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was not present at the seizure of the said … was not present at the seizure of the said shipp the ''Sarah'', and therefore<br />
doeth not know, what Colours the said dutch shipps carried at the time of the said seizure, otherwise then that hee hath credibly understood both<br />
by the said Captaine Perkins and by severall of his Companie, that the<br />
said dutch shipps at the time of the said seizure were or carried hte<br />
Holland or Middleborough colours, as this exacte now remembereth<br />
And further cannot depose.
To the 7th article hee saith, That by and according to the confession of the said<br />
John Scroll and seuerall of his companie made to this deponent during his<br />
said imprisonment, hee the said John Scroll was an inhabitant of or<br />
neere Monnickendam in Holland, and that this deponent during his said<br />
restraint well observed, and tooke particualr notice that the said Scroll and<br />
the Gunner, Steersman, Chirurgion, Boatswaine, Carpenter and<br />
Saile-master and many others both Officers and common men aboard<br />
the said shipp were dutchmen subjects of the said States of the United<br />
Netherlands, and that they generally acknowledged themselves to<br />
bee, and that they were sent and employed out of the said United<br />
Provinces for Guinney aforesaid. Hee further saith, That during<br />
such this deponents restraint, the said dutch shipps giving chase to another<br />
English shipp, which has beene trading in those parts of Guinney, and<br />
was then bound there to the East Indies, by name the ''Lion'' and<br />
''Providence'', whereof was Captaine Timothy Craven, the said John<br />
Scroll in this depo:nents sight and observation caused two Gunns to be<br />
fixed at or against the said English shipps with intent to make the<br />
sawe strike the sayle of shew, and that a sword being brandished upon the said English<br />
shipp in manner of defiance, or that they would to their power defend<br />
themselves, as is usually understood in such Cases, thereupon<br />
the said Scroll tooke up a sword and brandishing the same said in dutch<br />
theise words or the like in effect, Ick hebbe meé een sweerdt, ick<br />
sal stracx bÿ ú comen, and soe by the said Scrolls order and direction<br />
severall great gunns were discharged at and against the said English shipp<br />
till such time, as shee was necessitated to submit and surrender to the<br />
said shipp the ''Mary'' then Admirall of the said dutch shipps<br />
which during all the said Conflict carried the Spanish Colours, but<br />
when they first espyed any strange shipps, and particularly when any of the<br />
West-India shipps of the said United Netherlands came<br />
neere them, they constantly carried the Middelborough Colours and<br />
saith that that place being beyond the Line, upon occasion of such<br />
meeting, if the said shipps the ''Mary'' and ''Unicorne'' had been<br />
Spanish, they and the said other Dutch West India shipps<br />
would in all probability, and according to common and usuall customeand according to common and usuall custome +
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