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which the said Quarts nor any of his Compa … which the said Quarts nor any of his Company made<br />
answer. Whereupon the said Kingsman caused a shot to be<br />
made from his ship the ''Experience'' (according to the Custome<br />
of the sea in that case) athwart the said Rere Admiralls foot<br />
which shot did not touch her, nor was intended soe to doe, but<br />
only to give the said Quarts (her Captain) notice to fall to the<br />
Leeward of the ''Experience'', but the said Quarts he sayth did<br />
notwithstanding such means used, keep on to the windward<br />
of her still and would not come to the Leeward. And further to this<br />
Article he cannot depose./<br />
To the 13th he says that the ''Experience'' both before and also at the<br />
time of her seizure had up and sayled with the English<br />
colours. And that the said Quarts and Company (XX) the Rere<br />
Admirall and also the Captain and Companies of the other<br />
two Dutch ships (which were not very far off) did and might very<br />
very see and perceive the same and might and did know the ''Expe-''<br />
''rience'' to be an English ship as this deponent verily beleeveth and<br />
is perswaded in his conscience and otherwise does not know.
To the 14th article he deposes and says that so soone as ever the said Captain<br />
Quarts the said Rere Admirall came neare the ''Experience'', he<br />
caused a broadside to be fired upon her without<br />
ever hayling her, and soe lay ahead of her continually firing<br />
his Guns at her and spoiling her tackle rigging and furniture<br />
untill the other two Dutch ships (called<br />
the ''Orange'' and the ''Arme of Zealand'') came also up, which<br />
said Dutch ships and soone as they came up fired their Guns,<br />
likewase upon the ''Experience'', and poured their small<br />
shit amongst her Company, by which means they killed the<br />
said Captain Kingsman and two more of his Company, and then boarded<br />
the ''Experience'' and seized her, and after such boarding and quarter given<br />
one of the Company of the ship ''Orange'' (Fowse Le Sage<br />
Captaine) which soe seized the ''Experience'' killed one<br />
of the ''Experience'' her Company in cold blood of this<br />
deponents certaine knowledge, he seeing the same. And further<br />
sayth that they the sayd Companies of the Dutch ships<br />
plundered the mariners of the ''Experience'' of all that belonged unto them<br />
and tooke away all the writings and papers that were on board<br />
the ship and such as they found did concerne her and her lading<br />
and showed that they belonged to the English and they either<br />
tore or threw over board, or cause them to be torne and<br />
throwne overboard. And then carried the said ship<br />
and lading to Pointe Vedra in Gallicia where they kept her<br />
about ten or twelve days and there (as this deponent conceiveth)<br />
contrary to all Law and Justice broke bulke, and tooke out of<br />
her hold about 250 Chests of white sugar, and one thousand<br />
two hundred rolls of Tobaccoe, and dispersed thereof at<br />
their pleasure, and from thence they carried theshp and the rest<br />
of her lading to Flushing in Zealand and afterwards to Middle<br />
Burgh, and utterly despoiled the producents these of which hee<br />
knoweth for the reasons aforesaid for that this deponent was carried<br />
to Gallicia, and thence to Flushing and soe to Middleburgh in the<br />
''Orange'' aforesaid in Company of the ''Experience''./<br />
Aliterof the ''Experience''./<br />
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