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laden at London with severall goods and bo … laden at London with severall goods and bound for Rotterdam<br />
and was in her course thitherwards by stresse of weather driven with<br />
her ladeing into Ostend and there seized with her ladeing by the<br />
subiects of the King of Spaine, and there kept and deteyned notwith=<br />
standing shee was a dutch shipp and belonging to the subiects of the<br />
States of the United Provinces, only upon suspition that shee had goods<br />
on board her belonging to English and the sayd John de Ketts her<br />
Master put to trouble and charge Which reports<br />
hee this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his<br />
conscience was and is true And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee cannot depose
To the 5th hee saith hee hath heard it reported by one who came in (as shee sayd) in<br />
1the vessell arlate wherein the sayd de New came at the tyme arlate that the sayd vessell<br />
was a dutch shipp and belonging to subiects of the states of the United<br />
Provinces and that shee was in her course from Rotterdam bound for<br />
Colchester about November last surprized by a man of warr belonging<br />
to the King of Spaines subiects who notwithstanding the Master of the<br />
sayd vessell did acquainte the Commander of the sayd man of warr<br />
that his vessell was a dutch vessell, and doe all that hee could<br />
to hinder the man of warr from comming on board) did come on<br />
board the sayd vessell and understanding that the arlate de New<br />
was a subiect of the Commonwealth of England did by force take<br />
away from him goods to a good value And further to this article<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 6th article hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the ''hare in the''<br />
''ffeild'' arlate and that shee was and is a dutch shipp and belonging to<br />
Subiects of the states of the United Provinces and was soe adiudged<br />
in this Court, and was by decree of the sayd Court restored to Adrian<br />
Van Bulstrode Nicholas Clement and others all Inhabitants of<br />
Zealand and Owners of the sayd shipp and some part of her ladeing, this<br />
hee knoweth for that hee was imployed by the sayd Bulstrode and other<br />
the Owners to procure, and did procure the sayd decree of restitution for the sayd shipp and part of her ladeing under<br />
seale of this Court, And this deponent knoweth that after the sayd restitutions<br />
obteyned the sayd shipp ''hare in the ffeild'' did with the goods soe restored to<br />
subiects of the states of the United Provinces and other goods<br />
sett sayle from London about June or July 1656 bound for Cadiz<br />
where being arrived this deponent was by letters of Advice<br />
from his Correspondents there, as also by a letter from John Keene<br />
the Master of her informed that the sayd shipp and her ladeing<br />
though belonging to dutch were there seized, and made<br />
prize, and this deponent did by order of the Owners of the sayd shipp<br />
procure and send an exemplification under the seale of this Court<br />
as proofes there made to make the sayd shipp and her ladeing the better appeare to be belonging<br />
to dutch men subiects of the States of the United Provinces which<br />
Notwithstanding the subiects of the King of Spaine doe deteyne the sayd<br />
shipp and have sold and disposed of all or the greatest part of her<br />
sayd ladeing as this deponent is by letters of advice from the sayd<br />
Keene and others informed and verily beleeveth, And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose/
Tolt;br />
article hee cannot depose/
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