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Ad 14um arlum deponit that after the premi … Ad 14um arlum deponit that after the premisses and arivall of the said shipps<br />
and lading in the Baye of Barcelona, the said Captaine Jacket not having<br />
obtained any leave to goe and traffique there ashore, and contrary to the<br />
order and Commission of his imployers (the producents) went againe<br />
on shore, and after hee had gonne severall times ashore and retourned<br />
the said don Louis in this deponents presence and hearing told and [?advertized]<br />
him on board the said shipp the ''Mayflower'' that hee the said don<br />
Louis having bin that day ashore in the towne of Barcelona had<br />
understood and was certainly informed that the Governour of<br />
Commana had sent to and advised the Governour of Barcelona<br />
to seize and make sure of the said shipps or vessells the<br />
''Mayflower'' and the ''Peter'' and lading and Negro's in and<br />
belonging unto them and to clap the said Captaine in prison, and<br />
not to permit or suffer them to trade there or to that effect, Et<br />
alr nescit deponere, salvis subscript[?s]
Ad 15 arlum deponit et dicit that {upon} the said don Lewis return<br />
hee warned the said Captaine Jacket of the said conspiracie<br />
and designe of the said Governours, admonished and perswaded<br />
him to get his Negro's on board againe, and not to suffer any<br />
goods to be there landed, and to have a care to keepe out of<br />
commannd and to hasten away to some of the places aforesaid<br />
where hee might trade with more securitie and to better advantage<br />
and not longer to trust himselfe or shipp and goods in the Baye<br />
of Barcelona or to that effect, which the said Jacket omitted<br />
and plainly refused to doe, but on the contrary caused goods there<br />
to be landed, his Negro's being there ashore, Et alr nescit<br />
deponere.
Ad 16um deponit that after and notwithstanding the premisses the<br />
said Captaine Jacket went againe ashore to the Governour of<br />
Barcelona to obtaine leave to trade there, but the said Governour<br />
told him (as the said Captaine said when hee came againe aboard)<br />
that hee could not permit him there to trade without license from<br />
the Vice Roy of Sant[?o] domingo, and advised him to send his<br />
said Pinke thither to obtaine the said License, whereupon the said<br />
Jacket contrary to the Commission and orders aforesaid of the said<br />
Mr Vassall, Captaine Crandley and company sent the said Pinck<br />
the ''Saint Peter'' under the command of a Spanish Captaine, and<br />
to the number of 16 or 17 other Spaniards, and not above six or seaven<br />
English to saile to Santo domingo and there to procure<br />
license from the Vice Roy to trade at Barcelona, and withall<br />
hee put on board her 31 Negro's which came from Ginny, and diverse packs<br />
of goods belonging to the said Imployers to a greate valewe, and<br />
sent them alonge in the said shipp the ''Saint Peter'' thither, Reddens<br />
rationem scientia sua ut supra, Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad 17 et 18 arles deponit that about two monethes after the departure<br />
of the said Pinke for Santo domingo there came a letter aboard the<br />
said shipp the ''Mayflower'' (still remayning in the Baye of Barcelona)<br />
from the arlate Michael de [?Verwese] from Barcelona [?XX GUTTER]<br />
written andelona [?XX GUTTER]<br />
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