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