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Ad dra Interria rendet That hee hath known … Ad dra Interria rendet That hee hath knowne and sailed in the Interrate ship the<br />
''Seaven Starres'' Paul [?Speices] Skipper for about a yeere last and<br />
came first onboard her at Memblick in Holland and<br />
saith that the said ship is a Dutch ship and is good prize for hee saith that shee<br />
belongeth to subjects of the United Provinces living in Middleborow in<br />
Zealand, and the said ship is called the ''7 Starrs'' of Middleborowe and saith that<br />
hee this deponent and one more of her Company are of Norway all the rest of the<br />
said shipps Company are Dutch, subjects of the United Provinces, and saith that the said<br />
shipp was met with by an English ffrigot on yesterday was sennight<br />
from which frigot they endeavoured to Escape by flying, and alsoe by fighting<br />
and fought her above four howers and shott many gunns at the said frigot<br />
and as the Gunner of the ''Seaven Starrs'' sayd they fired threescore and ten at her<br />
but the Master being killed and one of her Company qounded the Masters Mate<br />
cryed Quarter, and soe they were taken and saith that the said shipp ''Seaven Starrs''<br />
had then a Commission from Holland onboard to take the English but shee never tooke that he knoweth<br />
of but one Ship which was a Scotchman bound to the Indias<br />
Out of which they tooke some Provisions and soe let her goe and this was done<br />
about eight dayes before the ''Seaven Starrs'' was taken and as hee was coning<br />
from Bourdeaux which was the last Port that shee was at before seizure where<br />
shee tooke in Wine and Brandywine which was to be delivered at Middleborowe<br />
for the account of Dutch men Subjects of the said States, but the names of them<br />
hee knoweth not, nor the name of the Lader, but hee [?saw] that hee was a Dutchman and<br />
liveth at Middleborowe and went from Bourdeaux overland there And<br />
further saith that when the said ship was seized shee had three Anchors two Cables one of which is very good<br />
and some good Sailes and some old ones and good rigging and saith that the said time<br />
of her seizure shee had betweene Decks about Ninety nine<br />
[?peeces] of Brandy and nothing els but Provisions, et alr nescit
Interpreted by me<br />
John de Laluce [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
Signum dei [MARKE] Rolof Halvers[?on] [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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Eadem dia [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup Interrys prod Examinat:
'''3.'''
'''Johes Moroan''' da Hague in Holland Mercator<br />
ubi natus fuit, annos agens 17 aut eo circiter dicit et<br />
deponit prout sequitur videlicet
Ad dia Interria rendet That hee knewe not the ship Interrate the ''Seaven''<br />
''Starrs'' Paul Spencer late Master before her being at Bourdeaux [?last] voyage where hee imbarqued himselfe to goe as a passenger in hher to Middleborowe and<br />
saith that there shee was that voyage laden by his this deponents [?said] Master<br />
Adrian Runsdink then being at Bourdeaux but living at Middleborowe in<br />
Zealand where his father liveth and the said Adrian Runsdink is now<br />
gone overland thither, and saith that hee laded the ship upon the account of<br />
subjects of the United Provinces living in Zealand and the said ship was<br />
really bound to Middleborowe in Zealand and there was to deliver her said lading<br />
which consited of about fourscore or fourscore and ten peeces of Brandy<br />
and about 140 or 150 Tonnes of wine which the said ship had<br />
on board her at her seizure and saith that all or mmost of the said Brandy was<br />
betweene decks and saith that her said seizure happened on fryday [?XXX]<br />
of this month old stile and was made by one of the frigott of his Majesty of<br />
England which [?the ?said] ''Seaven Starrs'' opposed and fought with for the Space of about foure<br />
howers, and fired gunns as fast as shee could at her, and fired at least<br />
thirty or fourty at her as hee judgeth, but the Master being killed and one of his<br />
company wounded they fired but a fewe funns<br />
at her afterwards but submitted, And saith that the said ship had [?then] in her about three<br />
Anchorsen] in her about three<br />
Anchors +
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