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To the 2d 3e 4th 5th and 6th articles of t … To the 2d 3e 4th 5th and 6th articles of the said Allegation hee saith that<br />
the said ship had soe taken and recieved in her Lading the [?XX]<br />
[?Sale] and departed therewith from Hamborowe towards this<br />
Port of London whither shee was bound under the Conduct of<br />
Claes Derrickson Lann her Master, and Company and being<br />
about two Leagues off Yarmouth, to the Northward, and about<br />
a League from shore in the Darke of the Evening and foule<br />
wether about five weekes since there came a ffrigot or<br />
man of warr, and assailed her on the Suddaine, and haled<br />
her and understanding whence shee was, and whether bound<br />
shott five or six musketts at the said shipp ''ffalcon'' and her [?XXXX]<br />
and Comanded her Master to come imediately to him aboard their ffrigot, or els they would<br />
(as they threatned and said) sinke his ship, whereupon the said<br />
Claes Derrickson Lann seeing hee was in noe Capacity with<br />
4 or five men and his vessell unarmed to withsatnd the<br />
said ffrigot, that was armed with six peeces of Ordinance and<br />
Ammunition adn many men, was forced and Constrained to take<br />
his boate (though exceeding foule wether), and goe aboard the<br />
ffrigot, whereafter hee had stayed awhile was sent into his owne<br />
ship with some of the men of the said ffrigot, And the said<br />
ffrigot and Company kept watch and held under Comand the said<br />
ship ''ffalcon'', all that night, and the next morning there came<br />
about 20: of the said ffrigots Company in their owne boate<br />
aboard the ''ffalcon'', and by force, and violence entred her<br />
and after they had entred her, they brake open her hold and<br />
rummaged and plundred her at their Pleasure, bringing her<br />
Packs upon the Deck and breaking them open and taking<br />
thereout what they liked and taking away what other of her<br />
goods they pleased, and tooke and Carryed many Packs and goods<br />
aboard their man of warr, Imploing themselves in such [?their]<br />
Plunder from about 6 of the Clock that morning till Evening<br />
by which meanes the Master and Company and Proprietors lost many goods<br />
which were parte of the said ships lading, And before the said man of warrs<br />
men comming aboard the Cargoe was intire and whole and nothing<br />
thereof Damnified, from the time of her Comming from<br />
Hamborowe where (as he saith) her Decks were fast nayled<br />
The premisses hee deposeth and Knoweth for the reasons aforesaid<br />
And further hee deposeth not
To the 7th 8th and 9th hee saith that after the said Company of the<br />
man of warr had plundred, and taken away much of the said<br />
shipp the ''ffalcons'' Lading and carryed it aboard the said [?XXXX]<br />
they in the Evening of the said Day of such their comming [?aboard]<br />
left her and presently thereupon [?XXX] of the said ship ''ffalcon'' [?caused]<br />
her hatches againe to be made fast and nailed and there[?XXX]<br />
set saile with his said ship, and such of her Lading as [?XXX]<br />
[?XXX]of her Lading as [?XXX]<br />
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