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as he saith publike and notorious and well knowne att Cadiz and other ports of Spaine and in fflanders, and Hamburgh and other ports and places beyond the seas, and to the Captaine and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' as he verily beleiveth, the premisses he knoweth being quartermasters mate of the ''Advantage frigot'' aforesayd and present aboard her att the fight and seizure aforesayd. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the fifth sixth seventh and eighth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth. that the Captaine and Company of the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' first espyed the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' about 6 or 7 of the Clock in the morning of the day aforesayd and toward .8. of the Clock or some thing before came upp with the ''Morning Starr'' or ''Golden Starr''; having before that att a distance shott a warning peice with powder onely to which the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' made answer in a shott of powder in token of freindshipp; And he saith that the ''Advantage frigott'' when she so came upp with the ''Golden Starr'' wore out the Colours of the Commonwealth onely, and the Captaine of the ''Advantage'' then haled the ''Morning Starr'', being neere to her and within hearing and commanded them to strike in the name of the Parliament of England, and submitt themselves to be visited, and saith the Captaine of the sayd ''Golden Starr'' in stead of showing submission to the authority of this Commonwealth being upon the Coasts of Englands as was demanded of him and is usuall did in a contemptuous manner returne skurrilous and base language and in an unbecoming and skornefull and reproach full way turned downe his breeches, and held upp his bare bumme or breech to the sayd Captaine Mill and Company, and waved his Cuttle axe bidding the sayd Captaine Mill Come to Leeward, all which this deponent saw and observed. And further saith that one Gunn being fired over the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'', the sayd Captaine whereof ?hoysed upp a flagg of defiance being a Redd flagg with the picture of an hand and a sword therein, and immediately fired a Broad side upon the ''Advantage friggot'' whereupon there begann a sharpe fight betwixt the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' ''frigot'' wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth and the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' wearing her flagg of defiance, in which fight two of the Company of the ''Advantage frigot'' lost their lives, and the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' with their shipp fought eagerly and did their utmost endeavour to sinke and destroy the sayd ''Advantage frigot'' with the English aboard her so fighting ipon the English Coast as aforesd. The premisses this deponent being present in the sayd fight saw and observed, and knoweth the same to be true as he hath now declared. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the nyth and tenth he saith that during the sayd fight and about one of the Clock in the after noone of the . same day, the arlate shipp the ''Waterhound''
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