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Adams from place to place at at Lisbone ke … Adams from place to place at at Lisbone kept the said Claes and<br />
Barent prisoners aboard an English frigot, and carried them in<br />
that condition from Lisbone againe out to sea, and kept the said shipp<br />
''Nicholas'' at Lisbone where shee was violated by the English and her<br />
lading disposed of by them and the owners deprived thereof and of<br />
the freight, and there this deponent and others of her company being<br />
turned at large by the English and not suffered to come into their<br />
owne shipp, left her and betooke them selves to get passage and<br />
imployment thence otherwise as well as they could. And saith the<br />
said shipp was of the burthen of two hundred and fiftie tonnes aor<br />
thereabouts at the time of her said seizure, and in very good<br />
imployment, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the twelveth hee saith that the said shipp at the time of the said seizure<br />
had aboard belonging unto her foure and twenty guns, and was in<br />
all things very well fitted and provided, ane otherwise hee cannot depose<br />
but beleeveth the said shipp and appurtenance to be then well worth<br />
two thousand pounds sterling.
To the thirteenth hee saith that after the shipp ''Nicholas'' was yeelded to the<br />
''Maidstone frigot'', some of the company of the said shipp ''Nicholas''<br />
endeavoured to breake open and plunder a chest of peeces of eight<br />
saying why should not they doe it, for the English would have them or to<br />
that effect, but the master opposed them saying let them have them<br />
that they belong unto, but they being unruly and forcing on to<br />
breake open the said chest, the master strucke and wounded some<br />
of them, and soe they became wounded, and were not strucke<br />
or wounded because they would not fight, for the shipp as aforesaid<br />
was yeelded and all thought of resistance ladi by, before the said<br />
persons were soe wounded and beaten, all which hee knoweth<br />
being present and seeing the premisses soe happen. And further<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the fourteenth hee saith the said masters Claes Johnson and<br />
Barent Claeson nor either of them did not in or with the said shipp<br />
''Nicholas'' seize or take any English or dutch shipp or shipps<br />
or goods, or English or dutch men, which hee knoweth sailing all<br />
the while in her as aforesaid, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose saving as aforesaid.
To the 15th hee saith that there were noe armes or amunition<br />
whatsoever brought in the said shipp ''Nicholas'' to Santa domingo<br />
but what was belonging unto her, and was for her owne use<br />
as aforesaid, nor any souldiers or other persons saving the foresaid<br />
President and his said servants; but well knoweth that in another<br />
shipp named the ''Mary'' which departed from Cadiz for<br />
Santa domingo about a moneth or thereabouts before the ''Nicholas''<br />
there was greate store of amunition and armes and souldiers<br />
transported to Santa domingo, which hee knoweth because hee saw<br />
the said amunition and armes loaded and the said souldiers embarqued<br />
in the said shipp ''Saint Mary'' at Cadiz, and when the ''Nicholas''<br />
arivedd when the ''Nicholas''<br />
arived +
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