the sayd shipps company were on shoare upon the shipps occasions came on board the sayd shipp Redd Rose in a Smack with about thirty seamen and souldiers and in a violent and hostile manner seized the sayd shipp the ''Redd'' ''Rose'' and such of her company as were on board her and her ladeing [?GUTTER] and sett their souldiers aboard her in a warlike posture and demanded keys of all the chests truncks boxes and Cupboards in the sayd shipp and [?GUTTER] of them not being to be had by reason the master and severall of his Company were on shoare they brake open all such truncks chests boxes and Cupboards the keys could not be found of and opened the rest with the keys that were aboard and out of them tooke away all the bills of ladeing, bills of Exchange and other shipp papers and bonds and bills and other papers found her [?and GUTTER] many letters which were sent in her from England to be carried to [?the GUTTER] English Fleete in the Sound all which they carried away and put them on their Smack and having soe done they commanded the sayd Wilkinson Johnson and the rest of the ''Redd Rose'' her company that were seized aboard her to weigh her Anchors which they refused to doe and asked the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their Confederates by what authority and upon what grounds they did these hostile acts in a [?foul strams] and whether there [where GUTTER] any wars betwixt England and holland and the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates called the English aboard her slacks and houndsfootes and threatned to hange them or inflict some other punishment upon them if they would not weigh her Anchors and carry her and her ladeing away and did take sayd Peter Wilkinson the masters mate and put him aboard their smack and carried him to delfes Isle and then kept him a prisoner where this deponent shortly after saw him a prisoner, and the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates caused that shipps Anchors to be weighed and carried her and her ladeing to delfes Isle and there cast Anchor with her neere her [?sconce] there, where this deponent coming with the Master and the rest of the company that was soe on shoare with him, to delfes Isle saw her lyeing and after they were admitted to come aboard her found and sawe that all the sayd chests boxes trunks and Cupboards were broken open and all letters bills of ladeing bills of Exchange and other papers were taken away And further to this article he cannot depose./ To the 5th and 6th article hee saith that at such tyme this deponent and the sayd Lemmon and others of his Company who were on shoare were suffered to goe on board the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'' they did [?find GUTTER] and soe that whereas the sayd shipp was soe before such her seizure by the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates (of this deponents sight and knowledge) a tight and staunch shipp soe that shee stood neede of little or noe pumping, and was not alone once pumped in her voyage from England to Embden, she was after such her seizure and while she was in their power become soe leakie and tooke in soe much water that her ladeing (being salt) was much damified thereby and her company of this deponents knowledge after such her seizure and the dammage shee receaved in her hull and otherwise while shee was under their power were during all the rest of the voyage in question forced to pump out contineually to preserve her from sinking which dammaged her hull and otherwise and to her ladeing was as this deponent believing and hath relibly heard from the sayd John Johnson and others of her company who were aboard her occasioned by reason that the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their confederates did either by their [?XXXXX GUTTER] or unskillfullness in bringing her to Anchor at or neere delfe Isle bring her on ground and for want of mooreing of her [?sett GUTTER] her upon her owne Anchor for that shee twisted the shank [?thereby GUTTER] and alsoe wrung her on the ground in a strong tyde And [?XXX GUTTER] saith that the dammage done to the sayd shipp and her ladeing by the meanes aforesaid did in this deponents Judgement who sawe the unladeing
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