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Transcription

in the bay neer to Cadiz three severall parcells of hides under several [XXX] and
noe more and that one of the sayd parcells did conteyne fifteene
hundred hides and noe more and another of the sayd parcells did
conteyne one hundred and seven hides and no more and that
and saith that [XXX] and [XXX] more or [XXX] [???lds]
aboard at the time of the seizure but the said
three parcells./

[signed:] Christian Cloppenbergh

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The 17th of April 1654

[XXX] and company against Saint John}
and goods in [th????] }

Examined upon the said allegation in the articles
on the behalf of the said mola and company.

Michael Le Deane of Morlais in Bretagne Mariner
aged 21 yeeres or thereabout Sworne and examined.

To the said allegation he saith that about sevene monethes since or
upwards he this deponent (being one of the company of the shipp the
Peter of fflushing (Jean Sous Captaine) a man of war, which with
another man of war named the Margaret of dunquirk were
used and imployed to convoy shipps betwixt fflushing and dunquirke)
saw the shipp the Saint John Baptist (Jacob selkiner) at [C???]
a vessel of about an hundred tonnes burthen and having six
peeces of Canon or artillery, which the [???] of Saint John'
Baptist [p???ed] in her sterne, and a red lyon carved on her beak head
and saith that the said shipp the St John which was said to have come
from [XXX] to fflushing and to be thenne bound for
Spaine and then the master desiring to goe with her to
dunquirke, darest not goe with noe convoy through feare
of the English, and soe hee saith that shee was with 14 or 15
other vessells convoy from fflushing to dunquirke by his said
two men of warr, and in their passage to dunquirk
the said master of the St John came aboard the said man of warr
the Peter wherein this deponent was, to speake with the
Captaine thereof, and when hee went off againe his [XXX]
boate wherein he came being retrieved aboard, the said
Captaine sent his baote to carry him aboard, in which boate
this deponent went and helped to [XXX] the said master of the
St John aboard his said shipp, and heard him say that hee
would goe from [?Wardike] for Spaine, and this deponent heard
some of his company at [?Cashing] say that [XXX] came from Amsterdam
and saith that on Tuesday last this deponent saw the said master
Jacob selke upon the Exchange London, and well knewe him
againe to be the same master of the Saint John that was soe
convoyed from fflushing to dunquirk hee [XXX] being [XXX] a tall bigg
man of whitish complexion and having a [???ish] beard, and this deponent
hath heard and bin told that hee the said master and his said shipp were
taken and brought into England and the said shipp under question for prize
and otherwise hee cannot deposeth.

To the Interrogatorie [XXX]