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A.1.

The 28 of december 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]

The keepers et cetera against the Patriarch}
Jacob foresaid}

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

3.

Hence Meimers of Hamborough Mariner aged 43 yeares or
thereabouts, sworne and examined.

To the first second and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
about five yeares since hee this deponent upon the exchange in hamborough
was present with Daniel Brandes, John [?Novius]. Adolph Sumpton and
Baselius van Borstell and Claus Colbrand (nowe master of the Partriarch
Jacob arlate) and heard them conferring together about a shipp the
said persons, Brands, [?Novis], Sumpton and Van Borstell had ordered the said
skipper to build for their accompt in holland and about the chardge and cost thereof,
and heard them say that the cost should be about 10000 gilders for the hull,
and soe much the said skipper Claus Colbrand said was demannded by a
master builder, and the said persons then and there gave the said Claus order
to proceede in the building and buying the said shipp for their accompt who
thereupon departed for holland, and as this deponent hath often heard
caused the said shipp to be built and named her the Patriarch Jacob and
tooke the commannd of her to the use of the said merchants, who have
ever since bin accompted her owners, and the said shipp hath ever since
bin commonly accompted and said to be a hamburger shipp, and to be
belonging to hamborough, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that
the said Claus Colbrand is master of the said shipp at present, which hee
knoweth because hee came from Cadiz this voyage in her company.

To the 4 hee cannot depose.

To the 5th not examined.

To the 6 and 7. hee saith that in July last past and shortly before this deponents
departure from hamborough for Cadiz with his shipp the Crowne
Imperiall the wife of the said Claus Colbrand meeting with this deponent at
hamborough, said, Neighbour, I would I had sooner had notice of your
being freighted for Cadiz, for then I would by you have sent the [?fXXXXX]
and provisions to my husband (speaking of the said Claus) for his shipp
the Patriarch Jacob for Cales, which I have nowe laden in hanse Schoonback
who is thither alsoe bound, and as hee heard, the said
Schooback in his passage for Cadiz was taken by ffrench sea Rovers, and
soe the said goods lost. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the 8 hee saith that the said Daniel Brands and the rest of the foresaid
owners, have and doe from time to time take upon them to be and are
by merchants and others at Hamborough commonly looked upon and
reputed as owners of teh said shipp, And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the 9 10. and 11 hee saith the said shipp the Patriarch Jacob lay this summer
three monethes and upwards in the bay of Cadiz neere this deponents said
shipp, and all that space of this deponents sight and knowledge wore
the Hamburger colours and noe others, and it was commonly said that
shee came thither from haver de Grace, And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the 12 hee cannot depose

To the 13 hee saith hee hath knowne all the said persons arlate from
his youth to be living in Hamborough, where they were and are subiects
and Burghers, and for such commonly accompted.

To the Interrogratories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee was borne and hath lived alwaies at
Hamborough, And otherwise negatively.