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The 29th of November 1655. The Lord Protector against the shipp} the ''Camell''. Jacob Tyson master} '''Suckley.} [?XXXX]} dt.''' '''Jacob Tyson''' master of the said shipp the ''Camell'' aged 40 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the acts of Court, saith and deposeth as followeth. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Camell'' belongeth to the port of Amsterdam, and that John Brouwers and Isaac hermans both dutchmen and marchants and Inhabitants of Amsterdam and subiects of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands were and are the sole owners both of the said shipp and of the lading that was aboard her at the time of her seizure in question. And otherwise negatively. To the second Interrogatorie hee deposeth that the said lading was put aboard the said shipp at Amsterdam by her said owners, and was to be transported to the Canary Ilands, whether the said shipp was bound, and saith shee came out of the Texel on the said voyage on the third of October last new stile, and afterwards was by contrary winde put into the Ile of Wight, afterwards into Torbay and lastly into Plimouth whether shee came on the fourth of this instant new stile. To the third hee saith that hee had two briefs or writings aboard which concerned the said shipp, and hee had alsoe two bills of lading which hee did not remember but had forgotten them when he was at Plimouth examined, being in greate perplexitie and distraction through his being detained with his said shipp and goods, when as other shipps that came in thither with him were dischardged, and saith there were alsoe aboard this deponents seabrief, and passe port and last-brief, and some other papers and letters of small importance the particulars whereof hee remembreth not, but referreth himselfe to the same, being in the hands of the officers of this Commonwealth who seised the same. And saith there were not any papers made away or throwne overboard, nor was there any Charter partie for the voyage, the shipp sailing in her owners service. To the fourth hee saith that hee was ordered by his said owners and imployers to deliver the said lading at Teneriff in the port of Santa Cruse to Nicholas Motelier, a Wallon by Nation, and a Subiect (for ought hee knoweth to the contrary) of the king of Spaine, And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fifth hee saith the foresaid owners bought the said shipp at fflushing in or about Aprill 1653, and in May following shee being brought thence to Amsterdam this deponent was thereby then constituted master of her, and ever since this deponent hath continued master and the said John Brouwers and Isaac hermans sole owners of the said vessell to this present, And otherwise cannot depose, hee not being present at such her buying. To
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