ers taken on board the Snow Called the _Princess of Orange_ being
Solemnly Sworn by the Sign of the Holy Cross according to the manner
of administring Oaths in Courts of Justice within the Kin[g]dom of
Spain Deposeth and Saith

That he saw the Said Snow sold as a prize at the said Island of
Teneriffe to Capt. John Milodony by order of Some Court there, but the
particular time of the Sale he cannot Remember, That He was Shipped as
a Sailor on board the Said Snow by the Said John Milodony and one
Andrew Haymas, a Spainard and Inhabitant of the said Island. That the
said John Melodony cairried this Deponant and three other Sailors
belonging to the Said Snow to the House of the said Andrew Haymas in
the said Island to receive advance wages on the Intended Voyage and
that there the said Andrew Haymas did pay this Deponent nine Dollars
for such wages and gave him a Note to pay nine Dollars more to the
Deponant's wife, and then did pay the advance wages to the other three
Sailors, all of which was done in the presance of the said John
Melidony and that the Said Andrew Haymas was on board the Said Snow at
the time of her Sailing from the Said Island of Teneriffe; and this
Deponant further Saith, that after their Departure from the Sd. Island
on their voyage to the Island of Curacoa, they missed the said Island
of Curacoa and made the Island of Tobago[31] which the Pilot said was
to windward of Curacoa. That they went from thence and fell in with
the Land at Cora where they came to an Anchor. That the people on
Shoare appearing to be in some Confusion, the Capt. Melidony hoisted a
white Sheet with some red Rags sewed thereon in form of a Spanish
Ensign, which Seemed to appease the People, and then the Captain went
ashore in his Boat and got some Provisions. That they afterward left
Cora and fell into Leeward of the Island of Aruba where they droped
Anchor at some distance from the Shoare and were there taken by the
Privateer Called the _George_. And this Depont. further Saith that in
their Voyage the Sailors on board the Said Snow did Sometimes express
their Fears of being taken by an English Privateer and that the Said
Capt. Milodony bid them not to be afraied for he had got a Dutch Pass
and Dutch Colours. That when Capt. Melidony's Sailors who were going
ashore with him in the boat to the Said Island of Aruba, saw the Said
Privateers Boat going on board the Said Snow they asked him what
Signified his Dutch Pass and his Dutch C