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and Subjects of the States of the United N … and Subjects of the States of the United Netherlands, Which<br />
hee knoweth for that hee this rendent was and is an Inhabitant<br />
of hoorne aforesaid, and hath sailed in and belonged to the said shipp<br />
all the Voiage wherein shee was lately seized, and well knoweth the<br />
said Owners but the rest of her Owners or whether shee have any more<br />
hee saith hee knoweth not:/
To the second hee saith, That the said shipp departed from the<br />
Texell in holland in or about the moneth of Aprill <u>1654</u><br />
last past being bound for Brasilia, this deponent being one of<br />
her Companie all the said Voiage as aforesaid and at the time<br />
of her late being at the Barbadoes, where shee was seized and<br />
taken by some of the English fleet there being in the moneth<br />
of ffebruary last past, shee then having noe considerable goods<br />
aboard her saving some small quantitie of Tobaccoe, And saith<br />
that the Master of the said shipp and her Companie werre by the<br />
English seizors sett ashoare att Barbadoes, where this rendent left<br />
the said Master and morst of the said Companie, and that the said<br />
shipp being of the burthen of about one hundred and twentie<br />
lasts did there remaine and was as hee beleeveth disposed of<br />
by Admirall Penn and Officers of the English fleete then there,<br />
to and for the service of this Commonwealth./
To the third hee saith and deposeth, That hee this rendent<br />
during the said shipps being at the Barbadoes was informed by<br />
her said Master, and that it was publique in and amongst the said<br />
shipps Companie, that the said master had obtained free leave<br />
and permission from the Governor of the Barbadoes there to<br />
trade and traffique without lett or molestation. And further<br />
cannot depose:-/
Repeated before doctor Clerke./
Joris Pieterson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 15th day of JUne <u>.1655:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Bennett and Companie against hopkins}<br />
and Companie. Smith. Budd}
Examined upon a Libell given on the behalfe<br />
of the said Bennett and Companie
'''dt. Smith:-/'''
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'''Captaine Thomas Tate''' of Stebonheath alias<br />
Stepney in the County of Middlesex mariner aged 32.<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith as followeth videlicet./
To the first position of the said Libell hee saith, That in the yeares<br />
<u>1652:</u> and <u>1653.</u> arlate and moneths therein respectively concurring the<br />
arlate William Bennet did obtaine a Commission from this Court<br />
to the effect arlate, and made and constituted this deponent Captaine thereof<br />
And further referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court./h himselfe to the Registry of this Court./ +
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