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backs And this being done and all things p … backs And this being done and all things portable hidd and putt out of [?the GUTTER]<br />
way as well as they could, the Manne of warr aforesayd came neere and<br />
haled the sayd dutch shipp shee having then her dutch Colours upon her<br />
Mast, and asked whense shee was and with what laden and whether bound and was answered by the Master of her<br />
that shee belonged to Rotterdam and that her ladeing was oyle and whale bone<br />
and that shee was bound for Roane, which notwithstanding the<br />
Captaine of the sayd man of warr coammanded the Master of the sayd<br />
dutch vessell to hoyste out his owne boate and come on board the mann<br />
of warr and bring his papers with him which the Master accordingly did.<br />
And being come on board the man of warr they kept him there<br />
some tyme, and in the meane tyme sent two or three of the man of warrs<br />
company in the dutch shipps boate aboard the dutch shipp and they<br />
being aboard her went into the masters Cabbin and downe into the hold and<br />
searched up and downe the shipp to soe what goods shee had,<br />
and asked the sayd Mr ffownes and others aboard the sayd shipp whome<br />
and what they were, and having spent some tyme in thus doeing and<br />
thereby hindred and interrupted the sayd dutch shipp in the Course<br />
of her voyage they carried away some few utensells belonging to the<br />
sayd dutch shipp as a scoope and a mapp pretending that they wanted such,<br />
these premisses hee deposeth of<br />
his sight and knowledge being aboard the sayd dutch shipp And saith<br />
that the Master of the dutch shipp afterwards coming againe aboard his owne shipp<br />
sayd, that while hee was on board the mann of warr, although<br />
hee had made it appeare by his writings that his shipp and<br />
goods did not belonge to any enymies of the King of Spaine but<br />
ought by the league aforesayd to bee free, yet some of the Company<br />
of the man of warr did put their hands into his pocketts and tooke out<br />
his knife and would have kept it, but upon his Complainte to the<br />
Captaine of the man of warr hee caused them to restore it to him<br />
againe, And the sayd<br />
Mann of warr being gone the Master of the dutch shipp and some of the mariners told this<br />
deponent and the sayd Mr Le Thieulieur and Mr ffownes that they<br />
feared the sayd Man of warr would not leave the sayd dutch shipp<br />
soe, but would come againe at night whereupon this deponent and<br />
the sayd Thieulieur and ffownes and one Mr Edward Slaughter a<br />
passenger in the sayd dutch shipp went in a fisherman that<br />
laye hard by, on shoare at Mitsout a smale village betwixt Boloigne<br />
and Callice and tooke their Portmantuaes a longe with them And soe<br />
left the sayd shipp./
To the 5th hee saith hee cannot of his certayne Knowledge depose any<br />
thing to this article but saith that the arlate Nathaniell denew (whom this<br />
deponent knoweth to bee a Merchant of London) told this deponent<br />
that about November last hee the sayd denew having shipped<br />
him selfe at Rotterdam to come thense for Colchester<br />
the sayd shipp was mett with by a man of warr belonging to<br />
dunkirk or Ostend and to subiects of the King of Spaine and that they<br />
plunderedSpaine and that they<br />
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