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delivered the same to one liveinge there i … delivered the same to one liveinge there in the kay streete, this<br />
deponent beinge present and seeing and takeinge notice of the<br />
said delivery, and he was there then present, because th said<br />
Master (Peter Tam) treated with this deponent to goe with him in<br />
the said shipp and that the said Peter Tam staied there about<br />
tenn dayes, and then sett saile and departed with the rest of his<br />
ladinge for holland, this deponent seeinge him sett saile And<br />
[?XXX] that in in short space after the said shipps departure<br />
thence, the said Person to whome the said Peter Tam had<br />
delivered the said silver laded the same uppon severall<br />
boates for holland this deponent seeinge the same soe ladeb into<br />
the said boates which carried the same alonge the river towards<br />
Bridges, and from thence as he was informed it passed through<br />
land to Slute in fflanders, and was thence carried over to<br />
flushinge and soe to Amsterdam, And this deponent haveinge<br />
speech with some of the Companie of the said shipp (haveinge<br />
the Golden Sunn uppon her Sterne) att such tyme as they<br />
were readie to saile from Ostend, asked them whiat (seeinge<br />
they were bound for holland with their said shipp, and that<br />
the said silber as he understood was to goe thither) they<br />
landed and keft that att Ostend, and did not carrie it along with<br />
them, to which they annsweared that the Coast was not cleare<br />
enough for such an Adventure, and the danger considered it<br />
was held safest to Land and leabe the same there to be sent<br />
through the Land in boates unto the same effect And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the 16th article he saith and deposeth That after the seizure<br />
of the sais shipps namelie in or about the moneth of ffebruary<br />
last past he this deponent comeinge from dunquirke to dover<br />
and soe for London by and went into Woolwich by the way and<br />
there went ito a victuallinge howse att the signe of the<br />
bell to refresh himselfe, and meetinge accidentallie with some<br />
dutch Marriners there and fallinge into discourse with them they<br />
asked him howe he came thither, and he tellinge them that he<br />
was of holland and was taken by the English, and askinge them<br />
what shipp they belonged into they told him that<br />
they belonged to the shipp the ''Salvador'' which then was there<br />
lyinge before the Towne, and came from Cales and was taken by the<br />
English, and that they had layne there three or fower moneths<br />
and that a great parte of theire silver had bin taken out<br />
but was sent backe aboard, and that they should suddenly be<br />
cleared and gonn, and said and confessed that the said shipp together<br />
with two other shipps named the ''Sampson'' and the ''Saint George'' which were<br />
alsoe taken with her, [?XX were] about the same tyme were bounde<br />
with theire silver and ladinge of other goods for Amsterdam,<br />
and that thither they would goe as soone as they were gott cleere out<br />
and undertooke to carry this deponent a letter to his father and mother there<br />
dwelling, and therefore willed him to make speedilyreadie, and<br />
acknowledged that they here made shewe and gave out that they were bound<br />
for dunkirke or Ostend And that in truth the Masters of the said shipps<br />
had for a colour hired theire men for the said Port of Ostend and dunkirke<br />
but they knew well enough that they were to goe and discharge att Amsterdam<br />
or to that effect And otherwise he cannot depose/
To the rest he is not examined by the direction of Mr Budd/ not examined by the direction of Mr Budd/ +
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