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in the bay neer to Cadiz three severall pa … in the bay neer to Cadiz three severall parcells of hides under several [XXX] and<br />
noe more and that one of the sayd parcells did conteyne fifteene<br />
hundred hides and noe more and another of the sayd parcells did<br />
conteyne one hundred and seven hides and no more and that<br />
and saith that [XXX] and [XXX] more or [XXX] [???lds]<br />
aboard at the time of the seizure but the said<br />
three parcells./
[signed:] Christian Cloppenbergh
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The 17th of April 1654
[XXX] and company against ''Saint John''}<br />
and goods in [th????] }
Examined upon the said allegation in the articles<br />
on the behalf of the said mola and company.
'''Michael Le Deane''' of Morlais in Bretagne Mariner<br />
aged 21 yeeres or thereabout Sworne and examined.
To the said allegation he saith that about sevene monethes since or<br />
upwards he this deponent (being one of the company of the shipp the<br />
Peter of fflushing (Jean Sous Captaine) a man of war, which with<br />
another man of war named the Margaret of dunquirk were<br />
used and imployed to convoy shipps betwixt fflushing and dunquirke)<br />
saw the shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' (Jacob selkiner) at [C???]<br />
a vessel of about an hundred tonnes burthen and having six<br />
peeces of Canon or artillery, which the [???] of ''Saint John'''<br />
''Baptist'' [p???ed] in her sterne, and a red lyon carved on her beak head<br />
and saith that the said shipp the St John which was said to have come<br />
from [XXX] to fflushing and to be thenne bound for<br />
Spaine and then the master desiring to goe with her to<br />
dunquirke, darest not goe with noe convoy through feare<br />
of the English, and soe hee saith that shee was with 14 or 15<br />
other vessells convoy from fflushing to dunquirke by his said<br />
two men of warr, and in their passage to dunquirk<br />
the said master of the St John came aboard the said man of warr<br />
the Peter wherein this deponent was, to speake with the<br />
Captaine thereof, and when hee went off againe his [XXX]<br />
boate wherein he came being retrieved aboard, the said<br />
Captaine sent his baote to carry him aboard, in which boate<br />
this deponent went and helped to [XXX] the said master of the<br />
St John aboard his said shipp, and heard him say that hee<br />
would goe from [?Wardike] for Spaine, and this deponent heard<br />
some of his company at [?Cashing] say that [XXX] came from Amsterdam<br />
and saith that on Tuesday last this deponent saw the said master<br />
Jacob selke upon the Exchange London, and well knewe him<br />
againe to be the same master of the ''Saint John'' that was soe<br />
convoyed from fflushing to dunquirk hee [XXX] being [XXX] a tall bigg<br />
man of whitish complexion and having a [???ish] beard, and this deponent<br />
hath heard and bin told that hee the said master and his said shipp were<br />
taken and brought into England and the said shipp under question for prize<br />
and otherwise hee cannot deposeth.
To the Interrogatorie [XXX]not deposeth.
To the Interrogatorie [XXX] +
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