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Transcription

said Captaine would not lett this Deponent goe onboard his
ship, but kept him all that night in the Alexander, and
secured those men which brought this Deponent aboard the Alexander
and the said Captaine and some Merchants which hee had onboard ordered about three or
foure and twenty men to foe on board the Starr, and
ordered them to send about a Dozen men or thereabouts of the [XXXX] onto the Starr
onboard the Alexander, which was accordingly don, and
those men which brought this Deponent onboard the Alexander
and those which were sent onboard her by the Alexanders
Company were put in the Alexanders hold all that night
and Guards [?set] over them, with Pistolls and Cutlace{?s],
and such like Weapons, and in that night and the next morning hee saith the
said men which were soe put into the Starr sailed her
back about five and Twenty Leagues, and both in
that night and the next morning the Alexanders men
did drawe out a great deale of wine out of the Pipes
and put itt in Jarrs and Rundletts and saith they
filled all the Empty Jarrs Rundletts and Empty Casks
they could find either in the Golden Starr Alexander or
her Ketch, and Conveyed the same on board the Alexander
and Ketch; And saithh in the morning the said Captaine
and two of his Merchants went with this Deponent shewing them Mr
Boones Letters and bills of Lading, and after they had perused
them they were somewhat satisfyed, and the said Captaine
and Merchants swore to this Deponent that if all the Merchants of
England had bin this Deponents ffreightors except Christopher
Boone they would have carried this Deponents ship and Lading
to Brazill, and there have sold the same or to that effect; this Deponent asking
what relation they had to Mr Boone more then to any other
Merchant, one of them made Answer, that hee was owner
of halfe their ship, and procured them their Portugall
Commission; And further saith that after this Deponent had soe
shewed his Reall Papers to the said Captaine and Merchants
they ordered their men which was then in the Starr
to take out two Pipes and two hogsheads of wine out of
the said ship which was accordingly done, and by their order
was Carryed onboard the Alexander or ketch or one of them
and the said Alexanders men alsoe tooke away a Cutlace
a Pot with a Silver Cover, two Tankards Spones and Platters all this Deponents Table Linnen
and Cloathes and Necessaryes from the Seamen, and they
tooke away, let fly, killed and was the Cause of the Death of
foure Dozen of Canary birds which would have yeilded 5 s a peece had
(they