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betwixt his fingers and his hand burned th … betwixt his fingers and his hand burned therewith by the said dunquirkers who<br />
endeavoured to extort a confession that they were bound for Amsterdam or<br />
other port in the dominions of the States of the United Netherlands, which<br />
not being confessed nor appearing the said shipp was let goe and set at<br />
libertie with her lading, and soe shee sailed to Amsterdam and dischardged there<br />
And further that after the premisses, the said Otto George the better to<br />
make the Spaniards beleeve that the said shipp the ''Sampson''<br />
(which seemed to be of a hollands mold, and as hee<br />
beleeveth was built in holland), belonged to some port of<br />
the East countrey, and not to Amsterdam, having dischardged her of<br />
a cargazon brought from Spaine at Amsterdam, carried he to hamborough<br />
and altered her head soe that shee might seeme to be<br />
a hamburger, and by the meanes of her soe passinge for a<br />
hamburger, the said Otto George in severall voyages procured greate<br />
quantities of silver to be laden in Spaine aboard his said shipp, and<br />
got greate freights for the same. howbeit the said Otto George from<br />
time to time sailed his said shipp to Amsterdam and not to hamborough<br />
and unladed the silver which hee brought from Cadiz from time<br />
to time at Amsterdam, where this deponent then dwelt as aforesaid<br />
and sawe and tooke notice of the premisses, and soe much the rather<br />
because hee had formerly sailed in the said shipp, and at Amsterdam<br />
this deponent sawe and tooke notice that the said Otto George made<br />
delivery of greate parcells of silver there to one Mr Coyman, Mr<br />
Arian Poulson, Mr Webster and Mr Vanderstraten, all them living<br />
in Amsterdam, and othe parcells to other persons there then residing.<br />
all subiects of the States Generall of the United Netherland Provinces.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 15 and 16th articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the shipp arlate having the<br />
''Goulden sunn'' upon her sterne (whereof Peter Tam is master) and heard<br />
that the voyage in question shee came in company of the ''Sampson'', ''Salvador''<br />
and ''Saint George'' arlate from Cadiz, or within some short space before<br />
or after them, and soe that shee met or was in their company at sea<br />
after their said departure the said voyage from Cadiz, and came in their<br />
company into the English channell, and that the said shipp having<br />
the ''Golden sunn'' upon her sterne escaping and not being met withall<br />
and intercepted by the shipps of this Commonwealth came and arrived in<br />
Ostend, in or about the moneth of October 1652, at which<br />
time this deponent was there and sawe her said arivall and spake<br />
with her said master, and after such her arivall, shee unladed her<br />
silver and delivered the same to one dwelling there in the kay straate,<br />
this deponent being present and seeing and taking notice of the said<br />
delivery, and hee was thereather present because the said master (Peter<br />
Tam) treated with this deponent to goe with him in the said shipp<br />
and that the said Peter Tam stayed there about tenn dayes, and<br />
then set saile and departed with the rest of his lading for<br />
holland, this deponent seeing him soe set saile, And saith that<br />
in a short space after the said shipps departure thence, the said person<br />
to whom the said Peter Tam had delivered the said silver, laded the<br />
same upon severall boates for holland this deponent seeing<br />
the same soe laden into the said boates, which carried the same<br />
alonge the river towards Bridges, and from thence as hee was informed it<br />
passed through land to Sluce in fflanders, and was thence carried<br />
over to fflushing, and soe to Amsterdam, And this deponent having<br />
speech with some of the company of the said shipp (having the Goulden<br />
Sunn upon her sterne) at such time as they were ready to saile from<br />
Ostendere ready to saile from<br />
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