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The 11th of November 1652. [CENTRE HEADING … The 11th of November 1652. [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers of the libertie of England}<br />
by authoritie of Parliament against}<br />
the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''Hance Heytman''' of Hamburgh Mariner<br />
master of the shipp the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh<br />
aged 47 yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the right worshippfull John Exton doctor of lawes one of the Judges of<br />
the high Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the State touching the said<br />
shipp saith and deposeth as followeth, videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that Garret<br />
Booremaster, hendrick Cordes his heires, John Eykehoff, Matthias<br />
heyndrick, hendrick heytman, and hee this deponent all Hamburgers<br />
and natives and dwellers there all their times have bin and are the true<br />
and lawfull owners of the said shipp the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh and of<br />
her tackle and furniture, namely the said Garret Booremaster of a<br />
fourth and each of the said other persons of an eighth part thereof<br />
And saith they are all subiects of the free state of Hamburgh. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the secpnd Interrogatorie hee saith that in the ueare 1636 the said owners<br />
and the predecessors of some of them (to whom they are heires) willing to<br />
set out a shipp to sea and understanding that there was one neare built<br />
at Lubeck and to be sold, sent this deponent thither to but the same for<br />
them which hee did accordingly and ever since hee hath bin master thereof and<br />
constituted master by the said owners, and saith hee bought the same of<br />
one hanse ffouck of Lubeck who built her, and had a bill of sale<br />
thereof made by the said ffoucke to his said owners, on whose behalfe<br />
this deponent paid the money for the same.
To the fourth hee saith that the said shipp never belonged to Amsterdam<br />
or other place of the dominions of the States of the United Netherland<br />
Provinces, and that shee began this present voyage outward from<br />
Hamburgh in July last, and came last before her seizure from<br />
Malaga.
To the fifth hee saith his lading consists of wine and fruite<br />
and more particularly hee saith that hee had aboard<br />
at the time of the said seizure three hundred eightie foure pipes and<br />
halfe pipes of Malaga wine for his merchants all Hamburgers, and<br />
for accompt of him selfe and shipps company sixteene pipes, and for<br />
his merchants sixe hundred [?corses] or frailes of raisins and for himselfe<br />
thirtie and for his companie about tenn frailes of raisins, and about<br />
200 barralls of raisins for his said merchants, all which hee saith were<br />
laden at Malaga by severall merchants and factors<br />
and consigned to severall merchants in Hamburgh all mentioned in his<br />
papers and bills of lading seized and delivered at Dover to the<br />
States officers, to which hee referreth himselfe in that behalfe, and<br />
saith that some small part of the said goods belonge to merchants of<br />
Malega,a nd the rest to Hamburgers, according to his said bills and papers<br />
And further that hee had 14 guns aboard, eight muskets, 8 pikes, 8<br />
broadswords and some powder, ball and match. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the sixth hee saith hee signed bills of lading for all his said goods<br />
received aboard for merchants accompts, but not for those for accompt of<br />
himselfe and companie, which his bills came to the hands of the States<br />
officerse hands of the States<br />
officers +
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