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and alsoe well knew the shipp the ''George … and alsoe well knew the shipp the ''George'' of Jersey William Belin master<br />
for the space of three monethes before the [?said] seizure of her hereafter alsoe<br />
mentioned. And saith that the said William Curteene and company were<br />
owners of the said shipp the ''Consent'', which hee knoweth being commander<br />
of her as aforesaid, and that John Ballehache and company were commonly<br />
reputed owners of the said shipp the ''Saint George'', And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the second third and the rest of the Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that in the yeare<br />
of our lord 1642 the said shipp the ''Consent'' was set out to sea by the<br />
said William Courteene and company on a trading voyage from Newfound<br />
land towards Allicant laden with drie fish and some linnen cloth in bales,<br />
and saith the said shipp<br />
the ''Saint George'' was alsoe set out from Newfound land for Allicant<br />
the time aforesaid with a lading of fish in companie of this deponents<br />
said shipp, and the said shipp the ''George'' of Jersey was comonly said<br />
and reputed to be set out by the said Ballehach and company, And<br />
further that the said shipp the ''Consent'' with her said lading of goods<br />
and freight due for the said goods were worth the summe of eight<br />
thousand, three hundred pounds and upwards, and the said shipp the<br />
''George'' with her lading of goods and freight were alsoe (by common<br />
estimation) worth the like summe of eight thousand three hundred<br />
and odd pounds. And saith that the said two shipps with their<br />
said lading and severall passengers in the ''George'' in or about the<br />
moneth of November 1642 in their intended voyage for Allicant (which<br />
was their port of dischardge) came and arived in the entrie of the<br />
roade of Allicant, and within three leagues or thereabouts of the<br />
citie of Allicant, at which time hee saith there came a<br />
frigot and 21 gallies out of the said roade, beinge the Spanish<br />
armada that was going for Cartagena to wash and tallowe the said frigot, and coming<br />
up with and meeting the ''Consent'' and ''George'', the Commander of the<br />
said frigot commanded this deponent and the said William Belin<br />
aboard him, and they going aboard him, and giving him an accompt<br />
what they were and wherewith they were laden, and that they were<br />
bound for Allicant to dischardge, the said Commander notwithstanding<br />
caused their shipps to be towed into the Roade, and put this deponent<br />
and the said Belin into one of the Gallies, where they were put under<br />
deck and kept in greate distresse without having any allowance<br />
of meate and drinke, besides what an Italian that was boatswaine<br />
of the Gally of his owne accord got privately for them, and in<br />
this said plight they were kept nineteene dayes and nights in the said<br />
gallie, and then this deponent and the said Belin petitioned the<br />
Generall of the said Armada then being at Cartagena,<br />
remonstrating their sufferings and the wronge donne unto them, who gavve<br />
order that they should be sent to Allicant Roade, and<br />
that Alexandro Pasquay should be acquainted with their businesse,<br />
and accordingly sent them away in a boate which brought them into<br />
Allicant Roade, where the said Alexandro being made acquainted<br />
with their arivall, they this deponent and the said Belin instead of<br />
being restored to their shipps, were put aboard another frigot, where<br />
they were kept for a weeke or thereabouts, in which space they petitioned<br />
the said Alexandro to permit them to goe ashore to make sute about<br />
clearing themselve and their shipps, and that they might acquaint<br />
Mrnd that they might acquaint<br />
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