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dutch shipp and required the the sayd de Bart and Thieulieur whome and what they were, and afterwards they had by the meanes aforesayd interrupted the sayd dutch shipp in the course of her voyage, the sayd Master of the dutch shipp being returned on board her, and the sayd man of warr gone, the sayd de Bart and Thieulieur (as they themselves told this deponent) fearing the sayd man of warr might come againe or some other, and doe them injurie, did goe on shoare at the first convenient place they came neere to in ffrance and soe left the sayd dutch shipp And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the 5th hee saith that hee this deponent in the moneth of October last being at Rotterdam and desyrous to gett a passage thence for London could not light of any dutch vessel that went thither, but upon enquirie did heare that here was a dutch vessel bound for Colchester, and this deponent being fearfull to adventure ro passé in any vessel but a dutch vessel did enquire of one Mr William Vander Slusser a dutch man with whome hee was acquainted, whether the sayd vessel bound for Colchester were a dutch vessel and the Master a dutch man and caused the Master to goe with him to the sayd Vander Slusser who upon conference with the sayd Maser did tell this deponent the sayd vessell was a dutch vessell belonging to subjects of the united Provinces and the Master a dutch man and that this deponent might safely take passage in h{X}is and neede not feare any danger from any Spanish men of warr whereupon this deponent imbarqued himself (and some moneys and Cloathes which hee had) in the sayd vessell and departed in her thence bound for Colchester, and saith that in her course towards Coelchester the sayd dutch vessel was surprized by a man of warr in service of the King of Spaine or his subjects and the Company of the sayd mann of warr having boarded the sayd vessel Caused the Master of the the dutch vessel to come on board the man of warr, and show his papers, and in the interim some of the sayd man of warrs company romaged in the hold of the sayd vessel and thense tooke out this deponents apparell linen and woollen and some moneys both silver and gold which was in them, and carried them aboard the sayd man of warr and forced this deponent aboard the man of warr and there rifled him and tooke away his money which hee had about him, and pulled off his breeches and unbuttoned his doublett intending to strip him thereof, but perceaving this deponent not to be well, and unable to endure the cold, some of them who were more civill then the rest did returne this deponent his cloathes which they had stripped him of (they being old and little worth) to cover his nakednesse, and but kept his money and the other Cloathes and money in them which they brought from aboard the sayd dutch vessel, and after they had kept this deponent sometime as a prisoner aboard the Man of warr they forced this deponent to subscribe a noate that hee was an English man borne and then put him on board the sayd dutch vessel againe with only the old cloathes aforesaid on his body and kept all the rest of the cloathes and money
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