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shipps being there as aforesaid, or at any … shipps being there as aforesaid, or at any time before or since, That the<br />
said shipp with her then ladeing was bound for Amsterdam, or at any other<br />
place in the United Netherlands, or that shee had any of her Owners<br />
belonged to Amsterdam, or did there inhabit. The premisses hee declareth<br />
by Vertue of his oath being one of the said shipsp Companie during the<br />
Voyage in question. And further cannot depose./
Upon the rest of the Articles hee is not examined by the direction of the producents
To the Interrogatories:- [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith is a Native of Norway, and a Batchelor and hath for<br />
all the time Interrate gott his liveing by seafaring imployment and hath therfore<br />
had no constant ot fixed residence, And othewise negatively:-/:-/:-
To the second hee saith hee is a Mariner by profession, and saith hee hath<br />
never been at hamburgh, but hath beene two or three times at Amsterdam,<br />
within the time interrate, and at his last being there remained there about<br />
3. weekes or a moneth, and was then as aforesaid entertained by the said<br />
John Martens dorpe to serve aboard his said shipp to Cadiz in Spaine./
To the 3. and 4th hee saieth hee knoweth nothing thereof./
To the 5th hee saith That hee departed from Amsterdam with the said shipp upon<br />
a Christmas eve and about 8. daies after, being about three yeares since<br />
they came to Cadiz, and came from thence the moneth of October enseuing<br />
being about a moneth before the said shipp and lading were seized by the<br />
English:
To the 6th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition. And further cannot<br />
depose./
Repeated in Court./
[MARKE] [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The second day of december 1654:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation./
'''5us./'''
'''Carsten Franck''' of Lubeck shipwright aged 32.<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined/
To the 4th Article of the sai Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee<br />
this deponent being at Cadiz Shipwright of and aboard the shipp the ''Salvador'' of<br />
hamborough (Christian Cloppenburgh Master) in the yeare <u>1652.</u> arlate<br />
then saw and observed the shipp the ''Saint George'' (whereof John<br />
Martens dorpe was Commannder) then lyeing or rideing at an Anchor in<br />
the bay of Cadiz neere unto the said shipp the ''Salvador'', where of this<br />
deponents sight and observation the said shipp the ''Saint George'' continued for about<br />
three moneths together (as this deponent remembreth the time) And saith That neither<br />
during all the time of the said shipp the ''Saint George'' her remnaining there<br />
as aforesaid, neither before or since this deponent ever heard or observed that<br />
there was any the leeast rumour or report there, amongst Merchants Seamen<br />
or others, That the said shipp the ''Saint George'' was there reputed or taken for a<br />
(shipp reputed or taken for a<br />
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