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+20th die decembris 1660: [CENTRE HEADING] … +20th die decembris 1660: [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup Allefatione pred Examinatus./
'''Rp. 3us.'''
'''Guilielmus Montgomery''' de Kingstreete<br />
Westminster annos agens 30 aut de circiter testis<br />
productus et Inratus dicit et deponit provt sequitur./.
Ad 1um arlum dictae Allegationus dicit et deponit that for and<br />
during all the Yeere 1659: there was warr and hostility used<br />
and practised at sea betweene the State Generall of the United<br />
Provincers and the King of Sweden, and their respective subjects<br />
and the said King of Sweden did in the said Yeere 1659 give<br />
Comissions to his Subjects and others that would serve<br />
under him, to take the ships and Goods of the said States<br />
Generall and their Subjects, And this hee saith is publique<br />
and Notorious.
Ad 2um, 3um, 4um et 5um arlos dicta Allons dicit that hee this deponent<br />
came on board the ship the ''Michael'' arlate at<br />
Edinborowe in or neere about the moneth of December<br />
1659: to serve in her as one of her Company and at such his<br />
coming onboard hee was informed that the sayd<br />
ship lately came from Stockholme, and was set out from<br />
thence by Swedes with Comission from the King of Sweden<br />
to take the Ships and goods of the Dutch which Comission this deponent sawe at, and severall times after<br />
his said Coming aboard the said sship, And saith that the said<br />
ship proceeding to sea with the said Comission under conduct<br />
of the said Weaver this deponent and Company did meete<br />
with and seize on the 9th day of March last or thereabouts<br />
a certaine Dutch fflyboate called the ''Osama kirke'', whereof<br />
one Evert Cornelis was Master and her Lading, and the said<br />
Weaver intended to carry her to some port or place in<br />
Sweden there to have proceeded against her and her Lading as a<br />
Prize and as belonging to the Subjects of the said States<br />
and to that end the said Weaver put about fourteene<br />
of his men onboard her, but shee proving extreame<br />
leaky and shee being in danger of perishing in the sea<br />
thereby: shee was put into Scilly where shee and alsoe<br />
the ''Michael'' harboured within his Majestyes Chamber and<br />
within Comand of the Castle and fforts there where the<br />
said Weaver intened to have stopped the Leake or Leakes<br />
of the said ship ''Osama kirke'', but in regard the same could<br />
not be come at (shee being laden) without unlading part of her<br />
Goods, the said Weaver caused part of the same To be taken<br />
out of her and put onboard the ''Michael'' intending as hee [?XXX]<br />
and as this deponent beleeveth to have put the same againe on board<br />
the ''Osama kirke'' after her Leake or Leakes were stopped and to carrie<br />
her and her lading to some port or place in Sweden to proceede against<br />
her as aforesaid And the Premisses hee deposeth being one of the Company<br />
of the ''Michael'' when shee so seized the ''Osama kirke'' and goeing in her in Company<br />
of the ''Osama kirke'' to Scilly as aforesaid./e ''Osama kirke'' to Scilly as aforesaid./ +
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