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The same day examined upon the said Allega … The same day examined upon the said Allegation:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
'''5tus./'''
'''Carsten Franck''' of Lubeck Shipwright aged 32. yeares or<br />
thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet/
To the 11. Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That the arlate<br />
Shipp the ''Sampson'' in Companie with the said shipps the ''Salvadore'' and ''Saint''<br />
''George'' was at and sett saile from Cadiz under the Conduct of Otto George her<br />
then Commander upon the Voyage in question wherein the said shipps ''Sampson''<br />
''Salvadore'' and ''Saint George'' were surprized and taken by some of the shipps of the<br />
Commonwealth, about the middle of the moneth of October in the yeare<br />
<u>1652.</u> arlate as this deponent now remembreth, And saith That to the best of<br />
this deponents remembrance the said shipps were about three weekes or a moneth<br />
at Sea between the time of their said departure in Companie from Cadiz, and<br />
their said seizure in the English Channell, and did then stand in their direct<br />
Course for Ostend or dunquirke, which of the two they could with most<br />
convenience. The premises hee knoweth, being a seafaring person, and for<br />
12. yeares last well experienced in Navigation, and for that this deponent and the<br />
rest of the said ship ''Saint George'' her Companie were by the Master thereof<br />
John Marrens dorpe of this deponents certaine knowledge hired expressely to<br />
saile in the same from Cadiz to Ostend or dunquirke aforesaid. And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 12th hee saith, That the ship the ''[?Mermins''] arlate, (whereof the<br />
arlate hans Younge was Master) did in this deponents sight in the moneth of September <u>1652:-</u><br />
arlate, and about a moneth before the departure of the three shipps predeposed<br />
depart from Cadiz, and saith that the said ship [?''Meruvins''] did not after<br />
the time of such her departure come in Companie at Sea, or was seene<br />
any more by this deponent or any other of the said three shipps Company as hee beleeveth<br />
in their passage from Cadiz to the time of the said seizure, neither was the<br />
said ship ''Mercurie'' separated by any fowle weather from the said three<br />
shipps in their said passage, And that there was no fowle or tempestuous<br />
weather that happened during the said passage of the said three shipps whereby to separate them one from another The<br />
premises hee deposeth for that hee this deponent was in the Company of the<br />
said three shipps during the said Voyage and passage and was ships<br />
Carpenter during all that time, of the said ship ''Salvadore'', and saw and well<br />
observed the premises by him predeposed. And further cannot depose/
To the 13th hee saith, That the ship the ''Goulden Sunn'' arlate (whereof<br />
the arlate Peter Tam was Master and Commander) did depart from Cadiz about<br />
five moneths before the departure of the said shipps the ''Sampson''<br />
''Salvadore'' and ''Saint George'' or any of them from thence, and about 3 or 4 moneths<br />
before the Plate fleet of Spaine arrived from the West Indies, and saith the<br />
said ship the ''Goulden Sunn'' was then and there commonly reported to be laden with<br />
Cutcheneale and other goods designed for fflanders for the service of his<br />
Catholique Majestie the king of Spaine, And saith, this deponent hath<br />
Crediblyh, this deponent hath<br />
Credibly +
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