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'''Rowe dt'''
To the Interrogatories.
To … '''Rowe dt'''
To the Interrogatories.
To the first hee saith hee was at Amsterdam with the said shipp about<br />
18. or 19 monethes since, and not since, and that hee alone hath bin<br />
alwaies master of the said shipp since the said Slegall his said buying<br />
thereof as aforesaid, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving his<br />
foresaid deposition.
To the second hee saith that the service and imployment of the said<br />
Slegall in the said warres under the Queene of Sweden was in the way of<br />
a Commission or some such office to receive the souldiers at Stettin<br />
and furnish them with provisions of meate drinke, clothes and other<br />
accomodations, and then to send them to the the armie; and saith that<br />
hee did not see any bill of sale or other transport in writing made of<br />
the said shipp to the said Slegall, but beleeveth it was entred in the<br />
Queens officers bookes as is donne in like cases for others. And further<br />
hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the third hee saith the said shipp came about two yeares and a halfe<br />
since from Stockholme to Amsterdam laden with iron and copper and<br />
delivered the same to severall Merchants of Amsterdam; and that about<br />
19 monethes since hee came from Amsterdam with peece goods laden<br />
by severall merchants bound for Cadiz in Spaine, where hee had delivered<br />
the same to severall merchants or factors, and thence went in ballast to<br />
Allicant and there got a freight of barilla and cable twine or [?Sparto] for<br />
Marseilla, and thence backe againe to Allicant, and made severall [?XX]<br />
and freights in Spaine and back againe to Marseilla and thence to<br />
Tolon where hee tooke in the said shipps present lading of currants<br />
for hamburgers, or if prevented by the Ice or time of the yeere then<br />
for Ostend or Dunquirke, and for the accompt and to whom the said<br />
goods are belonging hee referreth himselfe to the bills of lading and<br />
documents seized in the said shipp, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that hee hath heard that the said shipp is Hollands<br />
built, but doth not know that shee is soe. And saith shee was <br />
victualled at Amsterdam and manned there upon her proceeding thence<br />
as aforesaid. And otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoing depositions.
To the fifth hee saith hee this deponent was borne at a dorp or village in [?BXX]<br />
in the dominion of the Kinge of Spaine about 3 miles from Berghen<br />
op't Zoom, but came very yonge thence and was educated at Skadam<br />
in Holland, and hath lived the most of his time in Holland and Zeeland<br />
in the dominion of the States of the United Netherlands, and when he<br />
proceeded last (as aforesaid) from Amsterdam, hee left his wife and<br />
familie there, and that there are not above three or foure Hollanders in<br />
his company, the rest being of other out countries, not subiects of the<br />
said States. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid
To the 6th negatively to every part thereof saving his foregoing depositions to<br />
which hee referreth himselfe, saying the said shipp never belonged to<br />
Amsterdam since this deponents knowledge of her.
To the 7th hee saith that at Marseilla this last voyage, hee<br />
remitted by the hands of Tobias Solicoffer to the said Jaques Loone<br />
to Amsterdam 2000 gilders, to be by the said Loon remitted to the said<br />
Slegall, by meanes that there was noe commoditie of exchange<br />
from Marseilla for Stettin or Stockholme, and saith the said [??money]r Stockholme, and saith the said [??money] +
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