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27th Novembris 1666. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?D … 27th Novembris 1666. [CENTRE HEADING]
[?Dnos] Rex con navem the ''Saint Andrew''}<br />
de Tems, cujus Willimus Cuyte}<br />
est Magister.}
'''dt. [?dnus] Rex'''
'''John Cuyt''' of Tems in fflanders<br />
Mariner, where hee was borne and hath<br />
dwelt all his time, aged 38 or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined upon Interrogatories<br />
in preparatoria.
To the first, second and rest of the Interrogatories hee deposeth and<br />
saith That the said shipp the ''Saint Andrew'' belongs in proprietie to him<br />
this deponent, and to William Cuyt the Master this deponents brother,<br />
Margaret Cuyt widow, his Mother and Derrick Vertone his this<br />
deponents uncle (namely his wufes fathers brother) all of Temes<br />
aforesaid, subiects of the King of Spaine, and all natives of that<br />
place, where their constant residence hath bin, And saith that about<br />
a weeke or tenn dayes before Easter last new stile, they by the said<br />
William Vuyt bought her at Ziericksea in Zealand of one<br />
Antony Cornelison there dwelling, (who to that time was accompted<br />
her owner) for the somme of one thousand gilders paid for the same by the [?XXXX] shee lying then<br />
unfitted, and to fitt her and furnish her with apparell and fishing<br />
necessaries (for which imployment they bought her) hee saith it stood them<br />
in seaventeene hundred gilders more, and that shee was bought to be<br />
delivered at Temes, whether shee came about Easter last<br />
new stile as hee remembreth the time, and thence (having<br />
taken in beere and some other necessaries) shee proceeded about three dayes<br />
after such her arivall, to goe to Ostend and thence to sea on a fishing<br />
voyage, and made afterwards two or three [?times OR ?tonnes] from sea with<br />
fish, which were delivered in fflanders<br />
and having bin out againe on a herring voyage, shee was in her<br />
retourne with herrings for fflanders staid by the English fleet<br />
(as hee this deponent was informed) and brought up to Harwich<br />
And saith her company were nine men and two boyes, but whether<br />
all fflandrians or not countrey men hee knoweth not, severall of<br />
them being taken in at Ostend, where this deponent was not present<br />
but hee knoweth that the master and his two boyes and another were<br />
of Tems, and they were all shipped on that fishing voyage to sea<br />
and to retourne for fflanders, and that shee had fflemish<br />
and noe holland or ffrench colours aboard, Et alr nescit, for hee<br />
was not in the shipp at sea the sad voyage./.
Jan [?XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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28th Novembris 1666
'''Abrahamus Beake''' filius Arnoldi Beake annos agens<br />
21 et ultra testis product et Juratus
Ad septum et septimam arlos et schedulas in eidem [?XXXX] deponit et [?XXX]<br />
that by having severall times seene and receyved letters from the arlate George<br />
Skutt a merchant living in Poole this deponent knoweth the [?XXX] schedules anexedponent knoweth the [?XXX] schedules anexed +
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