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Transcription

To the fourteenth article hee saith and deposeth that neither hee nor
his said brother neither in the Angell, Yellow Sun or Saint Nicholas foresaid
tooke or seized any English shipp or shipps, or English or dutch men
nor sent any such prisoners to Santa domingo, although at the time
when they were as aforesaid forced to Tertoudas, there were warrs
between England and holland, whereby they might lawfully have
taken English, but did not.

To the fifteenth hee saith that there were only in the Saint Nicholas
her owne twelve guns in her when shee went to Santa domingo and about a dozen muskets, and
powder and ball convenient for them for her service, and noe
other armes or amunition but wheat was for her owne necessary
use, nor any souldiers or other passengers but only the said
President and foure servants namely three men and a boy, a Holland
shipp that was freighted by the Spaniards which men from
Cadiz about a moneth before this deponents said departure then
with the Nicholas, which shipp the Mary carried good store
of amunition, and ordnance and thre or foure hundred souldiers in
her from Cadiz for Santa domingo, and arived there with the same