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voyage at haver de Grace upon the said del … voyage at haver de Grace upon the said deliverie, being two and<br />
twenty hundred gilders, and average according to the custome of the sea,<br />
and primage after 2 stivers in the gilder, and foure and twenty gilders<br />
for a new hatt for this deponent the mastewr, and that hee that should<br />
receive the said fish was to pay the said freight and other duties,<br />
and that hee this deponent hath not as yet received ought thereof.
To the sixth hee saith that his bill of lading and Charterpartie were as<br />
aforesaid sent over land, and that his seabrief and all other papers which<br />
hee had aboard came to the hands of Captaine Gittens that seized<br />
him, saving two little scrowles, one being an accompt of his stiersman<br />
for the said lading of fish (no. 1.) and the other (no. 2.) being the accompt<br />
of the cost of the said fish laden by this deponent and companie<br />
for their owne accompt, the said cost amounting to 478 gilders, both<br />
which hee leaveth for the further information of this Court, and saith<br />
there were not any papers burnt, torne or otherwise made away.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that tis likely there may<br />
be two or three hundred lesse of the marchants fish than that<br />
accompt mentioneth (as his stiersman saith) such a mistake<br />
easily happening in the tale of such greate a number. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, saying hee doth not knowe that there<br />
are fewer fish for the marchants accompt then 35000, only<br />
his folkes and the Captaine and company have eaten some thereof.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin and Collonel Cock.
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The 30th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Claes fflorison and}<br />
companie owners of the ''king david'' of}<br />
Amsterdam and lading seized neere}<br />
the Barbadoes}
'''dt.'''
'''.1'''
'''Jacob Alderson''' of Amsterdam Mariner<br />
late Stiersman of the said shipp the ''king david''<br />
aged 24 yeares or thereabouts, sworne as in the<br />
acts of Court, and examined on certaine Interrogatories<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the shipp the ''king david'' interrogated and hath soe donne [?about]<br />
two yeares last, and was Stiersman of her at the time of her seizure<br />
hereafter mentioned, and for about five monethes space before such<br />
her seizure, and saith shee belongeth to the port of Amsterdam, and<br />
came last thence on the 18th of October last new stile, laden<br />
with 16 horses and saddles bound for the Charibbe Ilands<br />
under the conduct of Claes fflorison her master, who together with<br />
mr [?ffare] and the brothers and sisters of the said mr [?ffare], myn heer<br />
Basse and some others, all dutch and subiects of the Lords the States<br />
of the United Netherlands were and are her owners and set her out<br />
on that voyage, wherein shee had not as hee saith bin at any port<br />
betwixt the time of her departure as aforesaid from Amsterdam and<br />
her said seizure, All which hee knoweth being Stiersman of her as<br />
aforesaid.
To the second third and fourth Interrogatories hee saith the said shipp the said voyage<br />
had not bin at any of the English plantations (before her seizure)<br />
either in the West Indies or elsewhere, nor traded there,<br />
otherwisee, nor traded there,<br />
otherwise +
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