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and the sayd two shipps (which att that ty … and the sayd two shipps (which att that tyme wore the dunkirke Colours<br />
but the say following putt put the Prince of Orange his Colours) pursued<br />
the sayd ''dover frigot''. And further he cannot depose.
To the third article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the sayd two<br />
shipps wearing the dunkirke Colours as aforesayd sayled after and<br />
continued about a league on sterne of the sayd Hamburgh ffleet till about<br />
three of the Clock in the afternoone, and about that tyme this<br />
deponent observed two small vessells which he tooke to be private<br />
Men of war of England come into the sayd ffleet, and saw them<br />
afterward upon discovery as he taketh it of the sayd two shipps<br />
in the reare flee away one towards ffrance and the other towards<br />
dover, and the sayd 2 vessells or shipps with the dunkerke Colours<br />
pursued that small English private man of warr that fledd towards<br />
the ffrench Coast, continueing all that afternoone att a good distance<br />
to the reare of the sayd Hamburrow fleet. And otherwise cannot<br />
depose.
To the 4th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the wind being<br />
westerly the sayd Hamburgh ffleet made little way upon the Sunday<br />
night so as the next morning the foresayd two shipps, which wore the<br />
dunkerke colours upon the Sunday as aforesayd, were come up in the<br />
sayd Hamburrow ffleet and then wore not or hadd out<br />
any colours. And saith that, as it grew light that morning videlicet<br />
Monday the third of October old stile, he this deponent saw in the<br />
sayd ffleet a frigot of 16 gunnes of which one Errington was<br />
Commander wearing the English colours, And saith that upon discovery<br />
of the sayd frigot with English Colours the foresayd two shipps with<br />
the Prince of Orange his Colours made chase after her and she fledd<br />
before them with all the sayle she could make. And otherwise he<br />
cannot depose.
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the sayd<br />
two shipps without colours upon the Munday forenoone fott the<br />
weather gage of the sayd ffleet and about nyne of teh Clock the ''Elizabeth''<br />
''frigot'' arlate appeared to the Westward of the sayd ffleet which<br />
still held on their Course till the wind being short the sayd ffleet<br />
was forced to tack about to and fro to gather wind boarding<br />
to and fro in the English Channell and saith that the sayd<br />
two shipps without Colours not overtaking the sayd Erringtons shipp<br />
and espying as it seemes the ''Elizabeth frigott'' did putt out<br />
the Prince of Oranges Colours and tacked upon the ''Elizabeth'' and at<br />
last mett and exchanged a broadside with her. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the .6. article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about two<br />
howres before the sayd fight. and att the sayd ffight the foresayd<br />
Hamburgh shipp had and wore out the Hamburgh Colours and the<br />
sayd Lubeck shipps the Lubeckes Colours and saith it was then so calme<br />
that the winde would not beare out the sayd Colours so as the Company<br />
of the sayd ffleet did many of them spread out their Colours with [?XXXX]<br />
that the ''Elizabeth frigot'' might take notice of them as [?freinds]<br />
and saith the premisses notwithstanding the ''Elizabeth frigot'' chased<br />
them, And the sayd ffleet immediately struck their sayles, and [?XXX]<br />
[?attempt] sayles, and [?XXX]<br />
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