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seized in the Moneth of March last by two men of warr Com=
missionated as thieir Captaines and Companyes gave out by the King of
Spaine for the seizure of the shipps and goods of the subiects of the Common=
wealth of England, and belonging as they sayd to dunkirke, of one
of which shipps the arlate Bolart was or pretended him selfe to be Captaine
and the arlate John Van Sluce was or pretended him selfe to be Captaine
of the other of them, which Captaine with their men of warr carried the
Mary and Joyce and all her sayd ladeing after seizure made as aforesayd
into the Groyne in Galisia and carried this deponent and the Supracargo
Master and Company of the Mary and Joyce prisoners to the Groyne, where
hee this deponent and the sayd Supracargo after some few dayes stay, procured
passage thence in a dutch shipp to Rotchell in ffrance, and by that
meanes stayed not at the Groyne till the said 190 pipes of wine or
any part of them were unladen from aboard the Mary and Joyce and
put into the Elizabeth arlate, yet saith hee beleeveth the sayd 190
pipes of Canarie wine or the greatest part of them were taken
out of the Mary and Joyce and put aboard the Elizabeth
arlate (marked as aforesayd) and that the sayd Elizabeth with
the greatest part of the sayd 190 pipes of Canarie wynes aboard her
was seized by some shipp in the service of the Commonwealth of
England and brought to the River of Thames for that after
her seizure hee this deponent (being come from Rotchell to London)
was aboard the sayd shipp Elizabeth in the River of Thames and
sawe a great many pipes pf wine aboard her and ladeing out
of her into lighters to be carried ashoare (and that by order of
this Court as hee beleeveth) and did well observe the markes of
them both in the shipp and lighters and after they came ashoare
and thereby knoweth they were marked with the very same markes
as are expressed in the bill of ladeing aforesayd videlicet X and 4[HEART MARKE] and
verily beleeveth them part of the same
190 pipes of Canarie wynes which were laden in manner
aforesayd aboard the Mary and Joyce aforesayd in the port of
Oratava aforesayd, but saith hee remembreth not that hee sawe
the[?n] aboard the Elizabeth and (sic) pipes of wine marked with the
markes mentioned in the 5th article of the allegation whereon hee
is examined And further hee cannot depose./

To the 11th hee saith hee well knoweth the arlate William Warren
and saith hee is commonly reputed to be an English man borne and hee
soe beleeveth him to be, And saith hee hath knowne him to bee an
Inhabitant of London for theise two yeares last past saving hee hath
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