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Transcription

and comming thence to Cursoe, one of the West India Ilands in or about
the moneth of ffebruary last met the said shipp there, and there this
deponent was hired by John [?Leanderson] Rosca[?n] her master to goe Cooke of
her, and there this deponent (being then one of her company) sawe putt aboard her ffoure horses and
two hundred and odd goates for accompt of the said shipps owners,
And saith the said Iland of Cursoe in the West Indies, is belonging
to the dutch West India Company, and under the power and subiection
of the Lords the States if the said United Netherlands. And saith that
the said shipp having taken in the said horses and goates, and the master
having before hand a passe or brief for his free comming to and trading
at Barbadas, grannted by the English Governour of the Barbadas (as
the said master told this deponent) shee departed from Curse to goe thither
and this deponent in her, and arrived on the coast of the Barbadas neere a
place called the Holl, whereunto shee was intended to goe, and being
soe arived there came a boate manned with nine or tenn English men
aboard her and welcomed the master and company
as friends, whereupon they of the king david threw them a towe
to fasten their boate to the shipp and come aboard, to be carried in
the said shipp for their ease to their frigot which was at a distance,
and comming to the said frigot, the Captaine and company instead of
welcomming them as the others had donne, presently told them they
were prize, and soe forth with seized the said shipp, horses and
goates and all things in the said shipp, and this hee saith was
in or about the beginning of March last, and having soe seized
her they carried her to Specksies and there turned this deponent
and foure others of her companie ashore and kept the master and
six other of his companie aboard, and thence they carried the
said shipp and lading to the Bridge where the horses and goates
were landed saving some of the goates which were dispursed to the
other shipps of the fleete, and soe the said shipp and goods and [?XXXX]
were and are taken away and the owners deprived thereof [?and ?that]
the said frigot that tooke them was an English frigot called the dover and
manned with an English Captaine and company. The
premisses hee deposeth being as aforesaid one of her companie
and sailing in the kinge david till such seizure and turning
ashore at Sperksies, whence hee went on foote and met her
at the Bridge, and there seeing the master and the rest of
her company ashore and turned out of her, and the shipp wholly
at the disposall of the English. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin and
Collonel Cock.

[MARKE] The marke of the
said John Peterson [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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