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Transcription

and the rest videlicet the eight Negroes and the other five hundred pounds worth
of Elephants teeth for Accompt of this deponent as Master and Supracargo
and were in quiett and peaceable possession thereof, at Cape
Lopus arlate And further to this article hee cannot depose.

To the 5th 6th and seaventh articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the
Ship Sarah with the sayd Negroes and Elephants teeth on board her
and some part of her on board Cargoe also on board to the value
of about two or three hundred pounds which was then unbartered away
came to Cape Lopus (intending there to take in
fresh water and soe to proceede on her voyage for Virginia) and there found
the arlate Shipps the Mary of Amsterdam (whereof the arlate John Scroll
was Commander and another Shipp (whereof hee beleeveth the sayd Scroll was
also Commander for that hee afterwards saw him goe a board her and give Command
to his company as Commander alsoe of her) lying at Anchor, and having
both of them dutch colours, and all their officers dutchmen, and divers of
their mariners dutchmen, and this deponent seeng their dutch colours and
observing them to bee dutch built shipps and soe beleeving them to bee
friends, came under the sterne of the Mary and thereupon the sayd Scroll
haled this deponent and asked him whence his shipp (meaning the Sarah)
was, and whether bound, and this deponent thereto answered and told him hee
was of London and bound for Virginia, and this deponent then hayled
him the sayd Scroll, and asked him whence his shipp was and whether
bound, whereto hee answered that shee was of Middleborough and
bound for Ardo a place in Guinney to trade for Negroes, and thereupon
the sayd Scrawle (sic) (as the Custome at Sea amongst nations in enmity is)
dranke to this deponent and saluted him with the discharge of a gunne, and,
this deponent returned the like salute to him againe, and then came to
anchor very neere the Mary and began to prepare their empty Casks in a
readynesse to put into their boate to be carried on shoare and filled with
fresh water, and this deponent and Company being busied thereabout,
and the shipp being [?pastered] upon the deck with empty casks and other things and
soe not observing what the sayd Scroll was about to doe, the sayd Scroll
sent his boate with his steeresman and about thirty or forty men and
upon the second of August one thousand and sixe hundred fifty six entered upon the shipp Sarah before this deponent or her Company were
aware of them, and being gott on board cryed out [?amayne], for the
King of Spaine, you doggs, and then presently the sayd Scroll caused
the dutch Colours in his shipp the Mary to be taken downe, and the
ragged staffe (being the dunkirke Colours) to bee sett up, and in this
manner and by these meanes violently and in a hostle manner surprized
and seized the sayd shipp the Sarah within the moneths and tyme arlate
at Cape Lopes aforesayd with all her tackle apparell furniture
and ladeing of Negroes and other goods, and converted the same to
the benefitt of him the sayd Scroll and his Company, and this deponent
seeing the Sarah and her ladeing be trecherously surprized desyred the sayd
Scroll and one John Richie who pretended to bee Commander of the other
dutch shipp in Company with the sayd Scroll and was [XXX]ing and assisting in the surprizall
of the Sarah, to show their Comission by authority whereof they did soe make seizure
of