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''Golden dove'' as hee remembreth her name … ''Golden dove'' as hee remembreth her name, and having manned and<br />
fitted her, hee proceeded thence in her towards the Streights moyj this deponent<br />
being then at Cadiz and acquainted with such his buying of her and<br />
proceeding, hee bringing her to Cadiz before hee went for the Straights mouth<br />
And that after some space that hee had bin out, hee the said Captaine<br />
Cock and company in the said shipp soe by him bought at Saint Lucars<br />
brought in the said shipp the ''Packet frigot'' (whereof his precontest<br />
Edward harrison was master) with her lading to Cadiz. And this<br />
deponent and his partner William Bowridge, correspondents<br />
of the said mr drawater and mr hammond being then REsident in Cales,<br />
and wondering to see an English shipp brought in ther by a Hollander<br />
after the pease concluded betwixt England and holland (whereof they<br />
had received the articles) they spake both with the said Captaine Cock<br />
and the said mr Edward harrison to know the cause and time of<br />
such seizure, and understood by them that the said seizure was made<br />
without the Streights mouth but the day or at most two dayes before<br />
such bringing into Cadiz, [XXXXXXX] this deponent and partner told and acquainted<br />
the said Cock that such seizure was against and after the said peace<br />
made and showed him the said articles, and therefore required him<br />
speedily to release her and her lading, howbeit the said Captaine<br />
Cock notwithstanding that hee well understood that the said peace was<br />
before that made, and that it was there publique and notorious,<br />
refusing to make restitution, excusing himselfe that his company<br />
would not suffer him soe to doe, this deponent and<br />
his said partner and the said master applied themselves to the<br />
duke of Madina-Cali, Captaine Generall of that coast under<br />
the king of Spaine, and after some meanes there used, the said<br />
shipp with sich of her tackle furniture and lading as were not<br />
by the said takers embeazeld and taken way, were restored.<br />
Which being soe donne, this deponent went aboard and found<br />
that severall of the goods were plundered and taken away, the<br />
hold being broken open and the goods that were left lting in a<br />
disturbed and confused fashion; and soe much [?ruine] and [?worry] hee<br />
saidth was made in hold by carrying away of goods, that this<br />
deponent and company had [XXXXX] to shipp an hundred potacks of<br />
tobacco in the said voide place out of which the said plundered<br />
goods were taken. And saith that betwixt the said time of<br />
such her bringing in and of her dispatch thence (which was hasted<br />
asmuch as conveniently could be) was about six weekes space, wherein<br />
the said owners were at greate charges in sute made for recovery<br />
of the said shipp and in sustaining the shipps company, and<br />
fitting and furnishing the shipp of what was taken from her.<br />
And saith the said Cock and company acknowledged that they had<br />
plundered the said shipp, and that they were hollanders or subiects<br />
of the States of the united Netherlands and came thence with a<br />
Commission of warr grannted by the said States, to take the<br />
English and enemies of the said States. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving the said proprietors must needs have suffered<br />
aors must needs have suffered<br />
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