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de Morales tooke his keys and opened the c … de Morales tooke his keys and opened the chests of plate<br />
that were there, being foure in number, and shewed<br />
the same to this deponent and would have had this Deponent<br />
to have taken the said keys, which he refused: But sayth<br />
that some while after (on the same day of seizure) the<br />
said Captain Lightfoot came board the said ship the ''Peahen''<br />
or ''Turkey'', and taking notice of the said chestsm and the<br />
same being opened, he caused the plate and pieces of eight, that<br />
were in one of them to be taken out, and put into the other<br />
three, and also caused a chest of plate that was in the hold<br />
to be brought up, and soe sent them all foure aboard<br />
his said frigot. And sayth that this Deponent and the said Captain<br />
being returned into the frigot, the said Captain desired this Deponent<br />
to cast up an account of the contents of the said foure chests<br />
wherein he sayth were six piggs of plate, and severall bags<br />
of pieces of eight, and severall pieces of wrought plate, and<br />
that this Deponent by the markes of the weight that was upon<br />
them, casting up the amount of the whole, found the piggs<br />
to extend and amount to the value of nine thousand and<br />
odde hundred pieces of eight, and the wrought plate, and pieces<br />
of eight to amount unto between seaven and eight thousand<br />
pieces of eight; besides he sayth there were severall Jewells<br />
and pearles, which the said Captaine found in the sayd spanish<br />
ship, and which he shewed to this Deponent, and acknowledged<br />
that he had them from thence, And sayth that the sayd account<br />
being soe made, the sayd Captain tooke the said six piggs of<br />
plate, and put them into his counting house within his<br />
Cabbin, and the said wrought plate and pieces of eight, he<br />
the said Captaine put into two of the said chests, and put<br />
the sayd two Chests into his Cabbin; And the said Jewells and<br />
pearles he put into his counting house, one of the sayd Jewells<br />
being a Ruby-hat band, and another of them a Rosarie of<br />
one hundred and fifty beads of gold laid upon precious wood,<br />
and linked togeather with a gold chaine, the said Rosarie<br />
amounting in value to fifty pounds sterling or thereabouts<br />
And further he cannot depose, saving there were also severall<br />
hundred of pieces of eight, besides the predeposed, that<br />
were in chests upon the Decks of the spanish ship, and<br />
were plundered away by the ''Nightingales'' mariners./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad jum et 2um rendet begative per parte sua. Et alr nescit./
Ad 3um nescit./
Ad 4um negative pro parte sua. Et alr nescit./
Ad 5um negative./
Ad ult refert se ad predeposita sua, ubi ei satisfecit./
John [?Rook] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]fecit./
John [?Rook] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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