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26th Septembris 1650. [CENTRE HEADING] [?Promane] the ''Saint Matthias'' de Lubeck.} '''Rowe dt.''' jus.''' '''Hance Dubb''' of the citie of Lubeck Saylor aged 24 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon certaine Interrogatories saith as followeth, videlicet. To the first Interrogatory hee saith that hee was at the time of the seizure of the shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' interrogated, one of her company, videlicet a common man in her, and noe officer, and saith shee was seized by Captaine Penn neere the foreland, and that Captaine keiser was then in company of the saidd Penn in another of the Parliaments vessels, which hee knoweth because hee was then and there present in the said shipp the ''Saint Matthias.'' To the second hee saith that the said shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' is a newe shipp and first built in Winter last at Lubeck, this deponent seeing her there in building and when shee was finished, and saith the Skipper of her William Loeman and company were and are the owners of her and caused her to be built, and saith the said Loeman is a Lubecker and soe (as hee hath heward) are the rest of the owners, but who the rest of the owners are hee knoweth not, and alsoe saith that this is the first voyage that ever shee went out upon. To the third hee deposeth that the said shipp was this present voyage bound for Cadiz in Spaine and was thither going when shee was staid as aforesaid only [?when] she came into the downes for water and necessaries, and saith shee was laden with timber beames and plankes, and with her ballast of stones, and nothing els that hee knoweth of, saving a quantitie of flax, but howe many beames or planckes, or what quantitie of flax or stones shee had on board, hee saith hee knoweth not; and giveth for reason that shee was bound for Cadiz, because hee saith hee was by the said Skipper hired to serve in her thither and home againe, unlessse hee should thinke fitt to goe into the straights, and then this deponent was to proceede thither wuth him alsoe. To the fourth hee deposeth that the said shipp had aboard her when shee was soe staid 36 peeces of ordnance, pikes, muskets shott and powder but howe much or many hee knoweth not, all which were her provisions, and besides theise peeces of ordnance, shee had foure in hold that were not of her provisions, alr nescit. Ad 5 negative salvis predepoita. To the 6th hee deposeth that the said shipp was upon a merrchants and not a warlike voyage, which hee knoweth because hee was hired as aforesaid into a merchandizing imployment, and was never told by the master of any warlike designe, which hee beleeveth hee should have bin in case shee shipp had bin intended for it. To the seventh hee deposeth that hee knoweth not of any Commission cocket, passeport or writing whatsoever on board the said shipp et alr negative et nescit. To the eighth hee saith that the said Skipper William Loeman was (as hee this deponent was informed and beleeveth) merchant and isposer of the said shipps ladinge, alr nescit.
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