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The 13th day of October 1653 [CENTRE HEADI … The 13th day of October 1653 [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
'''6.'''
'''George Moulin''' of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex Mariner<br />
Carpenters mate of the ''Advantage frigat'' aged two and thirty<br />
yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first second third and fourth articles of the sayd allegation. This deponent saith<br />
and deposeth that upon the munday next after the Portland fight this<br />
last winter the tyme otherwise he remembreth not, the arlate shipps the<br />
''Advantage'' and the ''Waterhound'' tooke the arlate shipp the ''Golden Starr'' or<br />
''Morning Starr'' in fight off of Beachy about 4 leagues from the English<br />
shoare, the sayd shipp sayling then in her direct course upp the English<br />
Channell Eastward, and saith that att the sayd tyme and for many<br />
monethes before and continually since there was and is warr betwixt this<br />
Commonwealth and the States of the united Provinces, and the same was and is<br />
notorious, and knowne as he beleiveth att Cadiz and other ports of Spaine and<br />
in fflanders and other places beyond the seas, and to the master and Company<br />
of the ''Golden Starr''. and otherwise cannot depose.
To the fifth sixth and severnth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent<br />
saith that upon the sayd Munday morning the arlate shipp the ''Advantage''<br />
being in the immediate service of this Commonwealth and wearing the Colours<br />
thereof c ame upp with the ''Golden Starr''upon the English coast and haled<br />
her, and commannded her to strike to the Parliament of England and to<br />
bring their fore sayle to the mast, and send of their boat and submitt to be<br />
visited, but he saith the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr'' refused<br />
so to doe and kept on their way, whereof the Captaine of the ''Advantage''<br />
takeing notice with intent to mynd them of their duty made a shott att the<br />
which notwithstanding the master and Company of the<br />
''Golden Starr'' not onely refused to strike and bring their sayle to the mast<br />
but peremptorily and violently assaulted the ''Advantage frigat'' in an insolent<br />
and hostile way upon the Coast of England, and shott a whole broad suide<br />
upon the ''Advantage'' which did [?execution] upon the ''Advantage'' and kill'd<br />
two of the Company thereof, and made the sayd broad side before the ''Advantage''<br />
made any broadside upon the ''Golden Starr''. And afterwards fought with<br />
the ''Advantage frigot'' 3 or 4 houres and did their utmost endeavour to sinke<br />
and destroy her being an English frigot fighting under the colours<br />
of England for the Commonwealth of England upon the English Coast as<br />
aforesayd. The premisses he knoweth being present in the sayd fight in<br />
the ''Advantage frigot'' and seeing, observing and perfectly remembring<br />
the passages aforesayd. And otherwise cannot depose
To the eighth article of the sayd allegation he saith that the Master and Company of the ''Golden Starr''<br />
after they were haled as aforesayd and had began the fight by a broad side<br />
as aforesayd, putt out a Redd flagg with the picture of an hand and sword<br />
thereone of an hand and sword<br />
thereon +
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