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26th Septembris 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
[? … 26th Septembris 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?Promane] the ''Saint Matthias'' de Lubeck.}
'''Rowe dt.'''
jus.'''
'''Hance Dubb''' of the citie of Lubeck Saylor<br />
aged 24 yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the right Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
and examined upon certaine Interrogatories saith as<br />
followeth, videlicet.
To the first Interrogatory hee saith that hee was at the time of the<br />
seizure of the shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' interrogated, one of her company, videlicet<br />
a common man in her, and noe officer, and saith shee was seized by<br />
Captaine Penn neere the foreland, and that Captaine keiser was<br />
then in company of the saidd Penn in another of the Parliaments vessels,<br />
which hee knoweth because hee was then and there present in the said shipp<br />
the ''Saint Matthias.''
To the second hee saith that the said shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' is a newe<br />
shipp and first built in Winter last at Lubeck, this deponent<br />
seeing her there in building and when shee was finished, and saith the<br />
Skipper of her William Loeman and company were<br />
and are the owners of her and caused her to be built, and saith the<br />
said Loeman is a Lubecker and soe (as hee hath heward) are the rest of<br />
the owners, but who the rest of the owners are hee knoweth not, and<br />
alsoe saith that this is the first voyage that ever shee went out upon.
To the third hee deposeth that the said shipp was this present voyage<br />
bound for Cadiz in Spaine and was thither going when shee<br />
was staid as aforesaid only [?when] she came into the downes for water and necessaries, and saith shee was laden with timber beames<br />
and plankes, and with her ballast of stones, and nothing els that<br />
hee knoweth of, saving a quantitie of flax, but howe many<br />
beames or planckes, or what quantitie of flax or stones shee had<br />
on board, hee saith hee knoweth not; and giveth for reason that<br />
shee was bound for Cadiz, because hee saith hee was by the said<br />
Skipper hired to serve in her thither and home againe, unlessse<br />
hee should thinke fitt to goe into the straights, and then this deponent<br />
was to proceede thither wuth him alsoe.
To the fourth hee deposeth that the said shipp had aboard her<br />
when shee was soe staid 36 peeces of ordnance, pikes, muskets<br />
shott and powder but howe much or many hee knoweth not, all which<br />
were her provisions, and besides theise peeces of ordnance, shee<br />
had foure in hold that were not of her provisions, alr nescit.
Ad 5 negative salvis predepoita.
To the 6th hee deposeth that the said shipp was upon a merrchants<br />
and not a warlike voyage, which hee knoweth because hee was hired as<br />
aforesaid into a merchandizing imployment, and was never told by the<br />
master of any warlike designe, which hee beleeveth hee should have<br />
bin in case shee shipp had bin intended for it.
To the seventh hee deposeth that hee knoweth not of any Commission<br />
cocket, passeport or writing whatsoever on board the said shipp et alr<br />
negative et nescit.
To the eighth hee saith that the said Skipper William Loeman was<br />
(as hee this deponent was informed and beleeveth) merchant and isposer<br />
of the said shipps ladinge, alr nescit.t;
of the said shipps ladinge, alr nescit. +
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