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To the 13th article hee saith hee well kno … To the 13th article hee saith hee well knoweth the arlate John Tilley and<br />
saith hee is commonly reputed an Irish man by birth, and to be living in holland<br />
only as a merchant stranger and subiect of this Commonwealth, and further<br />
deposeth not.
To the 14th hee saith hee alsoe well knoweth the arlate John Chanterwell<br />
to be an Inhabitant and housekeeper with his wife children and familie in<br />
Amsterdam, and for such and a subiect of the States of the United Netherlands<br />
was and is commonly accounted and reputed, which hee knoweth having nin<br />
severall times at his house there./
To the 15th hee saith that the said shipp and lading doe really and truely<br />
belong to the said producents and noe other or others, albeit this deponent<br />
for the securing of her and getting prattique in the said Spanish west Indias<br />
gave out that shee was a Spanish shipp and with her lading belonged to this deponent a<br />
Spaniard, and made entrie of her there for such, without which hee could<br />
not there have traded but the said shipp and goods (had they bin knowne<br />
not to be for Spaniards as indeed they were not) would have bin seized and confiscated, and such this deponents<br />
avouching them to be for Spaniards account secured them there from,<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the 16th hee cannot depose, saving as aforesaid, and saving it is<br />
notorious upon the Exchange London that the said shipp and goods<br />
both outwards and homewards were for the said producents their account<br />
and that shee was the said voyage in their sole imployment.
To the 17th hee saith that this deponent (saving such time as hee hath bin<br />
at sea in voyages) hath lived in and about this citie for theise six yeares<br />
last or thereabouts, and hath bin imployed by severall marchants of this<br />
citie.
To the 18th and 19th hee saith that while the said shipp the said voyage was at<br />
Comana, the arlate Simon To[?uson] Bleau came tattered, t[XXXX]. and<br />
without shoes or stockings, almost starved and swelled miserably with<br />
bitings of moskito's, aboard the said shipp and besought this deponent for<br />
Gods sake to take pittie of him and save his life by receiving and giving<br />
him food and letting him be aboard promising to doe what hee could,<br />
whereupon this deponent in charitie and not out of expectation of any help<br />
or service from him that was almost dead with hunger and misery, received<br />
him aboard, where the said Simon shortly appeared to be a very lewd idle boy, given<br />
to pilfering and stealing, picking of quarrells and doing mischeife by<br />
stabbing men with his knife, which hee severall times endeavoured to doe,<br />
and saith that being reprehended and corrected somtimes<br />
by some of the company for such his intollerable lewdnes, and feareing<br />
to be further chastised for his misdemeanors, hee at<br />
Milford havenm ran away from the said shipp, and threatened this deponent<br />
and the rest of the company, saying that they had better not [?to ?have ?medled]<br />
with him, and that hee would be revenged of them, and that though the<br />
divell should fetch him yet hee (to be revenged of them) would<br />
sweare that the said shipp and goods belonged to Spaniards, and doe<br />
whatsoever mischeife hee could doe therein, or words to the<br />
same effect in the presence and hearing of this deponent Mr Betts: Mr Ayleward and some other of the said ships Company and<br />
further deposeth not
To the twentieth hee saith that neither this deponent nor any other of the<br />
company as hee beleeveth, tore, threw overboard or made any papers or<br />
writings away in the said voyage that concerned the said shipp and lading<br />
or either of them. And when this deponent saw any shipp neare, that<br />
hee supposed to be Spanish, and feared to be boarded by them, hee hidd<br />
the factorie of the goods aboard in the said shipp least they should finde it<br />
(being the factorie hereunto mentioned) and in particular hee did soe<br />
when being neare London in the way to Milford haven, hee espied two<br />
vessells which hee deemed to be dunkirke men of warr, And<br />
for such they were esteemed by the company. And further cannot depose,<br />
saving as aforesaid and what followeth.
Toaving as aforesaid and what followeth.
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