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that hee the said ffransen might be his sa … that hee the said ffransen might be his saile maker and furnish his shipp the<br />
''Salvador'' with such newe and repaire such old sailes as shee stood in neede of<br />
which request the said master of the ''Salvador'' at the first denied as taking the<br />
said ffransen to be a slight fellowe, but afterwards understanding him to be<br />
a good workeman, hee upon the said ffransens second request condescended,<br />
and then the said ffransen served the said shipp with severall<br />
newe sailes, blocks and other materialls belonging to his trade, and<br />
mended her old sailes, all which hee knoweth being one of the<br />
said shipps company and privie to the premisses and hearing and<br />
seeing the same soe donne, And this deponent afterwards sawe the<br />
said Cloppenburgh pay the said ffransen severall summes of money<br />
for his said worke and stuffe to the summe of an hundred Rix<br />
dollars or thereabouts, and the said Skipper had (as hee beleeveth)<br />
noe other dealings or doing with the said ffransen but in the way aforesaid,<br />
nor had the said ffransen any relation to the said shipp but<br />
as a workeman imployed in the way aforesaid of saile making and mending<br />
nor was or iis hee as this deponent beleeveth any part owner of [?that]<br />
said shipp. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third article hee saith that the said shipp the ''Salvador'' during all<br />
the time that shee remained at Cadiz in the yeare 1652 was commonly<br />
said, reported and esteamed to be a shipp of the port of hamburgh<br />
and to be belonging to that and noe other port, and saith there was there<br />
noe reporte or common voice that shee was bound with her lading<br />
there taken in for Amsterdam, or was belonging to Amsterdam, which<br />
if there had, hee verily beleeveth, being one of her company hee must<br />
have heard thereof, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that the said Mathew ffransen was and is a<br />
poore person of lowe ranck and condition and for such commonly<br />
accompted and reputed, and such a one as is very unlikelie to<br />
be part owner of any shipp, much more unlikelie to be a part owner<br />
of soe considerable a shipp as the ''Salvador'' is, which hee saith is of<br />
about 200 lasts burthen, and otherwise cannot depose, saving<br />
her owners are commonly said to be merchants of hamborough and<br />
other hamburgers of good qualitie, such as probably would not have<br />
a poore or meane person a part owner with them.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that hee was one of the<br />
company of the shipp the ''Salvador'' aforesaid for the space of a yeaare<br />
and halfe next before her seizure, and continued in her about two<br />
monethes after her seizure by the shipps of this commonwealth in<br />
all which space hee saith shee had but one trumpetter of or belonging<br />
to her and hee was named and continually called Goyke Luders<br />
and about two monethes after her seizure both this deponent and the<br />
said trumpetter Goyke Luders desirous of imployment<br />
left her, this deponent to goe to sea in another shipp and the said<br />
Luders to goe home (as hee said) to [?Bremas], and hee saith hee<br />
is well assured that there was not any trumpetter in any part<br />
of any trumpetter in any part<br />
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