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which this deponent knoweth for the reason … which this deponent knoweth for the reasons aforesayd, and hearing the<br />
sayd confessed and acknowledged XXXXX made in the presence of this deponent<br />
and others; and saith he heard not any thing to the contrary thereof from any<br />
of them but heard some of them farther say that they did in tend, if<br />
they had escaped the ''Harry Bonadventure'', to seeke for Holland Men of<br />
Warr to convoy them home. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .6th. and .7th. he saith that the sayd shipp ''Saint Peter'' being much damnifyed<br />
in her masts rigging and hull in the sayd fight Captaine Swanley returned<br />
with her and his sayd shipp of Warr back againe to Messina being in the dominions of the King of Spaine and there<br />
provided himselfe of 2 masts a shore one for the prize shipp and<br />
another for the sayd shipp of warr she having likewise recyved hurt<br />
in the sayd fight. Annd saith the sayd masts being so provided the<br />
Officers of the sayd Towne or Citty of Messina by the authority of the<br />
Governor and Juratts thereof hindred the sayd Captaine Swanley from bringing<br />
the sayd masts aboard, but delayed and kept them a shoare notwithstanding<br />
the sayd Captaine Swanley presented the sayd Governor and other officers of Messina with a Chest of Venice<br />
Glasses of good valew upon his promise to supply him the sayd Captaine<br />
Swanley with such necessaryes as he wanted. The premisses he knoweth<br />
being att the premisses present and aboard the ''Harry Bonadventure'' att<br />
Messina, and likewise being a shoare and seeing the sayd masts fitted<br />
and made by Captaine Swanleys owne Carpenters. and otherwise cannot depose
To the 8th and 9th hee saith that the sayd Captaine Swanley att the tyme of<br />
such his being att Messina with his sayd 2 shipps sent John Merrick the<br />
master of the prize shipp and Lorenzo ?Mishaut a Spaniard the Corporall<br />
of his owne shipp a shoare in Company of a Broker of Messina to buy and<br />
provide necessaries for the sayd shipps. And saith the sayd Merick and<br />
the sayd Corporall severall sayes were detayned and kept Prisoners att Messina<br />
so that they returned not to the sayd shipps till they had bene a day or two<br />
out att sea, And saith the sayd Captaine Swanley was forced to putt out to Sea<br />
before he had sufficiently fitted his shipps aswell through the<br />
abuses that were daily offered to him, as by the advertisement sent<br />
to him from some English merchants in Messina whose letters this deponent<br />
heard read, in which the sayd Merchants did advise the sayd Swanley<br />
to take the first opportunity to dept, for that there was a consultation ?had<br />
by the Governor and Juratts of Messina to wrest his sayd prize shipp<br />
and her lading from him, and that for that purpose they had caused<br />
it to be given out that he had landed some Quicksylver without notice<br />
of the same given to the officers of the Towne and contrary to the rules<br />
of that port, under ?role whereof and other pretences if the sayd Swanley<br />
did not speadily avoyd the port they would arrest and in?filtrae the sayd<br />
prize shipp and her lading. And more over saith that the sayd Captaine<br />
Swanley did there hire a ?ffelonea with about 9 men in her to attend his<br />
sayd shipps by the moneth to goe abroad to gaine intelligence, which<br />
?ffelonia and her man the Governor of the sayd place, seized and deteyned<br />
from him to his hreat preiudice and ?difference of this Commonwealth, which<br />
This deponent knoweth being Master of the Harry Bonadventure and<br />
present with her and the sayd prize shipp at Messina aforesayd. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose.. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose. +
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