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Genoa, and hee this deponent being at Cad … Genoa, and hee this deponent being at Cadiz when shee soe arived, well<br />
knoweth that the said shipp the ''Salvador'' was there alsoe and<br />
had bin there some certaine dayes or weekes before her comming, but the<br />
precise time hee knoweth not, and saith that the ''Mercury'' departed thence<br />
a monethes space or thereabouts before the ''Salvador'' departed thence,<br />
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent came thence in the company<br />
of the ''Salvador''. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh hee saith that hee well knoweth that for a yeeres<br />
space or therabouts, next before the seizure of the said shipp the<br />
''Salvador'' by the shipps of this Commonwealth which was in the<br />
moneth of November 1652, the said shipp was continually<br />
trading and lying on the coast of Spaine without and within the<br />
Straights, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent was then on<br />
the said coasts and seeing the said shipp there, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee is a hamburger by birth and<br />
hath dwelt there all his time, and otherwise negatively.
To the second hee saith hee is a mariner and hath bin at<br />
Amsterdam twice within theise seaven yeares namely first in the yeare<br />
1648 or 1649, and remained there about foure or five monethes, and the<br />
second time was in the yeare 1651 and then his shipp staid there about<br />
eleaven monethes from december 1650, and in the yeare 1651 hee<br />
leaving his shipp at Amsterdam went to hambourgh to reckon with<br />
his owners and staid at hamborough about 9 monethes, and then<br />
retourned to Amsterdam to his shipp, at Amsterdam<br />
where hee sawe the ''Salvador'' lying in the moneth of October 1651<br />
And otherwise saith hee remembreth not, and therefore cannot<br />
depose.
To the third and fourth hee cannot depose for hee was not at<br />
hamburgh when the ''Salvador'' was built.
To the fifth hee saith hee arived from Amsterdam at Cadiz<br />
with his said shipp the ''Saint George'' in the moneth of<br />
January 1651 (according to the English stile) and went thence in<br />
the moneth of Aprill next following with ammunition for<br />
the kinge of Spaines Armada to Majorca, and then retourned<br />
to Cadiz in July next following at which time hee departed thence<br />
to come for Ostend in which passage shee was seized. And saith<br />
such his comming thence was on the 12th or fifteenth of the said moneth or<br />
thereabouts and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 6 hee cannot depose.
To the 7 hee saith hee was master of the ''Saint George'' when shee was seized<br />
and had soe bin about ten yeares before, and had about 30 persons of<br />
his company, the names of all which hee knew well having them in his<br />
booke, and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 8th hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Clarke./:-
Jan Martendorp [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]e./:-
Jan Martendorp [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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