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every day see and was often aboard her the … every day see and was often aboard her the shipp ''Sampson'' arlate then also lying<br />
or rideing in the roade of Cadiz under the Command of the said Otto<br />
George, and receiving in her ladeing, And saith That during the time of<br />
such this deponents aboad there, the constant and common report and fame<br />
there was that the said shipp the ''Sampson'' with her then ladeing since<br />
surprized and seized by the English was really and absolutely designed to<br />
saile from thence to dunquirke or Ostend in fflanders<br />
and not to any Port or place in obedience to the States of the United<br />
Netherlands. And further hee cannot to this article depose./:
To the 9th hee saith, That the arlate Peter Eleson was and is a person of<br />
a meane and low rank and condition, and commonly and generally is<br />
reputed and taken, and for a person very much indebted and insolvent to his<br />
Creditors the said Peter Eleson is publiquely esteemed at Amsterdam, and<br />
is in common estimation a person of a qualitie very incapable to be a part Owner in a<br />
shipp of so great importance as the ''Sampson'' is, whose Owners are generally<br />
esteemed to be Merchants and persons of very good ranke and estates,<br />
and such as are seldome or never observed to admitt any such inconsiderable<br />
persons as the said Eleson is to be Copartners with them in shipps, neither<br />
doeth this deponent in Conscience beleeve that the said Eleson ever had any part<br />
or interest in the said shipp ''Sampson''. And further hee cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./
To the 11th hee saith, That hee this deponent in or about the beginning of the<br />
moneth of October <u>1652.</u> last past departed with his Vessell or frigat thew<br />
''White Swan'' of hamborough aforesaid from the roade of Cadiz, then leaving<br />
behind him in the said roade the shipps the ''Sampson'' ''Salvadore'' and ''Saint''<br />
''George'' arlate takeing in their respective ladings, And saith That at the<br />
time of such this deponents departure thence, the publique fame and report then<br />
and there was that the said three shipps with ther severall ladeings were<br />
in a short time to depart from thence in company togeather towards<br />
Ostend or dunquirke in fflanders, and this deponent not long after did credibly<br />
heare that the said three shipps about 8. daies after this deponents said departure<br />
did accordingly saile from thence in Companie towards the Ports aforesaid<br />
and were not long after in the English Channell surprized and taken by<br />
some shipps of this Commonwealth, the said three shipps as this deponent<br />
hath been credibly informed then standing in their direct Course for Ostend<br />
or dunquirke. And further hee cannot depose./
To the 12th hee saith, That the arlate shipp the ''Mercurius''<br />
of hamborough (whereof the arlate hans Yonger was Master did in or about the<br />
beginning of the moneth of September <u>1652</u> arlate being a full moneth and upwards before the said Shipps<br />
''Sampson'' ''Salvadore'' and ''Saint George'' departed thence, sett saile from Cadiz<br />
this deponent then being with his shipp as aforesaid in the roade of Cadiz and<br />
seeing and observing such the departure of the said shipp ''Mercurius'', and<br />
(the stayp ''Mercurius'', and<br />
(the stay +
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