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Transcription

The 15 of September 1656

Nicholas Clement and Adrian van Bolstred}
And company et cetera}

Examined on certaine Interrogatories
ministred on the behalfe of the sayd Clement and
Bolstred./

Rp. 3us

ffrancis Neuile of the parish of Saint Katherines neere the
Tower London gentleman aged 46 yeares or thereabouts a
wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the
Hare in in feild Interrogate (whereof the Interrogate John Kein was Master)
And saith shee was seized by some of the shipps of warr of this Common
Wealth and brought into England and afterwards claymed in the high
Court of Admiralty of England by the Interrogate Nicholas Clement
Adrian Van Bolstred and company subiects of the States of the United
Provinces and by decree of the sayd Court decreed to be restored and
actually restored to them as being the lawfull Owners of her and saith
shee was delivered to the sayd John Kein for the use of her sayd Owners
This hee the better knoweth for that hee was imployed as a sollicitor in
The sayd business of clayme and sawe the sayd decree of restitution
under the seale of this Court and alsoe for that hee was present and sawe
possession of her given to the sayd Kein for the use of her sayd Owners
And further cannot depose./

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that after the sayd shipp belonging to the subiects of the states of the United Provinces and a great part of her ladeing was soe cleered
the sayd John Keine while hee was in England did severall tymes in the hearing of this deponent and others give and
report that hee was bound with his sayd shipp and ladeing for Cadiz in Spaine
and that if hee could there or at Mallega get a good freight for the benefitt
of his owners of the sayd shipp either for England or any other parts hee
would embrace it or to that effect and further hee cannot depose

To the third Interrogatorie hee saith hee was present when the sayd John Keenes
Purser John [?Van ?Lothum] did present to Mr Gyles Vandeput a Merchant of London a bill
of sale of the sayd Shipp the hare in the ffeilds subscribed sealed and delivered formerly
by the sayd John Kein in the presence of this deponent and others,
to the use of the sayd Gyles Vandeput, and saith the sayd
Purser did togeather with the sayd bill of sale present to the sayd Gyles
Vandeput to bee by him subscribed a noate in writeing expressing that
the sayd bill of sale of the sayd shipp was made to the sayd Giles Vandeput
only in trust and colourably to prevent the seizure off the sayd shipp
by the English in case hee the sayd Keine should returne from Spaine
with a ladeing of Spanish goods for England or any other place which
noate when the sayd Gyles Vandeput had read and perused hee was
very angrie thereat and tore the sayd noate and threw it into the
fyre and sayd hee would not give any noate under his hand
whereby to colour any forraigners or strangers goods and refused the sayd bill of sale whereupon the
sayd Purser tooke the sayd bill of sale back with him to carrie the same
back to the sayd Kein this hee deposeth of his owne sight and
knowledge seeing the same soe done as aforesayd And further hee cannot
depose/