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belonged to the Port of Amsterdam, and hat … belonged to the Port of Amsterdam, and hath made her voyage<br />
from tyme to tyme from Amsterdam and returned againe to<br />
Amsterdam, this last voyage excepted which by reason of the<br />
seizure now in question, the sayd shipp could not doe. And she<br />
saith that about five yeares agoe, the tyme otherwise she<br />
particularly remembreth not, the sayd shipp the ''Sampson'' sett sayle<br />
and began her last voyage from the sayd port of Amsterdam<br />
under the command of the sayd Otto George as master, and<br />
was then designed for the Straits. the premisses she came to know<br />
for that she was borne in Amsterdam, and lived neere the place<br />
where shipps use to ride there till within theis three yeares [?now GUTTER]<br />
last past, And hath often bene in the Company, and merry<br />
with the sayd Otto George att Amsterdam att an Aunts house<br />
or hers there that kept a wyne taverne. And moreover<br />
sayth that she knoweth Peter Eleson of Amsterdam and hath often att Amsterdam heard of the<br />
name of Matthew ffransen but<br />
cannot depose that they have any interest in the sayd<br />
shipp nor that the sayd Otto George hath accompted with them, or<br />
eyther of them for the voyages by him made with the sayd<br />
shipp. And otherwise or further she cannot depose.
To the 8 and 9th articles of the sayd allegation she saith that the<br />
sayd shipp did of her certayne sight, and knowledge severall<br />
tymes within these twelve yeares now past depart from Amsterdam<br />
and for the straits as was generally sayd, and hath some tymes<br />
after two, sometymes after three years returned of the<br />
deponents sight back agayne to Amsterdam, and from<br />
the straits and parts adjacent as was sayd, but that the<br />
sayd shipp was at Cadiz or brought any sylver to Amsterdam<br />
within that tyme, she saith she cannot depose.
To the 10th, 11th, 12 13 and 14th articles she saith she cannot depose
To the 15th and 16th articles she saith she doth not know the shipp<br />
''Mercurius'', but the shipp ''Golden'' Sun or having the Golden Sun<br />
in her sterne she well knoweth, and as she taketh it the arlate<br />
Peter Tam was master of the sayd shipp, which sayd Peter Tam<br />
this deponent well knoweth. And further not knoweing that the<br />
sayd shipps were att Cadiz and brought any sylver to Ostend<br />
or Amsterdam within the tyme interrate she saith she cannot<br />
depose:-
To the 17th article of the sayd allegation she sayth that she was not in holland<br />
when the sayd shipp ''Sampson'' and the other two shipps ''Salvador'' and<br />
''Saint George''alvador'' and<br />
''Saint George'' +
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