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before the ''John and Elizabeth'' came to … before the ''John and Elizabeth'' came to Saint Lucar fall fowle each of other<br />
thereupon the sayd ''John and Elizabeths'' Company all of them (except this rendent<br />
and the sayd boy and the sayd Keene) did forsake her and went aboard the sayd<br />
fflutes shipp and came noe more aboard the ''John and Elizabeth'' by which meanes<br />
the sayd ''John and Elizabeth'' and ladeing was as is predeposed in great danger of<br />
perishing, And further hee cannot answere
To the 10th hee saith that hee hath heard and beleeveth that some of the men whome<br />
the sayd Keene hyred at Saint Lucar to come home in the shipp ''John and Elizabeth''<br />
for London, had left their shipp they belonged to before And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./
To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogate ffrancis Beddingfeild George<br />
Bland William Bland Peter Probye and Edward Watts and saith<br />
they the sayd George and William Bland Peter Proby and Edward Watts are<br />
Merchants in Saint Lucar and comonly accompted men of good repute there, and that as touching the sayd<br />
Bedingfeild hee cannot commend his honesty and iust dealing having<br />
heard generally a very badd reporte of his dealings in Saint<br />
Lucar And as to the schedule Interrogate the same being read unto him<br />
and also by this deponent at the tyme of his examination hee saith hee knoweth<br />
that some parte of the same is truth as that the sayd shipp did arrive at Saint Lucar<br />
with her masts spent and parte of her rigging lost as is by this rendent predeposed and<br />
with her midshipp broken and none on board her but the sayd Keene and this<br />
deponent and boy, and was towed in by two ffishermen after shee had endured a<br />
violent storme for about [2?0] dayes and saith hee beleeveth that Keene and the shipp<br />
''John and Elizabeth'' in this cause named and the shipp or Catch ''John and''<br />
''Elizabeth'' and Keene in the sayd schedule named are one and the same shipp and person<br />
and not diver, and as to the subscriptions of the sayd schedule hee cannot<br />
answere not being acquainted with the hand writings of any of the persons<br />
whose names are subscribed thereto, and as to the truth of the contents thereof<br />
further then what hee hath predeposed to the allegation and is conteyned in his<br />
answere to the Interrogatories in this cause ministred hee cannot answere/
Repeated in Court before the three<br />
Judges./
Samuell London [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 26th day of June <u>1655:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Concerning the shipp the ''Orange Tree'' of Euchuysen (whereof}<br />
Reyer Cornelisson was Master) and the ladeing in the same lately}<br />
surprized and taken at sea by the ''Tyger friggatt'' one of the shipps}<br />
in the immediate service of this Commonwealth}
'''Reyer Cornelisson''' of<br />
Euchuysen in holland Mariner<br />
Master of the said shipp<br />
the ''Orange Tree''<br />
aged 32. yeares or thereabouts worne<br />
in the high Court of Admiraltie before the<br />
Judges of the said Court, and examined, saith and<br />
declareth as followeth videlicet:/
hee this deponent saith and declareth, that the said shipp commonly called and<br />
well knowne by the name of the ''Orange Tree'' of Euchuyson in holland<br />
was and is a Vessell or shipp which was of this deponents knowledge originally buolt<br />
at Euchuysen in holland in the yeare <u>1647.</u> or thereabouts, and saith that<br />
the said shipp was then and there soe first originally built by the order<br />
and direction of John van Solder Merchant of Amsterdam<br />
(Cla{?es]erchant of Amsterdam<br />
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