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To the .18. he saith that the sayd Van Tru … To the .18. he saith that the sayd Van Trump after the seizure aforesayd<br />
did ride att an anchor two dayes within Command of the Castle of<br />
TRapany with his owne 7 saile of shipps and the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
and ''Saint Peter'' aforesayd without any molestation att all which this<br />
deponent knoweth being prisoner the same tyme aboard the ''little''<br />
''Saint Marke'' one of his sayd 7 shipps; and saith he knoweth nothing<br />
of the dutch merchants shipps allegate. and otherwise cannot depose.
To the 19th he saith. That being prisoner aboard the ''Little Saint Marke''<br />
as aforesayd he this deponent heard two Scotch men belonging to<br />
the Gunroome thereof, and three of four dutchmen speaking the<br />
English tongue say and affirme that the Purser of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Little Saint Marke'' was ymployed by the sayd Van Trump to the Governour<br />
of Trapanie aforesayd for the betraying of the sayd shipps<br />
the ''harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter'' aforesayd he the sayd Purser speaking the Spanish tongue and that the<br />
sayd Van Trump did by the sayd Purser present and deliver to the<br />
sayd Governour the summe of fifteene hundred duckatts in that behalf<br />
and that the sayd Governour receyved the same from him accordingly<br />
And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 20th he saith the sayd shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure'' was of the burthen of<br />
betwixt 300 and 400 tonnes and was Compleatly rigged and fitted with all<br />
necessaries, and was victualled for .6. monethes and had 41 gunnes abord her<br />
and about 100 kintalls of powder with weapons of war and ammunition requisite<br />
and answerable for a shipp of that burthen in a warlike ymployment, And<br />
had aboard her a quantity of Anniseeds and other merchandizes that had bene<br />
taken into her one out of the Prize shipp, and allso divers goods and necessaryes<br />
belonging to the sayd Captaine Swanley and Company. and this deponent for his<br />
owne particular had and lost in her goods Cloathes Instruments and<br />
other things to the Cleare value of<br />
fifty eight pounds sterling and Richard Herbert Late Masters mate of the sayd<br />
shipp had and lost goods and Clothes and Instruments in the sayd shipp to the value of 56 ''li'' - 19 ''s'' . 4 ''d'' sterling<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose not knowing the value of the whole losse.
To the 21th he saith that the sayd shipp the ''harry Bonadventure'' and the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Saint Peter'' with their respective lading were lost as he beleiveth by the<br />
fraud contrivance and practises of the sayd Governours of Messina and Trapanie<br />
or one of them, And verily beleiveth that if the sayd Governour of Messina<br />
had not imprisoned the sayd Captaine Swansons men nor taken away the ffelensa<br />
from him, or in case the sayd Governour of Trapany had protected the sayd<br />
shipps as he might well have done, and not betrayed them as he did, they<br />
the sayd shipps the ''harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter'' and their ladeing respectively<br />
had bene preserved in the possession of the sayd Captaine Swanley and<br />
Company, and would not have bene taken by the sayd Van Trump and<br />
his dutch shipps nor lost to the English. And otherwise cannot depose
To the last he saith heis depositions are true./
James Collett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]true./
James Collett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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