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To the second hee saith hee was not presen … To the second hee saith hee was not present when the words mentioned in the<br />
first article of the allegation in this Cause were spoken, but saith the same were, as the<br />
said Joachim Wise hath often declared to this deponent spoken to the sayd<br />
Wise by the said Lieutenant Mowat in the presence of one other man, whom hee tooke for one of the imployers of the said private man of warr and saith the said Wise hath [?XXXX] declared that<br />
the said words were spoken before hee this said Wise was examined at all<br />
in this Cause:/
To the 3. hee saith hee was onely a passenger in the said shipp the ''Christopher'' and<br />
hath land, and driveth a Merchandizing trade at Riga, for Wynes, and from<br />
thence with that Countrey Commodities And otherwise cannot declare the worth or<br />
valew of his estate./:-
To the 4th hee saith hee the interrate Cornelius alias Neels Peterson was entertained<br />
for Cooke aboard the said shipp the ''great Christopher'' where hee was not accompted<br />
by any of the said shipps Companie to be any otherwise than an idle<br />
unworthy and unserviceable person.
[?Jo?son] [?RXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:-
'''3us./'''
'''Simon Paulson''' of Stetin in Pomerland Mariner and<br />
Stiersman of the said shipp the ''great Christopher'' aged<br />
36. yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined./
To the 1.st article hee saith hee knoweth nothing of the Contents thereof, otherwise<br />
then that the arlate Joachim Wise Carpenter of the said shipp the ''great''<br />
''Christopher'' hath severall times affirmed to this deponent That after the seizure of the<br />
same, the Lieutenant of the private man of warr had offered him two hundred gilders if<br />
hee would declare that the said shipp and her lading were at the time of her seizure<br />
bound for Holland or ffrance, which hee refused to doe as being Contrary to the<br />
trueth, or words to that effect./
To the 2d. hee saith that one Neels or Cornelius, (who was Cooke aboard the said shipp<br />
at the time of her seizure) and whom this deponent hath knowne for about a yeare<br />
last past first at Stetin in Pomerland, and since at Riga in Liefland, was and is<br />
a poore despicable and worthelesse person, whom this deponent hath within that time<br />
knowne to goe a begging and to be in a lousy and miserable Condition as an [?adle]<br />
vagabond, and hath himselfe assisted him with cloathes to Cover his nakednesse<br />
in hopes hee might be reduced to labour and thrive, and saith that the arlate Michael<br />
Crugger finding the said Neels at Riga paid 9. rix dollers for him to a Captaine of<br />
the Souldjery there, and finding him without shooes doublet or other necessaries<br />
hee gave him some old cloathes to cover him, and tooke him aboard his shipp, all which<br />
notwithstanding the said Neels continued and was at the time of the said shipps<br />
seizure in a verminous and nastie condition for want of shift, and since the said<br />
seizure this deponent hath seene the said Neels in a very good suite of Cloathes with<br />
hatt and ribbons and gloves, which, this deponent in his Conscience is verily perswaded<br />
hee had obtained from the said Lieutenant or some of the Imployers of the said man of<br />
(warroyers of the said man of<br />
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