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To the 18th hee answereth and … [ADD DATA]
To the 18th hee answereth and deposeth that hee had 46 persons aboard<br />
of his company and one passenger, and that of the said 46, there<br />
were about tenn boyes and youthes, and that there were about 16<br />
or 17 men in Matthias Johnson his shipp, which hee alsoe declared<br />
to Captaine Penn, who thereupon said to his Purse, then there is<br />
about 60 men in all, alr negative.
To the 19th hee saith that one of this deponents company that<br />
was aboard Captaine Penns shipp having his throate soare and<br />
soe sore that hee could not eate in two dayes space, and had thereof<br />
complayning to him this deponent this deponent intreated Captaine<br />
Penn to let this deponent goe aboard his owne shipp to fetch his owne Chirurgeon<br />
to looke to and dresse him, and to noe other end or purpose,<br />
which courtesie the said Captaine Penn denied him, but suffered his<br />
the said Captaines owne Chirurgeon to dresse it, as this deponents man told him.
Ad 20 et 21 raiddet negative ad singula.
To the 22th hee saith that all the common men and mariners were hired at<br />
Lubeck and shipped there, and told there the drift of the<br />
said voyage as aforesaid by this deponent, and saith hee hired them<br />
for Cales or Ligorne, not daring to tell them precisely that hee<br />
was bound for Cales, least they should discover it in case hee met<br />
with ffrench, and saith hee hired them to serve in a merchants<br />
voyage and was to give them according to their place and desert for the<br />
voyage some more and some lesse, but to the common sort<br />
hee was to give 32 guldens a peece to Cadiz, and in case hee went<br />
to Ligorne, hee was to give them 5 peeces of eight a peece per moneth<br />
from Cadiz.
To the 24th hee saith that the said two shipps at the time of<br />
their said seizure were in consortshipp together for Cadiz, both on<br />
a merchandizing voyage, and soe this deponent and the said<br />
Matthias Johnson made knowne to each other.
To the 25th hee saith the said two shipps are built and fitted for merchandizing<br />
and not for men of warr, nor have they any Commission for man<br />
of warr, but saith this deponents said shipp sis such as may be<br />
used for a man of warr or may marke a man of warr.
To the last hee saith that the lading of this deponents said shipp was<br />
left to this deponents disposall, and soe was not consigned to any other<br />
but was by him to be disposed at Cadiz to the first and best<br />
Chapman or merchant that hee could meete with there, be hee of<br />
what nation soever, quoad cetera refert se ad predepoita.<br />
and saith hee was to bring the said shipp<br />
againe to Lubeck, and neither land<br />
nor sell or otherwise dispose of the same any where els, to which purpose the<br />
magistrates of Lubeck tooke an oath of him (according to the custome<br />
of the place) that hee should not sell her in seven yeeres.
William Loemann [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Daniel Vosse [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
[ADD DATA]l Vosse [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
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