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they could and told this deponent that the Constant Warwick a frigate
alsoe of this Commonwealth laye to and froe at Sea upon the Coast of
Portugall to give notice to all English shipps of the warr betwixt England
and Spaine and to fourwarne them of goeing to any of the Kinge of Spaines ports
and the sayd Lieutennant being told by this deponent that some of his [?Merchants GUTTER]
were at Lisbone the sayd Lieutennant advised this deponent to put into Lisbone
and to take their advice touching his further proceedeing on his sayd [?intended GUTTER]
voyage and this deponent accordingly did and his sayd Merchants alsoe then and there tolde
him that there was a warr broken out betwixt England and Spaine and that divers
English shipps not knowing thereof and putting into Spanish Ports had bin
seized and confiscated, and advised this deponent to haue a speciall [?care GUTTER]
in his passage about Cape Saint Vincent and keepe as neere the shoare as
possible hee could, to avoide Spanish men of warr which lay there about
which directions hee this deponent observed and gott safe to Pharoe notwith=
standing hee discovered divers Spanish men of warr off at Sea And
hee saith after his arrivall at Pharoe and some few dayes after this
deponent had taken in his ladeing for England videlicet about the two or three and twentith of Nouember 1655 the allegate Shipp the
Plaine dealing with the producent Mr Browning her Master came
before the barr of Pharoe and (as this deponent heard Captaine Hudson
Captaine of the Starr of Bristoll saye) came with his the sayd
Brownings boate on board the sayd hudsons shipp and was then informed
by the sayd hudson that there was warrs betwixt England and Spaine and that
noe English shipps might with safety goe to any Spanish
port to trade, but would bee in danger to bee seized and confiscated and
that it was safest for him the sayd Browning to put in there with his
sayd shipp, And hee knoweth that the sayd Browning did put in at
Pharoe with his sayd shipp accordingly, and came on shoare with
his boate to the Towne of Pharoe where hee mett with this deponent
and told this deponent that hee was bound for Mallega if hee could
safely passe thither but was informed by Captaine hudson that there
was warrs betwixt England and Spaine and that if hee went to any
Spanish port with his shipp and ladeing they would bee seized or to that
effect, and this deponent thereupon answered that it was a very [?XXXX GUTTER]
and that hee this deponent had bin told in October 1655 by his
Marchants at Lisbone that there was warr betwixt England and Spaine
and that divers English shipps coming into Spanish ports had bin
before then seized and confiscated and told the sayd Browning
that the Constant Warwick (as hee was neere Lisbone informed [?by GUTTER]
the Lieutennant of the Bristow ffriggott) lay upon the Coast of Pharoe
to give notice thereof to all English shipps that they might avoide the
danger or to that effect And further to these articles hee cannot
depose./

To the 16th and 17th articles hee saith that at his coming first with his
shipp the ffriendshipp to Pharoe which was about the 15th or 16th of
October one thousand sixe hundred fifty five, hee there found two English shipps laden with fish one of them
belonging to Plymouth and the other to some other part in the west of England
who sayd that they were bound for Spaine with their fish but [?when GUTTER]
putting in at Pharoe had bin there certainly informed of the warr broken out
betwixt England and Spaine and were thereupon resolved to sell of
their