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Colours and seeing an other shipp with English Colours lye neere them, tooke
them for freinds, and came a Sterne of the Mary, and thereupon the arlate John
Scroll the Master of the Mary and Commander (as afterwards appeared both
of her and the Unicorne) did (as the manner is at Sea) hale the Sarah and
salute her in freindly sort with a peere of Ordnance, and asked from whence shee
was and whether bound and was answered that shee was of London
and them the Master of the Sarah haled the sayd Scroll and asked him
whence his shipps were and he replyed of Middleborough in Zeland
and thereupon the Master of the Sarah conceiving them to bee friends and
seeing they bore dutch colours flying and were dutch built shipps
saluted them againe with a peere of ordanance and drew neere and
came to Anchor by them and began to prepare their caske in a readinesse
and bring it upon deck in order to carrie it a shoare in their boate
to take in fresh water and while they were soe doeing and busied
thereabout and not mindeing what the sayd Scrolle and his Companys of
the Mary and Unicorne were about to doe, the sayd Scroll manned out
a boate with about forty armed men, who suddainly came on board
the Sarah and surprized her and her ladeing, pretending that they
the sayd Scroll and his Companyes had commission soe to doe from the
King of Spaine, but being required to show such their
Commission they refused to showe it, and having in this trecherous
manner surprized the sayd shipp Sarah and all her ladeing of Negroes
Elephants teeth and other goods aboard her they converted the same to
their owne use and dispoiled the Master and Company of the
Sarah of all their ladeing and the sayd shipp Sarah, and of their
Cloathes and other Adventures they had on board, and kept them
prisoners, And hee saith that while hee was a prisoner hee heard
the sayd Scroll and others of the sayd ship the Maries Company
confesse that hee the sayd Scroll was a dutchman and subject of
the States of the United Provinces and borne and lived at or neere Minikin=
damme arlate, and that the Mary belonged to Amsterdam and was
a dutch shipp and that one Vandergoose a dutchman subject of the sayd
States was one of her Owners, and that shee came from Amsterdam
victualled manned and cargoed from thence bound upon a tradeing voyage to
Ardo in Guinney and other places for Negroes, and that the Unicorne was
alsoe a dutch shipp belonging to subiects of the sayd states, and bound in
Company with the Mary upon the like designe, and was alsoe under Command
of the sayd Scroll, and did heare the Mates and Gunners and other Officers of
the sayd shipps confesse that they were all dutchmen and borne in the
dominions of the states of the sayd United provinces, and by their lingua and
habbitt alsoe appeared to bee so, And further to this article hee cannot
depose saving hee saith that about sixe weekes after the surprizall of the
Sarah the sayd Scrawle did with the sayd shipp Unicorne (hee goeing then as Commander
in her) seize the Rapahannack arlate (neere Cape Lopez and all her ladeing
but whether the Unicorne then boare the dutch Colours or how many negroes or
what other goods were surprized aboard the Rapahannack hee knoweth not/