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captain Lieven van Ipre, with his said shipp seized and violently tooke from the said Captaine Codd the said two shipps (although hee had held the possession of them severall dayes together.) and their respective ladinge and carried the same two English shipps into Ostend, where there was a publique sale and vendition of them and their respective ladings made by the said Clauson, and the mony or proceede of the said shipps and ladings came to the hands of the said Martin Clauson, and was by him or his order disposed And saith that about halfe a yeere after to his best remembrance this deponent having busines of his owne at Ostend spake to the arlate Martin Clauson about the seizures of the foresaid two shipps by the ''Leopaldus'', and the said Clauson then acknowledged that hee had made sale of two Englishe shipps and their ladings seized as aforesaid by the ''Leopaldus'', of which shipp this deponent knew the said Clauson to bee owner or a great part owner, and in which this deponent afterwards sailed almost three yeers together in the service and employment of the said Vanderzippe. Et alr nescit. Ad 8:um. 9:um et 10:um arles deponit Et decit that the said Codd upon the said Captaine of the said two English shipps ''Alice'' and ''John'', possessed himselfe of the said shipps papers, and did upon the ?same and other evidences bring the same to Judgement in his said Majesty's Court of Admiralty in Brest whereof the arlate Thomas Holder Esquire was Judge and the said two shipps and their respective ladings were found to bee good prize and were accordingly condemned this deponent being then present at and taking notice of the premisses. And saith that the two sentences annexed were and are as hee verily beleeveth the true Copies of the said sentences of Adjudication or condemnation, and knoweth the same to bee wholy written and subscribed by Ben: Johnson, then Register of the said Court of Admiralty. with whose handwriting this deponent is very well acquainted having often seene him write and received very many letters from him. And saith that it was the use and Custome of the Court of Admiralty arlate to condemne all such shipps and ladings as were taken by the Kings Commission arlate to the King as the shipps and goods of trayters, though all the man of warr that tooke them was sett out by the Captaine or other owners, And soe hee saith the arlate shipp the ''Loyall James'' was sett fitted and equipped out by the said Codd and Dillen on behalfe of themselves and the rest of the owners, And saith that deducting tenths and fifteenths to the King and Duke of Yorke the owner of the man of warr is to have one third part, the Victualler another third part, and the Captaine and Company the other third, of all prizes Et alr referendo se ad Jura et consuetudines arlate et [?dras] sententias et contenta in easdemquer [?XXXXX] [?XXXX] nescit. Ad 11. 12. et 13 arlos deponit that he knoweth the arlate Captaine Ignatio Brett But cannot depose to the Contents of these arles but by hearesay, and by the relation of others. Ad 14 arlum deponit that hee hath seene a letter from the said Clauson Vanderzippe to the said Captaine Brett desireing him to come to Ostend to treat with him aboaut the dammages done to his the said Bretts shipp And soe saw the same about three or fowre yeers since. And beleeveth it to bee in the hands of Sir Anthony Massry. And the said Brett went over as hee understood, and was then abused. and returned without any satisffaction and to make and escape least hee should loose his life there. Et alr nescit. Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING] '''pd. Mr.''' Ad primum rend:t that hee liveth neere Ratcliffe Crosse in Stepney parish and hath lived there neere these five yeares last, and come that the request of Sir Anthony [?XXX]
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