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hearing the said newes, and that the ffren … hearing the said newes, and that the ffrench merchants said and reported<br />
that the dutch were all false, and betraid them and gave away their<br />
goods to the English, and that they reported alsoe that the said kein had sent<br />
letters over into England to have the English come and take him, and<br />
the said Skippers further told this deponent, that they had asked<br />
the said ffrench marchants howe it came to passe that the said kein was<br />
taken and howe the newes came, and that they answered in a [?bemoaning]<br />
manner, the newes was [?too] true, and showed the letter unto them, and<br />
said that the said kein had 20 guns and if hee had but fought they<br />
had not [?XXd], but that hee present;y upon shooting a gun, yeelded and<br />
betraid up their goods, which they said were of an unknowne valew<br />
and that they were undonne.
To the 23th hee saith that the said masters and some others declared<br />
and related to this deponent that the ffrench marchants had freighted three dutch shipps<br />
more to goe after the ''hare in the feild'' upon the same designe,<br />
one whereof they said was named the ''Black George'' with 26 guns<br />
and that there were five hoyes at Roane laden by the said marchants<br />
wityh peece goods to put aboard the said shipps, but that upon the<br />
newes of the taking of the ''hare in the ffeild'' by the English, the<br />
ffrench tooke all ashoare againe and dischardged the said shipps<br />
and that the ''Black George'' was thereupon gonne to Amsterdam<br />
againe in her ballast, but the other two were still remaining at<br />
haver de Grace.
To the 24th hee saith that on or about the thirtieth day of<br />
the said moneth of May one Maynard Everson, one ffrancis [?Johnson]<br />
Brower and one John duvall, being taely before come from<br />
haver de Grace, and on the said day seized by this deponent, did upon<br />
such their seizure relate and declare to this deponent to the effect<br />
deposed to the two next precedent articles: adding, that diverse<br />
ffrench Merchants had said and sworne to them that if the said<br />
ffrancis Johnson Brewar, master of a shipp called the ''Sampson'' with<br />
his shipp or Maynard Everson master of the ''George'' of Amsterdam<br />
with his shipp should be alsoe taken by the English, they the<br />
ffrench would never put goods aboard a dutch shipp againe<br />
or to the same effect;<br />
and they much complained upon such their seizre that the ffrench<br />
merchants would say that they had donne it of purpose and had<br />
betraied their goods, answerable to what themselves had pre[?deposed]<br />
or to the same effect. And otherwise hee cannot depose saving hee<br />
referreth himselfe to the deposition of the said duvall ffrancis Johnson Brewar and Maynard
[LH MARGIN]<br />
Everson taken at<br />
Portsmouth before the<br />
Major amd as hee beleeveth<br />
remaining in this Court.<br />
Ga; Sanders [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
To the 25th hee saith that in or about the twelveth of June<br />
last, this deponent at sea in the said frigot met a dane<br />
commeing from haver de Grace, and commannded the master<br />
aboard and examined him, and questioned him concerning the<br />
''hare in the ffeild'', and upon such questioning the saiid dane<br />
confessed and said that the ffrench gave over all the lading of<br />
the said shipp for lost, and that hee beleeved many of them<br />
would thereupon turne bankrupt or breake, for hee said hee<br />
heard some of them declare that they had lost some tenn<br />
some fifteene thousand pounds in the said shipp; and in his<br />
hearing vowe that they were utterly undone.
Tong vowe that they were utterly undone.
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