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Thw 28th of January 1658.

The Lord Protector against the Hope of)
Amsterdam, wherof don Juan was)
Commander)

Simon To[?u]son Bleau of Amsterdam, Sailor, aged seaventeene
yeeres or thereabouts sworne in Court as in the Acts of
the same, and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred
on behalfe of his highnesse the Lord Protector saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet.

To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that about fifteene or
sixteene monethes since hee came first aboard to serve in the shipp the
hope aforesaid, and such his first comming aboard was in the port of
Oomana in the Spanish West Indies, where the said Captaine don Juan
tooke him aboard as his servant and promised him hive peeces of eight per
moneth for his wages or intertainement, and saith the said don Juan or
Guan (as the Spaniards that were aboard frequently said and reported) was
ofMontaigna in Spaine. And saith that the dutchmen that were aboard
averred and declared from time to time that the said shipp came directly from
Amsterdam to the Island of Trinidad laden with wines and linnen cloth
pepper and armes and some other Merchandizes, And at Trinidad as this
deponent was credibly informed the said Captaine don Juan for a greate
summe of money obtained a passe from the Governour of that place signifying
that the said shipp was of and came from Spaine, and that shee came
from Trinidad to Comana, where this deponent as aforesaid was shipped
aboard her, and finding noe conveniencie of prattique at Comana shee
went to Trochilla on the same coast of the Spanish West Indies where
shee dischardged some wines linnens and armes and trucked them away for
hides, and Sassaperilla, and thence shee went to honduras being
alsoe on the terra firma