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To the second article and schedule annexed … To the second article and schedule annexed or mentioned therein to bee<br />
annexed, and now seene and perused by this examinate hee saith and deposeth<br />
That the arlate Arnold and Elias Beake and Companie apprehending<br />
and well knowing the great danger of the seizure of the said Vessell and<br />
goods by the dutch, and in that Case of such seizure they would bee<br />
certainely lost if discovered to belong t English, did for the seecuring of<br />
the same treat with and employ this deponent to goe Master of the said<br />
Vessell for that hee this deponent was a dantzicker, and for that hee had<br />
a seapasse from dantzick dated in August <u>1653.|</u> setting forth that<br />
his Vessell the ''Saint John Baptist'' did belong to severall Inhabitants there<br />
(as by the said seapasse remaining in the Refgistry of this Court<br />
relation being thereunto had doeth and may appeare) And saith that<br />
about the time of the said shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' and her Cargo<br />
of goods proceeding iutwads from dover upon the Voiage in Controversy<br />
as aforesaid, the arlate Michael de hare of dover one of the<br />
part Owners thereof did for and on the behalfe of himselfe, and Arnold<br />
Beake and Companie aforesaid make or cause to be made a colourable<br />
bill of sale, whereby hee the said de hare did colourably sell and transport<br />
the said shipp ''John Baptist'' to this examinate by the name of ''fflower de Luce'' of dover, as if the same had really<br />
and indeed been sold unto this deponent and for his reall use and behoofe<br />
as by the said colourable bill of sale dated the 10th of January <u>.1653|</u>, and<br />
remaining in the Registry of this Court doeth and may (relation being<br />
thereunto had) appeare. hee further saith, That hee this deponent by<br />
another deed or instrument of the same date under this deponents hand and<br />
seale (which hee acknowledgeth and affirmeth to bee the schedule<br />
arlate) did acknowledge the said bill of sale to be only colourable<br />
and expressely contrived and made for the securing of the said shipp<br />
that hee might produce the same in case of taking by the dutch, and<br />
by that meanes the better cleare her, And saith the said bill of sale<br />
and Seapasse were at the time of the seizure of the said shipp and<br />
Lading by Major Sedgwicke arlate and others aboard the said shipp.<br />
And saith the said bill of sale was made for no other end or<br />
purpose, neither did this deponent ever pay any money for the said<br />
shipp to ther said de hare or any other in his name or behalfe, and that the<br />
Sea-passe aforesaid concerbed a shipp of the name ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
which this deponent had formerlt sold at dantzick, and was onely<br />
made use of to the effect predeposed. hee further saith that the<br />
said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' so seized by the said Major<br />
Sedgwicke and others did and doeth really and truely belong to the<br />
said Arnold Beake Elias Beake and Companie who are well<br />
knowne to be subiects of this Commonwealth, The premisses heets of this Commonwealth, The premisses hee +
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