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and to give this deponent assurance of his … and to give this deponent assurance of his knowledge of what hee said<br />
hee told this deponent that hee lay at haver de Grace side by side with<br />
the said shipp, and had frequent discourse and connversation with<br />
her master, and described the said shipp to this deponent by her markes<br />
and proportions, which this deponent found fully answered in the said<br />
shipp the ''hare'' upon his said seizure of her, And further saith that<br />
on the thirtieth day of the same moneth of Aprill this deponent<br />
in the said frigat the ''Tyger'' met with Captaine Goulding an English<br />
private man of warr with a prize under his commannd which hee had<br />
newly seized in the sight of this deponent and other commannders of<br />
this commonwealth, as shee was comming from haver de Grace<br />
bound for [??Canada], the master of which named Richard [?ffreer] or [?ffredXXX] being with the said<br />
Goulding commannded aboard, came on board the ''Tyger'', [?whereupon]<br />
this deponent (having the fore said intellegince) examined the said<br />
master in the presence of Captaine Githens and Captaine [?Putter] and<br />
of the said Goulding, touching the said shipp that was soe lading<br />
at haver de Grace, upon which examination the said maseter confessed<br />
and told this deponent that it was true that such a shipp was<br />
there neere laden, and that shee had twenty guns, and fourtie<br />
men onboard, and that all her goods came downe from Roane in<br />
three hoyes, and further old this deponent that her name was<br />
the ''hare in the feild'', and the ''hare in the feild'' pictured on<br />
her sterne in carved worke, and that her masters name was<br />
John keine, and that hee was a fatt bigg man, and fully described the<br />
said shipp with all markes and properties, and told this deponent<br />
that shee was laden with ffrench goods and by ffrench merchants;<br />
which merchants (as hee saith) were aboard the said shipp the next<br />
day before the said master soe examined came from haver de Grace<br />
and that hee the said master of the said prize was aboaard with<br />
them, and withall hee told and acknowledged to this deponent<br />
that the said master of the ''hare in the ffeild'', had engaged himself<br />
to the said ffrench marchants to fight his way through against<br />
any shipp that should oppose him. And this deponent asking him<br />
if hee were sure of what hee said, hee answered yea, and<br />
severall times confirmed the same with an oath, and for further<br />
manifestation of his knowledge therein, hee told this deponent that<br />
while hee was with his shipp at haver de Grace hee lay side<br />
by side of the said shipp the ''hare in the feild'' on one side<br />
and then a hamburger who went thence foure or five dayes<br />
before him, lay side by side on her other side, and that the said<br />
master of the ''hare'' and hee the said master (soe under examination)<br />
called eaach other brother, and further told this deponent<br />
what course the said master of the ''hare in the feild'' intended (as<br />
hee had tould him) to steere at her comming out, namely Nore and<br />
by west from the Seine [?head] till shee came neere the coast of<br />
England: And this deponent asking him what hee understood to be<br />
the what hee understood to be<br />
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