| Content Description | Deposition from Thomas Sloane, Lydd, Kent, 23 Jul. 1705; recounts the landing of a French shallop on the coast of Kent on 20 Jul at 8pm; says that men from the sloop ambushed him and his party; provides details of the wounds to each man; comments that the sloop was 'standing over to France' by the time they could return with reinforcements.
Deposition from Captain John Ellesdon, Lydd, Kent, 21 Jul. 1705; gives his version of the events detailed above.
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