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The 9th of ffebruary 1656,

Goodwin and companye against Saint John etcetera}
Smith ffrancklin}

Examined upon the allegation on the behalfe of the sayd
Lewis and Rodrigues da Souza/

5.

Henry Hickford of Saint Pancras Soperlane London
Merchant aged 38 yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne GUTTER
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first ˹and second˺ articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that there hath bin in GUTTER
1654: 1655 ad 1656 and moneths therein concurring, and since XXX GUTTER
made and Concluded betweene the King of Spaine and the States Generall
of the United Provinces, that the shipps of warr of dunkirke and Ostende GUTTER
and other ports of the King of Spaine, be shipps of the sayd King or his
subiects doe ˹and have frequently within the tyme aforesayd˺ notwithstanding the sayd peace concluded betwixt the sayd
King and the sayd States ) interrupte divers dutch shipps ˹belonging to subiects of XXXX GUTTER˺ in their voyages GUTTER
from Lisbone and other Ports being fo in soe much that they XXXX XXXX GUTTER
for the most part make any voyage without a man of warr to XXXX GUTTER
them, which Interruptions the King of Spaines subiects doe make XXXXXX GUTTER
by like reporte hee hath heard) upon pretense that they have on board, ˹had or have˺
goods belonging to Enemies of the King of Spaine ˹or at least Contra banda goods˺ and have upon
pretenses visited and come on board the sayd dutch shipps and XXXX GUTTER
their holds and taken and carried away out of them what goods they
pleased, and seized some of the sayd dutch shipps and carried them
in to dunkirke or Ostend or other Ports and there deteyneth them and
put the Masters of them to great charge and trouble to recover them out of XX GUTTER
hands againe And these premisses they have done the sayd King of Spaines
subiects have done (as by like Credible report hee hath heard) the sayd
dutch shipps having at their seizure dutch Colours up, and noeGUTTER
Contra banda goods aboard them,And this deponent hath by like
reporte of Merchants of London heard, that severall complaintes XXX GUTTER
bin made to the Spanish Embassador resideing at the hague of the
sayd men of Warr of Ostend and dunkirke and other ports of the King of Spaine
their iniuries and abuses offered to the subiects of the States of the
United Provinces in visiting seaching and interrupting them in the GUTTER
Course of their voyages, and somerly XXXX seizeing their shipps as XXXX GUTTER
contrary to the sayd Peace concluded, And further saving his deposition GUTTER
to the subsequent articles hee cannot depose./

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate shipp
whereof the arlate John de Ketts was Master was Commonly reported GUTTER
and to bee and hee verily beleeveth her to bee a dutch shipp belonging
to subiects of the states of the United Provinces, and saith that XXX GUTTER
his this deponents ˹knowledge˺ (being one who caused goods to bee then laden aboard XX GUTTER
shee was in or about the moneth of October ˹last past˺ laden at London with severall
goods whereof wherewith shee departed in or about the sayd moneth XX GUTTER
bound for dort, or some other Port neere thereabout belonging to the States
of the United Provinces, And saith that in her passage thither (as XX GUTTER
this

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