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and saith this voyage was to and at haver … and saith this voyage was to and at haver de Grace, and otherwise<br />
cannot depose, not being acquainted with the freight nor payment thereof.
To the sixth hee saith hee cannot depose, but beleeveth that such papers<br />
as were aboard the said shipp, came to the hands of the Captaine that made<br />
the said seizure.
Repeated in Court before doctor Godolphin amd Collonel Cock
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the said fflorison and companie}<br />
touching the ''king david''.}
'''dt.'''
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'''Cornelius Peterson''' of Gracht in North holland<br />
Mariner, late boatswaine of the said shipp<br />
the ''king david'' aged 41 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined as aforesaid.
To the first Interrogatory hee saith hee hath knowne the said shipp the<br />
''king david'' about two yeares and a halfe last, during all which space<br />
shee hath belonged and at present belongeth to the port of Amsterdam, and<br />
that mr ffoxe, myn heer Basse and companie, all of Amsterdam, dutch,<br />
and subiects of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands were and are her<br />
owners. And saith the said vessell on or about the 18th of October last went<br />
from the Texel with 16 horses aboard her and some bricks and tiles bound<br />
for the Charibbe Ilands, and that shee was not in any port from the<br />
time of her departure from the Texel, and her<br />
comming neere the Barbada's, all which hee knoweth being Boatswaine<br />
and going the voyage in her.
To the seceond hee saith that the said shipp in her voyage ariving neere<br />
the greate Roade of the Barbada's, there came English aboard and<br />
understanding whence shee came, and seeing the said horses aboard, desired<br />
to buy some of them, but Claes fflorison the master refused to sell any of<br />
his horses unto them, telling them hee could not doe it without license from<br />
the Governour, and soe the said Claes going ashore to get leave of the Governour<br />
to take in fresh water, hee at his retorne aboard reported to this deponent<br />
and the rest of the companie, that the Governour had offered and given him<br />
leave to trade there freely, promising him asmuch libertie and freedome<br />
in such his trading as any of the shipps that were in the roade enioyed or<br />
had, whereupon the said master after the bringing his shipp to an anchor<br />
further within the roade traded and sold his said horses to the<br />
English, two whereof the Governour himselfe had, and having soe delivered them ashore, and obtained license (as hee said) from the<br />
Governour to take in water and goe to [?kersawe] (an island under the dutch)<br />
and fetch more horses to the Barbados, the said master tooke in water at<br />
the Barbadoas and went accordingly and fetcht 30 horses and some<br />
goates from [?kersaw] and retourned with them (saving one horse that<br />
dyed by the way) and comming to the South corner of the Barbada's<br />
about foure dutch miles off the Roade, as they were under saile, the<br />
''Grantham frigot'' in the service of this Commonwealth came and<br />
seized the said shipp, 29 horses and the said goates, and carried them<br />
into the Roade, where the master, this deponent and the rest of the<br />
company were taken out, and turned ashore and the said shipp horses<br />
and goates confiscated and disposed of by the English, and this hee saith<br />
was in or about the beginning of March last new stile,out the beginning of March last new stile, +
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