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seeing her keale laid upon the stocks, and sawe the said building proceede untill shee was even finished and readie to launch at which time this deponent departed thence on a voyage for Spaine, in or about the moneth of June 1647 and saith shee was soe built on a place called the Tarr-host, and the said Cloppenburgh (who was to goe master of her) managed and oversighted the worke all alonge of this deponents sight and knowledge, And saith that ever since her said building shee hath bin commonly accompted and knowne to be of and to belonge to the port of hamborough, where her owners have dwelt and doe dwell, and not to any other port whatsoever And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the second article hee saith hee cannot depose thereto To the third hee saith that in the summer time of the yeare 1652 hee this deponent was at Cadiz in the ''White Swann'' wherof hee was then master, and sawe the said shipp the ''Salvador'' then riding there under the commannd of the said Christian Cloppenburgh, and well knoweth that there shee was commonly said and esteemed and taken to be a hamborough shipp and to be belonging to hamborough and to noe other port and to have her owners there dwelling. And otherwise hee cannot depose. to the fourth hee saith that hee well knoweth Daniell Brandes Jeronimus Switger, John Baptista Yoncker, Vincent Clingeburgh Jerom Peterson, Derrick [?Rourke] Gerrit Boremaster and Henry Hambrooke to be all Hamburgers and merchants of hamborough of very great fashion, and to be commonly accompted and reputed owners of the said shipp, And saith the forenamed owners are persons of soe good qualitie that hee beleeveth they would not suffer any meane or slight person to be a part owner of any shipp with them. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said Christian Cloppenburgh is alsoe a part owner of the said shipp. To the fifth article hee saith that hee cannot depose thereto To the sixth article hee saith that in the said summer time 1652 the shipp the ''Mercury'' of hamborugh (hance yonge master) came from Genoa and arived in the Roade of Cadiz, in which roade this deponent sawe her ride at anchor after such her arivall, and then the said shipp the ''Salvador'' was then there riding, and as this deponent was informed there, the said shipp ''Salvador'' had bin there two monethes or thereabouts before the comming thither of the ''Mercury'' departed from Cadiz for Dunquirke in company of John de Vos master of the ''John Evangelist'' and the ''Salvador'' was then remayning at Cadiz and was there a moneth or thereabouts after such departure of the ''Mercurius'' of this deponents sight and knowledge. To the nineth hee cannot depose. To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING] To the first hee saith hee was borne and hath alwaies dwelt in hamborough, and otherwise negatively. To the second hee saith hee is a mariner by profession, and that hee was
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