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Transcription

A.1.

The 28 of december 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]

The keepers et cetera against the Patriarch}
Jacob foresaid}

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

3.

Hence Meimers of Hamborough Mariner aged 43 yeares or
thereabouts, sworne and examined.

To the first second and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
about five yeares since hee this deponent upon the exchange in hamborough
was present with daniel Brandes, John [?Novius]. Adolph Sumpton and
Baselius van Barstell and Claus Colbrand (nowe master of the Partriarch
Jacob arlate) and heard them conferring together about a shipp the
said persons, Brands, [?Novis], Sumpton and Van Barstell had ordered the said
skipper to build for their accompt in holland and about the chardge and cost thereof,
and heard them say that the cost should be about 10000 gilders for the hull,
and soe much the said skipper Claus Colbrand said was demannded by a
master builder, and the said persons then and there gave the said Claus order
to proceede in the building and buying the said shipp for their accompt who
thereupon departed for holland, and as this deponent hath often heard
caused the said shipp to be built and named her the Patriarch Jacob and
tooke the commannd of her to the use of the said merchants, who have
ever since bin accompted her owners, and the said shipp hath ever since
bin commonly accompted and said to be a hamburger shipp, and to be
belonging to hamborough, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that
the said Claus Colbrand is master of the said shipp at present, which hee
knoweth because hee came from Cadiz this voyage in her company.

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