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Oldenburghs side, and came to an Anchor, a … Oldenburghs side, and came to an Anchor, and notice being given to the sayd 'Welch by some of the<br />
Inhabitants and subiects of the duke of Oldenburgh that the danes had provided<br />
two or three smacks and manned them with men intending to lay the sayd shipps<br />
''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' aboard in the night and surprize them, the sayd Welch called to this<br />
deponent and asked him if hee had any money to gratifie those that brought him that intelligence<br />
and this deponent telling him noe, hee the sayd Welch gave them a match locke muskett in satisfaction<br />
and thereupon presently put out his gunnes and prepared himselfe to fight<br />
them and not longe after the sayd smacks came but seeing the sayd shipps<br />
''Endeavour'' and ''Mary'' in a readinesse to make resistance, and the sayd Welch<br />
causing his trumpett to sound a challenge the sayd smacks passed<br />
by further up the River and came downe againe and returned towards their shipps<br />
not daring to approach and come neere the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary''<br />
and this was in the latter end of June or beginning of July last<br />
whereupon the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' weighed anchor from thence and went<br />
up higher in the River towards the Citty of Oldenburgh and came with the<br />
''Indeavour'' to an Anchor and sent the shallopp the ''Mary'' to put into a Creeke<br />
in the duke of Oldenburghs dominion, and the shallopp beeing makeing<br />
towards shoare some of the duke of Oldenburghs subiects called out to the<br />
shallopps Company in sight and hearing of this deponent and others of the Company of<br />
the ''Endeavour'' and told them they should not come to make fast their shallopp<br />
either with Anchor or hawser in that Creeke whereupon the sayd Welch<br />
and fower or five of his Company of the ''Endeavour'' went ashoare in the shipps boate<br />
to knowe why they might not (it being in the duke of Oldenburghs dominion<br />
who was a ''Prince'' in amity with this Commonwealth) be permitted to make<br />
fast there, and hee and his boates Crue being ashoare certayne of the sayd generall<br />
of the danes Company who had gotten ashoare certayne of the sayd generall<br />
of the danes Company who had gotten ashoare and lay in ambush were<br />
thereabout, seized upon the sayd Welch and his Crue and their boate, and kept<br />
them prisoners, and then called out in English to the Companyes of the ''Indeavour''<br />
and sayd now you see wee are possessed of your Captaine therefore deliver<br />
up your shipps for [XXXX XXXX] and will have them, and your Captaine hath<br />
promised that you shall deliver them or words to that effect whereto<br />
Nehemiah Collins Master of the ''Endeavour'' under the sayd<br />
Captaine Welch and others of the company of the sayd shipp in presence and<br />
hearing of this deponent spake to the sayd danes and sayd wee will not<br />
deliver them without order under our Captaines owne hand, and thereupon<br />
the danes departed carrying the sayd Captaine Welch and his Crue which<br />
they had taken prisoners with them, and the Companyes of the ''Indeavour''<br />
and ''Mary'' sett sayle from thence and went further up the River<br />
within about a myle and a halfe of the Citty of Oldenburgh and there<br />
came to an Anchor and the sayd Captaine Welch and his Crue having<br />
gotten released of their imprisonment (by what meanes hee knoweth not) come<br />
againe aboard the ''Indeavour'' then lyeing neere Oldenburgh, and tooke<br />
his letters of Marque aforesayd and accompanied with one Gibbons, his trumpeter,<br />
and one Hacker, went by land to the duke of Oldenburgh to procure<br />
from him protection for himselfe his Companyes and shipps aforesayd<br />
and as hee this deponent was afterwards by the sayd Captaine Welch and those<br />
whod Captaine Welch and those<br />
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