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the said shipp the said Butt was and is well knowne and generally observed and reputed to bee both at Middleburgh aforesaid, and at all other places where the said shipp was employed and sailed to, And that the said Peter Butt was for all the time of about seaven yeares predeposed and at present is a Subiect of the said States of the United Netherlands without any relation to Spanish fflanders, and hath ever since the buying of the said shipp as aforesaid, possessed enjoyed sailed and conducted the same in the quality of Master and sole Owner thereof Which hee saith is publique and notorious both to him deponent being his fellow Burgher, present at the said buying and observing the said shipps employment and to the generality of the Masters of shipps and Mariners of the said City and port of Middleburgh, And further hee cannot depose. To the Last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING] To the first hee saith, hee knoweth not where the shipp interrate was originally built, nor at what time, and further referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, saying there was noe sale and bill of sale made for the said shipp, but that the said sale was made, (as is usuall in that Countrey) by present payments of the monies and delivery of the shipp contracted for, and that this deponent after the said sale, payments and delivery drinkeing and discourseing with the said John hoed heard him acknowledge that hee was satisfyed and paÿed the summe aforesaid for the said shipp by the said Peter Butt./ To the second hee saith the said John hoed was the master of the shipp in question at the time of the sale aforesaid, this deponent not knowing her former Owners./ To the third hee saith hee knoweth not where the said Peter Butt was borne, and saith his the said Butts wife and children nowe live and inhabitt in Middleburgh aforesaid And referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./ To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition./ To the 5th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition. To the 6th hee saith hee doeth not know nor beleeve that the interrate Levinus ffranck (who is a Merchant of Middleburgh well knowne to this deponent) is any way concerned in the matter whereupon hee is produced a Wittnesse, and saith hee the said ffranck is not a subiect of the king interrate To the 7th hee knoweth nothing thereof saving that hee [this] rendent is a Subiect of the said States To the 8th negatively referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition Jaques Romb[?ouet] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *********************************** The same day Examined upon the said Allegation [CENTRE HEADING] '''Rp. 2./''' '''Jacob de Keÿser''' of Flushing in Zeeland Mariner aged 30: yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined saith as followeth To the first hee saith, That hee this deponent well knoweth the arlate Peter Butt, and hath soe knowne him for about five yeares last
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