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and that upon the breaking out of the sayd … and that upon the breaking out of the sayd warres hee came for<br />
England his native Country and happened to bee heere<br />
at London at such tyme as the three silver shipps the<br />
''Sampson'' (Otto George Master) The ''Salvador'' (Christian Cloppenburgh<br />
Master) and the ''Saint George'' (John Martensdorpe Master) happened<br />
upon their voyages from Cadiz with their respective ladeings<br />
of money plate and other goods to be seized by the shipps<br />
of this Commonwealth and brought into England, which was<br />
and happened about two yeares agoe. And saith that soone<br />
after the sayd seizure, and in the moneth of November one<br />
thousand sixe hundred fiftie two, hee had occasion to repayre<br />
againe into holland for the selling and disposeing of an house and<br />
garden and some other things which hee had at Rotterdam aforesayd.<br />
And saith by virtue of his oath that within the sayd moneth of<br />
November and within some little tyme after, hee was at<br />
Rotterdam, Leydon, delphe and the hague, and that in those<br />
places and else where in holland it was at that tyme commonly and<br />
generally talked of, and reported, that the States of the United<br />
Provinces and their subiects had an exceeding great losse<br />
by reason of the seizure of the sayd shipps by the English<br />
and there was of this deponents sight and observation a generall and<br />
great lamenting in those places for the sayd losse, And<br />
hee further more partiicularly saith, that on or about the twentith<br />
day of November one thousand sixe hundred fiftie two afore=<br />
sayd new style hee went in Company of certayne dutchmen<br />
subiects of the said States, travailing with them in the [?Skute]<br />
from delphe to the hague, And that they the sayd dutch<br />
amongst other matters fell into discourse about the takeing of<br />
the sayd three shipps by the English, which had the plate and siver<br />
in them (meaning and speaking of the sayd shipps ''Sampson''<br />
''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' above mentioned) And in that<br />
discourse one of the sayd dutchmen who was one of the Lords of<br />
delph, and a Bewinthebber of the dutch East India Company, did<br />
then and there in the presence and hearing of him this deponent Confidently<br />
affirme/.deponent Confidently<br />
affirme/. +
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