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to the arlate William Winter./:
To the 2. … to the arlate William Winter./:
To the 2.d hee saith that for and during all the foresaid<br />
yeere and before and since the arlate Captaine John Stoakes was<br />
Admirall or Comander in Cheife in the Mediterranean<br />
Sea of a Squadron of ships consisting of tenn Saile, one<br />
of which was called the ''ffairfax frigot'', And the said<br />
Captaine Stoakes (being Admirall) had the power to keepe all<br />
the said ships together, or devide them as occasion should<br />
require, The Premisses hee deposeth for that hee served<br />
in the ''ffairefex frigot'' aforesaid from the 11th of August<br />
1658 till about the middle of March last, And further<br />
deposeth not./.
To the 3.d hee saith that Thomas Whetston was Comander<br />
of the said ''ffairefax ffrigot'' when this Deponent soe came onbord<br />
her, and soe Continued about three months agter<br />
and hee had then foure other ffrigotts under his<br />
Command, and the said William Winter did pretend himselfe<br />
to be Lieutenant to the said Whetston, and did exercise that<br />
office on the said ''ffairefax ffrigot'' from the time of this Deponents coming onboard her<br />
till about three monethes after./:
To the 4.th hee referreth him slefe to the Lawes of Princes<br />
and nations./.
To the 5.th hee saith hee knoweth not what orders Instructions<br />
and letters Admirall Stoakes had touching the busines arlate
To the 6.th hee saith that, hee refereth himselfe to the Lawe[?s GUTTER]<br />
and Instructions arlate.
To the 7.th hee deposeth not.
To the 9.th hee saith that hee Referreth himselfe<br />
to the Lawe./:
To the 10.th 11.th and 12.th hee saith that about two dayes after<br />
this deponents coming onboard the said ''ffairefax'', the ''kent ffrigot''<br />
and the ''Phenix'' brought a ship which they had taken to Captaine Whetston called<br />
the ''Armes of Leake'', (as this deponent remembers her name)<br />
and the next day the said william winter went onboard<br />
her, and this deponent and severall othrs of the<br />
''ffairefax ffrigots'' Company with him, and soe soone as<br />
they were come onboard her the said Winter<br />
by order of Captaine Whetston Put out the men<br />
that were in the said ship belonging to the foresaid two<br />
ffrigotts, and the said seized ship was carried to the Road of Marsellis<br />
where or a little before her arrivall there her hold was opened and all her Lading taken<br />
out of her, and all or most of the same was carried<br />
(onst of the same was carried<br />
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