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To the fourteenth article hee saith and de … To the fourteenth article hee saith and deposeth that neither hee nor<br />
his said brother neither in the ''Angell'', ''Yellow Sun'' or ''Saint Nicholas'' foresaid<br />
tooke or seized any English shipp or shipps, or English or dutch men<br />
nor sent any such prisoners to Santa domingo, although at the time<br />
when they were as aforesaid forced to Tertoudas, there were warrs<br />
between England and holland, whereby they might lawfully have<br />
taken English, but did not.
To the fifteenth hee saith that there were only in the ''Saint Nicholas''<br />
her owne twelve guns in her when shee went to Santa domingo and about a dozen muskets, and<br />
powder and ball convenient for them for her service, and noe<br />
other armes or amunition but what was for her owne necessary<br />
use, nor any souldiers or other passengers but only the said<br />
President and foure servants namely three men and a boy, a Holland<br />
shipp that was freighted by the Spaniards which men from<br />
Cadiz about a moneth before this deponents said departure then<br />
with the ''Nicholas'', which shipp the ''Mary'' carried good store<br />
of amunition, and ordnance and three or foure hundred souldiers in<br />
her from Cadiz for Santa domingo, and arived there with the same,<br />
this deponent seeing the lading and imbarking thereof at Cadiz,<br />
and upon his arivall at Santa domingo seeing the said Ordnance,<br />
and amunition taking out of her, And at Santa domingo this<br />
deponent and his said brother tooke and put into the ''Nicholas'' twelve<br />
other guns, which were belonging to their said two former<br />
shipps, which they did with the license of the Governour.
To the sixteenth hee saith that there were noe letters or<br />
papers or writings whatsoever that were in the custody of this<br />
deponent or of his said brother or any of their company, that were<br />
torne, burnt, throwne over board or otherwise made away, but<br />
were all delivered by this deponent over to Captaine Adams<br />
his lieutenant who carried them aboard the ''Maidstone frigot''<br />
saving such of the shipps papers and dispatches as were in his<br />
said brothers owne custodie, which his said brother himself<br />
carried aboard the frigot to Captaine Adams upon the said<br />
seizure, nor doth hee know of any papers whatsoever that were made away.
To the seaventeenth hee saith that the Castle of Santa domingo<br />
is about an English mile distant from the place where the ''Saint Nicholas''<br />
came on and moored there, and the towne being betweene those<br />
places, one in the castle cannot see a shipp lying where the ''Saint Nicholas''<br />
was, but may see them as they come in, for that they come neere<br />
the Castle, and saith that about a fortnight after the said shipps arived<br />
this deponent went to the Castle and saw the arlate Mr Aylet<br />
prisoner therein; and afterwards saw him in the towne. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that hee hath heard that some<br />
English have said that if they could get that shipp and lading to be<br />
condemned, they should have a good reward, but did not heare it<br />
of the parties themselves.
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
Toith his foregoeing deposition is true.
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