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which shipp shipp (sic) (as this deponent … which shipp shipp (sic) (as this deponent was afterwards informed<br />
by XXXX XXXXX an ?Irishman and some others of her company who could speake English) was called<br />
the ''Santa Cruse'' and her Masters name ffrancisco ?Stale and<br />
was a Genoa shipp and was there aXXXXdd and sett out<br />
by Hippolito Centurione a Genoese, and came ?hence (as this<br />
deponent was also by like men XX informed<br />
in Company of ?two other men of warr sett out thence<br />
also by the sayd Hippolito Centuriane, which Genoa shipp called<br />
the ''Santa Cruse'' presently upon her comming into the Road of Petrao<br />
made as if she would have come to an Anchor neere the<br />
''Lady ffrigott'' but when shee was come neere her the Captaine<br />
and Company of the sayd shipp ''Santa Cruse'' did in a violent and<br />
hostile manner sett upon the sayd shipp the ''Lady ffrigott'' with<br />
Swords and gunnes and other warlike Instruments and<br />
wounded the Captaine and six or seaven men of the Company of the<br />
''Lady ffrigott'' and by that meanes surprized her and her sayd ladeing<br />
of Currans and other goods and money and dispoiled their Owners<br />
of them and converted them to their owne use And hee farther saith<br />
that hee this deponent was alsoe informed by a dutch man who was<br />
gunner of the sayd shipp ''Santa Cruse'' and an Irish man who was one of<br />
her Company who could both speake very good English that the Captaine<br />
of the ''Santa Cruse'' had taken severall mariners and souldiers out<br />
of the sayd two other shipps of warr which came in Company<br />
of the ''Santa Cruse'' from Genoa, the better to enable them to surprise<br />
the ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing, And saith that at the tyme of<br />
the sayd seizure hee did observe that most of the ''Santa Cruse'' her<br />
Company who made the seizure were Italians and Genoeses And<br />
saith that after the says Genoeses perceived that the sayd dutch<br />
Gunner and the french [CHECK THIS IS NOT IRISH MAN] man and others of their Company coulde speake<br />
English and had some conference with this deponent and<br />
others of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company who were seized, they did<br />
forbid them to have any discourse with the English; and put the<br />
''Lady ffrigotts'' Company in hold and kept them there in Irons And<br />
further to these articles hee cannot depose
To the 7th article hee saith that hee this deponent and severall<br />
other of the ''Lady ffrigotts'' Company were after their surprizall<br />
told and informed by the sayd dutch Gunner and the sayd Irish man<br />
and some other of the ''Santa Cruse'' her Company who could speake<br />
English that the ''Santa Cruse'' was sett out from Genoa by the<br />
sayd Hippolito Centurone upon a warlike designe against the<br />
Turkes, and has bin a great while abroad and could gett noe<br />
prize, and had therefore taken a Spanish Commission which<br />
was to last only for a tyme, which tyme or the says ?Gunner and<br />
Irishman and others of the ''Santa Cruse'' her company acknowledged<br />
was expired two moneths before the seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott''<br />
and her ladeing, but withall say that they were resolved to take<br />
any English shipp they could light on notwithstanding the expiration<br />
thereof, And this deponent well remembreth that the<br />
Captaine of the ''Lady ffrigott'' told this deponent that hee did at the tyme<br />
of her seizure desyre the foresayd ffrancisco Stale Commander of<br />
the ''Santa Cruse'' to show him his Commission by virtue whereof hee<br />
was impowered to make seizure of the ''Lady ffrigott'' being an English ship<br />
buttt'' being an English ship<br />
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