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sold her (in the time of the said dutch wa … sold her (in the time of the said dutch warrs) to the producent<br />
Vincent dela Bar, Thomas dela Val, Michael de haze<br />
and company all whom this deponent alsoe well knoweth<br />
and was present at dover when shee was soe brought<br />
in prize and soe sold afterwards, and was privie to all<br />
the premisses, this deponent then and still living there<br />
And saith that the said producens afterwards namely on<br />
October 1655 sent out the said<br />
shipp from dover laden with coales for Ostend, this<br />
deponent seeing her when shee soe proceeded from dover<br />
and after her arivall at Ostend shee was there (as this<br />
deponent hath creadibly heard) seized by the Officers of the<br />
King of Spaine and the said owners dispoiled thereof<br />
And saith that the said shipp being lately seized or<br />
retaken and comming into the downes, this deponent<br />
hearing thereof went there aboard her about a moneth since and found and<br />
knew her to be the same shipp the ''Vincent'' that was<br />
soe bought by the said dela barr and company and set<br />
out as aforesaid for Ostend by a fish which<br />
shee then had on the maine mast, and two lockers that<br />
shee had on the Starr board side at the entrie of the<br />
masters Cabbin, in the lower part of which lower locker there were<br />
at such his being aboard her in the downes a [?nat] hole soe<br />
bigg as hee could neere thrust his fist thereinto, which shee<br />
had when shee was soe set out as aforesaid, and by diverse<br />
other signes and markes, and otherwise hee cannot depose<br />
saving shee is now called the ''Elizabeth'' and was [?soe] [?called] [?when]<br />
shee was soe retaken as aforesaid/.
To the fourth hee saith that the saod producents were and are<br />
all subiects of this Commonwealth, and Inhabitants thereof<br />
and for such commonly [?apprehended].
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first and second hee saith hee knoweth not how<br />
much the said delabar and company paid for the said shipp [?nor]<br />
saw the money paid, and was aboard the said shipp<br />
when shee was in dover and fitted her with sailes,<br />
some of which shee had aboard when shee was soe retaken and<br />
was in the downes, and saith hee hath noe relation to her, and<br />
otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose
Richard Clarke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]epose
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