Cadiz Spain Flanders England United Provinces
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To the thyrd article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that att the tyme of the sayd seizure and for severall monethes before and since there was and is open war betwixt this Commonwealth and the State of the united Provinces. And the same was and is Notorious, and as he beleiveth well knowne att Cadiz in Spayne and in fflanders and att Hamburgh and other places beyond the seas, and beleiveth the master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' could not probably be ignorant thereof, and soemuch this deponent heard one of the Company of the ''Golden'' ''Starr'' say videlicet that they had notice and well knew that there was warr betwixt England and Holland. and otherwise he cannot depose. To the fourth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the ''Golden Starr'' for and during the tyme she was chased haled and fought by the ''Advantage'' frigott'' was sayling in her direct Course upp the English Channell Eastward and otherwise cannot depose. To the fifth article of the said allegation This deponent saith that the sayd shipp the ''Golden Starr'' being upon the English Seas neere the English shoare and sayling Eastward as aforesayd was haled by the Captain of the ''Advantage'' ''frigot'' in the immediat service of this Commonwealth and wearing the Colors of this Commonwealth. And the sayd Captaine of the ''Advantage'' required the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' in the name of the Parliament of England to submitt themselves to be visited and to send off their shipps boat for that purpose, being an usuall and accumstomed acknowledgement due upon those Seas especially in tymes of warr to all shipps of this Commonwealth that are for the defence thereof sett forth to sea, and imployed by the Supreme Authority of this Nation. And otherwise he cannot depose. To the sixth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that the Commander and Company of the said ''Advantage frigott'' before they made any shott into or against the ''Golden Starr'' first shott one warning [?peite] eyther over or by the ''Golden Starr'' (and not att or into her) onely to give notice to her to stay, And saith that when they in the ''Advantage frigot'' came so neere to the ''Golden Starr'' as that they could hale them and call unto them and att the tyme when they of the ''Advantage frigott'' did first hale the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'', and before they shott att or at(?) or made any broadside against the ''Golden Starr'', the sayd ''Advantage frigot'' had upp aand did weare the Colors of this Commonwealth so that they of the Company of the ''Golden Starr'' and Master thereof might well see and perceyve that the sayd ''Advantage frigot'' and Captaine and Company aboard her were then in the immediat service of this Commnwealth, The premisses This deponent knoweth being one or the Company of the ''Advantage frigott'' and present and aboard her for and during the tyme of of the chaseing and haling and shooting above mentioned. And otherwise cannot depose To the seveneth article of the saith and deposeth that the Captaine or Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' notwithstanding the premisses did not nor would not strike to the sayd Commonwealths frigott, nor submitt themselves to be visited nor send out their boat as they were required to doe but denyed that they had any boat aboard whereas they had then as afterwards appeared a good and sufficient boat, which the Captaine and Company of the ''Advantage'' did after the seizure make use of. And saith the sayd Captaine or Master of the ''Golden Starr'' did not onely refuse to be visited but carryed himselfe very insolentlly towards this Authority of this Commonwealth in that when he was haled by the sayd ''Advantage frigott'' wearing the Colors of this Commonwealth in the name of
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