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disagreeing from the fabrique and fashion … disagreeing from the fabrique and fashion of shipps built in Holland, those<br />
of Lubeck and the other Easterling Ports being strong and composed of<br />
full and heavie timber, and course and unpolished, and those of the United<br />
Netherlands being usually much lighter of timber, and more neate and<br />
polished. Which premises hee saith hee hath well observed, by the<br />
experience of eighteen yeares Navigation and acquaintance with the<br />
forme and fashion of shipps usuall and observed in the said respective<br />
places and Countries. And further cannot depose./
To the second and third articles hee saith and deposeth, That hee this<br />
deponent being upon his seafaring occasions at Lubeck in the yeare 1646.<br />
and about the moneth of March in the said yeare did then and there<br />
see observe and take notice that the ship the ''Sampson'' arlate, (whereof<br />
the arlate Otto George was Master or Commander being then originally<br />
there built and newly launched but not altogether completed; And saith the<br />
said ship ''Sampson'' now in controversie was and is of the mould former<br />
fashion and figure usually observed and practised at Lubeck and other<br />
Ports of the East Countrey, Which hee knoweth by reason of his experience<br />
in shipps as is predeposed, And for that this deponent since the building and<br />
perfecting of the said ship hath been sewerall times aboard her both at Cadiz<br />
in Spaine and in the river of Thames since the time that shee hath been<br />
seized and brought into the said river by some of the shipps of this<br />
Commonwealth, and by such his being aboard and frequent and diligent<br />
observation of her forme and fashion well knoweth her to be as aforesaid<br />
a Lubeck ship, and one and the same ship which this deponent saw at Lubeck<br />
before shee was there perfected as aforesaid, And further saith That hee this deponent<br />
in the said yeare 1646. comeing as a Passenger from Cadiz to hamburgh<br />
in the ship ''Saint Lucar de Barrameda'', whereof Otto George aforesaid was<br />
then commander and arriving with the said ship at hamborough, the said<br />
Otto George did in or about the moneth of December of the said yeare<br />
1646. quit and<br />
in the yeare 1646. quit and leave the said ship the ''Saint Lucar'' at hamborough, and went<br />
for Lubeck expressely, (as hee the said Otto then declared to this examinate) to<br />
buy the said ship the ''Sampson''./ And further to theise articles hee saith<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the fourth article of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee this deponent<br />
for sewerall yeares together after the building of the said ship till the<br />
time of her late seizure by the English, hath yeare by yeare observed and<br />
taken notice of the said ship then trading in the parts of Spaine under the<br />
Command and Conduct of the arlate Otto George then Master thereof<br />
a Burgher and inhabitant of Lubeck and so commonly and generally reputed.<br />
And saith that since the time of the building of the said ship the time of the building of the said ship the +
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