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'''''Saint George.'''''/
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'''''Saint George.'''''/
The 26th of September 1653 [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers of the Liberty of England by authority}<br />
of Parliament against a certaine shipp named}<br />
the ''Saint George'' whereof John Martenson Dorp was}<br />
Master and the silver and other Goodes in the samme}<br />
seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth in the immediate}<br />
service thereof. Budd. ffrancklin. Smith}
Examined upon an allegation<br />
given in on the twentieth of this<br />
instant on the behalfe of the States
'''Jurian Martinson''' of<br />
Flintsborough in Holstein land<br />
Marriner aged 34, yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined
To the seaventh and eighth articles of the said allegation hee saith<br />
and deposeth that about Whitsentide in the yeare 1652. the shipp<br />
the ''Mercurius'' of Hamborough (whereof Hance Young was Master)<br />
comeing out of the Streights to Cadiz, this deponent who was one of her<br />
company and came thither with her found and sawe there the shipp the<br />
''Sampson'' arlate Otto George Master and the ''Saint George'' John Martinson<br />
Dorp Master, and the shipp the ''Prophet Elias'' arlate. And saith the said<br />
shipps the ''Sampson'' and ''Saint George'' were then at Cadiz comonly reputed to<br />
be belonging to Amsterdam, where the said shipp the ''Sampson'' hath<br />
one of her reputed Owners dwelling of his this deponents knowledge named Peter<br />
Eleson. And the said shipp the ''Saint George'' is alsoe accompted to have<br />
owners dwelling at Amsterdam. And saith the shipp the ''Salvador''<br />
arlate came thither about fourteene dayes after the said shipp the<br />
''Mercurius''. and was alsoe accompted to belong to Amsterdam and to<br />
have Owners there dwelling. And saith the said shipps tooke in<br />
severall and greate quantities of Plate and money, and for a goods<br />
space they were all accompted to be bound for Amsterdam, whether<br />
of his knowledge the ''Mercurius'' was bound. But afterwards there<br />
comeing newes of warr betwixt England and Holland, they the<br />
said Masters gave out that they were all bound for Ostend or Dunkirke<br />
And as hee heard gott passes at Cales to that purpose, And of his knowledge<br />
the said shipp the ''Mercurius'' gott a passe for fflanders notwithstanding<br />
that shee was (to the time of the said Newes of the said warrs) intended<br />
for Amsterdam. And of the premisses hee this deponent tooke the<br />
more notice lyeing there about four monethes with the said shipp<br />
the ''Mercurius'' after such her comeing in thither. And saith there<br />
was a common voice and report at Cadiz aforesaid that the said<br />
shipps with their lading of silver and other Goodes were all bound<br />
for Amsterdam. And otherwise cannot depose saving what followeth
To the ninth and tenth articles hee saith and deposeth That the<br />
Master of the said shipp the ''Prophet Elias'' dyed at Cadiz the time<br />
aforesaid, and shee then upon not departing thence on her intended<br />
voyage her silver and other Goodes were taken out and distributed<br />
and putt into the said other shipps the ''Sampson'', the ''Salvador'' the ''Saint''<br />
''George'' and the ''Mercurye'' to be therein transported for Amsterdam, which<br />
hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid and being presenyt and seeing<br />
her Goodes soe unladen and laded into the said other shipps. And otherwise<br />
saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose
To the twelveth and thirteenth Articles of the said allegation hee<br />
saith and deposeth, that the said shipp the ''Mercury'' in or about the<br />
Monethrcury'' in or about the<br />
Moneth +
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