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[[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|300px|th … [[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|300px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]eslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]] +
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The 25th of November 1652. [CENTRE HEADING … The 25th of November 1652. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2'''
'''James Stanier''' of the citie of London merchant aged<br />
46 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee hath understood<br />
and bin informed that on or about the first of this present November<br />
the shipps interrogated named the ''Sampson'' (Otto George master) and<br />
the ''Salvador'' (Christian Cloppenburgh master) arived in the downes to<br />
look for pilots to carry them for dunkerke understanding the same to<br />
be then for the king of Spaine, and that after their comming there to<br />
an anchor Captaine Penrose commander of a frigot in the service of<br />
this Commonwealth came aboard them and tooke their papers and bills<br />
and sent them up to the Councill of State, and made stay of the said<br />
shipps and their lading, and that hee was informed of the<br />
like for the shipp the ''Peter'' whereof daniel Straetman is master.
To the second hee saith hee knoweth the said three masters since their arivall<br />
here, but knew them not nor sawe them before that hee knoweth of, only<br />
hee is well acquainted with the names of the said Otto George and<br />
Christian Cloppenburgh as masters that have longe traded for<br />
Spaine from hamborowe and that this deponent hath laded<br />
severall goods aboard them (being free shipps) in the downes, and hath<br />
received greate quantities of silver imported in their shipps into this<br />
Commonwealth for accompt of the subiects of the kinge of Spaine, which<br />
silver this deponent hath here delivered into the mint, but saith hee<br />
knoweth not any other of the companies of the said shipps or either of<br />
them, or of the ''Peter''. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third hee saith that the said Otto George upon his arivall<br />
came to this deponents house, and acquainted him this deponent iwth<br />
the stay aforesaid made of his and the other two shipps in the downes<br />
and shewed him a copie of his booke, the originall whereof hee said<br />
was seized by Captaine Penrose and sent up to the Counsell of State<br />
out of which booke this deponent extracting some notes of his friends<br />
goods, delivered the said booke back to him the said Otto George,<br />
and since the comming up of the said Christian Cloppenbrughm hee<br />
this deponent hath likewise seene a copie of his booke, which hee received<br />
of Mr Peter Vandeput and having noted his friends goods as aforesaid<br />
redelivered the same to him the said Mr Vandeput, and hath here<br />
in this Court seene a list or particular of the goods of the said shipp<br />
the ''Peter'', and had before seene a copie thereof in the hands of the<br />
said Mr Vandeput, but thhee saw neither the copie either of the<br />
said Straetman, nor sawe hee as hee saith any bills of lading, charter<br />
partie or other documents or writings touching the goods in either or<br />
any of the said shipps other than the foresaid particulars, in which were<br />
mentioned what the goods and silver were and for whose accompt, and<br />
where to be delivered and to whom, namely the said George and<br />
Cloppenburgh for Ostend and the said Straetman for hamborough.<br />
And further that hee hath severall times bin in company of and with<br />
the said three masters, and otherwise hee [?denieth] the said article<br />
for ought that hee knoweth further concerning the ame.
To the fourth hee saith that hee hath not any of the said particulars<br />
or any of the bills, writings or documents concerning the said shipps or goods<br />
in his hands, but beleeveth that the said masters have them againe. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose saving his foregoing deposition.
James Stanier [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Exton.d with his precontest before doctor Exton. +
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