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sayd ffrigott the sayd Claes Johnson and h … sayd ffrigott the sayd Claes Johnson and his brother Bernard Johnson who was Master of the<br />
''Nicholas'', did commande her company to fight and threatned to doe mischeife to them<br />
that would not fight, and knoweth that fower of the ''Nicholas'' her Company<br />
videlicet an Irish man a Scotch man and two fflemings were stabbed and wounded<br />
which as they sayd was soe done by the sayd Barnard Johnson<br />
their Master because they refused to fight, which men soe wounded were after<br />
seizure cured by the Chirurgion of the sayd ffrigott, And saith that the sayd<br />
Captaine Adams coming up with his ffrigott somewhat neere sent hi owne<br />
boate to command the sayd Claes aboard who thereupon came and being come<br />
this deponent as Corporall of the ffrigott sett two sentinells at the Cabin<br />
doore of the ffrigott after the sayd Claes was gone in thither, and one of<br />
the sayd Centinells (sic) (by name William Traughton) told this deponent that hee<br />
heard the sayd Claes Johnson saye to the sayd Captaine Adams, that if<br />
hee the sayd Captaine Adams would permitt him to goe aboard his shipp the<br />
''Nicholas'' againe, hee would fight the sayd ffrigott and either sinke or b[?urne GUTTER]<br />
his shipp the ''Nicholas'' rather than be taken And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose/
Ti the 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the seizure of the sayd<br />
shipp ''Nicholas'' and her ladeing hee this deponent (understanding Spanish) did<br />
heare some Spaniards who were taken in her and had goods aboard her<br />
acknowledge that shee came imediately before her seizure from Saint doming[o] in hispaniola and that her<br />
ladeing was all or most of it there taken in and for the Accompt of Spaniards, and was to be<br />
delivered at Cadiz in Spaine, whether shee was goeing when soe seized<br />
and that the shipp ''Nicholas'' at her seizure, did alsoe belonge to subbiects<br />
of the King of Spaine, and that the sayd Claes had noe propriety in her but<br />
had only the Command of her to bring her to Cadiz And further to<br />
these articles hee cannot depose./
To the 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th hee cannot depose knowing nothing<br />
touching the matters arlate saving hee saith as aforesayd that some Spaniards<br />
seized in the ''Nicholas'' did say and acknowledge that the sayd Claes had noe<br />
propriety in the shipp ''Nicholas'' but only the Command as Captaine of her/
To the 10th hee saith there was a parcell of Cackow seized aboard the ''Nicholas''<br />
which was as appeared laden by one hayes a dutch Skipper who of this deponents<br />
knowledge had the same restored to him after the sauyd seizure, by the arlate<br />
Generall Blake, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 11th and 12th articles hee saith that upon the seizure of the ''Nicholas''<br />
there were divers letters and papers found in her which were layed<br />
up in the Cabbin of the foresayd Captaine Adams and Bernard Johnson<br />
the Master of the ''Nicholas'' and brother of the sayd Claes watching his<br />
oportunitie, when a storme happened and Captaine Adams and most<br />
of his company were busied to preserve them selves against the sayd<br />
storme, did (as hee afterwards confessed before this deponent and the<br />
sayd Captaine Adams his brother and John Tilston Purser of the ''Maydestone<br />
frigott'' of the ''Maydestone<br />
frigott'' +
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