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of Hostility against any English or other subjects whatsoever
of his said Sacred Majestiys. And saith that of his certaine
knowledge (who belonged to the said ffrigot) the said
Dowdall and Company could with her have taken severall
vessells and ships [XX] the next day, and the next day after
the said Proclamation, but they would not nor did the same
but submitted to the said Proclamation. And further deposeth
not./:

To the 6th. 7th. and 8th. hee saith that about foure or five
dayes after his said Sacred majesty was soe proclaimed
(on board the said ffrigot a certaine ffrigot called the Litchfeild
Comanded by one Captaine Barker, came into the Road
of Mumbles, where the Henrietta Maria road at Anchor
the Captaine of her and this Deponent being there ashore
and seeing her come in, And saith the Company of the
said Litchfeild ffrigot fired very many peeces of Ordinance
at the Henrietta Maria, and thereupon her Company
let slip their Anchor, and sailed up, above the Towne
and the Litchfeild following her, stuck at the Point
and being not able to goe up then any further, her Captaine
landed above forty men, all armed with Cutlaces.words,
muskets, and such like weapons to seize upon the said
Henrietta Maria, this Deponent and the Captaine being then at the Majors [?Swanzey]
house (which was very neere to the place where the said ffrigott
stuck) and seeing the said men soe landed. And saith that
the said Major then told this Deponent and the said Captaine that hee had spoke to
the said Barker, and told him that the said ffrigot sailed
with the Duke of Yorks Commission, and that the King was
proclaimed, or to that effect, which was soe told to the said
Barker (as the said Major affirmed) before hee landed the said men. And saith
that the Major would not lett the said Captaine nor this
Deponent goe up to their said ffrigot, untill about a quarter
of an hower after shee was seized by the said Barkers
men, and hee then coming up to her, sawe her possessed by
the said Barkers men, and [?most] of [XXX] the Henrietta Marias
Company in their shirts, they having bin stripped by the said
Barkers Company, and this Deponent seeing the same went with
severall of the Henrietta Marias Company to the majors
house to acquaint him therewith who sent for the said Barker
who came unto him, and the said Major told him in the presence
of this Deponent and the Captaine and severall others of the Company
of the Henrietta Maria, that the King was proclaimed onboard
the said ffrigot, and that from that time her Captaine and Company
had not done any act of Hostility, but submitted, and that hee beleeved
hee could not Justify what hee had done, And the said Major