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staied by some shipp or shipps of the Par … staied by some shipp or shipps of the Parliaments fleete, and hee beleeveth the<br />
same to be true. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second hee saith hee knoweth all the said masters, but lnoweth not any<br />
of their companies, and for the said masters hee hath only knowne them since<br />
their comming to this citie upon their said stay.
To the third and fourth hee saith that since the said stay of the said shipps hee hath bin<br />
in this Court and on the Exchange and alsoe here in company of the<br />
said three masters, and hath seene the Register of the lading of the said<br />
shipp the ''Sampson'' in custodie of<br />
his precontest and brother Peter Vandeput and likewise thhe [?bXX]<br />
lading of the ''Salvador'', namely a catalogue of the lading with the markes<br />
and numbers of the goods and silver and to whom consigned, but sawe<br />
any such catalogue in the custodie of the said masters, nor any other<br />
bills, documents, booke oor bookes or Charter partie what soever [?Touchin)] the<br />
said goods or silver either in custodie of the said masters or of an other<br />
person, and saith that the said catalogues in some places specified for<br />
whose accompt some of the said goods and silver were laden,<br />
and further that the said masters did not tell him nor did hee understand<br />
otherwise than by the said catalogues for whose accompt any part of the<br />
said goods or silver were saving that the masters told him<br />
and hee hath bin otherwise informed that the lading in Generall was for accompt of Spaniards<br />
fflemings and hamburgers and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose saving the said Otto George and Christian Cloppenburgh<br />
told him that their catalogues (before hee had seen them) were in the custodie of his said brother<br />
and that the [?like] were in this Court. And for the booke or catalogue<br />
of the said Straetman hee sawe none, only his papers hee hath seene<br />
in this Court, and alsoe the papers of the said Otto George and<br />
Christian Cloppenburgh. And saving that hee hath heard and beleeveth<br />
that the foresaid catalogues of the said Otto George and Christian<br />
Cloppenburgh are redelivered by the said Peter van deput to the said<br />
masters
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Repeated before doctor Exton
Giles Vandeput [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The third of december 1652. [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the Silver and money}<br />
aboard the ''Salvador''.}
[?Smith dt.] [?XX int]
'''Nicholas van Asperen''' of hamburgh Purser and under Stiersman<br />
of the said shipp ''Salvador'' aged 38 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right worshipfull [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] doctor of lawes one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie saith<br />
and deposeth.
That at such time as the silver and money aboard the said shipp were unladen<br />
and loaded by the Commissioners for dutch prize Goods, hee this deponent<br />
being as aforesaid Purser and under stiersman of her was present and tooke a<br />
note and accompt thereof in writinge conteyning the number of the baggs and<br />
marks, and alsoe of the barrs and barretons, as the same were dischardged<br />
out of the shipp into a boate brought fir that purpose, and afterwards<br />
namelypurpose, and afterwards<br />
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