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To the 6th hee saith that it is publiq and well knowne that for severall Yeeres last their hath bin peace and Amity betweene the Commonwealth of England and the King of France./: To the 7th and 8th articles of the said Allegation and the schedule annexed now shewed unto him this Deponent beginning Wÿ de Recksirs der Admiralteÿt &c. and ending Actum tot Oostende den eenentwentichsten Augusti xvi neghenen [? GUTTER] and Signed R. Lamberty. hee saith that the said schedule was and is a true Copy of the Originall sentence of Adjudication of the said Ketch the ''Elizabeth'' [?remaining GUTTER] in the registry of Ostend. And saith that on the 22th of January last new stile this Deponent being thereto Imployed by the producent) did take out the said Copy out of the Registry of the Admiralty Court at Ostend and saith that hee sawe the Copy now shewed unto him, written out by the Originall, by one of the [?Registry GUTTER] Clerks and after it was written, this Deponent (who well understands the Dutch Language) diligently compared and Examined the same with the Originall and found it to agree with the same in all things and desiring the Register of the said Court to give him his Certificate that it was a true Copy of The said Register wrote a Certificate at the bottome of the said Copy, and signed the same (as now it is) in this Deponents presence, And this deponent then asked the said Registry if noe other Sentence was Given against the said Ketch to which hee answered. Noe, they did not use to give any Sentence against a ship if there bee not claime given or to that effect, And saith that the said Ketch mentioned in the said Copy of the said Sentence, and the Ketch Controverted in this cause, and now Lying at Dover was and is the same Ketch which hee Knoweth for that hee sawe the said Ketch lying at Ostend, about a moneth after shee was seized, and carried in thither by the said Hamilton and Verstelle, and was there told both by the said Hamilton and Verstelle and several others that [?that GUTTER] was the Ketch which they the said Hamilton and Verstelle tooke and of which John Stone was Master, and this deponent about Nine weeks since sawe the said Ketch at Dover, and knewe her to be the same Ketch which [?hee GUTTER] soe sawe at Ostend, by several marks, and tokens And further cannot depose./: To the 10th hee saith that the said Register of the said [?Admiralty GUTTER] Court at Ostend told this Deponent that there was noe claime given in for the said Ketch the ''Elizabeth'' before such her Adjudication. And further cannot depose./. To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./
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