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seeing her keale laid upon the stocks, and … seeing her keale laid upon the stocks, and sawe the said building proceede<br />
untill shee was even finished and readie to launch at which time this deponent<br />
departed thence on a voyage for Spaine, in or about the moneth of June 1647<br />
and saith shee was soe built on a place called the Tarr-host, and the said<br />
Cloppenburgh (who was to goe master of her) managed and oversighted<br />
the worke all alonge of this deponents sight and knowledge, And saith that<br />
ever since her said building shee hath bin commonly accompted and<br />
knowne to be of and to belonge to the port of hamborough, where her<br />
owners have dwelt and doe dwell, and not to any other port whatsoever<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second article hee saith hee cannot depose thereto
To the third hee saith that in the summer time of the yeare 1652 hee<br />
this deponent was at Cadiz in the ''White Swann'' wherof hee was then<br />
master, and sawe the said shipp the ''Salvador'' then riding there under<br />
the commannd of the said Christian Cloppenburgh, and well knoweth<br />
that there shee was commonly said and esteemed and taken to be a<br />
hamborough shipp and to be belonging to hamborough and to noe<br />
other port and to have her owners there dwelling. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
to the fourth hee saith that hee well knoweth Daniell Brandes<br />
Jeronimus Switger, John Baptista Yoncker, Vincent Clingeburgh<br />
Jerom Peterson, Derrick [?Rourke] Gerrit Boremaster and Henry Hambrooke to be all<br />
Hamburgers and merchants of hamborough of very great fashion, and to be commonly<br />
accompted and reputed owners of the said shipp,<br />
And saith the forenamed owners are persons of soe good qualitie<br />
that hee beleeveth they would not suffer any meane or slight person<br />
to be a part owner of any shipp with them. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving the said Christian Cloppenburgh is alsoe a part owner<br />
of the said shipp.
To the fifth article hee saith that hee cannot depose thereto
To the sixth article hee saith that in the said summer time 1652<br />
the shipp the ''Mercury'' of hamborugh (hance yonge master) came<br />
from Genoa and arived in the Roade of Cadiz, in which roade this<br />
deponent sawe her ride at anchor after such her arivall, and<br />
then the said shipp the ''Salvador'' was then there riding, and as this<br />
deponent was informed there, the said shipp ''Salvador'' had bin there<br />
two monethes or thereabouts before the comming thither of the<br />
''Mercury'' departed from Cadiz for Dunquirke in company of John de Vos<br />
master of the ''John Evangelist'' and the ''Salvador'' was then remayning<br />
at Cadiz and was there a moneth or thereabouts after such departure of<br />
the ''Mercurius'' of this deponents sight and knowledge.
To the nineth hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was borne and hath alwaies dwelt in<br />
hamborough, and otherwise negatively.
To the second hee saith hee is a mariner by profession, and that hee<br />
wasy profession, and that hee<br />
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