1662._[1]

[Footnote 1: Mass. Archives, vol. 60, p. 216.]

By his mag'ties decree of the tenth of october 657, And Dispach of the
counsell of the 8th of september 662. Itt Is Registred In the 22 Booke
of the s[ecre]taria of Warr, fol. 72.

Wee, Charles de Bils, Captaine by the King our Lord, by virtue of my
fore written Patent, Sealed with The great Seale and Signed by his
mag'tie, Constitute and doe Constitute D. John Duglas for Commander of
my shipp Called _st. John_ In my name and as if I were Personally
Presentt to make Warr With the Enimies of this Crowne of Portugall,
Accordingly And in the same manner as it Is declared In my Patent, for
Effectinge of W'ch I grant to the said my Constituted all the Powers
to mee granted, for Confirmacion of w'ch I deliver him this my Patent
signed with my hand and Sealed with the seale of my Armes. made In
lisbone the twentieth of september one thousand Six hundred sixty two.

CHARLES DE BILS.

Wee the under written doe testyfie that the Aboves'd and what is
Conteyned on the other Side[2] is a true translation of a Comission
Graunted by the Queene of Portugall and afterwards Confirmed by the
King of that Country unto Charles de Bills and afterwards Assigned
over by Sayd Charles de Bills unto Capt John Duglas as witnes our
hands

[Footnote 2: Documents 14 and 15.]

Aug't the 15th 1664.[3]

[Footnote 3: Old style, presumably.]

EDMUND DOWNER.
WILLIAM TAILER.
JOHN FORD.

_16. Deposition of William Browne. June 24, 1664._[1]

[Footnote 1: Mass. Archives, vol. 60, p. 218a.]

The deposicion of William Browne, passenger with Mr Robert Cooke, in
the _Blow Dove_, and now prisoner aboard Capt. Jno. Dowglass:

That when hee was demaunded of the said Capt. John Dowglass where the
said Shipp did belong unto, that the said William Browne did saye that
hee heard the Mr say severall times, that the said Shipp did belong
unto Amsterdam, and that the said Shipp was bound for Amsterdam, and
that most of the company[2] were Scotts:

[Footnote 2: Crew.]

2ly. That the said William Browne did see when a Jewe did shipp
aboarde some goods,[3] and that a Jewe did marke it, and that a Jewe
did dispose of the goods which the Shipp brought from Holland and that
Jewes name was Isaac Cardozo, and that after the Shipp was taken it
was the Mr.'s desire for to bee put ashoare, and his company likewise,
for the Mr. of the said Shipp was wounded and the Capt., meeting with
a vessell bound