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To the last hee saith hee this deponent ha … To the last hee saith hee this deponent hath by letters from the said<br />
hendrick Mathias bin requested to looke after this businesse<br />
to the end to get the said producent restitution of the said goods by him claimed<br />
and saith the said letters came from Amsterdam.
Repeated before the Judges in Court.
J Crook [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The seaventh of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of the widowe and heires of}<br />
hendrick [?Jansen] the yonger of Amsterdam}<br />
for their goods in the ''hare in the ffeild''.}
Examined upon the alegation<br />
given in this cause on the behalfe<br />
of the said claimers the 18th<br />
of July 1655,
'''francklyn dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''George Crooke''' Secretary of his Excellencie the<br />
Lord Embassador of the States of the United<br />
Netherlands, aged 25 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sorne and examined.
To the seaventh article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth and is familiarly acquainted with derrick<br />
hendrickson the younger sonne of the arlate hendrick Janson the younger<br />
which derrick hee saith keepeth the bookes and manageth the traffique<br />
of the familie of the said hendrick, and soe did in the life time of<br />
the said hendrick the father, and knoweth the two sisters of the<br />
said derrick, daughters of the said hendrick, and saith they are all<br />
natives of Amsterdam and Inhabitants of the citie and subiects<br />
of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands, and their mother the<br />
widowe of the said hendrick is alsoe an Inhabitant and subiect<br />
there, and for such the said producents were and are commonly accompted<br />
and reputed. The premisses hee deposeth being himselfe a<br />
native of Amsterdam, and very conversant for theise seaven or<br />
eight yeares last with the said derrick, and well know[?XXX] [?therest],<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said widowe and sonne<br />
and two daughters and another sonne [?XXX] this deponent knoweth not<br />
were and are the heires of the said hendrick Janson the younger.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rowe dt.'''
To the first hee saith hee this deponent is a native of Amsterdam<br />
and hath dwelt about two yeares last in England, and before that hee was<br />
travailing about two yeares in ffrance, Italy and Germany, and before<br />
that hee lived alwaies in holland. And otherwise negatively.
To the second hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and cannot<br />
otherwise answer.
To the third and fourth hee cannot answer for hee was not in the<br />
voyage in question.
To the 5th hee hath not soe deposed.
To the 6 and 7 hee cannot depose.
To the 8th hee hath not soe deposed.
To the 9th negatively.h not soe deposed.
To the 9th negatively. +
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