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Englishmen and Marchants and subiects of t … Englishmen and Marchants and subiects of this Commonwealth and for<br />
such commonly accounted:/
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
and is master of the shipp the ''Catherin'' interrogated, of the burthen<br />
of foure score tuns or thereabouts, which hee saith they the said Mr<br />
Baldero, mr harris and mr Shepard in or about the moneth of<br />
March last bought at Rotterdam of one Lambert Schaep and<br />
paid him the summe of three thousand gilders or thereabouts for<br />
her, at which their buying of her hee this deponent was present and<br />
sawe the said moneys paid for her, and having soe bought her they<br />
constituted this deponent master of her, and hee hath bin master<br />
of her ever since and is soe at this present, and was and is<br />
alsoe an English man, and saileth the said shipp for and under the said<br />
mr harris, mr Baldero and mr Shepard who were and are her<br />
sole owners, and saith that noe dutch man or other forreiner whatsoever<br />
hath any share or interest in the said shipp, or ever had since their<br />
said buying of her but only they the said harris, Baldero, and Shepard<br />
to whom hee saith shee wholly belongeth.
Johen Tomsen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The last of May 1656.
The Lord Protector against Elizabeth}<br />
Lacy Relict and Administratrix of Nathaniel}<br />
Lacey deceased. Budd. Cheeke.}
Exámined upon an allegation given<br />
in on the behalfe of his highnesse<br />
the Lord Protector.
'''dt the State'''
'''1'''
'''Benjamin Rose''' of the parish of White Chappell<br />
Merchant, aged 37 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
and exámined.
To the first and second árticles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the goods, wares and merchandizes mentioned in the schedule to the<br />
allegation (nowe shown unto him) were taken and seized as prize by the<br />
shipps of this Commonwealth, and brought to this port of London<br />
and there put into a ware house at Chester key (amongst many other<br />
goods) in the yeare 1650, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent<br />
as a land waiter for the prize office received them into the said warehouse<br />
upon such their bringing in, and saith the said goods being afterwards<br />
condemned for prize by this Court, and after exposed to publique sale<br />
by the Commissioners or the Collectors for prize goods, and by them then sold at a publique<br />
sale by the Candle to Nathaniel Lacey, and by him bought<br />
of them, which hee knoweth having seene the<br />
subscription of the said Lacey in the Sale booke for Prize goods for the same.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third article hee saith that the said goods (being taffata's) contained<br />
by measure one hundred twenty and two yards as in the said schedule is expressed<br />
whichid schedule is expressed<br />
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