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and John Bacon to find out witnesses to ma … and John Bacon to find out witnesses to make the shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' prize and the sayd Johnson gave this Rendent order to<br />
search and make enquiry and discover what she could for the<br />
proving the three ships aforesayd to be prize and to belong to hollanders<br />
and saith her husband was the principall and first discoverer<br />
in this busines, and was ymployed therein from the first tyme<br />
the sayd shipps came hither, and from that tyme this Rendent<br />
hath in like sort bene imployed by him in the lie discovery
To the sixth Interrogatorie she saith her sayd husband hath told her that all<br />
the sayd three shipps did belong to holland and that he had wrought<br />
for them there being a sayle maker by profession, and he gave<br />
this Rendent direction to depose in this cause what she knew<br />
to be true; and further otherwise then negatively cannot depose<br />
saving her sayd husband told her hee had bene sworne as a witnes<br />
and examined in this Cause.
To the seventh shee saith her sayd husband and she having lived in England<br />
from about a month or two after the beginning of the late warrs<br />
and for about the first yeare and halfe lodged att the signe of<br />
the greyhound in Saint Catharines Lane neere London, and since<br />
that tyme have lodged in the Conduit yard in the Minneries<br />
aforesaid in the house of Mr Man a silke throwster; she doth<br />
not know that her sayd husband was ever taxed or payd any taxes<br />
to the Commonwealth. And further she cannot depose.
To the eighth she sayth the foresaid persons ymployed for the sayd discovery<br />
have as she beleiveth severall tymes mett att one anothers lodgings<br />
and else where for the advising about the busines, and have<br />
sometymes mett att this deponents husbands lodging in Saint Catharins,<br />
for the same purpose. but they did not use to take his rendent<br />
into their Counsells, onely her husband gave her order to enquire<br />
as aforesaid. And further cannot depose.
To the nynth she saith she cannot depose any more in this cause<br />
att the present then she could habe done in december 1653. last past.
To the tenth she saith she hopes for something for her paynes in<br />
this busines, and losse of tyme, and shall be content with what the<br />
law of the land will give her, and she hath heard her husband<br />
say that the Commissioners for prize goods have lent him some moneyes<br />
about five pounds as she taketh it, but that they would give him<br />
nothing, but what her husband expecteth she knowes not.
To the eleaventh she saith her husband is a saylemaker and workes some<br />
tymes a shipp board att his trade, and sometymes is ymployed in<br />
goeing about busines; And this deponent getts her living with and<br />
by the winding of silke, And she and he husband are very<br />
poore persons and in a very wanting condition both of Cloathes<br />
and necessaries; and shee hopes that if the sayd three shipps<br />
beat if the sayd three shipps<br />
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