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and raised much murmuring amongest them, hee still saying hee would [not GUTTER]
tell them, nor was it (as hee said) their busines to know it. And saith that
there was a greate pack of a certaine fruit or matter that was [XXXXXXX] from
t[XXXX]s whereupon the same greew in the West Indies, having a very evell and st[XXXX GUTTER]
smell, and called in Spanish [?winiliga], but the nature thereof hee knoweth not, and saith the same
was aboard in the powder roome when the said shipp came to Milford haven
into which haven the saud shipp was forced to enter through the extreamitie
of storme and fowle weather. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the 4th hee saith that there was noe other that pretended to any [commandXX GUTTER]
of the said shipp but only the said Captaine don Juan, who was both commander
and marchant and ordered and disposed both as to the navigation and the [?fruit] and [XXXXX]
and trade of the said shipp the said voyage. And otherwise hee cannot depose
hee not comming aboard till the said shipp came to Comana as aforesaid.

To the 5th hee saith that there were severall papers and writings aboard the
said shipp when shee came upon the coast of England, and that comming off
Lundy Island (into which Channell shee next was forced by fowle weather) and her
Company espying two shipps (which were beleeved to be English) the Captaine
called out and commanded then all Spanish papers and clothes should be taken and
put downe in Hold, saying that if they be found, it will be ill for us
or to that effect, whereupon the papers were ffetched out of the powder ?where
to that time they had laine, and some of them were torne and throwne
over board and others thrust downe in Hold and hidd in the
h?iden part of the shipp, and the Spaniards clothes and persons put
downe and hidd in hold. And saith that being come to Milford
haven and a boat comming off to come aboard the said shipp, the said
Captaine seeing the said boate, gave this deponent a bundle of papers
and bidd him hide them in his bosoum or otherwise, and rather than
they should be seene to make them away by burning or otherwise
and this deponent tooke them and but them betweene his doublet and
body at his breast, and afterwards this deponent put them in the
drawer or under a table in the cabbin, and there left them. And saith
hee did not see the Captaine deliver up any papers to any that made
the seizure, nor knoweth of any delivered by him to them. And further
hee cannot depose.

To the sixth hee saith hee never knew the said shipp the Hope till hee
soe met her at Comana, and saith that hee never saw any flagge
or colour of the king of Spaine aboard the said shipp,
nor doth hee know or heard who or what countrey man were by the
said shipps owners,
And further hee cannot depose.

To the seaventh hee saith that when the said shipp arived in the haven of
Milford there were twenty persons of her company, and an passenger
and saith that six of the said company and the said passenger were Spaniards
and three Irish men, who at the Indies went for Spaniards, And ?saith GUTTER
the said Captaine and the said other Spaniards were by him left aboard as GUTTER
hee knoweth not