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To the 15 hee saith hee is a poore mariner … To the 15 hee saith hee is a poore mariner that seketh his fortune and<br />
imployment from place to place without fixed habitation
To the 16 negatively.
To the 17 negatively.
To the Interroogatories in the second place.
To the said interrogatorie negatively.
The marke of the said<br />
[MARKE] Michaell le deane [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before Doctors Clarke and Godolphin
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The 19th of Aprill 1654.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation in the acts
'''5'''
'''Nicholas Pine''' of Cadiz in Spaine, merchant, aged 36<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee knoweth the allegate<br />
Mr Stoffels and Peter Gerridge, and saith they were and are commonly<br />
accompted the owners of the shipp the ''Saint John'' allegate, whereof<br />
hee saith Jacob holkes (whom hee saith hee likewise knoweth) is master,<br />
and this deponent hath heard them at Amsterdam (where they the said<br />
Stoffels and Gerridge dwell) say that they were the owners thereof.<br />
And further that this deponent comming from Cadiz to Amsterdam<br />
had recommendations from a freind of this deponents at Cadiz<br />
named John de Wint a ffleming, to the said Gerridge at Amsterdam<br />
to whom this deponent had a letter from the said de Wint, and saith<br />
that this deponent ariving at Amsterdam in June last, delivered<br />
the said letter to the said Gerridge, and this deponent staying in Amsterdam<br />
from that time till about the end of September last had much conversation<br />
with the said Gerridge by meanes of the said recommendation and had<br />
assistance from him in this deponents merchandizing affaires, And<br />
by soe conversing with the said Gerridge, hee became acquainted with<br />
the said Stoffells, who in that space frequented the house and company<br />
of the said Gerridge, they two having parnershipp and dealing with<br />
each other. And saith that hee heard the said two merchants of<br />
Amsterdam Stoffels and Gerridge severall times speake of lading<br />
and sending a shipp for Malaga with corne, and that before<br />
her lading, they went aboard her to be merry and tooke this deponent<br />
with them, and then this deponent sawe the picture of ''Saint John'' in<br />
her sterne, and heard that her name was the ''Saint John'', and<br />
that her masters name was Jacob Holkes, and this<br />
hee saith was in the moneth of August last, the said shipp then <br />
lying in the haven of Amsterdam; And further that about three<br />
weekes ince hee this deponent being at Dover (where hee then arived),<br />
and beholding the shipps that then lay there<br />
in harbour, hee sawe the said shipp the ''Saint John'' there<br />
which hee had soe seene and bin aboard of at Amsterdam, and<br />
well knewe her againe by her bulke and fashion, and by the said<br />
picture in her sterne, and there hee understood that shee was broughtthere hee understood that shee was brought +
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