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voiage in question. All which was done for … voiage in question. All which was done for the preservation of the said<br />
shipp and goods in Case of seizure by the dutch and not otherwise<br />
The premisses hee well knoweth by meanes of his said imployment<br />
as Book keeper to the said Arnold Beake, and privity to his affaires<br />
and transactions in his Merchandizing affaires. And further saving<br />
his foregoeing depositions hee saith hee cannot depose/:-
To the 4th article hee saith, That the arlate John Claesson is well<br />
knowne to be a dantzicker Burgher, and the arlate de Labistra[?XX GUTTER]<br />
a hamburgher Merchant of great quality and repute, And that<br />
both those places being in amity with this Commonwealth, in case the<br />
said shipp and goods had belonged to the said persons they had been as free<br />
from any legal confiscation, as if they had belonged to Natives<br />
and Subjects of England, this deponent saying that hee hath very [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
acquaintance with the said Labiestraet, and having travelled<br />
with him in and under the notion of a hamburgher Merchant<br />
in severall parts beyond the seas, And further cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/:-
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was not in nor belonged to the shipp or<br />
voiage ubterrate/
To the second hee referreth to his former deposition./
To the third hee saith hee hath knowne the interrate John Claesson<br />
from the beginning of the Voiage in Controversie. And otherwise cannot<br />
depose./
To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th hee saith hee knoweth nothing of the<br />
transactions therein interrate for that hee was not in the voiage<br />
in Controversie/
To the 9th hee saith, that according to the accompt of the said shipps<br />
Company they consisted of the said Master a dantzicker one English<br />
boy, and about 12. or 13. more, but of what nation hee knoweth not<br />
And further cannot depose/:-
To the 10th hee saith, so farr as this deponent remembreth, there<br />
were 5 Gunns aboard the shipp interrate who then<br />
went from dover upon the Voiage in Controversy, but<br />
knoweth not how many shee brought home/
To the 11th hee saith the Vessell or shipp in question was bought at<br />
dover of the Officer of the Prize Office there by Arnold Beake<br />
and Companie for the somme of 296. pounds sterling or thereabouts<br />
and thereby hee is well assured that the said shipp was and is<br />
entred and recorded as a shipp belonging to England.
To the 12th Interrogatorie now ministred hee saith hee was not in the<br />
Voiage in Controversy, and therefore can say nothing to the<br />
demannds contained in this Interrogatorie./
Repeated before doctor Clerke/<br />
E spillebaut [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]br />
E spillebaut [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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