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that time at Amsterdam, or any other port … that time at Amsterdam, or any other port or place of the United<br />
Netherlands, as this deponent by severall letters of advise from the said Peter<br />
Tam written to this deponent during such his said shipps detention at<br />
dunquirke, and by severall other credible and sufficient Testimonies was<br />
informed and assured. And further hee cannot depose./
To the 14th hee saith, That since the seizure of the said shipps ''Sampson''.<br />
''Salvadore'' and ''Saint George'', and since their bringeing up into England<br />
this deponent hath seene severall policies of assurance in the Assurance office<br />
London, containing severall parcells of goods and silver laden in the shipps the<br />
''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'', whereby the said goods and silver were<br />
assured from Cadiz to Ostend or dunquike by Giles van de Putt, and<br />
Mr Casteel and others Merchants dwelling here in London, and saith<br />
the said assurances were (as hee beleeveth) made and duely drawne and subscribed<br />
whilest the said shipps were yet remaining at Cadiz and before the said<br />
seizure, And that the said assurances and policies being and remaining in such a place<br />
of Creditt and security, as the Assurance Office is, were and are reall<br />
and true as hee firmely beleeveth, And further cannot depose<br />
saving that hee this deponent hath seene other policies of assurance in the<br />
hands of the said Giles vande Putt for and concerning goods by him assured<br />
for in the said shipp ''Sampson'' upon the Voyage in question./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./:-
To the Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee this rendent is a hamburgher borne, and hath had<br />
his residence and constant relation to hamburgh from his infancie, And otherwise<br />
negative;y:-/
To the 2. hee saith hee is by profession a Mariner and was not within the time<br />
interrate at Lubeck, but hath been twice in that time at Amsterdam, first<br />
in the yeare <u>1650.</u> and then continued there about 5. or 6. moneths, and once in the<br />
yeare <u>1651</u> where hee continued about 6. ot 7. moneths, and in the said yeare<br />
<u>1650.</u> last saw the shipp ''Sampson'' interrate at Amsterdam, and never before or<br />
since saw her there.
To the third hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./
To the 4th hee saith hee hath never heard or knowne any thing as to the<br />
demannds of this Interrogatorie./
To the 5th hee saith by Vertue of his Oath, That hee never saw the interrate<br />
shipp or Otto George at Lubeck interrate./
To the 6th hee saith hee hath knowne the interrate Otto George for<br />
about 16. yeares before his death, and saith the said Otto was generally<br />
accounted and reputed an Easterling borne in or about the Land of<br />
Lune[?m]burgh, and died a married man, having kept his wife at Lubeck<br />
for all the time interrate being there married in the yeare [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT]<br />
And otherwise cannot depose/
(To the 7th
And otherwise cannot depose/
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