That after the departure of the said Seamen I stayd about a Week in the ship and would have stayed longer had not a Friend of myne sent a Sloope Express from Curacao to informe me the Spaniards of the Citty of St. Domingo[12] were arming out a Brigandine to come and take us, which induced me to leave the said ship _Adventure Prize_ in the said River Higuey and went to the Island Curacao in order to protest ag't the Seamen as aforesaid and to get what satisfaction the Law would allow, For at that time they had most of them three or Four hundred pounds a Man. But the said Seamen had gained their Ends so farr in the Governm't that the Governor would not admitt me to stay in Curacao tho' at the same time John Ware Master of Capt. Kidd's ship and the said seamen were there openly protected; I do not charge this on the Govern'r[13] (who is since dead) For I should be very sorry to disturbe the Ashes of so good a Gentleman as I believe he was, but on some of his Councill that did not desire I should face them. [Footnote 12: Not a hundred miles away.] [Footnote 13: Bastiaen (Sebastian) Bernage.] That I have not received of the produce of the Goods Capt. Kidd left upwards of three hundred and Eighty peices of Eight, all the rest is in Debts outstanding which is much less than my Charges.[14] [Footnote 14: But John Ruggles, master's mate of the _Primrose_ of Boston, testified that, drinking in a public house at Charles Town, Nevis, with William Cheesers and William Daniel, he heard the former say that Bolton had got L16,000 by Captain Kidd. _Cal. St. P. Col._, 1699, p. 416.] This is the full that presents to my Memory in Answer to their Lord'ps Demands February 4th, 1700. HEN. BOLTON. _87. William Kidd to the Speaker of the House of Commons (Robert Harley). April (?), 1701._[1]