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Transcription

the Sarah had likewise been there bartered away and invested in
163- Negroes or thereabouts, and that they were in the quiett and
peaceable possession of the same upon the high and open Seas neere
unto a place called Cape de Lopez in Guiney aforesaid at such time as
the said shipps and their respective Ladings were Surprized and taken
as hereafter reste to bee deduced, And further hee cannot depose

To the 5th Article of the said Allogation hee saith, That in or about the
moneth of September 1656. and upon the 11th day of the said moneth
according to the English style, the said shipp the Rappahannack under
the Conduct of this deponent being at Sea with the said 53. or 54. Negroes
and the residue of the said Cargo. and sayling towards and
being in sight of the said Cape de Lopes upon her quiett and peacable trading
was mett with by to dutch shipps the one called the Mary of
Amsterdam, and the other called the Unicorne of Middleburgh both
of them being commanded by the arlate John Scroll a dutchman
and Subject of the States of the United Provinces, which did then in
a violent and hostile manner sett upon surprize and take the said
shipp the Rappahannacke together with her Tackle furniture and
Negroes and the rest of her lading, and dispoyled and utterly deprived
this deponent and Companie thereof and converted the same to the use
and benefitt of the said John Scroll and Companie. The premisses hee
knoweth by sadd and personall experience. And further saith, That by and
according to the credible relation of the said Arthur Perkins and Companie
the said two dutch shipps in the moneth of August immediately
precedent had alsoe in a violent and
hostile manner assaulted surprized and taken the said shipp the Sarah
and her tackle furniture and Negroes aforesaid, shee being at an anchor
at or neere Cape de Lopes aforesaid, and had dispoyled and deptaved the
said Master and Companie thereof. And that indeed this deponent being
himselfe and his said shipp shortly after suprized and taken as aforesaid
did see the said shipp Sarah in the power and possession of the said
John Scroll and of those under his Command in the said dutch shipps
And further cannot depose:-

To the 6th article hee saith, That the said shipps the Mary and
Unicorne at the time of the surprizall of this deponents said shipp the
Rappahannacke were dutch shipps, that is the Mary was and is a
shipp built at Amsterdam in holland, and the said shipp Unicorne
a shipp which had beene taken by the hollanders or Zealanders from the
Portugueze, and had been repaired and built upon in Zeeland, and saith
That at the time aforesaid both the said shipps carried Spanish Colours,
but the night immediately preceeding the said seizure, this deponent had
seene them carry the Colours of Middleborough in Zeeland, And further
said that the said shipps were from the said United Provinces sett out