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The 18th of May 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Wi … The 18th of May 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Wills and Companie and others against}<br />
the ''Crowned Ox'', [?Merinis] Isackson master}
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'''Merinis Isackson''' of fflushing Mariner, master<br />
of the said shipp the ''Crowned Ox'' of fflushing<br />
aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the acts<br />
of Court and examined upon certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the behalfe of the said Wills and<br />
others saith as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth and is master of<br />
the said shipp the ''Crowned Ox'', which hee saith belongeth to the port<br />
of fflushing, and that Jacob Peterson le [?ffranr]. Susanna Merinis the<br />
widowe of Peter Johnson, Peter Stoffelson, ffrancis Tison, and this deponent<br />
all of fflushing, dutch and subiects of the States of the United Netherland,<br />
and Giles Van Rosebeke, Samuel Pole and Claes Johnson of Middleborough<br />
and Andrew Vander Wille, and the widowe of Captaine ke[?nry] of Tervier, all<br />
alsoe dutch and subiects as aforesaid, were and are her owners, and that<br />
noe ffrench man hath any share or interest therein.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp at the time of her seizure<br />
was laden with wine and tobaccoes and one peece of prunes, namely<br />
an hundred thirtie and one fatts and two tiereces of wine and tenn peeces<br />
of tobaccoe amounting to five tonnes of tobaccoe, all which wines<br />
tobaccoe and peece of prunes were laden aboard her at Bourdeaux,<br />
namely the said wines and peece of prunes by two frenchmen, one<br />
whereof was called de Pin, the name of the other hee remembreth not<br />
but referreth himselfe to the Charter partie seized and taken from him<br />
by Captaine Weare, and the said tobaccoe was laden by a broker<br />
a ffrenchman named Marten Lourdin (or some such name) and this<br />
deponent signed three English bills of lading all of one tenor for the same, and saith<br />
that all the said lading of wines, tobaccoe and prunes, were<br />
consigned to be delivered and should have bin delivered (the fortune<br />
of the sea excepted) at Morlaix in Britany in the dominion of the<br />
ffrench kinge, namely the said wines and prunes to a ffrenchman named<br />
Peter de Pin, but to whom the tobaccoe was to be delivered hee<br />
remembreth not, but who were the reall owners of the said goods<br />
or of any part thereof at the time of the said seizure, hee saith<br />
hee knoweth not, but referreth himsefle therein to his said Charter partie<br />
soe seized and taken from him, as aforesaid for the wine and prunes, and to the said bills for the tobaccoe, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the third Interrogatorie and the papers remayneing in Court<br />
and nowe showed unto him, hee saith that the first of the said papers<br />
beginning '''Monsieur. j'ay recen la vostre et cetera''' and the third of the<br />
said papers being this deponents passeport from Bourdeaux were aboard<br />
this deponents said shipp at the time of the said seizure, and that hee<br />
had a Charter partie alsoe aboard for the said voyage, which is here<br />
wanting, howbeit hee findeth a true copie thereof entred in the<br />
parchment instrument annexed from Garresen [?But] for the other<br />
two papers, the one beginning '''a Saint Malo de {XXX} Meert 1655. Saint<br />
dommo de Lozara et cetera''' and the other being a passeport grannted to<br />
Claes Jacobsen hee saith the same were not aboard his shipp, but<br />
were of some other shipp, and are put with this deponents<br />
papers since the seizure. And that there were noe papers torne hidden<br />
burnt or other wise made away, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Toaway, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
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