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and by meanes of this deponents said relat … and by meanes of this deponents said relation unto the said shipp by<br />
this deponent is well assured, That the said shipp was really designed<br />
to take her Course with her said Lading Directly from this Port<br />
of London to Berghen aforesaid, and that proceeding upon the said<br />
Voiage and being below Gravesend and betweene that place and<br />
Tilbury=hope she was forcibly and violently seized upon by a<br />
little Vessell or private man or warr under the Command<br />
of one Captaine Garrett, (as the Companie of the said<br />
mann of warr affirmed their Commanders name to be) and was by<br />
the said Captaine and Company forcibly conducted to a place<br />
upon the English Coast called Aldfordnesse, the said<br />
Captaine and severall of his Companie in this deponents hearing<br />
affirming, that they made the said seizure by Vertue of a<br />
Commission of or from the king of Sweden, against the Subjects<br />
of the king of denmark, their shipps and goods, or to that<br />
or the Like effect. More to this Interrogatorie hee saith not/:-
To the sixth Interrogatorie hee saith That the said Captaine soe called<br />
by the name of Captaine Garnett att the time of the said<br />
seizure did putt on board the said shipp ''Charity'' eleaven men<br />
of his Companie besides himselfe, who did immediately upon<br />
the said seizure force this deponent and Company below into the<br />
said shipp and there kept them under close restraint, not permitting<br />
them to come upon the decks but by one or two at a time, and keeping<br />
them all close, when any shipp came within sight, and some of<br />
the said Captaines Companie soe sett on board as aforesaid having<br />
pistolls ready charged sometimes in their pocketts and sometimes<br />
in their hands, and Cutlases sometimes by their sides and<br />
sometimes ready drawne menaced to kill or cutt the throats of<br />
this deponent and the said shipps Companie if they made any stirr<br />
or Complaint, or used expressions to that or the like effect<br />
which this deponent well understood, and hath great reason<br />
to remember as being a fellow sufferer in and of the base and<br />
barbarous carriages of the said seizors More to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee this deponent saith not./
To the seaventh Interrogatorie hee saith, That the said Captaine and<br />
Company having brought the said shipp ''Charity'' her ladeing<br />
and shipps Companie to Alfordnesse aforesaid did there<br />
sett this deponent his precontest and two others of the said<br />
shipps Companie on shoare, and did thence carry away,<br />
the said shipp and Lading togeather with the said shipps<br />
Master and Masters mate, and that during such this<br />
deponents restraint as a foresaid, the said seizors or some of them<br />
(didd seizors or some of them<br />
(did +
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