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the meaning of the master of the ''hare in … the meaning of the master of the ''hare in the feild'' to intend that course on the<br />
coast of England, the said master of the said prize answered,<br />
because if hee can come upon the coast of England before hee be<br />
met with by English shipp, hee intended to say hee came from holland<br />
(in case of being met with all by them). ffurther hee told this deponent<br />
that the said shipp the ''hare in the ffeild'' had bin at haver de Grace<br />
about six weekes, and would be ready to saile from thence within<br />
foure or five dayes, which accordingly shee did and came<br />
the foresaid course, for this deponent on the fifth of May at<br />
night about tenn of the clock met her about fifteene leagues<br />
Nore and by west from the Seine head according to the course before<br />
mentioned; And this deponent further saith that on the first day<br />
of May last, hee tooke a vessell called the ''dolphin''; John Johnson master<br />
and Thomas valaron pilote, with which Thomas Valaron this<br />
deponent had bin acquainted for seaven yeares before when this deponent<br />
used to convoy shipps betweene England and ffrance and often met<br />
the said Valaron in the imployment of a pilote, and the said shipp<br />
the ''dolphin'' comming from cane where the said Thomas lived, this<br />
deponent asked him when hee had bin at haver de Grace and whether<br />
hee had bin there lately or not, to which hee answered that hee<br />
came from thence not above three or foure dayes before, and this<br />
deponent then enquiring of the said shipp the ''hare in the feild''<br />
the said valaron tould this deponent that shee was there lading<br />
with ffrench mens goods, and that if hee could meete<br />
with her shee sould be as good prize as ever was taken in England<br />
and this deponent asking him if hee were sure shee was wholly<br />
laden with ffrench mens goods, hee answered that hee was sure<br />
that all the merchants were ffrench men and were living in<br />
Roane and Paris, but that most of them in Roane, and this deponent<br />
asking him what merchants they were and if hee knew any of them<br />
hee answered that hee knewe severall of them and named Simon<br />
and david [?Coniers] for two of them, beleaved (as hee said)<br />
that there were at least an hundred ffrench merchants that<br />
had put goods aboard her, and this deponent asking if there were<br />
not some dutch merchants that had put goods aboard her, hee<br />
answered noe, for there were noe dutch merchants living in Roane,<br />
And withall hee described the said shipp the ''hare in the ffeild'' by<br />
the same markes and perspectives that the other before [?XXX]<br />
had donne, and beleaved as hee said that shee was bought<br />
of the dutch by ffrench merchants, giving for reason, for that<br />
shee came thither in her ballast and had bin at haver de<br />
Grace above six weekes before shee tooke in her lading, and for that<br />
there were very few of her men that came from Middleborowe<br />
remayning in her. And this deponent<br />
keeping him aboard the ''Tiger'' till hee made the said seizure, the<br />
said Valaraon upon the said seizure said that that was the same<br />
shipp, and that upon his life this deponent had taken (in taking<br />
her) as cleare a prize as ever was taken in England. And [?moreover]<br />
both hee the said valaron and the foresaid two masters before examined by this deponent<br />
assured that while the said shipp the ''hare in the feild'' lay and was<br />
takingthe feild'' lay and was<br />
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