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Colours and seeing an other shipp with Eng … Colours and seeing an other shipp with English Colours lye neere them, tooke<br />
them for freinds, and came a Sterne of the ''Mary'', and thereupon the arlate John<br />
Scroll the Master of the ''Mary'' and Commander (as afterwards appeared both<br />
of her and the ''Unicorne'') did (as the manner is at Sea) hale the ''Sarah'' and<br />
salute her in freindly sort with a peere of Ordnance, and asked from whence shee<br />
was and whether bound and was answered that shee was of London<br />
and them the Master of the ''Sarah'' haled the sayd Scroll and asked him<br />
whence his shipps were and he replyed of Middleborough in Zeland<br />
and thereupon the Master of the ''Sarah'' conceiving them to bee friends and<br />
seeing they bore dutch colours flying and were dutch built shipps<br />
saluted them againe with a peere of ordanance and drew neere and<br />
came to Anchor by them and began to prepare their caske in a readinesse<br />
and bring it upon deck in order to carrie it a shoare in their boate<br />
to take in fresh water and while they were soe doeing and busied<br />
thereabout and not mindeing what the sayd Scrolle and his Companys of<br />
the ''Mary'' and ''Unicorne'' were about to doe, the sayd Scroll manned out<br />
a boate with about forty armed men, who suddainly came on board<br />
the ''Sarah'' and surprized her and her ladeing, pretending that they<br />
the sayd Scroll and his Companyes had commission soe to doe from the<br />
King of Spaine, but being required to show such their<br />
Commission they refused to showe it, and having in this trecherous<br />
manner surprized the sayd shipp ''Sarah'' and all her ladeing of Negroes<br />
Elephants teeth and other goods aboard her they converted the same to<br />
their owne use and dispoiled the Master and Company of the<br />
''Sarah'' of all their ladeing and the sayd shipp ''Sarah'', and of their<br />
Cloathes and other Adventures they had on board, and kept them<br />
prisoners, And hee saith that while hee was a prisoner hee heard<br />
the sayd Scroll and others of the sayd ship the ''Maries'' Company<br />
confesse that hee the sayd Scroll was a dutchman and subject of<br />
the States of the United Provinces and borne and lived at or neere Minikin=<br />
damme arlate, and that the ''Mary'' belonged to Amsterdam and was<br />
a dutch shipp and that one Vandergoose a dutchman subject of the sayd<br />
States was one of her Owners, and that shee came from Amsterdam<br />
victualled manned and cargoed from thence bound upon a tradeing voyage to<br />
Ardo in Guinney and other places for Negroes, and that the ''Unicorne'' was<br />
alsoe a dutch shipp belonging to subiects of the sayd states, and bound in<br />
Company with the ''Mary'' upon the like designe, and was alsoe under Command<br />
of the sayd Scroll, and did heare the Mates and Gunners and other Officers of<br />
the sayd shipps confesse that they were all dutchmen and borne in the<br />
dominions of the states of the sayd United provinces, and by their lingua and<br />
habbitt alsoe appeared to bee so, And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose saving hee saith that about sixe weekes after the surprizall of the<br />
''Sarah'' the sayd Scrawle did with the sayd shipp ''Unicorne'' (hee goeing then as Commander<br />
in her) seize the ''Rapahannack'' arlate (neere Cape Lopez and all her ladeing<br />
but whether the ''Unicorne'' then boare the dutch Colours or how many negroes or<br />
what other goods were surprized aboard the ''Rapahannack'' hee knoweth not/board the ''Rapahannack'' hee knoweth not/ +
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