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To the first Article of the said Allegatio … To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee this<br />
deponent being a Native of hamborough, and having had his constant and fixed aboad<br />
there from his infancie, and having been a Mariner and employed and experi-<br />
enced in Navigation for about 15. yeares last past, well knoweth, that the manner<br />
modell and fashion of building shipps at hamborough was about 12 yeares since,<br />
and for severall yeares after very much different and disagreeing from the<br />
manner and modell of building shipps used and observed in the United<br />
Netherlands, those of hamborough and all the Easterling Ports being generally<br />
observed by shipwrights, seamen and Merchants to be of a more massive<br />
plaine and unpolished fabrique then those of the said Netherlands which are<br />
ordinarily observed to be of a more light neat and cleanly composure, And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the second Article hee saith That the shipp the ''Saint George'' arlate (whereof<br />
John Martens dorpe is Master) was and is of the mould fashion and forme of<br />
building of shipps usuall at hamborough and other Easterling Ports and<br />
places about 12. and 10. yeares since of this deponents sight and observation, and so<br />
much hee saith hee verily beleeveth may easily be discerned by any person or<br />
persons well experienced in the firme fabricke and composure of shipps<br />
built in hamborough and other Easterling Ports. And further cannot depose.
To the third article hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Saint George'' (whereof John<br />
Martens dorp was Master) was in the yeare 1642. originally built at hamborough<br />
by a shippwright and Burger of hamborough named Joachim Moller, by the<br />
order and direction of the said John Martens dorp (who bought and provided<br />
the timber for the said ships structure) Vincent van Campen now dwelling<br />
at Cadiz in Spaine, Daniel Sloyer, Abraham de Bois, decloffe Classoft<br />
Mathys heyndrick and others all Burghers and subjects of the ffree Citie<br />
and State of hamborough, and saith this deponent saw and was assistant at<br />
the lyeing in of the balkes in the said structure, and saw the same about<br />
halfe built before this deponent being diverted by his seafaring imployment went<br />
from hamborough to sea, and thereby did not see the compleating and finishing<br />
of the said shipp. But saith That the building and compleating thereof<br />
at hamborough as aforesaid was and is publique and notorious, being<br />
well knowne seene and observed by many hundreds of persons then there<br />
resideimg. And saith, That since the building of the said shipp, shee hath<br />
alwaies been commonly and generally reputed and taken for and as a shipp<br />
belonging to the said Port and free Citie of hamborough, and not to<br />
Amsterdam, nor to any other port or place under the obsedience of<br />
the States of the United Netherlands. All which the premisses hee deposeth<br />
being as aforesaid a Native and Burgher of hamborough, an experienced<br />
seaman, and well and perfectly assured of the certaine trueth of this his deposition<br />
and declaration, And further cannot depose./
To the 4th article hee saith, That forasmuch as hee this deponent was not at forasmuch as hee this deponent was not at +
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