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To the second hee saith, That the said shi … To the second hee saith, That the said shipp or Vessell the ''king david''<br />
was and is a hollands built shipp, and did and doeth belong to the Port<br />
of Rotterdam in holland, and saith that as this rendent<br />
hath credibly heard by the late Master thereof by name John Lenardson<br />
Roseram and others of the said shipps Companie, shee did and doeth<br />
belong to one named de [?Coniver] a hollander and a Subject of the State<br />
of the United Netherlands, And further hee saith hee doeth not know nor<br />
ever heard (so farr as hee remembreth) of any other Owner or Owners of the<br />
said shipp/:-
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee this rendent was present<br />
at and assisting in the lading of fower horses and of about two hundred<br />
goates at Cursoe a Plantation in the Westy-Indies under the Subjection<br />
of the States Generall of the United Netherlands in or about the moneth<br />
of february last past, which goods this rendent constantly heard and<br />
understood did belong to the said shipps Owners and Master this rendent<br />
then and at the time of their seizure being one of the said shipps Companie
To the 4th hee saith, That the said shipp and her lading of goates and<br />
horses were taken and surprized by the ''dover ffrigatt'' neere the Barbadoes<br />
upon the open sea, shee then being under-saile, and that shee<br />
was upon the said seizure brought into the Barbadoes and the said Master and<br />
Companie dispoiled and dipossessed of the said shipp and<br />
ladeing, and were all of them turned ashoare by the said seizors who<br />
did there detaine the said shipp and goods, (which was about the 4th day<br />
of March last past) And further cannot depose, saving thus rendent<br />
at the time of the said seizure was and served in and aboard the said<br />
shipp, and thereby well knoweth the premisses:/
Cornelis [?XXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2us/'''
'''Gysbrecht Arianson''' of fflushing in Zeeland Mariner<br />
aged 19. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne as<br />
aforesaid and examined saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first hee saith, That hee this examinate doeth well knowe the<br />
shipp the ''king david'' interrate, and saith hee served in and aboard<br />
her as Cabbin boy for about three moneths before her late seizure at<br />
or neere the Barabadoes by the ''dover friggat'' in the immediate service of<br />
this Commonwealth (as this rendent then understood) and saith, That in<br />
the time that this examinate served in and aboard the said shipp, shee<br />
was generally esteemed to be a hollands shipp belonging to Roterdam (sic), and<br />
that one Menheer de [?Couvick] of that place was the Owner and Proprietor of her<br />
and her lading, And further hee saith hee knoweth nothing of the<br />
said shipps Owners:/
To the third hee saith that hee this rendent was present at the lading of fower horses and about<br />
two hundred goates at Cursoe a dutch Plantation in the West<br />
Indies aboard the said shipp in or abut february last, which goods<br />
hee saith were then and there generally and commonly esteemed and there generally and commonly esteemed +
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