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Transcription

the Cane Merchant) but her company being then full this deponent
went not in her that voyage And saith that hee this deponent goeing
in the yeare 1657 a voyage to Barbary and thence to the Canaries
and being thence to returne for London in and as one of the Company
of a shipp called the Mary and Joyce was in her passage from the
Canaries for London taken togeather with her ladeing by two Spanish
men of warr who carried her and her company (whereof this deponent was
one) into the Groyne in Galisia and at this deponents coming to the
Groyne as a prisoner hee there sawe the sayd shipp formerly called
the Cane Merchant, (but being then made a shipp of warr and called
the Change) and being under Command of one Captaine
Bea[?ch], Commissionated (as it was sayd) by the duke of Yorke
for the seizure of the shipps and goods of the subiects of the
Commonwealth of England, and this deponent having gotten his
liberty and being desyrous to goe from the Groyne for Saint Sebastians
and hearing that the sayd shipp the Change was bound thither, did
entreate passage in the sayd shipp as a passenger for Saint Sebastians
which the sayd Bea[?ch] comiserateing this deponent and other of the
Mary and Joyces Company their condition did willingly assent unto,
and promised there freely to discharge them, that soe they might make
their Journey thence for England either by some flemish
shipp if they could light of any, or else passe over land thence to
ffrance And saith that the sayd shipp the Change, formerly called the
Cane Merchant departing under Comand of the sayd Captaine Bea[?ch]
from the Groyne was at sea mett with upon the 21th of Aprill
last 1658 and seized and taken by the Preston ffrigott in the imediate
service of this Commonwealth And saith that while this deponent
was soe aboard the sayd shipp Change, hee heard both the sayd
Captaine Bea[?ch] and most of his Company acknowledge that
the sayd shipp then called the Change was the same shipp which was
formerly called the Cane Merchant and of which the sayd John Sanders
was formerly Master or Commander and that the same was taken
from him the sayd Somers formerly by a shipp of warr
Commissionated by the duke of Yorke aforesayd and
that shee had tenn gunnes aboard her when shee was taken
as aforesayd from the sayd Summers, And hee this deponent
of his owne knowledge knoweth that when shee was called
the Cane Merchant and that hee should as aforesayd have gone in
her under Command of the sayd Summers, shee then carried Tenn gunnes
And hee well remembreth that then, and at her seizure by the Preston
ffrigott she had the same Coate of Armes upon her sterne
and was in all things, as shee was when shee went by the name of
the Cane merchant saving that after shee was as aforesayd seized
by Commission of the duke of Yorke, her forecastle and her halfe deck was