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saith shee had 14 gunns, some muskets, pik … saith shee had 14 gunns, some muskets, pikes, swords, powder, [?XXX]<br />
and match, And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the 6th hee saith the skipper signed bills of lading for the said<br />
goods, and that all his papers and bills were seized and carried to<br />
Dover. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 7th and 8th that the company consisted of 18 men and boys, all as hee<br />
beleeveth Easterlings, and noe Netherlander amongest them, and<br />
further that the master is a hamburger and hath his wife and familie<br />
there. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 9th hee saith that they had not any other but the Hamburgh<br />
flagge aboard when they were seized.
To the 10. 11 and 12th hee cannot depose saving that the Skipper was<br />
to receive freight at Hamburgh.
To the 13th hee cannot depose.
To the 14th negatively.
To the 15th hee cannot depose.
To the 16th saith that there were deale boards and timber loggs<br />
carried in the said shipp from Hamburgh to Malaga and noe<br />
other goods, and that the same were laden by the owners and [?XX]<br />
by the said skipper for their accompt.
To the 17th and 18th negatively.
To the 19. 20 and 21th hee saith that there was noe silver aboard the<br />
said shipp at the time of the said seizure saving what was for the<br />
immediate use of the master and company, And otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe to the foresaid papers and bills seized, And cannot further<br />
depose.
Marten [?XXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Clerke.
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The 11th of November 1652. [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers of the Libertie of England}<br />
by authoritie of Parliament against the}<br />
shipp ''Saint Peter'', Daniel Straetman master}
'''Rowe dt.'''
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'''Daniel Straetman''' of hamburgh Mariner<br />
master of the said shipp, aged 35 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull<br />
John Exton doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the<br />
high Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon<br />
certaine Interrogatories on the behalfe of the State saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the fist Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the owners of the<br />
said shipp the ''Peter'' are Arnold van hasedunck, hance does, Joachim<br />
Edwards, Joachim Gable, and hee this deponent All hamburgers and<br />
there borne and living all their times and subiects of the free State<br />
of hamburgh and<br />
that the said Edward and Joachim Gable aforesaid are and<br />
each of them owner of an eighth part and every of the other persons<br />
of a quarter part of the said shipp, and that noe other person whatsoever<br />
hath any interest therein.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp was by the said owners bought<br />
at hamburgh in the yeare 1648 of one Almis Laureance of fflinsborough<br />
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent bought the same in his<br />
name to the use and with the money of his said owners, the said shipp<br />
being then newe and having come only from fflinsborough in holstein<br />
where shee was built in [?Mornaligh] and soe to hamborough, and [?XXX]<br />
the said AsmisLaurance built her and made a bill of sale to his<br />
said owners upon the said buying her.
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said owners upon the said buying her.
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