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and that upon the breaking out of the sayd warres he came
for England his native Countrey, and happened to be here
att London att such tyme as the three sylver shipps the
Sampson Otto George Master, the Salvador Christian Cloppenburgh
master, and the Saint George John Martins dorpe master happened
upon their voyage from Cadiz with their respective
ladings of money plate and other goods to be seized by
the shipps of this Commonwealth and brought into England
which was and happened about two yeares agoe. And saith
that soone after the sayd seizure, and in the moneth of
November one thousand six hundred fifty two he had
occasion to repair agayne into holland for the selling, and
disposing of an house, and garden and some other things
which he had att Roterdam aforesayd. And saith by vertue
of his Oath that within the sayd moneth of November and
within some little tyme after, he was att Rotterdam, Leyden
delph and the Hague, and that in those places and elswhere
in holland It was att that tyme commonly and generally
talked of and reported, that the States of the united Provinces
and their subiects had an exceeding great losse by reason
of the seizure of the sayd shipps by the English and there
was of this deponents sight and observation a generall
and great lamenting in those places for the sayd losse.
And he further more particularly saith That in or about
the twentyeth day of November one thousand six hundred
fifty two aforesayd new stile he went in Company of
certayne dutchmen subjects of the sayd States travailing
with them in the skute from delph to the Hague, and
that they the sayd dutch amongst other matters fell into discourse
about the takeing of the sayd three shipps by the English
which had the plate and sylber in them, meaning and
speaking of the sayd shipps Sampson Salvador and Saint Grorge
above mentioned, And in that discourse one of the sayd dutch
men who was one of the Lords of delph and a Bewinthebber
of the dutch East India Company did then and there in
the presence and hearing of him this deponent confidently
affirme