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To the second Interrogatorie hee saith tha … To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipp from fflushing<br />
the said voyage carried her lading of linnen cloth, pepper, nutmegs, cheese<br />
herrings and some other things, and at the Canarie Islands dischardged<br />
and trucked the said goods away for wines, wherewith the said shipp was<br />
there reladen, which lading of wines shee carried to Specksies Bay<br />
in the Barbadas, where her master and company were purposed to take in<br />
fresh water, and then to goe with the said shipp and lading of wines<br />
to the Leeward Ilands, namely Martinica, Guardalupa, Saint Christofers<br />
and Saint Eustachies, and there to trade and truck the same away for<br />
tobaccoes and other goods of those places to be brought back in the said shipp<br />
for Zealand, All which hee knoweth because hee went Merchant<br />
or Sopra-cargo of the said shipp the said voyage, and sawe such her<br />
arivall and taking in of goods as aforesaid.
To the third and fourth hee saith the said shipp as aforesaid was bound<br />
from fflushing for the Canaries, and thence for the said Leaward Islands<br />
of the Charibbees, and saith that comming under saile into Specksies<br />
bay as aforesaid, and before shee came to an anchor to take in water,<br />
there came a shallop or boate aboard from Captaine Peirson and<br />
another from Captaine Vallicot, Commannders of two English shipps<br />
lying in the Roade, and asked whence the ''Pile'' was, and being informed<br />
that shee was of Zealand, and having asked each other of names, this<br />
deponent and the said Skipper asked them if it were free for the dutch<br />
to trade there, and they of the said boates answered yea, adding that<br />
there were thirtie dutch shipps lay trading in the said bay and in the<br />
bay of the bridge, and soe the said Skipper and company going further<br />
in, and before their bringing their shipp under commannd of the ordnance<br />
the companies of the said boates, being come in the way of freindshipp<br />
aboard the ''Pile'', at length cried that the ''Pile'' and lading were<br />
good prize and soe they of the said boates companies brought her to an<br />
anchor under commannd, and tooke the said master and company and<br />
this deponent out of their shipp and carried them ashore, and this<br />
hee saith was in or about the middle of the moneth of May last<br />
new stile: and this deponent going to the Commissioners to get restitution<br />
they told him the shipp and lading were prize, and that this deponent<br />
and the rest of the companie might goe their wayes, or to that effect, and<br />
soe the said shipp and goods were taken away and the said owners deprived<br />
thereof, but howe they were disposed of hee knoweth not. And saith<br />
the said wines being 170 pipes and some other goods that were<br />
aboard the said shipp at the time of the said seizure were then worth<br />
8500 ''li'' fflemish; amounting to five thousand pounds sterling<br />
or thereabouts, and saith the said shipp had neither traded nor bin at<br />
the Barbada's or any other of the English plantations when<br />
shee was soe seized, but was then first come from the Canaries<br />
and the said roade of Specksies was the first place of or neere<br />
the Charibbe Ilands that shee came to.
To the fifth hee saith the said shipp the ''Pile'' at the time of the<br />
said seizure was of the burthen of 150 tonnes or thereabouts<br />
and had six iron and two brass guns aboard her, and that the said shipp<br />
tackleand that the said shipp<br />
tackle +
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