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as he saith publike and notorious and well … as he saith publike and notorious and well knowne att Cadiz and<br />
other ports of Spaine and in fflanders, and Hamburgh and other<br />
ports and places beyond the seas, and to the Captaine and Company<br />
of the ''Golden Starr'' as he verily beleiveth, the premisses he knoweth<br />
being quartermasters mate of the ''Advantage frigot'' aforesayd<br />
and present aboard her att the fight and seizure aforesayd. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the fifth sixth seventh and eighth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent<br />
saith and deposeth. that the Captaine and Company of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Advantage'' first espyed the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' about 6 or 7 of<br />
the Clock in the morning of the day aforesayd and toward .8. of the<br />
Clock or some thing before came upp with the ''Morning Starr'' or<br />
''Golden Starr''; having before that att a distance shott a warning<br />
peice with powder onely to which the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr''<br />
made answer in a shott of powder in token of freindshipp; And<br />
he saith that the ''Advantage frigott'' when she so came upp with the<br />
''Golden Starr'' wore out the Colours of the Commonwealth onely, and the<br />
Captaine of the ''Advantage'' then haled the ''Morning Starr'', being<br />
neere to her and within hearing and commanded them to strike in the<br />
name of the Parliament of England, and submitt themselves to<br />
be visited, and saith the Captaine of the sayd ''Golden Starr'' in stead<br />
of showing submission to the authority of this Commonwealth being<br />
upon the Coasts of Englands as was demanded of him and is usuall<br />
did in a contemptuous manner returne skurrilous and base language<br />
and in an unbecoming and skornefull and reproach full way<br />
turned downe his breeches, and held upp his bare bumme or<br />
breech to the sayd Captaine Mill and Company, and waved his<br />
Cuttle axe bidding the sayd Captaine Mill Come to Leeward, all<br />
which this deponent saw and observed. And further saith that one<br />
Gunn being fired over the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'', the sayd<br />
Captaine whereof ?hoysed upp a flagg of defiance being a Redd<br />
flagg with the picture of an hand and a sword therein, and immediately<br />
fired a Broad side upon the ''Advantage friggot'' whereupon there<br />
begann a sharpe fight betwixt the sayd shipp the ''Advantage''<br />
''frigot'' wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth and the sayd shipp the<br />
''Golden Starr'' wearing her flagg of defiance, in which fight<br />
two of the Company of the ''Advantage frigot'' lost their lives, and<br />
the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' with their shipp<br />
fought eagerly and did their utmost endeavour to sinke and destroy<br />
the sayd ''Advantage frigot'' with the English aboard her so fighting<br />
ipon the English Coast as aforesd. The premisses this deponent<br />
being present in the sayd fight saw and observed, and knoweth the same to<br />
be true as he hath now declared. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the nyth and tenth he saith that during the sayd fight and about one<br />
of the Clock in the after noone of the . same day, the arlate shipp the<br />
''Waterhound''rlate shipp the<br />
''Waterhound'' +
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