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Lodwick Vermalen Otto Holmers Tobias Hamma … Lodwick Vermalen Otto Holmers Tobias Hamman Didrack or dirick<br />
Roopk Peter Van doome ffrans Meynck, Hans [?Vonns], Henrick Momma<br />
and the sayd Hans Meynerson were and are Owners of the sayd shipp and [so accounted] well knowne to this deponent<br />
And the were and are all of them Hamburghers, that is to say Inhabitants<br />
and Burghers of Hamburgh and subiects of the ffree State of Hamburgh<br />
for these twenty yeares last past and upward. and every one of them<br />
was and is a Burgher and Inhabitant of Hamburgh and a subiect of the<br />
sayd State and so accounted. And not one of them was or is a subiect of<br />
the States of the united Provinces or ffrench King so farr as this<br />
deponent knoweth or beleiveth or ever heard, being himselfe an<br />
Hamburgher borne and having had long and particular knowledge of the<br />
sayd parties. And otherwise cannot depose, saving that the sayd Meynerson was<br />
in Aprill May June and July att Hamburgh [?XXX] of the sayd shipp in the name of and for<br />
the Owners.
To the Crosse Interrogatories.
To the first he saith he was borne att Hamburgh and there hath lived all<br />
his tyme and hath his wife and Children there. and saith he is noe way<br />
related to any of the Owners of the sayd shipp nor hath any Interest eyther<br />
in the sayd shipp or goods or any or eyther of them or any part of eyther of<br />
them. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 2 Interrogatory he saith he was in Hamburgh in the moneth of Aprill 1653.<br />
interrate being Aprill last past, and was last there in the month of July<br />
aforesayd in which moneth he came from thence as aforesayd. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose.
To the .3. Interrogatory he saith he saw not any money told or payd for the<br />
sayd shipp to the builders thereof nor knoweth how much was payd for it<br />
nor by whom or where it was payd or where procured. But saith he heard<br />
the sayd Wilkin Wrede and others of the sayd Owners say and declare upon<br />
the Exchange att Hamburgh that they videlicet the foresayd Owners had bought<br />
and payd for the sayd shipp. And otherwise he cannot depose.
Jochim warner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fifth day of December 1653 [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''3.'''
'''Captaine Morrens Morrenson''' of Hamburgh Master<br />
of the ''Hope'' of Hamburgh aged 46. yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined deposeth<br />
and saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second and third Article sof the sayd allegation This deponent saith That<br />
he knoweth well the arlate shipp the ''Crowne Imperiall'' Hans Meynerson<br />
Master having sayled in Company with her from Hamburgh to the Coasts<br />
of Spaine this last summer, And saith being with his owne shipp the<br />
''Hope'' att Hamburgh in April last past 1653. he then and there saw thee<br />
sayd shipp the ''Crowne Imperiall'' arrive in the sayd River of Elve in her ballast under Comand<br />
of the sayd Hans Maynerson who then sayd he brought her from Holland<br />
where she was built and bought as he then sayd by or for himselfe and<br />
his Owners, who are hereafter mentioned, and saith being come up as<br />
aforesayd to the said Port she tooke her birth neere to this deponents sayd<br />
shipp and so lay by her in the sayd River for three monethes and<br />
upwards videlicet till July then next following of the sight of this deponent<br />
who saw the sayd shipp within the sayd tyme victuallyd manned and furnished<br />
to sea upon a voyage for Spaine by and in the name and att the<br />
Cost of the sayd Wilkin Wrede,Hans Mejnerson and Company<br />
all Hamburghers hereafter particularly mentioned And further cannot depose<br />
saving that the sayd shipp did and doth belong to Hamburgh and was and is so accounted.g to Hamburgh and was and is so accounted. +
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