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lyeing on the sayd Coast of Scotland that … lyeing on the sayd Coast of Scotland that if any of them were bound for<br />
Rotterdam hee would bee their Convoy and further to this Interrogatorie hee<br />
cannot answer ./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the vessell the ''Union'' Interrogate, (the Interrogatorie -<br />
John Tennant Master) did on the tenth of March 1655 English style went<br />
off at sea, and was haled by the sayd holland man of warr, who<br />
lay off at sea about 5 or sixe leagues expecting what shipps of Scotland<br />
would come under his convoy, and the ''Union'' bearing up to his the Commander<br />
of the sayd man of warr asked the Master of the ''Union'' whence hee came<br />
and whether bound, and the sayd Master answered of Leeth, and bound for<br />
Rotterdam, where to the sayd Commander of the sayd man of warr sayd hee<br />
was bound thither also, and the sayd Master of the ''Union'' answered that sayd<br />
Commander that hee would bee glad of his Company and there upon the<br />
Commander of the sayd holland man of war bade them welcome and<br />
dranke to the Master and Company of the ''Union'' and they to him, and saith that -<br />
the ''Union'' steered all that night by the light of the sayd holland man<br />
of warr, and saith that upon the eleventh day of the sayd monthe of March<br />
about eight a clock in the morning they met with three men of warr<br />
of fflanderrs belonging to dunkirke and Oastend who chased the ''Union'' and<br />
two other shipps, of the one whereof George Gorthy of Leith was Commander and<br />
of the other Robert Cammell of or neere Leeth aforsayd was Commander<br />
and hee saith that not withstanding the sayd holland man of warr sawe<br />
the sayd three fflandrian men of warr attaque the ''Union'' and the sayd<br />
two other shipps yet hee the sayd hollands man of warr<br />
with two other dutch shipps under his convoy, went away and made noe<br />
resistance against the sayd dunkirke and Oastend men of warr but<br />
suffered them to surprize the ''Union'' and her to ladeing of sugar tobaccoe<br />
and Coales and other goods and alsoe the other two shipps whereof the sayd<br />
Gorthy and Cammell were Masters and their ladeing they and ladeing all belonging to Scotch and English men and the same being<br />
all three soe surprized and their ladeing, the ''Union'' and her ladeing were<br />
by the sayd 3 {fflandrian} men of warr carried to dunkirke and the other<br />
two shipps and their ladeing to Oastend and this deponent being a<br />
passenger in the ''Union'' knoweth that hee and the sayd Shipps company<br />
were imprisoned at dunkirke, And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
depose ./
To the last hee saith there were in all sixe vessells beside the sayd holland<br />
man of warr in Company when the sayd dunkirke and Ostend men of warr<br />
first chased them, and he this deponent beleeveth if the sayd<br />
holland man of warr had assisted the ''Union'' and the other shipps with<br />
her, (they alsoe all having gunnes videlicet the ''Union'' fowerteene<br />
Gorthies vessell three, and Cammells vessell two gunnes) the sayd<br />
shipps and their lading might have escaped being taken by the sayd dunkirke and<br />
Ostend men of warr, And hee saith the ladeing of the ''Union'' was<br />
of good value but the summe hee knoweth not, but saith he knoweth that<br />
and William Mitchelson and a passenger in the ''Union'' had in ready<br />
money which hee carried to pay for a Shipp hee had contracted for<br />
in Rotterdam the summe of two thousand Guilders flemish which<br />
is about two hundred pounds and upward of sterling money And saith<br />
the<br />
Interrogate [?hewlyn] Welch Newman Knowles Smith and<br />
Pearson were commonly accompted to be English and resideing<br />
some at Leith and some at Saint Johnstons in Scotland and to be owners of the<br />
saydd and to be owners of the<br />
sayd +
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