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written and directed to the said Captaine … written and directed to the said Captaine Jacket, whereby hee was given<br />
to understand that the said Pincke and goods and the Negro's aboard jher<br />
were seized and confiscated at Santo domingo, and that sll the English<br />
that were in her were there put into prison, and the said Michael Vervese<br />
thereby exhorted and advised him to get all his Negro's againe on board<br />
and not to permit them any more to come ashore, nor to send or suffer<br />
any more goods to be sent ashore, but to keepe out of commannd<br />
and with what speede hee cpuld to be gonne thence, for (as hee wrote)<br />
there was noe trade there to be had, and that the Governour had<br />
given order for the seizure of his said Negro's soe ashore, whereby<br />
they would be lost or to that effect, which letter the said Captaine<br />
Jacket received, and read, and then came upon the deck[?e] and<br />
acquainted the company (whereof this deponent was one) therewith<br />
Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad 19um arlum deponit et dicit that upon the said intelligence, the said Captaine<br />
Jacket got all his Negro's which were on shore at Barcelona, onboard<br />
againe, and after hee had them there in safetie, hee giving credit to and being<br />
deluded by the false reporte of the Spaniards, (who to betray him gave out<br />
and informed him that the said Pinck was well received by the Vice Roy at<br />
Santo domingo and had her dispatch for trade, and that there was<br />
a vessell arived at Caraccas, from Santo domingo, which came from<br />
Santo domingo in her company, and had lost her at sea in fowle weather<br />
with much other newes of the like nature tending to inveigle him ashore) went<br />
againe on shore himselfe, and then retourned on board and tould his<br />
company that the said Michael de Vervese was a lying knave and<br />
a roague in reporting that the said Pinck the ''Saint Peter'' was seized<br />
and confiscated, relating what good newes hee had touching the Pinck and<br />
otherwise to the effect aforesaid, and then going ashore againe hee sent<br />
for all the Negro's out of the shipp the ''Mayflower'' being 200 and<br />
upwards for the said Imployers accompt, which being accordingly sent him,<br />
hee the said Captaine Jacket there sold and disposed thereof,<br />
and conveyed them away, besides hee caused to be arried and put<br />
ashore and disposed of all the said other goods, wares and merchandizes<br />
which were brought thither in the said shipp the ''Mayflower'' and there<br />
sold and disposed thereof, at least suffered and was the cause<br />
of such disposall of them, soe that the said Captaine Cranley<br />
Samuel Vassall and company utterly lost and were deprived of them<br />
all which hee knoweth to be true being then and there in the said shipp<br />
and seeing and noting his management and cariage in the premisses,<br />
this deponent being then Purser of the said shipp ''Mayflower''. Et<br />
alr nescit deponere.
Ad 20um deponit that while the premisses mentioned in his deposition to the<br />
next precedent article were soe acting, Mr Allen the Chirurgeon of the<br />
said shipp having bin at Barcelona, some women (as hee said) that were<br />
there, favouring him for some cares that hee had donne in the said towne,<br />
imparted and discovered unto him there was a designe in the Governour<br />
and other Spaniards to betray the said Captaine, shipp and goods and to<br />
get the possession and make seizure thereof, and that they understood soezure thereof, and that they understood soe +
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