them Stept into the Boate and Rowdd on board our Shipp to fetch the keys. as Soone as they entred our Shipp one of them Ran to the Steereage Doore and another to the Round house and Secured all our Arms, the rest Imediatly Seizeing the Carpenters who were att work on the Boate. They then fired a gunn as a Signall to theire Sloope, who Imediatly Seized us who were on board her (wee being unarmed) and forthwith way'd anchor and Laid our Shipp aboard, att the same time takeing everything out of the Sloope, excepting a Little Stincking Brackish water, some Flower, a Little Stincking beefe, and three or foure baggs of wheate, and then Comanded us presently to putt of from the Shipp about Musquett Shott and then to come to anchor, which we were forced to Comply with; After which they went on Shore and fetched our men out of the Pounds by force and Armes, Seaventeene of whom they tooke with them, Some whereof by force and threattnings and others of them went volluntarily, which wee have good reason to beleive were privy to the Plott and Surpriseall of the Shipp, a List of whose names is hereto Subjoyned. afterward they gave us our Chests and some of our Cloaths and the next day Comanded us to Saile away with the said Sloope (which they gave us), and upon the Sixth day of February Instant wee sailed with said Sloope for the Island of Barbados where wee arrived the twenty first day of the same. JEREMIAH TAY, M'r. EDWARD TYNG THOMAS WHARFE, Mate JAMES MEERES, JUNIOR. [Footnote 3: England and France were at war, 1689-1697.] [Footnote 4: Bay of Campeche, west of Yucatan. At the beginning of this Campeche voyage of the _Good Hope_ ("formerly the _Fortune of Courland_"), in October, 1689, she had been detained by the royal officers in Boston, for evasion of the customs laws, but made her escape. _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, XII. 116.] _54. Deposition of Epaphras Shrimpton. July, 1694 (?)._[1] [Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, no. 3033, paper 7. Epaphras Shrimpton was a cousin of Colonel Shrimpton.] Epaphras Shrimpton, of full Age, Testifieth that Benja. Blacklidge did acknowledge that himselfe and some others which he named took from on borde the Ship _Good hope_ at Madagasker about halfe her Cargoe which she brought from Holland particulerly Hollands, duck, Riging, Ketles, Powder, etc., belonging to Col. Sam. Shrimpton, and said that with part of the Ketles they Sheath'd the bow of the Ship which he came from Madagasker in, and offer'd if Colo. Shrimpton would be kinde to him he would discover the Persons that were to bring home the remainder of the Ship _Good hopes_ Cargoe. the said Blacklidge said that himselfe and other of his Confederates took the above mention'd goods out of the Shipp _Good hope_ at Madagasker just before he came from thence to New England. this he acknoledg'd to Colo. Shrimpton in the Prison house in Boston in New England in the year 1693. EPAPH. SHRIMPTON. _55. Deposition of Jeremiah Tay. July 6, 1694._[1]