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Transcription

and this deponent and at the buying of the said shipp as aforesaid, hee this
deponent Contracted and agreed to pay for the same the summe of sixe
thousand gilders the first penny, for the payment whereof this deponent drew
bills of Exchange upon the said ffrancis Sloyer, which by him were accepted and
paid unto the agents or assignes of the said Jacques Oysell and former owners of the said shipp at Hamborough and Amsterdamm
And further saith That presently after the buying of the said shipp, hee this
deponent by the order and direction of the aforesaid ffrancis Sloyer did really disburse lay out and
expend about the fitting and furnishing out of the said shipp upon a Voyage
to sea the summe of foure thousand five hundred gilders more or thereabouts
which said moneys were remitted to this deponent at Middleborough by bills of exchange
from the said ffrancis Sloyer of Hamburgh, and accordingly this deponent received
the same, and therewith paid for the severall necessaries bought and provided by
him for the fitting and furnishing of the said shipp. The premisses hee knoweth
being as aforesaid Master of the said shipp, and being, as predeposed, particularly employed
and entrusted ina nd about the same. And otherwise saving his subsequent
depositions hee saith hee cannot depose:-

To the 3. and 4:th hee saith That by the order and direction of the said ffrancis Sloyer
hee this deponent shortly after the buying fitting and preparing of the said shipp
departed Master thereof from Midleborough to Saint Mallo in ffrance, where he
arrived in or about July 1653. and there tooke in a lading of linnen Cloath
and other goods to be transported in the said shipp to Cadiz or Saint Lucar
in Spaine, and being in her Course from Saint Mallo thitherwards in Companie [?with]
6. or 7. other shipps bound also from that Port for Spaine, shee was surprized
and taken by the Saphire ffriggat a shipp in the immediate service of this
Commonwealth, and brought up with her lading into the Port of Plimmouth
Which hee knoweth being master of and aboard his said shipp during the said
transactions. And further cannot depose:-/

To the 5:th 6. 7: and 8:th hee saith and deposeth, That at such time as the
said shipp the Saphire friggat first came up with the shipp the three kings
in question, the Admirall of the fleete so come from Saint Mallo as aforesaid
was a heade, and the Vice Admiall of the said fleete a sterne of the said
shipp the three kings, and shee in the niddle between them during the fight
which happened as followeth, That is to say the said Saphire ffrigat at her first
comeing up discharged a whole broade side at the said Admirall and presently
after another broad side at the Viceadmirall, and also shott a broad side at this deponents
shipp and that without any precedent haling of any of the said shipps
whereupon the said Admirall and Vice Admirall shott againe at the Saphire
frigat, and continued fighting her about the space of an hower, before this deponents
shipp discharged any one gunn or made any opposition against the said Saphire
ffrigat, the said Admirall and Vice Admirall still lying a head and
a sterne of her as aforesaid, so that shee could not possibly gett away from
them. But the Admirall of the said ffleete perceiveing that no shott was
(made