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from New England aforesayd towards Mallega … from New England aforesayd towards Mallega, to which Port and<br />
place the said Browning and his Company did intend to<br />
transport and deliver the said goods, and in persuance thereof<br />
sailed with the said goods on board the said ship within two<br />
Leagues off Pharoah, and there the said Browning sent his<br />
Boate with this deponent and foure men more of his Company<br />
ashore to get water on or about the twentieth day of<br />
November <u>1655</u>: and assoone as this deponent and the said foure<br />
other men were ashore they were Certainely Informed by<br />
severall Masters and Companys of English ships there<br />
ryding, that there was Warrs and hostility betwixt England<br />
and Spaine, and that noe English ships could or would be<br />
permitted to goe into Mallega[?s] or any other Port in Spaine<br />
and told this deponent and Company that if they went to<br />
Mallega their ship would be seized and Confiscated, and<br />
Moreover told them that they the said Masters and Companyes were<br />
bound to severall Ports in Spaine but could not goe in, without<br />
being seized, and therefore were forced to come to Pharoah, or<br />
to that effect, and further hee deposeth not./:
To the 10th hee saith that after this deponent and the said foure other<br />
men had received the said Information of and from the said<br />
Masters and Companyes of the said English ships, they returned<br />
aboard the said ship, and acquainted the said Browning therewith<br />
and the said Browning to be more fully satisfyed of the<br />
truth of the said Report, did himselfe goe onshore with this<br />
deponent and foure More of his Company in the said Boate, and<br />
being Come on shore enquired of the said Masters and some<br />
of the Companyes of the said English ships whether of Certaine there was a warr betweene England and Spaime, who told him (as aforesayd)<br />
that there was really a warr betweene the said Nations, and<br />
that the Spaniards had seized upon the English Merchants<br />
and their goods in Spaine, and had taken divers English ships, and that they the said Masters<br />
and Companyes had bin neere Cales and other Ports in Spaine, but were advised<br />
by their ffreinds not to come in, for that if they did their ships and goods would<br />
bee seized and lost or to that purpose, This hee deposeth hearing the same, and<br />
further hee cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith that the said Browning having heard and being Certainely<br />
informed of the said warr betweene England and Spaine, and seeing that there<br />
was noe goeing to Mallega without being seized, did inquire at Pharoah for<br />
the said Mr Richard Parker, but upon his inquiry was informed the said Parker was gone to Lisbone, and<br />
thereupon the said Browning sent a Messenger from Pharoah to the said Parker at<br />
Lisbome, which Messenger brought a letter to Pharoah from the said Parker to one Mr Johnson<br />
at ffaroah, (but what the Contents were hee knoweth not) and saith that soe soone<br />
as the said Letter was Come the said Browning delivered the foresaid goods brought<br />
from New England to the said Johnson, who was (as this deponent verily beleeveth)ordered<br />
by the said Parker to receive the same, and further hee cannot depose./
To the 11th. 12th. 13th. and 14th. hee saith that the last of the said goods brought from New England were unladen and delivered<br />
to the said Johnson on or about the [?8th] day of December <u>1655</u> and not before, and the said Johnson<br />
(having, and the said Johnson<br />
(having +
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