their was 12 Effectiue Souldiers [with] the Gouernor and absent upon ye approach of y*' Enemie (in Soldiers besides Officers there was not aboue 50 And not one halfe of them [euer had] their heads ouer the Workes Avliile we [were there] They stiU crying out wheres the Country [people] What shall we do for mem & at the Losse of the s^ ffort it was soe plim-dered that if M"" Munueale had not Supplied him wth Shirts he had none to his back. When his wife heard we Avere to be carried as prisnors she preferred a Petic^on to the Admirall for some fcAv nscessaryes w^h was graunted [as by] the s^ Peticon appeareth at w<^^ time our Creditors applied themselves to y® Admiralls [stating that] tlie s"^ Cap* was Indebted to them whereupon he Commanded an Inuentory of w* Estate he left and it amounted unto 15413 Gilders and the Debts to not aboue 5000 lb. or their aboutes besides 100 lbs josst in the ffort; Besides the Totall Ruin of ye Reall ffortunc he left behLnde and after 4 Monetlis Imprisonm* one board tlieir Shipps of himself and family and Souldiers he was put a shore at Viall where necessity inforst him to sell y« necessaryes he had to lay in Wine for ye Securyty of and in our way for England it pleased God to take away liis Wife w^h was liis onely ComfuTt [in this world] after

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mj arriuall in England w^^ all speed I went to his RojalJ Highness and calls God to Witness [thatj it was his clear Concience that Carried him before liis Ma* e and his Royall Highness [for if j he had either the thouglits of Vnfaithfullnesse Treacheny or Cowerdise he neauc dui'st haue presumed to haue come in the p^'sence of [Ms Ma*'^] or Royall Highness mucli less dare haue [ventured] to haue paid 30 or 40 1^ for his passage he felt not any Guilt in y« least upon him all w<^^ he [wishes] to Make appeare to yo^ Hono^". & Comicell.