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The 30th of August … '''C: 5'''
'''37.'''
The 30th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of ffrederick Otson and company}<br />
owners of the shipp the ''Liesday'' of horne and}<br />
lading, taken neare the Barbadas.}
'''dt. jus.'''
'''John Cornelison''' of horne Mariner, late<br />
one of the companie of the said shipp the<br />
''Liesday'', aged 24 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee hath well<br />
knowne the said shipp the ''Liesday'' about a yeare last, and saith shee<br />
belongeth to the port of horne in North Holland, and that ffrederick Otson<br />
of horne, and others of Amsterdam and Memblick all dutchmen and<br />
subiects of the States of the United Netherlands were and are her owners, and<br />
set her out on the voyage wherein shee was seized, on which voyage shee<br />
departed from horne about this time twelvemoneths, bound for Nantes and<br />
thence for any free place of trade, and that one Albert went master<br />
of herr. And saith that from horne shee went to Nantes and there tooke<br />
in wine and brandewine and went towards the Charibbe Ilands,<br />
which hee knoweth being of her companie.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp the said voyage was not at any<br />
of the English plantations before her seizure nor traded there, nor had her master and<br />
company any purpose to goe thether, having received expresse command<br />
and order from ffrederick Otson the cheife owner, not to come there<br />
nor trade there without license, whch command hee gave aboard openly<br />
to the master and company in their going out of the Texel whether hee came with<br />
them in the shipp and then retourned.
To the third fourth and fifth hee saith that the said shipp the ''Liesday'' about a moneth<br />
before Easter last with her said lading of wine, brandewine and porke<br />
within two hollands mile or thereabouts of the greate Roade of the Barbada's<br />
there came two shallops and a frigot towards her out of the Roade<br />
and one of the said shallops came aboard manned with English and<br />
told them they must goe in to Generall Penn, and soe comming aboard<br />
about 25 man stronge (whereas the ''Leisdays'' (sic) companie were but tenn or<br />
thereabouts) they carried the said shipp and lading into the Roade, and<br />
there brought her to an anchor, and tooke the master, Stiersman and<br />
boatswaine out and carried them aboard Generall Penn, and tooke the<br />
rest of her companie and carried them ashore, and afterwards the<br />
master, stiersman and boatswaine were alsoe brought ashore, and soe they<br />
were deprived of their said shipp and lading, which were seized and<br />
confiscated by the English, and the owners have thereby lost the same.<br />
And saith the said shipp was laded with about an hundred fatts<br />
of wine and brandewine, (each fatt containing foure hogsheads) and<br />
a quantitie of porke, and that the said wine, brandewine, and<br />
porke were worth in his estimation at the time of the said seizure<br />
fiftie thousand gilders, and were the goods of the said shipps owners,<br />
and the said shipp hee saith was of the burthen of 90 lasts or thereabouts<br />
but her valew hee cannot depose, and saith shee was seized on the<br />
high and open sea, and while shee was under saile, and had not then<br />
bin nor traded at or received any goods from any of the English plantations<br />
All which hee knoweth being one of her companie and then aboard her,<br />
and after the said tourning ashore of the said companie, this deponent<br />
got passage thence in an English shipp which was taken and carried to Brest<br />
and thense this deponent got passage hether in a hollander.
The marke of the said<br />
'''+''' John Cornelison [MARKE, RH SIDE];
'''+''' John Cornelison [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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