HCA 13/72 f.415r Annotate

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proprietors of the sayd shipp and her tackle apparrell and furniture
and for such commonly accounted And that the arlate Thomas dethick
Richard Browne and Company were the tyme aforesayd Owners and
proprietos of the ladeing of the sayd shipp and for such commonly
reputed and taken./

To the 2 hee saith that the shipp Anne Pearceie was on the fifteenth
of March 1656 (shee being then upon a tradeing voyage and neere
a place called Pantaloria betwixt Ligorne and Smyrna, and bound
with her ladeing for Smyrna) sett upon in a hostile manner
by the arlate Ree Morrice with his shipp the Saint Antonio and three
other Spanish men of warr in his Company who fought with
the Anne Pearcie and in the fight burnt the sayd shipp and her ladeing
to the great preiudice of the Owners thereof and utterly thereby deprived
them thereof and in the fight (and after the shipp was fyred and the men
swimming up and downe for their lives) did in a barbarous manner
kill thirty of the sayd Anne Pearcies Company And tooke this
deponent (being Master) and his precontests Thomas [?hithburne]
and John Gillman and fifteene others of the Anne Pearcies
Company prizoners./

To the 3 hee saith the Saint Antonio the tyme arlate had on board
her beside the arlate Ree Morrice the Captaine of her twenty
three dutch Mariners beside him the sayd Ree Mourice all of
them and the sayd Morris being (as this deponent heard them
confesse while hee was a prisoner) subiects of the States
of the Unted provinces and dwellers there./

To the 4th 5th and 6th articles hee saith that while hee this deponent
was a prizoner aboard the Saint Antonio, and after hee was ashoare
in Majorca the sayd Ree Morrice and alsoe divers of his company
did in presence of this deponent one Captaine James
Cade and one Captaine Richard Payne saye and acknowledge that
the Saint Antonio aforesayd was built at Amsterdam for Accompt
of Spaniards and by their order and being finished the sayd Ree Morris
and twenty five dutch mariners and three Spaniards of Majorca who were
sent thence to take possession of the sayd shipp sett sayle with her
from Amsterdam bound for Majorca under the Convoy of the arlate
Captaine Lapper a dutch man of warr and the winde proving contrary
to them they put with the Saint Antonio into Torbay arlate where
the Officers of this Commonwealth having intelligence that the Saint
Antonio was built for Accompt of Spaniards and going for Majorca
in the King of Spaines dominions caused her to be seized by
two smale frigotts belonging to this Commonwealth And the
sayd Lapper