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his said brother staid still in the frigot to the end to goe to the king [of GUTTER]
Spaine and obtaine reparation of their said vessells and goods; which
according his said brother (as hee afterwards wrote into [holl?and GUTTER]
procured, (namely libertie for himselfe and sentence of restitution
of both the said shipps and their goods, with license to saile to Santa
domingo with a dutch shipp and dutch men to fetch away the said
shipps and lading. Which newes ariving at Amsterdam by [?letter GUTTER]
from his said brother, this deponent coming to Amsterdam
to give his owners an account of their voyage, was by them in or
about december 1655 new stile sent from Amsterdam for Cadiz to assist his
said brother, and to buy or freight a shipp for Santa domingo
for the effect aforesaid, and consigned this deponent to John [dorXXX GUTTER]
and Peter Pulla the younger (sonne of the said Peter one of the
owners) both dutch men resident in Cadiz to be by them supplied
with moneys for the ends aforesaid, And this hee saith is true and
publique.

To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that soone after this deponents
arrivall at Cadiz hee there bought the shipp the Nicholas (now
in question and claimed) of and from Vice Admirall de Rutter, who
was there with a Squadron of Holland men of warr, and [some XXX GUTTER]
that hee had taken from the Turkes, whereof the Nicholas was [?one GUTTER]
and was dutch built and had bin formerly taken from hollanders by the
Turkes, and having soe bought her this deponent and his [?said GUTTER]
brother mounted her with twelve guns, and laded aboard her [XXXX GUTTER]
peeces of wine, and fiftie aroles of oile for account of the said
owners, (claimers in this cause). ffor which goods and shipp and
gunns, this deponent truely and really paid with moneys received
at Cadiz. And whereas hee had order from the owners for moneyes to
be received of their said factors only for freighting or buying of a shipp
and this deponents said brother having alsoe gotten license of the king
of Spaine for lading the said wines and oile, this deponent borrowed
a thousand peeces of eight of an Irish merchant or factor there named
Thomas Martin for paying for the said wine and oile, and contracted
with him for repaying him there before his departure, in case his [XXX GUTTER]
order came from his owners in answer to his letters for [XXX GUTTER]
for discharging thereof, before his departure thence, but [?if GUTTER]
the order came not before his departure, it should be secured upon
the said shipp on bottomrie, but saith that about five or six dayes
before his departure thence his order came directed to the said John
dau[?mien] and Peter Poulla (from whom and from david Br[XXX GUTTER]
arlate hee had before received moneys for paying for the shipp and guns
who accordingly advanced the money, and therewith this deponent [?repaid GUTTER]
and dischardged the said Thomas Martin. And further then the said
shipp, guns and goods were bought and laded with the effects or
moneyes advanced upon the account of the said owners, claimers in
this cause. All which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.

To the sixth article hee saith and deposeth that the king of Spaine
sent a person of qualitie called (to his remembrance) the Conde
da [X]elez in the said shipp Nicholas for Santa domingo to goe and be
President at Santa domingo, in place of the other that had donne [XXX GUTTER]
the foresaid iniustice, and as it was commonly said and reported that the
maine cause moving the said king to the sending of this and displacing
the other President, was the undue proceedings aforesaid of the other
with