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Accompt were consigned to the arlate John Van Campen who this deponent knoweth to bee a hamburger and to Marke Peterson
whome this deponent knoweth not but hath heard the [?are] [?accompted] ffactors or Correspondents
to the sayd Scrothering they being soe consigned to the sayd Van Campen
and Peterson This hee knoweth being Master of the sayd shipp and seeing
the same laden aboard the sayd shipp by John Lewis Zollicoffer, Bartholmew
Zollicoffer, Henry Zollicoffer, and Bartholmew Scrovinger, ffactors at Marselles
for the sayd Zollicoffers and Scrothering and seeing the sayd soape first laid [?at]
into the sayd ffactors sellers at Marsells and seeing the same taken out
againe from there to be brought on board the sayd shipp and seeing
the sayd ffactors pay money to severall persons of whome they bought it
for the same and therefore knoweth that the sayd soape did properly belong
to the persons aforesayd for whose Accompt they were soe laden and that
they were the true Owners thereof and that the same was in quiet possession
of their sayd ffactors before the ladeing thereof And further to these articles hee cannot depose

To the 5th hee saith that hee well knoweth all the Zollicoffers arlate
Except Matthias Zollicoffer whome hee knoweth not by sight but hath heard and
beleeveth hee is one of their Company, and saith they and all of them commanly
reputed subiects of the protestant Cantons of Switzerland, and saith
hee well knoweth the arlate John Scrothering and knoweth him to be a Senator
of hamborough where hee this deponent liveth and saith all the Zollicoffers and
the sayd Scrothering are (as hee beleeveth in anuity with this Commonwealth
And hee alsoe well knoweth (being master of and aboard the sayd shipp the
Switzer at her seizure which was made in the streights by the
ffleete of Generall Blake arlate in the month of April last and as hee
remembrith upon the 22th day thereof) that at such her seizure the severall
chests of soape predeposed of belonging to the sayd Zollicoffers and Scrothering
were then aboard the same shipp and still remayne on board her And further
hee cannot depose./

To the 6th hee saith as is predeposed the sayd shipp the Switzer was
seized by generall Blakes ffleete in the streights as she was in her
course to haverdegraw on or about the 22th of April last and saith that
after her sayd seizure the sayd Generall Blakes ffleete carried the
shipp Switzer out of her course to Algiers and caused her to stay at
Gibralter and at Cadiz and other places and brought her not to London soe soone
as she might have bin by the space of two moneths at least this hee knoweth being
Captaine of her at her seizure and a prisoner on board a ffrigott of the sayd
ffleete all that tyme And saith the sayd two moneths which shee was soe hindered
by the sayd ffleete the demorage thereof was worth at least eight hundred

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