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of shipps built about the time by him pred … of shipps built about the time by him predeposed in the Eastlands<br />
from the fashion of the shipps of the United Neatherlands, And for that<br />
the said Otto George in the yeare 1646. and towards the end of that yeare<br />
being arrived from Spaine with a flute shipp of hamburgh, and being there<br />
severall times in Companie with this deponent did in the presence of severall persons<br />
declare that his intention was to goe from hamburgh to Lubeck expressely for<br />
and about the buying of a great shipp there laetely built (being the ''Sampson''<br />
in question) as accordingly hee did, and in the yeare 1647. next ensueing<br />
this deponent being at Cadiz in Spaine, did then and there see the said<br />
shipp the ''Sampson'' there under the Conduct of the said Otto George, who<br />
declared to this deponent and Vincent van Campen one of her Owners then<br />
and now there residing , and severall others, that the said shipp was the<br />
self same so built and bought at Lubeck as aforesaid, And for that this<br />
deponent many severall times hath seene and well observed the said shipp in<br />
Spaine, and in her last passage thence and since her seizure and remaining<br />
in the River of Thames. And further saving his subsequent depositions hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 4th hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Sampson'' ever since her<br />
originall building and comeing upon her first Voyage to Cadiz in Spaine<br />
hath allwaies been accompted to belong to the said Port of Lubeck, being<br />
from that time till the time of her seizure in the Voyage in question by<br />
the English, continually under the care Commaund and Conduct of the<br />
said Otto George, who was for severall yeares before his death a Citizen<br />
of Lubeck, and had his wife and family there till and at the time of his<br />
death, And for such the said Otto was commonly and generally reputed<br />
and taken, And saith this deponent never heard nor doeth hee in<br />
Conscience beleeve that the said shipp ''Sampson'' did ever from her<br />
said Originall building belong to Amsterdam, or any other Port or place in<br />
obedience to the States of the United Netherlands, nor that shee had<br />
any of her Owners there rediding. The premisses hee deposeth, having<br />
observed the said shipp ''Sampson'' severall times in Spaine since hee first saw<br />
her there, and having in that time had much conversation with the said Otto George and with Vincent<br />
Van Campen and others of her Owners residing in Spaine, whereby this deponent<br />
hath been and is fully confirmed in and assured of the trueth of the premisses<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith, That the arlate Otto George about a yeare since<br />
being sick and weake departed from London in the shipp the ''Neptune'' of<br />
hamborough (Martin holst Master) for hamborough, and from thence<br />
went to Lubeck, where not long after his arrivall hee departed this life<br />
and was there buried as a Burgher of Lubeck aforesaid, as this<br />
deponent both by letters from hamborough and other places, and by the<br />
(relationr places, and by the<br />
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