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The 20th of March 1659./: [CENTRE HEADING]

The Claime of Claude La Batt for the}
Ketch Elizabeth John Stone late Master}
taken by a Spanish ship and carried}
to Ostend, and since retaken by the}
Hart Pinke whereof Richard Streete}
is Commander in service of this}
Commonwealth against Kingwell coming}
in for his Interest: Bond Colquite}

Examined upon an Allegation given in by
Mr. Colequite on behalfe of the Claimer./:

Lewis Francis of Calice in ffrance
Merchant, aged 49 yeeres or thereabouts
sworne and Examined./:

To the first hee saith that it is publique and Notorious that
for severall yeeres last past there hath bin and at present is
Warr and hostility, betweene this Commonwealth and
Spaine./:

To the second hee saith that hee hath bin Credibly Informed
that the Ketch the Elizabeth arlate was about this time
twelvemoneth taken upon the high and open seas in her
course for England by a small man of warr belonging
to Ostend, Commanded by one William Hamilton and
Jasper Verstelle and by them and Company carried
to Ostend and there condemned, as this deponent hath bin
certainely Informed. And further doth not depose./.

To the third hee saith that hee hath likewise bin
Informed that the said Ketch the Elizabeth after
her said condemnation was bought by one Dennis
Bovrell a Merchant Living at Ostend. And Saith that
hee this Deponent was at Ostend in or about June or July Last and then
and there hee saith hee sawe the producent Claude La Bat really pay the sume of 800 livers to the said Dennis Bovrell
which was for the said Ketch the Elizabeth as this deponent verily beleeveth
And the said Boverell in or about January last told this deponent
seriously that hee did really sell the said Ketch to the said Labatt for the said sume of Eight hundred
Livers or to that Effect. And this Deponent verily beleeveth and is persuaded in his Conscience that the said Claude
Le Bat was and is the the [sic] true and lawfull owner of the said Ketch
And her tackle apparrell and furniture, And further
cannot depose

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To the 4th he saith hee hath heard to the effect arlate
and further cannot depose./.

To the 5th hee saith that hee hath Knowne the said
Claude La Batt for about seaven or Eight and Twenty
yeeres last, during all which space hee hath lived at Callaice
in ffrance, and there married and Keepes a family
and is a Subject of the King of ffrance, and soe was
his ffather whom this Deponent knew for many Yeeres
before his Death. This Deponent Living in Calais, and
soe having done about Eight and twenty Yeeres last. And
further doth not depose./.
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