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27th Septembris 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
'' … 27th Septembris 1650. [CENTRE HEADING]
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'''Rowe dt.'''
'''William Loeman''' of the citie of Lubeck Mariner, master<br />
of the shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' of Lubeck aged 41 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined as aforesaid by the interpretation of<br />
daniel Vosse interpreter in this behalfe sworne.
To the first Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent<br />
was and is master and commannder (saving this present interuption) of the<br />
shipp the ''Saint Matthias'' of Lubeck, and saith the said shipp was stayed or<br />
seized by Captaine Penn in one of the Parliaments vessells under<br />
the fforeland neere Marget, where shee lay at anchor, having convoyed<br />
three shipps from the Sound that were bound for this port.
To the second hee deposeth that the said shipp is a newe shipp, and was first<br />
built in winter last at Lubeck aforesaid, and saith that Matthias Rodd<br />
a Lubecker and a Magistrate of the said citie, Peter Meyer, hendrick Bremer<br />
and John [?Cratts] all merchants and Inhabitants of Lubeck and dutchmen<br />
and hee this deponent alsoe a dutchman there dwelling were and are<br />
the proprietors of the said shipp, and the builders of her at their owne<br />
cost and charge, and saith that is the first voyage that ever shee went<br />
out upon.
To the third Interrogatory hee deeposeth that the said shipp when shee came<br />
from Lubeck and when shee was seized was bound for<br />
and going to the Port of Cadiz in Spaine, only shee came into the<br />
mouth of the River of Thames to Convoy the foresaid vessells as<br />
aforesaid, and there staid for a winde and for company of some English<br />
shipps that were bound for the Southward; and after her being at Cadiz<br />
shee was to goe for the West Indies with freight that was before hand<br />
promised him from Cadiz, but in case that freight<br />
failed him, then was hee to goe for the Streights for Ligorne, Genyoa or<br />
some other port there to seeke for freight: and saith shee was laden with<br />
timber, pipestaves, planckes, flax and paving stones and some<br />
cases of bottles, videlicet shee had aboard her 131 beames or thereabouts of<br />
timber, fourteene thousand pipestaves, 89 peeces of planck, 46 baggs <br />
or thereabouts of flax, three hundred tonnes of paving stones, and<br />
150 cases of bottles, foure chests of windowe glasse, and six iron<br />
gunns or peeces of ordnance, and noe other goods, which iron guns were not<br />
of the shipps provision but were laden in hold to be sold for merchandizing, they being<br />
fowle and uneven cast, which was the reason of such their lading.
To the fourth hee deposeth that the said shipp had 36 peeces of ordnance<br />
mounted besides foure that were in hold with their carriages, which foure<br />
were there disposed of to see how the shipp (being a newe one) would<br />
behave herself in sayling before the mounting of them aloft, 15000 weight of<br />
shott small and greate, 36 halfe barrells of powder, 24 muskets, 24<br />
pikes, wtelve broade swords, and twelve hand bills, all which were<br />
of and for her provisions and noe more, et refert se ad predeporta,<br />
adding that the ship is of the burthen of 500 tonnes or thereabouts.
To the fifth hee deposeth that there were noe other guns, armes, amunition<br />
powder, match or iron whatsoever aboard the said shipp then what<br />
hee hath predeposed to be of the shipps provisions, as aforesaid<br />
saving six peeces predeposed to be laden for sale, nor were there<br />
any hidd or disposed of in any secret places of the shipp, which said<br />
six peeces were by this deponent to be sold if hee could finde a<br />
convenient Chapman for them by order of his partners owners of the<br />
said shipp as aforesaid, who were alsoe owners of her lading.said, who were alsoe owners of her lading. +
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