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Company to goe ashore to be meerely a devise to betray the
said ship and Lading, and not to Procure them Pratick in respect
they had soe aforesaid positively denied them, Just before,
And saith the said Tye did in this deponents presence and hearing
tell severall of the said ships Company that hee did verily beleive
that the said Company in the said Boate Did goe about to betray them and
that it was a meere Cheate, or to that Purpose:/- And further
hee cannot depose./.

To the 13th and 14th hee saith and deposeth that in Confirmation
that there was some designe to ?betray Surprize and seize the said ship lading
and Company, there were three Spanish Vessells sent out
from Oratava manned with Spaniards, at the same time
the said Spanish Boate lay by the side of the said ship the Lisbone ffrigot
which ships being espeyed by the said ketcher, and Company, they
asked the Spanairds in the said Boate which Vessells they were
and some of them replyed that they were Vessells that were carrying
of wines to Santa Cruze in the Iland of Tenerife, and then hee saith
the said Vessells were sailing from the Lisbone ffrigot, And the
said ketcher furled his sailes, and Commanded his boate to be Ready
intending to send some of his Company in her on shore, and
came to an Anchor with the Lisbone ffrigot, which soe soone as
ver the said three Spanish Vessells perceived, they Imediately
altered their Course, and came directly before the winde
as if they would have seized the Lisbone ffrigot, which the
said ketcher and Company perceiving they weighed their
Anchor, and put the said ship the Lisbone ffrigot under saile
which being perceived by the said Spanish Vessells they altered their
course againe, and sailed from the said Lisbone ffrigot seeing
that her men were not gone ashore, and therefore durst not as
hee beleeveth Venture upon the said ship the Lisbone ffrigot
And in case the said ketcher, and the Purser and foure more of the
Company of the said ship had gone ashore at such time as
the said Spanish Vessell came as aforesaid, in all likelihood
and Probability they might and would have taken the said ship
for want of men, And soe it was generally beleeved by all the
said ships Company. The Premisses hee deposeth being
aboard the Lisbon ffrigot and seeing the Premisses And further
hee Cannot depose:/:

To the 15th and 16th hee saith, that some of the said Spaniards in
the said Boate whilst they lay by the said ships side told the said
ketcher and Company that Captaine Neale, of Dover was
with his said ship trading in Garachico Road Distant from
the Road of Oratava the said ketcher and Company thinking
it might be true, and if hee were there they might trade
the more secure together, did cause his ship to be carried thether
and upon his arrivall there found noe such shipp, nor any
other ships whatsoever, saving foure Spanish ships, neither had
(the