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Transcription

The 26th of September 1660.

Touching the Reformation aforesaid}

Rp.

4

John Wyvill of London Merchant aged 35 yeares or
thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knoweth the said shipp the Reformation (Edward Beryman commannder)
in her late voyage wherein shee was seized, and came passenger in her the said
voyage from the Levant where shee hadtaken in her lading of silkes cotton
cotton yarne, gawles and severall other Merchandizes bound for this port of
London where shee was to discharge, for the account of Sir William Vincent
knight William Dennis, Henry Spurstow and company all Englishmen and
subiects of his Majestie the King of England, And saith that comming
to the Streights mouth namely on the fifteenth of May last the said shipp
was met with by a shipp of warr of two and thirtie peeces of
ordnance and twpo hundred and eightie men Holland built called by the name
Maria whereof one Laurance Andries or Andersson was commannder
which upon this deponents first descrying of her had two Hollands colours
aboard, and comming near and being haled by the Reformation and demand
made whence shee was, answer was retourned from her that shee was of
Amsterdam and was a States-man of warr, and therewith perceiving
the Reformation to be an English shipp shee stood off a little, and then
fell a little asterne untill shee came even with the ;Reformations
quarter, and then shee tooke in her Hollands flagg and put out
the Ensigne of the Ragged staff, and forthwith fired a volley of small
shott and

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