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To the first Interrogatory he deposeth and answereth
That he knoweth the interrate shipp the ffortune for
that he was one of the shipps Company in the voyage
interrate That Peter Sibrands the Master of her is
of Eucheusen, that the said shipp and John Claeson
Longedike the Owner of the said shipp (and besides whome
he hath heard of noe other Owner of her) ar of Amsterdam
That he was one of the sayd shipps Company when she
sett sayle from Eucheusen upon her voyage in question
which is now (to the best of his remembrance) about tenn
months since, that she was bound directly for the Wild Coast in
the West Indies, and that her outward lading were
hatchetts, axes, bills, addzes, =Jewes=trumps, [?fflaites] and
such like things, and about eleaven Lasts of salt
And further to the said Interrogatory he knoweth not to
answeare./

To the second Interrogatory he answereth and deposth that
the interrate shipp did not of his certaine knowledge
come to, or trade ro or with any English Plantations
in the West Indies in the voyage interrate, The which
he very well knoweth because he was aboard all the while
she was in the voyage interrate in the West Indies
And further he knoweth not to answeare./

To the third Interrogatory he deposeth and answereth that the
interrate shipp the ffortune was about a mile and an
halfe (dutch account) to the Leeward of the Barbathoes
seized and taken with her Lading upon a Saturday (which as
he taketh was the sixteenth day of May (new stile)
last past by Captaine [?ffeild] Commander of a
Merchants shipp built ffrigatt=wise that he Lading
aboard her at the time of her seizure were about fowre
hundred Sea Cowes, fower peeces of strong water and
some of the outward Lading, which she carryed from
Eucheusen (which were for the account as he verily beeiveth
of the daid Longedicke) And he answereth that the interrate
shipp the ffortune was with her Lading after her seizure
by the said Captaine Passfeild carried into the
Barbathoes, after that the Master of her and the said
shipps Company had been kept aboard the said shipp
for about a months space, and he saith that the said
Captaine Passfeild did soone after the seizure take the sayles
from the yards of the shipp interrate And further he
cannot answeare

To the fourth Interrogatory he answereth that the Master if the said shipp
the ffortune was at the time of her seizure aboard her, and
that the said Master and the said shipps Company were
by the said Passfeild carryed into the Barbathoes where
thos Rendent left him, And further he cannot answeare
Saving that the said shipps Company were there [?XXX]

[?XXXXXX XXXX] [?Notary Publicus] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

The marke of
Garrett + Peterson [MAARKE, RH SIDE]

Repeated with his precontest before Collonel Cock.

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Jewes=trumpes [Jews harps]

See: Michael Wright, 'Jews Trumps and their valuation, 1545 to 1765', pp. 41-46 (August, 2004)