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'''B.6./'''
The tenth of ffeb … '''12./'''
'''B.6./'''
The tenth of ffebruary 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the}<br />
State.}
'''Thomas ffrizell''' of dunquirke Mariner, master of a<br />
vessell named the ''Catherin'' of Ostend, aged 38 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne before the right worshippful William<br />
Clerke and John Godolphin doctors of Lawes, Judges<br />
of the high Court of the Admiraltie, saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath, as followeth videlicet.
Concerning his knowledge of severall shipps which hee hath lately, namely<br />
within a monethes space or thereabouts last, seene and taken view of here<br />
in the River of Thames, hee declareth that many of these shipps<br />
to the number of twenty or thereabouts doe belonge at Amsterdam, Middleburgh<br />
fflushing or some other place or port within the Jurisdiction of the States<br />
of the United Netherlands, and that their masters and owners live there<br />
of his certaine sight and knowledge, hee this deponent having lived at Rotterdam<br />
above tenn yeares together ended about a twelve moneth since, at<br />
which time hee removed to dunquirke, and while hee soe lived at<br />
Rotterdam hee sawe many of these shipps in that port and elsewhere in<br />
the dominions of the said States in the Netherlands as belonging to<br />
those places, and particularly hee knoweth that the shipp the<br />
''Salamander'' whereof hee this deponent was master about foure<br />
monethes since, and then left her at fflushing, is nowe in the River<br />
of Thames, and belongeth to one Mr Glover and Mr Collins who lived at Amsterdam<br />
and have soe lived there for diverse yeares last past and were and<br />
are ffree Burghers of that citie, and for such commonly accompted.<br />
And alsoe another shipp named the ''Mother of the sea'' which<br />
is alsoe nowe in the River of Thames, belongeth to the same port<br />
of Amsterdam and to the same persons, and that the said two shipps<br />
are nowe lying neere the Customehouse London. And further that<br />
there are likewise at this time many other shipps lying neere and<br />
belowe the Customehouse, belonging to ports within the Jurisdiction<br />
of the said States in the Netherlands, the names of which or of the<br />
masters hee cannot at present declare.
Thomas frizell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lare.
Thomas frizell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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