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two other vessells which were in Company o … two other vessells which were in Company of the said kerkhoff<br />
who albeit hee sawe the said hant, and the said fflemings attaque the<br />
said shipp ''Union'', and other two vessells, went his way with two dutch<br />
shipps under Convoy of his man of warr; with out endeavouring any<br />
defence of the ''Union'' or other free shipps be attaqued, nor making any<br />
resistance of the said fflemish men of warr, who presenth surprized<br />
and tooke the ''Union'' with her ladeing of sugars, tobaccoes, and coales,<br />
and other goods and the said two other vessellls and their ladeing, and caried<br />
them to dunkirke, which hee knoweth being them aboard the ''Union'' wyall (sic)<br />
shee was soe taken and was carried to dunkirke in her and there imprisoned.
To the third hee saith that if the said kirkhoffs man of warr and the<br />
two dutch vessells in his company had staid by and stood to the ''Union'' and<br />
the said other two Scots vessells, hee beleeveth they had bin able to have<br />
withstood and repelled the said three fflemish man of warr, and soe have<br />
preserved the ''Union'' and her ladeing and the said other two Scotts vessells<br />
from the said seizure. and saith that there was a great deale of<br />
money aboard the ''Unitie'' when shee was soe taken, some belonging to<br />
Merchants and some to Passengers, besides goods of a very considerable<br />
Valew but the certaintie of the said valew hee cannot estimate, saving<br />
hee this deponent lost five hundred markes (Scots) in money amounting<br />
to about 28 ''li'' sterling. And saith that after such bringing in this<br />
said vessell the ''Union'' into dunkirke, namely about a fortnight after<br />
such bringing of her in, shee was sold to Zealanders, belonging to fflushing<br />
or Middleborowe, and was carried to Middleborowe, which hee knoweth<br />
being than at dunkirke, and otherwise hee cannot depose not knowing<br />
her owners, but saith they are accounted to be all of Scotland.
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin
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The same day
Examined on the sayd interrogatories
'''Rp. 3'''
'''James Hallon''' of Kircawdy in Scotland mariner<br />
aged 32 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the 1 interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the ''Union'' Interrogate<br />
whereof the interrogate John Tennant was Master hee this deponent being<br />
a Passenger in her bound for Rotterdam the voyage wherein shee was seized<br />
and saith hee knew alsoe the vessell of warr Interrogate<br />
and that she was a hollands man<br />
of warr beloning to the Towne of Rotterdam and carried sixe<br />
or eight gunnes and about fifty men, and saith shee came convoy<br />
to a fleet of Scotch and dutch shipps from Rotterdam aforesayd and other partis<br />
adiacent and convoyed and brought them into the River of fflorth in scotland to<br />
Boraston Nesse, about the latter end of ffebruary 1655, and<br />
continued in the sayd River till about the 8th or 9th of March next after,<br />
in which tyme (as this deponent hath credibly heard) the Commander of the<br />
sayd holland man of warr being desyrous to get another fleete to convoy<br />
thense to Rotterdam and partes thereabouts did signifie by letter to Masters of<br />
shippsby letter to Masters of<br />
shipps +
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