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'''F'''
18. September 1651.
John Marston … '''F'''
18. September 1651.
John Marston against the ship the ''B[?rack]''}<br />
Budd. Smith. Suckley.}
Examined upon an allegation made by mr Suckley in the<br />
acts of Court the 11th of the said moneth.
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Suckley} d.t'''
'''jus.'''
'''Peter van Salingen''' of Amsterdam in holland Captaine of<br />
the said shipp the ''[?Brack]'', aged 24 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Brack'' was<br />
and is a man of Warr in service of and belonging unto the Chamber or Colladge of<br />
the Admiralti[?a] of holland established at Amsterdam by authoritie[?a] of the<br />
Lords the States Generall of the United Netherland provinces, And saith that<br />
hee this deponent comming Convoy with the said shipp of certaine Marchant<br />
men from Amsterdam, arrived here in the river of Thames and came<br />
to an anchor a little belowe Gravesend on or about the 27th day of August<br />
olde stil[?a] being wednesday, whereof my Lord Embassadour Scha[?ep] having<br />
intelligence, hee wrote and sent unto this deponent a letter aboard the said<br />
shipp taking notice of this deponents said arrivall and commanded him with<br />
all hast to come up to London and speake with him, in regard (as hee wrote)<br />
hee understood that this deponent was sp[?a]edily to retourne, which letter came<br />
to this deponents hands aboard the said shipp on satturday next following in<br />
the morning about breake of the say, whereupon this deponent with all<br />
speed hasted to London and came that day before noone to the said Lord<br />
Embassadour to his house neare Charing crosse, and forth with comming to his<br />
presence, the said Lord Schaep spake unto him to this effect, Captaine<br />
I understand that you are sp[?a]edily to retourne for holland, I and my wife<br />
will goe with you which is the cause of my sending for you, and for my sonne<br />
I shall leave him here, and therewithall hee asked this deponent when hee<br />
thought hee should goe downe to his shipp and sett saile, and this deponent<br />
answering him that hee was determined to goe downe and make ready on the<br />
monday next following at the furthest, the said Lord Embassadour tould this<br />
deponent that hee would against that time be ready to goe with him and<br />
in the meane time would write unto him when hee would come downe<br />
to him that this deponent might be readie to receive him, and after some<br />
other discourse to the same purpose this deponent tooke his leave of him,<br />
and went into London and comming in the evening to the Glove in<br />
ffanchurch Streete where hee is accustomed to lodge, hee found his<br />
Lieutenant there, whereat marveiling, hee saked his said Lieutenant<br />
what hee made there, who answered and told him that the said shipp<br />
was arrested by mr Marston and that hee was come up to acquaint<br />
this examinate therewith, And further hee saith that by meanes of<br />
the said arrest the said Lord Embassadour, who was a publique minister<br />
of State of holland, was disappointed of his said passage in the<br />
said shipp, and constrained to goe for Zealand in the shipp of one Block<br />
which passage is about and inconvenient for an Embassadour bound hence<br />
for holland, and saith withall that there were seaventie<br />
mariners belonging to the said shipp wh[?o] lay all upon victualls and<br />
wages at the chardges of the said Chamber or Colladge aforesaid and<br />
unimployed by meanes of the said arrest, besides hee saith that there were<br />
two English and a dutch shipp which lay readie and staid to be conveyed by the said<br />
shipp the ''Brock'' for the coast of holland, of which Convoy they were by<br />
the said arrest deprived to the greate dammadge of the marchants and<br />
others therein concerned, And otherwise hee cannot as hee sait depose,
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp'''
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee hath well knowne the said shipp<br />
the ''Brack'' ever since her building which was about a yeare and a quarter<br />
since, and saith that since her said building shee hath bin for the most part[?e]<br />
imployed as a Conveyer of dutch and others Merchants shipps betwixt Amsterdam and<br />
this port of London and yarmouth and came last over from holland in that imployment and<br />
not otherwise, saving hee saith hee hath sometimes conveyed only English<br />
shipps betwixt th[?o]se places, without having any dutch shipps companys, without having any dutch shipps company +
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