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deponent bought the said shipps present la … deponent bought the said shipps present lading of salt with the said proceeds<br />
at or after the rate of 310 gilders for each hundred, being in all seaven<br />
hundred of salt or thereabouts, for the accompt aforesaid, and was sailing<br />
with the same for the East countrey to be delivered there for the said accompt[?s]<br />
but was met with and carried up to ffalmouth by a frigot of this<br />
Commonwealth, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said<br />
[?Barndrini] is a greate dealer in salt.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that the arlate Claes [?CXX]<br />
was none of the shipps company nor went in her from Lubeck nor<br />
was present at the alading of the said Clapboard, nor went from Riga in<br />
the said shipp to Saint Martin, nor did this deponent ever see him till<br />
this deponent came with the said shipp to Saint Martins as aforesaid, when<br />
having about halfe delivered the said shipp, and meeting there with the<br />
said Claus who was destitute of imployment by meanes of a hamborough<br />
shipp wherein hee came thither her being there cast away, hee this<br />
deponent ther hired and shipt him to goe boatswaine of his said shipp<br />
and this was about the middle of October last past, after that this<br />
deponent had soe made sale of the said clapboards to the said [BXXXX]<br />
who before such his buying the same there of this deponent, had nt<br />
any interest whatsoever therein, but this deponent being therewith<br />
instructed was at libertie to have sold them to whom hee pleased [?XX]<br />
such sale made to the said Bourderway, And therefore hee saith that hee<br />
be by the said [?Croyer] deposed or said in his examination to be<br />
by him deposed as is in the article mentioned, the same is contrary to the truth as hee<br />
saith, and likely to have happened by misunderstanding him for<br />
this deponent could never finde or perceive that hee the said [?Croyer]<br />
understood English, but spake and understood only the East countrey<br />
language, And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee saith that hee this deponent at his examination and [?XX]<br />
the truth was said hee was imployed by Nicholas Cordes, and did <br />
[?XXX]<br />
Cordes, and said that Andrew Dessell of Riga (and not Andrew<br />
Thessell of Rey) was part owner and lader of the said clapboards and<br />
to the truth, and that if it be otherwise set downe, it is [?erratum]
To the Interrogatories
To the first hee saith hee tooke chardge of and came aboard the said shipp<br />
as master upon her fitting and furnishing at Lubeck after her said building<br />
referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the second hee saith hee hath knowne the said Nicholas Cordes, William<br />
White and Albert Saffe about 20 yeares, during which they have always<br />
lived in Lubeck, and as hee beleeveth were all borne therem and that [?XXX]<br />
hee hath knowne the said Andrew Dassell to be and to have bin of Riga for theise<br />
eight yeares last and there inhabiting for all that time, and as hee beleeveth<br />
the said Andrew is a native of Riga, and that the said persons respectively<br />
keep their wives and families in the said respective places.
To the third hee saith that besides the said Cordes, White and Saffa, hee<br />
this deponent, Joachim [?vrXXXXe], Detcliffe [?Deales] and Gunert [?GXXXXX]<br />
all of Lubeck, natives, and houskeepers there and have lived there all their<br />
times, were alsoe builders of the said shipp and were and are owners<br />
thereofnd were and are owners<br />
thereof +
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