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The answer of the foresaid Erasmus Castenson<br />
to the interrogatories
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Hee hath not seene any bill of sale<br />
of the said shipp, only even nowe before his examination the said master
Peter Martenson met him over the way at the signe of the Anchor<br />
and endeavoured to showe or acquaint this deponent with a<br />
bill of sale of the said shipp and began to reade it unto him, but<br />
this deponent knowing the story of the said shipp as aforesaid, would<br />
not heare it
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After the seizure and the comming of this<br />
deponent to London, hee met with the foresaid Peter Martenson the<br />
master and asked him for his wages, and the said master answereing<br />
that hee had noe moneys, this deponent said that they that medled with<br />
or received the goods must pay him. And further saith that when hee<br />
was reproached by the shipps company as aforesaid because hee would<br />
not sweare that the said shipp belonged to Amsterdam, and one of<br />
them comming to him and saying well gunner must wee lose our<br />
wages for your sake (or to that purpose) and this deponent<br />
being upon that question and the other provoking speeches angry<br />
and beginning to speake aloud in anger aboard the said shipp, the said<br />
person said, peace in the name of God, and this deponent answering<br />
noe hee would not, why then said the other peace in the<br />
divills name, noe quoth this deponent I will not that neither. And<br />
this hee saith is the truth and was all the discourse concerning the said matter upon which this interrogatory<br />
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