| First transcribed
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9 December 28 +
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| First transcriber
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Liam Haydon +
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| Folio
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176 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 28/09/2012 +
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| Transcription
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that the contents thereof was that hee the … that the contents thereof was that hee the sayd Kercoffe was bound for<br />
Rotterdam and would by virtue of a Commission from the States of Holland<br />
give Convoy to all shipps of Scotland lying at Leith and other ports adiacent<br />
within the river of fforth and bound for Rotterdam and to will the sayd<br />
Robert Cammell to give notice to all shipps neere thereabouts and thither bound<br />
to bee ready to goe under his convoy the first fayre winde that happenes<br />
and this deponent sawe the sayd Cammell at Leith<br />
shew the sayd Letter to the sayd John Tannent and acquainte him that the<br />
sayd Kircoffe would be ready to convoy and had undertaken to convey all shipps thereabouts<br />
to Rotterdam which was thither bound And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
answer./
To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith that hee this deponent being one of the Company<br />
of the ''Advance'' aforesayd and on board knoweth that upon the nynth day of March<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Advance'' and other the shipp the Union and an other shipp of Leith<br />
the name hee knoweth not but her masters name was George Gorthy came all<br />
in company togeather out of the River of fforth and being at Sea upon the<br />
tenth day of the sayd moneth the sayd Tennant Master of the ''Union'' haled<br />
the sayd Holland man of Warr and the sayd Holland man of Warr haled the<br />
sayd Tennant and the sayd Tennant with his shipp the ''Union'' made up to the sayd<br />
man of warr, and soe alsoe did the sayd shipp the ''Advance'' and the other shipp<br />
whereof the sayd Gorthy was Master and then the sayd Kircoffe did welcome<br />
all the sayd three shipps and dranks to their companys and badd them welcome<br />
and receaved them all under his Convoy and the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the<br />
''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthys shipp steered all of them by the light of the sayd<br />
Kirkoffs man of warr all that night And saith that the next day in the<br />
morneing being eleventh of March 1655 English style men of warr of Dunkirke<br />
and one of Oastend mett with chased<br />
the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies vessell and a dutch vessell whereof one James Reynold was Master who was alsoe in company with them<br />
and the sayd Kercoff being then about a myle and a halfe of a head of the sayd<br />
Vessells seeing them chased made all the sayle that possible hee could as did<br />
alsoe two other dutch vessells that were neerer to him, and soe<br />
the sayd Kirkoff and the sayd two dutch vessells went cleere away without<br />
makeing any the least resistance or endeavouring any way to free the ''Union''<br />
the ''Advance'', the sayd Gorthyes vessell or the sayd other other dutch vessell whereof<br />
the sayd Reynolds was Master from being surprised by the sayd dunkirke and<br />
Ostend men of warr although hee had formerly taken upon him to convoy them<br />
safely to Rotterdam a foresayd, by which the sayd Kerkoffs desertion of them<br />
the sayd vessells the ''Union'' the ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies and Reynolds vessell<br />
and their ladeing were all surprized and taken by the sayd dunkirke and Ostend<br />
men of warr, but the Reynolds his vessell appearing to bee a dutch<br />
vessell and to have a dutch passe shee and her ladeing were by the sayd dunkirke<br />
and Ostend men of warr discharged and this deponent and all the rest of the<br />
Company of the ''Advance'' taken out of her and put on board the sayd Reynolds<br />
shipp. And the ''Union'' and ''Advance'' and the sayd Gorthies vessells were by the sayd<br />
three men of warr carried away to Ostend and dunkirke And further hee<br />
cannot answere saving hee saith that before the ''Union'' came from Scotland<br />
that voyage hee was divers tymes on board for and save that hee ladeing<br />
consisted of sugar, tobaccoe coales and some other goods, and saith the ''Advances'' ladeing<br />
was coales and skinnes and other merchandise And saith that when the sayd dunkirke<br />
and Oastend men of warr first persuad[?e] the ''Union'' and the other shipps aforesayd<br />
there were beside the sayd Kirkoffs man of warr sixe vessells dutch and scotch in<br />
Companyls dutch and scotch in<br />
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