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The 28th of March 1655:
The claime of the … The 28th of March 1655:
The claime of the said Baltazar and}<br />
John Coymans for the ''Saint Mary de''}<br />
''Guarda lupa'' and goods}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''vide 2us [?hosterne dia]<br />
examination'''
'''3.'''
'''Sent Derickson''' of [?Purmerand] neere Amsterdam<br />
shipwright, Carpenter of the said shipp<br />
the ''Saint Mary de Guarda lupa'' aged 60 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
the producents Baltazar and John Coymans and hath soe donne for theise<br />
twenty yeeres last or thereabouts, and hath well knowne the shipp arlate<br />
the ''Saint Mary de Guarda lupa'' and hath soe donne for theise thirteene<br />
monethes last or thereabouts, during all which space the said<br />
Baltazar and John Coymans have bin and are commonly accompted her<br />
owners, and as owners they fitted and furnished her out from Amsterdam<br />
for the voyage in question of his sighta nd knowledge, this deponent being<br />
Carpenter of her and seeing them soe fitt and sett her out. And<br />
saith that having soe fitted her for the said voyage from Amsterdam for<br />
the Canaries, they at Amsterdam laded and caused to be laded on<br />
board her fifteene packs of goods or thereabouts, which were safely<br />
caried to and delivered at the Canaries to their factors. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third fourth and fifth articles and the schedule therein mentioned<br />
hee saith and deposeth that after the arrivall and deliverie of the<br />
said outwards goods at the Canaries, there were there laden and put<br />
aboard the said shipp for the said Baltazar and John Coymans their account,<br />
by their factors to be carried to and delivered at Amsterdam betweene<br />
500 and 1000 quintalls of logwood and Brazill wood, severall cases<br />
of Camperchiana and a parcell of hides, which hee knoweth because<br />
hee was aboard and sawe them laden, but for their markes and numbers<br />
hee remembreth them not, And this lading hee saith was<br />
in or about June or July last past. And further that after the<br />
said lading, the said shipp departed from the Canaries with the<br />
said goods for Amsterdam, and comming off the Iland of Palma<br />
was met with and seized by one Captaine Callart pretending hee<br />
had a Commission from the ffrench king and that hee tooke her<br />
as if shee were belonging to Spaniards, because shee had some Spanish<br />
passengers on board her, and having possessed himselfe of her and<br />
put men into her, hee was carrying her for ffrance, and saith they<br />
were parted by storme, yet afterwards hee met her againe, and<br />
his shipp being leakie hee carried the ''Saint Mary'' to the Asores<br />
Ilands, and there to Saint Michal being a place under the power of<br />
the kinge of Portugall, and there stopt his leake and provided<br />
the shipp with necessaries, and then againe departed with<br />
her and her said lading for ffrance, but comming in or about the<br />
moneth of October last neere Saint Martins in ffrance (for hee purposed<br />
as hee said to carry them to Rochell or Charent) there came an<br />
EnglishCharent) there came an<br />
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