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and this deponent and at the buying of the … and this deponent and at the buying of the said shipp as aforesaid, hee this<br />
deponent Contracted and agreed to pay for the same the summe of sixe<br />
thousand gilders the first penny, for the payment whereof this deponent drew<br />
bills of Exchange upon the said ffrancis Sloyer, which by him were accepted and<br />
paid unto the agents or assignes of the said Jacques Oysell and former owners of the said shipp at Hamborough and Amsterdamm<br />
And further saith That presently after the buying of the said shipp, hee this<br />
deponent by the order and direction of the aforesaid ffrancis Sloyer did really disburse lay out and<br />
expend about the fitting and furnishing out of the said shipp upon a Voyage<br />
to sea the summe of foure thousand five hundred gilders more or thereabouts<br />
which said moneys were remitted to this deponent at Middleborough by bills of exchange<br />
from the said ffrancis Sloyer of Hamburgh, and accordingly this deponent received<br />
the same, and therewith paid for the severall necessaries bought and provided by<br />
him for the fitting and furnishing of the said shipp. The premisses hee knoweth<br />
being as aforesaid Master of the said shipp, and being, as predeposed, particularly employed<br />
and entrusted ina nd about the same. And otherwise saving his subsequent<br />
depositions hee saith hee cannot depose:-
To the 3. and 4:th hee saith That by the order and direction of the said ffrancis Sloyer<br />
hee this deponent shortly after the buying fitting and preparing of the said shipp<br />
departed Master thereof from Midleborough to Saint Mallo in ffrance, where he<br />
arrived in or about July 1653. and there tooke in a lading of linnen Cloath<br />
and other goods to be transported in the said shipp to Cadiz or Saint Lucar<br />
in Spaine, and being in her Course from Saint Mallo thitherwards in Companie [?with]<br />
6. or 7. other shipps bound also from that Port for Spaine, shee was surprized<br />
and taken by the ''Saphire ffriggat'' a shipp in the immediate service of this<br />
Commonwealth, and brought up with her lading into the Port of Plimmouth<br />
Which hee knoweth being master of and aboard his said shipp during the said<br />
transactions. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 5:th 6. 7: and 8:th hee saith and deposeth, That at such time as the<br />
said shipp the ''Saphire friggat'' first came up with the shipp the ''three kings''<br />
in question, the Admirall of the fleete so come from Saint Mallo as aforesaid<br />
was a heade, and the Vice Admiall of the said fleete a sterne of the said<br />
shipp the ''three kings'', and shee in the niddle between them during the fight<br />
which happened as followeth, That is to say the said ''Saphire ffrigat'' at her first<br />
comeing up discharged a whole broade side at the said Admirall and presently<br />
after another broad side at the Viceadmirall, and also shott a broad side at this deponents<br />
shipp and that without any precedent haling of any of the said shipps<br />
whereupon the said Admirall and Vice Admirall shott againe at the ''Saphire''<br />
''frigat'', and continued fighting her about the space of an hower, before this deponents<br />
shipp discharged any one gunn or made any opposition against the said ''Saphire''<br />
''ffrigat'', the said Admirall and Vice Admirall still lying a head and<br />
a sterne of her as aforesaid, so that shee could not possibly gett away from<br />
them. But the Admirall of the said ffleete perceiveing that no shott was<br />
(madeiveing that no shott was<br />
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