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her said Master and Mariner both on board … her said Master and Mariner both on board her and ashoare at Cadiz, where<br />
this deponent never heard or observed any report or rumour contrarie to that<br />
which hee hath to this article predeposed And further hee cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith, That the arlate Peter Eleson was and is a person<br />
of low and meane quality and condition, and commonly esteemed a person<br />
much indebted, for one of his meane ranke, and very hardlye able to subsist,<br />
And saith this deponent in all the experience hee hath had in his life time<br />
hath never heard or knowne, That a person of such meane condition as the<br />
said Eleson was and is generally accompted, was or could bee Owner in<br />
and during such his condition of so great and considerable a shipp as the<br />
''Sampson'' is, being a shipp of the burthen of about 500. Tonnes, and<br />
which since this deponents knowledge of her hath used a very great trade<br />
in Spaine and the Straights and elswhere, and saith That the said Vincent<br />
van Campen, ffrederick Bevia, and John de Windt Merchants of<br />
principall worth and qualitie at Cadiz, and othrs of great qualitie at<br />
Sevill, (who are each of them severallty esteemed capable to be Owners<br />
of such a shipp as the ''Sampson'' and to freight her upon their owne<br />
particular accompt.) doe not use to admitt Broakers or Inne keepers or<br />
or (sic) any meane persons into paartnershipp with them. The premisses hee deposeth<br />
having good knowledge of the said Peter Eleson and of the estimate<br />
which hee generally is observed to live in at Amsterdam, and well<br />
knoweth the persons and qualities of the aforementioned Owners and their<br />
esteeme amongst Merchants and Mariners frequenting Spaine, and knowing<br />
by long experience, what kind of persons are usually Owners and partners<br />
in such shipps as the ''Sampson'' is. And further cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith, hee this deponent did never observe or heare<br />
any Trumpeter the said Otto George had aboard or belonging to his<br />
said shipp ''Sampson'' during the Voyage in question, nor did this deponent<br />
ever heare the said Otto George or any other credible person say or<br />
acknowledge any Trumpeter by him entertained for the said shipp during<br />
the said Voyage, or since the said shipps seizure, Neither doeth this<br />
deponent beleeve any such thing. And further cannot depose./
To the 11. hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Sampson'' in Companie<br />
with the shipps the ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' arlate sett saile<br />
and departed from Cadiz about the 10th 11. or 12th day of October<br />
<u>1652.</u> (old style) as this deponent now remembreth, and continued in their<br />
passage togeather till they came into the English Channell, where<br />
they were seized, about 18. or 20. daies, and at the time of such<br />
their seizure stood in their right and direct Course for<br />
(Ostend and direct Course for<br />
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