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14th of March last new stile, and the said horses and goates were sold and landed by the English, and both they and the said shipp and furniture were and are wholly lost to the said owners by the said seizures, and this deponent got passage thence in an English shipp for London:/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin and Collonel Cock. [?jacoX allestson stiersman] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ******************************* The 30th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING] The Lord Protector against the shipp the} ''hope'' of fflushing aforesaid.} '''Rowe dt.''' '''Stephen Johnson''' of fflushing Mariner aged 38 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith the said shipp the ''Hope'' was taken on the coast of ffrance betwixt deep and Saint Vallery, and that Anthony hubrechtson was then her master and that this was her first voyage, shee being a new shipp, and came from fflushing on her said first voyage about two monethes since under the conduct of the said Anthony hubrechtson who was constituted master ny her owners myn heer Gisling, [?mr] van [?hXXX] Mr Pile, [?Carel] Lallaere and others (all ducth, and dwelllers in fflushing and subiects of the States of the United Netherlands) who built the said shipp, and imployed the said master to manage the said building at Skedam and to defray the charges thereof. To the second Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp went from fflushing to Nantes in ballast, and carried noe goods outwards and that betwixt ffkushing and Nantes shee was in noe port or harbour, saving one night that shee staid in Torbay for a faire winde, which hee knoweth being Stiersman of her, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the third hee saith hee verily beleeveth the said Owners of fflushing to be still the sole and reall owners of the said shipp and of her tackle and furniture and that noe ffrenchman or subiect of the ffrench king hath any interest therein. And otherwise hee cannot answer. To the fourth hee saith that at the time of the seizure of the said shipp there was a lading of 36000 or thereabouts of Banck fish aboard her, all laden at Nantes, and taken there out of a ffrench shipp that came from the Banck of New found land and saith that an thousand of the said fish was laden by and for the accompt of the said master and company, all dutchmen and subiects of the States of the United Netherlands, and the rest were laden by a ffrench merchant, and were all to be carried and to be delivered at haver de Grace, and the said fish soe laden by the ffrench merchant were (as hee taketh it) to be delivered to the same merchant or to his use at haver de Grace aforesaid, but the thousand fish laden by the master and company, was by them intended to be sold at haver de Grace for their best proffit. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fifth hee saith hee thinketh the said master was minded to goe from haver de Grace (after deliverie) to Bourdeaux to seeke a freight and
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