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To the first article of the said Allegatio … To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith that hee this Deponent<br />
hath heard the Arlate Thomas Sprettyman say and declare that the<br />
arlate Seager Corsellis Nicholas Corsellis and companie were<br />
the Owners of the arlate ship, the ''Golden Starr'', when shee was<br />
seized as hereafter is mentioned or to that effect, And saith<br />
mr. Boone and company were Owners of the wines shee [?had GUTTER]<br />
then onboard her, And further hee saith hee cannot depose
To the second hee saith that on or about the 27th day of<br />
November 1659 as the said ship the ''Golden Starr'' was<br />
coming from the Canaryes to this Port, shee was not [?wxxx GUTTER]<br />
by the ship the ''Alexander'' arlate (but the name of the Captain<br />
this Deponent knoweth not) And the said ship ''Alexander''<br />
had the English Colours up when shee first met the ''Golden''<br />
''Starr'', and under those Colours haled the ''Golden Starr''<br />
and the said Sprettyman saying they were of Amsterdam<br />
one of the Mates of the ''Alexander'' came aboard the<br />
''Golden Starr'', and went into the Cabbin with the said Sprettyman<br />
and presently came out of the Cabbin, and went onboard the<br />
''Alexander'', and soe soone as hee was come on board the<br />
''Alexander'' her Company pulled downe the English Colours<br />
and put up the portugalls Colours and then fired about<br />
fifteene or sixteene Gunns at the ''Golden Starr'', which did<br />
tare and doe much prejudice to her sailes, and Rigging<br />
and a small Ketch which was in Company and belonging to the ''Alexander''<br />
fired two or three Gunns at the ''Golden Starr'' which struck<br />
her in the Hull, and saith that the said shooting at<br />
and upon the said ship did much endanger the [?Killing GUTTER]<br />
or wounding of some of the Company of the ''Golden Starr''<br />
and the same was done without any occasion given by the Company of the ''Starr'', they not firing a Gunn at them and saith that hee this Deponent and some others of the<br />
''Golden Starrs'' Company went upon the ''Starrs'' fore=<br />
castle, and called to the Company of the ''Alexander''<br />
to forbeare their shooting telling them they would come<br />
onboard them, and Imediately this Deponent and the rest<br />
of the Company of the ''Starr'' hoysted out their Slifte and<br />
the said Sprittiman and about foure or five more of the<br />
Company went onboard the ''Alexander'' and just before hee went onboard her he told [xxxxxx] [xx] [xxxx] in this Deponents hearing that the said ''Golden Starr'' belonged to England, and that hee said shee belonged to Amsterdam because hee knewe not [? GUTTER] was or to that effect. This<br />
hee knoweth being an Eye and eare witnes thereof, hee this Deponent coming [?as GUTTER]<br />
a passenger in the ''Starr'' from the Canaryes for London<br />
And further cannot depose./.
To the third hee saith that hee doth not Know what discourse<br />
or words passed betweene the said Sprittiman and the [? GUTTER]<br />
and Company of the ''Alexander'' after the said Sprittiman<br />
went onboard her as aforesaid, but saith that hee well knoweth<br />
that about halfe an hower after the said Sprittiman went<br />
onboard the ''Alexander'', the Captaine of her sent his boate<br />
withine of her sent his boate<br />
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