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deponent delivered to the said Mr hiscocks … deponent delivered to the said Mr hiscocks his Clarke to be entred, And<br />
this deponent by reason of the present Controversy betweent the said<br />
hiscocks and Wood about the said goods beleeveth the same are as<br />
yet unpaid for and that the producent is damnified by such default<br />
of payment but how much hee cannot conjecture And further<br />
referring himselfe to the Acts and proceedings of this Court, and<br />
beleeving the said Wood to be an Englishman and consequently subject<br />
to the Jurisdiction thereof hee saith hee cannot otherwise depose:/
Repeated in Court with his<br />
precontests/
Edward Valentine [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 21th day of may <u>1655:-</u>/:-
The Lord Protector against the shipp named the ''hare''}<br />
''in the field'' whereof John kein was Master}<br />
and the goods in the same seized by certaine shipps in the<br />
immediate service of this Commonwealth Bud}
Examined upon certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the behalfe of his<br />
highnesse
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''j.us/'''
'''Herman Gooris''' of London Merchant aged 26<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne as in the Acts of Court and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth, That<br />
hee this rendent hath knowne the interrate John kein Master of<br />
the shipp the ''hare in the field'' for about 7 weekes last past and<br />
first knew him upon the taking in of his present lading, seeing him first at<br />
Rouen and shortly after at haver de Grace where his said shipp lay<br />
and was then and there knowne by the name of the ''hare in the field''<br />
and that shee belonged to Middleborough in Zeeland, where according to<br />
common report her Owners were said to inhabit, but what name shee had<br />
before, the names of her owners, by what authority the said kein was<br />
constituted Master of her, who was Master of her besides or before the said<br />
kein, or what Port or place hee the said kein first under<br />
tooke the care or conduct of her, this examinate saith hee knoweth<br />
nothing thereof. And further cannot depose./
To the second hee answereth and saith, That hee knoweth not when the<br />
interrate John kein was last at Middleburgh, nor when hee came last<br />
thence, neither doeth this rendent know of any of the persons interrate nor<br />
ever knew any thing of their Countrey, birth or residence, nor what<br />
interest or propriety they or any of them have or hath in the shipp or<br />
goods in question.
To the third hee saith hee knoweth not when the said shipp came last<br />
from Middleburgh neither did this rendent ever come thence in her<br />
to any Port in ffrance, and saith hee this rendent came first aboard<br />
her at haver de grace when shee lay there compleating her present<br />
lading, and saith the said shipp staied at haver de Grace for about 5<br />
or 6. weekes before her departure thence upon the voyage in question/arture thence upon the voyage in question/ +
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