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captain Lieven van Ipre, with his said shi … captain Lieven van Ipre, with his said shipp seized and violently tooke from<br />
the said Captaine Codd the said two shipps (although hee had held the possession<br />
of them severall dayes together.) and their respective ladinge and<br />
carried the same two English shipps into Ostend, where there was a publique<br />
sale and vendition of them and their respective ladings made by the<br />
said Clauson, and the mony or proceede of the said shipps and ladings came<br />
to the hands of the said Martin Clauson, and was by him or his order disposed<br />
And saith that about halfe a yeere after to his best remembrance this deponent<br />
having busines of his owne at Ostend spake to the arlate Martin Clauson<br />
about the seizures of the foresaid two shipps by the ''Leopaldus'', and the said<br />
Clauson then acknowledged that hee had made sale of two Englishe shipps<br />
and their ladings seized as aforesaid by the ''Leopaldus'', of which shipp this deponent<br />
knew the said Clauson to bee owner or a great part owner, and in which<br />
this deponent afterwards sailed almost three yeers together in the service<br />
and employment of the said Vanderzippe. Et alr nescit.
Ad 8:um. 9:um et 10:um arles deponit Et decit that the said Codd upon the said Captaine<br />
of the said two English shipps ''Alice'' and ''John'', possessed himselfe of the said<br />
shipps papers, and did upon the ?same and other evidences bring the same<br />
to Judgement in his said Majesty's Court of Admiralty in Brest whereof the arlate<br />
Thomas Holder Esquire was Judge and the said two shipps and their respective ladings were<br />
found to bee good prize and were accordingly condemned this deponent<br />
being then present at and taking notice of the premisses. And saith that<br />
the two sentences annexed were and are as hee verily beleeveth the true<br />
Copies of the said sentences of Adjudication or condemnation, and knoweth the<br />
same to bee wholy written and subscribed by Ben: Johnson, then Register<br />
of the said Court of Admiralty. with whose handwriting this deponent is very<br />
well acquainted having often seene him write and received very many letters<br />
from him. And saith that it was the use and Custome of the Court of Admiralty arlate to<br />
condemne all such shipps and ladings as were taken by the Kings Commission arlate to the<br />
King as the shipps and goods of trayters, though all the man of warr that tooke them was<br />
sett out by the Captaine or other owners, And soe hee saith the arlate shipp the<br />
''Loyall James'' was sett fitted and equipped out by the said Codd and Dillen on<br />
behalfe of themselves and the rest of the owners, And saith that deducting<br />
tenths and fifteenths to the King and Duke of Yorke the owner of the man of warr<br />
is to have one third part, the Victualler another third part, and the Captaine<br />
and Company the other third, of all prizes Et alr referendo se ad Jura<br />
et consuetudines arlate et [?dras] sententias et contenta in easdemquer<br />
[?XXXXX] [?XXXX] nescit.
Ad 11. 12. et 13 arlos deponit that he knoweth the arlate Captaine Ignatio Brett<br />
But cannot depose to the Contents of these arles but by hearesay, and by<br />
the relation of others.
Ad 14 arlum deponit that hee hath seene a letter from the said Clauson Vanderzippe<br />
to the said Captaine Brett desireing him to come to Ostend to treat with him aboaut the<br />
dammages done to his the said Bretts shipp And soe saw the same about three<br />
or fowre yeers since. And beleeveth it to bee in the hands of Sir Anthony<br />
Massry. And the said Brett went over as hee understood, and was then<br />
abused. and returned without any satisffaction and to make and escape least hee should loose his life there. Et alr nescit.
Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]
'''pd. Mr.'''
Ad primum rend:t that hee liveth neere Ratcliffe Crosse in Stepney parish and hath<br />
lived there neere these five yeares last, and come that the request of Sir Anthony<br />
[?XXX] request of Sir Anthony<br />
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