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The 2. day of ffebruary .<u>1654:< … The 2. day of ffebruary .<u>1654:</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against a certaine shipp named the ''Saint John''}<br />
''Baptist'', whereof one John Claeson was Master and her}<br />
tackle furniture and goods in the same seized by the shipp the}<br />
''Black-Raven'' whereof Major Robert Sedgwicke was}<br />
Commander in the immediate service of this Commonwealth}<br />
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Examined upon an Allegation on<br />
the behalfe of his highnesse the<br />
Lord Protector:/
'''Rowe dt. j.'''
'''Robert Martin''' of New haven in New England<br />
Mariner aged 39. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That the shipp<br />
the ''Saint John Baptist'' arlate was and is a dutch built shipp, and so much<br />
doeth and may easily appeare to men experienced in the Mould fashion and<br />
fabrique of shipps usuall in the United Netherlands, And further cannot depose<br />
saving that hee this deponent being Commander of the shipp the ''hope'', and being in<br />
Companie with the arlate shipp the ''Black Raven'' at the time of the seizure of<br />
the said shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' and her lading, went aboard the said shipp ''Black''<br />
''Raven'', and there understood by the Officers there assembled in a Councell of warr<br />
That the Master of the said shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' at her first haling by<br />
the ''black Raven'' said and acknowledged that his said shipp belonged to the<br />
Prt of Amsterdam, but this deponent saith, hee did not heare the said Master<br />
or Companie make any such acknowledgment:/
To the second hee saith, That hee this deponent was as aforesaid aboard the said<br />
shipp the ''black Raven'' and in the said Councell of war, where hee heard the said<br />
Master upon his examination declare and affirme that his said shipp belonged<br />
to dantzicke. And further cannot depose./
To the third hee saith, That in this deponents presence and hearing, the Master<br />
of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'', upon his further examination, before<br />
the said Councell of Warr did declare and affirme that his said shipp and<br />
lading were bound for London, and that the said shipps Cargo did belong<br />
to sewerall English Merchants Subjects of this Commonwealth, whereupon the<br />
said Master being demaunded by the said Councell of warr, whether hee had any<br />
papers or writings to that effect, answered no, neither did hee produce or<br />
shew any such papers or writings. And further to this article hee cannot depose:
To the 4th hee saith, That the lading of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
consisted in wines, raisings and feathers, which were of the growth and<br />
production of france, and were, by and according to the confession of the said<br />
Master received and laden aboard at Bayon in ffrance, but who were the<br />
persons that laded the same, this deponent knoweth not, nor remembreth that<br />
hee heard any thing thereof by the said Master or Companie And further<br />
cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' was taken<br />
and seized by the said shipp the ''black Raven'' upon or about the 18th.<br />
day of March <u>1653</u>. last past, which was before the peace was concluded<br />
between his highness the Lord Protector of the Common wealth of<br />
England Scotland and Ireland, and the States Generall of the United<br />
Netherlands, this deponent being as aforesaid present and seeing the said<br />
seizure made. And further cannot depose/;
seizure made. And further cannot depose/ +
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