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Transcription

was not present at the seizure of the said shipp the Sarah, and therefore
doeth not know, what Colours the said dutch shipps carried at the time of the said seizure, otherwise then that hee hath credibly understood both
by the said Captaine Perkins and by severall of his Companie, that the
said dutch shipps at the time of the said seizure were or carried hte
Holland or Middleborough colours, as this exacte now remembereth
And further cannot depose.

To the 7th article hee saith, That by and according to the confession of the said
John Scroll and seuerall of his companie made to this deponent during his
said imprisonment, hee the said John Scroll was an inhabitant of or
neere Monnickendam in Holland, and that this deponent during his said
restraint well observed, and tooke particualr notice that the said Scroll and
the Gunner, Steersman, Chirurgion, Boatswaine, Carpenter and
Saile-master and many others both Officers and common men aboard
the said shipp were dutchmen subjects of the said States of the United
Netherlands, and that they generally acknowledged themselves to
bee, and that they were sent and employed out of the said United
Provinces for Guinney aforesaid. Hee further saith, That during
such this deponents restraint, the said dutch shipps giving chase to another
English shipp, which has beene trading in those parts of Guinney, and
was then bound there to the East Indies, by name the Lion and
Providence, whereof was Captaine Timothy Craven, the said John
Scroll in this depo:nents sight and observation caused two Gunns to be
fixed at or against the said English shipps with intent to make the
sawe strike the sayle of shew, and that a sword being brandished upon the said English
shipp in manner of defiance, or that they would to their power defend
themselves, as is usually understood in such Cases, thereupon
the said Scroll tooke up a sword and brandishing the same said in dutch
theise words or the like in effect, Ick hebbe meé een sweerdt, ick
sal stracx bÿ ú comen, and soe by the said Scrolls order and direction
severall great gunns were discharged at and against the said English shipp
till such time, as shee was necessitated to submit and surrender to the
said shipp the Mary then Admirall of the said dutch shipps
which during all the said Conflict carried the Spanish Colours, but
when they first espyed any strange shipps, and particularly when any of the
West-India shipps of the said United Netherlands came
neere them, they constantly carried the Middelborough Colours and
saith that that place being beyond the Line, upon occasion of such
meeting, if the said shipps the Mary and Unicorne had been
Spanish, they and the said other Dutch West India shipps
would in all probability, and according to common and usuall custome