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14th of March last new stile, and the said … 14th of March last new stile, and the said horses and goates were<br />
sold and landed by the English, and both they and the said shipp and<br />
furniture were and are wholly lost to the said owners by the said<br />
seizures, and this deponent got passage thence in an English shipp<br />
for London:/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin and Collonel Cock.
[?jacoX allestson stiersman] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 30th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against the shipp the}<br />
''hope'' of fflushing aforesaid.}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''Stephen Johnson''' of fflushing Mariner<br />
aged 38 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith the said shipp the ''Hope'' was taken on<br />
the coast of ffrance betwixt deep and Saint Vallery, and that Anthony<br />
hubrechtson was then her master and that this was her first voyage, shee<br />
being a new shipp, and came from fflushing on her said first voyage<br />
about two monethes since under the conduct of the said Anthony hubrechtson<br />
who was constituted master ny her owners myn heer Gisling, [?mr] van [?hXXX]<br />
Mr Pile, [?Carel] Lallaere and others (all ducth, and dwelllers in fflushing<br />
and subiects of the States of the United Netherlands) who built the said<br />
shipp, and imployed the said master to manage the said building at Skedam<br />
and to defray the charges thereof.
To the second Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp went<br />
from fflushing to Nantes in ballast, and carried noe goods outwards<br />
and that betwixt ffkushing and Nantes shee was in noe port or<br />
harbour, saving one night that shee staid in Torbay for a faire winde,<br />
which hee knoweth being Stiersman of her, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer saving as aforesaid.
To the third hee saith hee verily beleeveth the said Owners of<br />
fflushing to be still the sole and reall owners of the said shipp and<br />
of her tackle and furniture and that noe ffrenchman or subiect of<br />
the ffrench king hath any interest therein. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer.
To the fourth hee saith that at the time of the seizure of the said<br />
shipp there was a lading of 36000 or thereabouts of<br />
Banck fish aboard her, all laden at Nantes, and taken there<br />
out of a ffrench shipp that came from the Banck of New found land<br />
and saith that an thousand of the said fish was laden by and for the<br />
accompt of the said master and company, all dutchmen and subiects<br />
of the States of the United Netherlands, and the rest were laden<br />
by a ffrench merchant, and were all to be carried and to be delivered<br />
at haver de Grace, and the said fish soe laden by the ffrench<br />
merchant were (as hee taketh it) to be delivered to the same<br />
merchant or to his use at haver de Grace aforesaid, but the thousand<br />
fish laden by the master and company, was by them intended to be<br />
sold at haver de Grace for their best proffit. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith hee thinketh the said master was minded to<br />
goe from haver de Grace (after deliverie) to Bourdeaux to seeke a freight<br />
andurdeaux to seeke a freight<br />
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