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To the second third fourth fifth and sixth … To the second third fourth fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent<br />
saith that upon Sunday the second of October 1653 and not before This deponent<br />
did discover farr asterne of the sayd ffleet two shippes which afterwards<br />
proved to be Hollands men of warr, and in the morning of thesayd Sunday<br />
a private English man of warr came aboard this deponents shipp and plundered<br />
and tooke from him 18. Ryx dollars in money two hundred and off weight<br />
of Rope with his Cloathes and sea Instruments to the value of 10 ''li'' 10 ''s'' sterling<br />
who upon discovery of an Ostender bringig with him a Portuguese prize<br />
whom he tooke to be a Hollander fledd; And that the foresayd 2 shipps a<br />
sterne as aforesayd continued all that day neere a dutch myle from the sayd<br />
fleet, [?XXX] shich two English vessells comeing in the afternoone were<br />
chaced by the sayd 2 shipps that proved afterwards to be Hollanders.<br />
And moreover saith that the wind being the sayd Sunday night westerly the<br />
foresayd ffleet made little way and the 2 Holland shipps upom the<br />
Munday morning morning came upp with the sayd ffleet, and gave chase<br />
to a private Caper of Capttaine Phillips, till such tyme as the ''Elizabeth''<br />
''frigot'' commannded by Captaine Myns came in sight to the westward of<br />
the sayd ffleet. And saith the wind upon the sayd Munday and particularly<br />
before and att the tyme of the discovery of the ''Elizabeth'' being westward<br />
and contrary to the sayd ffleet, they were forced to tack to and fro<br />
to gather wind one while towards the English Coast, and anon towards<br />
the ffrench Coast, and saith that about midday of the saud Munday the<br />
''Elizabeth'' comeing directly before the wind and being as it seemed<br />
discovered to be an English frigot the foresayd Holland shipps [?gave ?upp]<br />
the pursuit of Captaine Phillipps his private Caper and putting out the<br />
Hollands Colours made upp towards the ''Elizabeth'' and exchanged<br />
broadside with her, and thereby first discovered themselves to be men<br />
of warr of Holland. And saith that during the sayd fight and [?before]<br />
and indeed from the first discovery of the ''Elizabeth'' the foresayd Hamburgh<br />
shipps putt out their Hamburgher colours and the Lubeckers the Lubeck colours<br />
howbeit by reason of the slacknes of the wind the sayd colours were not [?XXXX]<br />
but were forced to be stretched out and extended upon stretchers on<br />
purpose that the ''Elizabeth'' might discerne them to be freinds, And saith<br />
that the said ffleet had not any thing to doe with the sayd dutch men of<br />
warr yet notwithstanding the ''Elizabeth frigot'' bore in upon them and<br />
shott att them, and the sayd ffleet struck, and willingly submitted themselves<br />
and did not offer any resistance against the ''Elizabeth'' nor give any assistance<br />
to the sayd Hollanders, but saith the premisses notwithstanding the sayd Captaine<br />
Minns did seize and deteyne the sayd ffleet all which he well [?XXX]<br />
saw and observed and further cannot depose.
To the .7th. article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith That John Baptista<br />
Yonker Adrian Yonker Bartel Beakman and Anne de Greave did on<br />
or about the 11th day of August .1653. buy the sayd shipp the ''Mercury'' of<br />
Hamburgh for their owne use of one Jacob Dirrickson who brought<br />
thither a shipps lading of wynes from Nantes, and they have ever since<br />
bene and still are lawfull owners thereof, and sett out the same to [?sea]<br />
and lett her out to freight by Charter party to Abraham van [?dam]<br />
Daniell Deville and others all Hamburghers for a voyage to [?Nantes]<br />
for french wynes, and they the sayd freighters did lade aboard [?her]<br />
Empty pipes in the sayd shipp. the premisses he knoweth being master<br />
of the said shipp, and privy to the whole voyage and design And<br />
further saving his subsequent depositions cannot depose. his subsequent depositions cannot depose. +
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