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Katharine Wedge mentioned in the sayd allegation, unto whom whome he
gave notice where the sayd Reeve Johnson and Matsion might
be found, who had undertaken to proove and told this deponent
they were able positively to sweare the effect of the sayd paper,
and the reason of this deponents leaving the sayd paper with Katharine
Wedge was because his Occasions called him away to sea by meanes
whereof he could not then attend this service. And he further saith
that all the sayd persons to witt the sayd Reeve Johnson and Matison
did acquaint this deponent, and affirme they could and would be
deposed, that the masters of the sayd three shipps the Salvador,
the Sampson, and the Saint George are hamburghers in this manner
following and not otheriwse, that is to say, They have howses
in hamburgh where their wifes doe live for the tyme their
husbands are upon their voyage, and that att their returnes
they come to holland, and dwell there with their husbands
untill they goe forth agayne. And for that they onely keepe
a fire in hamburgh they procure passes as hamburghers,
and in such sort and not otherwise are hamburghers. And
he further saith That the foresayd George or Urian Matison did
acquaint this deponent, and affirme that he would and could depose
That there were four shippes together att Cales in Spayne
that is to say, the Salvador Christian Cloppeenburgh master,
the Samson Otto Uriance master, the George John Marson master
and the Mercurius hands Young master, and that all of
them did there take in their lading for the space of three
monethes, that the sylver was brought on board in the night, that
the sayd four shipps did come from Cales together in Company,
that all of them were bound from Cales to Amsterdam, and
that the George and Samson were in their passage seized by the
English, and the Salvador submitted her selfe to the English
and that the Mercurius onely escaped, and went directlt to
Amsterdam, and delivered the sylver that was in her to the same
persons Owners of the sylver that was in the sayd other three
shipps that were taken and in the power of the English; And that
he the sayd Urian Mattison came from Cales in the Mercurius., and
carryed part of the sylver from aboard to the merchants when he
came to Amsterdam in little basktess upon his neck. And he allso
saith that the foresayd three persons the sayd Reeve, Johnson and
Mattison did acquaint this deponent, and affirme that they could, and
would depose, That the sayd shipps the Salvador, the Sampson
and the George were bilt in holland and never belonged to
any other place, That the sayd shipps the Salvador, the Sampson
and the George were never att hamburgh since they were shippes
That