Captured ship: Arms of Hoorn otherwise Wapen Van Hoorn (master Cornelius Direcksen...

Captured ship: Arms of Hoorn otherwise Wapen Van Hoorn (master Cornelius Direcksen Rens of Hoorn, otherwise Cornelis Direcksz Rens or Rans).

Capture history: a Dutch East India Company ship (VOC, Hoorn division) ship (fluit?, 500 lasts [also given as 756 tons], 32 guns, 280 men, plus passengers), bound from Amsterdam to Batavia, laden with bricks, lead, copper plates, cables, anchors, Rhenish wine, Spanish wine, but no gold plate; left the Texel on 20 December 1672 and going northabout got as far south as latitude 45°N, [in the Atlantic], before being forced back onto the French coast by tempestuous weather, where they were forced to anchor for safety at many places, and lost three suits of sails and eight cables and anchors; the ship was leaking so badly that, to preserve their lives, they ran the ship ashore by Portland Castle on 26 January/5 February 1672/3. The master then took out of his cabin a great packet of papers, letters, bills of lading, invoices and writings concerning the Dutch East India Company's affairs, tied plates of lead to each side and flung them overboard, of which some were saved. The master had had many muskets and small arms thrown overboard while the ship was in danger on the French coast.

Court Papers numbered CP 1-2:-

• [CP 1]: three examinations taken at Dorchester, 31 January 1672/3;
• [CP 2]: three examinations taken at Weymouth, 10 February 1672/3. Here, the ship was given an additional, alternative name of Falcon, although the coat of arms of Hoorn, however, depicts a unicorn holding a shield.
• Previously [CP 3]: a detailed abstract in English was made by Captain Hodder, commander of Portland Castle, of four boxes of personal letters A-D, all numbered by him: this has been transferred to HCA 30/1061, as it refers to the letters held there.