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To the second hee saith that there was noe … To the second hee saith that there was noe bill of sale made of or for<br />
the said shipp, each man building his part, and defraying the chardge thereof<br />
And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the third hee saith that hee first tooke chardge of the said shipp as master<br />
at hamburgh forthwith upon her launching and preparing for sea after such<br />
her building, and hath continued alwaies master of her since, and the said owners<br />
have alwaies bin owners of her since and at her said building, and none others<br />
hath had or hath any part or share in her, and otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe as aforesaid.
To the fourth hee saith that the said shipp the ''Salvador'' nor any part of her<br />
did not at any time or doth belonge to Amsterdam or other place of holland or under the<br />
dominion of the States of the United Netherland Provinces, nor any person<br />
or persons whatsoever living in the dominions of or in subiection to the said States.<br />
And saith that the said shipp being finished and fitted for sea, this deponent<br />
departed from hamburgh with her about Michaelmas in the yeare 1647<br />
bound for Saint Lucars in Spaine, and since that time shee hath never bin<br />
at home namely at hamburgh, but hath bin imployed in merchants service<br />
in the straights and [?ports] of Spaine and Italy and thereabouts ever since<br />
her first proceeding from hamburgh, and that the last port shee came<br />
from before her seizure was Cadiz in Spaine.
To the fifth hee saith that there were aboard the said shipp when shee<br />
was seized by the Parliaments frigot about sixteene hundred arobes of wooll<br />
about sixteene hundred hides, about foure hundred and fiftie potacks of tobaccoe<br />
about eightie butts of Spanish wine for the merchants and eighteene or thereabouts<br />
for this deponents accompt, foure hundred ninetie eight peeces of Campecha<br />
wood which hee saith is alsoe belonging unto him this deponent, together with<br />
three potacks of tobaccoe, eightie chests and fardles of Indigo and<br />
cochenela, and a quantitie of silver in barrs, small peeces and baggs, but<br />
how much hee knoweth not, but for the quantitie thereof and of the rest<br />
of his lading hee referreth himselfe to his bills of lading, papers, and book[?e]<br />
which were seized and came to the hands of States officers at dover and to the bills nowe by him produced at his examination; and<br />
saith that all the said goods and silver were laden at Cadiz aforesaid<br />
in the monethes of August, September and October last past or thereabouts<br />
by many severall merchants whose names hee saith hee cannot remember<br />
without booke, but referreth himselfe [?therein] to his said bills of lading and<br />
papers, only the names of such as laded the silver are not mentioned<br />
in the bills, by reason of the danger of their lives that are discovered to send<br />
it thence, and saith the said goods were and are consigned to many severall<br />
merchants of Antwerp, Ostend, Bridges, London and hamburgh and<br />
other places mentioned in his said bills and papers to which hee in that matter<br />
referreth himselfe not being able as hee saith to remember them without<br />
booke, and hee was not told or understood from any but that the said<br />
goods were and are belonging in propertia to the said severall persons to<br />
whom they are soe consigned, only the said woolls were laden by the<br />
officers of the kinge of Spaine and entred at Cadiz for his accompt<br />
whereof hee hath a dispatch or manifest as hee saith amongest his said<br />
papers, in which dispatch there are more woolls mentioned than are in his<br />
shipp, part thereof being distributed into other shipps. And further saith<br />
that hee had 20 peeces of iron ordnance aboard at the time of the said seizure<br />
foure and twenty muskets and [?XXXXX] namely a dozen of each, twelve<br />
pistolls, eighteene broad swords, twelve pikes, about five hundred bullets<br />
tenn or eleaven barralls of powder, and a parecell of foure or five [?bundles] of<br />
match. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the sixth Interrogatorie hee saith hee signed bills of lading for<br />
the said goods, which hee saith were and are true and reall. and were seized<br />
andand reall. and were seized<br />
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