Captured ship: Cat , otherwise White Ball, otherwise Green Glass or [ New Globe ]...

Captured ship: Cat, otherwise White Ball, otherwise Green Glass or [New Globe] of Amsterdam (master Richard Meusien Henricke of Monnikendam).

Capture history: a Dutch merchant ship (140-[160] tons, [10] guns, [15] men, built at Zaandam for owners), bound from several places 'between the Capes' on the coast of Guinea, West Africa (trading with African traders over the course of 7 months) to Amsterdam, laden with 518 elephants' teeth [ivory] (and some more for the crew), a case of sayes which could not be disposed of at Guinea, 5 chests of firelocks [muskets] and glass beads, also 2-3 pounds of gold, which, along with some papers, the master took ashore at Newhaven in [Sussex], England; [having put the master ashore at Newhaven and arranged to meet him in Dover roads], the ship then took refuge in Dover roads [during the night of 20/30-21/31 July 1672] for fear of a French man-of-war, and not knowing of the war with Britain, the ship made the usual signal (a weft) requesting a pilot, most of the crew were then decoyed ashore to meet the master in part of a ruse orchestrated by Robert Stockdale; the ship was seized there on 21/31 July 1672 by Stockdale in a boat [with 6 men] pretending to help the Dutch defend against the French, and the ship brought into Dover. [The master was arrested on the way to Seaford with a 'considerable quantity' of gold.]

Court Papers, numbered CP 1- 2:-

• [CP 1]: standing interrogatories;
• [CP 2]: four examinations, taken at Dover, 22 July 1672.

Extra information:-

• See also HCA 24/147/10 for the allegation, which gives a detailed account of the ship coming ashore at Seaford, and the gold being taken to Newhaven.
• Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1672, pp. 371-372. Robert Stockdale, 21 July 1672; ibid, pp. 374-375. John Carlile to Williamson, 22 July 1672; SP 29/313, nos 30 and 43];and IND 1/9012, ff.6, 10.