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them all againe to this deponent, who will … them all againe to this deponent, who willing to preserve the said three papers<br />
from taking wet, put them into his pocket, and his seabrief againe in<br />
the tinne box, and his other papers, bills and letters into his net as<br />
formerly, and gave them to one of his boyes in<br />
his boate, which boate the said Captaines company carried aboard an [?Emden]<br />
named the ''yonge boare'' and fetched two hogsheads of wine thence aboard the<br />
said man of warr, and when the said boate was returned<br />
aboard the said man of warr, this deponents said boy to whom hee had<br />
given the said papers and writings called to this deponent and stayed<br />
aboard the said man of warr and told him that the writings would be [?XX]<br />
wet by dashig of the sea over into the boate whereupon this<br />
deponent tooke them from him into the said man of warr, and<br />
asked the said Captaine where they should be disposed to keepe them from [?wet]<br />
and the said Captaine willed him to lay them in his the said Captaines<br />
cabbin, which hee this deponent did, and ten the said Captaine [?afterwards]<br />
tooke and laid or caused them to be laid up, only the said three papers <br />
annexed being in this deponents pocket hee kept the same in his<br />
custodie, not being demannded by the said Captaine, who well kneweth<br />
the contents thereof, for upon the said perusall, the said Captaine<br />
said in this deponents presence and hearing, well what shall ever doe<br />
I see that this is a free man or to that effect; and therewithall<br />
speaking to this deponent, said to this or the like efect, well [?XX]<br />
I sea you are free, neverthlesse if I let you goe, my company<br />
will pretend that you might have bin prize and soe fall out with [?mee]<br />
and therefore you must to dover, where having spoken with mr delabar<br />
you shall be suffered to passe freely away, and soe they carried this<br />
deponent and his said shipp to dover the 29th of October last<br />
having taken him betwixt the Ile of Wight and [?Beversey] the day<br />
before. And further hee saith that the said three papers and<br />
every of them were and are true and reall and the contents thereof<br />
true and soe had and donne as therein is contained, and this [?XXX]<br />
high dutch paper was and is the true Charter partie for the voyage<br />
in question of the said shipp, and this deponent lost all his said<br />
other papers and writings (saving the said three annexed) in the<br />
custodie of the said Captaine who sent them<br />
ashore at dover by his Purser, sine which time this deponent hath<br />
not seene them.
[?VXXXX XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated in Court before the three Judges.
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The 7th of December 1653.
The claime of Egbert Eneus, Ever Garris}<br />
John Labogoose and others of Embden for}<br />
the shipp the ''Liesde'' of Embden henry}<br />
Johnson master, taken by Captaine holman in}<br />
the ''Lime twigg''}
Examined upon the allegation<br />
on the behalfe of the said allegation
'''1'''
'''Hendrick Johnson''' of Embden Mariner<br />
master of the said shipp aged 54 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined
[?XXXX]
To the first second and third articles hee saith and deposeth that hee this<br />
deponent is master of the said shipp the ''Liesde'' and hath soe bin for [?XXX]<br />
nine yeares last past during all which space shee hath as hee saith belonged<br />
to the port of Emden, and hath from time to time sailed out and [?XXX]<br />
that port in severall voyages and still hath ended the said voyages [?there]<br />
and from time to time shee hath for all the said space bin [?XXXXXXX]hath for all the said space bin [?XXXXXXX] +
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