> by the sayd Johnson and sent by the sayd Johnson to Santo domingo togeather with the sayd<br /> shipp the ''John'' which acts of hostility the sayd Claes and his brother acted<br /> by the power and authority of the King of Spaine And further hee cannot depose./ To the 8th and 9th articles hee saith that after the sayd Claes Johnson and his brother<br /> were both gone from the Tertudas the Spaniards who were on shoare at the Tertudos<br /> hearing that the English ffleete under the Command of Generall Penn was at Sea, were<br /> in great feare that the sayd Generall would send some shipps and take that Iland of<br /> Tertudos, and thereupon buried all their ordnance (which were thirty in number) and<br /> tooke this deponent and other English men and french men whome they had as<br /> prisoners on shoare and marched over land with them to that part of the Island<br /> of Terludos which lay neerest to hispaniola and there put them<br /> over in boates to hispaniola and soe marched them to Santo domingo and at<br /> this deponents Coming to Santo domingo the sayd two shipps<br /> which the sayd<br /> Claes Johnson and his brother Commanded at the Terludos laye sunke in the<br /> harbour, they being sunke there (as hee heard the sayd Claes Johnson<br /> and divers others saye) to hinder the sayd English ffleete from getting into harbour<br /> at Santo domingo, and alsoe heard the sayd Claes saye that hee went unto<br /> Spaine to gett satisfaction for those two shipps which were soe sunke And<br /> hee this deponent being at Santo domingo when the sayd Claes Johnson came<br /> with the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' to Santo domingo knoweth that hee brought in her<br /> one who was to be Vice Kinge or Governour there<br /> and saith the sayd Claes Johnson knowing this deponent to bee a Shipp<br /> Carpenter did imploye this deponent to repayre and mend the sayd shipp ''Nicholas''<br /> and make her fitt to returne for Cadiz, and procured this deponents liberty to come<br /> from Santo domingo with him as a Carpenter of the sayd shipp, and the sayd<br /> Claes hath severall tymes while this deponent wrought in fitting the sayd shipp<br /> sayd that hee intended when hee came into Spaine to buy the sayd shipp the<br /> ''Nicholas'' for his brother Bernard, whereby hee beleeveth that the sayd Claes<br /> had noe Propriety in the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' but that shee belonged to<br /> subiects of the King of Spaine And further hee cannot depose To the 10th hee saith that hee seeing all the ladeing of the ''Nicholas'' which was in<br /> her at her seizure laden aboard her knoweth that all of them except a parcell of<br /> Cackowe which was laden by and belonged to the arlate hayes a dutch man and the peeces of eight laden by and belonging to this deponent was laden<br /> by Spaniards and was for Accompt (as hee beleeveth of Spaniards And further hee cannot<br /> depose, saving hee saith the sayd three hundred peeces of Eight and plate worth sixty peeces of<br /> eight laden for Accompt of this deponent when the sayd shipp was soe seized were taken away<br /> by soe seized were taken away<br /> by  +
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