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Transcription

of feathers and forty one thousand pounds of pitch all for the
proper accompt of this deponent to be delivered att this Port of
London, and that he had given order to the skipper to touch att
Plymouth or Dartmouth: And he further saith that the sayd
Letter and bill of lading were and are true and reall. and that
the sayd vessell doth really belong to this deponent, and that the
sayd goods were laden by this deponents order, and doe truly belong
to him and that he alone doth run the hazard and advenure
thereof. And lastly saith that according to the foresayd letter of
advise he is given to understand that the foresayd vessell for the
better securing her and her foresayd goods from the ffrench and
Dutch men of warr was and is manned by a ffrench master and
ffrench Mariners.

Martin Wescombe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The third day of May 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]

The Clayme of Daniel Slegall}
for the shipp the Peter.}

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Gerrard Menschever of Stockhollom in Swethland
Secretary to the Agent of the Queene of Sweden
Resident here in England aged 36 yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith and
deposeth by vertue of his oath as followeth videlicet.

To the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that being att
Stockhollom in the yeare 1644 in the which yeare and for some tyme
after there was open warr and hostility betwixt the Queene of Sweden
and King of Denmarke he well remembreth that he saw within
the sayd yeare 1644 the arlate shipp the Saint Peter (whereof Matthias
Cornelison is or late was master) brought into Stockholme as a
prize by one Captaine Lutziffer and another Captaine in the service
of the Queene of Sweden, who had taken the same att sea from
the King of Denmarke to whom formerly she
did belong. And he likewise well knoweth that Daniel Slegall
arlate was Commissary Generall in the parts of Pomeren of the
sayd Queenees Armada and that for his service therein he was
advanced by her Majesty of Sweden to the dignity of a Nobleman, and
had the sayd shipp the Saint Peter and propriety of the same assigned and made over to him and
so became possest thereof (which was done (as this deponent conceyveth)
in allowance of
moneyes expended by him in furnishing her Majestyes Navie with provisions in the sayd service, which this
deponent came to know and take notice of living then in Stockhollom
as aforesayd, and being severall tymes in Company of the sayd Daniel
Slagall in his treaties with the officers for the Treadury of her
sayd Majesty of Sweden for and touching the sayd shipp, and afterwards
saw