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Transcription

with about Eighteene or twenty men in her to the
Golden Starr. most of which came aboard the Starr, and
sent out of her about twelve of her Company (of which this
Deponent was one) and sent them as prisoners onboard the Alexander
where they were kept all that night upon the Lower Deck
and in that night hee saith the Alexanders Company sailed the Starr about
fourteene or 15 Leagues Back toward the Canaryes:
and the next morning permitted this Deponent and the rest of the Starrs Company that were prisoners in the Alexanders
Upper Deck that morning the Captaine of the Alexander and hee XXX went on board the Starr and most part of that morning the Company
of the Alexander and her Ketch that went on board the Golden Starr
were drawing out wine, that was in the Starr and
sending it in Jarrs and Rundletts and other small vessels onboard the Alexander
and the Ketch; And they tooke away two full pipes and
two full Hogsgeads of Canary wines besides what they
sent and carried away, in Jarrs Rundletts and other small
Vessells, and saith they did alsoe loose a great deale of
wine by making holes in the pipes and not carefully
stopping them, and by their carelesse drawing and some
of them hee saith were Drunk, with the same; and hath credibly
bin Informed that they tooke away tankards
a Cutlach[?], Linnen, two or three Coates. belonging to the Company and
severall other such like things. And saith that hee verily
beleaveth that the Company of the Alexander. did Loose
spoile Imbezill drinke, carry, and take away out of
the said ship Golden Starr, the quantity of ffive pipes of
wine or thereabouts And saith that about Eleven of the Clock that Day
(being the next day after the Alexander seized the Golden Starr
the Alexander and her Ketch left her, they Espying another Ship
roming to windward, And further cannot depose./.

To the 4th hee saith that presently after the Alexander and her
Ketch were sailed away the other ship came up
to the Golden Starr, shee not being able to get away by reason
that her sailes. tackle and Rigging were torne, and out
of order, and saith that the Company of the said other ship
(which was a Zealand man of Warr:) tooke away another pipe
of wine and a pipe of water, out of the said ship Golden
Starr, And then left her, and about two dayes after there
happened a great Storme, which Continued about foure
or five Dayes, and saith that by reason of the loosening or
breaking the teares or ranges of thee pipes of wine in the Starr
by the Company of the Alexander and her Ketch and the
said Zealand man of warr. very greate damage did happen to
the Owners of the said wines, by reason of their Reeling and
falling to and fro in the said ship; and saith that thereby one pipe was
leaked above, halfe out and another almost quite out, and a great
deale of wine did leake out of other pipes in the said ship
which was occasioned and came by meanes of the Carrying back
(of