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aboard her at her seizure that the meanes … aboard her at her seizure that the meanes thereof was as followeth<br />
that the sayd Wygarts and drewes did in the saud moneth of May 1659 [?when GUTTER]<br />
Lemmon and this deponent and others were ashoare upon the sayd shipps [?occasions GUTTER]<br />
came aboard the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'' in a Smack with about thirty [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
and Souldiers and by violence possessed them selves of the sayd shipp and [?all GUTTER]<br />
her company who were left aboard her, and of her lading of [?XX GUTTER]<br />
her a vessell their souldiers in a warlike posture aboard her demanded<br />
keys of all the trunckes chests boxes and Cupbords and with such keys as were aboard [?opened GUTTER]<br />
them, and brake open the rest of the boxes chests truncks and Cupbords the keys<br />
whereof were not to be found aboard by Reason the Master and severall of<br />
his Company were on shoare, and out of them tooke all the Masters bills<br />
of ladeing bills of Exchange and other shipp papers, and all other writings<br />
that were in the boxes chests and truncks of other of the shipps company and<br />
a great number of letters which were sent in the sayd shipp from England<br />
to be carried to the English ffleete in the Sound, all which as the sayd [?XXX GUTTER<br />
and others then aboard her affirmed they carried away and put aboard their [?said GUTTER]<br />
smacke and commanded the shipps company then on board to weigh her Anchor<br />
which they refused askeing them whether there were any warr betwixt England<br />
and holland and upon what grounds or authority they committed such [?acts GUTTER]<br />
or to that effect whereupon the said Company refuseing the sayd Wigarts and<br />
drewes and their confesderates (as the sayd Peter Wilkinson and others [?aboard GUTTER]<br />
at her seizure affirmed) threatened the sayd shipps company to hang them<br />
or inflict some other punishment upon them and tooke the sayd wilkinson<br />
the Masters mate and put him aboard their smack and carried him priosner<br />
to delfes Isle and then caused the sayd shipps Anchors to be weighed and<br />
her and her ladeing of salt to the same place and there brought her to an<br />
Anchor neere the [?Scouce] there And hee this deponent knoweth that after the<br />
sayd shipp was delivered againe to the sayd Lemmon and Company at delfes<br />
Isle and this deponent and others who were on shoare permitted to come aboard<br />
her there hee found that the sayd masters chests and truncks and boxes (whereof<br />
this deponent had the keys of on shoare) were broken open, and all his bills<br />
of ladeing and bills of Exchange and other shipp papers taken away and<br />
this deponents chest broken open and about a hundred letters which hee<br />
had therein and were sent from England to be delivered to the English ffleete<br />
at the sound taken out thereof, and two [?schicls and two pages of [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
and a peece of eight and a sea Instrument called a quadrant and some<br />
handkerchiffs and bands and other cloaths taken out thereof, and that the chests<br />
and boxes of others of the sayd shipps company were alsoe opened and<br />
their papers and many of their cloathes taken out of them, and much<br />
other dammage done by the sayd seizers to the sayd shipp and her ladeing<br />
and alsoe found that the sayd shipp (whereas shee was of this deponents sight and knowledge very tight<br />
and stanch before her sayd seizure) was made very leakie in soe much<br />
that her company during all the tyme this deponent continued in her after her seizure<br />
(which was till her comming to Elsenore) was soe leakie that her<br />
Company were forced of necessirt to keepe her witj continuall<br />
pumpeing to keepe her above water shee being soe much damnified in<br />
her hull and otherwise that her ladeing alsoe by the water shee tooke [?in GUTTER]<br />
was much damnified to a very considerable value, but what to estimate<br />
the sayd dammage at hee knoweth not, which dammage (as hee hath<br />
credibly heard from those of the sayd shipps company who were aboard her when<br />
shee receaved the sayd dammage, was occasioned by reason the sayd Wygarts<br />
and drewes and their associates by either their willfullnes or carelessnes<br />
in bringing her on her owne Anchor soe as shee twisted the shanke [?XXX GUTTER<br />
and alsoe wrung her upon ground in a strong tyde All which hee saith hee<br />
well knoweth might have bin prevented if the sayd seizors had<br />
not removed her but lett her alone neere Embden where shee<br />
was And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
Tor to these articles hee cannot depose/
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