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of shipps built about the time by him predeposed in the Eastlands from the fashion of the shipps of the United Neatherlands, And for that the said Otto George in the yeare 1646. and towards the end of that yeare being arrived from Spaine with a flute shipp of hamburgh, and being there severall times in Companie with this deponent did in the presence of severall persons declare that his intention was to goe from hamburgh to Lubeck expressely for and about the buying of a great shipp there laetely built (being the ''Sampson'' in question) as accordingly hee did, and in the yeare 1647. next ensueing this deponent being at Cadiz in Spaine, did then and there see the said shipp the ''Sampson'' there under the Conduct of the said Otto George, who declared to this deponent and Vincent van Campen one of her Owners then and now there residing , and severall others, that the said shipp was the self same so built and bought at Lubeck as aforesaid, And for that this deponent many severall times hath seene and well observed the said shipp in Spaine, and in her last passage thence and since her seizure and remaining in the River of Thames. And further saving his subsequent depositions hee cannot depose./ To the 4th hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Sampson'' ever since her originall building and comeing upon her first Voyage to Cadiz in Spaine hath allwaies been accompted to belong to the said Port of Lubeck, being from that time till the time of her seizure in the Voyage in question by the English, continually under the care Commaund and Conduct of the said Otto George, who was for severall yeares before his death a Citizen of Lubeck, and had his wife and family there till and at the time of his death, And for such the said Otto was commonly and generally reputed and taken, And saith this deponent never heard nor doeth hee in Conscience beleeve that the said shipp ''Sampson'' did ever from her said Originall building belong to Amsterdam, or any other Port or place in obedience to the States of the United Netherlands, nor that shee had any of her Owners there rediding. The premisses hee deposeth, having observed the said shipp ''Sampson'' severall times in Spaine since hee first saw her there, and having in that time had much conversation with the said Otto George and with Vincent Van Campen and others of her Owners residing in Spaine, whereby this deponent hath been and is fully confirmed in and assured of the trueth of the premisses And further hee cannot depose./ To the 5th hee saith, That the arlate Otto George about a yeare since being sick and weake departed from London in the shipp the ''Neptune'' of hamborough (Martin holst Master) for hamborough, and from thence went to Lubeck, where not long after his arrivall hee departed this life and was there buried as a Burgher of Lubeck aforesaid, as this deponent both by letters from hamborough and other places, and by the (relation
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