| Transcription
|
the sayd Captaine and officers had declare … the sayd Captaine and officers had declared to them on shoare and this<br />
deponent and company of the sayd boate at their returne on board found divers<br />
passengers who a board who had (while they this deponent and [?XXXX] were soe at shoare) come with<br />
a boate on board and told the sayd Master words to the like effect aforesayd<br />
(as the sayd Master affirmed) whereupon the sayd Browning the Master being<br />
desyrous further to informe him selfe of the truth of the matter tooke the<br />
shipps boats and this deponent and the boatswaine and three others of the sayd shipps<br />
Company to rowe him, and went to English shipps which rode in the harbour<br />
at Pharoe and enquired of the Masters and Company of them what they knew<br />
as touching a hostility betwixt England and Spaine and whether it were safe for<br />
him to goe with his sayd shipp and ladeing to Mallega, And the sayd Masters<br />
and Companyes did in presence and hearing of this deponent and the rest of the sayd<br />
boates crew whoe soe rowed the Master tell him the sayd Browning that<br />
there was hostility betwixt England and Spaine and that there was noe safe<br />
passage nor free trade for any English shipp either at Mallega or at any other port of<br />
Spaine and sayd that the Spaniards had seized upon two English shipps<br />
and their ladeing which came from Newfound land to Allecant to trade, and had seized divers<br />
other English shipps and their ladeing which came to other ports of Spaine<br />
to trade, and the sayd Masters or some of them then alsoe sayd that they had<br />
them selves bin neere some ports of Spaine but were advised by their<br />
freinds not to come in and that if they did their shipps and ladeing would<br />
bee seized upon and lost, or they spake words to the very like effect, And<br />
hee saith hee well knoweth that thereupon the sayd Browning the Master<br />
did not proceede to Mallaga but did unlade at Pharoe all the goods<br />
soe laden aboard his sayd shipp at New England by the sayd Jolliff for<br />
Account of the sayd Bulkley and Company and delivered them to the arlate<br />
Packer and his Agents to whome the sayd Packer appointed them to be<br />
delivered, And hee saith that the last of the sayd shipps ladeing was delivered<br />
out of her at Pharoe upon or about the eighth or nynth dayes of december<br />
1655 and not before, this hee knoweth helpeing to unlade the sayd goods And<br />
further to these articles hee cannot depose./
To the 13th and 14th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd<br />
shipp ''Plaine dealing'' having soe delivered her sayd ladeing brought<br />
from New England at Pharoe to the sayd Parker and his order, the sayd<br />
Parker did at Pharoe relade the sayd shipp with a ladeing of figgs<br />
Almonds Corke and oyles and consigned them to be delivered at London<br />
to the arlate Bulkley and his Agents, and the sayd shipp having received the<br />
sayd Ladeing at Pharoe sett sayle from thence therewith the first day<br />
of ffebruary bound for London, and in her course towards London<br />
was upon the nynteenth day of the sayd moneth of ffebruary neere<br />
the Isle of Wight fell surprized and taken with all her sayd ladeing of<br />
figgs Almonds Corke and oyles aboard her by an Ostend man of warr<br />
who tooke and carried her and her sayd ladeing to Ostend and there confiscated<br />
the same, the premisses hee the better knoweth being one of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Plaine dealing'' her Company, and being Carried a prisoner togeather<br />
with the Master and Boatswaine and the Cooke of her on board the sayd man<br />
of warr to Ostend, and seeing the sayd shipp and her ladeing brought in thither<br />
and there disposed of by the Owners of the sayd man of warr, and for that hee this<br />
deponentand for that hee this<br />
deponent +
|
