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To the 5th 6th 7th and 8th Interrogatories … To the 5th 6th 7th and 8th Interrogatories hee saith that the sayd Captaine Welch being<br />
returned aboard the shipp the ''Indeavour'' hee went with his sayd shipp and the ''Mary'' further<br />
up into the sayd River and the danes sent out two Smacks or smale vessells strongle manned<br />
who pursued and followed the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'', and the sayd Welch and his Companyes of<br />
the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' being gotten with their sayd shipps into the duke of Oldenburghs dominion<br />
in the sayd River and suspecting that the danish vessells who followed them had a designe<br />
to surprize them in the night tyme, endeavoured to have hawled their sayd vessells the<br />
''Endeavour'' and ''Mary'' in the night tyme on shoare in a Creeke in the duke of Oldenburghs dominion but were<br />
hindered from soe doeing by some of the duke of Oldenburghs subiects whereupon<br />
the next day (being in the moneth of July 1657) the sayd Welch with one Thomas<br />
Cage his Coxen and fower others who rowed him went on shoare intending to gett leave<br />
to drawe the sayd shipps on shoare, and presently after they were gotten a shoare certayne<br />
of the companyes of the sayd danish smacks having gotten a shoare alsoe at a place<br />
not farr distant and laid them selves in ambushado on shoare, seized the sayd<br />
Captaine and the five men that were with him (this deponent and divers others of the Compa=<br />
nyes both of the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' being upon a deck in their vessells and seeing<br />
them soe seize the sayd Captaine and his boates [XXX])and this being soe done<br />
and the danes haveing seized alsoe the boate, they called out to the Companyes<br />
of the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' and sayd to this effect now you roagues will you<br />
yeild your shipps, for you see wee have gotten your Captaine prisoner whereto the sayd shipps<br />
Companyes replying and saying now, they would not deliver them, the danes answered<br />
and sayd if they did not deliver them but that they happened to take them<br />
they would give them noe quarter, whereupon the danes carries away the Captaine<br />
and the five they had taken with him, and kept them prisoners and the Companyes of<br />
the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' departed with their sayd vessells and went about twenty myles<br />
further up the River into a Creeke or River called the how[?u]d leading to<br />
the Cittie of Oldenburgh and laye there a while whether the<br />
Captaine and the five who were taken prisoners with him (having as they sayd<br />
by the authority of the Ri[?p]e Master of Oldenburgh gotten their release from the<br />
danes that had them prisoners) returned with their boate which was alsoe restored,<br />
and came aboard the ''Indeavour'' and after the sayd Captaine was soe come aboard<br />
hee presently tooke his trumpeter with him and went by land to Oldenburgh<br />
to sollicite the duke or his Officers to graunt him protection for his sayd shipps and their<br />
Companyes and himselfe, and the shipps in the meane tyme went up the river and lay about<br />
a myle and a halfe from the Citty of Oldenburgh, whether the sayd Captaine and trumpeter returned<br />
and told his Company that hee could procure noe protection from the duke of<br />
Oldenburgh for his sayd shipps and in the meane tyme while the Captaine was soe absent the generall of the danes came in<br />
person with his trumpeter and about four hundred men with him and two smacks<br />
with two peeces of ordnance in them, and brought fower other peeces of ordnance which<br />
they landed intending to plant them against the ''Endeavour'' and ''Mary'', and then<br />
(videlicet in the sayd moneth of July last) againe standing on shoare spake to the Companyes<br />
of the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' and required them to yeild their sayd shipps and threatened to give noe quarter to their companyes and to fyre the shipps if they refused and they<br />
videlicet this deponent and others of them answered that they could not doe it without order of their Captaine who was then<br />
absent, whereupon the sayd danish Generall sent his trumpeter with this<br />
deponent to the sayd Captaine Welch and they mett him then coming from Oldenburgh<br />
and the sayd Trumpeter did from the sayd danish Generall require the sayd Captaine<br />
to dliver his sayd shipps the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' and to bring them downe the River<br />
to the sayd Generalls fleete at Leo and sayd that if hee refused<br />
soe to doe the sayd Generall would burne them where they lay and that they should<br />
never returne downe the River or to that effect whereto the sayd Captaine answered<br />
and sayd that rather then they should bee taken by the generall of the sanes hee would<br />
burne them himselfe , or to that effect and thereupon the sayd Captaine coming aboard thereupon the sayd Captaine coming aboard +
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