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Owners and that hee this rendent was bound … Owners and that hee this rendent was bound therewith directly for<br />
the downes, there to receive order and direction of and from his said<br />
Owners or to that effect, and then also said that hee himselfe was a<br />
dantzicker, and that hee had a dantzicke passe for the better securing<br />
of the said shipp, but that in trueth and reality the said shipp and<br />
ladeing were bound for and belonged to English as aforesaid; And<br />
saith, That of a trueth, hee this rendent did expressely forbeare<br />
to carry any documents or writings along with him in the said shipp<br />
importing the same to belong to English, for feare of being mett<br />
with and seized by the hollanders neither did hee or could at the<br />
time of his service aforesaid for that reason produce any such writing<br />
or evidence./
To the 7th hee saith, the shipp in Controversy was seized as aforesaid<br />
att or neere the Entrance of the English Channell, as hee now<br />
remembreth, and saith that her lading consisted in french wines,<br />
Resin, feathers, skinns and other goods of the growth and making of france
To the 8th hee saith hee this rendent hath no share in the said shipp<br />
but had in her ladeing some hogsheads of wyne, a quantitie of<br />
feathers, and other goods to the valew of 175 ''li'' sterling or<br />
thereabouts, and that no ffrenchman or Subject of the ffrench<br />
king was any way concerned in the said shipp or lading:-/
To the 9th hee saith the said shipps Companie at the time of her said<br />
seizure consisted of this rendent ten men and one boy who was<br />
an English boy, and saith this deponent and the rest of the said shipps<br />
Company were Easterlings and North Countrey men, but no<br />
ffrench nor dutch:-/
To the 10th hee saith the said shipp had 5. pieces of Ordnance<br />
aboard when shee was seized, and when shee went from<br />
dover upon the Voiage in Controversie. And knoweth not how<br />
many peeces shee brought home, having never bin in her<br />
since her said seizure/:-
To the 11th hee saith, hee knoweth not whether the said Merchants her<br />
Owners aforesaid have entred the said shipp ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
in any Port of this Commonwealth, nor whether shee be so<br />
entred or no, and therefore can give no reason for such her<br />
entrance or non-entrance. And further cannot depose./
Repeated in Court:/
Jan Claeson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Court:/
Jan Claeson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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