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certaine trueth there happened no tempestu … certaine trueth there happened no tempestuous Weather during the<br />
said passage of the said three shipps, whereby to separate them from<br />
the said shipp ''Mercurie'' if shee had beene in their Company, or<br />
from one another. The premisses hee deposeth of his certaine<br />
knowledge, being as aforesaid a sailer of and aboard the aforesaid<br />
shipp ''Salvador'' and seeing the departure predeposed of the said shipp<br />
''Mercury'', and coming in Companie of the shipps ''Sampson'' and<br />
''Saint George'' till the time of their said seizure. And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 13th hee saith, That the shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' arlate, whereof<br />
the arlate Peter Tam was Master departed from Cadiz about<br />
Midsommer in the yeare 1652. being there laden and according to publique<br />
fame bound for fflanders And saith that such her departure was about 4<br />
or 5. monethes before the departure of the said shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador''<br />
and ''Saint George'' from Cadiz upon the Voyage in question, and about<br />
3. or 4 moneths before the arrivall of the Spanish plate fleet from the<br />
West Indies. The premisses hee knoweth being an Eyewittnesse of the<br />
departure of the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' as is predeposed, and of such<br />
the arrivall of the said Spanish ffleet, and serving and being aboard the<br />
said shipp ''Salvador'' during her said passage in Companie with the ''Sampson''<br />
and ''Saint George'' aforesaid. And otherwise cannot depose, saving hee<br />
hath credibly heard that the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' after such her arrivall<br />
and discharge at Ostend in the yeare aforesaid, was pressed into the<br />
king of Spaines service, and remained severall monethes in the same, but<br />
saith hee never heard that the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' was at<br />
Amsterdam or dischardged any lading there in the said yeare <u>1652:-</u>
Upon the rest hee is not examined by direction from the Producent./
To the Interrogatories:- [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee sauth hee this rendent was and is a Native of<br />
hamborough where hee had his education, and hath had his fixed residence<br />
there from his infancie And otherwise negatively:-/
To the second hee saith, hee is by profession a Saylor and was at<br />
Amsterdam in the yeare 1651. last about Whitsuntide and there aboade<br />
for about 10. or 11. daies and was then hired to serve aboard the shipp<br />
''Salvador'' and saith hee never saw the shipp the ''Sampson'' neither at Lubeck<br />
nor at Amsterdam.
To the 3. and 4. hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the 5. hee saith hee this rendent was never at Lubeck:-/
To the 6th hee saith hee came first acquainted with the interrate Otto<br />
George at Cadiz in the yeare <u>1652.</u> last past, and saith hee was<br />
commonly accompted an Easterling borne, and died at Lubeck a married<br />
man, having there his wife and settled residence for severall yeares beforettled residence for severall yeares before +
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