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by some of the company of the ''Maydstone frigott''./ To the 11th and 12th articles hee saith that hee being a Carpenter of the shipp ''Nicholas'' knoweth that divers letters and pacquetts were brought aboard the shipp the ''Nicholas'' at Santa domingo, and a Spaniard who was a passenger and had goods in the sayd shipp (whose name hee knoweth not) did speake to this deponent to [?cut ?some GUTTER] hole in the deck or some other part of the sayd shipp to hide and conceale the sayd letters in, in case the sayd shipp should be surprized at sea And hee well remembreth that after the ''Nicholas'' was seized and the paper delivered to Captaine Adams Commander of the ''Maydstone ffrigott'' to laye upon his Cabbin Samuell Adams the brother of the sayd Captaine Adams and one Claes Johnson had gott into the sayd Captaine Adams his Cabbin while the sayd Captaine was otherwise busie and had heaved over board into the sea some papers or pacquetts which were in the sayd Cabbin and had bin seized in the ''Nicholas'' And further to these articles hee cannot depose./ To the 13th hee saith that before the seizure of the shipp ''Nicholas'' and her ladeing there was open warr betwixt England and Spaine and hee knoweth that before her seizure the English had attempted the takeing of Santa domingo./ To the 14th hee referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition and to the lawe And further cannot depose To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin the 16th of ffebruary 1657./ the marke of the sayd Lawrence '''P''' Peete [MARKE, RH SIDE] ****************************** The 17th day of ffebruary 1657 English style Examined on the sayd allegation./ row dt. '''2''' '''Richard Jones''' of the parish of Saint Mary Matsellon alias Whitechappell Mariner aged thirty one yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon the first day of January one thousand sixe hundred fifty sixe English style the arlate shipp the ''Nicholas'' and all the goods wares and merchandizes aboard her were seized and taken by the ''Maydstone ffrigott'' arlate, the arlate Captaine Adams Comander of her) the sayd frigott at such tyme as shee made the sayd seizure having the English Colours out this hee knoweth being Corporall of the sayd ffrigott and aboard her at the same tyme/ To the 2 hee saith that before the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' was soe seized shee was haled by the sayd Captaine Adams and demanded whence shee came and the arlate Claes Johnson the Captaine of the ''Nicholas'' answered that shee came from Curraso (which is a place in possession of the states of the Netherlands but as afterwards appeared shee came not from thence but from Saint domingo, and the sayd Claes being by Captaine Adams commanded to come aboard the sayd ffrigott refused to come, and did not strike his colours (which were flemish) but caused ports to be knocked open and his gunns to be runne out and put him selfe and Company into a posture for fighteing, And as this deponent heard some of the [?company GUTTER] of the ''Nicholas'' after her seizure saye before this deponent and the Chirurgion of the sayd ffrigott
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