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being Swedes and a Lubeck boy there to mak … being Swedes and a Lubeck boy there to make up his company hee<br />
departed thence with the said shipp in ballast on or about the seaventh<br />
(new stile) of September last to goe for Saint Martins in ffrance<br />
to lade salt to be caried to Stettin for the accompt of the said<br />
Schaum and other Stettiners, subiects of the said King of<br />
Sweden, and that comming westward of the Nesse hee was with<br />
his said shipp taken by one of his Majesties vessells commannded<br />
by Captaine Buttle (or having some such name) on or about<br />
the 20th (old stile) of the said moneth and brought up into the<br />
downes. And saith his company (with himselfe) consists of<br />
nine men and a boy, the men all Swedish subiects, only the<br />
Stiersman is a hollander borne, but hath lived [?two] yeares<br />
at Stettin with his wife and children, his name John Peterson<br />
as hee taketh it. And the boy is a Lubecker, And that hee<br />
had only a Swedish flagg aboard./ Et alr non deponit, saving<br />
that upon his comming to Amsterdam to fetch the said shipp hee<br />
called her the ''Queene of Sweden'', which name was given her<br />
before in Pomerland, and his passe dispatched thence under that<br />
name.
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The 26th of October 1666/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the ship the ''Esperamza''}<br />
[?Sorne] Tourson Master}
'''pf.'''
'''Peter Rich, of London<br />
Dealemerchant, aged 36 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
being sworne before the right worshipfull<br />
Leolin Jenkins Doctor of Lawes Judge of the high<br />
Court of Admiralty of England<br />
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath as<br />
followeth videlicet./.
That hee well knoweth the ship the ''Esperansa'' ([?Sorne]<br />
Tourson Master) now lying at Hull, and hath soe knowne<br />
her for about three yeeres last, and came<br />
to knowe her by her being about 3 yeeres since consigned<br />
to him this deponent by one Mr Thomas Russell who was<br />
then halfe part owner of her and at that time hee the said<br />
Thomas Russell (by consent of Daniel [?RuoXXe] the other halfe<br />
part owner) gave this deponent order to sell her for their account<br />
and to make thenm returne of the proceed thereof, but<br />
this deponent not being able to get soe much for her as hee<br />
had order to sell her for, hee did not sell her, and hee the<br />
said Thomas Russell hath ever since continued and still<br />
is undoubtedly the halfe part owner of her, and this hee<br />
is the better assured of, for that this deponen this last summer<br />
wrote to the said Thomas Russell to send the said ship<br />
consigned to this deponent which hee promised upon his adventure to doe but after<br />
wards wrote an excuse Declaring alsoe that hee had<br />
met with one to wit Mr Jonathan Smith Servant to Mr Thomas<br />
Popplewellervant to Mr Thomas<br />
Popplewell +
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