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knowne in Cadiz and other parts of Spayne … knowne in Cadiz and other parts of Spayne and in fflanders and other<br />
parte beyond the seas, and to the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr''<br />
And otherwise cannot depose saving that there still is warr betweene<br />
England and Holland and that he knoweth the premisses bring one of the<br />
Company of the ''Advantage'' and present att the seizure of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Golden Starr''.
To the fifth sixth seventh and eighth articles of the sayd allegation this deponent <br />
saith and deposeth that the shipp the ''Advantage'' being in her course sailing<br />
from Dover Road to Porthmouth espyed a shipp making her course to the<br />
Eastward or East and by South being the course for Holland, which shipp <br />
afterwards proved to be the ''Golden Starr'' arlate, which having this<br />
Weather gage of the ''Advantage'' Captaine Mills caused his Holland<br />
[Ancyent] to be putt out upon the ''Advantage'' thereby to cause the ''Golden''<br />
''Starr'' to beare upp to him and withall shott off a gunn, and the sayd<br />
shipp ''Golden Starr'' immediately did beare upp to the ''Advantage'' according<br />
to expectation, And further saith that the sayd Captaine Mills after his shipp <br />
was some within shott videlicet about a quarter of a mile from the <br />
''Golden Starr'' tooke downe his Holland [Ancyent] and putt out the <br />
English Colours and Parliament Jack and made a shott att the ''Golden'' <br />
''Starr'' to make her strike, which she did not but putt out a Red flagg<br />
with the picture of an hand and sword therein and stood off from the ''Advantage''<br />
and shaped her former Course, whereupon the ''Advantage'' followed<br />
after and being some upp with her haled her and bade her strike in <br />
the name of the Parliament of England and hoyst out their boat that<br />
she might be visited, but the master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' did not onely refuse<br />
so to doe by saying they had noe boat whereas it afterwards appeared<br />
they had a good one aboard but allso demeanded themselves very<br />
insolently against the Parliament and their frigot upon the English coast; the Master of the ''Golden Starr''<br />
clapping his hand upon his breech, and waving his Cutlace over<br />
his head, and upon Captaine Mills firing att him agayne to make<br />
him submitt to be visited according to reason and custome, firing upon<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Advantage'' then wearing the Parliaments Colours and <br />
fought with her for the space of three of four howres and killed<br />
some of her Company, and the sayd Master and Company did their<br />
utmost endeavour with their shipp ''Golden Starr'' to sink and destroy<br />
the foresayd shipp the ''Advantage'', and the English aboard her All<br />
which this deponent knoweth being present in the sayd fight and seeing and<br />
well observing the premisses. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the 9 and 10th articles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that during<br />
the sayd fight the arlate shipp the ''Waterhound'' and another shipp in the service<br />
of this Commonwealth both wearing the Colours of this Commonwealth came upp<br />
to the Assistance of the ''Advantage'', and the sayd shipp ''Waterhound'' fell in with<br />
the ''Golden Starr'' and fought with her, and the ''Golden Starr'' made severall<br />
shotts att the ''Waterhound'' and fought with her, till she was boarded [?suddenly]<br />
and taken by the sayd ''Waterhound'', And saith that the foresayd red flag<br />
[?XXXX] the foresayd red flag<br />
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