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other of the said passengers who came aboa … other of the said passengers who came aboard as a Portugese and was not<br />
knowne for other to this deponent, is since staid and imprisoned at Plimouth as<br />
being a Spaniard, and saving that one other of them was a Greek or Armenian<br />
And further hee cannot depose, saving what followeth, and saving alsoe that one of the
[LH MARGIN]<br />
[GUTTER ?Spaniards], who came to<br />
[GUTTER ?xxxxx] at Amsterdam<br />
[GUTTER ?XXXX] of him for<br />
[GUTTER ?XXXX] which this deponent<br />
[GUTTER ?XXXX] him<br />
[?GUTTER XXXXX] [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
said six or seaven that did eate below, was a poore souldier that had bin taken by the English
To the seaventh hee saith that this deponent alone was Captaine or commander<br />
of the said shipp and that shee had noe Spanish master or Spanish merchant<br />
in her or belonging to her while shee was at Amsterdam or in the Texell or any wherein the [?XXXX]<br />
nor any Spaniard at all in her unlesse the said poore souldier who came aboard for passage were a Spaniard which whether hee was or not hee knoweth not, only hee saith that<br />
there was alsoe a boy that came aboard to get passage, which is staid<br />
alsoe at Plimouth and said there to be a Spaniard, which if hee be<br />
hee saith is more than hee this deponent knew or knoweth, this deponent<br />
not asking whence hee was. And saith hee neither knoweth nor hath<br />
heard that any of his passengers were ever imployed in the service of the<br />
king of Spaine in any shipp or otherwise, or have bin assisting or present<br />
at the seizure of any English shipps or shipp, nor knoweth what to beleeve<br />
therein.
To the eighth hee saith that when the said shipp came neer Portland<br />
the said Stranger who soe came aboard when the shipp was ready to<br />
saile from the Texel, went out of her into the man of warr that was<br />
a Convoy to this and other shipps of holland, and that the said other poore<br />
souldier that soe begged passage of this deponent went out of her<br />
into some other shipp at Plimouth while this deponent was there<br />
ashore, but into what shipp hee knoweth not, but upon what occasion<br />
they soe left the said shipp ''Marcus Aurelius'' hee saith hee knoweth not.<br />
And otherwise negatively referring himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the nineth hee saith that through want of water and<br />
by contrary winde this deponent being hindered from getting out of<br />
Texel to goe with his Convoy and other shipps of his company<br />
this deponent could not overtake his said convoy till hee came into<br />
Portland roade, where hee this deponent with his said shipp overtooke<br />
his said Convoy (being a dutch man of warr of holland) and the said<br />
other shipps by him convoyed, and there this deponent alsoe found<br />
two English friggots riding, but what the names of the said friggots<br />
or of either of them were, or in what service they were hee saith hee<br />
knoweth not.
To the tenth hee saith that the said two friggots had the English colours out<br />
when this deponent soe arived, and one of them sent her boate aboard<br />
this deponents shipp and the persons that were therein signified to this<br />
deponent that they were sent by their Captaine to visit this deponents shipp,<br />
to which this deponent as hee saith made answer, that they should please<br />
to goe aboard his Commandeur (speaking of the commannder of the<br />
said Convoy shipp), and<br />
that if hee said they should visit him, and that the other dutch shipps<br />
under that Convoy were alsoe visited, this deponent was content to bee<br />
visited, and therewithall the said persons in the English boate going<br />
aboard the said Convoy this deponent followed them in his boate, and<br />
comming aboard the convoy found the said persons in speech with the said<br />
Commannder about the said visiting, and heard the said Commannder<br />
tell them saying, friends goe to your Captains and tell them that I<br />
will goe with this man (speaking of this deponent) aboard his shipppeaking of this deponent) aboard his shipp +
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