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should have it. And further to theise articles hee cannot depose for that hee did not goe in Companie with the said french Captaines aboard the said English men of warr:/ To the 9th hee saith, that the said shipp the ''Golden Eagle'' was and is a Vessell of about 100. tunnes having aboard her at the time aforesaid 12. gunns, and ninety foure men, and the said shipp the ''Royall'' ''Marie'' was and is a Vessell of about one hundred men, and saith that either of the said Vessell or shipps of warr was able enough alone and by her owne proper strength then aboard her to have possessed her selfe by force of The said shipp ''fortune''; if they had not bin hindered by the said English frigatt, And saith, the said shipp ''Golden Eagle'' had her Commission from the king of ffrance aboard her the time shee chased the said shipp ''fortune'', which this deponent often saw and observed, and beleeveth the said shipp ''Royall'' had also her Commission then aboard her. And further cannot depose:- To the 10th hee saith, That hee verily beleeveth, that according to the Course the said shipp ''fortune'' shaped when first espyed by the said frenchmen of warr, shee was directly bound for dunquirke or some other Port in fflanders in obedence to the king of Spain, and beleeveth the wynes and goods aboard her did belong to fflandrians subjects of the said king. And otherwise saving his foregoing deposition hee saith hee cannot depose:- To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./ '''Rowe dt.''' To the Crosse interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING] To the first hee saith, hee never know the shipp ''fortune'' interrate shee was chased by the said frenchmen of warr. To the second hee saith was not in ffrance at the lading of the goods interrate, nor knoweth the interrate Mr Ba[?st]erode, Mr Coppen nor Cover[?t] Lamerts, nor what Countriemen, or whose subjects they are To the third hee saith , that the lading of the said shipp fortune consisted in wynes of Nantes, and were bound for dunquirke or some other that the king of Spaines ports in fflanders for the accompt of fflandrians, as this rendent verily beleeveth), but for whole particular accompt hee saith had knoweth not, And further cannot depose, having never bin aboard the said shipp ''fortune'', and knowing of a nothing of any papers or writings found aboard her at her said late seizure./ To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./ To the 5th hee saith, that the said shipp ''fortune'' and ladeing were seized by the said English friggat betwixt the downes and dover, about a league and a half from Dover and not under the command of any English fort or Castle but that 5. or 6 English shipps of the fleete of this Commonwealth at Anchor in the Downes, when the said shipp ''fortune'' was so seized as aforesayd, about 2. leagues distance from the said seizure To the 6th hee saith, the said frenchmen of warr never left chasing the said shipp ''fortune'' till such time, as shee was seized by the said English frigatt, and that they pursed her till about a league and a half from Dover but not within the command of any English fort or Castle, nor of any shipp of the fleete of this Commonwealth then lyeing in the Downes for the defence thereof./ the marke of Eustace [MARKE] Bennard [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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