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the ''Cane Merchant'') but her company bei … the ''Cane Merchant'') but her company being then full this deponent<br />
went not in her that voyage And saith that hee this deponent goeing<br />
in the yeare 1657 a voyage to Barbary and thence to the Canaries<br />
and being thence to returne for London in and as one of the Company<br />
of a shipp called the ''Mary and Joyce'' was in her passage from the<br />
Canaries for London taken togeather with her ladeing by two Spanish<br />
men of warr who carried her and her company (whereof this deponent was<br />
one) into the Groyne in Galisia and at this deponents coming to the<br />
Groyne as a prisoner hee there sawe the sayd shipp formerly called<br />
the ''Cane Merchant'', (but being then made a shipp of warr and called<br />
the ''Change'') and being under Command of one Captaine<br />
Bea[?ch], Commissionated (as it was sayd) by the duke of Yorke<br />
for the seizure of the shipps and goods of the subiects of the<br />
Commonwealth of England, and this deponent having gotten his<br />
liberty and being desyrous to goe from the Groyne for Saint Sebastians<br />
and hearing that the sayd shipp the ''Change'' was bound thither, did<br />
entreate passage in the sayd shipp as a passenger for Saint Sebastians<br />
which the sayd Bea[?ch] comiserateing this deponent and other of the<br />
''Mary and Joyces'' Company their condition did willingly assent unto,<br />
and promised there freely to discharge them, that soe they might make<br />
their Journey thence for England either by some flemish<br />
shipp if they could light of any, or else passe over land thence to<br />
ffrance And saith that the sayd shipp the ''Change'', formerly called the<br />
''Cane Merchant'' departing under Comand of the sayd Captaine Bea[?ch]<br />
from the Groyne was at sea mett with upon the 21th of Aprill<br />
last 1658 and seized and taken by the ''Preston ffrigott'' in the imediate<br />
service of this Commonwealth And saith that while this deponent<br />
was soe aboard the sayd shipp ''Change'', hee heard both the sayd<br />
Captaine Bea[?ch] and most of his Company acknowledge that<br />
the sayd shipp then called the ''Change'' was the same shipp which was<br />
formerly called the ''Cane Merchant'' and of which the sayd John Sanders<br />
was formerly Master or Commander and that the same was taken<br />
from him the sayd Somers formerly by a shipp of warr<br />
Commissionated by the duke of Yorke aforesayd and<br />
that shee had tenn gunnes aboard her when shee was taken<br />
as aforesayd from the sayd Summers, And hee this deponent<br />
of his owne knowledge knoweth that when shee was called<br />
the ''Cane Merchant'' and that hee should as aforesayd have gone in<br />
her under Command of the sayd Summers, shee then carried Tenn gunnes<br />
And hee well remembreth that then, and at her seizure by the ''Preston''<br />
''ffrigott'' she had the same Coate of Armes upon her sterne<br />
and was in all things, as shee was when shee went by the name of<br />
the ''Cane merchant'' saving that after shee was as aforesayd seized<br />
by Commission of the duke of Yorke, her forecastle and her halfe deck wasrke, her forecastle and her halfe deck was +
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