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the stay and remaining of the said shipps … the stay and remaining of the said shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' at Cadiz for<br />
about a moneth after such the departure of the said shipp ''Mercurius'', And<br />
further to this<br />
Article hee saith hee cannot depose./:
To the 13th article hee saith, That in or about the moneth of June in the yeare<br />
<u>1652.</u> arlate, the shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' arlate (whereof the arlate Peter<br />
Tam was Master) being fully laden with Cutcheneale by Conte de Molino<br />
Governor of Cadiz for the service of his Catholique Majestie in fflanders and being designed<br />
from thence for Ostend, did depart from thence in this deponents sight and observation<br />
it being about 4. or five moneths before the shipps the ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint''<br />
''George'' or any of them departed from Cadiz, and about 2. or 3 moneths ere<br />
the Gallioons or Plate fleet arrived at Cadiz from the West Indies, And saith<br />
That hee this deponent did not then and there heare or understand, neither doeth hee<br />
beleeve that the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' did then carry and transport from<br />
thence any considerable quantitie of plate or money, by reason that the said plate<br />
fleet being not as then arrived there, there was a great scarcity of moneys and<br />
plate in Spaine, And saith That hee this deponent has credibly been informed, That<br />
the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' after her arrivall and discharge of her said<br />
lading at Ostend, was pressed into the service of his Catholoque Majestie in which<br />
service shee did, as hee hath heard, continue for some time under the fort of Dunquirke, but<br />
how long hee saith hee knoweth not. And further hee cannot depose-/:-
To the 14th hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the 15. hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee this rendent is a hamburgher borne and<br />
bredd, and hath had his fixed aboad there from his infancie, And hath<br />
never had any part or interest in the shipp ''Sampson'' interrate , nor hath any<br />
manner of relation of kindred or service to the Owners thereof or to [?X] Otto George<br />
interrate; And further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, That hee this rendent is a Mariner by profession<br />
and saith hee hath beene but once at Lubeck within the time interrat, and at<br />
his being there in the yeare 1646 hee remained there about 6. daies, and<br />
at his first being there about 13. yeares since hee knoweth not how long hee<br />
remained there, And saith hee this rendent hath beene onely once at Amsterdam<br />
in the yeare <u>1653:</u> and then remained there about 8. daies, and saith that within<br />
the said time interrate hee this rendent did never see the shipp ''Sampson'' interrate<br />
at either of the places interrate:/
To the third hee saith, hee cannot depose otherwise then negatively:-/
To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth not nor hath ever heard any thing of the<br />
Contents of this Interrogatorie:-
To the 5th hee saith, That since the yeare <u>1647.</u> interrate this deponent hath not seene<br />
the shipp pr Otto George interrate at Lubeck.
To the 6th hee saith hee hath knowne the interrate Otto George for about 12:<br />
yeares last past before his death, and saith the said Otto George was a<br />
(Nativesaid Otto George was a<br />
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