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The same day, Examined upon the sayd alleg … The same day, Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''2'''
'''Jan Peterson''' of Hamburgh mariner Stiersman of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Fortune'' aged three and twenty yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the .1 .2 .3 and 4th Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith, That the sayd shipp<br />
''Fortune'' sailing from France with her lading of wynes under the Command of<br />
his Precontest as Master of her and ćoming for the duines was about the end of<br />
January last past seized by the ''dartmouth frigot'' arlate. And he saith That<br />
of his certayne knowledge and by vertue of his Oath that the shipp ''Fortune''<br />
or her Master or Company did not any way oppose the sayd frigot nor fly away from<br />
her, but being summoned did strike her maine topsayle and soone after<br />
her foresayle and willingly submitted to be visited and seized by the Company<br />
of the sayd frigot that came on board her for that purpose. And that the sayd<br />
sayles being so strucke continued so till the seizure, and that there was noe<br />
fault in the sayd Master or Company of the ''Fortune'' or any neglect of duty as<br />
concerning the striking of their sayles. Which this deponent being the<br />
Steersman of the sayd shipp and seeing the sayd passages knoweth to be true<br />
And otherwise cannot depose.
To the Cross Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the 1 and 2. Interrogatories he saith there was neyther Chase, nor flight in the busines in<br />
question, and saith that he guesssed the sayd frigot to be about a mile from shore<br />
when he first saw the same, and the ''Fortune'' when she was boarded was<br />
about a mile from shoare. And the Frigot he saith shot twice, and the ''Fortune''<br />
att the first shot immediately struck her maintopsayle, and upon the second shot<br />
immediately stuck her foresayle, And the sayd shipp and frigott att such tyme of<br />
striking were att an ordinary shotts distance, the sayd frigott wearing the<br />
English Colours all the tyme. And otherwise saving as aforesayd he cannot answere
[?Jon PXXXXon] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the sayd allegation
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'''Jan Dirickson''' of Modenblick in holland Mariner aged one<br />
and twenty yeares sworne and examined saith. as followeth. videlicet
To the sayd allegation and severall articles Therein, This deponent saith. That about the<br />
end of January last past the sayd shipp ''Fortune'' and her lading of wines were seized<br />
by the ''dartmouth frigot'' arlate. And he saith That the sayd shipp did make noe [?manner GUTTER]<br />
of opposition against, nor did fly from the sayd frigot att all, but was visited and<br />
seized. without any force, or opposition of her master daniel Egerson or any of<br />
his Company. ffor he saith That immediately upon the first warning the sayd Egerson<br />
caused his maintopsayle to be lowered, and soone after struck his foresayle and<br />
continued both the sayd sayle so strucken, so as some of the company of the sayd<br />
frigott came presently on board the ''Fortune'' without any opposi[?tion GUTTER]<br />
and so seized her and her lading and brought the same in to the downes. And there<br />
was noe fault or neglect in the sayd Egerson or his Company at all in the premisses<br />
And this he knoweth to be true being Cooke in and of the sayd shipp and seeing<br />
and well remembring the foresayd passgaes. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the Crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the sayd Interrogatories hee saith. That the sayd frigot, from her first discovery by the ''Fortune''<br />
to the sayd seizure, had out the English Colours and there was not any chase made att all<br />
but the ''Fortune'' sayled up directly for the duines meeting the sayd frigot that ćame that [?way GUTTER]<br />
and the sayd frigot was neere the shoare att her first being so discovered, and took[?e GUTTER]<br />
the ''Fortune'' about a small dutch mile from the shoare, And further he saith [?that GUTTER]<br />
the ''fortune'' upon her first summons by a shott from the frigot presently lowered her<br />
top sayle, and soone after upon a second like summons lowered her foresayle<br />
att which tymes the sayd shipp and frigott were about musket shott assunder or [?not GUTTER]<br />
much more. And otherwise he cannot answer.
Jan dirckson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]answer.
Jan dirckson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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