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1. sxxxx other ˹hee other˺ vessells which were in Company of the said xxxKerKhoff
2. who albeit hee sawe the said hant, and the said fflemings attaque the
3. said shipp union, and other XXXXh two vessells, went his way with two dutch
4. shipps under convoy of his man of warr; with out endeavouring any
5. defence of the union or other free shipps be attaqued, nor making any
6. resestance of the said fflemish men of warr, who presenth XX surpirized
7. and tooke the union with her ladeing of sugars, tobaccoes, and coales,
8. and other goods and the said two other vessellls and their ladeing, and caried
9. them to dunkirke, which hee knoweth being them aboard the union whatt
10. that was to be taken and ˹was˺ carried to dunkirke in her and thene night facced

11. To the third hee saith that if the said kirkhoffs man of warr and the
12. two dutch vessells in his company had staid by and stad to the union and
13. the said other two scots vessells, hee beleeveth they had bin able to have
14. with stand and repelled the said three fflemish man of warr, and soo have
15. preserved the union and her ladeing and the said other two scotts vessells
16. from the said seizure. and with that there was a great deale of
17. money aboard the buitie when this was so taken, some belonging to
18. Marchants and some to passengers, besides goods of a very considerable
19. value hee but the trueth certemisia of the said value hee cannot estimate being
20. hee this Xhanont lost five hundred markes (scots) in money amounting
21. to about 28 li sterling. lind saith that after such bringing in this
22. said vessell the union into dunkirke namely about a fortnight after
23. such bringing of her in, hee was sold to Zealanders, belonging to fflushing
24. or Neideleborowe, and was carried to Neideleboroune, which hee knoweth
25. being than at dunkirke, and otherwisehee cannot depose not knowing
26. her owners, but saith they are accounted to be all of scotland.

Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin

XXatt XXX [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day

examined on the sayd interrogatories

Rp 3

James Hallon of Kircawdy in Scotland mariner

examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

32. To the 1 interrogatorie hee saith hee well know the union interrogate
33. whereof the interrogate John Tennant was master hee this deponent being
34. a passenger in her bound for Rotterdam the voyage wherein shee was seized
35. and saith XX he know hee know alsoe the vessell of warr interrogate
36. whereof xxx interrogate kerkXX and ˹that˺ easily she was a hollands man
37. of warr beloning to the towne of Rotterdam and carried eight sixe
38. or eight gunnes and about fifty men, and saith shee came convoy
39. to a fleet of scotch and dutch shipps from Rotterdam aforesayd and other parties
40. adiacent and convoyed and b rought them into the River of fflorth in scotland to
41. Borastonnesse, and there lay about the letter and of ffebruary 1655 and
42. continued in the sayd River till about the 8th or 9th of march next after,
43. in which tyme (as this deponent hath credibly heard) the Commander of the
44. sayd Holland man of warr being desyrous to get another fleets to convoy
45. thense to Rotterdam and parties thereabouts did signifie by letter to masters of
shipps

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