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de Torres say and declare to this deponent being a Spaniard and well and perfectly understanding the Spanish tongue, that he would not permitt the ''Harry Bonadventure'' to you from Messina till a dutch shipp the XXX aforesayd were safely arrived there frō Alexandria, and that he kept the deponent and the sayd John Merick prisoners conXXXXing that Captaine Swanley would not dept to sea without his Leivetenant and Corporall. To the .9. article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that whilest this deponent and the sayd Merick were deteyned att Messina, the Governor of Messina or some by his order furnished the dutch formerly of the ''Saint Peters'' Compan?y and released and suffered to goe att Large by Captaine Swanly, with severall ffXXXXas or boates with ammunition and necessaries to goe aboard the ?Great Lyon aforesayd a dutch shipp for their further assistance,. And further saith that the sayd Governor and his people seized and tooke the ?ffolenta or boate belonging to Captaine Swanly and dispossessed him thereof and still ?XX detayne the same, and tooke and deteyned seven of the sayd Captaine Swanleys Company that went a shoare with the sayd boat; and doe still jeepe and deteyne the sayd seven persons belonging to the ?ffelensa as this deponent beleiveth, by meanes ?whereof the sayd Captaine Swanley receyved much prejudice and was deprived of men to send abroad to gaine intelligence for the better prosecution of his XXXXX in the service of the Commonwealth. And further he cannot depose. To the .10:th. he saith that whilest This deponent was a prisoner att Messina in the moneth of June as aforesayd the tyme otherwise he remembreth not the sayd Captaine Swanley sett sayle from Messina with the ''Harry Bonadventure'' together with the prize named the ''Saint Peter'' and her lading, intending as soone as was possible to reach Tunis according to the Order of Mr Longland aforesayd, And this deponent saith that after it was knowne to the Governo:r aforesd that Captaine Swanley was gone as aforesayd, this deponent and the sayd Merick were released, and after a day or two in a shipps boat belonging to another prize shipp taken by the ?English overtooke the ''Harry Bonadventure'' upon the Coast of Sicily in her XXX for Tunis, and then understood the manner of their comeing of ?from Messina and their intended designe for Tunnis as aforesayd. And otherwise cannot depose. To the eleventh article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that about 12 dayes after the sayd shipps the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and the sayd prize the ''Saint Peter'' departed from Messina upon their course towards Tunis the winds being something crosse, and sailing along the Coast of Sicilia they espied seven sayle of dutch shipps under the Isles off of the Port of Trapany in Scicily, and three sayle more of dutch shippes comeing out of the sayd Port of Trapany. This deponent being aboard the ''Harry Bonadventure'' att the tyme of the sayd Dutch shipps were discovered by this deponent and the rest of the Company of the sayd two shipps. And otherwise cannot depose, To
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