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among Merchants Mariners Masters of shipps … among Merchants Mariners Masters of shipps and others both<br />
aboard and on shoare at Cadiz ever heare or observe any common voyce report or<br />
fame there, that the said shipp the ''Sampson'' did in part or in whole belonge<br />
to Amsterdam, or was bound or designed thither upon the Voyage in question.<br />
But on the contrary the common report was, that the said shipp ''Sampson'' should<br />
saile from thence in Company with this deponents shipp the ''Saint George'' and<br />
the''Salvador'' then also rideing there for Ostend or dunquirke in fflanders<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 9th article hee saith and deposeth, That of this deponents observation<br />
during his being upon occasions severall times at Amsterdam, the arlate Peter Eleson<br />
aforesaid was esteemed a person of a verie meane and low ranke and<br />
condition, and very incapable in all probabilitie to be a part Owner of such a shipp<br />
of so great importance as the said shipp ''Sampson'' was and is, being a shipp<br />
of about five hundred Tunns, and constantly employed upon very great and<br />
condisderable Merchandizing Voyages, as this deponent hath seene and well onbserved in<br />
Spaine, And saith That the aforesaid Vincent van Campen, ffrederick<br />
Bev[?in] and John de Windt Merchants of great qualitie in Cadiz well<br />
knowne to this deponent and other Merchants residing at Sevill in Spaine, (who were and<br />
are generally esteemed the true Owners and Proprietors of the said shipp ''Sampson'')<br />
were and are persons observed to take no meane or poore persons to have any<br />
part or share in thei shipp or tradeing. And so much hee saith is notorious<br />
and as he beleeveth very well knowne to all Merchants and Masters of<br />
shipps tradeing or saleing to Cadiz, and having or holdeing Commerce or<br />
Correspondence with the said Merchants. And further hee cannot depose
To the 10th article hee saith, This deponent during the Voyage in question, and for<br />
all the time predeposed of the said shipp ''Sampsons'' remaining at Cadiz, or till<br />
the time of her seizure by the English or since, hath never heard or understood<br />
that there was any Trumpeter belonging to the sais shipp, or entertained by the<br />
said Otto George to serve in or aboard the same, And if any such had been<br />
this deponent beleeveth hee should have heard of him, being so long togeather in<br />
Company with the said shipp ''Sampson''. and severall times been and been entertained and feasted<br />
aboard the shipp the ''Sampson'', during such her abode in the bay of Cadiz. And<br />
further cannot depose./:-
To the 11. article, hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Sampson'' in Companie with<br />
the shipp the ''Saint George'', (this deponent Master) and the ''Salvador'' (Christian Cloppen=<br />
burgh Master) sett saile and departed togeather from Cadiz upon their intended Voyage<br />
towards Ostend or dunquirke, about the 11. 12. or 15th day of October <u>1652</u> (,the<br />
precise day this deponent now remembreth not) and so continued in Company in<br />
their said passahe from Cadiz, till they came into that part of the English Channell, neere<br />
unto which they were all seized, about 20. daies after their departure from Cadiz20. daies after their departure from Cadiz +
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