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To the 3d and 4th articles hee saith that … To the 3d and 4th articles hee saith that after the said ships said<br />
arrivall at Tunis the foresaid money was by this deponent<br />
and the said Charles Sanders carried on shore there<br />
where the same were invested and laid out in goods to lade the<br />
said ship. And saith that there were then laden onboard<br />
the said ship severall thousands of hydes, severall<br />
bales of bees wax each bale containing about foure<br />
Quintalls, a chest of Ostridges feathers, a quantity of box<br />
wood and some other Merchandizes which said Goods and<br />
Merchandizes were to be carryed and transported in<br />
the said ship ''Anne and Margaret'' to Leghorne, and<br />
the same being soe laden onboard her shee proceeded<br />
and set saile therewith from Tunis under Conduct<br />
of the said Sanders this deponent and Company:/:
To the 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th articles of the said Allegation<br />
hee saith that in the said ships passage from Tunis to legorne<br />
with the said Goods and Merchandizes onboard her shee<br />
was on or about the third day of July 1658 met with by<br />
a Dutch built ship called the ''Gelderland'', burthen about 200<br />
Tonnes, mounted with about two and twenty peeces of<br />
Ordnance, whereof One John Jacobson was Comander<br />
which said Comander together with all or most of his Company were<br />
Dutch men and soe acknowledged themselves to be, and they<br />
spake and discoursed altogether in the Dutch language<br />
And the said ship ''Gelderland'' as her Company declared and [?XXXXXXX] and they alsoe declared that Van Trumpe had bin Comander<br />
of her formerly, which said Captaine and Company did with<br />
the said ship ''Gelderland'' under the holland Pennant<br />
and Antient chase the said shipp ''Anne and Margaret'' and come<br />
up with her, And they did in a violent and hostile manner<br />
fire severall Gunnes and broadsides at and upon the said ship<br />
''Anne and Margaret'' and killed one of her Company<br />
and wounded the Master and about seaven More of her Company<br />
the said Master and one other of those soe wounded dying<br />
suddenly after of their wounds. And by force and violence<br />
they boarded and seized the said ship ''Anne and Margaret'' together with<br />
the said Goods and Merchandizes soe laden onboard her at<br />
Tunis which hee saith were then onboard her and came to<br />
the hand of the said seizors who having possessed themselves<br />
thereof carried the same away and disposed thereof at<br />
their pleasure, thereby Utterly dispoyling the Owners<br />
thereof of the same, turning this deponent and most of the<br />
said ships Company out of her upon her said seizure And<br />
further deposeth not./
To the 10th hee saith that all or most part of the said Goods and<br />
Merchandizes soe put onboard the said ship at Tunis and<br />
seized in her as aforesaid, were brought with the foresaid mney<br />
(carriedith the foresaid mney<br />
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