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sayd Purser so farr as she knoweth but hat … sayd Purser so farr as she knoweth but hath oftentimes bene<br />
in the Company of the sayd Otto George att Amsterdam in<br />
the new towne att her sayd Aunts house where he used<br />
frequently to come after his returnes from voyages<br />
and there this deponent was att such tymes almost<br />
dayly in his Company and merry with him and<br />
know him both a Common mariner, a Boatswayne, and<br />
a masters mate and a master of a shipp, and first saw<br />
him about 18 yeares agoe. and she was severall<br />
tymes in his Company since the bringing of the ''Sampson''<br />
to London as well as and neere the Exchange as elsewhere<br />
and particularly upon the Tower hill where she last saw<br />
and had discourse with him being in the summers tyme<br />
was twelvemonth. And further she cannot depose.
To the 15th she saith that about a yeare and a halfe agoe, the<br />
tyme otherwise she remembreth not, meeting with the sayd Otto<br />
George upon the Tower Hill, and taking acquaintance to=<br />
getherafter some discourse of her this deponents present poor<br />
condition her husband the sayd Abraham Johnson having<br />
a while before lost his shipp the ''Orange tree'' whereof he<br />
was master seized by the Hollanders under pretense of his<br />
siding with the English) He the sayd Otto George gave<br />
this deponent halfe a Crowne being new coyned money<br />
and sayd thus. '''Ick en hebbe niet meer gelt by my, hier is een<br />
halve Croone''', and then said '''wanneer beleift u uwen freinden ende vaderlandt<br />
soecken''' whereto this depondent replying asked him whether he would carry<br />
her home in his shipp. meaning and speaking of Amsterdam and his<br />
sayd shipp the ''Sampson''. and he thereto replyed. '''dat sal ick doen<br />
wanner ick sal claer worden, maer de skellams my<br />
hier houden'''. and he moreover then sayd, '''dat halve Croone<br />
is van myn eygen zylver dat hier geschlagen is dat naer Amsterdam<br />
gaen soude, maer de skellams hebben het hier ghehouden'''. or<br />
to the same or like effect. And att the tyme of such discourse<br />
there was none present but the sayd Otto George and the deponent<br />
And further she cannot depose, saving the sayd discourse was in the<br />
dutch tongue.
To the 16 17 18 and 19. Interrogatories she saith she was not belonging<br />
to any of the three shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'', or ''Saint George'' or<br />
to the shipps that tooke them or any of them. neyther did she see<br />
any of the writings interrate. And further otherwise than=<br />
negatively she cannot depose.
Tobr />
negatively she cannot depose.
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