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and the rest videlicet the eight Negroes a … and the rest videlicet the eight Negroes and the other five hundred pounds worth<br />
of Elephants teeth for Accompt of this deponent as Master and Supracargo<br />
and were in quiett and peaceable possession thereof, at Cape<br />
Lopus arlate And further to this article hee cannot depose.
To the 5th 6th and seaventh articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the<br />
Ship ''Sarah'' with the sayd Negroes and Elephants teeth on board her<br />
and some part of her on board Cargoe also on board to the value<br />
of about two or three hundred pounds which was then unbartered away<br />
came to Cape Lopus (intending there to take in<br />
fresh water and soe to proceede on her voyage for Virginia) and there found<br />
the arlate Shipps the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam (whereof the arlate John Scroll<br />
was Commander and another Shipp (whereof hee beleeveth the sayd Scroll was<br />
also Commander for that hee afterwards saw him goe a board her and give Command<br />
to his company as Commander alsoe of her) lying at Anchor, and having<br />
both of them dutch colours, and all their officers dutchmen, and divers of<br />
their mariners dutchmen, and this deponent seeng their dutch colours and<br />
observing them to bee dutch built shipps and soe beleeving them to bee<br />
friends, came under the sterne of the ''Mary'' and thereupon the sayd Scroll<br />
haled this deponent and asked him whence his shipp (meaning the ''Sarah'')<br />
was, and whether bound, and this deponent thereto answered and told him hee<br />
was of London and bound for Virginia, and this deponent then hayled<br />
him the sayd Scroll, and asked him whence his shipp was and whether<br />
bound, whereto hee answered that shee was of Middleborough and<br />
bound for Ardo a place in Guinney to trade for Negroes, and thereupon<br />
the sayd Scrawle (sic) (as the Custome at Sea amongst nations in enmity is)<br />
dranke to this deponent and saluted him with the discharge of a gunne, and,<br />
this deponent returned the like salute to him againe, and then came to<br />
anchor very neere the ''Mary'' and began to prepare their empty Casks in a<br />
readynesse to put into their boate to be carried on shoare and filled with<br />
fresh water, and this deponent and Company being busied thereabout,<br />
and the shipp being [?pastered] upon the deck with empty casks and other things and<br />
soe not observing what the sayd Scroll was about to doe, the sayd Scroll<br />
sent his boate with his steeresman and about thirty or forty men and<br />
upon the second of August one thousand and sixe hundred fifty six entered upon the shipp ''Sarah'' before this deponent or her Company were<br />
aware of them, and being gott on board cryed out [?amayne], '''for the'''<br />
'''King of Spaine, you doggs''', and then presently the sayd Scroll caused<br />
the dutch Colours in his shipp the ''Mary'' to be taken downe, and the<br />
ragged staffe (being the dunkirke Colours) to bee sett up, and in this<br />
manner and by these meanes violently and in a hostle manner surprized<br />
and seized the sayd shipp the ''Sarah'' within the moneths and tyme arlate<br />
at Cape Lopes aforesayd with all her tackle apparell furniture<br />
and ladeing of Negroes and other goods, and converted the same to<br />
the benefitt of him the sayd Scroll and his Company, and this deponent<br />
seeing the ''Sarah'' and her ladeing be trecherously surprized desyred the sayd<br />
Scroll and one John Richie who pretended to bee Commander of the other<br />
dutch shipp in Company with the sayd Scroll and was [XXX]ing and assisting in the surprizall<br />
of the ''Sarah'', to show their Comission by authority whereof they did soe make seizure<br />
off they did soe make seizure<br />
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