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Samuell Waie John ffirth harbert and others of the sayd shipps company called
out to the persons aforenamed soe in the longe boate, and standing in the mayne
[?chaynes] of the shipp with his M[XXXtero] Capp in his hand desyred them
not to goe away in the longe boate, but to come aboard the shipp
againe and helpe to defende her as longe as might hee and promised them
that when shee could bee noe longer defended hee and they would goe all togeather
in the long boate and make her uselesse to the enymie, but the sayd parties aforenamed
deserted their stations in the sayd shipp and left the sayd captaine and this
deponent and the sayd Bishopp [?W]ay ffitch harper and others of the sayd shipps
shipps (sic) company engaged in the defence of the sayd shipp and carried away
the longe boate pretending they would send somebody back with it againe when they
were escaped to shoare, but did not send the same againe, by meanes
whereof the said Captaine Browne and the rest of the Company who stayed
with him and defended the sayd shipp, (for that they had only a
smale boate or two to preserve thm selves in after they had continued the
defence of her a while longer) were constrayned also to desert and leave
her, not daring to fyre or sinke her as they determined to have done
for feare of perishing in her for want of the longe boate to carry them
selves ashoare in, by which meanes hee saith the hercules became a prize
to the dutch who after the Captaine and those who stayed with him had
betaken them selves to the smale boates seized and boarded the sayd shipp
hercules and possessed themselves of her and her ordinance and gott
her off from ground and carried her away to the strengthening of their
fleete and hurt and preiudice of their State and Commonwealth of England
which they could not have done if the persons aforesayd had not
deserted her and carried the long boate away with them, but the sayd Captaine
Browne and all her Company might if they had stayed with the long
boate, have fyred or suncke the sayd shipp after they had
defended it soe long as they could, and then have all gotten to shoare
in the longe boate, and the sayd smale boates without hurt or dammage
And further hee cannot depose not remembring whether the arlate
Symon Greene and John Te[XX]ter went
away in the sayd longe boate or not and knowing that Peter Thomas continued in the
[XXXXX] after the Long boate was gone and was left behinde on board when the dutch seized her and knowing that

[# LH MARGIN, VERTICAL TEXT] Robert Marlorow arlate did also stay with the Captaine and came ashoare at the
same tyme the Captaine did in one of the smale boates

To the 9th article hee saith the hercules at her seizure was (in this deponents
Judgment) of the burthen of fower hundred and fifty Tonnes or
thereabouts, and her tackle and furniture and provisions shee had in her for sixe moneths which was taken in but a little, before at Portsmouth were then worth in this deponents
Judgment the summe fower thousand pounds sterling or thereabouts And
further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the last article hee saith That the herculoes at the tyme of her seizure
was a shipp lett by her Owners to freight to [XXXX] this State for a man of
warr And in case shee had bin destroyed by fyre or sunke soe that the
enymie might not have enioyed her, (hee beleeveth) the state would
have