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Costs of the said Owners before this depon … Costs of the said Owners before this deponent came from Hamborgh which<br />
was in March last past for the use aforesayd he this deponent being present<br />
att and seeing the sayd things bought and provided att Hamborgh att<br />
the costs and to and for the use aforesayd. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 8th article of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd Daniell Brands Adolph<br />
Sumpton Jan Norris and this deponent and the sayd Basilius a Bastill while<br />
he was partowner of the sayd shipp did for all the tyme aforesayd constantly<br />
take upon them to be Owners of the sayd shipp and give them selves out<br />
to be Owners thereof and by such as know them and were acquainted<br />
with them att Hamburgh and elsewhere did look upon them for and as such<br />
Owners threof, which he knoweth for the reasons aforesayd and daily<br />
observation of the premisses. and otherwise cannot depose.
To the 9th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that for all the tyme<br />
aforesayd from the first building of the sayd shipp and particularly on her<br />
last voyage to Cadiz and att Cadiz whilset she lay there as aforesayd and<br />
her Course from thence this voyage and att the styme of her seizure she hath<br />
constantly worne and carryed the Hamburgh Colours, and hath not att<br />
any tyme worne or used the Hollands Colours, or or Colours used by any<br />
of the United Provinces, nor of any other Prince or State but of<br />
Hamburgh onely which he knoweth having bene master of her in all<br />
the voyages she hath made. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .10th. article of the sayd allegation he saith that since the sayd shipp was<br />
first built she hath made onely one voyage to Amsterdam which her<br />
voyage happened in the yeare 1649 and since that tyme she never was<br />
att Amsterdam, and in particular saith shee was not nor hath bene att<br />
Amsterdam or in port or place within the Jurisdiction of the States<br />
of the United Provinces since the warres betweene England and<br />
Holland, and that noe Hollander or ffrenchman or any other person whatsoever<br />
but the sayd Daniel Brands Adolph Sampton Jan Norris and this deponent<br />
and teh sayd Basilius a Bastill ever had any tithe or interest in or to the<br />
sayd shipp nor hath any person att present or since January last had any<br />
part or interest therein the sayd Brands Sampton Norris and this deponent<br />
onely excepted, And otherwise cannot depose.
To the .11th. article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the last port<br />
which the sayd shippe came from before she came to Cadiz where her<br />
present lading now in question was taken in, was Haver de Grace in ffrance<br />
and that she came from Haver de Grace in May 1653. and that the goods<br />
there taken in being linnen Cloth was designed for West India, the<br />
premisses he knoweth for that he was by his bills of lading for the sayd<br />
goods bound to keepe them in his shipp 30 dayes after his arrivall upon<br />
the bay of Cadiz, and saith upon his arrivall there and after 30 dayes<br />
stay he did earnestly desire the factors att Cadiz to whom the same were<br />
cpnsigned to receyve the same out of his shipp, and that they thereupon<br />
requested this deponent still to keepe them aboard saying thhey were to be<br />
sent to the Indies in the Galleons of the King of Spaine, and that they<br />
daily expected some of the sayd galleons to come and receyve them, and<br />
that he this deponent refusing to keepe them any longer aboard<br />
but discharging his said shipp of them and deliviering them the sayd factors did<br />
not carry them into Cadiz, but did of theis deponents sight lade them<br />
upon another ship then riding in the sayd bay in expectation of the<br />
sayd Galleons, in which expectation the sayd shipp into which the<br />
saydsayd shipp into which the<br />
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