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him and his Companye not to shoot gunn mus … him and his Companye not to shoot gunn musquett or pistoll in that<br />
port for that it being a Port of the King of Spaine the saud English<br />
shipps were and should be there safe and secure and saith that the premisses<br />
notwithstanding the sayd Dutch shippes under Command of the sayd Van Trump<br />
came upp into the sayd Port of Trapany and boarded the ''Saint Peter'' with [?XXX]<br />
shipps, and the ''Henry Bonadventure'' with foure, and so the dutch became [?possessors]<br />
of them both and their lading respectively. And saith that to colour the<br />
busines severall shotts were made from the Castle and fforts of Trapany<br />
most of them with powder onely and all without execution upon the sayd<br />
dutch shipps. And moreover saith that the sayd Van Trump of the<br />
sight of this deponent att his goeing off from Trapany shott severall<br />
gunnes and struck his flagg, and saith that a day after the sayd<br />
seizure two dutch shipps laden with salt of the sight of this deponent<br />
remayned in the sayd Port of Trapany quiet and unmolested. And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To the 19 article of the sauyd allegation this deponent saith that after the tyme of<br />
the seizure of the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter'' by the sayd [?dutch]<br />
shippe as hee hath now deposed, videlicet in the month of July 1652 last<br />
past being att Leghorne in the Company of the Corporall of the sayd<br />
Van Trumps one shipp; He this deponent heard the sayd Corporall<br />
then and there say that the sayd Van Trump gave and payd to the<br />
Governor of Trapany aforesayd the summe of two thousand pistolls<br />
in Gold for the sayd Governous good will to suffer him the sayd<br />
Van Trump to enter the sayd Port of TRapany with his shipps<br />
and make seizure of the sayd shipps the ''Harry''<br />
''Bonadventure'' and ''Saint Peter''. And otherwise cannot depose
To the 20th he saith that the sayd shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure'' was<br />
of the burthen of 340 tonnes and upwards, and had 41 gunnes and [?XX]<br />
brasse bases, and was victualled at the tyme of her seizure for 6 monthes<br />
for 100 men, and had aboard her a great quantity of powder and that<br />
part whereof was for the use of the ''Phenix'', ''Bosse'' amd ''Warwick''<br />
''frigotts'' or some other shipps of Captaine Badilyes Squadron, And saith<br />
she was an able strong shipp and furnished compleately with all things<br />
requisite as well tackle as weapons and munition of warr for a<br />
warlike expedition, and had aboard 62 baggs of Annieseeds, 7 [?Chests]<br />
of glasses, and one Chest of the weight of halfe a tonne of beades<br />
which said Anniseeds glasses and beades were taken out of the<br />
gunn deck of the sayd prize shipp the ''Saint Peter''. And saith she had<br />
aboard her moreover severall goods and necessaries belonging to the<br />
sayd Captaine Swanley and Company, And this deponent for his owne<br />
part had att the tyme of the sayd seizure goods bought by this deponent<br />
at Smirna, and Clothes to the cleare value of forty nine pounds<br />
ten shillings sterling. And saith that he lost moreover in his Journey<br />
homewards from Livorno by land and expenses in his sayd Journey<br />
ten pounds sterling, and in losse of tyme 4 ''li'' sterling. And saith he knoweth<br />
not the value of the sayd shipp nor of the goods and losses of other men<br />
therein. And otherwise he cannot depose, saving he leaveth in the Registry of [?this]<br />
Court a particular of his owne losses which particular he saith was and is true.
To the 21th he saith that he verily beleiveth that the losse of the sayd [?XXXX]<br />
[?XXXX]se of the sayd [?XXXX]<br />
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