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To the 14th hee saith that since the tyme … To the 14th hee saith that since the tyme the ''Exeter Merchants'' Quarter<br />
was broke downe as aforesayd, there have bin other repayres beside the<br />
mendeing thereof done unto her, but what those other repayres amount<br />
unto hee knoweth not, And further hee cannot answere./
To the last Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof before<br />
soe farr as hee can./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
the marke of the sayd<br />
humphrey '''#''' Lambe [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 23th of August 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
The clayme of Joachim Lawrence and David Zollicoffer}<br />
of Saint Gallo in Switzerland and Paule Langerman of}<br />
hamburgh for the shipp called the ''Switzer'' of which}<br />
Jacob hinsh is Master and her tackle and furniture, and of}<br />
the sayd Joachim Lawrence and David Zollicoffer and}<br />
alsoe of Mathias Zollicoffer hanse Conrade Zollicoffer}<br />
and John Scrothing for their severall and respective}<br />
goods here under specified being 195 chests of soape}<br />
lately seized in the sayd shipp by the English ffleete}<br />
under the Command of General Blake: Suckley Budd}
Examined upon an allegation<br />
arlate given in and admitted on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Zollicoffers<br />
and Company./
'''Tobias Zollicoffer''' of Saint Gallen<br />
in Switzerland Merchant but resideing for these 12 months last in the parish of Allhallows aged<br />
twenty eight yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first Article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth that<br />
the arlate Joachim, Lawrence, and david Zollicoffer of Saint Gallo in Switzerland and Paule Langerman<br />
of hamborough are the true and reall Owners and Proprietors of<br />
the arlate shipp the ''Switzer'' and of all her tackle and furniture and<br />
soe have bin ever since about January last was three yeares, this hee<br />
the better knoweth for that about that tyme the said shipp being taken by certaine<br />
ffrench men of warr and carried to Tholloone in ffrance hee this deponent then and there<br />
rebought or redeemed her by the order and for the use of the sayd<br />
Zollicoffers and Langerman, (which Langerman was alsoe a part<br />
Owner of her before such her seizure by the ffrench) and for such lawfull owners<br />
and Proprietors they the sayd Zollicoffers and Langerman ever since such her buying have bin and are Commonly<br />
reputed And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
hee this deponent is a factor and Correspondent to the arlate Joachim,<br />
Lawrence, david, Mathias, and hance Conrade Zollicoffer, and the arlate John<br />
Scrothing and soe hath bin for divers yeares last past, and by reason<br />
thereof hee this deponent did receive letters of advise (about a moneth before<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Switzer'' was brought up into the River of Thames) from Henry Zollicoffer John [?XXX] Zollicoffer, Bartholomew Zollicoffer and others the ffactors<br />
of the sayd Joachim, Lawrence, and david Zollicoffer resideing at Marsellis,<br />
that the sayd shipp the ''Switzer'' was taken and seized in the Streights by the<br />
Englishn the Streights by the<br />
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