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a sailemaker and sawe such the comming thi … a sailemaker and sawe such the comming thither in and going out thence of the said shipp<br />
and further that the said shipp began this her last voyage from the said citie and<br />
port of Amsterdam about three yeares and a halfe since of this deponents knowledge<br />
taking notice of such her then sailing thence laden with peace goods for Cadiz where<br />
as hee hears shee delivered the same: and upon her retourne to Amsterdam (the<br />
voyage before shee began that last from thence), the said John Martenson<br />
dorp bringing silver in her from Spaine, delivered the same at the signe of the<br />
Grave Van Buren neare the old church at Amsterdam. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose, saving hee looked at and sawe the carrying of the said silver thither<br />
as many others did, who because the quantitie was greate stood and gazed thereat.
To the fifth and sixth articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the said John Martenson dorp while the warrs<br />
lasted betwixt Spaine and holland was accustomed for his outwards voyages<br />
from Amsterdam to hire men there for Spaine and the Streights and<br />
parts thereabouts, and when the said men have made question to what place<br />
they should come back, and where they should end their voyages, hee would from<br />
time to time answer, at hamborough, and for their comming from hamburgh<br />
home hee would (upon their questioning it) tell them that hee would hire<br />
a boate of purpose for them to bringe them home from hamborough or<br />
to the same effect, and yet hee hath from time to time retourned to<br />
Amsterdam, which hee knoweth living there, and hath had often conference<br />
with such men as hee hath hired as aforesaid and from them bin informed<br />
of such his hiring them to the effect aforesaid. And by the meanes aforesaid<br />
and concealing his said shipp to belong to Amsterdam (saving to such<br />
merchants as would lade silver aboard her) hee the said John<br />
Martenson dorp hath driven a greate trade as a master therein from<br />
Cadiz for Amsterdam for theise tenn yeares last. And saith that<br />
within theise nine yeares space last last hee this deponent being severall times<br />
at Cadiz in Spaine sawe and tooke notice there that after the said<br />
John Martenson dorp his arivall there and<br />
dischardge of his goods brought from Amsterdam hee hath used to take<br />
freights for the Straights or other parts in Spaine and soe [?spend] out the<br />
time till the Spanish plate fleete retourned from the Indies, and then to<br />
take in silver and other goods for Amsterdam, and if hee had any occasion<br />
to hire men there, hee would hire them for hamborough still concealing<br />
his being bound for Amsterdam, whither of this deponents knowledge<br />
hee hath after gonne and dischardged and ended his voyages at Amsterdam.<br />
And this was growne soe frequent that the seamen would at<br />
length laugh and say, they knowe what hamburgh it was, it was great<br />
hamburgh which they said was Amsterdam, or to the same effect which<br />
this deponent came to take notice of [?XXXXXX] and frequenting<br />
the companies of the mariners, and being a sailemaker having much<br />
intimacie with them of Amsterdam where hee dwelt, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the 12th and 13th articles hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the shipp arlate having the ''Golden sunn'' upon her sterne<br />
(whereof Peter Tam is Master) and heard that the voyage in question shee<br />
came in Companie of the ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' arlate<br />
from Cadiz, or [?within] some short space before or after them, and see that<br />
shee mett or was in theire Companie att sea after theire said<br />
departure the said voyage from Cadiz, and came in theire Companie<br />
into the English Channell, and that the said shipp haveinge the<br />
Golden Sunn uppon her sterne escapinge and not being mett withall<br />
and intercepted by the shipps of this Commonwealth came and arrived<br />
in Ostend in or about the moneth of October 1652, att which tyme<br />
this deponent was there and saw her said arrivall, and spake with her<br />
said Master, and after such her arrivall shee unladed her silver and<br />
deliveredladed her silver and<br />
delivered +
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