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HCA 13/68 f.7v Annotate
First transcribed 2 August 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 7  +
Parent volume HCA 13/68  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 02/08/2013  +
Transcription as he saith publike and notorious and wellas he saith publike and notorious and well knowne att Cadiz and<br /> other ports of Spaine and in fflanders, and Hamburgh and other<br /> ports and places beyond the seas, and to the Captaine and Company<br /> of the ''Golden Starr'' as he verily beleiveth, the premisses he knoweth<br /> being quartermasters mate of the ''Advantage frigot'' aforesayd<br /> and present aboard her att the fight and seizure aforesayd. And otherwise<br /> he cannot depose. To the fifth sixth seventh and eighth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent<br /> saith and deposeth. that the Captaine and Company of the sayd shipp the<br /> ''Advantage'' first espyed the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' about 6 or 7 of<br /> the Clock in the morning of the day aforesayd and toward .8. of the<br /> Clock or some thing before came upp with the ''Morning Starr'' or<br /> ''Golden Starr''; having before that att a distance shott a warning<br /> peice with powder onely to which the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr''<br /> made answer in a shott of powder in token of freindshipp; And<br /> he saith that the ''Advantage frigott'' when she so came upp with the<br /> ''Golden Starr'' wore out the Colours of the Commonwealth onely, and the<br /> Captaine of the ''Advantage'' then haled the ''Morning Starr'', being<br /> neere to her and within hearing and commanded them to strike in the<br /> name of the Parliament of England, and submitt themselves to<br /> be visited, and saith the Captaine of the sayd ''Golden Starr'' in stead<br /> of showing submission to the authority of this Commonwealth being<br /> upon the Coasts of Englands as was demanded of him and is usuall<br /> did in a contemptuous manner returne skurrilous and base language<br /> and in an unbecoming and skornefull and reproach full way<br /> turned downe his breeches, and held upp his bare bumme or<br /> breech to the sayd Captaine Mill and Company, and waved his<br /> Cuttle axe bidding the sayd Captaine Mill Come to Leeward, all<br /> which this deponent saw and observed. And further saith that one<br /> Gunn being fired over the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'', the sayd<br /> Captaine whereof ?hoysed upp a flagg of defiance being a Redd<br /> flagg with the picture of an hand and a sword therein, and immediately<br /> fired a Broad side upon the ''Advantage friggot'' whereupon there<br /> begann a sharpe fight betwixt the sayd shipp the ''Advantage''<br /> ''frigot'' wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth and the sayd shipp the<br /> ''Golden Starr'' wearing her flagg of defiance, in which fight<br /> two of the Company of the ''Advantage frigot'' lost their lives, and<br /> the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' with their shipp<br /> fought eagerly and did their utmost endeavour to sinke and destroy<br /> the sayd ''Advantage frigot'' with the English aboard her so fighting<br /> ipon the English Coast as aforesd. The premisses this deponent<br /> being present in the sayd fight saw and observed, and knoweth the same to<br /> be true as he hath now declared. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the nyth and tenth he saith that during the sayd fight and about one<br /> of the Clock in the after noone of the . same day, the arlate shipp the<br /> ''Waterhound''rlate shipp the<br /> ''Waterhound''  +
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