| First transcribed
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6 August 2014 +
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| First transcriber
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Phillipa Hellawell +
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| Folio
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431 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/73 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 06/08/2014 +
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| Transcription
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and Company being then and there takeing i … and Company being then and there takeing into her ladeing aboard<br />
her for Accompt of English Merchants subiects of this Commonwealth<br />
a ladeing of salt, And being there soe lyeing the arlate Wygart Wygarts<br />
and John drewes in the sayd moneth of May and while the arlate Edmond<br />
Lemmon and sixe others of the Company of the ''Redd Rose'' were on<br />
shoare at Embden buying provisions for the sayd shipp came with<br />
a Smack and about thirty souldiers and seamen and in a hostile<br />
manner seized & surprised the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'' and her company<br />
which were then left aboard her (whereof this deponent was one) and<br />
her ladeing of salt then aboard her, and demanded the keyes of all the<br />
truncks chests boxes and Cupbords and the Master and severall of the<br />
Company being then on shoare soe that they could not have all the keys<br />
delivered them they violently brake open such boxes chests truncks and<br />
cupboards as the keys could not bee had of and opened the rest with<br />
the keys aboard and tooke out many letters sent from England to<br />
be carried to the English ffleete in the Sound and a packett that was<br />
in the masters chests and was to be delivered to the Genirall of the sayd English ffleete in the sound<br />
and tooke away all the masters bills of ladeing and bills of Exchange<br />
which he had for takeing up of the money to supply his necessary occasions<br />
and all other shipp papers and letters and writings which were in<br />
the sayd shipp and put them aboard their Smack in baggs and boxes<br />
and tooke away the cloathes of the Master and others of the sayd<br />
shipps company and put them aboard the sayd Smack and dranke up a<br />
Case of strong waters and a Runlett of Stronge Waters which<br />
belonged to some of the sayd shipps Company and washed<br />
and spoiled much of the provisions of the sayd shipp and<br />
brake up three chests of Lemmons that were aboard her and tooke<br />
most part of them away and parted them amongst them And having thus done the<br />
sayd Wigarts and Drewes and their confederates commanded the sayd shipp<br />
Anchors to be weighed and the Company of the shipp that were on board<br />
her refused to doe the same and asked them the sayd Wigarts and<br />
Drewes by what authority or Commission they comitted those outrages<br />
and acte of hostility or to that effect, and whether there were any<br />
warr betwixt England and holland and the said Wigarts and drewes<br />
answered noe and yett notwithstanding that continued such their violence and hostility and<br />
threatened the shipps company that were on board her that if they would<br />
not assist in weighing the Anchors and carrying away the sayd<br />
shipp and ladeing they would hang them or otherwise punish them<br />
And they tooke one Peter Wilkinson the masters mate of the sayd shipp and<br />
put him into their Smack and carried him prisoner to delfes Isle<br />
and there kept him a prisoner and caused the sayd shipps Anchor to be<br />
weighed and carried her thither alsoe and there cast Anchor, with her<br />
neere the [?sconce] here this hee deposeth of sight and certayne knowledge<br />
being aboard the sayd shipp and seeing the premisses soe acted and done and<br />
being carried in the sayd shipp to delfes Isle arlate And further to these<br />
actes hee cannot depose./
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Wigarts and<br />
drewes either by their wilfullness or negligence in bringing the sayd<br />
shipp ''Redd Rose'' to an Anchor at delfes Isle did bring her to an anchor<br />
in shallow water about three fathom at a quarter ebb and soe that upon the ebb shee sat upon<br />
herupon the ebb shee sat upon<br />
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