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To the third and fourth articles hee saith … To the third and fourth articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
within the foresaid time, and more particularly in the<br />
moneth of May 1654 (old stile) the said ship being in<br />
her Course of proceding with her said lading from ffyuall<br />
for this Port was neere the Streights mouth met with by<br />
a Dutch ship (whereof Captaine Albert Cock was Comander)<br />
named the ''Golden Dove'' or ''Revenge'' having about thirty Gunns<br />
And that the said Captaine Cock and Company in<br />
and with the said ship the ''Golden dove'' or ''Revenge'' then and there<br />
set upon, surprized and by force tooke the said ship<br />
the ''Packet ffrigot'', with all her said Lading and carryed<br />
them to Cadiz in Spaine where the said Master and<br />
Company were turned out of her, and the said<br />
ship and goods detained and possessed by the said<br />
Captaine Cock and Company. All which hee knoweth<br />
being aboard the said ''Packet ffriggot'', at the time of<br />
the said seizure, and Carried to Cadiz in the man<br />
of warr, in the said ship's Company. And saith<br />
that the said Captaine at the time of the<br />
said seizure, and alsoe severall of his Company<br />
said and declared that they were Hollanders or<br />
Subjects of the States of the United Netherland<br />
Provinces, And that their said man of war was set<br />
out, and the said seizure made by vertue of a Commission<br />
from the said States, And otherwise hee cannot depose<br />
saving that to his remembrance, it was on the thirteenth<br />
or foureteenth day of May 1654: that the said seizure<br />
was soe made.
To the 6th 6th and 7th articles hee saith that after such bringing<br />
of the said ship into Cadiz with her said lading, the said<br />
Edward harrison the master by meanes and endeavours there<br />
used recovered the said shipp and some of her goods againe, but<br />
severall of her goods and merchandizes were taken away and<br />
embeazeld by the said takers, or were wanting and the said owners<br />
deprived thereof by meanes of the said seizure, namely eleaven tonnes<br />
and fourteene gallons of the said oile, which was worth<br />
and would here have yeelded at such time as the said shipp would here<br />
in all probabilitie have arived (if the said seizure and interuption had<br />
not happened) fiftie pounds per tonne one tonne with another, and<br />
after the rate for a lesse proportion, more one hundred fourtie wine<br />
barrells of anchovas, which were worth and would [?then] alsoe have here<br />
yeelded?then] alsoe have here<br />
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