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being a flag of defiance ws and remayned tt the main top mast head of the ''Golden Starr' untaken downe will she was subdued and then the same was take downe by some of the English other of the ''Waterhound'' or ''Advantage'' that made the seizure, which this deponent being present well saw and of[?] [?] And otherwise he cannot depose saving that the Company of the ''Golden Starr'' might well see and propose[?] that the sayd shipp the ''Waterhound'' and the other shipp that came into the assistance of the ''Advantage'' as aforesaid were shipps of warr in the immediate service of this Commonwealth as this deponent beleiveth. To the 11th and 12th he sith he knoweth nothing thereof To the last he saith his deposition are true. To the Cross Interrogatories To the 1.2.3.4.5 and 6. Interrogatories he saith there was not any other shipp or shipps engaged in takign the ''Golden Starr'' but the ''Advantage'' and ''Waterhound'' aforesayd onely. And saith that the sayd shipps ''Advantage or ''Waterhound'' were att the tyme of the fight [?] of an Holland or fflemish [?] and building. And saith that he this Rendent was one of the ''Advantage''s or her Company and was present aboard her from the beginning to the end of this sayd fight and was present att the tyme of seizure and thereby knoweth that the ''Advantage'' frigot chased saled and fought with the ''Golden Starr'' neere four houres before the ''Waterhound'' came into her Assistance And otherwise he cannot depose. To the 7. Interrogatory he saith that the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' att the tyme she shott towards the ''Golden Starr'' to cause her to beare up to the ''Advantage'' being then att a great distance and out of shott, did weare out the holland Colors but saith that the sayd shipp ''Advantage'' att the tyme of haling, first shooting att and fighting with the ''Golden Starr'' did weare the English Colors or Colors of this Comonwealth onely. and otherwise negtively. To the 8 nd 9th Interrogatories he saith and deposeth that the sayd shipp the ''Golden'' ''Star'' after she [?] that the ''Advantage'' was an English man of [war?] did endeavor to [?] her by keeping on her Course for Holland; And saith that the fight began in this manner [?] the ''Advantage'' first fired one Gun with bullett att the ''Morning Starr'' and she returned another shott with a bullett att the ''Advantage'', and after a bullett or two more mutually exchanged the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' fired a broad side again[st] the ''Golden Star', and the ''Golden Starr'' forth [?] fired a broad side against the ''Advantage'', and so the fight proceeded at broadside to broadside[?] till the ''Waterhound'' came in to the Assistance of the ''Advantage'' as aforesaid. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the 10th Interrogatory he saith that a shipp fighting under false colors is [?] [?] [?] a pyrate or searover[?], but so is not a shipp that hates[?] another under one Port or kind of Colors and afterwards puts out new and different colors and[?] colors if any Republiq Prince or State different from the colors of the first republique Prince or State, but saith the practice as now [?] a [?] on fhlagen of war, hounded he saith the ''Advantage'' did weare onely the English Colors when she first haled the ''Golden'' ''Star'' as aforesaid. And otherwise he cannot depose.
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