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and as to the valew thereof, this examinat … and as to the valew thereof, this examinate being by the said seizors<br />
deprived of all his shipps papers Invoyces and accompts cannot at present<br />
give any exact or particular accompt thereof, but saith, That to the best of<br />
this deponents judgment and as hee is in Conscience fully convinced the<br />
lading of the said shipp before mentioned and particularized was at the<br />
time of the said seizure of the reall and true value of six hundred<br />
pounds sterling at the Least, and that the said shipp tackle and<br />
furniture were of the reall value of three hundred pounds sterling<br />
or thereabouts, as this deponent doeth also in Conscience and to the best<br />
of his Judgement verily believe, as knowing that the said shipp was on<br />
the behalfe of the said John Shorter at Berghen aforesaid bought and<br />
provided for the summe of seaven hundred and fifty rixdalers, besides<br />
the fitting and furniture bestowed upon the same both at Berghen aforesaid<br />
and also at this Port of London, upon her last intended Voiage<br />
Moreto this Interrogatorie hee saith not/:-
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee knoweth not what is<br />
become of the said shipp or of her tackle apparrell furniture<br />
or lading since the time that this deponent was by the said seizors soe<br />
sett on shoare at Cromer as aforesaid, but this deponent saith, That<br />
during the time of his restraint by the said seizors on board the said<br />
shipp, both the said Captaine and Companie did very barbarously<br />
and inhumanely use and entertaine this deponent threatning with<br />
pistolls and cutlases to kill [OR, bill] him or to cutt his throat, calling him<br />
damned dogg and devell, and sayeing that they cared not if the said<br />
shipp and goods did belong to the Lord Protector (meaning as this<br />
Deponent conceiveth his highnesse the Lord Protector of this Commonwealth0<br />
and most insolently declareing, that if they had his said highnesse the Lord<br />
Protector on board the said shipp in the place of him this deponent they<br />
would use or entreat him in such evell and barbarous manner<br />
as this examinate conceiveth unfitting to be further in this his deposition<br />
expressed. further this deponent saith, That during such his said restraint<br />
hee was in a continuall feare and apprehension to habe beene killed<br />
or throwne over board, as the said Captaine and Companie continually<br />
menaced him, and was finally sett on shoare at Cromer aforesaid,<br />
the said Captaine showing this deponent his long boate on the one side<br />
of his shipp and the sea on the other, and telling him that hee<br />
must passe one of those waies, and being sett on shoare, the doctor<br />
or Chirurgion of the said private man of warr tooke away eight<br />
pounds sterling or thereabouts from this deponent and<br />
afterwards this deponent coming from thence towards London was<br />
malitiously pursued and detained by the said seizors or upon their<br />
suggestion that hee this deponent was a Lord, and was, as they<br />
pretended, come out of fflanders from the enemies of this Common<br />
=wealth. More to this Interrogatorie hee saith not/:-
(To the 3dnterrogatorie hee saith not/:-
(To the 3d +
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