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'''Sem Peterson''' of Schellin … '''jus.'''
'''Sem Peterson''' of Schelling-Wo[?XX]e neere<br />
Amsterdam Mariner aged 21. yeares or thereabouts<br />
a Wittnesse sworne before the right Worshippfull John<br />
Godolphin soctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the<br />
high Court of Admiraltie saith as followeth videlicet
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth, That hee well knoweth the shipp<br />
the ''Swann'' interrate whereof Simon Peterson was Master, and saith shee<br />
belonged to the Port of Medenblick in holland, and saith That the<br />
Owners thereof were and are the said Verschuer and Moorbeeke Burghers<br />
of Amsterdam and Martin Jabson, Cornelius heerties and one<br />
Cromhout of Medenblick in holland, and for such they were and are<br />
commonly and generally esteemed and reputed, The premisses hee declareth<br />
for that hee this examinate hath served in and aboard the said shipp from the<br />
6th of Julie <u>1654</u> last past, till the time of her late seizure by the English<br />
at the Barbadoes. And further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith the said shipp departed from Memblick in<br />
holland upon or about the 6th of July <u>1654</u> last past, being then bound<br />
for Norway to take in horses to be transported to the Charibian Islands<br />
And saith That before her late seizure her last voyage was from the<br />
Cape de Versche Eylanden for the Barbadoes laden with salt and<br />
asses, the said asses at the time of her seizure being landed at the<br />
Barbadoes, and about halfe of her salt, the rest remaining aboard,<br />
but the worth thereof hee saith hee knoweth not, and saith the shipp<br />
and residue of salt were seized and taken at the Barbadoes by<br />
some of the English ffleet in the moneth of ffebruary <u>1654</u><br />
English style, and saith the said shipp upon such her seizure was<br />
employed in the service of this Commonwealth, and that this rendent<br />
left her Master there, but most of her Companie are since transported<br />
and come into England or the Netherlands, this rendent being one<br />
thereof, and saith the said salt remaining aboard being laden at the<br />
place aforesaid by an English Merchant did as this rendent beleeveth<br />
belong to him And further cannot depose./
To the third hee saith, That at the time the said shipp was at the Barbadoes<br />
the said master Simon Peteron had (as this rendent then and there was<br />
credibly informed both by the sid Master and others), permission from the<br />
Governor of that place freely to traade and traffique there without lett<br />
or molestation, And soe much hee saith was then and there publique<br />
and notorious, and thatthe goods there disposed of and sold were soe<br />
disposed off by the said Governors permission, Which hee declareth for<br />
that hee this examinate then being one of the said shipps Companie<br />
well knoweth that no hollanders or other strangers doe or dare to<br />
traffique there without such permission first obteyned. And further<br />
cannot depose:-
Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/
Sem Pijetersson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]e:-/
Sem Pijetersson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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