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hee well knowth that in the moneth of June … hee well knowth that in the moneth of June one thousand sixe hundred fifty seaven<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Eastland Merchant'' was and remayned in the Port of Birkery arlate<br />
and that while shee soe remayned there there came some shipps to the number of five who bore the Spanish<br />
Colours and were as hee beleeveth belonging to the King of Spaine and or his subiects<br />
and endeavoured to come to harbour at Bickery but Riddeing the water shallowe they laye came for some tyme to an Anchor without the harbour<br />
and there lay with intente as this deponent beleeveth to take an oportunity<br />
to seize the ''Eastland Merchant'' and her ladeing, (they having of this deponents knowledge<br />
sett upon and fought with her and some other English shipps at Sea before videlicet in the Moneth of March<br />
last) and saith that while they were there soe lyeing to take their oportunite, the Pinke<br />
and Pottash of Leghorne whereof the arlate Cardis was Commander came to<br />
the sayd Spanish vessells upon the fifth of June last and was in company with<br />
them, but what discourse passed betwixt the sayd Cardis and the companye of the sayd<br />
Spanish vessells hee knoweth not, but saith that upon the sayd fifth of June the sayd<br />
Cardis with his Pinke and Pottash came into the sayd harbour of Birkery and<br />
the sayd Spanish vessells seeing him steere into harbour followed the same course<br />
and soe gott into harbour alsoe, whether being come, the sayd Cardis fired<br />
divers gunnes against the ''Eastland Marchant'', as alsoe did the other vessells<br />
which were Spanish, and the ''Eastland Marchant'' and her company did continue<br />
fight against the sayd Cardis and his Pinke and Pottash, and alsoe against the<br />
sayd Spanish vessells and the afternoone of the sayd fifth of June aforesayd they<br />
the sayd Cardis with his Pinke and Pottash and alsoe the other Spanish vessells<br />
receaved the fight with the ''Eastland Merchant'' and continued the same with<br />
her untill about eight a clock in the morning, at which tyme (being over<br />
=powered by the sayd Cardis and the Spanish vessells in company with him) the<br />
Company of the ''Eastland Merchant'' were forced to betake them selves to their<br />
boates, and leave their sayd shipp, which the sayd Cardis with his Pinke<br />
and Pottash aforesayd and with the assistance of the Spanish vessells aforesayd<br />
his confederates imediately seized upon, and the sayd Cardis and his sayd Confederates tooke the sayd shipp the ''Eastland''<br />
''Merchant'' and all her ladeing togeather with her tacke and furniture and the cloathes<br />
materialls and instruments and Adventures of the Master and Mariners of her all which<br />
the sayd Cardis and company and his sayd confederates possessed them selves of<br />
And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 4th article hee saith that the ''Eastland Merchant'' arlate was at the tyme<br />
of such her seizure a very stronge firme and good shipp and very well pro=<br />
vided with all manner of provisions and rigging and other necessaries fitt for her<br />
voyage and had in her twenty gunnes And the sayd shipp with her gunnes<br />
tackle furniture and provisions she havinge in her then nyne moneths provisions were worth at her seizure (in this deponents Judg=<br />
ment and estimate three thousand five hundred pounds sterling or thereabouts And hee this deponent<br />
being Boat swaine of her and thereby keeping the booke of entrie of all her<br />
ladeing knoweth that shee had alsoe in her at her seizure three thousand three<br />
hundred thirty seaven hydes and one hundred and fifty seaven sacks of flaxe<br />
and eighty chests of Incense and gummes and two bales of broadcloath, and [XXX GUTTER]<br />
bales of linnen cloath and Cammells hayre, and one and twenty sacks of<br />
Cotton yarne, and one sack of Sena, and twenty piggs of lead all which<br />
in this deponents Judgment and Estimate were well worth a very considerable value<br />
arlate but the particular summes and as hee beleeveth cannot specifie And saith that all the goods predeposed of were by meanes of the sayd<br />
seizure by meanes of the sayd<br />
seizure +
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