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HCA 13/71 f.176r Annotate
First transcribed 9 December 28  +
First transcriber Liam Haydon  +
Folio 176  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 28/09/2012  +
Transcription that the contents thereof was that hee thethat the contents thereof was that hee the sayd Kercoffe was bound for<br /> Rotterdam and would by virtue of a Commission from the States of Holland<br /> give Convoy to all shipps of Scotland lying at Leith and other ports adiacent<br /> within the river of fforth and bound for Rotterdam and to will the sayd<br /> Robert Cammell to give notice to all shipps neere thereabouts and thither bound<br /> to bee ready to goe under his convoy the first fayre winde that happenes<br /> and this deponent sawe the sayd Cammell at Leith<br /> shew the sayd Letter to the sayd John Tannent and acquainte him that the<br /> sayd Kircoffe would be ready to convoy and had undertaken to convey all shipps thereabouts<br /> to Rotterdam which was thither bound And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br /> answer./ To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith that hee this deponent being one of the Company<br /> of the ''Advance'' aforesayd and on board knoweth that upon the nynth day of March<br /> the sayd shipp the ''Advance'' and other the shipp the Union and an other shipp of Leith<br /> the name hee knoweth not but her masters name was George Gorthy came all<br /> in company togeather out of the River of fforth and being at Sea upon the<br /> tenth day of the sayd moneth the sayd Tennant Master of the ''Union'' haled<br /> the sayd Holland man of Warr and the sayd Holland man of Warr haled the<br /> sayd Tennant and the sayd Tennant with his shipp the ''Union'' made up to the sayd<br /> man of warr, and soe alsoe did the sayd shipp the ''Advance'' and the other shipp<br /> whereof the sayd Gorthy was Master and then the sayd Kircoffe did welcome<br /> all the sayd three shipps and dranks to their companys and badd them welcome<br /> and receaved them all under his Convoy and the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the<br /> ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthys shipp steered all of them by the light of the sayd<br /> Kirkoffs man of warr all that night And saith that the next day in the<br /> morneing being eleventh of March 1655 English style men of warr of Dunkirke<br /> and one of Oastend mett with chased<br /> the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies vessell and a dutch vessell whereof one James Reynold was Master who was alsoe in company with them<br /> and the sayd Kercoff being then about a myle and a halfe of a head of the sayd<br /> Vessells seeing them chased made all the sayle that possible hee could as did<br /> alsoe two other dutch vessells that were neerer to him, and soe<br /> the sayd Kirkoff and the sayd two dutch vessells went cleere away without<br /> makeing any the least resistance or endeavouring any way to free the ''Union''<br /> the ''Advance'', the sayd Gorthyes vessell or the sayd other other dutch vessell whereof<br /> the sayd Reynolds was Master from being surprised by the sayd dunkirke and<br /> Ostend men of warr although hee had formerly taken upon him to convoy them<br /> safely to Rotterdam a foresayd, by which the sayd Kerkoffs desertion of them<br /> the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies and Reynolds vessell<br /> and their ladeing were all surprized and taken by the sayd dunkirke and Ostend<br /> men of warr, but the Reynolds his vessell appearing to bee a dutch<br /> vessell and to have a dutch passe shee and her ladeing were by the sayd dunkirke<br /> and Ostend men of warr discharged and this deponent and all the rest of the<br /> Company of the ''Advance'' taken out of her and put on board the sayd Reynolds<br /> shipp. And the ''Union'' and ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies vessells were by the sayd<br /> three men of warr carried away to Ostend and dunkirke And further hee<br /> cannot answere saving hee saith that before the ''Union'' came from Scotland<br /> that voyage hee was divers tymes on board for and save that hee ladeing<br /> consisted of sugar, tobaccoe coales and some other goods, and saith the ''Advances'' ladeing<br /> was coales and skinnes and other merchandise And saith that when the sayd dunkirke<br /> and Oastend men of warr first persuad[?e] the ''Union'' and the other shipps aforesayd<br /> there were beside the sayd Kirkoffs man of warr sixe vessells dutch and scotch in<br /> Companyls dutch and scotch in<br /> Company  +
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