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The Lord Protector of the commonwealth< … The Lord Protector of the commonwealth<br />
of England Scotland and Ireland<br />
and the dominions thereto belonging<br />
against the shipp ''Saint ffrancis''<br />
Joachim Starbus Master.
Rowe d:t
The 7:th of Aprill 1654<br />
'''Joachim Starbus''' of Hambourgh<br />
Mariner, master of the said shipp<br />
aged 49 yeares of thereabouts sworne<br />
in Court, saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth, videlicet
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that the said<br />
shipp the ''Saint ffrancis'' belongeth to the port of Hamburgh, and that<br />
her owners were and are only two persons who hee saith were and are are hamburghersm Merchants, Inhabitants<br />
and Burghers of that citie and subiects of the free state of Hamburgh<br />
and were and are all natives of Hamburgh and have dwelt there all<br />
theire time, and for their names hee saith they were and are Detleff<br />
ffla[?sh]hoff and hance Samall, and that noe other persons or person<br />
soe farr as hee knoweth or beleeveth had or hath any peice or share<br />
therein, but whether they the said two owners have parte distinct or<br />
are ioynt owners without distinction of parte hee knoweth not, and saith<br />
the said owners bought the said shipp (as this deponent hath bin<br />
informed) at Dunquirke about two yeares since, but this deponent<br />
was not present nor knoweth ought of the payment therefore;<br />
but knoweth their said owner shipp; being constituted nor by them<br />
and seeing them fitt and furnish the said shipp out at theire costs and<br />
chardges. And otherwise cannot depose, saving the said vessell<br />
by the [?mowle] seemeth to him to be English built, and as hee hath<br />
heard was built at Yarmouth.
To the thirde hee saith that for theise seaven monethes last,<br />
namely from a month before Michaelmas last or there hee<br />
this deponent hath bin master of the said shipp the ''Saint ffrancis'' and<br />
come first aboard her then at hamburgh as master thereof, and that<br />
a Dunquirker as this deponent was told had bin<br />
master of her next before this deponent, who having bin plundred<br />
in the El[?b]e; had lost the said shipp at hamburgh 3 or 4 monethes before<br />
this deponent became master of her. And otherwise saving this<br />
foregoing deposition hee cannot depose.
To the fourth and saith the said shipp did never before as hee<br />
knoweth and as hee beleveth belonge to Amsterdam or other port<br />
within the Dominion of the States of the United Netherlands, and<br />
saith that shee began her outwards voiage from hamborough<br />
about a fortnight before Michaelmas last, at which time shee<br />
came there in a fleete of other shipps under English Convoy bound<br />
for this port laden with [?hemp] and some other goods and came and arrived here and delivered her said<br />
outward lading to and to the use of Mr Alderman ffrederick and companie, upon<br />
whose accompt there was freighted at hamburgh by Mr John Bancks<br />
an Englishman their factor theire. And after such deliverie, shee<br />
was freighted and againe laden [?h]ere with lead and sugar by Mr Richard<br />
fford merchant of this citie and companie for haver da Grace, whither<br />
this deponent went with the said shipp and delivered the said lead and<br />
sugarivered the said lead and<br />
sugar +
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