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'''O.O.O.'''
The 24th day of december < … '''O.O.O.'''
The 24th day of december <u>1653.</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Keepers et cetera against the ''Patriarke''}<br />
''Jacob''}
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
'''Claes Colbrandt''' of Hamburg master of the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Patriarke Jacob'' aged fifty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined deposeth<br />
and saith as followeth videlicet
To the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Patriarke Jacob'' in the yeare 1648 was built att the Costs and for<br />
the Accompt of the sayd daniel Brands Adolph Sampton and Company<br />
then and now all Burghers of Hamburgh, and that ever since her such<br />
building videlicet in the yeares 1649. 1650. 1651. 1652. 1653. and monethes<br />
therein respectively conteyning she hath belonged and att present doth<br />
belong to the Port of Hamburgh, and for a shipp so belonging hath<br />
for all the sayd tyme and is commonly accounted reputed and taken, which<br />
he well knoweth for that he payd for her such building on behalfe of the<br />
sayd Owners, and hath ever since bene master of her in the name of<br />
them the sayd owners. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that ever<br />
since the building and paying for the sayd shipp as aforesayd and for and<br />
during all the tyme aforesayd the sayd daniel Brands Adolph Sumpton<br />
Jan Norris and this deponent were and are the sole lawfull Owners<br />
of the sayd shipp and her tackle and furniture and so accounted, saving<br />
and excepting one Basilius a Bastill of Hamburgh was one of<br />
the Originall Owners of one 16th part of the sayd shipp and so continued<br />
untill the moneth of januart last past videlicet January 1652 old stile<br />
or 1653 new stile, in which moneth this deponent for about 870<br />
markes Lubeckes bought the sayd sixteenth part of and from him the sayd<br />
Basilius a Bastill to whom he payd the sayd moneyes for the sayd <br />
16th part of the sayd shipp att Hamburgh about the tyme of buying the<br />
same as aforesayd; And beleiveth the premisses are well knowne beleived<br />
and discoursed of att Hamburgh and elsewhere. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the third article of the sayd allegation he saith that in the yeares 1648. 1649. 1650.<br />
1651. and 1652 and 1653: and in the monethes therein respectively concurringe<br />
videlicet ever since the first building of her to this presemt he this deponent hath<br />
bin and is master and Commander of the sayd shipp, and being himselfe<br />
a Part Owner was with the Consent of the rest of the said Owners appoynted<br />
Master of her and as master of her hath made severall voyages in and<br />
with her And somuch is as he beleiveth well knowne and observed, by<br />
others skippers of Hamburgh. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the foruth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith That it being the<br />
Custome of the Citty of Hamburgh for Owners of shipps to take out every<br />
yeare new Seabreifes or Certificatts, the sayd daniel Brands and Company<br />
sent this deponent in the yeare 1651. a Sea Breife for the sayd shipp dated<br />
about September 1651. and now abiding in the Registry of this Court and<br />
beleiveth that the sayd daniel Brands, Adolph Sumpton Jan Noris and Basilius<br />
a Bastill did sware and depose before the Lords of Hamburgh as in the sayd<br />
seabreife whereto he referreth himselfe is conteyned, he this deponent being<br />
att that tyme absent from Hamburgh. And further saith that after the sayd<br />
Basilius a Bastill had sold his sayd 16th part of the sayd shipp to him this deponent<br />
as aforesayd, The sayd daniel Brands Adolph Sumpton Jan Norris and<br />
this deponent whpo then was att Hamburgh, did all together in [?XXX]<br />
[?XXX] all together in [?XXX]<br />
[?XXX] +
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