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Transcription

deposeth, That in or about the moneth of August last past, hee this deponet
received on board his said shipp the Saint John then lying at the kay of Roane in
ffrance and bound from thence for Hamborough three bales, two fatts and one
Case of Merchandizes respectively marked and numbred as in the margent

[MARKE, LH MARGIN]

from Dierich Warnicke his precontest and John Robert a ffactor at Roane,
who severall times before at and after the lading of the said goods, did severally
declare and affirem to this deponent that the said goods were by them to be laden
and afterwards really were laden for the proper accompt and adventure of the
said Claus Luys a Merchant of Hamborough, and were to be transported
in the said shipp from Roane to Hamburgh aforesaid and there to be delivered
to the said Claus Luys or his assignes for his accompt. And saith that
shortly after the lading of the said parcells of Merchandizes this deponent at
Roane signed three bills of lading all of one tenour for the same, two whereof
hee delivered to the said John Robert in the presence of derick Warnicke his
precontest, and the third hee kept and brought aboard his said shipp wherein the
same was seized, and by the seizors, as hee beleeveth, brought or sent up into
the Registry of this Court where it now remaineth, And saith that the said bill
of lading now showne into him was and is one of the originall bills of lading
signed by this deponent at Roane for the goods aforesaid, and that the Contents
thereof were and are reall and true, and so had and done as therein is
contained. And otherwise cannot depose./

To the third and fourth hee saith, hee was not present at the buying of the
goods in question, and therefore saving his foregoing deposition and saving the bill
of lading predeposed, to which hee referreth himselfe he saith hee cannot
depose:-/

To the 5th hee saith the said shipp the Saint John being in her Course from
Roane for Hamburgh, the goods in question, and the rest of her lading then
being aboard her were surprized and taken by a Private man of warr of
this Nation and broght into the Port of Dover by the seizors, this deponent
then being Master of and aboard his said shipp:-

To the 6th hee saith hee hath knowne the interrate Claus Luys for 20 yeares
last and upwards a Merchant and Burgher of Hamburgh, and a Subject
of that free State, and for such the said Claus Luys was and is generlly
knowne at Hamborough. And otherwise cannot depose:-/

To the 7th hee saith his foregoing deposition is true:/

To the Crosse Interrogatories:-

To the first Interrogatorie he saith hee cometh to be a Wittnesse in this Cause at
the instance of Mr ffrancklin a Proctor of this Court, And otherwise
negatively. And further cannot depose.

To the second hee saith hee this rendent is a Hamburger by birth and
habitation there from his infancie./

To the third hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.

To the 4th hee saith hee came last from Hamburgh with his aid shipp the
(Saint