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The 7th of March 1656:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

The Clayme of Peter Butt for the Vessell}
the Waterhound and her tackle furniture and}
apparrell taken by some of the shipps in the}
immediate service of this Commonwealth.}
Smith: Budd}

Examined upon an Allegation exhibited
by Mr Smith the 6th of this instant
on the behalfe of the said Peter Butt

Rp. jus

Jacob Rombout of Middleborough
in Zeeland Mariner: aged 37. yeares or
thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined
saith as followeth

On the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith that hee this deponent well
knoweth the arlate Peter Butt and hath soe knowne him for or by the
space of about sixteene yeares last past, And
hee this deponent sawe and observed, That about seaven yeares
the said Peter Butt, (having for severall yeares
proceding lived at Dover) came over and arrived at Middleburgh in
Zeeland with his wife and family and house-hould stuffe where
hee the said Peter Butt hath ever since had and held his
constant domicile and fixed habitation, and is a Burgher of that
place and a Subject of the States of the United Provinces and
for and as such well knowne and generally reputed and esteemed
to bee. Which hee [this] deponent well knoweth being himselfe a Burgher of
Middleburgh and there inhabitant for all the time aforesaid
and for that hee hath been present with the said Butt when hee
bought the shipp in controversy whereof hee is now Master, and
that hee the said Butt there holdeth his family in a street of that City
called the Kinderendÿck, and that the Children of him [this] deponent and
the said Butt goe to one and the same schoole in Middleburgh aforesaid
And further cannot depose/

To the second hee saith, That hee [this] deponent well knoweth, That the said
Peter Butt for about five or six yeares immediately preceding the
said seaven yeares residence at Middleborough did constantly usually dwell
and reside at dover arlate with his wife and family, This deponent having
severall times been in his the said Buttes house at dover
aforesaid, and well knowing that the said Butt had severallbChildren
borne in that place./

To the 3. 4th and 5th hee saith That hee this deponent was present
at and a Wittnesse to the buying of the said shipp the Waterhound
at Middleburgh aforesaid by the said Peter Butt, and saith the shipp
was soe bought of one John hoed a Shipps: Master of fflushing
in Zeeland for the summe of fowerteen hundred gulders holland
money, and that about 6. yeares since, and that ever since that
time the said Butt hath bin in quiett and peaceable possession
of the said shipp or Vessell, and hath in that time of this deponents
certaine knowledge and observation made severall voiages from
Middleburgh aforesaid to the said port of dover, and to this
Port of London, and to other ports and places transmarine
and for and as the true and sole Owner and Proprietor of