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Transcription

the said shipp the said Butt was and is well knowne and generally
observed and reputed to bee both at Middleburgh aforesaid, and at all
other places where the said shipp was employed and sailed to, And that the
said Peter Butt was for all the time of about seaven yeares predeposed
and at present is a Subiect of the said States of the United Netherlands
without any relation to Spanish fflanders, and hath ever since the
buying of the said shipp as aforesaid, possessed enjoyed sailed and
conducted the same in the quality of Master and sole Owner thereof
Which hee saith is publique and notorious both to him deponent being
his fellow Burgher, present at the said buying and observing the said
shipps employment and to the generality of the Masters of shipps
and Mariners of the said City and port of Middleburgh, And
further hee cannot depose.

To the Last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true

To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith, hee knoweth not where the shipp interrate was
originally built, nor at what time, and further referreth himselfe
to his foregoeing deposition, saying there was noe sale and bill of sale made
for the said shipp, but that the said sale was made, (as is usuall in that
Countrey) by present payments of the monies and delivery of
the shipp contracted for, and that this deponent after the said sale, payments
and delivery drinkeing and discourseing with the said John hoed heard
him acknowledge that hee was satisfyed and paÿed the summe aforesaid
for the said shipp by the said Peter Butt./

To the second hee saith the said John hoed was the master of the
shipp in question at the time of the sale aforesaid, this deponent not
knowing her former Owners./

To the third hee saith hee knoweth not where the said Peter
Butt was borne, and saith his the said Butts wife and children
nowe live and inhabitt in Middleburgh aforesaid And referreth
himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./

To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./

To the 5th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.

To the 6th hee saith hee doeth not know nor beleeve that the interrate
Levinus ffranck (who is a Merchant of Middleburgh well knowne
to this deponent) is any way concerned in the matter whereupon hee is
produced a Wittnesse,
and saith hee the said ffranck is not a subiect of the king interrate

To the 7th hee knoweth nothing thereof saving that hee [this] rendent is a Subiect of the said States

To the 8th negatively referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition

Jaques Romb[?ouet] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day Examined upon the said Allegation [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp. 2./

Jacob de Keÿser of Flushing in Zeeland Mariner
aged 30: yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and
examined saith as followeth

To the first hee saith, That hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate
Peter Butt, and hath soe knowne him for about five yeares last