| First transcribed
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16 September 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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240 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 16/09/2013 +
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| Transcription
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Christophers intending there to gett pass … Christophers intending there to gett passage for England and saith that the sayd Claes<br />
Johnson and his brother Bernard Johnson had then the Command of two shipps of warr<br />
manned with Spaniards and came and sett upon and surprized the sayd shipp the ''John''<br />
and two ffrench shipps as they were in the roade of Zerludas and landed divers<br />
Spaniards upon the Ter[su]das and dispossessed the English and ffrench thereof which<br />
being done the sayd Claes departed with his shipp whereof he was Commander<br />
to goe for Santo domingo leaving this deponent and the rest of the company of the ''John''<br />
ashoare at the Torludos in the custody of Spaniards, and after his departure a dutch<br />
shipp which came from Brazeele coming in sight of the Torludas the sayd Claes<br />
Johnsons brother Barnard Johnson put forth dutch colours upon his shipp and thereupon the sayd dutch<br />
shipp supposing him to bee a friend came in and was by that meanes surprized<br />
by the sayd Johnson and sent by the sayd Johnson to Santo domingo togeather with the sayd<br />
shipp the ''John'' which acts of hostility the sayd Claes and his brother acted<br />
by the power and authority of the King of Spaine And further hee cannot depose./
To the 8th and 9th articles hee saith that after the sayd Claes Johnson and his brother<br />
were both gone from the Tertudas the Spaniards who were on shoare at the Tertudos<br />
hearing that the English ffleete under the Command of Generall Penn was at Sea, were<br />
in great feare that the sayd Generall would send some shipps and take that Iland of<br />
Tertudos, and thereupon buried all their ordnance (which were thirty in number) and<br />
tooke this deponent and other English men and french men whome they had as<br />
prisoners on shoare and marched over land with them to that part of the Island<br />
of Terludos which lay neerest to hispaniola and there put them<br />
over in boates to hispaniola and soe marched them to Santo domingo and at<br />
this deponents Coming to Santo domingo the sayd two shipps<br />
which the sayd<br />
Claes Johnson and his brother Commanded at the Terludos laye sunke in the<br />
harbour, they being sunke there (as hee heard the sayd Claes Johnson<br />
and divers others saye) to hinder the sayd English ffleete from getting into harbour<br />
at Santo domingo, and alsoe heard the sayd Claes saye that hee went unto<br />
Spaine to gett satisfaction for those two shipps which were soe sunke And<br />
hee this deponent being at Santo domingo when the sayd Claes Johnson came<br />
with the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' to Santo domingo knoweth that hee brought in her<br />
one who was to be Vice Kinge or Governour there<br />
and saith the sayd Claes Johnson knowing this deponent to bee a Shipp<br />
Carpenter did imploye this deponent to repayre and mend the sayd shipp ''Nicholas''<br />
and make her fitt to returne for Cadiz, and procured this deponents liberty to come<br />
from Santo domingo with him as a Carpenter of the sayd shipp, and the sayd<br />
Claes hath severall tymes while this deponent wrought in fitting the sayd shipp<br />
sayd that hee intended when hee came into Spaine to buy the sayd shipp the<br />
''Nicholas'' for his brother Bernard, whereby hee beleeveth that the sayd Claes<br />
had noe Propriety in the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' but that shee belonged to<br />
subiects of the King of Spaine And further hee cannot depose
To the 10th hee saith that hee seeing all the ladeing of the ''Nicholas'' which was in<br />
her at her seizure laden aboard her knoweth that all of them except a parcell of<br />
Cackowe which was laden by and belonged to the arlate hayes a dutch man and the peeces of eight laden by and belonging to this deponent was laden<br />
by Spaniards and was for Accompt (as hee beleeveth of Spaniards And further hee cannot<br />
depose, saving hee saith the sayd three hundred peeces of Eight and plate worth sixty peeces of<br />
eight laden for Accompt of this deponent when the sayd shipp was soe seized were taken away<br />
by soe seized were taken away<br />
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