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To the 12 he saith It is usuall for any sh … To the 12 he saith It is usuall for any shipp att sea being haled<br />
by any other shipp that weares false Colours, and therby gives<br />
suspition of being an enemy or pyrat to stand upon the [?defensive]<br />
guard. And otherwise cannot depose.
To .13. he saith in case the sayd shipp be condemned for prize he<br />
expecteth benefit thereby according to the quality he served in<br />
in the ''Advantage frigot'' and according to the Lawes and ordinances<br />
of parliament in that case made and appoynted. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
the marke of the '''+''' [MARKE] sayd Thomas Keyes [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before S:r Clarke
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The fourth day of October 1653.
The Clayme of the Lord [?Roscea] Daniel Halfe Rider}<br />
and others for the shipp the ''Saint John'' of which}<br />
Jacob Great is master, and the tackle and furniture}<br />
and other things lately seized in the same by a}<br />
private Mann of Warr. Suckley}
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'''Jacob Groat''' of Dantzijck in Poland mariner<br />
master of the sayd shipp the ''Saint John'' aged eight<br />
and thirty yeares or thereabouts. a witnes sworne<br />
and examined deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that the arlate<br />
Lord Rossea and others all Inhabitants of Dantzyck for these 9 yeares last<br />
past or thereabouts have bene and att present are the true and lawfull owners<br />
of the sayd shipp the ''Saint John'' her tackle and furniture and so accounted:-<br />
And moreover saith the sayd shipp about nine yeares since was built<br />
att Colburne in Pomer land, and hath for the sayd nyne yeares Last<br />
past belonged to Dantzyck, the premisses this deponent knoweth having<br />
lived in Dantzyck for and during all the sayd tyme., and is master<br />
of the sayd shipp And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith that on or about<br />
the third day of October in the yeare 1652 the sayd shipp sett sayle<br />
from Dantzyck and sayled to [?Rya] a place likewise in the East Countrye<br />
and there tooke in a lading of hempe flax tarr Clap boards and other<br />
like goods and in her Course for Callis whither she was bound was taken<br />
and carryed to [?Amsterdam] by fourteene Men of Warr, and was was (sic)<br />
there deteyned from about the beginning of December 1652 till<br />
about the 15th day of Aprill 1653. Last past, upom pretence that she was<br />
comeing for some port in the Commonwealth of England, And saith<br />
that being att last released she went to Callis and there safely arrived<br />
and delivered her ladeing, and that in her Course from [?Callis]<br />
to Rochell there to take in a loadeing of salt was in her said Course mett<br />
withall and taken by Captaine White a private man of warr. And<br />
this deponent and his shipps Company did acquanint the sayd White and<br />
Company that the sayd shipp the ''Saint John'' did belong to Dantzyck, and<br />
shewed him his Seabreife whereby the same did and might clearly<br />
appeare and saith that the premisses notwithstanding the sayd White<br />
did and would bring in the shipp to Dover in or about the third day<br />
ofr in or about the third day<br />
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