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hee this deponent well knoweth to be true, … hee this deponent well knoweth to be true, for that hee this deponent was<br />
and is the arlate John Claessen who was Master of the said shipp as<br />
aforesaid, and in that quality was privy to and acting in the [?transaction GUTTER]<br />
by him predeposed. And further cannot depose./
To the 3. hee saith, That the arlate shipp the ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
arrived in safety with her said Cargazoon at Bayon in france<br />
where the same according to the Owners discretion were delivered to<br />
Reynard Bogart ffactor of the said Arnold and Elias Beake<br />
and Companie whol sold and disposed the same, and with the<br />
proceed of the said outwards Cargazoon the said ffactor bought and<br />
provided the lading of wyne resin and other Merchandizes in<br />
Controversie seized by the said Major Sedgwick and others, and saith<br />
That upon the said shipp and ladings departure from Bayon, the said<br />
ffactor gave this deponent order to Conduct the same into the downes, and<br />
there to attend receive and follow the Order of the said Arnold<br />
and Elias Beake and Companie. hee also further saith, That the<br />
said Arnold Beale one of the Owners aforesaid fearing the seizure<br />
of the said shipp and lading by the dutch, sent over letters of advise both<br />
to this deponent and to their said factor importing and ordering them for<br />
the better security of the said shipp and lading there to make and<br />
contrive a Colourable Charterparty between this deponent and one<br />
William de Labistrate a Merchant of hamburgh, as if hee<br />
the said Labistrate had freighted the said shipp for hamburgh<br />
for his owne accompt, and that a bill of ladeing should be made<br />
to that effect, that so the said shipp and lading might the better<br />
gett cleare of the dutch in Case of rencounter, which Colourable<br />
Charterpartie and bill of lading were accordingly made, but saith<br />
That in trueth and realitie the said Vessell and lading were onely<br />
designed for the downes as is predeposed, and were not at all to<br />
goe for hamborough nor consigned or any way appertaining to the<br />
said Labistrate nor had he any manner of intention therein, nor<br />
was at all concderned in the same, otherwise then that his name was<br />
colourably and fictitiously made use of by the order and to the end and intent before<br />
expressed. The premisses hee declareth to be true of his certaine<br />
knowledge being as aforesaid Master of the said shipp and during<br />
all the transactions aforesaid, and acting and privie in and to<br />
the same. And further cannot depose./
To the fourth article hee saith, That in Case the said shipp the<br />
''Saint John Baptist'' had really and in trueth belonged to this<br />
deponent, who was and is a dantzicker native and Burgher<br />
(andzicker native and Burgher<br />
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