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and raised much murmuring amongest them, h … and raised much murmuring amongest them, hee still saying hee would [not]<br />
tell them, nor was it (as hee said) their busines to know it. And saith that<br />
there was a greate pack of a certaine fruit or matter that was gathered from<br />
trees whereupon the same grew in the West Indies, having a very evell and strange<br />
smell, and called in Spanish winilia, but the nature thereof hee knoweth not, and saith the same<br />
was aboard in the powder roome when the said shipp came to Milford haven<br />
into which haven the said shipp was forced to enter through the extreamitie<br />
of storme and fowle weather. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 4th hee saith that there was noe other that pretended to any [command]<br />
of the said shipp but only the said Captaine don Juan, who was both commander<br />
and marchant and ordered and disposed both as to the navigation and the truck and [?truching]<br />
and trade of the said shipp the said voyage. And otherwise hee cannot depose<br />
hee not comming aboard till the said shipp came to Comana as aforesaid.
To the 5th hee saith that there were severall papers and writings aboard the<br />
said shipp when shee came upon the coast of England, and that comming off<br />
Lundy Island (into which Channell shee next was forced by fowle weather) and her<br />
Company espying two shipps (which were beleeved to be English) the Captaine<br />
called out and commanded then all Spanish papers and clothes should be taken and<br />
put downe in Hold, saying that if they be found, it will be ill for us<br />
or to that effect, whereupon the papers were ffetched out of the powder ?where<br />
to that time they had laine, and some of them were torne and throwne<br />
over board and others thrust downe in Hold and hidd in the<br />
h?iden part of the shipp, and the Spaniards clothes and persons put<br />
downe and hidd in hold. And saith that being come to Milford<br />
haven and a boat comming off to come aboard the said shipp, the said<br />
Captaine seeing the said boate, gave this deponent a bundle of papers<br />
and bidd him hide them in his bosoum or otherwise, and rather than<br />
they should be seene to make them away by burning or otherwise<br />
and this deponent tooke them and but them betweene his doublet and<br />
body at his breast, and afterwards this deponent put them in the<br />
drawer or under a table in the cabbin, and there left them. And saith<br />
hee did not see the Captaine deliver up any papers to any that made<br />
the seizure, nor knoweth of any delivered by him to them. And further<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith hee never knew the said shipp the ''Hope'' till hee<br />
soe met her at Comana, and saith that hee never saw any flagge<br />
or colour of the king of Spaine aboard the said shipp,<br />
nor doth hee know or heard who or what countrey man were by the<br />
said shipps owners,<br />
And further hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh hee saith that when the said shipp arived in the haven of<br />
Milford there were twenty persons of her company, and an passenger<br />
and saith that six of the said company and the said passenger were Spaniards<br />
and three Irish men, who at the Indies went for Spaniards, And [?saith]<br />
the said Captaine and the said other Spaniards were by him left aboard a[nd]<br />
hee knoweth not what is become of them since, saving that hee hath [?seene]<br />
the Captaine since at Bristol, and that the said Captaine is said to be<br />
a Spaniard of a place called Montaigne in Spaine. And further hee<br />
cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 8th hee saith there were tenn peeces of ordnance in and belonging to the<br />
said shipp when shee was seized, and saith shee is of about eightie lasts<br />
burthen, and that there were two plates and six or eight silver [?spoones ?and]<br />
two silver cups aboard when shee soe came and was staid at Milford<br />
[?whch] this deponent alsoe left aboard. And further hee cannot depose.
To the 9th hee saith hee cannot write or reade nor answer hereunto.
The marke of the said [MARKE] Simon [?Touson] [?Bleau] [MARKE. RH SIDE] Simon [?Touson] [?Bleau] [MARKE. RH SIDE] +
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