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occasioned as aforesayd for want of which ladeing the sayd Lemmon
was (in this deponents judgement) dammified fiftie pounds sterling
and better, which ladeing hee might safely and well have taken aboard
her had not the sayd shipp by the meanes aforesayd bin made soe leakie
And further he cannot depose./

To the 7th article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth
that the next day after the sayd ship the Redd Rose was seized in
manner aforesayd the arlate Edmund Lemmon and this deponent
and his contests Phillip White George Whale John Triggs and John Johnson
and others and two Notaries with them went to delfe Isle after
the sayd shipp and finding her there the sayd Lemmon in presence of
the persons aforementioned and the sayd Notaries demand of the arlate
Wygarts and his associates the cause why they had taken the sayd shipp
away and told them it was an English shipp and that English men
were Owners of her and desyred them to deliver her and her tackle and
furniture and ladeing and all her papers to be delivered back againe
to him, and the sayd Lemmon and this deponent and the rest of the persons
with him offered to goe aboard the sayd shipp but the souldiers
and others who had seized her and were in possession of her would
not suffer them to come aboard her but threatened to shoote them
if they attempted to come aboard, and kept the sayd ship in
their possession about two dayes which hindered the sayd Lemmon and
his Company sixe dayes tyme in getting their ship back to
her ladeing place neere Embden to the great preiudice of the
sayd Lemmon and Company And further hee cannot depose/

To the 8th article and the Schedule annexed therein mentioned and now showed
to him at the tyme of this his examination hee saith that hee
referreth him selfe to the sayd Schedule which hee believeth to be
the protest made by the sayd Lemmon before the two notaries therein
mentioned and that the contents thereof were and are true And further
hee cannot depose./

To the 9th article hee saith that in the tyme the sayd ship Redd Rose did
remain under the seizure of the sayd Wygarts and drewes and their
confederates one of the Mates of the Redd Rose did goe to the sayd shipps
side with intente to fetch his cloathes and defyed leave of the souldiers
and mariners who were on board her and kept her under seizure that hee
might come aboard her to fetch them but the sayd souldiers and
mariners would not permitt him to come aboard nor deliver his cloathes
to him but sett their musketts to his breast and threatened to shoote
him and throw a quarter can of beere in his face and reviled him
and all the English and called them starts and houndsfoots and the
like opprobrious termes and sayd that the English were all Rogues
for that they tooke the Swedes part, this hee deposeth being present in the
same boate wherein the sayd Mate came to the sayd shipp side and seeing
and leaving the same sayd and done as alsoe his contests John Johnson
and William how who were on board the Redd Rose in the nature of prisoners
being aboard her at her seizure, were alsoe present and sawe and heard the
premisses soe acted and heard the sayd words And further he cannot depose./