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goods which according to the said Charterp … goods which according to the said Charterpartie were all laden by the<br />
said ffactor on board the said shipp for the accompt and Risico of his said<br />
Majestie of Poland and were to be transported from thence to Dantsick aforesayd<br />
for the use of the said King and Queene of Poland and their [?XXXX=]<br />
ques, and for the use of the said religious Persons for their Religious<br />
habits Vestments and Ornaments of their Chappell, as the said<br />
ffactor at the time of the firming of the said Charter partie, and lading<br />
of the said bailes and trunkes aboard told and declared to this deponent<br />
And saith his said shipp is a Hamburgh shipp and hath belonged to that<br />
Port for about 28 yeares of this deponents knowledge, and this deponent<br />
is a Hamburgher and his said shipps Companie consisteh of three<br />
mariners out of the land of Holsteyn, and three frenchmen, And the<br />
King and Queene of Poland and all the rest of the persons interressed<br />
in the goods in question were and are as hee beleeveth persons in<br />
amity with this Commonwealth, And saith hee hath Credibly heard<br />
that since this deponents said shipp ws seized by Captaine Hutton<br />
and Companie, they the said Captaine and his men have very unci=<br />
villy and unworthily treated the said Religious Persons and their<br />
Attendants, and have plundered them to a very considerable valew.<br />
Notwithstanding that this deponent and others the Gentlemen and<br />
Passengers aboard showed the said Captaine and Companie their<br />
letters of safe Conduct from the said King of Poland and desired<br />
them not to interrupt or distrub them in their intended Voyage<br />
being free persons, and such against whom they had nothing [?XXX]<br />
to pretend. And otherwise referring himselfe to his said Charterparty<br />
not being present or seeing the plunder aforesaid, by reason he was<br />
detained prisoner aboard the said Huttons man of warr hee saith<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the Crosse Interrogatories/
To the first hee saith, hee cometh of his owne accord to declare the<br />
trueth of his knowledge in this Cause, and saith hee is a Protestant<br />
And otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./
To the second hee saith, That all the goods laded aboard his said shipp by<br />
his precontest according to Charterpartie were and are all in bailes and [?parcells]<br />
bound up with Cords And otherwise cannot depose:/
To the third hee saith, hee was not present at the packing of any part pf<br />
the goods in question. And further cannot depose:/
To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, And otherwise<br />
cannot depose./
To the 5th negatively, for asmuch as hee was on board the man of warr<br />
when the said shipp and persons were plundered/
To the 6thpp and persons were plundered/
To the 6th +
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