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out from thence and in theise or the like … out from thence and in theise or the like words said<br />
[Gentlemen. I charge you every one upon perill of the losse<br />
of youre wages and as you tender the good and wellfare of the<br />
ship the ''Lawrerell'' and her ladeing and the profitt of the owners<br />
Merchants freighters thereof that you doe not app[?ose]<br />
the said Men sent in the said Man of warres boate<br />
but that you quietly permitt them to come abord and serach the ship:] Adding further, that if any mischance should<br />
happen by such [?apposition] then they shoud beare the blame that<br />
made the [?apposition] and that if any thing otherwise then w[?ell]<br />
happened unto any of them for observeing<br />
of his Commands then hee would make good the same<br />
with his estate and fortune or soe in effect. whereupon hee<br />
saith the said Men came againe in the man of warres<br />
boat and then by reson of the said commands and sayeings of<br />
the said Maplisden they were permitted to enter and come abord<br />
the ''Lawrell'', and that hee saith the said Maplisden sent for halfe<br />
of his company to come to him which they did and soe by th[?ose]<br />
meanes and in obedience to his comands left the said ship<br />
the ''Lawrell'' with and in the possession of the other halfe of her<br />
Company (whereof this deponent were two (sic)) but under the<br />
power of the said Armed men belonging to the said Man of warre<br />
where they stayed a while and then hee the said Robert Hicks saith there was another<br />
boate sent from the said Man of warre which brought a note from<br />
the said Maplisden by which hee desired all the rest of his Company<br />
to come abord tto him in the said Man of warre. there to<br />
testifie to some Act of his, which done they should returne<br />
againe upon reading of which Note theise deponents withall the<br />
rest of his Company abord with him went forthwith to theire said<br />
Commander abord the said ffrench man of warre, where they<br />
were noe sooner come but they were all of them forthwith<br />
seized upon and secured and kept Prisoners and after about 48 howers<br />
detention they thesise deponents with all the rest of the Company belonging<br />
to the ''Lawrell'' being about 5 in number together with one<br />
[XXXman] were about midnight turned and put into theire owne<br />
boate and soe put to shift for theire lives which with much<br />
danger and hazard they secured by gayneing<br />
the shore att Ca[XX] Cursego, where they landed amongest a barbarous<br />
and a strange people. leaveing the said Mr. Maplisden, and<br />
the Cape merchant of the ''Lawrell'' abord the said Man of warre and<br />
the said ship the ''Lawrell'' abord the said Mann of warre and<br />
the said ship the ''Lawrell'' in the Custoday of the Company belonging<br />
toay of the Company belonging<br />
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