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Katharine Wedge mentioned in the sayd alle … Katharine Wedge mentioned in the sayd allegation, unto whom whome he<br />
gave notice where the sayd Reeve Johnson and Matison might<br />
be found, who had undertaken to proove and told this deponent<br />
they were able positively to sweare the effect of the sayd paper,<br />
and the reason of this deponents leaving the sayd paper with Katharine<br />
Wedge was because his Occasions called him away to sea by meanes<br />
whereof he could not then attend this service. And he further saith<br />
that all the sayd persons to witt the sayd Reeve Johnson and Matison<br />
did acquaint this deponent, and affirme they could and would be<br />
deposed, that the masters of the sayd three shipps the ''Salvador'',<br />
the ''Sampson'', and the ''Saint George'' are hamburghers in this manner<br />
following and not otherwise, that is to say, They have howses<br />
in hamburgh where their wifes doe live for the tyme their<br />
husbands are upon their voyage, and that att their returnes<br />
they come to holland, and dwell there with their husbands<br />
untill they goe forth agayne. And for that they onely keepe<br />
a fire in hamburgh they procure passes as hamburghers,<br />
and in such sort and not otherwise are hamburghers. And<br />
he further saith That the foresayd George or Urian Matison did<br />
acquaint this deponent, and affirme that he would and could depose<br />
That there were four shippes together att Cales in Spayne<br />
that is to say, the ''Salvador'' Christian Cloppeenburgh master,<br />
the ''Samson'' Otto Uriance master, the ''George'' John Marson master<br />
and the ''Mercurius'' hands Young master, and that all of<br />
them did there take in their lading for the space of three<br />
monethes, that the sylver was brought on board in the night, that<br />
the sayd four shipps did come from Cales together in Company,<br />
that all of them were bound from Cales to Amsterdam, and<br />
that the ''George'' and ''Samson'' were in their passage seized by the<br />
English, and the ''Salvador'' submitted her selfe to the English<br />
and that the ''Mercurius'' onely escaped, and went directly to<br />
Amsterdam, and delivered the sylver that was in her to the same<br />
persons Owners of the sylver that was in the sayd other three<br />
shipps that were taken and in the power of the English; And that<br />
he the sayd Urian Mattison came from Cales in the ''Mercurius'', and<br />
carryed part of the sylver from aboard to the merchants when he<br />
came to Amsterdam in little baskets upon his neck. And he allso<br />
saith that the foresayd three persons the sayd Reeve, Johnson and<br />
Mattison did acquaint this deponent, and affirme that they could, and<br />
would depose, That the sayd shipps the ''Salvador'', the ''Sampson''<br />
and the ''George'' were bilt in holland and never belonged to<br />
any other place, That the sayd shipps the ''Salvador'', the ''Sampson''<br />
and the ''George'' were never att hamburgh since they were shippes<br />
Thath since they were shippes<br />
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