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the sayd Purser and others of the Company … the sayd Purser and others of the Company of the ''Saint Peter'' did make the sayd<br />
Confessions and declarations freely and voluntarily without any monaies<br />
offered to them or any of them; And further saith that he this deponent saw<br />
severall Letters ?found aboard the said shipp ''Peter'' which by the endorsements<br />
thereof were directed to Amsterdam, and severall persons inhabiting there<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the sixth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that upon the<br />
taking of the sayd shipp the ''Saint Peter'', she being not able to keepe the sea<br />
and the wind being contrary to goe to Tunis, and the sayd shipp the ''Harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' being much dammaged in her masts and rigging by reason<br />
of the fight aforesayd, the arlate Captaine Swanley and Company about the<br />
beginning of June last the tyme otherwise he remembreth not<br />
returned with both the sayd shipps into Messina, and there provided<br />
themeselves of masts and other necessaries requisit to in able the sayd shipps<br />
to proceed to Tunis aforesayd, the premisses he knoweth being aboard<br />
the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and returning in her to Messina in Company<br />
of the ''Saint Peter''. And otherwise cannot depose-
The seventh article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith and deposeth that the<br />
Governors and Inhabitants of Messina being subiects of the King of Spaine<br />
taking notice that the English had brought thither a prize of great value<br />
taken from the dutch as aforesayd used meanes to dispossesse the sayd<br />
Captaine Swanley and his Company of the sayd Prize, and to that purpose have<br />
intelligence to a Dutch shipp called the ''Great Lyon'' that came from Smyrna<br />
and into the Road of Messina<br />
to avoyd the sayd Road much to the preuîudice of the English<br />
And more over saith that he this deponent by the order of Captaine Swanley<br />
after treaty had with the sayd Governor for necessary provisions, to facilitate<br />
that service presented and delivered to the sayd Governor as a present fifty<br />
?Chiqueenes of gold and a faire Chest of Venice glasses, being in all<br />
to the value of 150 Crownes, whereupon the sayd Governor promised the<br />
sayd Captaine Swanley all fitting accomodations, But this deponent saith that<br />
the premisses notwithstanding, the sayd Governor and Inhabitants of Messina<br />
would not nor did suffer the sayd captaine Swanley and Company to fetch<br />
from the shoare the masts which they had provided as aforesayd but kept and deteyned the same<br />
from them, this deponent being an eye witnesse of their deportment and<br />
carriage in that particular. And further he cannot depose.
To the eigth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith That the sayd Captaine<br />
Swanley thereupon sent John Merrick the leiftenant of the ''Harry Bonadventure''<br />
and him this deponent Corporall thereof a shoare att Messina to procure and<br />
buy fresh pieces of timber as might make their old masts serviceable for<br />
supply of their present necessity, who being come a shoare, he the the (sic) sayd<br />
John Merrick and this deponent were by order of the Governor of Messina and<br />
without any offence given, or iust cause shewed by the Governor cast in to prison<br />
without any examination, and saith the premisses happened in the moneth<br />
of June XX last past. the tyme otherwise he remembreth not. An otherwise<br />
he cannot depose saving, he heard the Governo:r of Messina Don Antonio<br />
XXXo:r of Messina Don Antonio<br />
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