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'''Jacob de keyser''' of fflushi … '''3.'''
'''Jacob de keyser''' of fflushing Mariner, aged<br />
30 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the third árticle of the said allegation (upon which alone hee is by<br />
direction of the producent exámined) hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the producents Simon Martenson and Joos duvalaer<br />
and hath soe donne for their six yeeres last or thereabouts, during<br />
which space they have bin (and are) Inhabitants and Burgers of<br />
Middleborough and merchants of good [?fash]ion and subjects of the Lords<br />
the States of the United Netherlands, and houskeepers and maried persons<br />
which hee deposeth frequenting that place as a mariner and living neere<br />
in and they being eminent merchants there. And saith hee alsoe<br />
knoweth the arlate Leonard Crane and Peter duvalaer, who hee saith<br />
are commonly reputed alsoe natives of Middleborowe and<br />
subjects as aforesaid, and batchelours, and to have resided in ffrance<br />
only as merchant strangers and factors. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee guesseth the interrogated Simon Martenson to be about<br />
40 yeares old and the said Joos duvalaer neere that age, and<br />
otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition To which hee referreth himselfe hee<br />
cannot depose:
To the third negatively.
Jacob de keiiser [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before the two judges in Court<br />
with his two precontesth
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The xth of March 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of John Elliot of}<br />
London Mariner touching the}<br />
''Amitie'' of London in a}<br />
busines of Assuranse}
'''Rp.'''
'''Isaac Warren''' of Ilford in the County of Essex Merchant<br />
aged 31 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined ˹before the right worshippfull John Godolphinn doctor of lawes Judge of the Admiralte upon<br />
certayne Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said John Elliot saith<br />
as followeth.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee well knewe<br />
the shipp the ''Amitie'' interrogated whereof John Elliot was master in or about<br />
the moneth of November, 1654, at which time shee was in the River of<br />
Thames bound forth on a voyage to the Cape de Verd Islands, and thense<br />
to the Barbadas and thense to retourne to this port of London; and saith<br />
that on munday the 11th of November 1654 shee set saile and departed<br />
on the said voyage from Gravesend, and ariving on thursday next following<br />
in the downes, shee there came to an anchor till the sunday next<br />
after at which time shee againe set saile to prosecute her said<br />
intended voyage, and on the morowe night about eleaven of the clock<br />
there began and happened a very violent and hideous storme, which<br />
continued till the wednesday after-noone next following, before<br />
which wednesday shee was come to an anchor off Bear[?hit] namely on the<br />
tuesday ˹morning˺ before and there rode upon life and death by meanes of the<br />
furie of the said storme (which had spent two of her anchors and fore mast<br />
fortop mast, main top mast and maine mast) and of a ledge of Rock right<br />
asterne a ledge of Rock right<br />
asterne +
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