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The 30th day of November <u>1654:-&l … The 30th day of November <u>1654:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:-/
'''2us./'''
'''Joachim Beene''' of hamborough Mariner<br />
aged 35. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet:-
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth That hee this deponent<br />
being a Native of hamborough, and having there had his education and constant<br />
place of habitation, and having for 18 yeares last past or thereabouts been employed in and<br />
constantly frequenting Navigation, hee well knoweth and by long observation and experience<br />
can and doeth declare That the manner fashion and composure of hamborough<br />
shipps hath ten yeares agoe and for many yeares before and some yeares since been<br />
observed and knowne by Merchants Mariners Shipwrights and others to be remarkably<br />
different from the fashion and composure of holland shipps, the former being of a<br />
more plaine and unpolished fashipn and made built with full timber, and the latter of<br />
a light and neat composure, so that by men experienced in the fashion of shipps, they may<br />
very easily be discerned and distinguished and the one from the other. And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the second and 3d articles hee saith and deposeth, That for the reasons precedent and subsequent<br />
hee very well knoweth, That the arlate shipp the ''Saint George'' (whereof the arlate John Marten<br />
dorpe was Master) was and is of the fashion and compsosure of shipps usuall at<br />
hamborough about 10. or 12. yeares agoe, and for some yeares precedent and subsequent<br />
And saith, That the said shipp the ''Saint George'' was in the yeare 1642. last<br />
past originally built from the stocks at hamborough by one Joachim Moller a<br />
Citizen of hamborough and a Master shipwright there, by the order and<br />
especiall direction of the said John Marten dorpe, who in this deponents sight and<br />
presence did frequently attend the building of the same for and on the behalfe of<br />
himselfe and his then fellow Owners, videlicet Abraham de Bois Daniel Sloyer<br />
dittelof Classoft Mathys hendricx and others all Burghers and subjects of<br />
the free state of hamborough, and this deponent saith hee saw the said shipp the ''Saint''<br />
''George'' at such time as shee was compleated at hamborough aforesaid, and was<br />
there originally launched from the stocks in the yeare aforesaid, And hath never heard, neither<br />
doeth hee in Conscience beleeve, That the said shipp did ever belong to the<br />
Port of Amsterdam, or any other port or place in holland, or to any place person or persons in obedience to the States<br />
of the United Netherlands, neither hath hee this deponentever heard that the said<br />
shipp ''Saint George'' since her primitive building as aforesaid hath at any time been<br />
reputed to belong to any other place then hamborough aforesaid. And further<br />
to theise articles hee cannot depose./
To the 4th hee saith<br />
this examinate was at<br />
Cadiz in Spaine in the yeare <u>1652.</u> arlate, and did there severall times see and<br />
observe the arlate shipp the ''Saint George'' then rideing in the road of Cadiz, this<br />
(deponent road of Cadiz, this<br />
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