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To the 7th hee was last at Amsterdam in th … To the 7th hee was last at Amsterdam in the yeare <u>1651.</u> and what<br />
estates of Brokers or Innkeepers there are or may be this deponent cannot<br />
declare, nor of such as lodge or entertaine Skippers or strangers but saith<br />
that such qualitie or profession doeth not render any person incapable of<br />
being a partner in a shipp, if hee have wherewith to procure the same<br />
And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the 8th hee saith, This deponent according to his foregoeing deposition to which hee<br />
referreth is fully assured, that the first voyage the shipp ''Sampson''<br />
interrate made after her originall building was from Lubeck to<br />
Cadiz in Spaine where this rendent first saw her in the yeare 1647:- and not to<br />
Amsterdam, And saith shee hath made two or three Voyages to Amsterdam<br />
out of Spaine, as hee hath heard, and once saw her there. And further cannot<br />
depose
To the 9th hees saith, a Trumpeter may become a common saylor or Officer [?but]<br />
for his particular hee hath never knowme or heard, how such a person is usually<br />
styled or called upon such an alteration/
To the 10th and 11. hee saith, hee this rendent was Master and Commander of the shipp ''Salvador'' at the<br />
time of the seizure interrate; and that the place or part of the English Channell<br />
where the shipps interrate were seized by some of the shipps of<br />
this Commonwealth was and is free for shipps that are there, if so<br />
designed to sayle for Amsterdam or any other place the winde so serving [?either]<br />
to Ostend or dunquirke/
To the 12th hee saith hee this deponent was with his said shipp ''Salvador'' at Cadiz<br />
in the moneth of June <u>1652.</u> and continued there till October next en=<br />
sueing, but was not at all that yeare at dunquirke, and last saw the shipp the<br />
''Goulden Sunn'' interrate about the moneth of June aforesaid at her departure<br />
from Cadiz for fflanders as is predeposed./
To the 13th hee saith, by Vertue of his Oath, That hee this rendent had noe<br />
intelligence or notice of any silver laden aboard the shipps interrate at Cadiz<br />
which was for the accompt of any Amsterdammers or any others of the United<br />
Netherlands, And that hee this rendent had not, nor knew of any direction<br />
for Assurance, having not deposed of any letters sent from fflanders or elsewhere in [?XXX XXXX XXXX]<br />
And saith hee doeth not know nor beleeve in Conscience, That any of the<br />
States Generall of the United Netherlands or of their Subjects have any<br />
interest or concernment in the silver so assured as by him is predeposed or<br />
any other silver laden in the said shipps or any of them:- And further<br />
cannot depose./
Repeated before doctor Clarke:-//
Christjan Cloppenb[?orough] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 5th day of december 1654:- [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:-/
'''8us/'''
'''John Martenson-Dorp''' of hamborough [?Mariner]<br />
aged 53. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth videlicet.
(To the firstith as followeth videlicet.
(To the first +
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