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saith the said shipps tooke in severall an … saith the said shipps tooke in severall and greate quantities of plate and money<br />
and for a good space they were all accompted to be bound for Amsterdam<br />
whether of his knowledge the ''Mercurius'' was bound, but afterwards there<br />
comming newes of warrs betwixt England and holland, they the said masters<br />
gave out that they were all bound for Ostend or dunquirke and as hee<br />
heard got passes at Cales to that purpose, and of his knowledge the said shipp the<br />
''Mercurius'' got a passe for fflanders, notwithstanding that shee<br />
was (to the time of the said newes of the said warrs) intended for Amsterdam,<br />
and of the premisses hee this deponent tooke more notice, lying there<br />
aboute foure monethes with the said shipp the ''Mercurius'' after such her<br />
comming in thither. And saith there was a common voice and report<br />
at Cadiz aforesaid that the said shipps with their lading of silver and<br />
other goods were all bound for Amsterdam. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose, saving what followeth.
To the 12th and 13th articles hee saith and deposeth that the master of the<br />
said shipp the ''Prophet Elias'' died at Cadiz the time aforesaid, and shee<br />
thereupon not departing thence on her intended voyage, her silver and<br />
other goods were taken out and distributed and put into the said other shipps<br />
the ''Sampson'', the ''Salvador'', the ''Saint George'' and the ''Mercury'' to be therein<br />
transported for Amsterdam, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid<br />
and being present and seeing her goods soe unladen and laded into the<br />
said other shipps. And otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose.
To the 15th and 16th articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the said shipp the ''Mercurius'' in or about the moneth of September<br />
1652 (and about three dayes before the ''Sampson'', the ''Salvador'' and the ''Saint''<br />
''George'' aforesaid came from Cadiz) departed thence, and afterwards, (namely<br />
about a moneth after) met at sea with the said three shipps, which had as it seems<br />
not steered the same course with the ''Mercury'', and therefore it was soe<br />
longe before they met at sea, and being soe met<br />
sailed together,<br />
and having sailed together about two dayes<br />
and nights space, they were parted by fowle weather, and soe the said<br />
shipp the ''Mercury'' having lost the company of the said shipps the<br />
''Sampson'', the ''Salvador'' and the ''Saint George'' plied her course for Amsterdam<br />
and there safely arrived, and dischardged all her silver and other lading<br />
and delivered all her silver there to Mathew ffransen a sailemaker<br />
there dwelling; And saith that about three monethes after such arivall<br />
of the ''Mercury'' at Amsterdam, hee met there with some of the<br />
company of the shipp nammed the ''Golden Sunn'' arlate or having the ''Golden Sunn''<br />
on her sterne, and had speech with them and heard them say and<br />
acknowledge that they came from Cadiz with silver and other goods bound for Amsterdam and<br />
that in their course they were chased into Ostend, and being there they<br />
there delivered the silver (as they said) which they brought from<br />
Cadiz. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 17th hee saith that hee this deponent was at Amsterdam when<br />
the newes there arived (somewhat before Christmas last) of the seizure<br />
of the said three shipps the ''Sampson'', the ''Salvador'' and the ''Saint George'' with<br />
the silver and other goods in them brought from Cadiz; and saith that<br />
upon the said newes there was much sorrowing and generall lamentations<br />
at Amsterdam for and by reason of the said seizure, and it was then and<br />
there generally and commonly said that the said silver or a great<br />
part thereof was belonging to them of Amsterdam and other the subiects<br />
of the States of the United Netherlands, and that they would have a very<br />
greate losse and dammadge by the said seizure, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the nineteenth hee saith hee cannot depose, not having as hee saith had<br />
any speech with the mariners of the said three shipps or [?XXX] any of themn.
Sam Delaplace
Jurian '''M''' Matison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
'''Vida [?XXXX] ad Interria [?XXX]''''E]
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