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with about Eighteene or twenty men in her … with about Eighteene or twenty men in her to the<br />
''Golden Starr''. most of which came aboard the ''Starr'', and<br />
sent out of her about twelve of her Company (of which this<br />
Deponent was one) and sent them as prisoners onboard the ''Alexander''<br />
where they were kept all that night upon the Lower Deck<br />
and in that night hee saith the ''Alexanders'' Company sailed the ''Starr'' about<br />
fourteene or 15 Leagues Back toward the Canaryes:<br />
and the next morning permitted this Deponent and the rest of the ''Starrs'' Company that were prisoners in the ''Alexanders''<br />
Upper Deck that morning the Captaine of the ''Alexander'' and hee XXX went on board the ''Starr'' and most part of that morning the Company<br />
of the ''Alexander'' and her Ketch that went on board the ''Golden Starr''<br />
were drawing out wine, that was in the Starr and<br />
sending it in Jarrs and Rundletts and other small vessels onboard the ''Alexander''<br />
and the Ketch; And they tooke away two full pipes and<br />
two full Hogsgeads of Canary wines besides what they<br />
sent and carried away, in Jarrs Rundletts and other small<br />
Vessells, and saith they did alsoe loose a great deale of<br />
wine by making holes in the pipes and not carefully<br />
stopping them, and by their carelesse drawing and some<br />
of them hee saith were Drunk, with the same; and hath credibly<br />
bin Informed that they tooke away tankards<br />
a Cutlach[?], Linnen, two or three Coates. belonging to the Company and<br />
severall other such like things. And saith that hee verily<br />
beleaveth that the Company of the ''Alexander''. did Loose<br />
spoile Imbezill drinke, carry, and take away out of<br />
the said ship ''Golden Starr'', the quantity of ffive pipes of<br />
wine or thereabouts And saith that about Eleven of the Clock that Day<br />
(being the next day after the ''Alexander'' seized the ''Golden Starr''<br />
the ''Alexander'' and her Ketch left her, they Espying another Ship<br />
roming to windward, And further cannot depose./.
To the 4th hee saith that presently after the ''Alexander'' and her<br />
Ketch were sailed away the other ship came up<br />
to the ''Golden Starr'', shee not being able to get away by reason<br />
that her sailes. tackle and Rigging were torne, and out<br />
of order, and saith that the Company of the said other ship<br />
(which was a Zealand man of Warr:) tooke away another pipe<br />
of wine and a pipe of water, out of the said ship ''Golden''<br />
''Starr'', And then left her, and about two dayes after there<br />
happened a great Storme, which Continued about foure<br />
or five Dayes, and saith that by reason of the loosening or<br />
breaking the teares or ranges of thee pipes of wine in the ''Starr''<br />
by the Company of the ''Alexander'' and her Ketch and the<br />
said Zealand man of warr. very greate damage did happen to<br />
the Owners of the said wines, by reason of their Reeling and<br />
falling to and fro in the said ship; and saith that thereby one pipe was<br />
leaked above, halfe out and another almost quite out, and a great<br />
deale of wine did leake out of other pipes in the said ship<br />
which was occasioned and came by meanes of the Carrying back<br />
(ofeanes of the Carrying back<br />
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