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the meaning of the master of the hare in the feild to intend that course on the
coast of England, the said master of the said prize answered,
because if hee can come upon the coast of England before hee be
met with by English shipp, hee intended to say hee came from holland
(in case of being met with all by them). ffurther hee told this deponent
that the said shipp the hare in the ffeild had bin at haver de Grace
about six weekes, and would be ready to saile from thence within
foure or five dayes, which accordingly shee did and came
the foresaid course, for thos deponent on the fifth of May at
night about tenn of the clock met her about fifteene leagues
Nore and by west from the Seine head according to the course before
mentioned; And this deponent further saith that on the first day
of May last, hee tooke a vessell called the dolphin; John Johnson master
and Thomas valaron pilote, with which Thomas Valaron this
deponent had bin acquainted for seaven yeares before when this deponent
used to convoy shipps betweene England and ffrance and often met
the said Valaron in the imployment of a pilote, and the said shipp
the dolphin comming from cane where the said Thomas lived, this
deponent asked him when hee had bin at haver de Grace and whether
hee had bin there lately or not, to which hee answered that hee
came from thence not above three or foure dayes before, and this
deponent then enquiring of the said shipp the hare in the feild
the said valaron tould this deponent that shee was there lading
with ffrench mens goods, and that if hee could meete
with her shee sould be as good prize as ever was taken in England
and this deponent asking him if hee were sure shee was wholly
laden with ffrench mens goods, hee answered that hee was sure
that all the merchants were ffrench men and were living in
Roane and Paris, but that most of them in Roane, and this deponent
asking him what merchants they were and if hee knew any of them
hee answered that hee knewe severall of them and named Simon
and david [?Coniers] for two of them, beleaved (as hee said)
that there were at least an hundred ffrench merchants that
had put goods aboard her, and this deponent asking if there were
not some dutch merchants that had put goods aboard her, hee
answered noe, for there were noe dutch merchants living in Roane,
And withall hee described the said shipp the hare in the ffeild by
the same markes and perspectives that the other before [?XXX]
had donne, and beleaved as hee said that shee was bought
of the dutch by ffrench merchants, giving for reason, for that
shee came thither in her ballast and had bin at haver de
Grace above six weekes before shee tooke in her lading, and for that
there were very few of her men that came from Middleborowe
remayning in her. And this deponent
keeping him aboard the Tiger till hee made the said seizure, the
said Valaraon upon the said seizure said that that was the same
shipp, and that upon his life this deponent had taken (in taking
her) as cleare a prize as ever was taken in England. And [?moreover]
both hee the said valaron and the foresaid two masters before examined by this deponent
assured that while the said shipp the hare in the feild lay and was
taking