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then lying in the port of Rotterdam to fre … then lying in the port of Rotterdam to freight of and from the said owners , for<br />
a voyage to be made therewith to Newfoundland to lade fish for the said<br />
freighters, who constituted this deponent master for the said voyage, in place of<br />
William Williamson Verdam, who being old desired to stay at home. And saith<br />
that this deponent with the said shipp went in ballast to the bay of<br />
Be[?rneuf], and there tooke in a aldeing of salt for the said voyage, which said<br />
salt was provided and laded by one Mr Van Ryn a holland-factor residing<br />
at Nantes, who having received order from the said freighters to<br />
provide the said salt for their accompt, came to the said bay and laded the<br />
same for them, and saith that hee this deponent was by the said freighters (this<br />
deponents imployers) consigned to the saud Mr Van Ryn to receive the said<br />
salt. Which being laden, and this deponent not having good skill to<br />
fish at Newfoundland, hee the said Mr Ryn by the order aforesaid hired<br />
tenn ffrench mariners for his assistance and to serve in the said shipp the<br />
said voyage, with which and six and twenty hollanders of his company<br />
departed with the said shipp and salt and went to Newfound land and tooke in a cargo of<br />
one and thirtie thousand of Banck fish for his said imployers their<br />
accompt saving that this deponent and Company were to have a third as is the manner of that voyage and with the same this deponent was retourning for haver<br />
de Grace, there or at such other part as hee should be ordered by his<br />
said imployers, to sell and dispose the same for their accompt, and comming<br />
off Barfleur was on or about the fifteenth of this instant September newe<br />
stile met with by the ''Portsmouth frigot'' in the service of this Commonwealth<br />
and brought upo to Portsmouth. And saith that the said ffrench men<br />
have before hand received money for their wages of and from the said Mr<br />
Van Ryn, and as hee beleeveth all or the most part of their wages, they<br />
refusing to saile without money in hand, and saith the said Mr<br />
henekin wrote to the said Mr Van Ryn to hire and pay them. And<br />
further having seene the Charter partie, declaration before the magistrates<br />
of Rotterdam, and two passes one in ffrench and the other in dutch, hee saith<br />
they were and are his true and reall papers, and were aboard at the time<br />
of the seizure, and thence were sent up to this Court.
Andries Tomass [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27 daie of September 1655./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Love against Bing.}
Examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the<br />
behalfe of John Love and Company to William Binge./
[?'''deb Smith.''']
'''William Binge''' of the parish of Saint Dunstans in the East London<br />
Mariner aged 35 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined<br />
saith as followeth videlicet./
To the first hee saith hee was Leiutenant of and one of the Company of the ''Prosperous'' Interrate<br />
who was a private man of warr and saith hee and the Company of the ''Prosperous'' did seize<br />
the ''King David'' Interrogate laden with severall goods and merchandizes and was appointed<br />
and intended to carry her for London but the winde being contrary and the<br />
''King David'' being chased by certaine hollands men of warr this deponent and such of the company of the<br />
''Prosperous'' who were on board the ''King David''<br />
were forced to put in with her and her ladeing at Newcastle<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that hee this deponent with the consent and approbation<br />
ofthe consent and approbation<br />
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