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Transcription

and did exercise the said office of Lieutenant to the
said Captaine Whetston and for such hee was Comonly
accompted, And further deposeth not/

To the 4.th hee referreth himselfe to the Lawe and the
Constitutions of Princes and Nations in that behalfe./

To the 5.th 6th 7.th and 8.th hee saith that by the Instructions and order
given to the said Captaine John Stoakes and byseverall
letters to the said Captaine Stoakes (which this Deponent hath
seene) hee the said Captaine Stoakes was ordered
and Comanded to be carefull to seize and take Enemyes
goods Provisions Amunition and persons in whatsoever Ships
or Vessells the same were found, and Likewise to be
carefull that the ffreinds and Allyes of this Commonwealth
were not wronged or injured thereby, or to that effect
And saith that both by Lawe, and by the Institutions
and orders given to the said Captaine Stoakes all ships
and goods as should be taken and seized by his said Squadron
as belonging to the King of Spaine or his Subjects ought
and were to be brought to a legall tryall in this high
Court of the Admiralty, and Bills of Lading Cocketts and
Charterpartyes and other writings belonging to such ships were
alsoe to be sent up into the said Court, And that
before Judgement given in the said Court noe bulke should
be broken without order and warrant from the said Court
or other due authority, And saith that when the said
Captaine Stoakes comitted the foresaid ffoure ffrigots
to the Charge and Government of the said Captaine Whetston
hee the said Captaine Stokes
ordered the said Whetstone that those Prizes as hee
should take and seize hee should not make sale of or Imbezill any
of the goods whatsoever, but to bring
both ships and goods safe and Intire to him or to that effect and this
Deponent and the other Captaines received the like orders
from the said Captaine Stoakes, at other times; And saith
the said Winter well knewe of the said order
given by the said Captaine Stoakes to the said Captaine
Whetston, and before the two ships hereafter mentioned
were seized, hee this Deponent sawe the said Winter in the Cabbin of the ffairfax ffrigot reading
(the