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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING] To the first hee saith hee is an English man by birth, and hath dwelt all his time in and neare London saving when hee hath bin at sea in voyages, And otherwise negatively. To the second hee saith hee hath knowne the said Andrew Rand neare thirtie yeares last, during all which space hee hath lived in deale (where hee was borne) and at Ratcliffe saving when hee hath bin at sea in voyages./ To the third, 4, 5th and 6th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and cannot otherwise depose, for hee did not see the lading of the said sugars. To the 7th hee saith hee did not dee the signing of the bill of lading in question, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the last negatively. Repeated before doctor Clarke. Tho Ewen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ***************************** The seaventeenth of January 1654. [CENTRE HEADING] his highnesse the Lord Protector against} the ''Saint John Baptist''. John Claeson master} seized by the ''Black Raven'' Major} Robert Sedgewick Commander.} '''Rowe dt.''' '''.j.''' '''John Namxen''' of holy Slote in Waterland in holland Mariner late Stiersman of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'', aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the Acts of Court, and examined upon certaine Interrogatories, saith and deposeth as followeth To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee was Stiersman of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' and was in her when shee was seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth, and had bin in her about five monethes before such her seizure, and came first aboard her in her service in the harbour of dover in or about the moneth of October last was a twelvemoneth. Top the second hee saith that hee this deponent was borne at holy Slote in Waterland in the Province of holland aforesaid and hath alwaies dwelt there (saving when hee hath bin in voyages at sea) and was and is a subiect of the States of the United Netherland Provinces in whose dominion hee was borne, and saith that (come the eighth of ffebruary next) hee hath bin tenn yeares maried, and hath kept his wife and house in holy Slote aforesaid ever since his said mariage and there hee hath three children living, which hee hath had by his said wife. To the third hee saith that hee hath not knowne the said John Claeson master of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' longer than from the tine he hired and shipped this deponent to goe stiersman of
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