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Leith and bound for Rotterdam and hee this … Leith and bound for Rotterdam and hee this deponent then asked the said Kircoff<br />
whether hee was bound and hee replyed to Rotterdam noherepon this deponent<br />
told him hee was glad of this Company and thee sayd Kircoffe thereupon<br />
dranke to this deponent and told him it was well and bid him welcome or<br />
to that effect and this deponent according as the use is at sea when shipps keepe<br />
company and associate togeather dranke againe to the sayd Kircoffe And hee<br />
saith the ''Union'' all that day after they were mett [?togeather GUTTER]<br />
and all the night thereof steered the same course and by the light of the sayd<br />
man of warr and other shipps that were in his company And hee saith<br />
that the next day in the morning videlicet on the 11th of March aforesayd<br />
they mett with three fflanders men of warr belonging to dunkirke and Ostend<br />
who persued the ''Union'' and some other vessells in Company with the sayd<br />
Kircoff, which the sayd Kircoffe noe<br />
away endeavoured to present, either by spareing of sayle, or makeing up<br />
to their releefe, or in any waies countenansed them in the least but<br />
made away from them and two other shipps in his company without<br />
makeing any resistance in their behalfe against the sayd 3 men of warr by<br />
by meanes whereof the ''Union'' and her ladeing consisting of sugars tobaccoes<br />
Coales and other rich goods to a very considerable value at the least<br />
three thousands pounds sterling, and alsoe three other shipp (sic) (whereof<br />
one was a dutch shipp one Reynolds Master and by that meanes afterwards discharged) were<br />
alsoe surprized and the shipp and ladeing of the other two which appeared not to be dutch<br />
was seized and by the sayd 3 men of warr carried to dunkirke and Oastend<br />
videlicet the ''Union'' and her ladeing to dunkirke and the other two shipps and their ladeing which belonged<br />
to English and Scotch men to Ostend And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
answere saving his subsequent deposition/
To the last hee saith at the tyme Interrogate there were sixe vessells<br />
or thereabouts togeather in company with the sayd Kircoff when the sayd<br />
3 men of warr persued the ''Union'' and the other shipps in manner afore<br />
sayd, And hee this deponent is verily perswaded in his conscience (for<br />
that hee this deponent had 14 gunnes monted in his shipp the ''Union''<br />
which did mayntayne fight a while with the<br />
sayd men of warr, and the other shipps taken had alsoe some gunnes<br />
in them,) that if the sayd Kircoffe with his Holland man of warr<br />
had ayded and assisted the sayd shipp ''Union'' in the least,<br />
neither shee nor her ladeing had bin taken And<br />
saith as aforesayd the shipp ''Union'' and her ladeing were<br />
worth at least three thousand pounds sterling And saith all the Interrogate<br />
hewyn Welch Newman Knowles Pearson and others of Leith and Saint Johnstons<br />
Interrogate subiects of this Commonwealth were the lawfull Owners of the sayd Shipp ''Union''<br />
and of the greatest part of her ladeing, And saith<br />
hee hath heard by letters and otherwise from such as have seene her at<br />
Middlebrough in Zealand that shee the ''Union'' after<br />
her being soe taken was sold to some of Middleburrough and is now<br />
in the possession of one Seader Lawrison who is now skipper of her
And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John Tennent [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th of May 1656
Travers against Burrridge and Spicer}<br />
[?Baker]/
Examined on an allegation in and admitted on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Travers
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'''Ralphe Standish''' of the Cittie of London Merchant<br />
aged 28 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
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