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Company to goe ashore to be meerely a devi … Company to goe ashore to be meerely a devise to betray the<br />
said ship and Lading, and not to Procure them Pratick in respect<br />
they had soe aforesaid positively denied them, Just before,<br />
And saith the said Tye did in this deponents presence and hearing<br />
tell severall of the said ships Company that hee did verily beleive<br />
that the said Company in the said Boate Did goe about to betray them and<br />
that it was a meere Cheate, or to that Purpose:/- And further<br />
hee cannot depose./.
To the 13th and 14th hee saith and deposeth that in Confirmation<br />
that there was some designe to ?betray Surprize and seize the said ship lading<br />
and Company, there were three Spanish Vessells sent out<br />
from Oratava manned with Spaniards, at the same time<br />
the said Spanish Boate lay by the side of the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot''<br />
which ships being espeyed by the said ketcher, and Company, they<br />
asked the Spanairds in the said Boate which Vessells they were<br />
and some of them replyed that they were Vessells that were carrying<br />
of wines to ''Santa Cruze'' in the Iland of Tenerife, and then hee saith<br />
the said Vessells were sailing from the ''Lisbone ffrigot'', And the<br />
said ketcher furled his sailes, and Commanded his boate to be Ready<br />
intending to send some of his Company in her on shore, and<br />
came to an Anchor with the ''Lisbone ffrigot'', which soe soone as<br />
ver the said three Spanish Vessells perceived, they Imediately<br />
altered their Course, and came directly before the winde<br />
as if they would have seized the ''Lisbone ffrigot'', which the<br />
said ketcher and Company perceiving they weighed their<br />
Anchor, and put the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' under saile<br />
which being perceived by the said Spanish Vessells they altered their<br />
course againe, and sailed from the said ''Lisbone ffrigot'' seeing<br />
that her men were not gone ashore, and therefore durst not as<br />
hee beleeveth Venture upon the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot''<br />
And in case the said ketcher, and the Purser and foure more of the<br />
Company of the said ship had gone ashore at such time as<br />
the said Spanish Vessell came as aforesaid, in all likelihood<br />
and Probability they might and would have taken the said ship<br />
for want of men, And soe it was generally beleeved by all the<br />
said ships Company. The Premisses hee deposeth being<br />
aboard the ''Lisbon ffrigot'' and seeing the Premisses And further<br />
hee Cannot depose:/:
To the 15th and 16th hee saith, that some of the said Spaniards in<br />
the said Boate whilst they lay by the said ships side told the said<br />
ketcher and Company that Captaine Neale, of Dover was<br />
with his said ship trading in Garachico Road Distant from<br />
the Road of Oratava the said ketcher and Company thinking<br />
it might be true, and if hee were there they might trade<br />
the more secure together, did cause his ship to be carried thether<br />
and upon his arrivall there found noe such shipp, nor any<br />
other ships whatsoever, saving foure Spanish ships, neither had<br />
(thepanish ships, neither had<br />
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