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that after this deponent was examined and … that after this deponent was examined and had averred the said shipp to be<br />
of ligorne and the loading to belong to Italians, the said factors procured<br />
that shee should have Pratique there after visitation of her health briefs and disptaches<br />
should be made by the officers of the place according to custome, and<br />
saith the Al?colder or officer ordered this deponent to goe and remaine<br />
aboard till such visitation were made, telling this deponent that soe<br />
it must be, for that they had had information that not longe before there<br />
had bin greate sicknes in Italy, and soe this deponent went aboard<br />
accordingly, And further deposeth not, saving hee went that time ashore<br />
in the boate of a dutch shipp that was riding neere the ''Lisbone frigot'',<br />
And saith that two dayes after this deponents said retourne aboard<br />
the officers came to the sea side and sent aboard the said shipp the<br />
''Lisbone frigot'' (then there riding by the name of the ''Saint Anthony of''<br />
''Padua''), to have her bills of health and dispatches brought ashore<br />
to them to the end that they having visited them, the said shipp<br />
might proceed to her pratique or trade, and at this comming of the<br />
said officers, the said John maria Basso the next day before their<br />
said comming advised this deponent by a letter, And saith that the<br />
Captain del marie or officer usually imployed in that behalfe<br />
being soe come aboard at the end of the said two dayes, to advertize<br />
them of the Lieutenants or officers attendance ashore to view their<br />
dispatches, and the said Capitan dell mara withall requiring in the<br />
name of the said officers ashore that this deponent should come<br />
with the said dispatches and bring the masters mate, pilot, chiurgion<br />
and boatswaine with him, and one of the shipps company putting<br />
it into the said Bartholomew ketchers his h?ead that this was some<br />
trick to get them ashore and betray them, and<br />
saying that if noe hurt was intended the merchant would have<br />
written to the said ketcher from shore, and therewithall the said<br />
ketcher and company began to weigh as if they would begonne,<br />
notwithstanding that this deponent acquainted them that hee had the day<br />
before received advise from shore from the said John Maria Bassa<br />
p?urporting such comming of the officers, and their end to be (according<br />
to custome) only to view the health brief, and dispatches, and soe<br />
license the said shipp to proceede to her trade; And saith further that<br />
the same day towards evening, they from shore seeing the said shipp<br />
preparing to saile, sent a boate aboard againe with a white cloth<br />
or flagge, and the clarke of the examinations in the said boate, who<br />
asked this deponent the reason thez came not ashore being sent for,<br />
to which the said ketcher bidd or ordered this deponent to answer<br />
that in regard hee had a pilot or masters mate and foure or five English mariners<br />
aboard, hee durst not come through feare of danger, whereupon the<br />
said John Maria Basso who was alsoe in the said boate with the<br />
said clarke or scivana, said, feare nothing, but come ashore XXX<br />
my word, I shall secure you or words to the same effect, for said XXXX<br />
wee live here in an Iland where wee have occasion of all sort?s of<br />
peoplecasion of all sort?s of<br />
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