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the said shipp the said Butt was and is we … the said shipp the said Butt was and is well knowne and generally<br />
observed and reputed to bee both at Middleburgh aforesaid, and at all<br />
other places where the said shipp was employed and sailed to, And that the<br />
said Peter Butt was for all the time of about seaven yeares predeposed<br />
and at present is a Subiect of the said States of the United Netherlands<br />
without any relation to Spanish fflanders, and hath ever since the<br />
buying of the said shipp as aforesaid, possessed enjoyed sailed and<br />
conducted the same in the quality of Master and sole Owner thereof<br />
Which hee saith is publique and notorious both to him deponent being<br />
his fellow Burgher, present at the said buying and observing the said<br />
shipps employment and to the generality of the Masters of shipps<br />
and Mariners of the said City and port of Middleburgh, And<br />
further hee cannot depose.
To the Last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true
To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee knoweth not where the shipp interrate was<br />
originally built, nor at what time, and further referreth himselfe<br />
to his foregoeing deposition, saying there was noe sale and bill of sale made<br />
for the said shipp, but that the said sale was made, (as is usuall in that<br />
Countrey) by present payments of the monies and delivery of<br />
the shipp contracted for, and that this deponent after the said sale, payments<br />
and delivery drinkeing and discourseing with the said John hoed heard<br />
him acknowledge that hee was satisfyed and paÿed the summe aforesaid<br />
for the said shipp by the said Peter Butt./
To the second hee saith the said John hoed was the master of the<br />
shipp in question at the time of the sale aforesaid, this deponent not<br />
knowing her former Owners./
To the third hee saith hee knoweth not where the said Peter<br />
Butt was borne, and saith his the said Butts wife and children<br />
nowe live and inhabitt in Middleburgh aforesaid And referreth<br />
himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./
To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./
To the 5th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the 6th hee saith hee doeth not know nor beleeve that the interrate<br />
Levinus ffranck (who is a Merchant of Middleburgh well knowne<br />
to this deponent) is any way concerned in the matter whereupon hee is<br />
produced a Wittnesse,<br />
and saith hee the said ffranck is not a subiect of the king interrate
To the 7th hee knoweth nothing thereof saving that hee [this] rendent is a Subiect of the said States
To the 8th negatively referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition
Jaques Romb[?ouet] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Allegation [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2./'''
'''Jacob de Keÿser''' of Flushing in Zeeland Mariner<br />
aged 30: yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith as followeth
To the first hee saith, That hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate<br />
Peter Butt, and hath soe knowne him for about five yeares last soe knowne him for about five yeares last +
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