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To the 14th article of the sayd allegation … To the 14th article of the sayd allegation, this deponent saith that for<br />
the space of about twenty yeares next before the late warrs<br />
betwixt this Commonwealth and the United Provinces, hee did live and<br />
reside with his family at Rotterdam in holland and by that<br />
meanes came to bee well acquainted with the dutch tongue<br />
and that upon the breaking out of the sayd warrs hee came for<br />
England his native Country, and happened to be heere at<br />
London at such tyme as the three silver shipps the ''Sampson'' (Otto<br />
George Master) The ''Salvador'' (Christian Cloppenburgh Master)<br />
and the ''Saint George'' (John Martens dorpe Master) happened upon their<br />
voyage from Cadiz with their respective ladeings of money plate<br />
and other goods to be seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth<br />
and brought into England which was and happened about 2<br />
yeares agoe And saith that soone after the sayd seizure and<br />
in the moneth of November one thousand sixe hundred fifty two<br />
hee had occasion to repayre againe into holland for the selling<br />
and disposeing of an house and garden and some other things which<br />
hee had a Rotterdam aforesayd And saith by virtue of his oath<br />
that within the sayd moneth of November and within some little<br />
tyme after, hee was at Rotterdam, Leyden, Delph, and the hague<br />
And that in those places and else where in holland it was at that<br />
tyme commonly and generally talked of and reported that the<br />
States of the United Provinces and their subiects had an<br />
exceeding great losse by reason of the seizure of the sayd shipps<br />
by the English, And there was of this deponents sight and<br />
observation a generall and great lamenteing in those places for<br />
the sayd losse Ansd hee further more particularly saith that on or<br />
about the 20th day of November one thousand sixe hundred fifty<br />
two aforesayd new style, hee was in Company of certayne<br />
Dutch men subiects of the sayd States, travailing with them in<br />
the Skute from delphe to the hague, And that they the sayd<br />
dutch amongst other matters fell into discourse about<br />
the takeing of the sayd three Shipps by the English which<br />
had the plate and silver in them (meaning and speaking<br />
of the sayd shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' above<br />
mentioned) And in that disocurse one of the sayd dutch<br />
men who was one of the Lords of delph and a Bewinthebber<br />
ofof delph and a Bewinthebber<br />
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