HCA 13/71 f.527v Annotate

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their ffactor or Correspondent but upon his sayd Master last heard from
them hee knoweth not, but beleeveth hee heareth from them constantly
once in a fortnight or thereabouts, and saith hee for his part never sawe
them the sayd da Souzas And further hee cannot answer/

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith hee is an Englishman borne and was borne in the
Towne of Coelchester (sic) in Essex and saith hee hath noe share in the goods in
question and that it will neither profitt nor preiudice to him
whether they bee condemned or cleered./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath within these three yeares last past
travailed up and down to severall places both in holland and fflaunders
but stayed little in any place there goeing only as a travailor, and to
see the Countrys and saith he hath seene some printed Coppyes of
the articles of Peace Interrogate but remembreth not perfectly the
contents of them but for more suretie referreth him selfe to the sayd
Articles of Peace And further cannot answer/

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee was never in any holland shipp
which was taken or stopped at sea save the shipp before
mentioned, and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot answere./

To the last being the 5th Interrogatorie hee cannot answer otherwise then negatively not having heard
any speech or reports either in holland or fflannders to the effect
Interrogate, only as aforesayd hee hath seene printed Coppyes
of the Articles of Peace but remembreth not perfectly the contents
of them but referreth him selfe as before to the sayd articles,
nor hath knowne or heard of any Captaines punished for molesting
of dutch shipps in the course of their voyage./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Peter Debert [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 26th day of January 1656 English style [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation./

2us

Nathaniell De New of London Merchant aged
twenty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee
saith hee being a Marchant of London hath heard a Common reporte
amongst Merchants that since the peace concluded betwixt the King
of Spaine the and the States generall of the United Provinces
divers dunkirke and Ostend men of Warr subiects of the King of Spaine
have in the years and tyme arlate notwithstanding the sayd Peace concluded visited severall dutch
shipps belonging to the Subiects of the States of the United Provinces