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To the 13th hee saith that at first it was … To the 13th hee saith that at first it was demanded that the master (which<br />
they alwaies understood to be this deponent) and the other officers by him before mentioned<br />
should according to custome come ashore, but afterwards the said marchant John<br />
Maria Basso (perceiving them backwards) sent this deponent a letter advising<br />
that if hee only came with any two of his mariners ashore it should<br />
serve [?twice], for soe hee had prepared the busines with the officers there, and<br />
otherwise negatively.
To the 14th hee saith that the said ketcher not being there taken notice<br />
of at all to be master, was never required to come ashore, but it was<br />
this deponent was looked upon as master and was invited ashore as aforesaid,<br />
and this deponent holds it fit and lawfull to goe ashore with the officers<br />
aforesaid where the custome requires it if they receive pratique, though<br />
in an enemies countrey, whether way is soe made that they come not<br />
as enemies but as friends as here it was, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 15th hee saith that there were the Capitan del mara and<br />
a master da Campo and five or six persons more in the boate<br />
with the said John Maria Basso when hee came soe aboard<br />
as aforesaid, and the reason whie this deponent went not ashore with<br />
them in their boate, was because pratique not being grannted, they<br />
could not receive him aboard as aforesaid, and hee the said Basso<br />
[?directly] exhorted them to come ashore and told them they should surely<br />
have pratique, but showed not any order or license, it being frivolous<br />
to imagine hee should, till they had bin ashore and satisfied the officers<br />
touching their health and otherwise according to the custome of the place.
To the 16th hee saith that the very last time of all when they came to<br />
an anchor severall of the mariners were willing and (soe declared) to<br />
put ashore with this deponent in their boate, onloy they asked the said<br />
ketcher if hee would secure them, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving<br />
as aforesaid.
To the 17 hee saith that if the said ketcher had donn and suffered to be<br />
donne what hee might with safetie have donne, the outwards lading had<br />
undoubtedly bin delivered at Oratava, and pratique there obtained,<br />
but soe farr was hee from furthering it, that at last when this deponent<br />
perswaded him that this deponent and two men might goe ashore, the<br />
said ketcher said it was impossible, and indeed did not doe his best<br />
endeavour, and that it was his fault that the busines miscarried, for<br />
they might there have traded favourably.
To the 18 hee answereth negatively for his part
To the 19 hee saith hee conceiveth John Maria Basso to be of fourtie<br />
yeares of age or thereabouts, and of grizled haire videlicet partly white and<br />
partly black, but his stature hee cannot declare for hee saw him only sitting<br />
in the boate and not upon his feete, and hee knew him to be hee, for that<br />
hee brought and showed this deponent the same letter that this deponent<br />
left ashore for him at the first time of this deponents going ashore as<br />
foresaid, and gave the said letter back againe. And otherwise referred himselfe<br />
to his foregoeing deposition and saving the same cannot answer.
To the 20th hee saith that the said Capitan Del mare perswaded them to come<br />
ashore, and said that there was an English vessell trading at Garrachico<br />
and the said Basso said that hee was to lade the said vessell at Garrachico<br />
andsaid vessell at Garrachico<br />
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