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6th die mensis february 1666/
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The ''Saint Jacob'' cujus [?XXXXXXXX]}<br />
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'''Trouls Neilson''' de Larwick in Norway<br />
Nauta XXX Master due navis the ''Saint Jacob'' de<br />
Larwick, annos agens 29 aut circiter dicit et<br />
deponit prout sequitur videlicet.
Ad [?sixtum] arlum dei Libelli deponit et dicit<br />
That hee the deponent well knoweth the ship ''Saint Jacob'' now in controversy<br />
and was Master of her for about foure yeeres before her seizure<br />
hereunder mentioned and saith, that during all that time she hath of<br />
his knowledge bin imployed to bring Deales and great timber, spars and balkes<br />
from Norway to London on the account and risgoe of the producent Mr<br />
Edward Smith (commonly called Alderman Smith) and Mr Edward Lee Deale<br />
Merchant of London, and saith that in March last the said Mr Smith and Mr<br />
Lee did by himself the said Mr Lees servant their in<br />
Norway but since come to London lade on board the said ship ''Saint Jacob'' at<br />
Larwick in Norway, about five or six and twenty [?till] of Timber ten<br />
thousand and od hundred of Deales and about five or six hundred of small<br />
balkes and about three hundred of sparrs and about forty fadom of fire<br />
wood to be brought in the said shipp from Larwick directly to this Port<br />
of London (whether shee was directly bound) for and on the sole and propper<br />
account (as he is well assured) of them the sayd Mr Smith and Mr Lee<br />
and here the same were to be delivered to them to be disposed of by them<br />
at their pleasure as their owne goods, and saith that this deponent sawe the<br />
sayd Mr Lees sayd servant pay for the sayd Lading at Larwick before<br />
the sayd ships coming thence et alr nescit./
Ad 7um arlum deponit That before the sayd ship ''Saint Jacob'' came away with the sayd<br />
Lading from Larwick her owners (being Danes) made the sayd Mr Smith<br />
and Mr Lee promise that they would pay for the sayd shipp and<br />
make her good to them in case shee should be seized by the English or<br />
Scotch, the sayd owners of the sayd ship otherwise refusing to<br />
adventure her the sayd voyage, and saith that hee this deponent<br />
(before his coming with the sayd ship from Larwick the sayd<br />
=voyage) sawe Letters from the sayd Mr Smith and Mr Lee to the sayd owners<br />
wherein they promised the sayd owners to pay them for the sayd ship in case<br />
shee should miscarry by English or Scotch seizure or to that effect, And<br />
=the sayd ships owners being satisfyed therewith the sayd ship<br />
departed from Larwick with her sayd Lading to come directly to this<br />
Port of London, and saith that the sayd Mr Smith and Mr Lee by reason<br />
=of their sayd promise ran the risgo of the sayd ship in case of her miscarriage<br />
by English or Scotch seizure, and are by their sayd promise obliged and<br />
are to pay for the sayd ship to the sayd Danish owners in case she is not<br />
restored and freed from the Scotch seizure hereafter mentioned, and if the<br />
sayd Mr Smith and Mr Lee doe not pay them for the sayd ship quietly hee is most<br />
assured that they will sue them for her vallue et alr nescit deponere.hem for her vallue et alr nescit deponere. +
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