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hand and to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively/ To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee hath fully satisfied the contents of the Interrogatorie in his answere to the first Interrogatorie and his foregoeing depositions And further hee cannot answere/ To the 8th hee saith there are divers other fish besides Oysters taken in the grounds Interrogate by the ffishermen of ffeversham Mannor and hundred tennants to the grounds in question as seales damosells dabbs and other smale fish, but not by any other fishermen of any other place whatsoever as hee beleeveth unlesse they doe it secretly as trespassers And further hee cannot answere/ To the 9th hee saith hee never knew heard or beleeveth any such thing as is mentioned in this Interrogatorie./ Repeated before doctor Godolphin/ the marke of the sayd William [MARKE] Thompson [MARKE, RH SIDE] ************************************ The 18th day of October 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING] A busines of Examination of wittnesses upon} Interrogatories administred on the part and} behalfe of Peter Van Re John Scoer and} Company of fflushing touching a shipp} called the ''Meremayde'' of fflushing whereof} Jacob Van de Ende is Master) ffrancklin} Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories given in on the behalfe of the sayd Peter Van Re and others./ '''Pd. i [?X] for copie''' '''Rp. EA.''' '''Jacob Van den Ende''' of fflushing in Zealand Mariner Master of the shipp the ''Meremayde'' aged 34 yeares or there abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the Shipp the ''Meremayde'' Interro= gate, being Master of her when shee was seized and hath soe knowne her for the space of eleven moneths last past and saith shee belongeth to fflushing in Zealand and saith the Interrogant Peter Van Re John Schoer Giles Rombergh Vincent Ketelaer and Peter de Jardin all Inhabitants and Natives of fflushing and subiects of the states of the United Provinces were and are the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of the sayd shipp her tackle apparrell and furniture this hee the better knoweth for that hee received of every of the sayd Owners his proportionable share to pay for the sayd shipp when shee was by them bought And further to this Interrogatory hee cannot answere/ To the 2. hee saith that the shipp when shee went last out of Europe upon the voyage Interrogate went last from fflushing, and that her ladeing which was seized in her was taken in and laded at Winnemarie in the wilde coast of the West Indies And saith the ladeing seized in the sayd shipp which was all Sea Cowes did wholely belong to the owners of the sayd shipp before named saving that hee this deponent and his stiersman had a parcell of sea cowes on board the sayd shipp at her seizure for their owne Accompt worth to the value of one hundred and two pounds nyne shillings and fower groate flemish money and saving that his shipps company had alsoe some smale parcells of the like ladeing then aboard her for their owne Accompt but to what value hee knoweth not And saith the whole ladeing of the sayd shipp which was in her at her seizure was five hundred and twenty sea Cowes but the value of them hee cannot estimate for that in some places they would have yeilded more then they would in others according to the marketts they should have come to And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./
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[[Parent volume::HCA 13/70]] [[Folio::543]] [[Side::Verso]]
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