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All to goe ashore together, and leave the … All to goe ashore together, and leave the ship Espetiallye<br />
in an open Road, as Oratava it was to that effect. And<br />
further hee cannot depose:
To the tenth hee saith that one of the said men in the said<br />
Spanish Boate that came unto the said ''Lisbone ffrigatts'' side<br />
pretended himselfe to be the ffactor, to whom the said Ship<br />
was Consigned, and hee upon his said Coming to the<br />
said Ship demanded the Master Mate; Purser<br />
and one or two more of the said ships Company to goe<br />
a shore at Oratava, and then hee would procure them<br />
Practick for their said Ship, and told them openly in the<br />
hearing of the said other men in the said Boat that hee knewe<br />
they were most of them English, or to that effect, And<br />
the Company of the said ship perceiving they<br />
were discovered to bee English men would not bee perswaded<br />
to goe ashore, And saith the said pretended ffactor (or any<br />
that came with him did not demand or require any papers<br />
or writings whatsoever, nor did aske what goods the said<br />
ship was laden withall, And further hee cannot depose ./.
To the 11th hee saith that the said Spanish Boate soe came to the<br />
side of the said Ship the ''Lixon ffrigot'', with the said pretended<br />
ffactor in it the afternoone of the 20th [EDITOR: CHECK THIS DATE IN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT]day of the said<br />
moneth of July 1658: (as hee now remembreth the say) and<br />
in the morning of the said day the said Tye as aforesaid<br />
went in the ''Lixon ffrigots'' boate towards shore, and was<br />
denyed Prattick as aforesaid, and about the time that the<br />
said Spanish Boate, came from shore to the ''Lixon ffrigotts''<br />
side as aforesaid the Newes aforesaid of the English their taking of<br />
Dunkirke, and their putting (as was said and pretended) All<br />
the Spaniards therein to the Sword, after they had given<br />
them quarter, and saith that all the said Ships Company<br />
did beleeve that the sending of the said Boate and men<br />
therein to procure the Master mate; Boatswaine Purser, and<br />
one or two more of the said Ships Company to bee meerely<br />
a trick, and meanes of betray them and not to procure<br />
them Prattick in Regard they had the said morning soe<br />
as aforesaid positively denied them. and further hee<br />
cannot Depose
To the 12th hee saith that [INSERT A LENGTHY MARGINAL NOTE WHICH I HAVE NOT YET TRANSCRIBED] three Spanish Vessells:<br />
sent out from Oratava, the same time the said Spanish Boate<br />
came from thence to the ''Lisbone ffrigot'', and some of the said ''Lixon''<br />
''ffrigots'' Company demanded of the men in the said Spanish<br />
Boate what Vessells they were; and they in the said<br />
Spanish Boate said that they were Vessells that were carrying<br />
of wines to Santa Cruze, and at that time hee saith they were<br />
sailing from the ''Lixon ffrigot'', and the said ketcher Commanded<br />
his sailes to be furled, and his boate to be made ready, which was<br />
accordingly done, and intended to have sent some of his Company<br />
(one sent some of his Company<br />
(on +
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