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Transcription

and John Bacon to find out witnesses to make the shipps Sampson Salvador and Saint George prize and the sayd Johnson gave this Rendent order to
search and make enquiry and discover what she could for the
proving the three ships aforesayd to be prize and to belong to hollanders
and saith her husband was the principall and first discoverer
in this busines, and was ymployed therein from the first tyme
the sayd shipps came hither, and from that tyme this Rendent
hath in like sort bene imployed by him in the lie discovery

To the sixth Interrogatorie she saith her sayd husband hath told her that all
the sayd three shipps did belong to holland and that he had wrought
for them there being a sayle maker by profession, and he gave
this Rendent direction to depose in this cause what she knew
to be true; and further otherwise then negatively cannot depose
saving her sayd husband told her hee had bene sworne as a witnes
and examined in this Cause.

To the seventh shee saith her sayd husband and she having lived in England
from about a month or two after the beginning of the late warrs
and for about the first yeare and halfe lodged att the signe of
the greyhound in Saint Catharines Lane neere London, and since
that tyme have lodged in the Conduit yard in the Minneries
aforesaid in the house of Mr Man a silke throwster; she doth
not know that her sayd husband was ever taxed or payd any taxes
to the Commonwealth. And further she cannot depose.

To the eighth she sayth the foresaid persons ymployed for the sayd discovery
have as she beleiveth severall tymes mett att one anothers lodgings
and else where for the advising about the busines, and have
sometymes mett att this deponents husbands lodging in Saint Catharins,
for the same purpose. but they did not use to take his rendent
into their Counsells, onely her husband gave her order to enquire
as aforesaid. And further cannot depose.

To the nynth she saith she cannot depose any more in this cause
att the present then she could habe done in december 1653. last past.

To the tenth she saith she hopes for something for her paynes in
this busines, and losse of tyme, and shall be content with what the
law of the land will give her, and she hath heard her husband
say that the Commissioners for prize goods have lent him some moneyes
about five pounds as she taketh it, but that they would give him
nothing, but what her husband expecteth she knowes not.

To the eleaventh she saith her husband is a saylemaker and workes some
tymes a shipp board att his trade, and sometymes is ymployed in
goeing about busines; And this deponent getts her living with and
by the winding of silke, And she and he husband are very
poore persons and in a very wanting condition both of Cloathes
and necessaries; and shee hopes that if the sayd three shipps
be