HCA 13/71 f.528v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 528 |
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Alex Jackson | |
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2012/12/11 |
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dutch shipp and required the the sayd de Bart and Thieulieur whome and
what they were, and afterwards they had by the meanes aforesayd
interrupted the sayd dutch shipp in the course of her voyage, the
sayd Master of the dutch shipp being returned on board her, and
the sayd man of warr gone, the sayd de Bart and Thieulieur (as
they themselves told this deponent) fearing the sayd man of warr might
come againe or some other, and doe them injurie, did goe on shoare
at the first convenient place they came neere to in ffrance and soe left
the sayd dutch shipp And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 5th hee saith that hee this deponent in the moneth of October
last being at Rotterdam and desyrous to gett a passage thence for London
could not light of any dutch vessel that went thither, but upon enquirie
did heare that here was a dutch vessel bound for Colchester, and
this deponent being fearfull to adventure ro passé in any vessel
but a dutch vessel did enquire of one Mr William Vander Slusser a dutch man
with whome hee was acquainted, whether the sayd vessel
bound for Colchester were a dutch vessel and the Master a dutch man
and caused the Master to goe with him to the sayd Vander Slusser who
upon conference with the sayd Maser did tell this deponent the
sayd vessell was a dutch vessell belonging to subjects of the united
Provinces and the Master a dutch man and that this deponent might
safely take passage in h{X}is and neede not feare any danger from
any Spanish men of warr whereupon this deponent imbarqued
himself (and some moneys and Cloathes which hee had) in the sayd vessell
and departed in her thence bound for Colchester, and saith that in her
course towards Coelchester the sayd dutch vessel was surprized
by a man of warr in service of the King of Spaine or his subjects
and the Company of the sayd mann of warr having boarded the sayd
vessel Caused the Master of the the dutch vessel to come on board the
man of warr, and show his papers, and in the interim some of the sayd
man of warrs company romaged in the hold of the sayd vessel and
thense tooke out this deponents apparell linen and woollen and
some moneys both silver and gold which was in them, and carried them
aboard the sayd man of warr and forced this deponent aboard
the man of warr and there rifled him and tooke away his money
which hee had about him, and pulled off his breeches and
unbuttoned his doublett intending to strip him thereof, but
perceaving this deponent not to be well, and unable to endure
the cold, some of them who were more civill then the rest did
returne this deponent his cloathes which they had stripped
him of (they being old and little worth) to cover his nakednesse, and
but kept his money and the other Cloathes and money in them which they
brought from aboard the sayd dutch vessel, and after they had kept
this deponent sometime as a prisoner aboard the Man of warr
they forced this deponent to subscribe a noate that hee was an English
man borne and then put him on board the sayd dutch vessel againe with
only the old cloathes aforesaid on his body and kept all the rest of the cloathes and
money