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pirate, but that same afternoone being soe … pirate, but that same afternoone being soe departed, the said<br />
pirate stood with them againe, and in the doeing fetched them [?up]<br />
and having manned his boate to come aboard, they were found<br />
to avoide him to run and did run the said shipp ashoare in Sicilia<br />
where shee was stand in places on the racke after the Spaniard[?s]<br />
had saved some of her goods, (which they tooke along to their owne use) and so the said shipp and thereof<br />
of the goods nor passage by the spaniards were cast away and<br />
utterly lost, and this hee with was ass by a 23th of december<br />
last, in the night, which hee knoweth being present and [?for]<br />
the since so donne, and saith the foresaid chest of druggs<br />
belonging to the said Robert browne, who was accounted part [XXX]<br />
owner as aforesaid of the said shipp tackle, and furniture<br />
the said time of casting away, but of what have hee knoweth<br />
not, and saith his precontest Mr John Browne was boatswaine<br />
of and went all the said voyages in the said shipp, and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first second third and fourth hee referreth himselfe to his<br />
foregoeing deposition and cannot otherwise answer.
To the last negatively.
the marke of the said<br />
Alexander '''X''' Steptow [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The eleventh of September [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Nicholas Clement}<br />
Adrian van Bulstrode amd Company}<br />
touching the shipp the ''hare in the feild''}<br />
of Middlesborowe, John kein Master}
'''Rp.'''
'''Cornelius Robbie''' of London Ma[?rchant]<br />
aged twenty seaven yeeres or<br />
thereabouts, sworne before<br />
right Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of law[?s]<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court of<br />
Admiraltie and examined upon certaine Interrogatories [?in this behalfe] saith and deposeth by vertue of [?his GUTTER]<br />
oath.
[#] on the behalfe of Nicholas Clement<br />
Adrian van Bulstrode and company<br />
Subiects of the Lords the States generall of the United<br />
Netherlands
To the first interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the shipp the ''Hare in the ffeild'' (where of John Kein is or<br />
was master) which hee saith was lately seized by some of the shipps<br />
of this Commonwealth and brought into the river of Thames, [?or]<br />
that after such her seizure and bringing up, shee and her tackle<br />
apparell and furniture were claimed in the said high Court of the<br />
Admiraltie of England by Nicholas Clement of Middlesborowe<br />
and Company subject of the said lord the states [?prevrall] of the [?united]<br />
Netherlands, and were by decree of the said Course [?restezed] unto by<br />
said John Kein her master, to and<br />
their use as owners of her, they having made [?proofing] the said [XXXX]<br />
of such their propertie, which hee knoweth being servant and book keeper of [?XX XXXX]<br />
of London merchant who was correspondant of and imployed by the said [XXXX]<br />
Clement about obtaining the said restitution, and having sent the [?disXXXX]<br />
therein betweene them.isXXXX]<br />
therein betweene them. +
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