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Transcription

Amsterdam and was bound for the Island of Eustathia a plantation of the States of the united Netherlands
in the west Indies, and this deponent telling him
that hee beleeved hee would goe for the Spanish West Indies
and that hee this deponent or other of the English frigots should meet him as
hee came home, and therefore this deponent [?charged]
her to take in a chest of plate for him, and afterwards
when this deponent soe met him after the said
seizure this deponent challenging him with
their said meeting and and the discourse that hath
betweene them off the Cape finisterra,
this deponent asked him where was his chest
of plate that hee had bespoke of him, the said
van lymen shrugged up his shoulders. and further
hee saith that the said van lymen being in his said
passage for Tolon after the seizure asked
by this deponent and others to whom his lading of
goods belonged, hee [xxxxxsted] that hee did not knowe
but said the shipp was his and his owners, but
yet did not express who were his owners.
and that the said van lymen alsoe confessed that
hee had a Spanish Captain aboard when this
deponent soe met him off Cape finis terra
and that the said Captaine was then hid in his
shipp, and this deponent understood that the
said Spanish Captain was that person that
acted as principall in the said shipps businnes
at Santa domingo, and that all there was donne
by Spaniards, and saith that the said Moller
affirming himselfe to be supra cargo, this
deponent and others asked him where were
his orders and where his dispatches, he said
he had truly none and for bills of lading
to