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To the 15 hee saith hee is a poore mariner that seketh his fortune and
imployment from place to place without fixed habitation

To the 16 negatively.

To the 17 negatively.

To the Interroogatories in the second place.

To the said interrogatorie negatively.

The marke of the said
[MARKE] Michaell le deane [MARKE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before Doctors Clarke and Godolphin

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The 19th of Aprill 1654.

Examined upon the foresaid allegation in the acts

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Nicholas Pine of Cadiz in Spaine, merchant, aged 36
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee knoweth the allegate
Mr Stoffels and Peter Gerridge, and saith they were and are commonly
accompted the owners of the shipp the Saint John allegate, whereof
hee saith Jacob holkes (whom hee saith hee likewise knoweth) is master,
and this deponent hath heard them at Amsterdam (where they the said
Stoffels and Gerridge dwell) say that they were the owners thereof.
And further that this deponent comming from Cadiz to Amsterdam
had recommendations from a freind of this deponents at Cadiz
named John de Wint a ffleming, to the said Gerridge at Amsterdam
to whom this deponent had a letter from the said de Wint, and saith
that this deponent ariving at Amsterdam in June last, delivered
the said letter to the said Gerridge, and this deponent staying in Amsterdam
from that time till about the end of September last had much conversation
with the said Gerridge by meanes of the said recommendation and had
assistance from him in this deponents merchandizing affaires, And
by soe conversing with the said Gerridge, hee became acquainted with
the said Stoffells, who in that space frequented the house and company
of the said Gerridge, they two having parnershipp and dealing with
each other. And saith that hee heard the said two merchants of
Amsterdam Stoffels and Gerridge severall times speake of lading
and sending a shipp for Malaga with corne, and that before
her lading, they went aboard her to be merry and tooke this deponent
with them, and then this deponent sawe the picture of Saint John in
her sterne, and heard that her name was the Saint John, and
that her masters name was Jacob Holkes, and this
hee saith was in the moneth of August last, the said shipp then
lying in the haven of Amsterdam; And further that about three
weekes ince hee this deponent being at Dover (where hee then arived),
and beholding the shipps that then lay there
in harbour, hee sawe the said shipp the Saint John there
which hee had soe seene and bin aboard of at Amsterdam, and
well knewe her againe by her bulke and fashion, and by the said
picture in her sterne, and there hee understood that shee was brought