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Transcription

To the 14th article of the sayd allegation, this deponent saith that for
the space of about twenty yeares next before the late warrs
betwixt this Commonwealth and the United Provinces, hee did live and
reside with his family at Rotterdam in holland and by that
meanes came to bee well acquainted with the dutch tongue
and that upon the breaking out of the sayd warrs hee came for
England his native Country, and happened to be heere at
London at such tyme as the three silver shipps the Sampson (Otto
George Master) The Salvador (Christian Cloppenburgh Master)
and the Saint George (John Martens dorpe Master) happened upon their
voyage from Cadiz with their respective ladeings of money plate
and other goods to be seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth
and brought into England which was and happened about 2
yeares agoe And saith that soone after the sayd seizure and
in the moneth of November one thousand sixe hundred fifty two
hee had occasion to repayre againe into holland for the selling
and disposeing of an house and garden and some other things which
hee had a Rotterdam aforesayd And saith by virtue of his oath
that within the sayd moneth of November and within some little
tyme after, hee was at Rotterdam, Leyden, Delph, and the hague
And that in those places and else where in holland it was at 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 lamenteing in those places for
the sayd losse Ansd hee further more particularly saith that on or
about the 20th day of November one thousand sixe hundred fifty
two aforesayd new style, hee was in Company of certayne
Dutch men subiects of the sayd States, travailing with them in
the Skute from delphe 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 silver in them (meaning and speaking
of the sayd shipps Sampson Salvador and Saint George above
mentioned) And in that disocurse one of the sayd dutch
men who was one of the Lords of delph and a Bewinthebber
of