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to doe unlesse Some of the said Ships Comp … to doe unlesse Some of the said Ships Company would goe on<br />
shore with him in the said Ketchers boate; The Premisses hee deposeth<br />
hearing the same, And further hee cannot depose./.
To the 10th. hee saith that one of those who came in the said Boate Pretended<br />
himselfe to be the ffactor to whom the said ship was Consigned who did<br />
alsoe demand the Captaine, Mate, Purser and one or two more of the<br />
said ships Company to goe ashore as aforesaid, and then hee would<br />
procure them Prattick for their said ship, and one in the said Boat<br />
said in the hearing of all other Spaniards in the said Boate that<br />
hee knew they were all Englishmen. (meaning the said ships Company)<br />
and thereupon the Company of the said ship perceived they<br />
were discovered to be English; And the said Ty did then and there refuse<br />
to goe ashore in the said Spanish Boate, And further hee cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith that the said Spanish Boate soe came unto the<br />
said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' upon or about the 28th day of July 1658<br />
and further cannot depose saving as aforesaid and saving what<br />
followeth/:
To the twelveth and 13th hee saith that a while after the foresaid Spanish Boate, was<br />
gone from the ''Lixon ffrrigot'' to shore, there came a Spanish Boate<br />
from Shore, (which Boate this deponent verily beleeveth was the same<br />
boate that came before to the said ship the ''Lixon ffrigot'',) with about<br />
five or six Spaniards therein, (some of which men were<br />
alsoe in the Boate that came first to the said ship;) and they<br />
alsoe spake to the master Mate Purser, and some others of the said<br />
ships Company to come ashore, to get Prattick (as they pretended)<br />
and while the said boate Lay by the said ships side, the<br />
Master and Company of the said ship espyed three small vessells or<br />
Barques which were sent out from Oratava, and some of the Company<br />
of the said ship asked them in the said Boate what Vessells they were<br />
and one in the said Boate made answer. in broken English,<br />
that they belonged to him, and were carrying of wine to Santa Cruze<br />
and then hee saith the said Vessells were sailing from the ''Lisbone''<br />
''ffrigot'', and the said Ketcher furled his sailes, and Comanded his<br />
boate to be ready, and intended to have sent some of his Company<br />
on shore therein, and came to an Anchor with the ''Lisbone ffrigot''<br />
whichsoe soone as the Company in the said Vessell perceived they<br />
Imediatley altered there coarse, and came directly before the winde<br />
as if they would have seized the said ship, and lading, which the<br />
said Ketcher and Company perceiving, they weighed Anchor, and<br />
put the said ship the ''Lisbone ffrigot'' under saile, which being perceaved<br />
by the said Vessell then presently Altered their course, and sailed from the ''Lisbone''<br />
''ffrigot'' againe, The Premisses hee deposeth hearing and seeing the same, and further hee cannot depose./:
To the 14th hee saith that in case the said Ketcher had sent his boate<br />
and foure or five of his Company a shore at such time as the<br />
said Vessells were sailing as aforesaid in all Probability and likelihood<br />
they might and would have takena and seized the said ship and lading<br />
for want of men.:- And further hee cannot depose./.
To the 15th hee saith that at such time as the said last Spanish Boate<br />
was and remained by or neere the ''Lixon ffrigot'', some of the Company<br />
(ingot'', some of the Company<br />
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