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the said producents are Merchants and Burg … the said producents are Merchants and Burghers of Hamborough and Subjects<br />
of that free state, and so much hee saith is there publique and notorious, but<br />
this deponent hath onely knowne them for about 3/ monethes last past, And that<br />
this deponent is a Lubecker and all his shipps Companie were Easterlings,<br />
Hee also saith and deposeth. That fter the surprizall of the said shipp and<br />
her lading this deponent and his Stiersman and Boateswaine were by the said<br />
Harrington and Companie taken out of his said shipp the ''ffortune'' and sett<br />
on shoare at Rye after three daies imprisonment aboard their man of warr<br />
and from Rye this deponent with his Stiersman and Boateswaine came by<br />
land to Dover where by the meanes and procurement of one Captaine<br />
Philips, (by and under whose Commission the said Harrington acteth, as this<br />
deponent hath been credibly informed) hee this deponent and his said steersman<br />
and Boatswaine were examined at Dover upon their oathes touching the<br />
said shipp the ''fortune'' and her lading, and that the said examinations were<br />
putt into writing by order of the Magistrates of Dover who tooke the same, all<br />
which hee well knoweth being a sufferer and present in the premisses, And saith<br />
hee beleiveth that the examinations so reduced into writing were and are<br />
remaining in the hands of the Magistrates of Dover, or of him whom the said<br />
Magistrates employed to write the same, And saith That the schedule<br />
allegate now shewed to him this examinate beginning '''These are to Certifie'''<br />
and ending '''this 8th of October 1653. Isaac Philipps''', was and is a schedule<br />
which the said Captaine Philips delivered into this deponent at Dover for<br />
his transport to London, and saith thi deponent was personally present at the<br />
writing and subscribing of the same by the said Captaine Philips: And<br />
otherwise or further this deponent saith hee cannot depose:/
To the Crosse Interrogatories
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh of his owne accord to testify the<br />
trueth in this Cause, and hath no part in the said shipp, but onely 8 of the<br />
12 lasts of tarr predeposed to be for his and his Companies accompt which<br />
hee expecteth shall bee restored unto him according to right, and that and the<br />
restitution of his goods cloaths and necessaries taken from him by the seizors is<br />
the whole benefitt hee looketh for by the restitution of the said shipp and her<br />
lading:-/
To the second hee saith the said shipp was built at Grypswoll in Pomerania<br />
and that her now Owners live at Hamborough. And otherwise saving his<br />
foregoing deposition hee saith hee cannot depose
To the thid hee saith hee this deponent hath bin Master of the said shipp<br />
for three yeares last past and upwards, at which time this deponent bought her at<br />
Lubeck of one Thomas Kneet a Lubecker for this deponents owne accompt, and saith<br />
hee was hired at Hamborough by the new Owners of the said shipp upon a voyage<br />
for Rochell and so to Hamburgh, where at his returne hee was to receive from<br />
the said Owners according to agreement 66 rix dollars and two markes Lubecks for the<br />
whole voyage. And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the 5th negatively, And otherwise cannot depose:/
(To the 6thAnd otherwise cannot depose:/
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