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Transcription

belonged to the Port of Amsterdam, and hath made her voyage
from tyme to tyme from Amsterdam and returned againe to
Amsterdam, this last voyage excepted which by reason of the
seizure now in question, the sayd shipp could not doe. And she
saith that about five yeares agoe, the tyme otherwise she
particularly remembreth not, the sayd shipp the Sampson sett sayle
and began her last voyage from the sayd port of Amsterdam
under the command of the sayd Otto George as master, and
was then designed for the Straits. the premisses she came to know
for that she was borne in Amsterdam, and lived neere the place
where shipps use to ride there till within theis three yeares [?now GUTTER]
last past, And hath often bene in the Company, and merry
with the sayd Otto George att Amsterdam att an Aunts house
or hers there that kept a wyne taverne. And moreover
sayth that she knoweth Peter Eleson of Amsterdam and hath often att Amsterdam heard of the
name of Matthew ffransen but
cannot depose that they have any interest in the sayd
shipp nor that the sayd Otto George hath accompted with them, or
eyther of them for the voyages by him made with the sayd
shipp. And otherwise or further she cannot depose.

To the 8 and 9th articles of the sayd allegation she saith that the
sayd shipp did of her certayne sight, and knowledge severall
tymes within these twelve yeares now past depart from Amsterdam
and for the straits as was generally sayd, and hath some tymes
after two, sometymes after three years returned of the
deponents sight back agayne to Amsterdam, and from
the straits and parts adjacent as was sayd, but that the
sayd shipp was at Cadiz or brought any sylver to Amsterdam
within that tyme, she saith she cannot depose.

To the 10th, 11th, 12 13 and 14th articles she saith she cannot depose

To the 15th and 16th articles she saith she doth not know the shipp
Mercurius, but the shipp Golden Sun or having the Golden Sun
in her sterne she well knoweth, and as she taketh it the arlate
Peter Tam was master of the sayd shipp, which sayd Peter Tam
this deponent well knoweth. And further not knoweing that the
sayd shipps were att Cadiz and brought any sylver to Ostend
or Amsterdam within the tyme interrate she saith she cannot
depose:-

To the 17th article of the sayd allegation she sayth that she was not in holland
when the sayd shipp Sampson and the other two shipps Salvador and
Saint George