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Transcription

affirme to the rest of the gentlemen in Company togeather in
the sayd Skute, that the plate and silver which was on board
those shipps then lately seized by the English (meaning and
speaking of the foresayd three shipps) did belonge to severall
dutchmen of Amsterdam and harlem or to that effect. And
further alsoe sayd that although it might be pretended that the
sayd silver did belonge to hamburgh, yet at last (hee sayd) it will
fall upon our owne heads, meaning and speaking of the dutch
that were subiects of the States aforesayd, And further
then likewise added that the English were subtile enough to finde
out the grounds of the busines or to the selfe same effect and
purpose, for which reasons this deponent for his part
did and doth verily beleeve that the plate and silver in the sayd
three shipps did and doth really belonge to the subiects of
the sayd States of the United Netherlands Provinces, And
further or otherwise hee saith hee cannot depose./

To the 15th and 16th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith
hee cannot depose./

To the Crosse Interrogatories

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not of the company
of the sayd shipp the Saint George./

To the second hee saith hee was not present nor sawe the ladeing
of the sayd shipp./

To the 3 hee saith hee cannot depose

To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth none of the Owners of the sayd shipp
the Saint George

To the 5th hee saith hee is not converned therein/

To the 6th hee saith his naturall language is English and that he can
speake dutch as well as English and learnt the same upwards of
twentie yeares agoe at Rotterdam./

To the 7th hee saith hee can both read and write both dutch and English./

To the 8th hee saith hee doth not know the Purser of the Saint George/

To the 9th hee saith hee sawe not any entries at all made in the sayd Pursers booke/

To the 10th hee saith hee never sawe the sayd Pursers booke soe farr as hee knoweth or remembreth/

To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth not in what language the sayd booke is written./

To the 12th hee saith hee is not concerned./

To the 13th hee saith hee never sawe the pursers booke of the sayd
shipp