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therein albeit the names in the bills are … therein albeit the names in the bills are feigned or left with blancks or<br />
otherwise obscured, such fictitious names being only prevention of discovery<br />
as aforesaid, And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee answereth negatively.
To the fifth 6. and 7th hee saith hee verily beleeveth that severall persons liveing in<br />
Antwerp, Gannt, dunquirke, lile and other parts and places of flanders<br />
and Brabant subiects of the king of Spaine, had the voyage in question<br />
severall and greate quantities of silver and plate laden and seized in the<br />
shipps the ''Sampson'', ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' in question, And otherwise<br />
saving as afooresaid hee cannot depose, saving hee hath severall times heard<br />
marchants of good worth and qualitie say and affirme that many of the<br />
merchants of Gannt, Lile, Antwerp, dunquirke and other parts of<br />
fflanders and Brabant subiects of the said kinge, had much<br />
plate in the said shipp
Repeated before doctors Clarke and Godolphin.
Ant [?fz] Cara[?zala] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The seventh day of November <u>1654</u>.
The Lord Protector et cetera against the}<br />
shipp the ''Sampson'' of which}<br />
Otto George was master, the}<br />
''Salvador'' Christian Cloppenburgh<br />
Master, and the ''Saint George'' John}<br />
Martindorpe Master, and their}<br />
respective tackle and furniture}<br />
and against Sloyer and others}<br />
comeing in for their respective}<br />
interests therein. Bud, Smith}<br />
ffranklin}
Examined upon an allegation made in<br />
the Acts of Court and a certayne<br />
schedule therein exhibited
'''John Bacon''' of the parish of<br />
Saint Giles Criplegate in the Citty<br />
of London Mariner Owner and master<br />
of the shipp the ''John'' of London aged<br />
five and forty yeares, or thereabouts<br />
a wirnes sworne and examined upon the sayd allegation and paper, or schedule<br />
therewith exhibited saith and deposeth<br />
bey vertue of his Oath as followeth videlicet.
To the sayd allegation and to the Contents of the sayd paper or<br />
schedule beginning thus '''[What will be proved that the<br />
masters of the three shipps et cetera]''' and signed on the second page<br />
of the first leafe '''[John Bacon]'''. This deponent saith, and<br />
deposeth that the first leafe of the sayd paper is wholly of his<br />
owne handwriting, and that he had, and tooke the information<br />
there in made of and from Josuah Reeve, Abraham Johnson<br />
and George Matison in or about the month of August one<br />
thousand six hundred fifty three, and that about a moneth or<br />
two after, he delivered the sayd paper in to the hands of<br />
Katheriner in to the hands of<br />
Katherine +
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