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The 28th of January 1658.
The Lord Protec … The 28th of January 1658.
The Lord Protector against the ''Hope'' of)<br />
Amsterdam, wherof don Juan was)<br />
Commander)
'''Simon To[?u]son Bleau''' of Amsterdam, Sailor, aged seaventeene<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne in Court as in the Acts of<br />
the same, and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred<br />
on behalfe of his highnesse the Lord Protector saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that about fifteene or<br />
sixteene monethes since hee came first aboard to serve in the shipp the<br />
''hope'' aforesaid, and such his first comming aboard was in the port of<br />
Comana in the Spanish West Indies, where the said Captaine don Juan<br />
tooke him aboard as his servant and promised him five peeces of eight per<br />
moneth for his wages or intertainement, and saith the said don Juan or<br />
Guan (as the Spaniards that were aboard frequently said and reported) was<br />
of Montaigna in Spaine. And saith that the dutchmen that were aboard<br />
averred and declared from time to time that the said shipp came directly from<br />
Amsterdam to the Island of Trinidad laden with wines and linnen cloth<br />
pepper and armes and some other Merchandizes, And at Trinidad as this<br />
deponent was credibly informed the said Captaine don Juan for a greate<br />
summe of money obtained a passe from the Governour of that place signifying<br />
that the said shipp was of and came from Spaine, and that shee came<br />
from Trinidad to Comana, where this deponent as aforesaid was shipped<br />
aboard her, and finding noe conveniencie of prattique at Comana shee<br />
went to Trochilla on the same coast of the Spanish West Indies where<br />
shee dischardged some wines linnens and armes and trucked them away for<br />
hides, and Sassaperilla, and thence shee went to honduras being<br />
alsoe on the terra firma, where shee discharged all the rest of her outward<br />
lading of wine, linnen cloth, pepper and knives and trucked them away<br />
for Indico, and thence shee retourned to Trochilia, and there shee tooke<br />
in the hides and Sasaperillia aforesaid which were agreed for on truck<br />
at the time of her being there the time before, but did not take them in<br />
but left them there ashore till this her retourne and then tooke them in<br />
And saith that being laden and dispatched at Trochilia, shee departed<br />
to come (as her company said and gave out) for Biscay.<br />
And saith the persons to whom the said wines and other outwards lading<br />
were upon truck soe sold and delivered in the terra firma of the<br />
Spanish west Indies were all Spaniards, All which hee knoweth being<br />
in her at and after her departure from Comania from time to time<br />
and place to place till her seizure hereafter mentioned.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith that from Trochilia the said shipp<br />
went to Matan?es in the Ile of Cuba to take in water, and being there<br />
the Captaine aforesaid sent a packe of letters ashore to the Governour<br />
to be thence conveyed to Spaine. And saith there were about foure hundred<br />
hides and three hundred coffers of Indico that were unladed and taken in<br />
in the Spanish West Indies, but the quantitie of the Sassaperillia<br />
hee knoweth not, and saith the said Captaine was the man that both<br />
sold the outwards lading upon truck and tooke in the said homewards lading<br />
And saith that Mata[?n]s was the last port that the said shipp was in before<br />
her coming to Milford, And further that the said shipp comming<br />
on the coast of Spaine in her retourne from the West Indies the said<br />
Captaine gave out and said that the said shipp should saile for Amsterdam<br />
the winde not being then good to goe into any Spanish port, whereas before<br />
that time hee would not lett the company know to what place the shipp was<br />
to goe, though they often [?ur]ged him to declare it, which put them in great disquiet<br />
andput them in great disquiet<br />
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