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the sayd shipps company were on shoare upon the shipps occasions came
on board the sayd shipp Redd Rose in a Smack with about thirty seamen and
souldiers and in a violent and hostile manner seized the sayd shipp the Redd
Rose and such of her company as were on board her and her ladeing [?GUTTER]
and sett their souldiers aboard her in a warlike posture and demanded
keys of all the chests truncks boxes and Cupboards in the sayd shipp and [?GUTTER]
of them not being to be had by reason the master and severall of his Company
were on shoare they brake open all such truncks chests boxes and Cupboards
the keys could not be found of and opened the rest with the keys that were aboard and
out of them tooke away all the bills of ladeing, bills of Exchange and
other shipp papers and bonds and bills and other papers found her [?and GUTTER]
many letters which were sent in her from England to be carried to [?the GUTTER]
English Fleete in the Sound all which they carried away and put them on
their Smack and having soe done they commanded the sayd Wilkinson
Johnson and the rest of the Redd Rose her company that were seized aboard her
to weigh her Anchors which they refused to doe and asked the
sayd Wigarts and drewes and their Confederates by what authority and
upon what grounds they did these hostile acts in a [?foul strams] and whether there [where GUTTER]
any wars betwixt England and holland and the sayd Wigarts and
drewes and their confederates called the English aboard her slacks and
houndsfootes and threatned to hange them or inflict some other punishment
upon them if they would not weigh her Anchors and carry her and
her ladeing away and did take sayd Peter Wilkinson the masters
mate and put him aboard their smack and carried him to delfes Isle
and then kept him a prisoner where this deponent shortly after saw
him a prisoner, and the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates
caused that shipps Anchors to be weighed and carried her and her
ladeing to delfes Isle and there cast Anchor with her neere her [?sconce]
there, where this deponent coming with the Master and the rest of the
company that was soe on shoare with him, to delfes Isle saw her
lyeing and after they were admitted to come aboard her found and
sawe that all the sayd chests boxes trunks and Cupboards were broken open
and all letters bills of ladeing bills of Exchange and other papers
were taken away And further to this article he cannot depose./

To the 5th and 6th article hee saith that at such tyme this deponent and
the sayd Lemmon and others of his Company who were on shoare
were suffered to goe on board the sayd shipp Redd Rose they did [?find GUTTER]
and soe that whereas the sayd shipp was soe before such her seizure
by the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates (of this deponents
sight and knowledge) a tight and staunch shipp soe that shee
stood neede of little or noe pumping, and was not alone once
pumped in her voyage from England to Embden, she was after
such her seizure and while she was in their power become soe leakie
and tooke in soe much water that her ladeing (being salt) was
much damified thereby and her company of this deponents
knowledge after such her seizure and the dammage shee receaved
in her hull and otherwise while shee was under their power were
during all the rest of the voyage in question forced to pump out
contineually to preserve her from sinking which dammaged
her hull and otherwise and to her ladeing was as this deponent believing
and hath relibly heard from the sayd John Johnson and others of her
company who were aboard her occasioned by reason that the
sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates did either by their [?XXXXX GUTTER]
or unskillfullness in bringing her to Anchor at or neere delfe Isle
bring her on ground and for want of mooreing of her [?sett GUTTER]
her upon her owne Anchor for that shee twisted the shank [?thereby GUTTER]
and alsoe wrung her on the ground in a strong tyde And [?XXX GUTTER]
saith that the dammage done to the sayd shipp and her ladeing by
the meanes aforesaid did in this deponents Judgement who sawe the
unladeing