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Transcription

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipp from fflushing
the said voyage carried her lading of linnen cloth, pepper, nutmegs, cheese
herrings and some other things, and at the Canarie Islands dischardged
and trucked the said goods away for wines, wherewith the said shipp was
there reladen, which lading of wines shee carried to Specksies Bay
in the Barbadas, where her master and company were purposed to take in
fresh water, and then to goe with the said shipp and lading of wines
to the Leeward Ilands, namely Martinica, Guardalupa, Saint Christofers
and Saint Eustachies, and there to trade and truck the same away for
tobaccoes and other goods of those places to be brought back in the said shipp
for Zealand, All which hee knoweth because hee went Merchant
or Sopra-cargo of the said shipp the said voyage, and sawe such her
arivall and taking in of goods as aforesaid.

To the third and fourth hee saith the said shipp as aforesaid was bound
from fflushing for the Canaries, and thence for the said Leaward Islands
of the Charibbees, and saith that comming under saile into Specksies
bay as aforesaid, and before shee came to an anchor to take in water,
there came a shallop or boate aboard from Captaine Peirson and
another from Captaine Vallicot, Commannders of two English shipps
lying in the Roade, and asked whence the Pile was, and being informed
that shee was of Zealand, and having asked each other of names, this
deponent and the said Skipper asked them if it were free for the dutch
to trade there, and they of the said boates answered yea, adding that
there were thirtie dutch shipps lay trading in the said bay and in the
bay of the bridge, and soe the said Skipper and company going further
in, and before their bringing their shipp under commannd of the ordnance
the companies of the said boates, being come in the way of freindshipp
aboard the Pile, at length cried that the Pile and lading were
good prize and soe they of the said boates companies brought her to an
anchor under commannd, and tooke the said master and company and
this deponent out of their shipp and carried them ashore, and this
hee saith was in or about the middle of the moneth of May last
new stile: and this deponent going to the Commissioners to get restitution
they told him the shipp and lading were prize, and that this deponent
and the rest of the companie might goe their wayes, or to that effect, and
soe the said shipp and goods were taken away and the said owners deprived
thereof, but howe they were disposed of hee knoweth not. And saith
the said wines being 170 pipes and some other goods that were
aboard the said shipp at the time of the said seizure were then worth
8500 li fflemish; amounting to five thousand pounds sterling
or thereabouts, and saith the said shipp had neither traded nor bin at
the Barbada's or any other of the English plantations when
shee was soe seized, but was then first come from the Canaries
and the said roade of Specksies was the first place of or neere
the Charibbe Ilands that shee came to.

To the fifth hee saith the said shipp the Pile at the time of the
said seizure was of the burthen of 150 tonnes or thereabouts
and had six iron and two brass guns aboard her, and that the said shipp
tackle