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+20th die decembris 1660: [CENTRE HEADING] Sup Allefatione pred Examinatus./ '''Rp. 3us.''' '''Guilielmus Montgomery''' de Kingstreete Westminster annos agens 30 aut de circiter testis productus et Inratus dicit et deponit provt sequitur./. Ad 1um arlum dictae Allegationus dicit et deponit that for and during all the Yeere 1659: there was warr and hostility used and practised at sea betweene the State Generall of the United Provincers and the King of Sweden, and their respective subjects and the said King of Sweden did in the said Yeere 1659 give Comissions to his Subjects and others that would serve under him, to take the ships and Goods of the said States Generall and their Subjects, And this hee saith is publique and Notorious. Ad 2um, 3um, 4um et 5um arlos dicta Allons dicit that hee this deponent came on board the ship the ''Michael'' arlate at Edinborowe in or neere about the moneth of December 1659: to serve in her as one of her Company and at such his coming onboard hee was informed that the sayd ship lately came from Stockholme, and was set out from thence by Swedes with Comission from the King of Sweden to take the Ships and goods of the Dutch which Comission this deponent sawe at, and severall times after his said Coming aboard the said sship, And saith that the said ship proceeding to sea with the said Comission under conduct of the said Weaver this deponent and Company did meete with and seize on the 9th day of March last or thereabouts a certaine Dutch fflyboate called the ''Osama kirke'', whereof one Evert Cornelis was Master and her Lading, and the said Weaver intended to carry her to some port or place in Sweden there to have proceeded against her and her Lading as a Prize and as belonging to the Subjects of the said States and to that end the said Weaver put about fourteene of his men onboard her, but shee proving extreame leaky and shee being in danger of perishing in the sea thereby: shee was put into Scilly where shee and alsoe the ''Michael'' harboured within his Majestyes Chamber and within Comand of the Castle and fforts there where the said Weaver intened to have stopped the Leake or Leakes of the said ship ''Osama kirke'', but in regard the same could not be come at (shee being laden) without unlading part of her Goods, the said Weaver caused part of the same To be taken out of her and put onboard the ''Michael'' intending as hee [?XXX] and as this deponent beleeveth to have put the same againe on board the ''Osama kirke'' after her Leake or Leakes were stopped and to carrie her and her lading to some port or place in Sweden to proceede against her as aforesaid And the Premisses hee deposeth being one of the Company of the ''Michael'' when shee so seized the ''Osama kirke'' and goeing in her in Company of the ''Osama kirke'' to Scilly as aforesaid./
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