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and about the pursuite of the said Turkes … and about the pursuite of the said Turkes man of Warr, the<br />
said Watts having given order to his said shipps Companie also to<br />
pursue the Turke, and the said ffrench Squadrom making to windward<br />
and the said shipp ''hopewell'' more to the Leeward, they came to be<br />
separated, and the said William Watts after three daies being aboard<br />
the said french Admirall was sett ashoare at Cape Saint Vincent,<br />
from whence hee travelled over land to Cadiz in Spaine, where hee<br />
arrived upon or about the 14th day of May last past <u>1654</u>:- where hee<br />
found and observed a certaine holland man of warr called the ''dove''<br />
which had there brought in as prize an English Vessell called the<br />
''Packett frigott'', and then and there this deponent William Wattts<br />
understood that the said hollands man of warr had some few daies<br />
before been ingaged in fight with the said shipp ''hopewell''<br />
and had killed many of the said ''hopewells'' Companie, Whereupon<br />
this deponent went over land from cadiz to Mallega, where hee found<br />
his said shipp in a very sadd and shattered condition, and not able<br />
to proceed any further, and for the ladimg thereof, hee found the same<br />
spoyled by the taking in of water, and being desirous to land the same for<br />
the preservation of some part thereof, it was forbidden by the Justice<br />
of that place, and ordered to be throwne overboard, but by meanes<br />
of friends and with the expense of about 500. dollers or peeces of<br />
eight for a present to the Officers of Justice of that place leave was<br />
obtained and the said Corne was landed though in a very unusefull<br />
and damnified Condition, and stil remaineth there unsold and utterly<br />
unserviceable and lost to the Owners thereof, All which dammages<br />
and losses this deponent William Watts doeth to the best of his judgement<br />
estimate as followeth, videlicet the dammage done to the hull, masts<br />
rigging and apparrell of the said shipp to the valew of 600 ''li''<br />
or thereabouts, the freight due for the said Corne being about<br />
280. tunns at 4 ''li'' per tunn according to agreement amounts to<br />
1120 ''li'' sterling or thereabouts, and the Corne it self to 2000 ''li'' sterling<br />
or thereabouts, the whole amounting to 3720 ''li'' sterling or thereabouts<br />
besides dammage sustained in the losse of time imployed for the<br />
reparation of the said shipp being 2. moneths or thereabouts<br />
And the said William Gayner John Waymouth, George Lee<br />
henry Page, daniel Barton Robert Varr and Marmaduke<br />
(Moorebert Varr and Marmaduke<br />
(Moore +
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