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Transcription

To the 4th. and 5yth. Interrogatories hee sauth that on or about the
9th day of may last past the said Captaine Dowdall and
this Deponent and Company arrived with the said ffrigot
in the Roade of Mumbles. neere Swanzey and saith that
about three dayes after His Sacred Majesty was at Swanzey
and onboard the said ffrigott proclaimed by Colonell [?ffreeman GUTTER]
Governour of Cardiffe Castle, And the said Captaine Dowdall
and all that were onboard his ffrigot were very glad [?thereof GUTTER]
and expressed a great deale of Joy for the same, and [?hung GUTTER]
up the Kings Colours on the Maine Top and fired very
many Gunns, and from that time desisted from [?takeing GUTTER]
or hindering any English Vessells whatsoever or doeing
any hostile act against any of his Majestyes Subjects, which hee
knoweth being onboard when the Proclamation was read
and belonging to the said Ship in the Quality aforesaid
And further deposeth not./:

To the 7th. 8th. and 9th. Interrogatories hee saith that about five or
six dayes after the said Proclamation, the Interrate Captaine
Barker with the Litchfeild ffrigot, came to the Roade of Mumbles
with the States Colours up, and fired severall Gunns at the
Henrietta Maria And her Company which were in her whereof this Deponent was one to avoid the Litchfeild
ffrigot, cut her Cables and Sailed up the River to the [?Key GUTTER]
and there dropped an Anchor, and the Litchfeild still followed
her, and fired at her, and shee comming neere to the
Henrietta Maria, stuck on ground and still fired at
the henrietta Maria, and her Company to secure [?her GUTTER]
cut her other Cable, and sailed up the River beyond the
Towne, and there shee struck on ground, and the Captaine
of the Litchfeild, seeing hee could not bring up his ffrigot
sent up about three score men ready armed to seize
the said ffrigot, who came up to her, and before they came
on board Captaine Mansell of Swanzey (his precontest) told the
Masters Mate and the rest of the Litchfeilds Company that [XX GUTTER]
then there in this Deponents hearing that that ffrigot (meaning
the Henrietta Maria) sailed with the Duke of Yorkes
Commission, which hee told them he sawe and that they had best have a care of what
they did for that alsoe the King was proclaimed onboard
her in his Presence, and that her Captaine and Company
had submitted and did not after the Proclamation [XXX GUTTER]
any hostile action against any of his Majestys Subjects
or words to the same Purpose, to which the Masters mate
made answer that hee and two or three more would goe on
board her and see the Commission, and would not meddle [?with GUTTER]
([?any GUTTER]