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The 12th day of January <u>1653.< … The 12th day of January <u>1653.</u>
The Clayme of Manuel and ffrancis dirickson}<br />
of Hamburgh for the goods lately seized}<br />
in the shippe called the ''Hope'' of Lubeck of}<br />
which Henrick Vinter is Master being}<br />
25 lasts of tarr thirty four bundles}<br />
of hempe eight hundred and forty}<br />
deales 1440 pipe staves and 3 fatts}<br />
of tallow by the ''Sampson'' a privat man}<br />
of warr whereof [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Granger is Commander}<br />
Suckly Smith.}
'''whaly dt.'''
'''Anthonio Fernadez Caravajal'''<br />
of London merchant aged 55 yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that on or about the<br />
moneth of July 1653 last past the arlate Manuell and ffrancis dirickson<br />
did cause to be laden in the sayd shipp the ''Hope'' of Lubeck of which<br />
the sayd Hendrick Vinter is master att or neare Lubeck aforesayd<br />
the severall goods allegat, to say 25 lasts of tarr .34 bundles<br />
of hemp .840 deales .1440 pipestaves, and three fatts of tallow<br />
all for the proper Accompt and Adventure of them the sayd Manuell<br />
and ffrancis dirickson of Hamburgh to be transported in the<br />
sayd shipp from Lubeck aforesayd to Haver de Grace in ffrance and<br />
there delivered to Antonio Rodrigues de Moras for the proper<br />
use and behoofe of them the sayd Manuel and ffrancis dirickson<br />
The premisses this deponent knoweth to be true for that about the latter<br />
end of August last past he receyved here in London a letter of<br />
Advise from the sayd Manuell and ffrancis dirickson who are the<br />
Correspondents of this deponent and so have bene for theis ten yeares<br />
last past, bearing date from Hamburgh 15th July 1653. and<br />
likewise another letter dated from the same place 22. August 1653<br />
in both and eyther of which letters is certifyed that they the sayd parties<br />
had laden aboard the sayd shipp att Lubeck for their owne accompts and<br />
consigned to the sayd Antonio Rodriguez de Moras for the port of<br />
Haver de Grace a lading of tarr hemp deales pipestaves and<br />
tallow, which letters he saith are true and reall and not feigned<br />
or Colourable, and the sayd parties in the sayd letters requested this deponent<br />
in case the sayd shipp in her Course should happen to be taken and<br />
brought into any Port of England, to clayme the sayd goods and<br />
lading in their names, for that the same did really belong unto<br />
them, or to the selfe same effect and saith he hath likewise since<br />
August and since the receipt of the foresayd letters receyved<br />
severall other letters from the sayd Claymers to the like purpose, all<br />
which were and are true and reall, and that with the sayd letters<br />
came likewise to this deponents hands two Certificates under the<br />
seale of the City of Hamburgh by which appeares that the foresayd<br />
Claymers did before the Burgomasters of Hamburgh upon their<br />
Corporall Oathes positively sweare and declare that the right and<br />
propriety of the foresayd goods was in and did solely belong to themselves<br />
or to the same effect one of which Certificates, which he saith is sealed<br />
with the seale of the sayd citty in such cases usuall, he this deponent<br />
hath delivered to Mr Smith by him to be exhibited in this Court where to for the more<br />
Certaintyeere to for the more<br />
Certaintye +
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