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arlate was as aforesaid an innekeeper at w … arlate was as aforesaid an innekeeper at whose house hamborough and Lubbeck<br />
skippers and others of the Eastland masters and Mariners did usually lodge, and<br />
by them or some of them imployed as a Broaker to buy provisions and other<br />
necessaries for their shipps and other small servives and employments And saith the<br />
arlate Otto George when hee was at Amsterdam used to lodge there, and as this<br />
deponent beleeveth employed the said Eleson upon such occasions as is predeposed, And<br />
that the said Otto George was a person who could not write or reade or make<br />
accompts, this deponent saith it is probable the said Eleson might be employed by<br />
him to that purpose. but this Deponent hath never heard neither doeth hee in<br />
Conscience beleeve that the said Peter Elesson either really was, or ever was<br />
accompted amongst persons of Creditt and knowledge to be any part Owner in the<br />
shipp ''Sampson'', or to have any interest or concernement therein, And further<br />
cannot depose, save this deponents knowledge of the said Peter Eleson in the condition<br />
and notion of a Broaker as is predeposed was by meanes of this deponents severall times<br />
goeing to his house to severall shipps there, as his occasions required, And for that<br />
this deponent hath sometimes bought of him some provisions of flesh and butter for the<br />
use of this deponents shipps Companie then there remaining./
To the 7th article hee saith and deposeth; That this deponent knoweth not [?exact]<br />
what yeare the said shippp the ''Sampson'' first came from Lubeck but verily beleeveth by the<br />
calculation of the time of 6 or 7. yeares, which this deponent hath knowne her, and<br />
by the credible relation of her said Master Otto George, and others Merchants<br />
and Skippers of creditt, that shee made her first Voyage from Lubeck to Cadiz<br />
in Spaine, And that shee had not bin at Amsterdam or any other port or place<br />
in holland since the yeare 1649. last past, being about three yeares before<br />
her seizure by the English shipps. And further hee cannot depose, saving that the<br />
said shipp ''Sampson'' for the time of three yeares or thereabouts next proceeng the<br />
said seizure, was generally taken notice of to be trading in the straights, in<br />
Spaine, Genoa, and other ports and places thereabouts, and that shee was in<br />
that time taken by some frenchmen of warr, brought up to Tolon, condemned<br />
and sold as lawfull Prize to the ffrench, and afterwards redeemed by the said<br />
Otto George and her auntient Owners dwelling in Spaine/
To the 8th article hee saith, That in or about the moneth<br />
of July in the yeare 1652. arlate, This deponent comeing from Majorca in<br />
his shipp the ''Saint George'' mett with the shipp ''Sampson'', (Otto George Naster) in the<br />
straight if Gibraltar, and saith That about two daies after such their meeting<br />
they sailed and came in Companie to Cadiz in Spaine, where they remained<br />
neere one to another till such time as they departed thence upon the Voyage<br />
now in question, during which time, being about 5. monethes together, nor [?XXX]<br />
any time before or since, so farr as this deponent ever heard or beleeveth, [?XXX]<br />
the said shipp the ''Sampson'' was reputed or taken to belong to Amsterdam<br />
or to have any of her Owners there inhabiting or residing, or to be [?thence]<br />
designed or bound with the ladeing which shee then toake aboard her<br />
at Cadiz, Nor did this deponent though for all that time constantly<br />
([?among GUTTER]me constantly<br />
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