Dr Godolphin Dr Clarke George Moulin William Taylor of Nightingale Lane in London, Mariner one of the Company of the ''Advantage frigot'', aged one and twenty yeares or thereabouts Captaine Mills, commander of the ''Advantage'' Captaine Gyles Shelley, commander of the ''Waterhound''
''Golden Starr'' or ''Morning Starr'' ''Hope'' ''Waterhound'' ''Advantage''
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'''NN''' To the tenth he saith he cannot answer to this Interrogatory eyther affirmatively or negatively as this thereby required, for that he is wholly ignorant what the common opinion of mariners is in the case putt and suggested in this Interrogatory. and saith he never heard that case argued amongst Seamen and knoweth it is not the case or matter of fact now in question. To the eleventh he saith he was aboard the ''Golden Starr'' after she came into the ''Hope'' and not before, and tooke out of her a small whipsaw of the value of 2 ''s'' or thereabouts and nothing else. and saith severall of the Companies of the ''Waterhound'' and ''Advantage'' were aboard the ''Golden Starr'' before she came into the River and afterwards, and he doth beleive that severall things were by then taken out of her but by whom in particular, what things in particular, or to what value he saith he cannot depose. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the twelfth he saith it is usuall for any shipp att sea being haled by another shipp who weares false colours and thereby gives suspition of being an enemy or pirat to stand upon the defensive guard. but the sayd shipp ''Advantage'' did not weare any false colour when she haled the ''Golden Starr'' as aforesayd but the English colours onely. To the thirteenth he saith if the sayd shipp ''Morning Starr'' prove prize he expecteth a share as Carpenters mate of the ''Advantage frigot'' according to the Lawes and provisions made in that behalfe, and not otherwise. and further he cannot depose. Repeated before Doctor Godolphin) and Doctor Clarke} the marke of George '''C''' Moulin [MARKE, RH SIDE] ************************************* The seventeenth day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation '''Ren dt''' '''6''' '''William Taylor''' of Nightingale Lane in London Mariner one of the Company of the ''Advantage frigot'' aged one and twenty yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth To the first second third and fourth article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that the arlate shipp the ''Advantage'' Captaine Mills Commander and the ''Waterhound'' Gyles Shelley Captaine in the month of ffebruary 1652 about 3 or 4 days after Portland fight did take and surprize a certayne shipp called the ''Morning Starr'' having a golden starr in her sterne being the shipp ''Golden Starr'' arlate, upon the English Coast off of Beachy about four leagues from the English shoare, And saith the ''Advantage'' and ''Waterhound'' were att that tyme in the immediat service of this Commonwealth and the ''Golden Starr'' did then steere her direct course for Holland and that at that tyme for many monethes before there was publique [?XXXXXXX] betweene this Commonwealth and the States of the United Provinces, and beleiveth the same was well knowne
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