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shipp gunnes and powder which the sayd dutch skipper there sold to the Spaniards) were all laden by Spaniards and that hee the sayd Johnson was obliged to transporte them and did intende to transport all the ladeing of the sayd shipp to Cadiz where the same was all to be delivered And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that while hee this deponent remayned as aforesayd at Saint domingo hee this deponent having procured his liberty did treate with the sayd Claes Johnson to have his passage in the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' for Cales, that thence hee might with the better Convenience get to his this deponents native Country of England and the sayd Claes did promise this deponent that hee should have his passage in her thither, but afterwards denyed this deponent passage in her unlesse hee this deponent could procure ffifty peeces of eight to pay for his passage and thereupon told this deponent that hee the sayd Claes was a poore man by reason hee could not have his due from the Spaniards and that hee had nothing to doe with the sayd shipp the ''Nicholas'' but that shee belonged to Cales and subiects of the Kinge of Spaine there and that hee had nothing in her but the hydes aforesayd, and that hee feared when hee came to Cales (if the King of Spaine did not make him satisfaction for two shipps which were taken from him by the Spaniards at Saint domingo and sunke by them in the river there to prevent the English ffleete under Command of Generall Penn from getting in there hee was soe poore that hee feared hee should be put in prison at Cales for want of money to satisfie his Company their wages and to satisfie the Owners of the sayd shipp for what was due to them from him And the sayd Claes alsoe told this deponent that hee and his brother the arlate Barnard Johnson had both served the Spaniard and that with two shipps whereof they were Commanders they assisted the King of Spaine in takeing the Island of Terludos and this deponent saith hee at his being at Saint domingo found there severall English and ffrench who were there in great misery and were brought prisoners from the Ter?tudos upon the takeing of the sayd Island as aforesayd And saith the sayd Claes alsoe professed to this deponent that hee was a great Enimie to the English and especially to the Protector thereof who hee sayd was a traytor and that hee the sayd Claes would freely and willingly doe his uttmost endeavour to assiste Charles Steward (as hee called him) Kinge of England, against the sayd Pretender and those which ruled the Commonwealth of England and that hee was resolved to fight against the English soe longe as his shipp would seimme or words to that effect and told this deponent that for that hee had formerly declared soe much to this deponent and for that hee feared this deponent would discover the same therefore hee would not afford this deponent passage in the sayd shipp for Cadiz as hee hath promised him and did refuse to lett this deponent goe a passenger in her although this deponent procured fiftie peeces of eight which was the summe formerly required by the sayd Claes Johnson
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