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Transcription

and to give this deponent assurance of his knowledge of what hee said
hee told this deponent that hee lay at haver de Grace side by side with
the said shipp, and had frequent discourse and connversation with
her master, and described the said shipp to this deponent by her markes
and proportions, which this deponent found fully answered in the said
shipp the hare upon his said seizure of her, And further saith that
on the thirtieth day of the same moneth of Aprill this deponent
in the said frigat the Tyger met with Captaine Goulding an English
private man of warr with a prize under his commannd which hee had
newly seized in the sight of this deponent and other commannders of
this commonwealth, as shee was comming from haver de Grace
bound for [??Canada], the master of which named Richard [?ffreer] or [?ffredXXX] being with the said
Goulding commannded aboard, came on board the Tyger, [?whereupon]
this deponent (having the fore said intellegince) examined the said
master in the presence of Captaine Githens and Captaine [?Putter] and
of the said Goulding, touching the said shipp that was soe lading
at haver de Grace, upon which examination the said maseter confessed
and told this deponent that it was true that such a shipp was
there neere laden, and that shee had twenty guns, and fourtie
men onboard, and that all her goods came downe from Roane in
three hoyes, and further old this deponent that her name was
the hare in the feild, and the hare in the feild pictured on
her sterne in carved worke, and that her masters name was
John keine, and that hee was a fatt bigg man, and fully described the
said shipp with all markes and properties, and told this deponent
that shee was laden with ffrench goods and by ffrench merchants;
which merchants (as hee saith) were aboard the said shipp the next
day before the said master soe examined came from haver de Grace
and that hee the said master of the said prize was aboaard with
them, and withall hee told and acknowledged to this deponent
that the said master of the hare in the ffeild, had engaged himself
to the said ffrench marchants to fight his way through against
any shipp that should oppose him. And this deponent asking him
if hee were sure of what hee said, hee answered yea, and
severall times confirmed the same with an oath, and for further
manifestation of his knowledge therein, hee told this deponent that
while hee was with his shipp at haver de Grace hee lay side
by side of the said shipp the hare in the feild on one side
and then a hamburger who went thence foure or five dayes
before him, lay side by side on her other side, and that the said
master of the hare and hee the said master (soe under examination)
called eaach other brother, and further told this deponent
what course the said master of the hare in the feild intended (as
hee had tould him) to steere at her comming out, namely Nore and
by west from the Seine [?head] till shee came neere the coast of
England: And this deponent asking him what hee understood to be
the