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carried eight gunnes and had three anchors and Cables and two suites of sayles and was plentifully provided with all manner of tackle apparell furniture provisions amunition and other Necessaries for her designe which was a warlike designe by letters of Marque against the King of Spaine and his subiects and their shipps and goods, And the ''Mary'' Interrogate was a shallopp which attended her as assistant in the sayd designe and was of the burthen of eighteene tonnes or thereabouts and carried fower gunnes and was well provided alsoe with sayles Anchors Cables provisions ammunition and tackle and furniture necessary for the sayd designe which vessells were fitted out to Sea for the sayd voyage at the cost of the Interrogate William Rushley and Erasmus Bedlowe subiects of this Common= wealth the true Owners and proprietors of the sayd vessells And saith that in his this deponents Judgment the ''Indeavour'' and her gunnes provisions amunition tacke apparrell and furniture were at the tyme of her losse hereafter deposed of worth eight hundred pounds sterling and the ''Mary'' and her gunnes provisions amunition tackle apparrell and furniture at the tyme of her losse were in this deponents Judgment wroth two hundred pounds of like money and soe much and better hee beleeveth they cost the sayd Owners in setting them forth upon the sayd designe This hee the better knoweth being purser of the ''Indeavour'' and having the sayd letters of Marque in his custodie and having read the same And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot answere/ To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that the sayd two vessells pu[?tt]ing out in Company togeather from this Port of London upon their sayd warlike designe the ''Marie'' coming to sea proved Leakie and thereupon the sayd vessells went in Company to the River of Breamer and came to a place upon the sayd River in the dominion of the duke of Oldenburgh on the one side of the River and the King of Sweden on the other both Princes in amity with this Commonwealth whether they came about the middle of May last and there in the duke of Oldenburghs Island of Oldenburgh washed and tallowed their vessells and tooke in fresh provision of victualls such as they stood neede of This hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being Purser of the ''Endeavour'' And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/ To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th Interrogatories hee saith that the sayd shipps having washed and tallowed and having furnished them selves with necessary provisions as aforesayd made out towards sea againe and in the mouth of the River there found the Generall of the King of denmarkes ffleete there rideing with three shipps of warr who upon sight of the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' who then bore the English Colours commanded them to come to an anchor and commanded the sayd Captaine Welch to come with his boate aboard the sayd Generalls shipp and the sayd Welch accordingly obeyed, and this deponent to deliver unto him the sayd letters of Marque which hee carried with him, and (as hee the sayd Welch told this deponent and others of her Company at his returne from aboard the danish generalls shippp to the ''Endeavour'',) hee the sayd Welch shewed the sayd Generall his sayd lettters of Marque, and one of the sayd Captaines after perusall of the same sayd (as the sayd Welch affirmed) that these his letters of Marque were good for nothing but to wipe his breeche with but that after consultaion had by the Generall with his Captaines the Generall discussed him but with this provisoe that hee should not passe by to Sea but goe back into the River and lye soe as to be under his Command at all tymes whereupon the sayd Welch went further up into the River of Bremer upon the duke of Oldenburgh
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