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To the eleaventh article hee saith and dep … To the eleaventh article hee saith and deposeth that soone after the<br />
foresaid seizure the said Captaine Addams and company carried the said shipp<br />
''Saint Nicholas'' to the ffleete under command of Generall Blake [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
Tituan as aforesaid, where by the Generalls order all or most of the<br />
said goods which were as aforesaid acknowledged by this deponent and hus [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
to be belonging (as they beleeved) to Spaniards were taken out of her<br />
and put into the frigots of the said fleete, and the officers of the ffleete [?there GUTTER]<br />
severall times told and promised this deponent and his said brother [?that GUTTER]<br />
they should have their shipp and freight, and their owne goods delivered<br />
unto them againe, And saith that after the<br />
departure from Tituan and coming before [XX?gos] most of the said hides that were taken [?out GUTTER]<br />
being put againe into the ''Nicholas'' to be carried to Lisbone, this [XXX GUTTER]<br />
deponent and his brother made sute to the Generall to be dismissed [XXX GUTTER]<br />
their shipp and freight and their owne and their owners goods according as had bin promissed, to which hee said hee [XXX GUTTER]<br />
not give soe much freight, and soe the said Captaine Adams [XX] the [XXXX XXXX GUTTER]<br />
Generalls order tooke the said shipp ''Nicholas'' and goods<br />
againe and carried them to lisbone, and at Lisbone hee saith the<br />
said goods of the Spaniards were by the said Captaine againe taken,<br />
and all dispersed and there sold to the officers and agents of the said<br />
fleete, saving the tobaccoes which were shipped for England, and<br />
there namely at Lisbone the said Captaine (allbeit hee told this<br />
deponent and his brother upon their comming from Tituan that at<br />
Lisbone they should be dismissed with their shipp and freight) kept them<br />
prisoners aboard his said frigot the ''maidstone'', and afterwards<br />
carried them out with him to sea, from place to place saying hee had received order to carry them againe to the Generall and comming<br />
before Cadiz, the said Captaine Suffered the said Claes Johnbson this<br />
deponents brother to goe aboard a Genua shipp bound in to Cadiz to follow his busines touching his said two former ships and leaving this [#]
[#] deponent aboard the<br />
frigot with full power<br />
to receive the ''Nicholas'' and<br />
goods in case of restoring<br />
thereof by the Generalls<br />
order.
about two monethes after namely in or about August last and not<br />
before coming back to Lisbone this deponent was dismissed,<br />
But the said shipp and goods and freight were and are still detained<br />
by the English. And saith that the said shipp ''Nicholas'' for every moneth of<br />
the said time was worth (for her imployment or freight) the summe of<br />
two hundred and fiftie pounds sterling, and was of the burthen<br />
of two hundred and fiftie tonnes or thereabouts, and was ub very<br />
good omployment when shee was seized.
To the twelveth hee saith that the said shipp ''Saint Nicholas'' at the time<br />
of the said seizure had on board her foure and twenty guns,<br />
and was in all things very well furnished fitted and provided, and<br />
was with her said guns, tackle, apparell furniture and provisions<br />
well worth the summe of two thousand pounds sterling, and that<br />
hee saith was and is true and notorious.
To the thirteeneth article hee saith and deposeth that such of the<br />
company of the ''Nicholas'' as were hurt or wounded, were soe hurt<br />
and wounded after shee was seized and after the said Claes Johnson<br />
the Commander and all the Spaniards were taken out of her<br />
with the ''Maidstonre frigot'', and were soe hurt<br />
or wounded because they brake open and were plundring of a chest<br />
of peeces of eight after the shipp the ''Nicholas'' was yeelded<br />
and were not hurt or wounded for not fighting, it being too<br />
late to thinke of fighting when the shipp was yeelded and the Captaine and passengers gonne [XXXX GUTTER] which hee knoweth being left in the<br />
''Nicholas'', and seeing the premisses.
To'Nicholas'', and seeing the premisses.
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