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HCA 13/71 f.101r Annotate
First transcribed 30 August 2012  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 101  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 30/08/2012  +
Transcription Served and was aboard the said Shipp the 'Served and was aboard the said Shipp the ''Goulden Eagle''<br /> during the discovery flight and pursuite predesposed To the third Article hee saith, That there being noe visible probabilitie<br /> that the said shipp ''fortune'' should escape from the said two frenchmen of<br /> warr, nor recover Dunquirke or any other Port of fflanders, (being so closely pursued) the<br /> Master and Companie of the said shipp ''fortune'' steered their Course towards<br /> the Coast of England, intending, as this deponent in Conscience is most firmely<br /> assured, to gett under the protection of some English shipp or shipps of<br /> warr, the said frenchmen of warr still pursueing, and comeing neare to<br /> the said shipp ''fortune'' in a readinesse to have layd her aboarde and taken<br /> her and her lading, The premisses hee declareth upon the grounds of<br /> knowledge and conviction in Conscience aforesaid. And further<br /> cannot depose./ To the 4th hee saith, That during the said pursuite and upon discharge of<br /> severall gunns as predeposed, an English frigatt rideing at anchor neere<br /> or in Dover roade weighed anchor and made up towards them; and the Officers thereof haveing<br /> spoken both to the Captaines of the said frenchmen of warr, and to the<br /> Master of the said shipp fortune, and being informed that the said shipp<br /> ''fortune'' was poursued by them in order to take her and her lading, as belonging<br /> to the enemies of the Crowne of ffrance and bound for fflanders the said<br /> frigat without any opposition departed and returned for the roade of<br /> Dover, and another English frigat in the immediate service of this<br /> Commonwealth comeing from the Westward of England and dischargeing two<br /> gunns, the said frenchmen of warr in obeisance and respect to her<br /> lowered their sailes just as they were within muskett shott or thereabouts<br /> from the said shipp fortune, and readie to have boarded and taken her,<br /> of which lowring their sayles the said English frigat takeing the oportunity<br /> sent men aboard the said shipp fortune, who possessed themselves of her<br /> and her lading, and brought them for England depriving the said<br /> frenchmen of warr thereof. The premisses hee well knoweth<br /> being present at the same in the condition predeposed./ To the 5th hee saith, That the said shipp ''fortune'' according to the Course shee<br /> shaped when first discovered as aforesaid, was undoubtedly bound for<br /> Dunquirke or some other Port of Spanish fflanders shee then being neere<br /> unto the Coast of ffrance which is the usuall Course of shipps bound<br /> from france for fflanders doe take during hostility betweene England and<br /> Spaine, thereby the better to escape the being discovered and seized by<br /> the English, so that in all probability the said shipp ''fortune'', if shee had<br /> not bin pursued as aforesaid, had passed undiscovered by the English, and<br /> had attained her desired port in fflanders The premisses hee declareth<br /> upon the grounds before expressed, and for that being a seafareing person<br /> and accustomed, to the coast aforesaid hee is to the coast aforesaid well versed in the fflandrian practizes in order to their<br /> security in such cases. And further cannot depose./ To the 6th hee saith, That in case the said shipp ''fortune'' and lading<br /> had not bin boarded and taken as they were by the said English<br /> friggatts Companie, the said two frenchmen of warr were in a<br /> readinesse immediately to have boarded and taken them, they the<br /> being at about a muskett shott distance from her, and, without any<br /> ayd or assistance, were then sufficient to have overpowred and taken<br /> (herhave overpowred and taken<br /> (her  +
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