Cadiz Dover Porthmouth Holland
''Golden Starr'' or ''Morning Starr'' ''Advantage'' ''Waterhound''
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knowne in Cadiz and other parts of Spayne and in fflanders and other parte beyond the seas, and to the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' And otherwise cannot depose saving that there still is warr betweene England and Holland and that he knoweth the premisses bring one of the Company of the ''Advantage'' and present att the seizure of the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr''. To the fifth sixth seventh and eighth articles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith and deposeth that the shipp the ''Advantage'' being in her course sailing from Dover Road to Porthmouth espyed a shipp making her course to the Eastward or East and by South being the course for Holland, which shipp afterwards proved to be the ''Golden Starr'' arlate, which having this Weather gage of the ''Advantage'' Captaine Mills caused his Holland [Ancyent] to be putt out upon the ''Advantage'' thereby to cause the ''Golden'' ''Starr'' to beare upp to him and withall shott off a gunn, and the sayd shipp ''Golden Starr'' immediately did beare upp to the ''Advantage'' according to expectation, And further saith that the sayd Captaine Mills after his shipp was some within shott videlicet about a quarter of a mile from the ''Golden Starr'' tooke downe his Holland [Ancyent] and putt out the English Colours and Parliament Jack and made a shott att the ''Golden'' ''Starr'' to make her strike, which she did not but putt out a Red flagg with the picture of an hand and sword therein and stood off from the ''Advantage'' and shaped her former Course, whereupon the ''Advantage'' followed after and being some upp with her haled her and bade her strike in the name of the Parliament of England and hoyst out their boat that she might be visited, but the master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' did not onely refuse so to doe by saying they had noe boat whereas it afterwards appeared they had a good one aboard but allso demeanded themselves very insolently against the Parliament and their frigot upon the English coast; the Master of the ''Golden Starr'' clapping his hand upon his breech, and waving his Cutlace over his head, and upon Captaine Mills firing att him agayne to make him submitt to be visited according to reason and custome, firing upon the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' then wearing the Parliaments Colours and fought with her for the space of three of four howres and killed some of her Company, and the sayd Master and Company did their utmost endeavour with their shipp ''Golden Starr'' to sink and destroy the foresayd shipp the ''Advantage'', and the English aboard her All which this deponent knoweth being present in the sayd fight and seeing and well observing the premisses. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the 9 and 10th articles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that during the sayd fight the arlate shipp the ''Waterhound'' and another shipp in the service of this Commonwealth both wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth came upp to the Assistance of the ''Advantage'', and the sayd shipp ''Waterhound'' fell in with the ''Golden Starr'' and fought with her, and the ''Golden Starr'' made severall shotts att the ''Waterhound'' and fought with her, till she was boarded [?suddenly] and taken by the sayd ''Waterhound'', And saith that the foresayd red flag [?XXXX]
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