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The two and twentieth of March 1655.
The … The two and twentieth of March 1655.
The claime of Cornelius van Stirht}<br />
for the shipp ''Magdelena'' of which}<br />
hendrick vander Berck was Master}<br />
Suckley. Budd.}
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
Claimers behalfe 21 of March 1655.
'''Rp. .j.us'''
'''John Spalding''' of London Merchant aged 22 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first, second and third árticles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the producents Cornelius van Stirht and company arlate have<br />
for theise twenty monethes last past and upwards bin owners and proprieters<br />
of the said shipp the ''Magdalena'' and for such commonly accounted, which<br />
hee knoweth for that about a yeere and halfe since the<br />
said Cornelius Stirht being a correspondent of this deponents John<br />
Bolle merchant of this citie, went from Nantes to this<br />
deponents said master (then residing at dunquirke) to receive the<br />
freight of salt brought in the said shipp from ffrance to Ostend by<br />
daniell ffit[?zell] her then master, and to remit the same to him by<br />
bill of exchange for Paris to be paid to him an order saying<br />
withall in the said letter that the said money for the said freight was due<br />
to and was for the accompt of him and of Gerrard vos and Jacob Roch<br />
And saith that this deponents said master being then absent, this<br />
deponent re{ce}ived and opened the said lette as here is accustomed to doe<br />
in the like cases and seeing the contents thereof, hee this deponent<br />
from dyonise [?ffoenerouier] the said Mr Bolles correspondent at Ostend<br />
to receive the said freight for the said salt and to send it to this<br />
deponent, which hee accordingly did, being fower hundred pounds<br />
fflemish, and this deponent accordingly remitted it to the said Cornelius<br />
van Stirht for Paris according to his said order; and did not make or<br />
give any account thereof to the arlate Paul Gasham or any ffrenchman<br />
or subject of the king of ffrance, for he saith the said van Stirht<br />
wrote then the said money belonging to him and the said vos and<br />
Roch, should be placed by this deponents master to his the said van<br />
Stirhts account, the said Mr Bolle having an account with with him.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that the said van Stirht, Roch and vos<br />
were and are commonly accounted Hollanders borne, subjects of the<br />
States of the united Netherlands, and that the said van Stirht is<br />
somtimes at Nantes as a Marchant Stranger, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee this deponent is a native of Gothenburg<br />
in Sweden, and hath lived at London about six weekes last, and<br />
before that at dunquirke about two yeeres and a halfe and before<br />
that at Amsterdam about for three yeares, and before that<br />
alwaies with his father in Gothenburg. And otherwise negatively.
To the second hee saith hee hath seene Gerrard vos about a yeere<br />
and halfe since, but hath not seene Roch nor van Stirht, and<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 3. 4. 5 and 6 hee saith that the persons then paid the said freight<br />
forthen paid the said freight<br />
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