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as a hollanders factor and for the rest of … as a hollanders factor and for the rest of the time interrate hath lived<br />
with his father at Amsterdam, and saith the said Rodenburgh hath no<br />
share nor interest in the shipp or goods in Controversie/
To the 7th hee referreth himselfe to his precedent deposition:/
To the 8th hee saith, That this deponent and all his said shipps Companie<br />
were and are hollanders and natives of Edam or thereabouts, where they<br />
have had their settled residence and relation for all the time interrate./
To the 9th hee saith hee doeth not know nor beleeve that the interrate Claus Jansen<br />
hoone nor any other of the said shipps Owners have alienated or transported<br />
any part or share of the shipp in Controversie, and saith by Vertue of his<br />
oath, That the said shipp waas sett out from Edam upon the Voiage in<br />
Controversy att and upon the joynt expenses of the said Owners:-/
To the 10th hee saith hee is a Mariner by profession and hath used seafaring<br />
and Merchandizing from his youth, and by such his long experience in the<br />
worth and valews of such goods as are by him predeposed, hee doeth in<br />
conscience estimate them to be of the respective Valewes predeposed./.
To the 11th hee saith this rendent and mariners of the said shipp had sewerall<br />
Clothes and necessaries fitt for men of their profession, but for the particulars<br />
thereof, or their severall sorts or Colours this rendent remembreth not./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin:-/
Jacop Jan V[?XXXschen] Van edam [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th day of March .1654:/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:-/
'''2us./'''
'''Claus Jacobson''' of the dorpe or Village of hoogh Breeda<br />
neere Edam in holland Ship wright aged 23. yeares<br />
or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and examined saith as<br />
followeth videlicet:/
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith hee saith and deposeth, That hee this examinate hath<br />
well knowne the shipp the ''Scaep'' or ''Mutton'' now in Controversy, for about six<br />
yeares last past, during all which time shee hath belonged to the Port of Edam in<br />
holland having her Owners videlicet the arlate Claus Johnson hoone, Peter Corneley<br />
Oates, Alert Jansen a Master ship wright, this deponents precontest and others of<br />
Edam aforesaid, and some Burghers of horne in holland, who were and<br />
are in these parts well knowne and generally reputed the true and lawfull Owners<br />
and Proprietors of the said shipp and of her tackle apparell and furniture<br />
The premisses hee knoweth having sayled in the said shipp three sewerall Voiages<br />
under the Command of the now Master thereof Jacop Jansen Scaep his precontest,<br />
and being a person who for many yeares hath used to saile from Edam, and thereby<br />
hath the knowledge of this and other shipps to that place belonging:- And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, That in or about the moneth of december last past the<br />
said shipp the ''Scaep'' was sett out from Edam by the said Claus Johnson hooner<br />
and Companie, the said Claus Johnson hoone being a great trader in Salt<br />
and keeping a saltpann or saltpanns for the refining thereof to proceed<br />
from thence to Rochell france and there to take a lading of salt to be<br />
transported in the said shipp from thence to Edam, and there to be delivered<br />
as the said koone and Companie, and that one Isbrand Rodenburgh a<br />
(hollandersbrand Rodenburgh a<br />
(hollander +
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