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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
… To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee is an English man by birth, and<br />
hath dwelt all his time in and neare London saving when hee hath bin at<br />
sea in voyages, And otherwise negatively.
To the second hee saith hee hath knowne the said Andrew Rand<br />
neare thirtie yeares last, during all which space<br />
hee hath lived in deale (where hee was borne) and at<br />
Ratcliffe saving when hee hath bin at sea in voyages./
To the third, 4, 5th and 6th hee saith hee referreth himselfe<br />
to his foregoeing deposition and cannot otherwise depose, for<br />
hee did not see the lading of the said sugars.
To the 7th hee saith hee did not dee the signing of the bill of lading<br />
in question, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the last negatively.
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
Tho Ewen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The seaventeenth of January<br />
1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
his highnesse the Lord Protector against}<br />
the ''Saint John Baptist''. John Claeson master}<br />
seized by the ''Black Raven'' Major}<br />
Robert Sedgewick Commander.}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''John Namxen''' of holy Slote<br />
in Waterland in holland Mariner<br />
late Stiersman of the said shipp the<br />
''Saint John Baptist'', aged 32 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne as in the Acts of Court, and examined<br />
upon certaine Interrogatories, saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee was Stiersman of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' and<br />
was in her when shee was seized by the shipps of this<br />
Commonwealth, and had bin in her about five monethes<br />
before such her seizure, and came first aboard her in<br />
her service in the harbour of dover in or about the moneth<br />
of October last was a twelvemoneth.
Top the second hee saith that hee this deponent was borne at holy<br />
Slote in Waterland in the Province of holland aforesaid and hath<br />
alwaies dwelt there (saving when hee hath bin in voyages at sea) and<br />
was and is a subiect of the States of the United Netherland Provinces<br />
in whose dominion hee was borne, and saith that (come the eighth<br />
of ffebruary next) hee hath bin tenn yeares maried, and hath kept<br />
his wife and house in holy Slote aforesaid ever since his said mariage<br />
and there hee hath three children living, which hee hath had by his<br />
said wife.
To the third hee saith that hee hath not knowne the said John Claeson<br />
master of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' longer than from<br />
the tine he hired and shipped this deponent to goe stiersman<br />
ofs deponent to goe stiersman<br />
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