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To the 4th. and 5yth. Interrogatories hee … To the 4th. and 5yth. Interrogatories hee sauth that on or about the<br />
9th day of may last past the said Captaine Dowdall and<br />
this Deponent and Company arrived with the said ffrigot<br />
in the Roade of Mumbles. neere Swanzey and saith that<br />
about three dayes after His Sacred Majesty was at Swanzey<br />
and onboard the said ffrigott proclaimed by Colonell [?ffreeman GUTTER]<br />
Governour of Cardiffe Castle, And the said Captaine Dowdall<br />
and all that were onboard his ffrigot were very glad [?thereof GUTTER]<br />
and expressed a great deale of Joy for the same, and [?hung GUTTER]<br />
up the Kings Colours on the Maine Top and fired very<br />
many Gunns, and from that time desisted from [?takeing GUTTER]<br />
or hindering any English Vessells whatsoever or doeing<br />
any hostile act against any of his Majestyes Subjects, which hee<br />
knoweth being onboard when the Proclamation was read<br />
and belonging to the said Ship in the Quality aforesaid<br />
And further deposeth not./:
To the 7th. 8th. and 9th. Interrogatories hee saith that about five or<br />
six dayes after the said Proclamation, the Interrate Captaine<br />
Barker with the ''Litchfeild ffrigot'', came to the Roade of Mumbles<br />
with the States Colours up, and fired severall Gunns at the<br />
''Henrietta Maria'' And her Company which were in her whereof this Deponent was one to avoid the ''Litchfeild<br />
ffrigot'', cut her Cables and Sailed up the River to the [?Key GUTTER]<br />
and there dropped an Anchor, and the ''Litchfeild'' still followed<br />
her, and fired at her, and shee comming neere to the<br />
''Henrietta Maria'', stuck on ground and still fired at<br />
the ''henrietta Maria'', and her Company to secure [?her GUTTER]<br />
cut her other Cable, and sailed up the River beyond the<br />
Towne, and there shee struck on ground, and the Captaine<br />
of the ''Litchfeild'', seeing hee could not bring up his ffrigot<br />
sent up about three score men ready armed to seize<br />
the said ffrigot, who came up to her, and before they came<br />
on board Captaine Mansell of Swanzey (his precontest) told the<br />
Masters Mate and the rest of the ''Litchfeilds'' Company that [XX GUTTER]<br />
then there in this Deponents hearing that that ffrigot (meaning<br />
the ''Henrietta Maria'') sailed with the Duke of Yorkes<br />
Commission, which hee told them he sawe and that they had best have a care of what<br />
they did for that alsoe the King was proclaimed onboard<br />
her in his Presence, and that her Captaine and Company<br />
had submitted and did not after the Proclamation [XXX GUTTER]<br />
any hostile action against any of his Majestys Subjects<br />
or words to the same Purpose, to which the Masters mate<br />
made answer that hee and two or three more would goe on<br />
board her and see the Commission, and would not meddle [?with GUTTER]<br />
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