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HCA 13/72 f.481v Annotate
First transcribed 4 October 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 481  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 04/10/2013  +
Transcription and raised much murmuring amongest them, hand raised much murmuring amongest them, hee still saying hee would [not]<br /> tell them, nor was it (as hee said) their busines to know it. And saith that<br /> there was a greate pack of a certaine fruit or matter that was gathered from<br /> trees whereupon the same grew in the West Indies, having a very evell and strange<br /> smell, and called in Spanish winilia, but the nature thereof hee knoweth not, and saith the same<br /> was aboard in the powder roome when the said shipp came to Milford haven<br /> into which haven the said shipp was forced to enter through the extreamitie<br /> of storme and fowle weather. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the 4th hee saith that there was noe other that pretended to any [command]<br /> of the said shipp but only the said Captaine don Juan, who was both commander<br /> and marchant and ordered and disposed both as to the navigation and the truck and [?truching]<br /> and trade of the said shipp the said voyage. And otherwise hee cannot depose<br /> hee not comming aboard till the said shipp came to Comana as aforesaid. To the 5th hee saith that there were severall papers and writings aboard the<br /> said shipp when shee came upon the coast of England, and that comming off<br /> Lundy Island (into which Channell shee next was forced by fowle weather) and her<br /> Company espying two shipps (which were beleeved to be English) the Captaine<br /> called out and commanded then all Spanish papers and clothes should be taken and<br /> put downe in Hold, saying that if they be found, it will be ill for us<br /> or to that effect, whereupon the papers were ffetched out of the powder ?where<br /> to that time they had laine, and some of them were torne and throwne<br /> over board and others thrust downe in Hold and hidd in the<br /> h?iden part of the shipp, and the Spaniards clothes and persons put<br /> downe and hidd in hold. And saith that being come to Milford<br /> haven and a boat comming off to come aboard the said shipp, the said<br /> Captaine seeing the said boate, gave this deponent a bundle of papers<br /> and bidd him hide them in his bosoum or otherwise, and rather than<br /> they should be seene to make them away by burning or otherwise<br /> and this deponent tooke them and but them betweene his doublet and<br /> body at his breast, and afterwards this deponent put them in the<br /> drawer or under a table in the cabbin, and there left them. And saith<br /> hee did not see the Captaine deliver up any papers to any that made<br /> the seizure, nor knoweth of any delivered by him to them. And further<br /> hee cannot depose. To the sixth hee saith hee never knew the said shipp the ''Hope'' till hee<br /> soe met her at Comana, and saith that hee never saw any flagge<br /> or colour of the king of Spaine aboard the said shipp,<br /> nor doth hee know or heard who or what countrey man were by the<br /> said shipps owners,<br /> And further hee cannot depose. To the seaventh hee saith that when the said shipp arived in the haven of<br /> Milford there were twenty persons of her company, and an passenger<br /> and saith that six of the said company and the said passenger were Spaniards<br /> and three Irish men, who at the Indies went for Spaniards, And [?saith]<br /> the said Captaine and the said other Spaniards were by him left aboard a[nd]<br /> hee knoweth not what is become of them since, saving that hee hath [?seene]<br /> the Captaine since at Bristol, and that the said Captaine is said to be<br /> a Spaniard of a place called Montaigne in Spaine. And further hee<br /> cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the 8th hee saith there were tenn peeces of ordnance in and belonging to the<br /> said shipp when shee was seized, and saith shee is of about eightie lasts<br /> burthen, and that there were two plates and six or eight silver [?spoones ?and]<br /> two silver cups aboard when shee soe came and was staid at Milford<br /> [?whch] this deponent alsoe left aboard. And further hee cannot depose. To the 9th hee saith hee cannot write or reade nor answer hereunto. The marke of the said [MARKE] Simon [?Touson] [?Bleau] [MARKE. RH SIDE] Simon [?Touson] [?Bleau] [MARKE. RH SIDE]  +
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