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Transcription

The tenth day of March .1653

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

8us

Captaine Gilbert Crane of Saint Mary Magdalens parish in
Southwarke and County of Surrey Mariner aged
34 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and
examined deposeth and saith as followeth. videlicet.

To the 1. and 2. Articles of the sayd allegation he saith he cannot depose

To the .2. 3. and 4th. articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith
that being att New England [?XXXX XXXX] in the shipp the King David in the
immediat service of this Commonwealth whereof he was then Commannder
he did in or about in the month of August last past see a shipp there arrive in the harbour of Salem
and manned by English men the bottome whereof was Spanish or
Portuguese built and topp thereof Hollands built which shipp
was then called the Holy ghost having in her sterne the image
or represntation of a dove and a Crosse, which very shipp this
deponent hath since seene in the River of Thames in the possession
of Captaine Bredon as her owner. And saith that teh foresayd English
Mariners who brought the sayd shipp into Salem Harbour did acquaint
this deponent there that they had taken and surprized the sayd
shipp att the Barbadoes taking an opportunity when many
of her Company were out of her, most of whom as they
sayd were Spaniards and Portugueses, and that they cutt her
Cables and turned such of her Company as they found on board
her into a ong boat and sent them to land and brought away the
sayd shipp and that they had bene once before with the sayd vessell
att

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