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Or dunquirke: The premisses hee knoweth be … Or dunquirke: The premisses hee knoweth being Master of and onboard<br />
the said shipp ''Salvadore'' during the Voyage or passage in question<br />
at the time of the said seizure. And further cannot depose./
To the 12. hee saith and deposeth, That the shipp the ''Mercuruis''<br />
whereof the arlate hanse Younger was Master, did depart from<br />
Cadiz in or about the moneth of September <u>1652.</u> last past with her<br />
lading there taken aboard, and about a moneth before the said shipps<br />
the ''Sampson'' ''Salvadore'' and ''Saint George'' did depart from thence, and the<br />
said shipp ''Mercuruis'' did not at any time after such her departure<br />
meet with at sea, or come in sight of the said three shipps during<br />
the time of their said passage, nor were the saud shipps at any<br />
time in the said passage separated from the ''Mercury'', nor [?ever] from<br />
another by any tempestuous or fowle weather, neither indeed did<br />
any such weather happen in the said passage of the said three shipps<br />
in which they had much calme and still weather, but no stormes at<br />
all. Which hee knoweth being as aforesaid Commander of and<br />
on board his said shipp ''Salvador'' and in Companie if the saud<br />
''Sampson'' and ''Saint George'' during the said Voyage. And further hee<br />
cannot depose, saving hee was an eye Wittnesse of the said Mercuries departure [?XXX GUTTER]
To the 13. hee saith, That the shipp the ''Goulden Sunn'' arlate<br />
whereof the arlate Peter Tam was Master having received her full<br />
lading of Cuchineale and hides and other commodities at Cadiz to be<br />
transported thence to fflanders for the service of his Catholique<br />
Majestie of Spaine, did of this deponents sight and knowledge, depart<br />
from Vadiz in or about the moneth of June <u>1652.</u> arlate<br />
and about five moneths before the said shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador''<br />
and ''Saint George'' departed thence, and about three moneths before<br />
the arrivall of the Spanish Plate fleete from the West Indies<br />
and saith hee beleeveth not that the said shipp the ''Goulden Sunn'' did<br />
or could in that Voyage carry any quantity of Plate or money<br />
from thence for that at and about the time of such her departure, there was [?no GUTTER]<br />
considerable quantities of plate or money then to be had in Cadiz that<br />
Merchants generally not having money sufficient to pay for freight of [?the GUTTER]<br />
goods they then received, and the Plate fleet having then been<br />
retarded about a yeare beyond expectation And saith That the said<br />
shipp being about the moneth of August in the yeare <u>1652</u> [?arrived GUTTER]<br />
at Ostend and having there discharged, was pressed into the service<br />
of th king of Spaine, and continued in that service [?upwards of GUTTER]<br />
6. moneths. under the fort of dunquirke, and was not in [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
(thatas not in [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
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